Roses are Red // l.h.

1.5

{Rose's P.O.V.} {edited}

School or going home didn't matter to me anymore. I texted my mom that I was staying at a friends for the week but she read it and didn't respond. Liz had left the room after she cried in my arms, leaving me alone with my thoughts and the beeping of the heart monitor. I sat beside Luke and held his hand, it was slack in mine but I held tight.

It should be me, not Luke. He's got his entire future ahead of him, I should be in the bed arm in arm with death, not this beautiful boy. I let out a sob and lay my head down on his chest.
He said he loved me, and he meant it. What was so special about me? Nothing, I was a horrible person I wasn't pretty or anything. God, this is so unfair.

I lay quietly listening to his heart beat, enwrapping myself in the sound, the sound of life, the sound of hope. I hear the door slide open and I sit up in the chair and stand wiping my tears away. 3 boys shuffle into the room, one had curly hair with a bandana, one had a sort of Asian look to him but he was slightly off, and the next had red hair and a cute nose. They all had red puffy faces, meaning they had been crying. I recognize them, Luke had a picture of him with them in his bedroom. They must be friends.

"Um hello," I say nervously.

"Hi, I don't mean to be rude but who are you?" the red haired boy asks. I look down at my feet and shuffle them.

"My names Rose, Luke probably has never mentioned me-" I say but an cut off by realization flickering across their faces. Two of them make O shapes with their mouths and ohhh quietly.

"Hey Rose, we have heard lots about you, well my names Ashton," the curly haired boy said.

"My names Calum and this is Michael," the Asian looking one said.

"Luke has talked about me? Never mind," I mumble.

"Pardon?" 

"So how do you guys know Luke?" I ask quietly.

"Well we are in a band together, Luke is the lead singer," Ashton says laughing quietly. I glance at Luke, yeah, he would have a beautiful voice. They 3 boys are still standing awkwardly at the door and I realize they are waiting for me to go.

"Well I'll leave you alone with Luke-"

"Oh no that's not necessary, we can talk and get to know each more," the Asian one says. I nod realizing there's no way out of this.