Here is the next chapter. Bit slow in coming due to my life being a shambles. Now, I am sure there will be some negative reviews for this chapter. I am not sure if I am happy with it. I do have a plan though. Please fell free to give me feedback, negative or not. Just know that I am a Luke fan first up. Both Noah and Reid are enjoyable in their own different ways - and I do live them both.

"Reid! I cant believe you are here! I am so excited."

"Its good to see you too Katie!"

"Here, take your bags into this room. It will be yours now. Then come and have a coffee with me."

"I hope I am not too close to Jacobs room. If he has tantrums anything like his mother then I pity my ears."

Reid chuckled to himself as Katie gently smacked him on the back of his head. Reid looked around the house and wandered over to the lounge room wall. Katie had lined the entire wall with different frames filled with photos, lots of Chris and Jacob but also Brad and her friends. Two photos got his attention. Both were from high school and both were photos of Luke and himself. The first photo was from a debate meet. He was at the podium speaking, shaking his finger at something and in the corner of the photo was Luke sitting at the team desk watching him. Only you could see that Luke wasn't concentrating on what he was saying, but looking at me with –

"You know he really did love you. Christ Reid, look at the way he used to look at you. Have you seen him yet? Have you spoken to him?"

"Katie it was never an issue of him not loving me. I think he did. But I was the filler for the real thing." Pointedly ignoring the question she asked hoping it would pass. He then looked at the other photo. Luke and Reid were at a park, they had gone there with a few of their friends. Well, in reality – it was one of the few times Reid had allowed Luke to drag him somewhere with his friends. The group was having a picnic, and he didn't realise Katie had taken this photo. Reid was laying on top of Luke. Reid was trying to get a macaroon back that Luke had taken from him. They had ended up rolling around on the blanket, but all thoughts of the macaroon disappeared as Reid lay there looking down into Luke's beautiful brown eyes that reflected his own. They said –

"And that photo was when I realised that you loved him. You guys were so happy that day."

"Jesus Katie, get out of my head. Why the hell do you still have these photos and why are they up on your wall. Its kind of creepy really. And you know they really need a clean. The glass is filthy."

"Be quiet cranky and don't bark at me. They are photos of my friends and I love them." And she thought to herself, I am not telling him that every once in a while when Luke comes to visit she catches him gently touching the photos. And he only goes to these two, not the ones of Noah.

Katie watched the back of Reid's head as he made his way to kitchen and started making coffee. "So, have you?"

"Have I what?"

"Reid!"

He sighed and turned to glare at her. "Yes and yes." He turned from her then and finished making the coffee. She smiled to herself realising that he remembered how to make hers. It wasn't until they were seated on the lounge that she prodded him more.

"Well?"

"Katie, what the hell do you want me to say? Yes I saw Luke, Yes I spoke to him. Was it awkward? A little."

"How did you feel when you saw him?"

"Katie he was a lifetime ago. I have no interest in him anymore. Now he is just a man with a full wallet." Reid sat there clenching his jaw.

Katie thought for a while. Kissed him on the cheek and started to leave the lounge room in search of her phone. Reid was grateful that conversation was over. She then turned back and said "You know Reid, most people clench their jaw when they are mad. But you don't do anything normally. I know you. You have only ever clenched your jaw when you try to lie to me. You clench because you don't like lying to me. So I will let you have this one. But this is open for another day."

He was starting to miss his old life. Lonely yes but no one to pry.

Just then he got a text. It was a voicemail from Bob. Reid hello its Bob Hughes here. There is a restaurant next to the Lakeview. It is a new Italian restaurant called Dolcissimo. Luke is meeting us there at 7pm. See you tonight.

Brilliant.

Luke sat and watched the sunset this evening. He had always liked sunset. It always calmed him, no matter what had him bothered in the first place. Now he so rarely took the time, or let himself be distracted. Today he watched the sunset at one of the paddocks down stream from Snyder farm. For years it was vacated but now he owned it. Not many people knew that he owned it and he like to keep it that way. For more than one reason. Firstly so he could have a space if he needed it to get away from everyone. This town is so small everyone is in your business. It is one of the things he loves about Oakdale but it also means everyone is always in your business! There is no privacy to be happy, to grieve, to make a fool of yourself. It can be smothering. The other reason he bought the land was probably not so wise. It was just after Noah died and it was a place he sometimes brought Noah to , to ride their horses and it was where Noah had his accident that ultimately killed him. When he was here Luke felt connected to him. It gave him strength when he needed it but it was also his weakness.

He sat on a tree branch and thought about Noah, about their lives together. Noah was the first person he loved, but back then he was a boy. He thought he knew it all and that he couldn't survive without Noah. But back then he was trying to survive without him as his boyfriend, now he survived without him as a man. As his lover? No. Noah was not his lover after their few times in early high school. Before his next love, and the only love he has had. Which sounds both tragic and romantic but its just sad really.

Noah was his best friend. They were inseparable – Luke was gay and confident where Noah was never really sure what he was and definitely not confident. But that only made Luke and Noah more close. They fell apart for a short time during the whole Reid debacle but they realised they each wanted and needed each others friendship. Their different problems gave each other strength to go on. Whilst Noah struggled with his sexuality and identity, Luke struggled with his broken heart. Back then he felt so broken but at the same time so stupid that he was so weak for not being able to move on. He knew Reid had as Katie occasionally let a few things drop. He and Noah lived together, they were partners in a film studio. It was small and barely making money, but it made them both happy.

Noah died five years ago when he fell from Luke's horse. They switched horses that day solely as Luke felt like riding Noah's horse. Luke was trying to make Noah believe that it's the rider not the horse that makes the team skilled, not the other way around – meaning Luke's horse was not the key, but Luke himself. A snake was laying on the path, which would normally have been a problem for Luke's horse – as Noah was on Luke's horse, it was him that was thrown when he reared, and him tht cracked his skull.

Luke was devastated when Dr Hughes told him he was brain dead and that his closest relative needed to be contacted to make decisions. Luke was his next of kin. That was Noah's way of distancing himself from his father that never supported him. So Luke was the one that had to make the decision to turn off the ventilator. He made the decision to end Noah's life.

No one really clearly understand the relationship that Luke and Noah shared. Some thought they were soul mates, others thought temporary boyfriends. Luke never discussed it once Noah died. Noah was his best friend. Their friendship is not a topic he will discuss with anyone. so they continue to think he is still grieving for him. He is, but he misses his friend, he misses his confidante, he grieves for causing his death.