like friends, like lovers (l.h)
pairing: luke hemmings x reader
genre: angst, fluff, smut
involves: bestfriend!luke, college!au, unrequited love (perhaps), jealousy, toxic friendship, language, insecurities, emotional cheating (not involving the reader), mentions of drinking, mentions of violence, unprotected sex, slight possessiveness, slight breeding kink, praise, luke is just clueless
summary: luke hemmings had been your friend since childhood. it would have been perfect if you hadn’t fallen in love with him. because then you wouldn’t have had to live with knowing the love of your life did not feel the same way. but when you try to do what’s best for both of you, it leads you to realize you didn’t know him as well as you thought. that he didn’t know himself as well as he thought, either.
You couldn’t remember when you’d fallen in love with Luke Hemmings.
It might have been high school, when, despite his popularity, he always made sure you were never more than an arms length away, often with you wrapped under his arm. Inviting you to all the parties that many times people solely invited him to. But he made it quite clear that without you, he would not be attending. Running up to you first from the field whenever his team won the game, picking you up and spinning you despite your squeals of protest. Walking you to and from each class, not caring that he’d have to run to get to his own class in order to not be late. Giving you that charming smile with twinkling eyes that had the rest of the student body falling at his feet. But that still somehow felt special for you, his special girl, like he always called you.
But it also might have been middle school. When you both shared your first kisses on the eve of entering high school because you were curious and nervous about it being with anyone else. Because there was no one you trusted and felt more comfortable with than your best friend.
It may even have been elementary school when he held your hand as you two walked back home from school, not caring about catching a girl’s cooties. When he stood up against playground bullies for you, puffing out his chest to seem a little more scary to the older boys as he stood between you and them. Declaring that you were his best friend and they’d have to go through him first. He was your protector from that moment on.
It was definitely before college. Because you already felt that warmth and longing each time you were in his presence by the time you both arrived to university. You’d chosen the same one and it felt natural that you would spend this new portion of life together, like you always had. You had been ecstatic when he told you he was going to go to the same university you had chosen only a month beforehand. And judging by his excited grin and tight hold on you when you hugged, he was equally as relieved that you wouldn’t be separated. It felt strange, wrong even, to think of being away from each other, not having the comfort and strength that you’ve only ever been able to find in each other.
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