My neck, the feeling of your soft lips
Illuminated in the light, bouncing off the exit signs
“Where are we going now?” You yawned, stretching in your seat, pulling the large blanket off yourself. Luke let out a light chuckle before answering.
“I don’t know honestly. To the nearest motel I suppose. Now c'mon bathroom break.” Luke nudged you making you groan but you still got out of the car. The sun has set and the sky was darkening rapidly.
Luke had promised to show you around the good side of California by taking you on an impromptu road trip for your spring break.
Even though you’ve lived here for a year, you’ve still never managed to feel like you fit in, per say. Luke insisted that if you got to know the place you’d like it as much as he did. You didn’t agree with him, he was popular and liked, it was easy for him. Currently, you were both parked out in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere.
When you came out of the foul smelling bathroom stall Luke was inside the shop, buying a stack of snacks for you both.
“Gummy worms? Really?” You asked, holding up the packet. Luke snatched it off you before pouting.
“I like them!” You laughed at his response and shook your head.
“Luke Hemmings, constant party goer loves gummy worms, nice.” You teased. Luke shot you a mock glare.
“Alright that’s enough from you.” He muttered, collecting the change and pouting the whole way out.
“Some a fratboy you are.” You laughed at sight of him carrying a bag of candy. Suddenly, Luke stopped and turned to face you. He dropped the bag onto the hood of the truck and slowly prowled towards you.
Under the harsh fluorescent light of the exit sign, he had green and pink light splattered across his face making him look trippy. He flicked his wrist towards you and spun you around so you had your back to him. You could feel his breath on your neck as he slowly trailed kisses along it.
All of a sudden he stopped and stepped away, laughing and running to the truck before you could even comprehend what was happening.
All we do is think about the feelings that we hide
All we do is sit in silence waiting for a sign
There was a comfortable silence mixed with the soft music playing from Luke’s stereo, only to be interrupted by the ping of your phone. It was a text from y/b/f
Is he treating you okay? Did you talk?
You sighed, turning over the screen so you wouldn’t have to see the message.
What were you? Friends? Dating? Friends with benefits? You had no idea. But what friend takes you on a road trip, picks out a playlist and kisses you all the time?
Must be some fucking friendship in that case.
“Penny for your thoughts?” Luke asked, glancing at you for a second before returning to the road.
Sick and full of pride
All we do is drive
“Just thinking, nothing specific.” Luke nodded at you, not quite buying your answer but not prodding you about
“Car duet with me?” Luke asked, turning up the All Time Low song. You laughed and raised an eyebrow.
“Fine but be warned, I’m a horrible singer.” Luke rolled his eyes at you before staring to sing along loudly.
The both of you noisily sang along to various songs, you using your fist as a microphone and him making ridiculous faces and singing in a falsetto. Luke slowed down once he spotted a motel up close. The large signboard had broken down, and the motel was dimly lit from the outside
The inside wasn’t much better, there was an angry looking middle aged woman standing behind the counter. The floor was littered with tissues and metal cans.
“Maybe this was a bad idea.” You whispered, nervously staring at your surroundings.
Your laugh echoes down the hallway
Carves into my hollow chest,
Spreads over the emptiness
Luke scrunched his face at the stench from the “lobby”, he noticed your discomfort and wondered for a moment before getting an idea. His eye lit up when he did and he rushed out of the motel, your hand tightly grasped in his. Behind you the woman at the counter was yelling. Both of you were giggling wildly, Luke started the car quickly and drove away.
You tried ignore the warm feeling heating up your stomach when Luke reached for your hand before.
He’s Luke Hemmings Y/n, forget about it.
Luke kept driving until you reached an empty field-like clearing. He turned off the truck and gathered the blanket.
“Just trust me.” He said flashing you a smile. He opened the gate of the back of the truck and sprawled the blanket across it.
“Ta da!” He announced, throwing his hands towards the direction of the truck.
“That’s actually pretty cool.” You admitted. Luke smiled, puling you into the back.
“And it’s comfy.” He said, but you weren’t paying attention. You were to busy staring at the sky. It was illuminated with thousands of stars all dotted across the sky linking into different patterns.
“You know, I know some astrology.” Luke’s voice floated into the air, you looked at him.
“No, but the look on your face me me wish I did.” he confessed grudgingly. You forced yourself to look down as you felt your face heat up. Suddenly, your stomach grumbled and embarrassment flooded your body.
“Someone’s hungry.” Luke joked, chuckling. You groaned and hid your face with your hands. “It’s okay let me get some food. I’m starving.”
It’s so simple but we can’t stay
Overanalyze again
You squinted into the darkness as Luke went to the front and grabbed the bag of snacks. He placed the snacks on top of the bag and shot straight for the gummy worms making you giggle.
“Wait, Y/n throw them into my mouth let’s see how many I can catch.” Luke said, shoving the gummy worms into your hand. You rolled your eyes at him and pulled out a gummy worm, aimed it at his mouth and launched. It hit his nose and bounced off onto the floor.
“Well, that certainly was impressive.” You joked. Luke shook his head.
“Do it again.” He insisted. You threw another gummy worm into the air and this time it poked his eye.
“Agh!” Luke yelled, rubbing his eyes. Panic set into you as you scrambled towards him and grabbed his face to take a look at his eye.
“Oh my god, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to-” Your speech was cut short when you noticed that Luke wasn’t writhing in pain like you expected him to, but was laughing.
“You dick!” You cried, hitting him. He laughed harder and grabbed your hands. The struggling sent you both rolling onto the floor of the truck. Soon you felt stitches form on your sides as your laughter began to fade. comfortable silence fell over the two of you as you both gazed up at the sky.
“What are we Luke?” You blurted out suddenly. You felt him stiffen next to you.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“As in what are we? Are we friends or..?” You trailed off, too embarrassed to continue.
“I didn’t really give labels much of a thought but we’re definitely not friends.” Luke confirmed, reaching over to wrap his arms around your mid section. You nodded, not knowing how to answer.
“I didn’t either I was just wondering.” You said, trying to shrug it off.
“But I’d like to be something more to you if you’d let me.” He said quietly.
“I’d always let you.” You answered, putting your hand on his. You felt him place a kiss on your cheek before you felt yourself smiling off into sleep.
And California never felt like home to me
Until I had you on the open road and I was singing
“I guess I should take you out on that date then huh?” Luke said, once you guys finished cleaning up you breakfast.
“Way to sound enthusiastic Luke.” You teased, folding the blanket. He quickly looked over you with a panicked expression.
‘No! I’ve been thinking about it for a while now- oh.” He added, once he noticed you were laughing.
“Oh ha ha, very funny.” He said sarcastically, as he got into the car.
“I learnt from the best.” You said, poking his cheek. He rolled his eyes and turned up the music.
