The ringer from my phone had quickly woken me up, along with Luke groaning at me to turn my phone off. I had to crawl over him to actually get up and answer my phone, but his grip around my waist decided that I wouldn't be moving from my spot.

"Luke." I shook his shoulder, "Let go of me." I said, his arms dropping immediately. I could see a faint frown on his lips and I shook my head at him, laying over his body as I reached for my phone only to find my mom calling.

"Yeah?" I answered, peering over at the clock to see that it was 10 in the morning.

"I didn't know how long you and Luke had until checkout, but the rest of us are running an hour late and we wanted to say bye to you guys." She hurriedly explained. The sounds of her suitcase being zipped up was heard over the end as well as my sisters complaining about how hungry they were.

I was suddenly pushed to the side as Luke sat up, making me lay on his thighs instead of his stomach. I glanced over to him as he rubbed his eyes.

"You have a key, why didn't you just come in and wake us up?" I asked with a puzzled look. Luke raised his eyebrow at me as his fingers trailed up and down the side of my arm which gave me immediate goosebumps.

"You and Luke seemed, uh, busy." She told me, making it seem that it was a lot more awkward than it actually was.

"We were sleeping." I simply said, looking back over to Luke who seemed confused.

"It's just that you two were in the same bed looking rather cuddly and-" She quickly stopped, making me nervous. I wouldn't want her accidentally finding out about me and Luke and we both agreed we'd rather tell her. "Nevermind. We should be out shortly so it would be nice to get a goodbye." She laughed, practically ignoring the last subject.

I furrowed my eyebrows, "Okay." I shortly replied, giving her a mumbled 'bye' then hanging up. I sighed as rolled off of Luke, sitting at the edge of the bed with to many thoughts going through my head to stat focused on one. I gripped onto the edge of the bed with the bright white sheets between my fingers.

"Autumn?" Luke softly spoke as he placed a hand on my shoulder. I jumped slightly from the sudden contact the quickly relaxed. I stared up at him as I waited for him to continue. "What was up with that?" He questioned, crawling next to me and mimicking how I was sitting.

"That was my mom, she just wanted me to say bye to the before they left." I explained.

"Oh," He said, pausing for a moment. "Why'd you tell her we were sleeping?" He asked, nudging my shoulder with his.

"She said that we looked 'busy'." I put the word in air quotes and got a faint laugh from him.

"Does she know that-"

"No," I cut him off before he could finish since I knew what he was going to ask already. "But she's suspicious now." I sighed.

"Wasn't our plan to come down here and tell her anyways?" He scrunched his nose up as I looked over to him, making it seem that he was almost nervous to say the words.

"Yeah, I just want it to be at a good time." I reminded him. It seems like we had gone through this a million times and neither of us were still clear about it. I stood up from my spot on the bed and walked over to the mirror in front of the small desk and took down my hair from the bun I put it in last night.

"You should've told her earlier." Luke admitted, getting me to put my attention on him.

"You know I couldn't have told her earlier." I laughed even though the topic wasn't exactly to be taken so lightly.

"Well, you could've, you just decided not to." He added, standing up and walking over towards me.

"I didn't tell her for your sake, Luke." I narrowed my eyes at him, feeling extremely annoyed with how I felt like the reason for all of the mess was because of me. Just as I turned back to my mirror and saw Luke's somewhat hurt expression, I regretted the harsh tone I used with him.

"If it was all about me then I would've told her myself." He muttered before rolling his eyes and walking off towards the bathroom.

I scoffed, "I never said it was all about you."

"If it's not about me and not about you then who is it about?" He asked, not seeming to understand what I was saying.

"It's about us." I told him, raising my voice just the slightest bit. "That's all it should be about." I added, now facing him.

"But you were just saying how your parents are apart of it too." He shook his head slightly, a hit of frustration in his voice.

"Look, the first few months are going to be weird and not perfect and that's something we have almost gone through." I stepped towards him and he did the same without hesitation.

"I don't want things to be so difficult, Autumn. I know things aren't going to be perfect, but I want to at least try to make it the best it can and it only seems to be getting messier." He told me, making it feel like someone had just hit me right in the stomach.

"I didn't think it was going to get messy." My tone changed from annoyed to angry and it seems Luke's had too. From the way he seemed tense and the unsettling look he was currently giving me.

"That's the thing, you aren't thinking." He threw his hands in the air turning his back to me.

"I'm trying my best!" I shouted at him. "One person can't make everything work."

"I didn't mean to piss you off, I just wanted to explain to you what's been on my mind for the past three and a half months." He replied. He had genuinely tried to keep a fight from blowing out of proportion when it didn't need to be happening.

"Well it's too late for that." I muttered, pushing past him and opening the door to find my mom and April standing outside their door.

I sighed as I walked to them, giving them both hugs.

"You alright?" My mom asked, reading my agitated mood.

"I'm fine." I sighed once again, running my fingers through my hair. "I just got in a fight with Luke." I quietly said. It had been one out of the three maybe four fights we've had and the first one my mom has known about.

"A fight?" April and my mom said together with raised eyebrows.

I nodded, "Yeah, but it's not a big deal. It wasn't really anything serious." I explained.

"What were you two fighting about?" She asked, giving me the same worried look every mother has. It was then and there I had to choose whether to lie to my mom again or tell her the straight up truth. I grabbed both of her shoulders and she seemed to grow even more worried.

"Okay," I began as I didn't even know where to start explaining. "Me and Luke are dating." I told her. Her expression stayed the same and I decided to continue on. "We just tested things in the fall and things just happened." I then dropped my arms off of her, quickly looking at April who looked like she was going to burst from happiness.

"And by dating you mean..." She trailed off, waiting for me to clarify.

"We're in a relationship. He is my boyfriend and I am his girlfriend." I said, thinking to myself how it still seemed a bit weird to be saying that after so long.

"Well," She started, looking away from me then back at me. "I'm glad, first of all." She gave me a thin smile, making my nerves go away. "But, I am a bit weary about you two living together." She said. I nodded at her words before continuing with mine.

"I know, but we've been living together this whole year and nothing bad has happened." I shrugged my shoulders. "If it makes you feel better, you can install security cameras in all of the rooms." I joked, then immediately regretted saying it as my parents would actually do something like that.

"Oh God, Autumn." April mumbled, finally speaking up after watching on.

"Just don't kick him out." I sheepishly said to my mom. "There's only two months of school left and we haven't-"

"I'm not kicking the poor boy out." She laughed. "I don't mind it, I just don't want to be a grandmother in my forties." My mom explained, getting April to laugh with my face turned red.

"Mom." I whined. "You don't need to worry about that." I nervously laughed.

"At least I know he's good with kids." She shrugged, nodding her head to the side as she thought of all of the times he had with Effy.

"Mom, stop." I pleaded as I brought my hand to my forehead. She suddenly wrapped her arms around my shoulders again, hugging me tight. I watched over my mom's shoulders as April smirked at me, probably ready to tell my mom about all of the times she had caught us at home.

"Well, I'm happy that you're happy." She sighed as she pulled back, giving me a gentle smile. "I love you and I hope that you and Luke get over this little bump." She said as I gave April a short hug.

"I love you too." I laughed, watching as they started walking down towards the elevators. We gave each other a few waves before I turned back to my hotel room door and sighed, realizing that me and Luke had just fought about the dumbest thing that I just cleared up.

I pushed the door open as it accepted my key, quietly closing it back since I could see half of Luke's body hanging off of the bed and I suggested he fell back asleep.

I felt guilty if anything. Even after all of the things in the past I've said to him, this one wasn't even the worst but it made me feel the worst. Knowing that it could've been avoidable and I could've just handled it a better way I wouldn't have to come in and apologize to him for being an asshole.

I walked further into the room to see that he was laying on the perfectly made extra bed in our room on the opposite way it should be laid on. His legs dangled off of the right side while his arms hung from the left. Suddenly, his head popped up and he looked straight at me, letting his head fall back to where it had just been.

I walked over to the bed, crawling over the blankets on onto Luke. I copied his position, but I was laying on him rather than a mattress. My chest was pressed to his back and my legs were hanging right over his.

"Am I a bad boyfriend?" He quietly asked, breaking the silence.

"No." I answered, most of my answer being muffled by my cheek being smushed on his back.

"Do you hate me?" He asked again.

"No." I replied, a soft laugh following my answer.

"Are you still mad at me?" He questioned.

"No." I sighed as he did too.

"Okay." He said.

"Okay." I repeated.

We laid there for a few shorts moments before Luke's hands starting wandering near me, failing to find my hands. I giggled as he caught them, a smile pulling at his lips.

"I don't like fighting with you," He told me. "At all."

I didn't answer him and simply let go of his hands, crawling by his side and laying just how I was when I was on his back. We stared at each other for a moment before he spoke again.

"But I do like when you lay on my back like that, it's really weird, but it's really cute." He chuckled, probably thinking he sounded really mushy right now. His arm found it way to the small of my back, letting it lay there lazily.

I didn't really want to talk, all I wanted to do was lay with him and soak up the quiet we had before going back to our crazy lives back in Manhattan.

"Remember in ninth grade when we camped out on my trampoline?" I questioned, feeling Luke's heavy stare on me. He nodded with a smile quickly forming on his lips then fading away just as fast. "We spent twelve hours in silence." I reminded him. "Just staring up at the stars and enjoying the night." The memory was clear as day to me, it was one of my favorite memories with him.

"What about it?" He quietly asked.

"I like that. I like laying here with you without all of the chaos." I said, my cheeks warming up as I felt a little embarrassed to spill my thoughts to him even after so many years with him.

"We're chaotic enough." He joked, pulling me closer to him and ending the conversation with his lips pressed to mine.

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A/N:

i am preparing myself for the tfios comments what have i done i didnt mean it

lautumn getting saucy with each other and then her mother being like wtf ok

i hope u enjoy this :')