Different

Chapter 32

On Saturday morning I pretended that I felt sick so that Courtney’s mom would take me home. After sitting round all morning with Courtney glaring at me and saying bitchy comments every few minutes I obviously wasn’t having much fun. Then when I got home my mom decided to bombard me with questions about how I was feeling after breaking up with Spencer, which made me feel even crappier. Today was not going very well.

After a few hours of watching tv my phone went off.

from Luke

has courtney killed you yet?

to Luke

im still alive! just xxx

from Luke

good xx are you busy right now?

to Luke

nope why? xxx

from Luke

sameeeee want to go somewhere before i die of boredom? xx

to Luke

sure xxx

from Luke

i’ll pick you up in a few mins

Thankfully I’d already done my hair and makeup at Courtney’s and my mom was upstairs taking a bath so I could hopefully sneak out without my mom asking me awkward questions. I left her a note saying I’d gone to the mall with Savannah and then texted her to tell her to cover for me in case my mom decided to go all psycho stalker again.

I saw Luke’s car pull up outside the window. I didn’t bother waiting for him to come to the door since the doorbell would raise my mom’s attention. I walked out to his car and got in. ‘Hi.’

‘Hey.’

‘Where do you want to go?’ he asked me.

‘I don’t really mind.’ I said truthfully.

‘Movies?’ he asked.

‘Sure.’

We spoke about school and tv and other stuff. Neither of us mentioned last night. I hope he wasn’t going to act like it never happened after I’d built up the courage to kiss him like that. When we got to the movies he let me pick which one we saw. We’d been holding hands since we got out of the car and the butterflies in my stomach were going crazy. I never felt like this when I was with Spencer, especially not with something as simple as holding hands. He’d paid for my ticket even though I offered to, then he bought us a large popcorn and two sodas.

We sat down near the back, the adverts were playing on screen. He put his arm around me and I snuggled into him. The movie started and I was absent-mindedly eating popcorn every so often. After about an hour into the movie I started getting a bit bored. I don’t even know how it happened, but me and Luke ended up kissing. This was so nice, his hands were massaging my back and my hands were in his hair. After a while the lights came back on. How long had we been kissing? We both started laughing as we made our way out of the building. ‘Did you like the movie then?’ Luke asked me with a smirk. I laughed in reply.