Beside You - Sequel to Unpredictable

13

Maddie's P.O.V.

"So what have you been doing? It's been awhile." Beau points out as we walk towards the house. 

"I know, I know. I feel awful. I've just been really busy with a lot of things.." I scratch the back of my neck, shrugging. "Fair enough. How about we have a movie night tonight and you can stay over?" He offers. That might actually be a good idea. If I want Luke's fans to like me, then all I have to do is start out with posting a few pictures of me and one of the boys here so it makes it look like I'm not with Luke. Yeah that will work.

"Sure. I'm sure some of my clothes are still here." I say, smiling a little. Beau walks up the stairs to the front door and opens it, "GUESS WHO IS HERE?!" He shouts into the house, making a loud echo. 

I hear footsteps from upstairs and a loud crash followed by some laughing. "I fell!" Luke yells, finally making it to the stairs. "Maddie!" He exclaims, running to me and tackling me in a hug. He is followed by James who attempts to pick up the both of us but fails miserably, almost dropping Luke and I on the floor.

"Hey boys!" I laugh and pull away from them. "Looks like you missed me more than I thought." 

"Of course we did!" James laughs with me and grabs my hand, "C'mon." I follow him to the living room where the tv has a Super Mario old-school game flashing across the screen. "I challenge you. A fight to the death!" He exclaims dramatically. "Challenge accepted. Luke, Beau, start working on a fort. James and I will be here for awhile." I say, making them laugh and I pick up the grey controller.

"Twenty bucks and I say I win."

"Oh you're on, Harrison." He smirks deviously.

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Two hours later James and I are still going at it. And may I say, I am winning. The fort has been built around us and the two other boys are sitting next to me, cheering me on. "I grew up with this game! I always win!"

For the first time in awhile, I'm actually having fun without thinking about Luke. Beau gets up and comes back with a few beers a couple minutes later. "Fuel me." I demand as my thumbs furiously press the buttons as I am beating James.

Luke cracks open a can and holds it up to my lips so I can take a drink. I mumble a 'thank you' before turning my focus back to the game. James yells out in frustration as I finally beat the game with the highest score. "FUCK!" He yells and crosses his arms over his chest like a four year old. 

"I believe you owe me twenty dollars mister." I chuckle and set the controller down, flexing my fingers. After he pays up Luke turns on the tv and a popular but annoying tv show comes on.

"This in on MTV, does Luke Hemmings have a new girl? What happened to Maddie?" The host exclaims, showing a picture of a couple leaning against the wall, kissing, who is clearly Luke and some girl. And that girl is not me.

Luke's P.O.V.

"Um Luke? You may want to call Madds.." Ashton mumbles, looking down at his phone. 

"Why?" I question just as he shows me the screen which has an MTV article on it. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. This is bad. This stuff has happened before. Maddie is going to hate me. I groan and pick up my phone, calling her quickly. When she doesn't answer I let out a long, loud groan and lay back on the couch. "Dammit." I mutter aloud and send her a text.

The girl in the picture is not my new girlfriend. It's a girl who pushed me against the wall and kissed me before I could say or do anything. I would never do that to Maddie. Well not again at least. I log onto Twitter and scroll through my feed. There are tons of tweets with that picture. Some are saying that It's good. Some are acting devastated.

I need to talk to Maddie before she see's that picture.

I need to explain that it isn't what it looks like and I wouldn't cheat. Not after losing her before. I can't go through that again.

I try calling again and get her voicemail once again. What if she has already seen it? She won't even hear me out. What will I do? 

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hey so i know this is short, three pages, whatever. but im going to make two more three paged chapters so dont worry. thats nine pages in one day. love you all <3