Ta-da peoples :) This is a warm up to the next chapter :D
Luke had no idea why Noah was even back in Oakdale they had parted on bad terms and clearly, the wounds were still raw, even as time passed. He drove home trying to sort out all the things going through his head, Noah did not say exactly why he was back but he had a feeling he knew exactly who had brought him back. When they were together, Luke had to admit he had never been so happy but there was always something about Noah as if he could never properly express his feelings towards Luke, true they did love each other but half the time he felt Noah was never completely there.
He saw his mum's car in the driveway and tried to figure out how he was going to ask her about her involvement without snapping and becoming too aggressive with his approach. "Hey mom, I need to ask you something?"
He closed the door with surprising restraint, Lily appeared, a phone in her hand immediately the irritating looking of mothering concern covered her features. "Luke? Are you okay? Did something happen?"
"No, I'm fine would you please stop assuming something is wrong. I just wanted to tell you that Noah's back in town." He watched her every expressions. She smiled almost forcefully she had never been good at acting innocent. "Oh really? That's lovely Luke." He saw right through her forced smile and crossed his arms. "But you know what's really bugging me, is that I haven't seen Noah in what? A good year give or take a couple months. Now he's back with no really reason. And if you should say, he came back for me I swear I will leave this house and never come back. So now mom answer me this question: what the hell are you trying to do?"
She actually looked outraged at his question but then stopped when she realised it was not going to wash with him. "You've just been so... distracted more than recently and I thought maybe you would want someone to talk to."
Luke closed his eyes in frustration he wanted to just walk towards a brick wall and smash his head against it. "If Noah didn't want to talk months ago what made you think he would want to now? You know I've put up with all the whispers and gossip that this town seems to thrive on constantly, and you bring in my ex-boyfriend and I would hope that you'd think and you'd remember that we didn't exactly break-up on good terms."
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Reid sat in the Hospital cafeteria chewing on something that was supposed to be lunch; he never knew defending someone's honour would make him so hungry, although telling all the nurses' off had made his day seem not as annoying. He had warned them only to page him if it was a life and death emergency, if it was not the attending would be around. He slowly took the sandwich apart and examined each piece a slight look of disgust on his face, whoever had made this had absolutely no idea about what went where.
"Would it be alright if I join you?" he pushed his lunch aside and looked up, Luke stood behind a chair his knuckles going white. Reid nodded and indicated for Luke to sit. "You look like crap, something happen?"
Luke slid into the chair while rubbing his temples. "Something happen? That's one hell of an under-statement, I just had a very awkward reunion with my ex-boyfriend because my mother believed I needed someone to talk to, according to her I've become more 'distant'." Reid listened intently, a slight frown on his face. "Ex-boyfriend?"
Luke poked what was left of Reid's dismantled sandwich. "Yeah, we broke up on not so good terms and now he's back and I have no idea what I'm going to do. Just knowing he's back in town brings up feelings I would prefer not to remember... when I got hurt... he- he couldn't give me what I needed and I couldn't give him what he needed."
There was silence, while Reid digested what was being said he could tell Luke was struggling. "You know, Dr. Oliver I can't do this anymore, people think I don't hear what they say but I do all I hear is my personal business being spread around to feed the fuel all the whispers... I need to get away from this place."
"... Mr. Snyder then why don't you? I assume you can afford it since you're a major donor to this hospital. Take a couple weeks off to get away, leave this dump believe me I've considered it already multiple times but this town has tentacles and whenever I want to leaving, I get sucked right back in, I assume you're a smart guy why not use your brains for once and stop doubting yourself."