Money: Luke Hemmings

48

1st of September 2016

'God I cannot believe we start university tomorrow,' I said as I flopped onto the couch next to Luke who was holding my dinner.

'Who would have thought we would be here together this time last year?' Luke questioned with a smile as he handed me my pasta, which allowed me to shovel a forkful of pasta in my mouth.

Luke and I both received our acceptance letters for Cambridge a few days after his birthday, when for once in my life, I was at my home in Sydney with Harrison who also needed to be home to receive his letters as well.

'Not me that's for sure, I hated you,' I laughed and Luke just rolled his eyes at me as I shoved another mouthful of pasta into my mouth, the sauce going all over my face.

'I never hated you, I thought you were the most wonderful thing to ever exist,' Luke said with a warm smile and it was my turn to roll my eyes at him.

'Oh bullshit,' I said after I finished my mouthful of pasta, wiping the sides of my face with a napkin to make myself look slightly clean. 'You just wanted to get into my pants.'

'Well yeah of course I wanted to have sex with you Belle, you are the hottest person I have ever seen,' Luke said and my cheeks went a deep red at his words before he decided to continue. 'However, you were the first girl that I actually wanted to be with.'

'Really?' I asked with a cheesy grin on my face, Luke nodding at my question.

'Yeah, it freaked me out though because I have never been whipped over someone. Ever.'

'And now you're living with me, would you look at that,' I laughed before finishing off the rest of my pasta, a rerun of 'Friends' playing on the television in the background whilst Luke and I continued to talk about how excited we were for tomorrow.

We moved in just under a month ago, into Luke's family's house like we said we would. Since the place is fully furnished, we decided to add our own little individual touches here and there, like a painting that my mum did before she passed away that was left to me that now hung above our bed.

'I love this,' Luke said as we began to wash the dishes together, not having much to do since there was only two of us but it was something we always did together, as cheesy at it seems.

'Washing the dishes together?' I asked with a small laugh, Luke handing me the bowls to dry and put away.

'No, silly, I love living with you. I love being able to wake up next to you in the morning and get coffee with you on the weekend. I love going out to party with you and then coming home with you to order McDonald's and you passing out in our bed before you can finish your nuggets. The feeling of getting to love and live with your best friend is indescribable,' Luke said with a beaming smile, his eyes shining slightly and the dimples on his cheeks showing for the first time in a while, because he usually suppressed them, which I hated because they are apart of him and make his smile his own.

'I really love you,' I said honestly, kissing his cheek as we continued to wash the dishes together, laughing about nothing and everything, mainly the fact that we could be employing someone to do this but we decided against it, as we both wanted a proper university experience, not hampered by the fact that we are technically billionaires.

Luke's family's house was pretty insane, being two stories with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, along with a swimming pool, tennis court and home gym.

'What time is your first class tomorrow?' Luke asked me as he crawled into bed with me, prompting me to put the book down that I was reading and pay attention to Luke who had just finished his shower after working out in the gym on the first floor.

'9 am I believe, what about you?' I said as he rested his head on my chest, my hand immediately finding its way to his hair to play with the golden locks that he had.

'I think the same too,' Luke said. 'Are you wearing my jumper again?' he asked after a moment and I giggled lightly, because I had taken to wearing his clothes to bed, mainly because they were way too big for me and I liked that, but they also smelt like him, which I had grown to love.

'Well yeah, what else do you expect?' I asked with a laugh, Luke sitting up to look at me with a smile on his face.

'God when I first met you I would have never thought you would be the girl to sleep in her boyfriends clothes.'

'When I first met you I would never ever thought you would be the type of boy to have a girlfriend.'

'Neither did I,' Luke said honestly before climbing back out of bed to turn the bedroom light off, turning on his bedside lamp when he came back to bed. 'You've made me soft Carrington.'

'You were always soft, you just needed someone to bring that side of you out,' I said with a smirk, taking Luke's hand in my own and holding it whilst we continued to reminisce on the year that was.

'Hey! I was not always soft,' Luke protested either a pout on his face, the black lip ring missing from his lip, as he decided it was time to give it up, much to my dismay.

'True, I thought you were going to break my heart a few times there,' I said truthfully, destiny my head on his bare chest, leaving a soft kiss on the exposed skin, which I knew Luke loved.

'Oh please I never broke your heart,' Luke scoffed and I just raised an eyebrow at him.

'You almost did when you slept with Rory and then I went and almost overdosed,' I said, bringing down the mood slightly, when I knew I did because Luke let out a rather loud sigh and I could almost see the hurt on his face at that dig.

'You know I'm sorry for that, that was one of the worst times of my life Belle, I never want that to happen again,' Luke said softly, squeezing my hand and I just nodded against his chest, knowing that it will never happen again.

I have been off drugs since that night, making me almost a year clean, which is one of my proudest achievements to date. I have not had an itch for anything for a few months, which is the best part about it, because I no longer have the need to do it anymore, and I think I'm going to start going to a therapist to talk about better coping mechanisms for the loss of my mum.

'I know Luke,' I said kissing his chest once more, a small smile on my face at the thought of how far both of us have come since the first day we met last year.

'Now let's get some rest, you need to be ready to start the journey to becoming doctor Carrington tomorrow morning.'

———————————————————

Woohoooo only 3 more chapters to go!!! How crazy Wtffff

Also I got VIP 5SOS tickets for December and I'm literally so excited already I cannot wait

Also thank you for 2K+ reads! You guys are the best I love you all xxx

Anyways thanks for reading xx