Forbidden - Lashton

Chapter 11 - luke (short)

A/N: Dedicated to my four friends that I almsot lost to sucide within this past year and last year who I thank are still alive and doing well in their lives.
I also thank myself to coming into their lives at the right time, saving them before it was too late and with the help of professionals.
Obviously they mean the world to me and are considered very good friends of mine.

Be kind to others and help others out in their time of need and remember you're never alone.

This chapter was supposed to be Ashton's chapter, which I've been working on for the past 3 days but I changed it to Luke's.

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"I overheard my parents talking when I got back. Rambling on about how I'm not their son, how I don't belong here. My dad saw me, he gave me a couple swears before mum came over to calm him down. It didn't matter though, they both clearly don't love me as I thought they did," He rested his head sideways on his knee and looked anywhere but my eyes.

"I don't think I really belong here or anywhere for that matter even though I'm prince Calum. Here to be a good leader in the future. You know, I think about it."

"About what?" I looked at him with full attention.

"Committing suicide." He sighed and remained in the same position.

"What?... Why would you ever think about that?" I close in our inch of space between the two of us and get closer to him.

"Just think about it. No one needs me. I'm not important especially to my parents. Sometimes they act like I'm not their son like I'm some kind of stranger."

Why would Calum say such a thing?

He's important to me and others, not just his parents.

He doesn't see it as much as I do.

"You are important. You're important to me, remember?" I say.

"Yeah, to get away from Ashton."

"Well, it was and then I got to know you and you're possibly the greatest friend I've ever met. You always made me smile and laugh when clearly I didn't want to do either of those but you always had your ways."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. So don't go on thinking about those things. I don't want you to go and have your head full of thoughts that have anything to do negativity, especially that has to do with yourself."

Calum hugged his knees tighter and only shrugged at what I had to say. I frowned and tried to say something better after. "Come on Calum, Trust me. Something good always happens out of the bad times and you're gonna have to believe me on that. You're not alone on this so don't think you are, okay?"

"Okay, I beleive you, but it won't be easy for me you know? I'm still living with my problems and it's hard to just forget about them."

"Of course, I understand that it won't be easy for you. I'm happy that at least I made you think about saving your own life without having to losing it all the sudden. It's all it matters right now."

I looked at him and felt bad for him having these kinds of thoughts running around in his mind. I wrapped my one arm around him and squeezed to show him I'm giving him comfort and smiled when he accepted it as he leaned in on me back.

I also thought his parents loved him.

They always showed how much they love him and where his reputation has got him at but for them to talk behind his back?

What is this? This isn't family.

I don't mean to think about this at the moment where Calum needs all comfort he can get but Calum looks nothing like his parents. Are they really blood-related? I might ask him about this once he's well.

"Thanks, Luke, for understanding. I wish my parents could be giving me support right now but instead, they showed how much they don't want me."

"I'm-I'm sorry to hear about that by the way. Don't worry about it too much. One day you'll be king and no one can tell you any doubts." I trailed my fingers up and down on his arm as I looked down at him, at least trying to. All I can see is his hair.

"Yeah, sure." Is all he says. I sat with him like that for another hour until he pushed himself off of me from my grip and got up and was now looking down at me. "We should probably head inside. I don't want you to get a cold because of me."

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"You'll be good going to sleep alone? I could stay if you want me too." I asked standing in front of him by his bedroom door.

"Yes, Luke. I'll be fine, trust me. You've proven to me there's a lot more to life than having to constantly think about what others think of you and meeting their expectation. I'll go to bed thinking about all that you did for me."

I nod and swallow out the words. "Anytime." and then he left behind his bedroom door. After that, I walked back to the small hut built for soldiers like me who go to rest there.

I went to bed thinking good about myself after what I've done to Calum. I saved someone before they were drowning themselves out. I know that it isn't easy to forget about all the bad things you've been feeling all in one day but at least I prevented something before it happened and that's something I could sleep on with a smile on my face.

To be continued...

A/N: Next chapter is definitely longer than this one but as you could imagine, this was hard to write. Everyone goes through their own problems and people like me do everything they can to keep people moving forward.
I had to face problems of mine for the longest time ever but I always knew something good would happen in the end and I was right.
I love writing stories and I love lisenting/reading stories because it's peoples imaginations and I love when they bring it out to the world.