"I know, I watch your show!"

Those words rang through Michael's head throughout the coffee "date" with Ashton plus their friends. He saw Ashton's friend Luke, instantly regretted saying those words once they had left his mouth, so Michael brushed it off, told him it was no big deal.

But, something about this Luke guy watching his show didn't settle well with him. He couldn't get it out of his head, Michael has never once minded people coming up to him and saying they love the show, knowing who he was from his brightly colored hair.

Deep down, something about Luke knowing all the secrets and rumors about him, how he had to behave to his family and friends just to have a nice home and food in their stomachs, he hated it. And he just met this guy an hour ago, but Michael wanted to tell him not to believe everything.

Michael would occasionally catch Luke watching him while he was talking and Luke would blush, embarrassed he was caught. Michael wasn't sure if it was because Luke had thought of him as a celebrity or if their was something else going on in his head.

Luke had kept quiet for majority of the outing, not wanting to embarrass himself more than he already had. He was so infatuated with the boy with red hair he wasn't quite sure what words would spew from his mouth. Even if Ashton kept jabbing him in the side hoping his best friend would talk, but unless he was directly asked a question he didn't dare to interrupt. Which confused Ashton since Luke never seems to shut up at home.

Ashton excused himself for a moment leaving Luke alone at the table with Michael and Calum.

Luke panicked. He pulled out his phone to help calm himself down. But, Calum directed a question toward him.

"You haven't talked much... Are you OK?" Calum asked, concern filled his voice. Luke knew he was trying to be nice, he really didn't want to answer him, but he did so they didn't think he was intentionally being rude to them.

"Oh, yeah I'm fine. Uh, umm sorry for not talking.. I don't like have attention on me for too long, and I didn't want to interrupt," Luke muttered, a bunch of bullshit spewing from his mouth. He loved being the centre of attention. But, being in the presence of Michael Clifford changed that.

"Really? I don't know, maybe it's me, you just give of this energetic vibe so when you were quiet for so long I thought you weren't feeling... well?"

Luke shook his head. Not knowing how to respond to that, he was thankful when Ashton's cheery self plopped down next to him, his best friend oblivious to the tension, and thankful for being saved from further lying and embarrassing himself.

Oh how he was wrong.

Now, Michael had directed a question towards the blond, wanting to know a little more about him. "So Luke, do you have a job?"

Luke nodded, face flushed from having Michael's full attention.

"What's your job?" Michael asked, knowing it'll be hard to get answers out of him.

"U-umm..." Luke stuttered, "I-I work at t-the Guitar Center right outside of t-the city."

Michael smiled brightly, causing Luke to practically melt and have heart eyes toward the boy.

"That's awesome! It must be nice to be surrounded by instrument all day. I have a few guitars hidden away that no one knows about. I occasionally play around with them, I'm not the best at it, but I just-I love the way it feels to hold a guitar, y'know? Do you play anything?"

"It's nice, doesn't pay much but I enjoy it majority of the time. And I um, yeah I play the guitar.."

"That's awesome. Maybe we could all hang out again soon and play together." Michael suggested, and Luke almost stopped breathing. Hang out? With Michael? At his house? He was stunned.

Luke waited a moment before he responded, not wanting to seem eager. "Yeah. That would be cool."

Ashton snickered next to him, he knew as soon as they got home Luke would be screaming and dancing. And he would definitely need to record it for later.

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an: I managed to find a bit of time so I could write this. It's kind of a filler, sorry.

But so many people have read this in the past two days and I'm so thankful. I honestly never thought anyone would read my stories. Thank you! Thanks you for reading and voting!! <3