My Musical Romance // l.h. ❌

Chapter 12

Chrissy's P.O.V

That was the moment my eyes finally locked with Luke's, but it wasn't the same. The spark in his bright blue iris was gone, the small crinkles beneath his eyes, that only showed when he was truly laughing and the way his stare widened when he was happy, it all changed into an expression, that seemed like he was in trance. I felt like everything around me turned numb, like the whole world just stopped.

At this very moment, I didn't give a single fuck about the whole competition. It didn't matter how all of this would go on, how all of this would end, who would win the once in a lifetime chance.

Everything that mattered to me was him.

As soon as the host had spoken those words, realization hit me like a bus. I would go back to my appartement in California, carrying on my normal life, trying to get a proper job so I wouldn't end up on the streets. And Luke would go back to Australia along with Michael, Calum and Ashton. He would keep trying to live from their music, maybe meet some girls, fall in love and forget about me. It all would be over.

Some woman in formal clothes and a headset in her ear grabbed my wrist and pulled me off of the stage, where a breath escaped from my mouth, which I didn't know I was holding. It took me a moment to focus on anything, because dozens of people were walking around, shouting, yelling and commanding everyone who wasn't walking, shouting, yelling or commanding.

I felt my heartbeat increase and my breathing became quicker. As several people bumped my shoulder, pushed me out of their way and made me stumble, my hands began to shake and I decided, I had to get out of this, so I walked. Scratch that, I ran.

When I was just about to push down the door handle of the emergency escape door, two loud voices echoed from the corner of the room.

"You idiot, what were you thinking?! Are you even aware of the consequences?!?" one of them yelled.

"I-I know, but I fucking told you you'd regret taking her away from me!" the other voice shouted back and I immediately identified it as Dan's.

As I had rushed to where the noise came from, I saw Luke, pressing Dan against the wall with his forearm. It almost looked like he was choking him. The darkness made it barely possible to see anything, though the hatred in Luke's eyes flashed up visibly.

"You really had to ruin her dreams because of your childish jealousy?! Well there you go, she's surely proud of you! I hope you're happy now!" with that Luke dropped Dan to the floor and exited through a door, not seeming to notice me. Dan shakingly got up and lifted his head. When he spotted me, his whole expression froze. "Chri-"

"Oh shut it, Daniel." I turned on the heel and ran straight towards my hut, locked my room and collapsed against the door, finally letting the tears stream down my face.

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Two hours later, the cold autumn air blew through the open front door as I set my suitcase down next to me. Amanda and Taylor looked at me weighed down with sorrow and I tried to blink a few upcoming tears away. I didn't have quite a close relationship to Amanda, though she pulled me in a hug, mumbling a 'goodbye' into my hair.

Taylor instead looked straight into my eyes. "It was so nice to meet you and I hope you'll keep up with the music because you're probably the most talented girl I've ever met." she said and embraced me like we've been friends for years. I stood silent, but I knew they were aware of how sad I was to leave them.

"Goodbye.." I took leave, shutting the door behind me. The jolty sound of my suitcase echoed as I pulled it to the entrance of the Boot Camp. Smoke escaped from the bus drivers' cigarettes as they leant on two black buses with dark windows. Will, Joe and Daniel were already on the bus, that would carry us home.

As soon as I stopped in front of the scenario, I was engulfed by Calum and Michael. It was way tighter than when we first met and it made a weak smile appear on my face. "Goodbye, Chrissy.. We'll miss you so much! It's been nice knowing you..." they said as if they'd practised it in sync. "I'll miss you too and I hope we'll cross each others way again someday..."

Calum and Michael loosened their arms around me and 0.2 seconds later I was pulled into the tightest possible hug, blonde curls blocking my sight. By the way his arms flexed around me, I could tell it was Ashton. "Chrissy, I can't believe you're leaving already, I thought we would have some time to do super fun stuff like more movie nights and damn I will miss you like crazy, let's skype everyday okay? Scratch that, twice a day!"

I giggled, making him shut up. Ashton was amazing at cheering you up and I wished I could have him make me laugh everytime I was sad. "We will skype as much as you want and I will miss you even more!" I exclaimed while I squeezed him tightly.

The boys got on their bus, leaving just Luke and me. It was weird at first, because none of us said a single word, but when my mouth was about to open, he smashed his lips on mine, cupping my cheeks with his palms. Both numbness and electricity at once surged up in my body and the moment felt infinite.

Our little eternity ended when we pulled away, completely breathless. I stared into the very dept of his ocean blue eyes, desperately trying not to break out in tears. "Goodbye, Chrissy" he said in his own thick accent - the accent I would probably never ever hear again - and slowly turned on the heel, walking towards their bus with his shoulders hanging down and his shoes scuffling on the gravel.

When both of our buses started driving, our eyes locked one last time, but we got ripped apart too soon, leaving my heart shattered.

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