The Clifford Project

Chapter 4

"Paisley! Paisley! Paisley!" I opened my eyes to see Lucy, sitting on my chest in her pajamas, whisper-yelling my name, while poking my face.
"What in the ever living fluff are you doing?"
"Trying to wake you up. It's six o'clock, and I'm hungry."
"It's prom night and I'm lonely, also I don't care. "
"MAKE ME FOOD!"
"We're college students. I'm sure we have some ramen in the cabinet."
"But I want real food! "
"Well what the fuck do you think ramen is?"
"You know what I mean, something homemade."
"I can assure you that nothing I will be making will be actually edible." I got up from my seat to go to the kitchen to get a bag of Doritos, grabbing my Xbox controller on the way back.
"Really? Doritos? "
"Yeah why not? I've got my bag of artificial cheesey goodness, and I've got my Xbox to play FIFA with. It's all I really need. "
"But what about me? "
"It's not always about you Lucy. "
"Ugh!" I took the second Xbox controller and pushed it towards her while holding out my bag of chips.
"Come to the dark side. We have FIFA. " She grabbed the controller from my hand and sat next to me.
"I hate you. "
"I love you too. " Just as we started the game a knock came at the door. "I'll get it." I got up from my spot and walked to the door. When opened it revealed Luke, his hands full with Chinese take out, smirking dumbly.
"I thought you guys might want food so I got this on my way home from work. Ooo are you playing FIFA?" He squeezed past me taking our extra controller off the coffee table and sitting on the couch next to Lucy.
"Luke, just because you're our neighbor, doesn't mean you can just show up whenever you want. "
"First of all, I brought food. Second of all, I wanted to spend some time with my two favorite girls. " He said enthusiastically as he put his arms around both of us pulling us in tight and kissing our foreheads. Honestly, he was the sweetest. I squirmed out of his grip, wiping his saliva off of my head.
"Well I guess this is better than sitting alone with a bag of Doritos. "
"Yes Pais, I hope I am better than some measly crisps. "
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We went through about three rounds of FIFA before Lucy quit playing, and threw herself on to the ground in boredom.
"Let's do something else. Like watch a film. How 'bout Love Actually?"
"I rather not watch it for the seventh time this month. I say we watch Mean Girls. "
"I second that! " Luke exclaimed throwing a hand up in the air.
"Fine whatever you love haters."
"Accurate." We sighed in unison. He giggled like a teenage girl at our simularity before getting up and putting the DVD in our blue ray player.

"I will never get sick of this movie." He said turning to Lucy.

"Yeah I guess I won't either."

"Nothing is better than Lindsay Lohan before she went completely nuts."

"She used to pretty hot. I like red heads."

"Luke, is that why you hung out with me increasingly more when my hair was blaze red?" I asked him, shoving some popcorn into the microwave.

"Pfffffttt, no. . . Okay maybe. That hair color, was really hot. No joke you were smoking."

"Smoking? Hot? Are you making jokes about how red it was?"

"Yeah totally. But seriously, you looked adorable." Now that my cheeks were redder than my old hair color, he started the movie. Whenever we hung out with Luke, it basically turned into one big cuddle fest. Luke would sit in the middle with the popcorn inbetween his legs, and he would let Lucy and I each rest our heads on one side of his chest. One of the things we've learned within the three years we've known Luke, is that he makes a really comfortable pillow.
Sitting there, every once and a while hearing Lucy or Luke giggle I drifted off to sleep.

(Flash back)---------------------------------------------

It was my first day at college. Fresh out of high school, I knew no one and was terible and making friends. It didn't help that my hair was currently bright red, and I was an awkward, tall, lanky emo. I walked through the crowded corridor as I tried to find my biology class. Too afraid to ask anyone, I wandered for a while with my head down. After a while, I made it to the end of the hallway where I saw a group of sporty looking boys circled around some lockers. As I got closer I heard shouting and realized there was a boy near in the middle of the circle being beat up by the others.

"What ya gonna do about nerd? Call your mum? I'm affraid she can't save you now Hemmings. We're gonna rip you to shreds."

"Please stop." He cried, backing up against the lockers. I had to something to stop this. It wasn't fair.

"What was that loser? Harder? You are so gay if you think we're going to stop just cause you said the magic word." I ran up behind the biggest one, grabbing him by the shoulder and pulling him away.

"Leave him the fuck alone." I spoke loudly and unnervingly calm trying to scare him.

"Woah we were just fooling around with him you goth slut. What you gonna do about it anyway?"

"You all have three seconds to leave him alone and get the fuck out of my sight or I will pull my switchblade on you. Now out!" He looked at me shocked before booking it down the hallway, his friends not to far behind. The poor victim looked at me with hopeful eyes as I stuck out a hand to help him up. "Hey you okay?"

"Yeah thanks. I've been too afraid to stand up to those guys for the last three months. I'm Luke by the way. Luke Hemmings."

"Hi Luke, I'm Paisley. Paisley Carpenter. Just a random ass college student with stupid gothic red hair."

"I don't think your hair is gothic or stupid. It's punk rock and I think it's cute."

"Well Luke, as long as I'm talking to you, and you are being nicer to me than anyone ever has, would you mind helping me find the biology room?"

"I'm actually heading there for class right now. Follow me, love."

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(A/N):

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I tried sooooooo hard to update every two days but then I had forensics and church and dance and piano and show choir and UGGGGGHHHHHH! I'm sorry. The good news is I posted and Luke is also an adorable little shit. The picture on the top/side is Paisley when she had red hair. Also if you don't follow me already on tumblr, my user is luvfortheweb. Just thought I would go for that self promo. Vote if you liked it and comment litterally anywhere. I LOVE FEED BACK! *whispers in ear* I love you. *kisses ear*

-Sophie/Cashton Baby
PS.  I hope you see this chapter cuz my wattpad is currently just like 'lol nope.' and isn't showing the new chapter. But if you see this it started working again.