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"Luke, what are you talking about?" I asked, shaking my head.

I should have listened to Luke in the first place and let him say whatever he had to earlier, that way he wouldn't have barged through the front door and caught Michael and I together. I had just made things a lot worse by putting this off, and now I had no idea what was going to come from Luke seeing Michael and I like that.

"Dani, there's something that I need to tell you." Luke said slowly, taking a step forward. He grabbed my hand in his, but I pulled away. I was so confused, I didn't understand what was going on and what Luke could possibly be taking about. He couldn't have done anything wrong, right? Luke and Michael didn't even know each other, Luke had to be lying.

"What?" I asked, and when Luke didn't answer, I asked him again. "Luke, what do you have to tell me?"

"Do you want to sit down?" Luke asked, trying to reach for me again. I just backed up even more, into the railing of the staircase. I staggered backwards, finding a place on the stairs to sit down.

"Is it really that bad?" I swallowed hard, not sure how I was expected to feel about all of this. It wasn't every day that one of your best friends came to your door saying that they've done a bad thing to one of your other best friends.

"It's bad, Dani, it's pretty bad." Luke nodded. He rubbed his hands over his face, which looked paler than it normally did. He looked like he was going to be sick, and I almost wanted to tell him to just go home and come back when he was feeling better. He looked terrified, and whatever it was that he had to tell must have been worse than I thought. Here I was thinking that he was just going to complain about Brooke, when really there was something much bigger going on.

"Just tell me, Luke, please." I begged. We might as well just get this over with now, since I'm too interested and worried for Luke to stop now.

"Dani, please promise that you won't hate me." Luke said, kneeling down in front of me. He was about to cry, his blue eyes filled with tears already as he stared up at me.

"I could never hate you, I want to help, just tell me what's wrong." I said, nodding a few times to encourage him to speak. It was true, no matter how horrible whatever this thing he had to tell me was, I would never be able to hate him. Luke had been my friend for over three years, I wasn't going to let one of his little mistakes end out friendship.

"Michael hates me - " Luke's voice broke and he took a second to think before speaking again. "Michael hates me because I was in the accident that killed his sister."

"What?" I almost shouted, not noticing that I had scared Luke by my outburst.

Throughout this entire thing, I never once suspected that Luke was part of the accident that had killed Kenzie, but now everything was making sense to me. That's why Luke acted so strange when I brought up Ashton, or when Calum invited him to sit with us at lunch. And whenever Luke and Ashton were around each other things got so awkward, and with Michael, too. Michael couldn't even look at Luke. I can't believe I was so stupid not to see any of this sooner.

"How?" I asked, trying to stay calm. While I was surprised that Luke had done this, I was more confused than angry, and upset that Ashton hadn't told me. He said that it was all his fault, I don't understand why he would want to take all the blame when there was clearly someone else to take it as well.

"It was at the beginning of the summer, you know?" Luke began, gulping again. "It was early in the morning and I was coming home from Brooke's house. I was way too drunk to even be walking, much less driving, but Brooke still let me leave because we were fighting, and I don't think she cared. I still don't think she cares...."

"Anyway, I was driving and so were Ashton and Kenzie, you know their side of the story already, right?" Luke asked. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hands again, and I felt bad once more for making him tell me this.

"She missed her period and they were fighting about her possibly being pregnant, right?" I said, vaguely repeating what Ashton had told me.

Luke shook his head. "Kenzie was really pregnant, like, at least two months. Ashton wanted to keep it but she didn't, she was planning to give it up for adoption. Like Brooke."

"But that's not what Ashton - " I started, but Luke cut me off. I didn't get it, why would Ashton lie?

"I don't know why he wouldn't tell you the truth, Dani, but I promise that I am. Kenzie and Ashton were arguing and from what I understand, Ashton was drunk, Kenzie wasn't." Luke continued, and I continued to shake my head. This story was different than Ashton's, and I wasn't sure who I was supposed to believe. I had to pick between my best friend and my boyfriend.

"They were fighting and Ashton got mad, so he swerved and hit my car, and obviously I was too drunk and didn't process what was going on until it was too late. His car hit mine and then swerved off the road but I - fuck, Dani, you're going to kill me." Luke stopped talking, trying to cover his face again.

"I told you that I won't hate you." I said slowly, still trying to take all of this in.

"I ran away."

"What do you mean?" I asked, "How did you - "

"I was fine, Ashton's car hit mine in a way so I wasn't even hurt, my car had more damage than I did. I just got out and ran. I was too scared that I was going to get in trouble for being so drunk and coming home so late, so I just ran away. I didn't even think about the fact that there were other people in the car that I hit, or that they may be dead." Luke finished. He was shaking now, hardly able to speak.

"So you just...ran?" I asked.

"Yeah, I ran all the way home. The police figured out that it was me, obviously, because I just left my car in the middle of the street while there was - while there was someone fucking dying just a few feet away from me." Luke said, a few tears slipping out the corners of his eyes.

"Did you get in trouble?" I asked, just curious. I couldn't believe that I had missed all of this, I was supposed to be one of Luke's closest friends and I didn't even know that any of this had happened.

"I had to do community service for the rest of the summer, my dad paid off all of the other charges himself. I lied to you and Brooke and Calum, remember, I told you all that I was going to my mom's summer house in Spain until school started again." Luke explained.

"You were here the entire time?" I gasped. I remembered all of it so clearly now, and how oblivious I had been, and Brooke too. I bet she still didn't know about this.

"Yes, but I was too ashamed to face anyone. I can't believe I did something like that. I killed someone." Luke said hurriedly, almost like he was gasping for air.

"But it wasn't all your fault - it was an accident, Luke. It was wrong of you to be drinking and driving but you have to remember that Ashton did the exact same thing, and he feels the same way that you do." I said, reaching forward and putting a hand on Luke's shoulder.

"I could have helped, that's what gets me. I could have gotten out of the God damn car and called 911 or something, I could have fucking called Calum and I didn't do anything. I ran away, like a coward." Luke said, shaking his head. I was so torn, I didn't know if I should try and comfort Luke or just agree with him, because we both knew that this was still partly his fault no matter what.

"But you were scared - "

"Dani, my parents didn't even yell at me for it. They didn't even care that I killed someone." Luke cried, cutting me off and leaning forward, resting his forehead against my knees, like he couldn't even hold himself up anymore.

"It was an accident, Luke. It wasn't only your fault." I sighed.

"That's the thing, Ashton makes it seem like it wasn't my fault at all." Luke said, coughing once as he ran his hands over his face again. "He takes all the blame and I feel like shit for it, because it was my fault too."

"Why does he do that?" I asked, wondering why Ashton would want to be known as the boy who unintentionally killed his girlfriend when he didn't have to take all the blame for it.

"I don't know, I think he just doesn't want to bring too much attention to it. Everyone already hates him for it in the first place, and because of my parents and everything... He just doesn't want to make a huge deal."

"Well that's nice of him and all, but..." I trailed off, trying to put the right words together.

"He should tell someone that I was part of it too, I know." Luke sighed.

"So you've talked to Ashton about this?" I asked.

"Yeah, in court and everything. My dad paid for all of the repairs on Ashton's car, and the, uh, hospital bill. I went to Kenzie's funeral, too, but I didn't get a chance to talk to Ashton much. Him and Michael were fighting..." Luke drifted off, looking up at the ceiling.

"And he knows it was you, right? Michael too?" I questioned, just trying to clarify things for myself. God, I was so confused.

"Yeah. Shit, I feel awful." Luke groaned, his fingers raking themselves through his blonde hair.

"I don't understand why Ashton never said anything, or Michael." I said, not even caring that I had just admitted to speaking to Michael. Luke knew there was something between us anyway, there wasn't a point in hiding it now.

"I told you, Dani, they don't want to bring attention to this. They're both so torn up about the accident as it is, they don't need people constantly asking them questions about it. Especially with my parents and their businesses, you know? They're just being nice, they don't want so many people focusing on it. I think they'd rather try and forget." Luke elaborated, and I nodded.

"But I don't get it, why did Ashton change the whole story around?" I asked, still confused about it. I understood that Ashton didn't want to call Luke out on this for whatever reason, but he didn't need to completely change his story just because of that. I would have felt the exact same way if Ashton had just told me the truth in the first place.

"Maybe he just didn't want you to know. I'm sure he only did that so it wouldn't seem as bad, you know? His story was just a different version of the real thing." Luke said softly, putting a hand on my knee to comfort me.

"But he's my boyfriend, Luke, he's supposed to tell me the truth." I sighed, running my hands through my hair. I couldn't decide if I wanted to sit here and try to process all of this or march right over to Ashton's house and demand that he tells me the entire truth.

"I don't know what to tell you. I didn't tell my girlfriend about it, he probably just doesn't want to scare you." Luke shrugged.

"But I wouldn't have been scared." I said softly. I was more upset now about the fact that Ashton hadn't told me the truth. I wasn't mad at Luke, because there wasn't a reason to be. He should be mad at me for blowing him off the past few weeks when he wanted to tell me this. I wish I would have just listened.

"I don't really know why he wouldn't tell you, Dani. I'm sorry." Luke sighed. "You believe me, right?"

"Of course I do." I nodded. I just needed to talk to Ashton and sort things out. I had to confront him about lying to me and then ask him to explain the true story, and hope that it matched up with Luke's. I really didn't want to cause any drama between them, but I didn't know why else to do.

"I'm so sorry, please don't hate me." Luke pleaded with me.

"Luke, I said already, I don't hate you." I said, almost letting out a laugh. I felt so bad for Luke, he had been through a lot and wasn't able to tell anyone about it.

"Thank you. I'm so sorry." Luke said quietly. He stood up straight, wiping his eyes one last time, then brushed himself off.

"I know, and it's okay. I just don't think I'm the one you really need to be apologizing too." I said, standing up myself. I was acting surprisingly calm for a situation like this, if this was a few months ago I probably would have thrown a huge fit.

"I've told Ashton that I'm sorry so many times, I don't think he believes me." Luke groaned.

"What about Michael?" I asked.

"I can't even look at Michael without feeling upset, I don't know how I would be able to talk to him." Luke explained. "I feel so bad, about everything."

"Luke, I'm sorry. But it's okay, everything will turn out alright in the end." I said, and Luke finally gave me a small smile.

Luke sat there and smiled to himself or a long time after that, will I stayed still and wondered if I was making the right choice by believing him over my boyfriend.

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SORRY THIS LITERALLY SUCKED AND MADE NO SENSE BUT HOPEFULLY I CAN GET BACK INTO UPDATING THIS STORY AND ITLL GET BETTER

IM SORRY

GOODBYE

btw Ashton was like "oh it wasn't that bad Kenzie missed her period and was planning to get an abortion, we were both drunk and I served into another car" when Luke's story was different okay? okay