Haunted

Chapter 76

Songs for this chapter

Change Your Ticket - One Direction

Baby I - Ariana Grande

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My jaw drops as she looks at me with sparkling eyes.

"Are you serious?", I gasp and she nods happily.

"Luke, everything will be alright now!" She throws her arms around my neck and I hug her back tightly.

"We need to go see him!", I say and she starts jumping up and down. "You need to meet him! Oh my god, you'll finally meet him!"

I hear a cough behind me and see the police official looking at us with raised eyebrows. "Can we finish this now?"

"Actually, no", I say and grab Ariana's arm. "We need to leave!" With that I pull her away from him. Can we get in trouble for this? Probably.

We look for our parents and tell them our plans to which Mr. and Mrs. Clifford agree instantly.

Ariana's dad decides to stay at their house while we drive to the hospital.

"I love you", I whisper at Ariana as soon as we're in the car and take her hand. She looks over to me and smiles the brightest smile I've ever seen.

"I love you too. So fucking much."

"I'm trying not to listen", Mrs. Clifford says from the driver's seat. "That could be embarrassing for you."

"I don't even care anymore", Ariana laughs. "I don't care about anything anymore. The only important thing is that I got the two most important people in my life back."

"Thanks", her mum says sarcastically and we grin.

"Do you know what?", I suddenly realize. "He saved you. He saved you again."

Ariana stares at me for a second, then she nods. "But you did too", she then says.

"You can't remember this", I say quietly so her mum can't hear us. "But I always used to promise you that I'll protect you. Everytime you had a nightmare I told you that I won't let anyone hurt you. He hurt you a bit, but I did my best."

"And that was more than I'd ever ask you to do", she says and squeezes my hand.

"I didn't want you to get involved." "Did I ever care about what others want me to do?", I grin and she shakes her head smiling.

"I'm just so happy it's over", she mumbles and I see a little tear slipping out of her eye. "Don't cry", I whisper and wipe it away.

"I told myself I won't cry", she sighs. "But I'm a mess."

"I don't want you to cry but you have every right to", I say and she smiles at me weakly. "No. Everything is okay again. I shouldn't cry."

"Cry your eyes out, no one gives a fuck. No one will stop you. Cry as much as you need to cry, I'll probably join in. This was just too much. And now it's over. So let's cry out in relief", I say and she laughs.

"Alright, if you cry I'll cry as well", she says and I grin. "You wanna see me cry, huh?"

"Wouldn't be the first time", she smirks. "You're the only one who can make me cry", I laugh. "Take it either the good or the bad way."

"I'll take it the good one then", she laughs.

Suddenly a phone rings. "Ariana please tell me who it is", Mrs. Clifford says as she hands it to Ariana on the backseat.

"Michael", Ariana replies and picks up. "It's me", she says after a few seconds.

She winces and takes the phone away from her ear as Michael starts shouting.

"We're fine", she then assures him. "Its over."

"We're here", Mrs. Clifford tells me and pulls into the parking lot.

"I'll call you back", Ariana quickly says and hangs up. She jumps out of the car and pulls on my arm as I do the same.

"C'mon", she says. "We need to hurry up!"

She impatiently waits for her mum until she can't stand it anymore. "We'll see you later", she quickly says while Mrs. Clifford looks for something in her bag.

With that she pulls me away to the entrance of the huge building.

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"He already asked for you", Ashton's grandma tells Ariana. We're waiting in front of room 483 for the doctors to come out and let us in.

"How is he?", Ariana questions while I put my arm around her waist. "Good for someone who just woke up from coma", the old woman smiles.

"I can't wait for you to meet him", Ariana says happily. "And I can't wait to meet him", I tell her and kiss her forehead.

"You're gonna be great friends", she tells me and I laugh. "We'll see. Maybe he doesn't like me. Who knows?"

"He will, why wouldn't he?", she replies. "Did you already see him?", Mrs. Clifford approaches us.

"We can't go inside", Ariana groans and Ashton's grandma sighs. "They basically kicked me out", she laughs.

We stay outside a few more minutes, telling Mrs. Clifford and Ashton's grandma what happened earlier. They listen to us with a worried expression on their faces and I nearly laugh.

It took them long enough to remember that we could've died just a few hours ago. Whatever. I'm happy that Ashton waking up takes Ariana's mind off everything bad.

Suddenly the door opens and a few nurses come outside. "I think you can go in there now", one of them smiles and before she can even finish the sentence Ariana rushes past her into the room.

I follow her and see a boy with hazel eyes and a huge grin plastered on his face.

"Hi, I missed you too", Ashton laughs as Ariana throws her hands around his neck.

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Thanks for reading!

So, I got asked to make a sequel to "Haunted" and I'm not really sure about it to be honest

Would you guys be interested in that?

My next story will for sure be "Almost Is Never Enough" but after that I might write a sequel to this, just about Ariana's life before Luke and stuff like that

Make sure to archive this story and I'll let you know if I decide to write part two of this ;)

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