Chapter Two

Their conversation was interrupted as Eva's phone buzzed once again, this time for longer.

'Well aren't you popular,' Scarlett stated as Eva reached for her phone, accepting the call and putting it straight up to her ear.

'Luke, hi, what's up?'

'LUKEEY,' screamed Scarlett, in her usual bubbly voice, moving her mouth closer to the phone, making sure he'd be able to here her.

'What, now? Right, ok, yeah, fine, I'll be right round,' Eva replied to Luke, ignoring Scarlett's screeching next to her. She soon ended the call, jumping off of the bed and staring down at Scarlett who was still sat there.

'I have to head over to Luke's.'

'You two aren't secretly screwing each other behind our backs, are you?'

'No. What'd give you that idea?'

'It's just you spend a lot of time together. Just you two. Alone. It's kinda cute really.'

'Yeah, so do me and you. And there's certainly nothing going on there.' Staring at Scarlett, she could tell she wasn't convinced. But herself and Luke? That was enough to make anyone laugh. 'We just get each other, as friends. He understands me, I understand him. Besides, he's more than hung up on Tammy still.'

'Yeah, you're right. Shame really, I really don't see what he sees in that girl. She's not even that good a kisser.'

'You would know. So, are you coming, or are you just gonna hang around in my room?'

'Nah, I'd rather not. I think I'm just gonna go hang round Ed's. You have no idea how hilarious his family are.'

After a quick goodbye, the girls went their separate ways. For Eva, today she'd intended to keep to herself, enjoy her own company for a while. Obviously that had failed though, first with Scarlett and now with Luke. The walk to Luke's wasn't far and luckily, it was a beautiful day. The sun shone down, bouncing off her short, pink hair, illuminating it in every way possible, you could probably see it a mile off. On days like this, she felt grateful that she lived in Australia, this kind of beauty just didn't exist anywhere else.

She began to wonder what Luke wanted help with and why it was so urgent. She recalled him saying on the phone that he needed 'help with shit.' Must've fucked things up with Tammy again then, Eva thought to herself, unable to help but laugh a little. Their relationship-or whatever it was- was getting far too messy that it was almost tragic. Although the others found his dick-ish ways frustrating at times, Eva admired him, not that she'd tell him that, may just burst his head. He was never afraid have fun though and do what he wanted to do. Despite this though, she could see the strong connection he and Tammy had and how into her he was, even if he'd never truly admit it. Often it seemed as if he'd open up to her, more than any of the other four, even Tammy. She'd never try and purposely start deep conversations with him and make him feel uncomfortable though, which was probably the reason for him opening up to her. Sometimes she'd just watch from afar though, try and read him, she knew she had a talent at reading people. In fact, sometimes it felt as if she knew him better than he did, at times he didn't seem to know himself very well at all.

Recently she'd found that Luke would just walk into her house, without a care in the world. When she approached his house however, she noticed his brother, Dylan's ute parked outside the house so thought it'd be wise to knock the door. She reached her index finger up to the doorbell, pressing it only once as she waited, arms crossed, for someone to answer. Several seconds later she saw a dark shadow through the door, approaching it. A sigh of relief washed over her as she realised the silhouette was no where near tall enough to be Dylan. As much as the guy seemed alright lately, he was still quite frightening.

It wasn't long until the door was open and she could see Luke stood there, staring back at her, his eyes lit up-not in the same way they did when he saw Tammy, but they just said 'I'm glad you're here.' God, now she was even reading the story his eyes were telling.

'Thanks for coming, Eva,' he smiled, walking through to the lounge, looking behind him every so often to make sure she was following him.

'It's no problem,' she stated, truthfully, as she followed him through. 'So let me guess, you've fucked things up with Tammy again and you need my help to fix it?'

'How did you know?' Luke asked, not so surprised by her words, he knew she could always work these things out and this time, it was pretty obvious.

'I dunno,' Eva replied, shrugging her shoulders before continuing. 'I guess it was the tone of voice you used on the phone. It just kind of screamed 'my love life's fucked.''

'And there was me thinking the only thing screaming was Scar.' Luke flopped himself down on the couch, gesturing for Eva to do the same. She gracefully sat down next to him, crossing her legs as she re-gained full eye-contact with him. She'd never realised before how beautiful his eyes really were. Seeing beauty in things for the first time was always an exciting moment for Eva. Usually though, she wouldn't find so much physical beauty in something the rest of the world did. And well, Luke's eyes were probably almost as in demand as his dick seemed to be. She soon snapped out of her thoughts, remembering what she'd turned up at Luke's to do.

'So are we gonna get this sorted, or what?' She asked, with a large smile on her face.

'That'd be good. Bear in mind that this is Tammy though. The fucking most stubborn girl in the universe.' Eva sighed to herself, not surprised at all by Luke's words.

'What did you do?' She asked, a smile curving on her lips, she couldn't help it. The amount of times she'd asked Luke this question was uncountable.

'You don't what? I don't have a clue. It was just-like-words, words she didn't like apparently. Things stream out of my mouth all the time; I don't even know what I'm on about half the time. Shouldn't she know that by now?'

'Are you trying to tell me she dumped you? Again?'

'Last time she said we 'weren't getting back together.' This time she said we 'weren't getting back together, ever.' Fucking girl,' he moaned as Tammy's droning words from the night before came into focus in his head.

'Then maybe it's time you let her go, time you gave up on the idea of you and her?'

'Truth is though, last night I gave up and I went and got pissed, had a fucking great time. Next minute, I see her standing in the club, watching me. I mean, what is with that? What does that mean; does she still want me, or what?' He replied, beginning to get a little frustrated.

'I know one thing, she does really like you.'

'She may wanna try acting like it.'

'You don't act like you like her either, not really. I know you do, else you wouldn't be getting so pissed off right now. But does she know?'

'Fuck this. Tonight I will get over this shit, for good.'

'Screwing other girls doesn't help, you know that,' Eva stated. She knew exactly why he did it, but that was something not many people would understand and it probably wasn't helpful for Luke either. It wasn't going to work, it never had before and it never would now.

'It's far simpler though.' Eva nodded a little, without meaning to. She didn't want to encourage him, but she couldn't help but agree with him just a little bit.

'I'm on a mission myself. A mission to find something fun and un-complicated that doesn't just contain sex,' Eva explained, having no idea how Luke would react to her new plan.

'Fuck that.' He shook his head, not even bothering to think about the idea. 'That just doesn't exist.'

'Well I'll make it exist. You should try doing the same thing.'