Madison's POV

I've been counting down the days for my brother to get back into town. I'm so excited to see his face again that I can barely maintain my happiness. I told Violet that I wasn't moving anytime soon, and she was just as excited as me. It's good to know that I get to actually call some place a home.

I haven't seen Luke all day today, which kind of makes me happy. Yesterday, he came over to my locker with Calum, Ashton, and Michael, and he brought that same girl he had at the lunch table with him. He started touching all over her, and making her ignorantly giggle. It made me want to puke, but at the same time, I wanted it to be me.

"Earth to Madison!" Violet waves her hand in front of my face, tearing me from my thoughts.

"Huh?" I ask.

"Dude, you've been staring at Luke and Alexis for the past five minutes now. If your trying to act like it's not bothering you, it's not working."

I sigh. "I just don't understand. One minute he acts like he hates me, but then the next minute, he acts like he wants to be my friend."

"Who knows." V shrugs. So much for her help.

"Anyways, how are you and Michael doing?"

"Oh I don't know. He invited me to a party on Friday. I wasn't going to ask you to come because your brother is coming down this week, so."

"Do you all have parties every Friday or something?" I exclaim.

She shrugs. "Something like that."

"Hey lady friends!" Ashton giggles, grabbing us in a hug.

"Hi." We both say in sync.

"So are you coming to my party?" I assume he's asking me since Violet's already going.

"Oh I dunno guys. My brother's coming back into town this weekend and I kind of want to hang out with him."

"Oh well that's okay." Ashton says sadly, but soon perks up. "You wanna hang out with us after school?"

"Uh sure, I guess. What will we do?"

"I don't know, maybe we all could go do something fun?"

"Can we go paintballing?" Michael exclaims with Calum snickering from behind him.

"Yas!!" Violet agrees with him, giggling at the same time.

***

"Ew." I murmur to myself as I accidently touch a piece od dried up gum on the edge of the seat.

"I could say the same thing about you." Luke smirks as he sits next to me.

I sigh. "I didn't ask for your input."

"Well you got it." He scoffs.

I roll my eyes, and get busy on the work I didn't do yesterday because of Luke. Luke, however sits there staring at me whilst I write. "Can I help you?"

"You don't have to be so rude." He says.

"And you don't have to be sitting here." I retort. Luke sighs at sits back on the seat, staring off into the distance. He rolls up his sleeves, revealing the works of art on his arm. I look up to face and back down to his arm. Without hesitation, I reach out to touch it.

"What the fuck?!" He raises his voice.

"What do your tattoos mean?" I ask, keeping a calm voice.

His face goes from disgust to a sheepish look. He groans and without a word, moves to the other side of the room, where he puts in his music and ignores the world.

***

"I'm so excited!" Ashton cheers as we meet up in the hallway.

"Geez, Ash, it's just paintballs." I laugh at him.


"I'm sorry I'm excited to hang out with my friends." He fake pouts.

We all load into his car and start driving to the place. The whole way there, consisted of singing badly to radio music. We were all screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs, even when we didn't know the song.

As we arrive at the paintball outlet, Ashton says. "Oh yeah, Luke will be here soon."

"Ashton! You didn't tell me that earlier?" I playfully smack his arm.

"If it makes you feel any better, he didn't tell Luke that you'd be here either." Calum chimes in.

Ashton looks down at his shoes bashfully. "I just don't want there to be any fighting. I just want everybody to get along."

"Aweh Ash. We will. We'll try to anyways for you." I hug him as we enter the doors.
After we get our outfits on, we scatter into the room, and pick our teams.

Ashton, Calum, and I against Luke, Violet, and Michael. We find out bases and the games begin. I pass through the dark room with Calum, trying to see him with the outline of his shadow, but it's hard to tell. "Calum?" I whisper.

No answer. I keep walking, but i no longer see his outline. As I'm walking, I run into something hard. I reach out my hands and feel that it's a latter. I step my foot on top of it, and of course slip. After i regain my balance I try again. I'm almost at the top of the latter and see a little bit of light, when i get yanked.

I scream out in fear, not being able to see the persons face. "I knew that was you." Luke's voice speaks.

"What the fuck, Luke." I say as my eyes start adjusting to the dark. I hold out my paintball gun, but I get knocked to the floor.

"Your forgetting, I've used a real one of these before." He sneers, and destroys my shield, smearing black paint over the see through part on my chest.

I try to shoot my gun, but nothing comes out of it. "Your an asshole." I groan, standing up from my place.

"Let me kiss it better for you." He speaks in a low husky tone. I don't know why, but the moment when he leans me up against the latter and attaches his lips to mine, I cant pull away from him. I let him trace his hands down my sides, slipping them under my shirt. He doesn't move them though, he keeps his clammy hands on the skin on my sides, making it hard for me to breath.

When he pulls away, but doesn't leave like the last time. He stares into my eyes with a stern expression, but then howls with frustration, turning on his heels.

I figure I should probably go back to the base and let everyone know I've gotten shot, so I try to find m way back. On the way there, I run into yet another thing. This time its a person. "Your from that party." He laughs.

I was honestly confused. I could barely see, yet he could tell it was me? "What?"

"You know that girl that wouldn't give me any." He sneers.

"Right, I'll be going now." I shake my head, and continue walking, but he grabs my wrists.

"I don't think so. I'll get what I want this time."

My life flashes before my eyes as the guy falls down, and Luke replaces him. My heart pounds as the rage in he eyes doesn't disappear. He shakes his head and turns around. He soon decides against it, as he yells, "I thought you could protect yourself, Madison!"

"I could! I had it under control!" I yell back, just like last time.

"No you didn't. Your weak and clueless. Your going to get hurt if you keep acting stupid! I can't be there every time to fight your battles!"

"I didn't ask you to, Luke!" I spat.

"What the hell is happening?" Violet rushes around the corner.

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