Only Average (EDITING)

Chapter seventeen

Luke's P.O.V

After I pulled away from Marie, I regretted the kiss. Not kissing her, I loved that, I just wanted to make it more romantic, or special. Or just not do it at all, I don't know if I can give up my player ways and be with one girl for the rest of my life. That just seems like a long time. And the reason why I don't do relationships is because I hate breaking up with people. It's awkward and weird and just not fun. And the after math is even worse. I just want to make sure it with be forever, and not for a little bit, wow, that sounded fucking gay.

I guess I can tell her that we should just be friends, I hope she wants to. I really like her, but I would rather have her in my life as friends, then nothing at all. I help her grab her things and we walk quietly to the elevator. I look at her as I push the up button, I ask her "So... about the kiss.. should we just remain friends?... or...?" She looks up at me with a smile, but it doesn't reach her eyes. "Yeah, I think friends is a good move, I just think the alcohol and hot tub got to our heads." She answers with a little chuckle. "Yeah, okay, sounds good." I say with a grin as we stand in the elevator waiting to get to the floor where our room is. "So do you want to watch a movie and have a few drinks when we get to our room?" I ask just as the elevator dings, letting us know that we have arrived to our floor.

"Yeah, that sounds good to me." Marie says as we reach our room, "I'll look for a movie, you grab the drinks." She says as she walks over to the shelf with over one hundred movies on it. "Okay, pick a comedy or something." I say as I grab the Bulmer's in the fridge. After that I head to my room since that's where the only TV is at, I walk to the closet the grab something to sleep in, I settle with a plain black v; neck shirt and my boxers. Marie walks in my room a few minutes later with one of her famous big t-shirts and a movie in her hand. I clear my throat hoping it would clear my mind of all the things I want to do to her and say "So what movie did you pick out?" She walks over to the TV that's in front of my giant bed and puts it in, then answers with "Project X, I have never seen it, but Sarah said that it was good so I decided we should try it." She grabs a pillow from the top of the bed and then lays it down at the bottom. She climbs on the bed and lays on her stomach and then puts her hands on her chin looking at the screen.

I copy her and lay beside her as I hand her the Bulmer's I got from the fridge. "Thanks." She says as she takes a sip and clicks the remote to play the movie. We lay and watch the movie laughing at the funny parts in the movie which were a lot. This movie is really good, the only thing I hate about it that it's all on a portable camera like that movie Cloverfield. It gives me a headache. I get up to go get us another drink and when I come back Marie is asleep on the bed, I laugh to myself and walk out to the balcony to smoke a cigarette. I have been waiting all night to smoke this, I love smoking when I drink, after I finish getting my buzz, I watch the rest of the movie and then look at the clock on the TV when it's over, damn, it's already five o'clock in the morning. This whole time change thing is totally fucking with me.

I pick up Marie and move her to the top of the bed so her neck doesn't get stiff in the morning, I pull the covers over her and go into her room, I don't think it's a good idea to sleep in the same bed, not after what happened earlier.

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Marie's P.O.V

I wake up and roll over to look at the clock beside the bed but it's not there, huh, I look around the room and I'm in Luke's bed. Oops, I must have fallen asleep during the movie. I look in the bathroom and he's not there. Where is he? I look at the TV clock and see that it's only seven in the morning, I know he's not up yet. I walk into the kitchen and grab the orange juice out of the fridge and fill a glass. Then I walk to my room to check there, and jackpot, he's fast asleep in my bed and cuddled with one of my pillows. He looks so comfortable so I quietly walk to my closet and grab some clothes to work out in. I write a note and put it on the table in the kitchen by the fridge, then grab the room key and a bottle of water and walk to the elevator. I wish I would have brought my Ipod with me but I was in too much of a hurry when I packed, that I left it on the Ipod dock in my living room. I get to the gym that's beside the pool and memories of last night came back to me and I could feel my face getting hot.

I know being friends is the right move for us, it's just that he is so hot and nice. It's going to be hard to keep my hands to myself, but I know I have to so that we both don't get hurt. I open the gym door and walk in, there is only one other person in here and he is really cute. I go over to the mirror wall and start stretching, during it I can see him checking me out in the mirror, but not in a pig-ish way, it's in a 'I cant't help but stare' way. And it's really flattering. Once I'm done stretching I smile at him and walk to the elliptical and turn the level on fourteen, I like a challenge when I work out. He stops lifting and holy crap his arms are so big and sexy covered in sweat that I turn red in the face thinking about what he looks like without a shirt.

"Hey, I'm Bryan, what's your name?" He asks as he walks over to the treadmill beside me and starts running on it. He's not even getting out of breath at all. He stares at me since I haven't answered him yet, I just stared at him. Crap, say something you idiot. "Umm... Yeah, hey I'm Marie." I say as I do a little wave. Wow, that was lame, I think to myself. "So where are you from?" He asks while he picks up speed on the treadmill. I look at him again and our eyes meet. "Umm.. Right, I'm from California, well LA to be more specific." I say as I pick up speed since the level just got harder and it feels like I'm walking in cement. He looks at me again and he is running fast but not breathing hard at all, what is he superman? He says " Ah cool, I'm from Orange county, so I don't live that far away from you."

I laugh nervously and say "Yeah, that is cool... So what brings you to Ireland?" Then I turn down the intensity. I felt like I was running through thick ass mud. "I'm here for a model shoot." He answers as he turns down the speed on the treadmill to a slow jog. Well I guess him being a model makes sense, he is really hot, so I bet he is a good model. "So you're a model?" I asked as I looked at the TV and of course they are playing soccer. He answers saying "Oh god no." With a laugh, well that's confusing. He finishes " I'm the photographer, I just got hired a few weeks ago and they are testing me to see if I will be good or not." No way! What are the odds? "Oh cool! I'm a photographer too! Well I want to be, I'm still in college, but that's what I want to do when I graduate." I say with a big smile on my face.

We talk for thirty more minutes about photography and what got us into it in the first place and our type of style, and we have a lot in common. When I was done working out and sweating like a pig, I grabbed a towel folded on the table by the door. "So would you like to come to my photo shoot to see what it's like?" He asks. "Hell yeah I would!.... I mean, yeah sure." I reply dorkily. But I made him laugh so I guess that's a good thing. He says "Okay then. I have one tomorrow morning at the Guinness Storehouse. We rented it out so that we can take pictures of the models there, it should be fun and after that we are all going to go pub crawling the Irish way." Then he takes a sip of his water. "Sure, that sounds amazing, I came here with my friend Luke though, Would it be cool to have him tag along?" I ask as I walk out of the gym with him following behind me.

"Yeah, that's cool. Well I should get your number so I can give you directions and everything." He says as he takes out his phone, I give it to him with a smile and ask "So what time should we be ready?" He looks at me with a smile and says "Seven is good, the shoot starts at eight, so we should make good time." Holy shit, that's early, I don't know if Luke will want to get up that early. I just say "okay, sounds good." We say good bye and I walk up to my room, I hope Luke would want to come, I would feel bad leaving him alone.

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