I laughed at him as we walked to Calum's house. We had parked Ashton's car a block away on purpose, so we would have a few minutes to talk, and walk together.
"O-okay, okay." He said shakily, trying to stop laughing at a joke that wasn't even that funny. We approached the house and he visibly saddened.
"We can't be like this when we go in." He said, letting go of my hand.
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.
"Why not?" I asked, and he sighed.
"When you first came to the Irwin family I immediately had a crush on you, but Ash made it clear you were off limits. He would kill me if he knew the things I thought about you."
I sharply sucked a breath in. We were standing at Calum's front door.
"I don't know when I'm going to be able to do this again."
He said quietly, before putting a soft hand on the nape of my neck, and leaning in. I slammed my eyes shut and pouted my lips. This is it, I thought, this is what's going to make my petty crush on Luke disappear.
I could feel him breathing shaky breaths on my lips, when Ash stormed outside.
"What the hell Clifford!" He yelled pulling him away from me.
"Get. Away. From. Xena." Ash said, shoving Michael more with every word.
"Woah Ash," said Michael putting his hands up. "I would never hurt Xena, we were just talking."
Ashton sneered. "That's not what it looked like. You were practically feeling her up."
"Asht-"
Ashton's fist connected with Michael nose before i could even figure out what was happening.
"What's going on?" Yelled Calum emerging from the house.
Michael fell to the ground blood running from his nose. I pushed past a concerned Ashton and knelt on the ground beside Michael. He was conscious.
"Are you alright?" I asked resting a hand on his cheek.
He groaned. "I think he broke my nose."
Cal joined me on the ground.
"He's right, Ashton broke his nose. I'm taking him to the ER. You, and Luke can meet us at the hospital."
I tried to explain I didn't want to ride alone with Luke, but then Michael squeezed my hand.
"It hurts really bad."
He said to me as a tear leaked from his eye. I wiped it off with my thumb, and kissed his forehead.
"If you endure the pain for now, I promise I'll give you a kiss when I get to the hospital."
He smiled, and nodded. Calum helped him up and into the car. Ashton tried to stop me on my way inside.
"Xena-"
"Save it asshole. The only thing you can do now to attempt to fix this is go get a card and some flowers for your friend you just put in the hospital."
"Flowers?" He questioned. "But it's Mikey-"
"Flowers." I confirmed cutting him off and storming inside.
"Luke!" I yelled. I heard a grunt of reply coming from the tv room, and made a bee-line for it.
"Get up." I said rudely, probably the rudest I've ever been to Luke.
"But I'm in the middle of-"
"And I don't care." I said cutting him off. "Michael is in the hospital and I need you to drive me there. Now."
He jolted up, dropping a bag of popcorn, and mumbling, "yes ma'am" under his breath.
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