14. Luke's Plan

Authors Note: This chapter is insane. I think I've lost what was left of my mind. Accually, it's just the fact that I really really want Grace and Luke together. Song used is 'Star of all the Planets' by Ryan Malcolm.

Grace sat up in her bed, going through her CDs, looking for something to listen to. She decided on a CD and put it in her CD player, plugging in her headphones and drowning out the outside world. She had no way of knowing what was going on just outside her window. After two or three minutes past, her door opened and her father stepped in. She took off her headphones.

"As much as I like the boy, can you tell him to come back in the daylight hours?" he asked.

"What are you talking about?" Grace asked her father. He smiled.

"Open the window," he said, leaving his daughters room.

"Okay.." Grace said, walking over to her window and opening it. She looked out and couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Luke was sitting on a branch on the tree outside

Grace's bedroom window, there was a CD player sitting next to him, playing some unrecognizable love song which he was singing along to, very off key. Grace looked at the clock on her desk. 1:00am.

"Don't you know you're beautiful, the light you shed it overflows my eyes, can't take your blinding glow, no, oh no. If I could break into your mind, I'd leave a note that said

that you were like, the star of all planets, out in the sky, tell my why. Don't you feel lovely, don't you feel bright, you've got something, I only wish you could see, how lovely

you are to me. Oh, you're lovely," he sung.

"What are you doing?" Grace asked him.

"Serenading you," he told her. Grace laughed again.

"Yeah, but why? And at one o'clock in the morning?"

"Because I felt it was something I had to do," Luke told her, going back to singing. "If you could spy with your pretty eyes, what I can see as your very own satellite,

maybe you would get it and you'd realize, oh, you're the star of all the planets, out in the sky, tell me why. Don't you feel lovely, don't you feel bright, you've got that

something, I only wish you could see, how lovely you are to me. How lovely you are to me, you're the star of all the planets, of the sky, you're the star of all the planets."

"Okay, that's it, get in here before you break your neck," Grace told him. He picked up the radio and tossed it to Grace, who put it on her floor, then he climbed onto the

window sill and climbed into Grace's room. They stood in Grace's room, facing each other.

"Okay, so, what possessed you to come over here at one o'clock in the morning, climb up the tree and serenade me?" Grace asked him. "And where did you dig up that

music?"

"I raided Joan's CD collection to find the music, and like I said, I felt it was something I had to do," Luke told her.

"And again I say, why?" Luke took a step closer to her.

"After seeing all this tension after the fire, I started thinking-"

"You're always thinking, nerd boy."

"Let me finish. I started thinking about us. I know, I know, there is no us, we've got some twisted form of friendship, that's all, but I think.. I think I'm falling in love with

you. I just needed to tell you, so I'll be going now, my parents will kill me when they find out I'm gone," Luke said. He walked towards the window when Grace stopped

him.

"Use the door, I don't want you to break your neck," Grace told him. As he turned to walk for the door, Grace grabbed him and kissed him. When they finally broke apart,

due to the lack of oxygen, Grace spoke.

"I.. I think I've got the same feeling you do," Grace told him quietly, avoiding his eyes.

"As I was hoping you were," he said.

"I want to take things slow," Grace told him.

"Does taking things slow include kissing?" Luke joked. Grace pretended to think about it for a moment.

"I guess we could arrange that," she told him, kissing him again.

*

Luke climbed back into his window and nearly passed out when he saw his sister sitting on his bed.

"Hey dog boy, where've you been?" she asked.

"Nowhere," he lied.

"You've been somewhere. Other wise you wouldn't be sneaking into your room through the window at one thirty in the morning with my Ryan Malcolm CD," Joan told him.

"I just did something insane," he said, handing the CD to his sister.

"Really? And it involved Ryan Malcolm and being outside? What was it?" Joan questioned.

"I just spent the last half hour sitting in the tree outside of Grace's window singing Star of all the Planets," Luke confessed.

"Are you serious?" she asked.

"Well, she invited me in before I finished the song, but there were only two verses left.."

"And she didn't deck you?"

"Actually, no, she seemed to like it."

"Someone liked your singing? That's a first.."

"Funny."

"No, I'm serious Luke. You didn't get the singing genes of the family."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to sleep, good bye Joan," he said, shoving Joan out of his room.