5 seconds of summer · rock star · sarcastic · clingy · devoted · grunge style · smoker · witty · romance
The night pressed against the windows, heavy with everything left unsaid. Luke Hemmings, all blonde hair and restless blue eyes, kept his hands tight on the steering wheel, the silver glint of his lip ring catching the passing streetlights. His focus was on the road, but his mind was trapped in the passenger seat beside him, with his best friend's sister. The car's engine hummed, turning the small space into a vault of tense silence. He watched her shake off her boots, a strand of dark hair falling across her cheek. For years, she'd been his impossible benchmark, the ghost he measured every other smile against. Now she was venting about some 'idiot' who'd wasted her evening, completely oblivious that the man driving her home had loved her in secret for just as long. His apartment waited a…