Chapter 16 - The nose piercing

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Well aren't you lovelies in for a treat.

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We were all relaxing and talking about things we did on stage when we heard a lot of yelling, we looked over at the door and 5SOS were walking in, yelling their congratulations. We ran over (some of us in heels hobbled) and hugged the guys.

Before they hugged me they stopped still and just stared. I forgot how different I looked today. I just smiled sweetly and threw my arms around Micheal's neck,

“You did great!” He said, squeezing me tightly. I let go to see Ash and Cal talking to the others but Luke was still staring at me. I raised an eyebrow but just turned away from him, remembering last night.

I spoke to Mikey for a while about the show and what we were all going to do that night and where we were going to eat. Luke just kept glancing over at me until eventually I said to him,

“Luke, can I help you with something?”

Everyone went silent,

“Yes actually” he came back cocky “Can I talk to you for a second, over there”
“Can’t you talk to me here?” I smiled sweetly
“No, over there” 
I sighed and stood up, he walked over to a corner of the room so we were out of earshot.

“What are you doing?” he blurted
“What?”
“I don’t get you”
“I don’t understand what I’ve done”
“You know exactly what you’ve done”
“Enlighten me”
“I just don’t understand you! One minute you’re having an emotional breakdown because I’m leaving and you practically won’t let go of me” he began,

That stung,

“Then the next, you’re completely ignoring me. Then you’re rude to my girlfriend who didn’t even do anything wrong an-“
“Whoa! Take like seven thousand steps back and re-evaluate what you just said”
“What?”
“What do you mean your girlfriend didn’t do anything? She insulted my career choice, called me a bitch, insulted and embarrassed me and my friends, who also happen to be your friends, and you just walk off with her.”
“That’s not how it was”
“That’s exactly how it was”
“No it wasn’t”
“Yes it was Luke! You’re blind! You don’t see what she’s doing!”
“You said she was taking me away from you”
“What?”
“Last night you said she was taking me away from you. Why did you say that? What’s there to take away? You were always with Mikey”
“Oh come on Luke, that’s not fair”
“It’s perfectly fair. How is this any different?”
“Because it is!”
“And what’s with you changing yourself?”
“Stop changing the subject!”
“What’s with the tiny dress and platform heels an- nose piercing?!” He looked closely at me in disbelief “You got your nose pierced?! Why did you do that?!”
“Why did you get your lip pierced?”
“This is just getting ridiculous”
“It’s a valid question”
“And what about that first night when you met her?”
“Stop changing the subject!”
“Stop changing you!”

We stood there. We were out of breath from shouting at each other. We just stared. I know it’s weird but I liked this. I liked yelling at each other because it let out all of my anger, I could tell him almost everything I was thinking.

He placed his hands on my face,

“You’re beautiful, why are you doing this?” he sighed
“Luke,” I started but the words got caught in my throat.

I couldn’t tell him, either way he was still going to be with Emily and there was nothing I could do about that. I needed to distance myself from him.

“Just leave me alone” I said, pulled his hands from my face and walked back over to the sofas where everyone was talking. It physically hurt to pull his hands off of my face.

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