nerd // luke hemmings [editing]

[ c h a p t e r t w e n t y t h r e e ]

"Hey, I wanted to, okay? So shut your mouth and go enjoy your party." I teasingly order, crossing my arms over my chest. He rolls his eyes.

One of his friends approach him and I take it as my cue to leave. I walk towards the door leading to the backyard where the pool and cake was, until a pair of arms wrap around my waist and a face nuzzles into the crook between my neck and my shoulder.

I shake my head and laugh.

"Happy birthday Lucas!"

I feel his mouth twitch into a smile. He leaves a kiss on my neck - which makes me shiver and feel giggly inside. I turn to face him and stare at his perfect baby blues and smile. Who knew just looking at someone's eyes can make you smile.

"Oh, right!" I say breaking out of my trance. "Come here, I wanna show you something." I say, dragging him to my room.

"What is it?" he asks, following behind.

"You'll see." I grin.

I pull him to my room and hand him the a box with blue wrapping paper with little penguins on them.

"Really Addie?" he laughs.

"Hey, I had a really hard time finding that wrapping paper Luke." I point out.

"It's perfect" he grins. He slowly begins tearing the paper.

"Shit, no way." he says as he looks at the box. "You got me Beats headphones?!" he jumps.

"Umm, yeah. I mean, that is what it says on the box." I laugh.

"Holy shit. Thank you" he says, wrapping his arms around me, effortlessly lifting me off the floor and spinning me around.

"LUKE!" I scream, erupting into a fit of giggles. I probably sound like a retarded seal right about now.

He puts me back down on the ground. "Thanks, princess." he says again.

"You're welcome." I nod, smiling.

He opens his mouth to say something, but I cover his mouth with my hand.

"Don't you dare say that I shouldn't have gotten you anything just like what Ashton said your I will kick you where the sun don't shine." I say half joking - half serious. Why didn't they just accept their gifts, no questions asked. Though, I am guilty of doing the same thing.

His eyes grow wide. "But Adten, you really didn't need-"

I push my lips against his to shut him up. I pull apart, a smirk in his face.

"I should talk and annoy you more often." he smirks.

"Yeah, you should." I tease as he connects our lips again, his mouth moving against mine.

His hands find their way to my waist, and I rest my hands on his chest, going up to his hair, my fingers running through his soft blonde hair. His mouth leaves a trail of tiny kisses on my jawline and I feel myself shiver. His lips connects with mine once again.

Suddenly, my foot trips over the leg of the study table in my room, and I stumble backward, my back hitting the wall as I let out a shriek of suprise. Luke opens his eyes, looking at me and bursts out laughing. Way to ruin the moment.

"You just- and you, oh my God, that was so funny. You are so cute, Addison."

"Ha ha ha, very funny." I roll my eyes, putting my hand on my waist.

"Sorry, princess," he says, trying to stop laughing. "You're just too cute for life." he says pinching my cheek and I feel myself smiling at him. It was hard to stay mad at him.

"Well, shut up. We better head downstairs. People will be wondering where you went." I say, wiping the sweat from my forehead. I hate myself for not turning on the airconditioner.

He interlocks our fingers and we walk out the door. We make a stop by his room to leave the headphones and we walk down the stairs.

A few people by the stairs were staring at us, a few snickering.

What the heck?

I look at Luke who's hair was in a mess and I take in my sweaty appearance.

Oh God. I facepalm myself. There were a bunch of dirty minds in this house.

"Don't mind them Addie." Luke laughs, his fingers running through his hair with his free hand.

"Um, yeah." I say shrugging.

I wipe my sweat with the back of my hand.

The party continued on until one or two in the morning until everyone had left.

We were left to clean, picking up cups around the house, arranging furniture.

Me and Michael were in the living room as the other boys and Naty were cleaning up the rest of the places in the house.

"You got him BEATS?!" Michael shrieks as I answered his 'what did you get Luke for his birthday?' question.

"Umm, yeah." I nod.

"She got me a shirt and a beat box!" I hear Ashton yell from somewhere in the house and I giggle.

"Lucky bishes." he mutters. "But those video games you got me for my birthday though, yeah... Those were like, awesome." he sighs, smiling, looking up at the ceiling.

I shake my head, smiling. "Whatever Mikey."

"Well, they'll be nice for Luke when we'll be on the tour bus though, keep all the noise out." Michael says, and I stop picking up cups from the floor.

"Um, when are you guys leaving for tour again?"

"Hmm... about a week?"

What?

"Oh. I didn't know it was so soon." I mumble, staring at my hands.

Michael must have noticed the change in the atmosphere, because he immediately wraps a friendly arm around my shoulder.

"Oh shit. Sorry Ad, me and my huge ass mouth just had to bring that up." he sighs.

"No, it's alright." I say.

"Hey, why don't you go on tour with us?! I'm sure it would be fine. And you'd get to see Luke all the time!" Michael suggests excitedly.

I frown. I wish I could, but I couldn't. I still had a life here, I couldn't just leave. I had to go to college since I wanted to take up Architecture. (I had some kind of secret passion for designing houses)

I really wish I could. A pang of sadness hits me on the chest. I'll miss Luke.

But I decide to keep it quiet for a little while and I try putting on a smile. "Sure Mike, I'll think about it."

[a/n]

sorry if this sucked

i'm bad at these things, like what was this?

anyway, in case you're wondering (even if you're not), but in case you're wondering how Addison gets the money to buy all those really cool presents, she and her family are like sort of well off, but it's just that they're one of those really down to earth kinda people and stuff, sooo yeah. (I forgot to but that bit in the story, sorryyy, i'll add it when I have time to do editing)

thanks for reading <3

i'll update again in a bit :)