LOVE IN LOCKDOWN: A Charity Anthology by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-01T18:30:00+00:00

I’ve known Luke all my life and I don’t think I’ve ever gone more than a few minutes of not talking to him if we were in the same room.

We’ve been down here for four hours now, in silence.

Out of the corner of my eyes I’ve seen him attempting to try and talk to me but not doing it. I’ve just been staring ahead to the stairs hoping someone would come back down here.

It’s now ten o’clock and I’ve gone through all scenarios in my mind.

First I thought surely Shauna would be the one to come looking for us, then it dawned on me that if she saw that both of us were missing and she was the last person to see us she’d come up with some scheme so people would leave us alone.

Then I thought maybe Ben would find us. Those thoughts ended as soon as they entered my mind though because when Ben is with Katherine he’s so into her that he can’t see anything or anyone else. I’m sure he would have stayed around at the party just long enough for people to take notice of his presence then he’d make his exit with her and the two wouldn’t be seen again until tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

That’s exactly what I’m thinking of now.

It’s come to that.

People will make they’re assumptions on where we are and probably only freak out tomorrow when they don’t see us at breakfast.

The thought makes my stomach clench and I slip off the barrel and lower to the ground with my back against the wall.

I look up when Luke stands and makes his way over to me, joining me on the ground.

He doesn’t attempt to move when our shoulders brush against each other and not when our knees touch.

Somehow I can’t move either.

I look at him and once again I have that feeling of not knowing what to say. This guy has managed to confuse me big time and the fact that I haven’t spoken to him in four hours says a lot.

“Don’t you dare tell me to move,” he states, eyeing me cautiously. “I’ve only kept quiet because I can imagine you running off into the tunnels to avoid me and then I’ll have to go after you.”

“Or, you could just let me go,” I point out.

“Amy you know I wouldn’t do that. Don’t let what’s happened between us ruin what you know of me in the past. You know I would go after you no matter what.”

Suddenly I feel bad and as much as I hate to admit it, he’s struck something inside me that knows he really would come after me.

We look at each other and I release a ragged breath.

“Are you seriously going to sit here all night and not talk to me?” he asks. “We haven’t seen each other in over a year and it seems like a lot has happened in that time.”

I notice the edge to his voice as he speaks. It makes me think of why he left the army.

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