Outside || Luke Hemmings

Chapter 30

‘Are you sure about that? I’m trusting you on this’ I said to Luke.
He laughed and looked at me.
‘I am 100% sure. Just take it’ he answered.
‘Alright, I’ll take it’ I said to the man standing in front of me.
He just smiled and nodded.
I gave him the phone back and watched as he unlocked a cabin and took a little box out of it.
He told us to follow him and we did.
I paid for the phone with the money my parents left for me and we walked out of the store.
I felt bad for spending it, since it was the only thing they left for me and I just gave it away like it was nothing, but at the same time it felt good.
Maybe that was the best way I could forget about them, to just let a little piece of them go with spending the money on something. That sounded terrible but I had to spend it on something anyway.
Whether it was food to stay alive or a hotel to sleep in, little by little I would spent the money and never get it back.
I sighed and looked around.
There really was nothing to do here. We realized that 2 hours ago but somehow we managed to stay busy.
‘Let’s go buy more food’ Luke said, looking at a little bakery.
‘We bought food before we went in there to get a phone’ I laughed, but we went inside anyway.
‘I know,’ Luke replied ‘I just want to eat some really good cookies. OR we could just get some pie’ he said, his face lit up when he saw the pie section.
He was acting like a little kid and it was really cute.
‘Should we get pie? I think we should’ he said.
‘Don’t you only eat pie to celebrate something?’ I asked ‘That’s what my parents always told me’
‘You eat pie to celebrate something yeah, but you can also just eat it if you feel like it. But we can celebrate you buying your first ever phone?’ he said, already searching for the best pie.
‘Obviously we’re not going to take a whole pie, but there’s tables here too so…I guess we can also just get a slice’
I turned around to see a few tables standing at the side of the bakery, which apparently, was also a little café/ restaurant kind of thing.
‘Well in that case, maybe we should’ I answered.
His smile grew wider and he turned back to the pies.
I did the same and looked at them.
They all looked delicious and I really just wanted to eat all of them.
‘How can you possibly pick from this?’ I asked.
‘You can’t’
I grinned and looked at him, his eyebrows were furrowed and he bit his lip ring in concentration.
He looked like he was about to make a life decision.
‘What pie did your parents always get?’ he asked, looking at me.
‘We always had chocolate on my birthday, something with cherries on my dad’s birthday and my mom always picked apple pie’
It stung a little to talk about my parents but I ignored it.
Luke gasped ‘I know what we’re going to take’ he said.
‘Which one?’ I asked.
Luke pointed to a pie all the way in the back.
“Chocolate strawberry truffle pie” it said.
‘That sounds perfect. Let’s do it’
Luke grinned and pulled me with him to the cash register.
He bought us 2 slices of the Chocolate strawberry truffle pie and we sat down at a table.
Luke immediately took a bite and closed his eyes, he moaned slightly and I couldn’t help but laugh.
I took a bite myself, it really was good.
We sat in silence for a while, both enjoying our pie.
When we were both finished Luke sighed and looked at his empty plate.
‘That was so good’ he said. ‘If I’d live here I would come to this place every day just for this pie’
I smiled at him and looked at my own empty plate. ‘You’d probably move to this place just so you could eat here’