I'd Never Live » Luke Hemmings

1.2~Shows

Marie's P.o.v.
I wake up, and although I don't know the time, I know it's late. It's not sunlight streaming through my open window, it's the moon light. Even though I haven't opened my eyes, I know it's not sunlight. I'm freezing cold.

I reach out and pat the bed next to me, silently. Nothing. I feel nothing. It's all true. They're really gone. They can't be though. It's impossible.

My eyes flash open and my body flings forward. I look over at his side of the bed. He's not here.

"It's not even my house, but I'm basically saying it is." I think, chuckling and shaking my head.

I swing my legs over the edge of the bed, and stand up. I walk into the bathroom, hoping and praying that he's here, even though I know he isn't. Once again, nothing.

Then I remember something. More like someone. Amy. I run out if the room. I'm halfway to the stairs, when I remember Carlie. I skid to a stop.

Carlie and Ashton.

The phone call.

He's not my brother. He's supposed to be my.......lover. My partner in crime. My reason to live. These aren't describing Ashton. They're not even whispering his name. They all scream out Luke.

I decide I need to go downstairs, and pretend nothing happened. I walk down to the living room and no one's here. Go figure. There is a note though.

Marie,
We heard you crying and didn't know what to do. We called Luke and he tried calling you, but you wouldn't answer him. At all. No calls, no texts, no nothing. And then you stopped crying. It scared us, so we went up to your (? His?) room. You were sleeping, so we wrote this. Luke said he was calling someone and that we could leave.
Call us when you can.
~Amy and Carlie

I smile down at the paper. I've got good friends.

Then I hear a bang in the kitchen.

Oh my god. He's home!

I run into the kitchen and see a woman standing there, making pancakes. She turns around and looks at me. She looks like him.

"Hello, Darling. You must be starving! Here. Eat some food." She said, handing me a plate.

I graciously accepted it, and began eating. They were good, but they weren't his.

"You must be Marie. I'm Liz. Luke's mother. I'm so glad he has found you. I thought he wasn't ever going to stop. He'd drink so much, and then he'd show up at my house bawling for someone. No one ever knew who, but ever since he's met you, that's never happened." Liz smiles at me. "He really loves you. He got so worried last night." She chuckles.

I finish my pancakes, and clean my plate.

"Go get dressed. We're going to the mall. Your friends are waiting." Liz says to me.

I nod and jump up from the island.
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Luke's P.o.v.
"Come on guys!" Ashton shouts.

We're standing backstage to our first show. My mom text me three minutes ago. She's doing fine. She didn't say what happened last night.

I decided I needed to text her.

Luke 🐧: Hey baby. We're gonna play the two new songs. They should be on VEVO in a couple of hours. I wish you could be here. I've gotta go play. I love you with my life. I love you to infinity and back.

Marie 🐱: Hey baby! I'll check every minute for them! I can't wait to here them! I wish I were there too. I miss you like crazy. And further more. I love you too.

I smiled down at my phone, grabbed my guitar, and ran out on stage. This one's for her.
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Marie's P.o.v.
We get back from the mall, and I quickly checked VEVO on my phone. They're up.

Hey

Hey

Hey

Hey!

Hey

Hey

Hey

Hey!

Simmer down, simmer down.

They say we're too young now, to amount to anything else.

But look around,

We've worked too damn hard for this just to give it up now.

If you don't swim, you'll drown, but don't move honey.

You look so perfect standing there, in my American Apparel underwear.

And I know now, that I'm so down.

Your lipstick stain is a work of art, I've got your name tattooed in an arrow heart, and I know now. That I'm so down.

I finish listening to the song, and I realize I have tears in my eyes. All I can do is grin. His voice is like nothing I have ever heard before.

"Have you heard the other one yet?" Liz asks me.

I shook my head no.

"Do it. I think you'll like it!" She says, before walking away.

I listen to the intro, and I'm already crying.

When we both fall asleep,

underneath the same sky,

to the beats of our hearts at the same time,

so close but so far away, can you hear me?

She sleeps alone,

my heart wants to come home.

I wish I was, I wish I was, beside you.

I wipe away my tears, after finishing the song. I download them onto my phone, and walk upstairs.

I fall asleep listening to his angelic voice, sending me my own personal lullaby.
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Hai Loves! Okay, I know Luke didn't write SLSP, but, it just kind of fit the book, so bare with me.