SERENA'S P.O.V.
Do I like Luke?
Does Luke like me?
No, I can't like Luke, I like Michael, right?
Well, maybe I've moved on, maybe I've realised it won't work. What am I saying, of course it won't work. He thinks I hate him, and he thinks I hate his best friend.
Maybe moving onto Luke is a good thing, right?
But if I'm over Michael and moving onto Luke how come I can't stop thinking about Michael, about his loud laugh, and the cute frown that appears on his lips when he's concentrating. Just everything about his lips are perfect, the plumpness of them, their colour, or the thoughts that creep into my mind during a boring class of what those lips could do to me on certain parts of my body.
There's a sudden rap on the door and it snaps me out of my trance.
"Yeah?" I call out, the door opens slightly and Luke sticks his head in the door.
He smiles. "Hey."
"Hi." I answer softly.
"You coming down to the party or what?" He asks softly.
"Your team lost, why are you at it?" I ask.
"My best mates are at it, and I'd nothing else to do." He shrugs lightly. He bites his lip ring for a moment and then juts his head over his shoulder. "You coming or what?" I sigh softly but climb off of my bed.
"Yay." Luke cheers quietly.
He leads me through the frenzy or corridors towards the Slytherin common room, where I can already here a major party is in full swing. Luke gets to the door, he opens it and steps aside letting me past.
"Why thank you, kind sir."
He bows slightly dramatically. "Your welcome, fine lady." He chuckles lightly and then we turn, him leading us towards the drinks.
"LUKE!" A shout goes up from the other side of the room. We both stop, Luke pressed against my back, towering over me almost protectively. We turn to see Calum signalling for Luke to join him and my ex-friends.
"I guess I'm not invited." I mutter softly.
"Yeah, not really a choice I get to make." Luke answers, taking my hand and dragging me to the other side of the crowd, much to Calum's confusion.
"Look, I know what you did was pretty awful."
"That's an understatement." I mutter, and he smirks.
"But I know you know it was awful, and I think what they're still doing is just cruel, and I'm sorry for you. Sure when it first happened, yeah okay, but now, I think they know you're sorry. But no offense but your brother's too stubborn to realise you're sorry, Rox is sticking to her guns, and Michael's backing her more than ever because you hit him."
"IT WASN'T ON PURPOSE." I exclaim, raising my arms slightly. Luke grabs onto my shoulders calming me. "I know. Okay I do."
"Can't you tell them I'm sorry? Please?" He shrugs lightly.
"I dunno, even if I do, they'll probably keep it up." I groan and advert my eyes from his, I know what I've done, I know it's terrible, and yes I do deserve it, but Daryl's my brother, and Rox, she's my best-friend, how can she stay mad at me for this long.
Once again Luke drags me out of my thoughts, but this time, he does it with a hug.
I melt into his huge frame, his broad shoulders drooping as his arms crush me against his chest, his chin resting on my head. I cling to Luke for a moment, relishing his scent, and his bravery, his kindness and his toned chest I'm pressed against.
"Thank you." I whisper softly.
"No problem." He murmurs into my hair.
"LUKE!" Another roar comes from the other side of the room, and it's not Calum this time, it's Michael. Luke pulls away from me and we look over.
Calum is standing slightly behind Michaels shoulder, his eyebrows furrow questioning Luke, but Michael just looks pissed. Daryl stands just behind them, eyeing Luke and I carefully. The large group of others, are pretending they're not paying attention.
"Just go." I mutter to him, my hands still wrapped around his biceps.
"Yeah." He murmurs. "Look I'll talk to you, whenever, good game Serena." A mischievous grin suddenly overcomes my face and I tug Luke down slightly, and then lean up to whisper in his ear.
"I wonder which of the three boys glaring at us right now will be most pissed off with me whispering in your ear." Luke chuckled lightly, and as if playing along, his hand moved down my back and he made it out that he was squeezing my ass.
"Turn a light shade of pink, as I whisper this just now." Luke whispers, eyeing me. And before half of my cheeks are lightly tinted another roar comes across the room, and this time it's Daryl, loudest of the three calls.
"Go." I whisper shoving Luke away from me and towards his friends.
Luke shoves through the crowd fairly easily, making his way to Daryl, Michael and Calum . Daryl grabs his arm and drags him out the door. He calls for Draco to follow. Draco doesn't protest but he doesn't look too please about being dragged away from Roxy, who's he's sat next to on the floor.
As he leaves, he takes Calum, Michael and a reluctant Ashton, who had been flirting heavily with Sarah Carmody with him, to where I don't know, and right now I couldn't care less.
I shrug lightly and turn to get a bottle of whatever's going, and spend the rest of the night dancing with the majority of my classmates and getting pissed off of my head.
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Daryl throws Luke roughly through the door to the top floor of the Astronomy tower.
"Did you sleep with my sister?" Daryl exclaims as the rest of the boys emerge after them.
"What?! Where the hell did you get that from!?" Luke exclaims, total shock registering on his face.
"Michael saw the two of you come out of the girls dormitories, no one saw you go in, and then you were openly flirting with her across from us." Daryl yelled back angry that he was denying it blatantly.
"Dude! Woah! I never slept with your sister! I swear I was in the dormitories for like four minutes, because I was worried she wasn't at the party. Nothing happened!" Luke said defensively.
"What about the outright flirting then?" Michael exclaimed.
"First of all, that as a total joke, she genuinely only whispered to me asking which one of you would get the most pissed off that she was whispering in my ear!" The boys around them fell silent and then suddenly Calum bursts into laughter, quickly followed by Ashton.
"That is actually something the girl would do." Draco murmurs grinning, Luke nods agreeing, he then raises his hand up silencing them, except for a few coughs of laughter from Ashton.
"Now, secondly, Mr Clifford, I have a theory." He walks in a circle making eye contact with each boy, to add to the drama of it all.
"Oooh Lucas has a theory." Calum murmurs. "Yes Calum I do." Luke says. "And it's that," He spins suddenly and points directly at Michael who freezes on the spot, "You, are, into Serena."
Michael takes a half step back surprised.
"Wait I thought he was into Roxy!" Daryl exclaims.
"No he's into Rox!" Michael answers pointing to Draco.
"What, when did this happen?" Calum exclaims.
"You're into Roxy?" Daryl questions.
"He's into your sister!" Draco answers adverting the attention from himself.
"No! He is!" Michael points from himself to Luke.
"I'm not into Serena!" Luke says loudly.
"You saved her, then you hugged her, and she kissed your cheek, then you were worried about her, and then you held her hand, and hugged her, and you squeezed her ass!" Michael retorts taking a step forward.
"You squeezed my sisters ass!" Daryl roars at Luke.
"No! It was part of the joke." Luke says back to Daryl, he then turns his attention to Michael. "You my friend seem to be paying an awful lot of attention to Serena!"
"Which means he's into her?" Ashton says confused.
"I'm not into her!" Michael yells.
"He's into Roxy!"
"No, he is, I'm not!" Michael yells again pointing to Draco.
"Wait, so you like Serena and Draco likes Roxy!"
"NO!" Both boys yell in denial.
"Can we just make literally one thing clear throughout this entire conversation?" Ashton asks softly.
"What?" Michael murmurs pissed off.
"I'm into Sarah Carmody."
Each head snaps towards him. "We had no idea." Draco says sarcastically.
"On the bright side though she seems into you too." Luke says with a shrug.
"I know!" Ashton says beaming.
"OKAY SO NO ONE IS INTO MY SISTER THEN?!" Daryl yells over them looking for confirmation. "Yes." Luke and Michael say, but Luke's head snaps in Michael's direction confused.
"Actually no." Calum suddenly says.
"Wait, you're into Serena?" Daryl says even more confused than ever. But Calum shakes his head and walks slowly towards Michael.
"What ever Calum's about to say I'll probably agree with it." Draco suddenly says.
Calum folds his arms over his chest and eyes his friend. "I have known you practically my entire life. Therefore Michael Gordon Clifford I can tell when you're into someone, but the way you tense up when they're around, with the way you say their name and the way you look at them."
Draco nods behind Calum and Michael says nothing for a moment.
"Wrong." Michael finally says after a few moments of silence.
"Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Michael." Draco says softly.
Michael rolls his eyes. Calum sighs and raises his eyebrows starring at Michael, not daring to move his eyes until something about Michael shifted into telling Calum that he was right.
It took Calum a moment or two to notice the muscle twitching at the side of Michaels face and his attempted to hide a smile.
"HAH! You do like her!" Calum shouted and Michael burst at that, throwing his hands up in the air and yelling, "Fine I like her!"
Calum grins at Michael and then turns and walks over to Draco whom he high-fives with matching evil smirks.
Daryl turns slowly to Michael.
"Don't kill me." Michal whispers.
"You're into my sister? You hate her!"
Michael looks over at Daryl eyebrows raised. "Really?" Michael asks. "You do understand the best way of getting a girl is hating her first."
Daryl nods, "But you hate hate her." Michael shakes his head lightly.
"You'll probably kill me for this, but your sister's hot, and a whole bunch of other things that if I said would make you hurl." Daryl squints pursing his lips. "Yeah probably."
Silence falls back over the odd circle of six. In the distance they can hear a strange wolf-like noise coming from the forest. They can tell it's too different wolves, different pitches of voices, but they can't quite pinpoint what's causing them to make the noise.
Daryl, Ashton and Draco's heads are cocked to the side listening, where as Luke's eyebrows and furrowed together his eyes fidgeting, Michael is frowning at the ground and Calum has his eyebrows raises pouting lightly.
Each one of them confused.
"Wait guys." Daryl suddenly says.
"If I'm right there is two different wolves right?" The boys agree with him, with a slight nod.
"Okay one's voice is higher the other lower, male and female?" The boys once again nod.
"Okay guys, it's late a night, two wolves, strange noises. Put it together." Daryl's eyes are alight with laughter. It takes a moment before Ashton catches on and slaps his hand over his mouth.
"What?" Calum asks still dumbfounded.
"Oh my god." Draco says suddenly catching on. Michael then bursts into laughter.
"What?" Luke repeats Calum's question.
"GUYS WE'RE LISTENING TO WOLF PORN!" Daryl roars, bursting into laughter just as Michael drops to the ground clutching his sides and shaking with laughter.
In seconds all six of them are in stitches.
"Guys I think I've literally just lost all of my innocence." Luke pants through the laughter.
"I never had any innocence to loose." Draco says bending over the railing laughing into the sky.
"Wait, innocence?" Daryl suddenly says confused, he almost runs to Luke grabbing Luke's shoulders though it's awkward since Luke is the taller of the two.
"Innocence as in you're a virgin?"
"Yes." Luke answers softly, a not a hint of embarrassment can be heard in his voice.
Silence once again falls over the circle.
"I don't believe that for my life." Draco says softly.
"Well if it is true we need to get you back to that party, a.s.a.p." Daryl says grinning.
"AND!" Calum says loudly. "Michael and Draco need to make moves on Serena and Roxy."
"I'm not into Roxy!" Draco argues.
"Shut up dude, the whole world knows, it's kind obvious no offense." Ashton says opening the door to the astronomy tower.
Draco sighs, "Fine."
"Then there will be many moves made tonight!" Calum says happily.
"I'm not making a move on Serena!" Michael exclaims.
"Why not?" Luke asks confused.
"She hates me!" Daryl shrugs as if he's not too sure.
"You could still try." Draco offers.
"Yeah no, we'll just help you with Roxy."
There is murmurs of agreements.
"So checklist for the rest of the night, get absolutely wasted, get Luke laid and help Draco make a move!" Calum calls as he walks to the door following Ashton. Michael follows him and then Luke, Draco and Daryl pull up the rear of their group.
"Hey Draco." Daryl says softly so the other boys won't hear.
"Yeah?" Draco answers.
"Serena likes him back."