Luke's POV

I knew I had to do something about this whole Luke thing. She had left me there this morning and was going out with this dude? I had my chance now and I was not giving it away to some dude. Seriously, did she think I was stupid? Michael had come home and told me all about it. Even the part about her getting a tattoo. It was so cool of her to do that, but it was not okay to go out with this dude. When I'd said I was going to do everything I could to get her back, I meant it. And she knew it. She knew it the moment she laid eyes on me and the confused look was on her face. I just smiled at her. 

"Hello, Chris, nice to see you again", I told her with a big smile.

Her face just darkened. If her eyes could shoot daggers I would've been dead by now. I had seized the opportunity when I saw it. The moment I had seen Will dragging those boards along I knew I should help him and just pretend like she and I never dated. I knew she sure as hell wasn't going to tell him. So I could play this card very nicely. And she still hadn't told him. I just smiled widely. And she knew. 

"Oh, hey Luke!" she spat back. 

Will could obviously not see the tension here. He was setting up the boards. It had been disgusting talking to him about Christina. He really did like her, but he didn't love her like I did. And the whole time he was talking about her all I could think about was smashing his face in with a brick. He didn't even deserve being here with her. I should be the one, but I really screwed this up. And this morning hadn't made it any better. 

"What the hell are you even doing here?" She whispered while she was looking at Will. Making sure he didn't hear us. 

"Well, you sure are classy. You sleep with me this morning and you just take off. And now you're on a date with someone else?" I whisper back while trying to touch her arm. 

She just pulls away and looks me in the eyes. "You shouldn't have done this, or even tell the boys about it.." 

Then she turned around and got back to Will. And she was smiling big time at him. I knew that smile. It was the same one she had used around me when we were dating. Now she kind of was dating him. But not for long. They were talking in the sand while she was showing him her tattoo some more. And he was looking, not only at her tattoo. Again there was an urge to smash him with the nearest object. He shouldn't be looking at her like that. I should be. Ugh, I was so mad at that guy. He seemed honest, but he just had to stick his nose in other peoples business. 

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Christina's POV

He just had to be here. He couldn't leave me alone. I didn't feel at ease at all. If only he would go.. How the hell did he even know I was here? Was it all by mistake? Or did he follow me here. I couldn't imagine him doing that.. But Luke had changed and he would do anything to get back together. I just wasn't ready for that. I just wanted to move on. Move on from this mess. And some, big, part of me wanted everything to go back to the way they were. But it couldn't be like that. I decided I was going to ignore him and just flirt with Will. He deserved as much. 

"So, you're ready?" he asked me while leading me to the board. 

"Yes, sir!" I told him and he laughed at me. 

"You're way too cute!" he told me while booping my nose. I kind of liked it. 

His smile was amazing. It reached his eyes and showed off his white teeth. I loved looking at it. It was contagious. I smiled back. 

As I got on the board it felt slippery. I really was bad at these things. But I would have a nice guy picking me up every time, so I didn't mind. 

"Are you sure you want to do this, Chris?" I heard Luke ask. "We both know you're badly co-coordinated. 

"Shut up", was the only response he got from me. 

Will was looking at me funny. "Don't worry," I told him. 

He just smiled a little again and went on with the lesson. Luke kept on making ridiculous remarks. I knew what he was trying to do, but Will didn't even listen to him. Every time I looked over at Luke he was just staring at me and biting his lip ring. He wasn't even aware that he was biting it. And he looked sexy as hell doing it. And it hurt me so much. I tried to focus on Will and what he was telling me. But it was so hard to do so. And I slipped, every time I looked over at Luke, I did. And he seemed to notice after a while and kept eyeing me. I decided not to look at him any more. I was going to nail this surfing thing. With or without Luke. He really needed to mind his own business.

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Luke's POV

 His hands were all over her. I wanted to puke. And get her away from here. As far as I could. To my bed maybe? But he just kept on touching her. I wanted to break every finger on his hand. But I couldn't I had to stay civil. That was the only way I was going to get her back. I needed to do this according to plan. That was the only way ever. 

Every time she looked at me she fell of the board. It was funny to see. But it made me a little more mad. It made me mad because it gave him yet another chance to get his hands on her again. And he seemed to really like it. And he was practically drooling. He was pushing it. Maybe I was a masochist? I was torturing myself for sure. Ugh! She fell again and this time it was really in his arms. I saw he was debating to kiss her. I had to do something. 

"Chris! You're phone is ringing!" I screamed and she broke contact. 

She came over and picked up her phone. Her phone had rung a few minutes before this, but I didn't tell her that. She looked at the screen and called the person back. 

"I'm a little busy right now. See you tonight?" was all she said. "Yeah, it'll be okay!" 

She put it back down and looked at me with a foul look. 

"Why are you even here, Luke? Don't you have any other place to be?" she asked me. 

"I don't want to be anywhere else where you're not", I told her and gave her a cheesy smile. 

And she actually smiled back. When she realised she changer her expression immediately. It was funny. I could still make her smile. Mission accomplished! I was happy now. We were on a good road home. But I wanted this to be a short one and not the long way. 

"I have to go now.." she told Will. 

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that... You wanna do this again tomorrow?" he asked her. Jeez he was desperate. 

"Yeah! I'll call you tonight?" she asked and turned around to face me. 

"Yeah! I can't come to your door.. I need to haul these back to the car, which is parked up a few blocks.." he told her, trying to get her to come with him. 

"Oh, okay.. I really need to go straight away.." 

They hugged and will looked at me afterwards. 

"You wanna help me with these?" he smiled. Beside the whole into Christina thing he was a nice bloke. 

"I need to talk to Calum.. He's with Chris' best friend at her place.." I told him before shaking his hand.

"Oh, okay! Thanks anyway!" 

I went after Christina and caught up with her.

"You can't leave me alone for one second can you?" she asked me before I was even next to her.

"How did you know it was me?" I asked her. 

"I recognize your footsteps.. Call me crazy but I do."

"Aww, that's cute! You really are cute!" 

"Don't make fun of him.. He respects me." She turned to face me again. She looked a bit mad.

"I'm sorry. But I can't stand the fact that he's in to you.." 

"I know.."

I closed in on her and hugged her. She let me. For the first time in forever she actually let me hug her. There was no sexual tension or tears. Just a hug, the hugs we used to give when we were just starting to date. And it was nice. It was nice to remember the times we used to have. Before it all got crazy. And she seemed to like it too. She hugged me even tighter. 

"Luke, can't we just.. Be friends?" she asked me while looking up to me. 

"Yeah.. For now.." I told her, just because I needed to be close to her. And if being her friend was what it took I was going to go through it. Yes, I was a masochist. 

"Okay, thanks." She let go and went on. I walked with her.

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Christina's POV

Asking Luke to be just friends was either the biggest mistake or the bes thing ever. It could not be something in between. It was like it was. But him agreeing to it for now felt good. I needed the Luke he was and I needed to talk to him like I used to. I needed him. But there couldn't be any feelings there. I couldn't allow it for my hearts sake. It just couldn't take it anymore. He drove me crazy. 

The hug was good. It reminded me of how it all used to be. And I liked it. I wanted to go back to that place so badly. But I knew we couldn't. I knew we couldn't do any of that anymore without feeling something. I felt bad for us both. We were two very screwed up people. And we had found each other somehow. 

My date with Will had not gone well. But he hadn't noticed. Luke hadn't told him we used to be a couple. He wouldn't do that just because he could torture me in that way. But I knew today hadn't been good for him. Seeing some other dudes hands all over me couldn't have been easy. I respected him for sitting through that. He always was determined. Or else they wouldn't be famous. And speaking of that. Some girls came running up to us. 

"OH MY GOD!! YOU'RE LUKE HEMMINGS!!" one girl cried out. 

I probably would've done the same thing months ago. And they were all over him. He was taking pictures with him and they were asking him to follow them on twitter. He told them to write down their names and give it to him and he would do it later. And Luke was the kind of guy who actually did it. He was nice to his fans. Then one of them looked at me and came up to me. Luke didn't notice. He was so busy. 

"Didn't you guys break up?" she asked me. "I'm assuming you're Christina?" 

"Yes and yes.." I told the girl.

"Why are you here then?" she asked me. She really was blunt.

"We're friends now.." 

"You can't be just friends with Luke Hemmings.." she told me as she walked away. 

And deep down I was telling myself that what she said wasn't true. But I knew even deeper down she was right.