Matthew Jacob Horton, MJ to those who know him best, is a shy and quiet seventeen-year-old high school student recovering from a terrible accident that robbed him of his sight, and is about to embark on an adventure that could change his life foreve...
That's so crazy my mind screamed, you've barely known the boy for more than forty-eight hours, how can you know that. I smiled to myself because of my inner monologue, but I knew it didn't make sense, and I really didn't care. Screw the amount of time, I thought.
I already knew how I felt about Luke Hemmings, and I just needed to know if he felt the same. Part of me thought that maybe he did feel something, because he was always calling me love when he spoke to me, and I adored it.
How I longed to just see his face, and maybe have a normal life for once, but that was never going to happen.
I had learned how to use my sense of touch to paint pictures in my mind. With the help of Miss Jamie, I had practiced on people I already knew. I would spend hours tracing the lines of my brother, or Chris, or Amy's faces until I really understood what I was doing, and now I could incorporate what I was feeling with my fingers, to an image within my own mind.
The process was long and hard, even learning how to read braille was easier, but now when I was comfortable with someone I would ask if I could touch and feel their face, so that I could know them completely.
I wanted to do that with Luke so badly, but I was too scared to ask him. I wanted to picture in my mind what he looked like, but honestly it didn't matter because I had already fallen for his voice, and his character.
Luke made me nervous, but it was that good kind of nervousness, like when you were excited about something, or when butterflies erupted in your stomach.
Luke Hemming gave me butterflies, and I liked that, no I craved that feeling. I laid back further into my pillow and turned onto a comfortable position on my right side.
I could hear the sound of Luke's soft snores escape his lips, and I wanted so badly to know what those lips felt like, what they tasted like.
I knew I needed to get some sleep to get a better prospective on things, and I hoped that the morning, and maybe spending more time with Luke would help me figure out what I should do.
Sometime later my mind finally wound down, and I drifted off to a deep sleep.
Unfortunately, sometime after that the blackness of my sleep turned into the nightmares that had continually plagued my sleep since the day of my accident.
Luke
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I was pulled from a comfortable, and very peaceful sleep by a sound I wasn't familiar with, and for a moment I was scared that something nefarious was happening. I shrugged in my sleepy state because it was probably just Calum doing something stupid, so I was ready to just roll over and go back to sleep.
I slowly opened my eyes and blinked into the darkness trying to figure out where I was. Finally realizing I wasn't in the temporary room that I shared with my best friend, but instead I was currently laying on an air mattress in MJ's room.
