Without You

Sequel Chapter 1 "Sometimes it's better to be selfish"

(Bonus 1 of many)

*3rd Person POV*

The days following the breakup was hell for both Luke and Aubrey. Neither did much of anything.

Aubrey stayed in the comforts of her own room, weeping her eyes out while Luke could barely control any type of emotions.

He cried. A lot actually, he had just let the love of his life, the woman he was surely going to marry, walk right out of his fingertips.

'But it's what she wants,' he was only trying to make her happy. He only ever wanted her to be happy. Even if it meant going through hell, he would do it, which is basically what he went through.

But what he couldn't understand was, why was she not wanting to at least try long distance?

Aubrey connected the pieces as to the reasoning behind Olivia and Ryan's breakup. The only reason behind their splitting had to be the distance that was going to be between them.

Of course, that wasn't the only deciding factor for her.

Her and Kelsey, although best friends, after only a couple weeks away from each other, they started losing contact. They would no longer talk to each other nightly, but maybe once every few days, then it became once a week, then once every two weeks until their horrendous argument which led them to completely lose contact with each other.

Aubrey was so scared of something like that happening that she let it take hold of all her thoughts. Between the two deciding factors, it made Aubrey feel hopeless.

It only took a day for all of their friends to find out something was up. Eli knew straight away something was wrong with his best friend when he walked into Luke's house and found him staring at the lock screen of his phone.

A picture of Aubrey, her curls wild and her cheeks pink with a blush.

Every time he looked at the photo, the memory of that day was the only thing going through his mind.

It was her birthday. They, along with the girls and guys, were sitting at the food court in an amusement park. Aubrey had left her phone at home, worried that she might lose it due to the roller coasters. She had used Luke's camera as a mirror to make sure she had no ice cream on and around her face and mouth.

As she had handed the phone back to Luke, he had called her beautiful and since the camera was already up on the phone, he was able to capture the moment following it.

That's what made Eli realize something was up. Usually, when Luke missed Aubrey, it would vocally announce it. Often too, he missed her often, but when Eli found him just looking at the picture, he knew something was wrong.

The bad feeling Eli had come true when Luke opened his mouth. As soon as the words had come out, Luke couldn't be bothered by his then burning and glossy eyes.

He was heartbroken.

He never imagined that those words would come out of his mouth when talking about her. That's one of the things that hurt him the most. Also knowing that he would definitely propose to her, within the next couple of years.

The words shocked Eli. Never in his life had he been so shocked at something that had come out of someone's mouth before, and he'd heard some weird things in his day. He couldn't believe it.

Eli had never seen two people love each other so much. Same goes with Izzy and Olivia.

The two girls couldn't believe it once Aubrey managed to get the words out of her mouth and they felt that there was nothing they could do to help Aubrey.