After Midnight - Luke Hemmings fanfic

Chapter 13

Calum was washing his hands when he noticed an unfamiliar box in the bin. At first he thought it was the packaging for toothpaste but as he pulled it from the tissues and make-up wipes he very quickly became aware that it was not. Calum lifted the box to read the writing on the side, when he lifted it a pee stick wrapped in tissue fell out. He inhaled sharply as he figured out what he was seeing. Very carefully, he teased the tissue from the stick to revel a pink plus signifying your pregnancy. He sighed and put his head in his hands.

"Ashton" he whispered. "What?" he whispered back. "I just found a pregnancy test in the bin" Calum whispered to him. "What? Well who’s is it?" he hissed. "I think it’s y/ns" he replied. "Oh my god, she must be heart broken- wait, do you think it’s Luke’s?" Ashton murmered. "Shit I hadn’t even thought of that. But what about when she got raped, it could be his" he responded. "Oh I feel so bad for her, that’s horrible!" he sighed. They were cut of by Michael’s yelling, they looked at each other in shock and confusion. "LUKE YOU FUCKING KNOCKED UP MY SISTER" were the first clear words they heard. "So Calum when you found the test did you throw it away or did you just put it at the top of the bin, you know where anyone could find it like I don’t know.. maybe Michael?" Ashton asked, sarcasm dripping from his every word. Calum’s eyes were wide as Michael and Luke yelled at each other.

"I DIDN’T FUCKING GET HER PREGNANT" Luke yelled, his face bright red. "YES YOU FUCKING DID, DON’T LIE TO ME" Michael shouted back. "OK THEN TELL ME MICHAEL, HOW DID I GET HER PREGNANT WITHOUT FUCKING HER?!" Luke screamed, frustration crackling through his voice. Silence. "Well if you didn’t, then who did?" Michael asked. They both looked at you as you walked out of your room. "What’s going on?" you mumbled, rubbing your eyes. "I don’t know y/n, you tell me" Michael said holding the oregnancy test up to your face. Your stomach turned. You had meant to empty the bin. But you were high and you forgot. "Well?" Michael asked impatiently. "Um that’s not mine" you lied. "Well if it’s not yours then whose is it?" Luke frowned, confusion rippling over his face. "She’s lying" Calum murmered from the door. Everyone turned to face him. "What?" they asked. "I found it a few minutes before you did, so I went to Ashton and it’s nothing to do with him so it could only be yours" he pointed at you. You shook your head. "Y/n, I’m gonna ask you one more time and you have to tell the truth. Is this your pregnancy test?" Michael said holding it up again. You grimaced at the pink plus and nodded your head slowly. Michael’s hands dropped to his sides, Luke put his hands over his face and tryed to bury himself into the wall. "Why did you lie to me? Why didn’t you just tell me?" Michael pleaded. "Oh my god" Luke groaned into the wall.

"I don’t care what you think, I’m getting rid of it and I don’t want any of you involved" you huffed before going back into your room. You opened the cupboard where you had stashed the cigarettes, alcohol and weed. You grabbed one of the bottles and began guzzling it. After drinking half of that you took some cigarettes and your lighter. "Y/n where are you going? Come on let’s talk about this" Michael said as you walked out of your room and headed to the front door. "Yeah whatever, later" you mumbled, walking out. "I’m going after her" Michael announced grabbing his jacket and following you.

In your own little world, you walked down the road with a cigarette between your lips. Smoke entering and exiting your lungs. You eventually found a spot to sit by yourself although you weren’t alone for very long. With every breath you hoped it was killing the baby. Everytime you thought of it, you imagined it scratching at you, hissing those things their father said to you when he attacked you. Footsteps filled your ears but you ignored it as you inhaled until the footsteps came a little too close and sat down next to you. You opened your eyes to see your brother sitting next to you, he looked so disapointed. He took the cigarette from your lips and put it out on the ground. “What are you doing?” he asked. You shrugged gazing in the other direction. “Look at me” he said firmly. Slowly, you turned your head towards him. “Why are you doing this?” he asked again. You shrugged again. “Come on y/n, you and me both know this isn’t you” he said pulling his knees up. “I’m trying to lose the baby” you whispered, not sure if he actually heard you. “But your harming yourself in the process” he replied. “Maybe, but having this baby would harm me more” you responded. “So have an abortion” he suggested. “Haven’t got the money” you grumbled. “I have, I’ll pay. I want whats best for you y/n” he told you. “Really?” you asked. “Yeah, of course” he smiled. You threw your arms around him, kissing his cheek.

You walked back to the house with Michael and he told you about how school was starting soon and you needed to get your shit together. When you got back you all sat down together around the kitchen table. “So I’ll call the hospital and we’ll try and get an appointment as soon as possible” Michael said. “Do you need new school supplies?” he asked. “School supplies?” Ashton furrowed his brow. “Oh yeah school starts again next week!” Calum interjected. “Don’t remind me” you sighed. “Oooh only a year until your A levels” Luke cooed. “Shut up!”. “So do you need new stuff or not?” Michael repeated. “Er no” you shrugged. “And then it’s your birthday next month” he mumbled. You and Luke instantly looked at each other. Under the table he placed a hand on your knee briefly before holding your hand. “Umm Calum, you and Luke have writing next Thursday. Ashton, we have a session the day after tomorrow” Michael babbled. It was like a family meeting, they all got up their emails and talked about schedules and write it in no the calendar. “Also we need to plan meals for next week” Ashton croaked. “Okay we’ll start a shopping list” Calum muttered writing food names on the back of an envelope. “Um mum and dad are coming for tea Monday next week” Michael murmured. “What?” you breathed, not much noise came out but everyone went quiet, aware that you were about to kick off. “Well mum said she wanted to see us all, so I said Monday was good” he mumbled. “Why? Why the fuck would you do that?” you stood up. “Because I’m a nice fucking person and I love my parents is that such a crime y/n?!” he yelled standing too. “Okay fine I’m not gonna be here” you told him. “Yes you are, she wants to see you as well. Oh and she wants you to come home for your birthday” he told you. You stood in silence, staring at him with a disgusted expression on your face. “You can fuck. Right. Off!” you said before turning and going into your room. “Y/n” Michael whispered knocking on your door. You opened it and walked straight past him, down the hallway, past the kitchen where everyone was staring at you, through the living room and out the front door. “Where’s she going?” Calum asked running to the window to see which way you went. “There she is” Luke pointed to you walking, you stopped and lit a cigarette. “Is she-“. “Yeah” Luke stopped him. You carried on walking. “She’s gone left”. You hated this road, it was the one you had to run down in your ripped dress that night. The streetlights made it look pretty though, illuminating the houses and stores. You even walked past Mercedes house, you grimaced staring at it. Eventually you came to Lucy’s house, you put your cigarette out before walking up he pathway and knocking on the door.You stayed at Lucy’s for a few hours, you laughed so hard you nearly wet yourself. You’d missed each other and you promised you would come back on Monday.

When you walked back at 2am you realised you didn’t have your keys and the boys had locked the door. You sat down outside the front door, in the hallway. After knocking, texting and calling the boys with no luck, you fell asleep outside the front door.

At 4am Ashton woke up to go to the toilet, after that he couldn’t get back to sleep. He lay in bed thinking about all the things he wished he’d done and said and all the things he wished he’d never done or said. He checked his phone to see the time. 4:47am. 4 missed calls. 13 texts. “Shit” he muttered sitting up and putting his glasses on. All the calls and texts were from you. “Hi Ash, I’m locked out can u let me in?”. “Can u let me in please?”. “Its freezing will you please unlock the door”. “ASHTON”. “wake up”. “its so cold please open the door”. “Answer your phone”. “PLEASE ASHTON”. “Im dying please open the door”. “ok im dead and u didnt care”. “WAKE UP”.”ASHTON WAKE UP”.”I am being murdered see you on the otherside. Arsefuck.”. He couldn’t help but smile before going to the door. He opened it to see you fast asleep on the door step, he sighed before picking you up and taking you to your room. Ashton layed you down on the bed and pulled the cover up to your shoulders. “Goodnight sweetheart” he whispered kissing your forehead. When he turned to leave there was someone blocking the door. Luke. “What the fuck are you doing?” Luke spat, he looked furious.