Jatp One Shots

Unlovable (Ruke)

~Luke's POV
1994

I sat by the grand piano writting a song for our next gig. Reggie was on the couch, probably writting a country song or doodling. Alex was on a date with a guy he meet after our last gig.

Reggie sighed and came over and stood by the grand piano next to me.

"What's up Reg?" I asked, pick in my mouth still concentrated on my song. Then I heard a soft sniffle and looked at him. He had been crying, and I hadn't even noticed. He was my boyfriend, I was supposed to be there for him and all I could focus on was writting my music. Some boyfriend I was.

"Hey, what's wrong." I asked, taking my pick out and hoping down from the piano.

"I'm scared Luke." He said. "Ever since...ever since we started dating.... I just, I don't want to end up like my parents, you know?"

Reggie's parents were always fighting. Bickering back and forth constantly. Reggie hated it, and I hated his parents for it too. They agrued so much and didn't even care to pay attention to their son.

"We won't, okay? I promise." I said.

"Yeah well my parents promised each other they'd love each other forever, that they'd love me forever." Reggie said. "But those are just broken promises."

"Yeah, well we're not your parents." I said. "Who needs them anyways. I love you." I have never said that to him before, but I've been wanting to.

"But I'm unlovable." Reggie said, which shattered my heart to hear. His parents really have him believing no one is cabalbe of loving him, which couldn't be further from the truth.

His eyes dripped tears and I pulled him in close, hugging him. Letting him cry on my shoulder.

"But I do love you." I said. "And you're not unlovable. Alright? Reggie, you are the best thing that's happened to me since I meet you. Don't let your parents, or anybody else let you believe you are unlovable."

We pulled apart and I kiss his tear stained cheek.

"Luke..." He said. "I love you too."

"Wanna crash at my place tonight? My parents won't be home, but they wouldn't mind anyway."

"Yeah...yeah thanks."

~time skip a few hours

~Reggie's POV

I laid on the couch with Luke, my head on his chest as he stroked his fingers through my hair.

Today he told me he loved me. No one has ever loved me in that way before, but to be fair, Luke is my first time dating someone. I told him I loved him too.

I've never felt the way I feel about Luke to anyone before. I knew it was love because I didn't want to imagine a world without him. I didn't want to imagine a world where I wasn't with him.

"Thank you." I said. Sometimes, I say thank you to him at random times. When we first meet, he didn't exactly get it, and neither did I, but now we both know. I say thank you to him for everything, for being my friend and being there for me. For taking chance on the kid no one wanted to be friends with. Now, I was saying thank you to him for still being there for me, and for being a great boyfriend."

"Always." Luke said, kissing the top of my head.

Just then, Luke's door busted open and my dad invaded in. I sprung up from the couch, and so did Luke, putting himself between me and my dad.

"Reginald, it's time to go home." He said.

"Alright." I said, already heading towards the door. I didn't want to leave, I wanted to stay here with Luke. But I didn't want to know what was going to happen if I disobeyed.

"No." Luke said, and I turn around to face him. He his looking right at my father. "It's not fair that Reggie has to hear all that shouting." He said.

"Luke, it's fine." I said. "I'll see you tomorrow at school."

Unexpectedly, Luke takes my hand at pulls me next to him, still holding my hand.

"Reggie's staying here tonight." Luke said.

"No, he's not." My dad said. He walked over, grabbed my arm, and pulled me towards the he door and away from Luke.

I thought if I didn't struggle, he wouldn't do anything when we got home. I certainly didn't think he'd do anything here, in front of Luke.

He twisted my arm back and I yelped in pain. It proceeded with hitting me across the face.

But it stopped there because now Luke had taken action, by punching him in the gut. My dad groaned and let go of me, hunching over. Luke took my hand again, pulling me behind him.

"Get out before I call the police!" Luke said.

"I don't take orders from a kid." My dad said. He stood up and looked dead at Luke with stern eyes. "You don't get to keep my son from me."

He pushed Luke against the wall and something inside me flipped like a switch. I was fine with him yelling at me. I was fine with him hitting me. I was not fine with him hurting Luke.

So, I swung my fist right at his fat, ugly face. That backed him away from Luke.

"Just leave." I said, feeling something I've never felt around my father before. I felt confident. "And I'm not going with you. And don't ever hurt my boyfriend, or anyone that I care about again."

My dad was shocked by how confident I was being. I guess I really throw him off guard because he did leave. Backed straight out the door, and I closed it in his face.

I sharply exhaled and turned to face Luke.

"That was pretty amazing." He said.

We both just stand there in silence for a minute.

"I love you Reg." Luke said.

"I love you too Luke."

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Hey, hope you are enjoying the stories so far I just wanted to say thank you for reading :)

Also, I have two more fanfics, one is just an average fanfic based off the show with my added charecter and storyline. It also gives Carrie some backstory, doesn't paint her out to be the villian. My other one is a Reggie backstory. It would mean alot to me if you checked one or both those out but you don't have to.

As always, I hope you all have a beautiful day/night and I'll be updating again hopefully pretty soon. I've been doing good getting these out pretty quickly so let's see how long that'll continue.

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