Julie and the Phantoms imagines and prefrences

pressure part one [luke X reader]

Swear words ahead. You've been warned.

1994

His parents weren't home. The cars not in the driveway and the lights in the livingroom arent on.
I sit there a minute before ringing the doorbell.
I hear footsteps come towards the door. He looks through the window on the door.
He sees me and goes to open it but then I realize what I'm doing and how pathetic I am and run.
I run down the street, through the alleyways, past cars going slower than the speed limit.
I dont go back home, instead I end up in the woods in an old treehouse that's been here since before I was born.
I walk to the corner and grab my old dusty six string.
I keep it here because if my parents found it they would freak.
Music is the devil's work, or that's what they say.
I start playing a song. I dont know what song it is. Probably something I heard somewhere.
I have perfect pitch and a great memory. Those things combined equals an endless songbook.
I play until my fingers feel like they're gonna fall off, by then its too dark to even see the strings but I know this guitar better than I know most people.
I hear leaves crunch and a twig snap from below me.
I set the guitar down and grap the rope ladder. No ones on it so I start pulling it up. Then something weighs it down and I end up dropping it.
"Ow! You could have been a little more careful!" Luke yells up to me. Of course he would know to find me here.
"Its not my fault. I'm too weak to hold you up and I didnt know it was you so I didnt know to be careful so that's on you." I yell down to him.
I go back to my corner.
He pulls himself into the treehouse.
He pulls up a bag and then pulls up the ladder. I turn on the lantern I keep in here and give him a look.
He opens it to reveal some blankets.
He sits the bag down in another corner and then sits next to me.
I dont look at him. I dont ever give him the time of day but somehow he still gets to me.
He was cute, every girl in school wanted him, even me. And that's saying something.
I was never much for crushes, but there was something about him.
We weren't dating but we definitely weren't just friends.
We told eachother things we would never dare tell anyone else.
We kiss when no ones around but never say anything about it.
It was complicated.
"What happened?" He asks.
"Nothing." I say in a monotone voice, inspecting my nails that have bitten down to the beds.
He grabs my hand and I give him a cold glare.
He doesnt let go though.
"You really shouldn't bite your nails." He says inspecting them carefully.
"There are a lot of things I really shouldnt do." I say giving him a pointed look.
He let's go of my hand, and we just sit there.
"I know it's not nothing." He says after a minute.
"Its fine. I'm fine." I say.
"Really cause you've clearly been crying, and you only bite your nails when you're stressed out." He states leaning his head back on the wall and looking at me.
"I'm fine." I insist.
"No you're not and I'm not gonna leave you alone until you tell me why."
We bicker for a bit before I give in.
"I'm suffocating." I state simply.
"What do you mean?" He asks me.
"I mean that the walls are closing in and no one will help me. I'm supposed to be the perfect student, daughter, I'm the poster child for everyone in that fuckong school to look to and pick on and the thing is is that I dont wanna be that person." I say, giving in and laying my head on his shoulder.
He wraps an arm around me.
"I dont expect you to be perfect." He says.
"Well that's because you're you." I laugh.
"What's that supposed to mean?" He smiles, poking me in the side, causing me to jump.
I smack his hand.
"It means that you're not trying to be like everyone else in this frickin town. I have to be better than everyone, it's what my parents expect of me."
"Maybe you should stop worrying about what everyone expects of you." He says looking me in the eyes, just centimeters from my face.
"If I do that then my parents will disown me. And where will I go after that?" I say quietly, moving just the littlest bit closer to him.
"You could stay here." He smiles, looking at my lips for a second.
"And how would that work?" I ask. This place has no electricity, no nothing.
"You could set up a little house in here, and then I can come over and me and you can play board games, and listen to music on the portable radio I know you keep in the tiny little closet in the corner." He says smiling, still so close to me that we were sharing air.
"Oh yeah?" I say quietly, moving closer to him.
"Yeah." He says closing the space between us.
He pulls me to him, kissing me hungrily.
I kiss him back, smiling into the kiss. I put a hand behind his neck, pulling him even closer to me, deepening the kiss.
His hands are rested on my waist.
Suddenly a crash from below us causes us to jump, I accidentally bite his lip.
"Sorry." I say running my thumb over it.
"Y/n! What the hell are you doing up there?" I hear my father yell.
"Shes not here!" Luke yells.
"I know shes here and I dont like the idea of you two being up there alone!" My father yells back to him.
"Dude I'm telling you shes not here now leave!" Luke yells down, poking his head through the small window.
"Where is my daughter?" I hear my mother yell. Shes really angry.
I'm more scared of her than my father.
"Luke maybe I should jus-" I whisper in his ear but am interrupted.
"No y/n. They're the whole reason you're here in the first place" he whisper shouts back to me.
"Luke? Can you come down here please?" I hear his mom yell.
"Its fine luke. Really." I tell him.
He looks at me like hes about to disagree with me, but then his mom calls for him and his resolve breaks.
"Fine." He says.
He kisses my forehead before going to the trapdoor a d opening it, dropping the ladder down.
He goes down first and I go down after him.
When I get to the bottom of the ladder luke grabs my hand and helps me down.
I'm about to thank him when I feel my father pull my arm harshly, causing me to yelp.
"You stupid little girl! That boy is bad news!" My mother yells before popping my mouth.
Tears sting my eyes, but I dont let them show. I look at the both of them with a cold unforgiving look.
I yank my arm from my fathers grip and he yells at me, trying to grab my arm again but I move away from him.
"Fuck off." I tell the both of them.
My dad walks over to luke, he pokes his chest, talking about how hes corrupted me.
I shove him away from luke and he smacks the back if my head.
I look at Luke's mother.
"I'm so sorry about them. They're quite the embarrassment." I say eyeing the both of my parents.
My father goes to hit me again but luke pulls me away just in time.
He hugs me close to him.
"You gotta get away from these people." He whispers im in my ear.
I'm about to answer him when my mother tells me to step back from him.
Emily tells her to give us a minute.
Bless her. I think to myself.
"I promise." I whosper back to him.
I give him a kiss on the cheek.
My father starts rambling about how luke is a bad influence and my mother says that the devil was using him to send me down the wrong path.
I turn to the both of them and hold up three fingers, "read between the lines." I say before running deeper into the woods.

Okay so this wasnt bad. Definitely doing a part two. If you want me to make this into a book then comment or just vote. I really like this one.
Have an awesome day
- izzy