Close As Strangers

0.9

It was only 67 days until Luke would be back in the U.S. I asked my mom if I could fly out to see him in New York, but of course she said no.

"We just can't afford it." She said to me as I asked for the millionth time.

"Mom, I'll get a job again, I'll do whatever, but please." I whined like a five year old.

"You are 5 months pregnant, you can't get a job."

"But mom."

"But nothing. I said we don't have money. That's enough."

"Mom." I began.

"Enough is enough." She said back sternly.

I ran to my room almost in tears. I carefully got onto my bed, and logged onto my laptop. I frantically went and looked at airline tickets, which is what I've been doing for the past few weeks. $203 for one seat to New York City. I closed my laptop and put on some nice maternatiy clothing I had gotten for Christmas, and walked out of the house. It was cold outside, since it was already April. I walked all the way to the main parts of LA, going in and out of stores asking if they were hiring. The managers would ask my age, and I'd say "I'm 17, but I'm turning 18 next month." Then they'd look at my bump and say they weren't hiring. What fuckers.

I looked down at my phone, seeing it was already 1:45 and I haven't eaten all day. I don't want to starve Carmella, so I went to a cafe and sat down outside.

"Hi, my name is Allyssa, and I'll be your server toda- Arden?" She asked.

I looked up from my menu. "Hi?" I asked. "How do you know me?"

"You're Arden. Arden Christy? Luke Hemmings girlfriend."

I smiled at her on the outside, but on the inside I was basically screaming 'Leave me the fuck alone, I don't want to be reminded of my boyfriend who is on the other side of the world.'

"Yeah I'm her." I laughed awkwardly.

"You two have the cutest relationshi-" She paused, does this girl ever finish a sentence? "What's that?" She asked pointing at my bump. "Are you? Wait that means Luke- Oh my gosh!" She jumped up. "Okay, I apologize, big fan of the boys. What can I get you toda-"

"Allyssa." A man in a black dress shirt walked over. "Are you disturbing a customer?"

"No not at all." She spoke fastly. "She's the pregnant girlfriend of a huge Australlian rock-star."

"Oh really?" He asked. "Well ma'am, what can we get for you today?"

"Just some french fries." I mumbled.

"Good sir." He said, snapping his fingers. "Get this young, beautiful lady some french fries!"

Fuck. This waitress basically is going to tell the whole world that I'm pregnant! I bet she has a fan account or something, and now everybody is going to know. And the whole 5sos fam is going to hate me.

"Can I get a selfie?" She asked, pulling out her pink iPhone.

"Sure." I said faintly, not wanting to be rude. I smiled as she snapped the photo and threw her phone back into her pocket.

"Thanks, here's your fries."

I just sat there, quietly eating my french fries. All I wanted was peace and quiet, not that I was ashamed of being Luke's girlfriend, it's just, I didn't like the experience I just encountered.

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LOL so all of ya'll being the cuties you are, are dming me on twitter, asking me to do a q&a from each characters perspectives. So that's what the next update will be about! :)