"May?" Michael calls, coming down the stairs. 

"Watching TV." I call. 

He walks into the lounge and stands in front of me.

"I was uh-I was wondering if you would be alright with me spending the day with Cora? I get it if you want me to stay here because Luke's my friend but-" Michael says before I interrupt him.

"He's my friend too." I say. 

"Oh, okay. That's good then. I kind of got the impression you hated him. Which wouldn't be good considering he's my best friend." Michael says with a light laugh.

"I like him. He's nice." I smile. 

"Yeah he is." Michael smiles. He was obviously extremely close with Luke. 

"I'm glad you found him Mikey. And the others too. Your friends back in Melbourne were rough. It's good to see you so happy with the people around you." I say, suddenly having a heart to heart with my brother.

"Talking about me?" Luke says, coming into the lounge and sitting beside me, closer than normal. 

"Don't flatter yourself." I smirk. 

"Soo, about Cora.." Michael trails off, waiting for my answer. 

"Go, Mikey. I'm fine spending a day myself."

"Well, if Luke's not busy he could.." Mikey begins before I cut in. 

"No it's fine. I'm sure Luke's busy." 

"I'm not." Luke says. 

"Great! So you two could hang out. Maybe Luke could show you around a bit? I won't be back to late." Michael says, starting towards the door.

"Don't you need to shower?" I ask him. 

"I will." He smirks.

"Oh God, ew Michael! Go away!" I say, making a grossed out face before shooing him out the door.

"I want to show you something today." Luke says once Michael left. 

"Show me what?"

"It's a surprise. Go get ready." Luke says. 

"I uh-don't have any clean clothes. Could we stop at my house?" I ask, immediately getting a rapid head shake from him. 

"No way in hell am I driving you back there while your mother's there." Luke says sternly. 

"Well what am I supposed to do then? I have nothing to wear."

Just then he takes his shirt off his body and throws it at me. I catch it and look up at him. 

"Luke-" I start. 

"Just put it on, I'll go get another one for me." Luke says. 

"Thanks." I turn around to walk to the bathroom. 

"Where are you going?" Luke asks. 

"To put the shirt on?" I say, sounding more like a question than an answer. 

"It's nothing I haven't seen before." Luke smirks and raises his eyebrows. 

"Go get a shirt, Luke." I say before walking into the bathroom.

I quickly put the shirt on and fix my hair in the mirror. I tie the shirt in a knot at the side, seeing as it was a dress on me otherwise. I walk out to see Luke standing outside the door. 

"Wow." He says. 

"What?" I ask. 

"Nothing it's just-you in my shirt, I-" 

"Let's just go." I say.  

He nods. He walks over to the front door and holds it open for me. I smile and walk through. He follows suit. 

"Hope you don't mind walking, my mum has the car." He explains. 

"It's no problem."

We walk in silence for a few minutes, but not an awkward silence. A comfortable one. Until he breaks it.

"So, how long until you go back?" 

"Around a month." I answer. 

"Are you excited? To go back I mean." He asks.

I shrug my shoulders. "I don't know. Kind of I guess. I mean, I miss my dad a lot and I miss my-" I stopped before mentioning the word 'boyfriend', "friends I guess. But, I don't want to leave Mikey here with my mum." 

He nods his head understandingly.

"Why don't you stay then?" He asks. 

"Luke, I can't. My life is back in Melbourne. My school is there. I only have a year left. I can't just stay here."

"I know. It was worth a try though." He says with a weak smile. I return one.

"So uh-you don't have to answer if you don't want to but, where's um-where's your dad?" I ask, almost in a whisper. 

I had been wondering this for a while and seeing as we were talking about families, I figured it was the perfect chance to ask him about it. Luke's face fell and I immediately knew I hit a nerve. 

"Oh i'm sorry. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to I shouldn't have-" I begin to apologize. 

"No, May. It's fine. He uh-he cheated on my mum a few years back. I don't know where he is now actually. I probably took the whole thing worse than my mum. I hated to see a man treat her that way, you know? She's the best person I know, she didn't deserve that. No one does." He explains.

I can't help but think of how I cheated on Ian. No one deserves to be cheated on, yet here I am, cheating on Ian with Luke. I knew this wasn't the time to bring that up. 

"I'm sorry, Luke. You both didn't deserve go to through that. For what it's worth, your dad made a huge mistake losing you and your mum." I say, rubbing his shoulder.

"Stop thinking about Ian." Luke blurts out. 

"What?"

"I know that you're thinking about how you cheated on him with me. Don't think about it. You're nothing like my dad. It's not the same." Luke says. 

"H-how did you know I was thinking about that?" I ask curiously.

"You had that crease in between your eyebrows. You always do that when you're worrying about something. Lucky guess that it was about Ian." Luke explains. 

"How do you know I get a crease between my eyebrows when I worry about something?" I ask. 

"Something I've noticed." He tells me.

"Ian never notices the little things." I mumble, hoping he didn't hear it. 

"I do." He says, obviously hearing what I said. I look up at him and smile.

I figured it wouldn't be right to kiss him right now, so I just take his hand in mine and change the subject. "So where is this place?"

"Right there." Luke says, pointing straight ahead. 

I look at what he was pointing at. 

"Wow. It's beautiful." I manage to say, looking out at the crystal blue lake surrounded by a million different kinds of trees and flowers.

"I come here whenever I need to be alone. I've never showed anyone or even told anyone about it. You're uh-you're the first." He says.

Now was the right time.

I turn to face him and cup his face in my hands, pressing my lips to his. He immediately responds and snakes his hands around my waist. I begin to lean down, until I was lying on the ground, Luke above me. The kiss was soft and full of passion, unlike the first time which was rough and full of pure lust. A tear hits my cheek, I hadn't even realized I was crying. I couldn't stop thinking about how I was cheating on Ian and he had absolutely no idea. I pull away and keep my eyes closed.

"Are you okay? Why are you crying?" Luke asks worriedly. 

"Yeah i'm uh- I should call Ian." I stutter, standing up. 

"Now?" He asks surprised, standing up as well. 

"I haven't talked to him lately. I should just see how he is." I say, taking out my phone.

"May, seriously? After that, you really want to go call your boyfriend?" He asks, raising his voice slightly. 

"Exactly, Luke! My boyfriend! I was just kissing someone who wasn't my boyfriend! I have a boyfriend back home waiting for me and I'm acting like I don't." I raise my voice.

"You don't have to have a boyfriend back home. Just end it with him and you can have a boyfriend standing right in front of you-right here, right now!" Luke yells. 

I bring my hand to my forehead. "It's not that easy!"

"Why not?" Luke asks. 

"Look, i'm not going to argue with you. I'm just gonna head back." I say, turning around to walk off.

I hear Luke call after me, but I can't find it in me to turn back. Before I know it, I'm running back to Luke's house, not ever turning around. I finally get back to Luke's and knock on the door. I didn't want to just walk in, seeing as Liz could be home. The door opens.

"Oh, hi May." Liz says with a smile. 

"Hi, Liz." I step inside, seeing a few suitcases at the door. "Going somewhere?"

"Yeah actually, I'm going to see Luke's brother, Ben, for a week." She explains. 

"Oh. Luke didn't mention he had a brother." 

"He has two. Ben and Jack. They're older. I was going to wait until Luke came home to tell him but, could you just pass the message along? I'm already running late." She asks. 

"Yeah, sure I will." I smile. 

"Thanks hunny. I'll see you in a week." She says before giving me a quick hug and walking out to her car.

I walk over to the couch and just as I was about to sit down, there's a knock on the door. Groaning, I walk over and open it. My jaw drops to the ground.

"Ian? What are you doing here?"