"Hey." Ian says.
"Hi."
"Look, I'm sorry about yesterday night. I don't even remember sending those messages. I was waiting for you to text me all day today and when you didn't I got worried, so I went to text you and then I saw the messages from last. I don't remember sending them I swear. May, please believe me baby." Ian says into the phone quickly.
"Okay." I answer.
"Okay?" He asks, sounding shocked.
Probably because I gave in so fast but, to be honest I couldn't be bothered to fight with Ian right now.
"Yeah, I forgive you. I don't want to fight Ian." I whisper into the phone.
"Me either baby." He says as I smile.
"How's your summer going so far?" He asks, trying to change the topic.
"Well, it's only been a few days." I say, giggling lightly. "But, it's been alright so far. I've pretty much just been hanging out with my brother and his friends, who are pretty cool I guess. But I miss home. I miss you."
He sighs. "I miss you more. Hey, I have an idea. How about I come out to Sydney text sometime before summer ends?"
"Uhh... , yeah if you want. I don't really know if you'll get along with Mikey though." I indicate.
Ian laughs. "Well, I'm not coming to see Mikey , am I?" He puts emphasis on 'Mikey' since he knows only I call him that.
"Point taken. Maybe you can come towards the end of summer? I wouldn't want you to come so early on because then I'll miss you for the next two months. I want something to look forward to." I say.
"Okay, baby."
"Look, I should get back to Mikey and his friends. I'll text you later okay?"
We exchange our goodbyes and hang up.
I walk out of the bathroom to come in immediate contact with a body.
"Shit." I mutter.
"Sorry." I look up to see Luke.
"It's alright." I say, moving to the side to walk back over the everyone, until Luke steps in front of me.
"You forgave him rather quick." Luke says rudely.
"Excuse me?" I ask...
"Well, you just seemed so upset last night and then just now you forgave him like nothing." Luke further explains.
"Why the hell were you eavesdropping on my phone call?" I snap at him.
"I was waiting to go to the bathroom and the door isn't exactly soundproof." He snaps back at me.
"Still, it's rude. And none of your business if I may add."
"Guess you're right." He says as he steps into the bathroom, shutting the door behind him.
I walk over to the lounge area where everyone is and sit beside Calum. I would have sat beside Mikey but, Cora was on his lap and that would be awkward.
"Everything alright?" Calum asks.
"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?" I ask in defence.
"Just a question." Calum replies with a small laugh.
The rest of the night was spent drinking and talking, until 2am.
"Mikey, i'm tired. Can we go home?" I whine. "We both drank, we can't drive." Mikey slurs.
"I can drive you guys." Trey says.
"Okay, thanks." I smile.
I say my goodbyes to everyone, giving a hug to everyone but just a wave to Luke, considering what happened earlier. I help Michael to the car and we go home.
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The next morning I wake up and decide to check on Michael. He probably has one hell of a hangover. I walk out of my room and go over to Michael's room, knocking on the door. He doesn't answer so I open it up slightly.
"Michael?"
I see him sitting on his bed, with a guitar in his hands.
"I didn't know you played." I say to him.
He looked up. "Huh?"
I point to the guitar.
"Oh, yeah. I started last year." He says.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"Trying to get these chords right." He says, tuning his guitar.
"Well do you wanna grab some breakfast?" I ask.
He stand up and puts his guitar on his bed. "Sorry, I'm actually going over to Luke's."
"Oh." I say.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"It wasn't nothing. You said that weird. Do you not like Luke or something?" He asks.
"No, it's not that I don't like him. He's nice. He just kinda pissed me off last night when he was listening to my phone call."
"Oh, well you should just give him a chance. He's great once you get to know him. He's really nice. and funny. and he laughs at my jokes, and--" Michael says before I cut him off.
"Are you sure you're not dating him?" I laugh.
He lightly shoves my arm, laughing. "Shut up."
"He says you're pretty." Michael says out of the blue.
"Yeah, he told me." I laugh.
"Well, he better not get any ideas. You're my baby sister." Michael says with a somewhat serious look on his face now.
"Please," I scoff. "I have Ian, remember?"
"Right, Ian." Michael says, rolling his eyes.
I could tell Michael didn't like Ian. Which was rather unfair since he had never met him.
"I gotta go shower. Luke's coming to pick me up soon." Michael says as he hurries to the bathroom.
I go downstairs and make myself a bowl of cereal, then walk over to the TV and turn it on. I turn on the XBOX and put in a game I had never heard of, but choose it only because of the cute rabbit on the front. I hadn't even been playing for 5 minutes before I heard a knock on the door. I walk over to the door, quickly glancing at myself in the mirror to make sure I looked presentable, seeing as I just woke up.
I open the door to reveal Luke standing there. His hair was quiffed high, it must have given him at least an extra 2 inches in height. He had on black skinny jeans with rips at the knee and a red and black flannel. His eyes looked extra blue today. I hate to admit it, but he's actually pretty cute.
"Hi." He says, breaking the silence.
I guess I hadn't realized I had just been standing there, taking in what he looks like. "Uh, hey... Michael's in the shower, you can come in and wait if you want." I says as I stand to the side, gesturing for him to come in.
He steps inside and kicks off his shoes. I didn't really mean for him to make himself at home, but maybe this was what he usually did. I sit back on the couch and he follows me over, sitting beside me. I was just about to click resume when he spoke up.
"Hey about last night. I'm really sorry. It was out of line for me to listen in on your conversation. And you were right, it wasn't my business." Luke apologizes.
I smile. That was really nice of him to apologize. "I would forgive you but, you might say I forgive too easily again." I tease....
A sudden look of worry washed over his face.
"Luke, i'm kidding. Don't worry. No hard feelings." I smile, trying to give him some reassurance.
"Oh, okay good." He let out a breath. "I really hope we can be friends. You seem like a nice girl."
"Yeah, I hope so too. You seem like a nice guy, I guess." I say, hoping he catches onto my sarcasm this time. He does. He smiles and playfully shoves my arm.
"So, you play?" Luke asks, motioning towards the tv screen.
"Yeah. Michael got me into video games when I was super young. My addiction started on Mario Kart on Nintendo 64." I chuckle, remembering how Michael and I used to sit in his bedroom and play for hours, never getting bored.
That was back when my parents actually got along. It made me think back to Michael's 11th birthday. He had gotten a brand new game cube and I was so jealous. I got mad at him because we only had one controller, and he would never let me play. Mum and Dad used to always make us work out our arguments civilly , without yelling. Why didn't they ever work their arguments out without yelling? What even made them get divorced? Don't they realize their divorce ruined the family?
"May?" Luke snaps me out of my thoughts. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah. Sorry, I was just thinking."
"About?" He asks.
"The old days." I sigh.
"Oh, you mean when you and Michael both lived in Melbourne?"
I nod. "I don't know, I just miss him a lot you know? Like I've been here for a few days and I've only spent a few hours alone with him. The rest of the time he was with Cora, or you and your friends. I know I sound selfish but."
Luke cuts me off. "No, you don't sound selfish at all. You came to spend the summer with your brother, who you haven't seen since Christmas. It makes sense that you'd want to spend time alone with him."
I raise an eyebrow. "How did you know I haven't seen him since Christmas?"
Luke laughs. I didn't realize I said anything funny, though. "Are you kidding? Michael talks about you nonstop. Everyday for the fast few weeks all Michael would say is 'only a few more days until May comes'" He says, trying to imitate Michael's voice.
"He talks about me?" I ask.
"Does he ever. He's told me so many stories about you that I feel like I know everything about you." Luke says, bringing his hand to his face, covering his eyes. "That probably sounded creepy, i'm sorry."
"It's alright. It's kinda nice to know Michael talks about me. I've kinda been feeling like he forgot about me, so it's nice to be reassured." I say, smiling.
Luke smiles back. He was actually really attractive. He bit down on his lip, pulling at his lip ring. I'm guessing it was a habit of his considering I've seen him do it a lot. Not that I'm complaining though, it made him look even more attractive. His blonde hair matched his skin tone perfectly. His nose was really cute too. I couldn't find a single flaw on his face. What am I saying? This is Luke. My brother's best friend. and I have a boyfriend. I shouldn't been admiring other guys.... "Uh, May?" Luke says, snapping me out of my thoughts once again. He chuckles. "It's not nice to stare, you know?"
"I-uh,um, I wasn't, I was-uh-" I stutter.
"Relax, it's cute when you do it." He smiles and I blushed.
"Uh, thanks." I put my head down so he doesn't see me blushing. I didn't usually get called cute. Ian rarely ever complimented me, and he got mad at other guys when they did, so they learned not to say anything at all.
Michael came running down the stairs into the lounge, to see me and Luke.
"Hey Luke, sorry I was in the shower. Let's go, yeah?"
Luke nods as he stand up.
"See ya later, May." Michael says as he walks to the doorway, putting his shoes on.
"Well, I'll see you around, May." Luke says. He just stands there. I was wondering why he wasn't moving until I realize he was expecting a hug.
"Right, see you." I say, quickly hugging him.
Even thought the hug was quick, I couldn't help but notice how good he smelt. It was a mixture of mint and cologne. He began walking out of the lounge when he stopped and turned around.
"Hey, uh-" He starts, scratching the back of his neck, "Do you wanna uh- come with us?"
"Oh no, I don't want to... you know kind of impose..... "
"You're kidding right? Come on. We're just going to go over to my house and play video games. Same as you're doing here, so why not just come and have some company? Plus, I wanna see you kick Michael's ass in Call Of Duty" Luke says.
"Uh, yeah. Sure." I say as I put my shoes on and walk out the door with Luke. Michael had already been waiting in the car. He turns to me as I get in the backseat.
"What are you doing here?" He laughs.
"I invited her to come." Luke says, getting into the driver's seat.
"Oh okay. That's great actually. Now I can spend time with my baby sister and best friend."
I thought it was cute how Michael and Luke always referred to each other as 'best friend'. Almost as if they wanted everyone to know so no one else would try to take them away from the other.
We drive to Luke's house and immediately go to his room, where his "XBOX" was. Well, right after saying hi to his mother, Liz of course. She's such a sweet woman. We had been playing for a couple hours already, and I had beaten them both in almost every game. Except one match of Call of Duty that Michael won.
"Alright, I'm tired of getting beaten by my sister. I'm going to get food." Michael says as he puts his controller down and leaves the room.
"Damn, you're really good at video games." Luke laughs.
"Yeah, I guess. It's weird playing with people though. I'm used to playing alone since Michael left."
"Don't any of your friends play?" He asks me.
I shake my head.
"Ian?" He asks, but I just shake my head again.
"My friends aren't exactly..gamers." I say.
I figure that's the nicest way to put it because I would rather not tell Luke my group of friends would rather have fun by smoking, getting drunk, breaking into cars and all sorts of other stuff.
"Oh. Well, if you ever feel lonely during the summer, call me. I'll be happy to play with you." He says, smacking his hand to head just like he did earlier today. "I meant like, play video games with you. That came out wrong I didn't mean for it to sound like that-" Luke said as I laugh.
"It's fine. I knew what you meant." I say, smiling.
He smiles back and I once again find myself staring into his bright blue eyes. I could feel myself getting lost. They were like the ocean. Deep and full of mystery. Before I know it, Luke starts to lean in, and myself doing the same. I want to stop but I feel paralyzed. What was happening to me? Luke started to close his eyes and I began to do the same when suddenly, Michael came back into the room and I immediately jerk away from Luke.
"I made some frozen pizza, and I got some chips too." He says through his clenched teeth, since he was holding the bag of chips with his mouth.
He had his eyes focused on the plate of pizza so he didn't see how close in proximity Luke and I were, thank god.
"I'm uh, gonna go to the bathroom." I say before hurrying out of the room.
I go into the bathroom and quickly shut the door. I turn on the taps and splash water on my face before looking at myself in the mirror. I widen my eyes as I realize, I almost kissed Luke. I almost kissed my brother's best friend. I almost cheated on my boyfriend. But strangely enough, I found myself feeling mad that Michael came into the room when he did. I found myself feeling sad that Luke hadn't kissed me.
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... oooooopppsss.... it seem's something is starting up between Luke and May! .... ok well I don't know if anyone reads this but if you do then a big thank you to you and please don't to like and comment!.....
