voices. • the third book in the mute. series • muke au

the call.

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Luke.

"Daddy? Where are we going?" April asks as I strap her into her car seat.

"Um, we are going to go get some pancakes," I make up, "Does that sound good princess?" I ask as I finish.

She giggles and nods, I close her door and go to start the car. We pull out of the driveway and drive mindlessly around, looking for a restaurant of some sort. Hopefully they will have a phone I could borrow.

"Daddy look! There's an iHop!" April screeches from the backseat. I follow where her finger is pointing and sure enough, there is an iHop just down the road. I drive down to it and April cheers as we pull in.

"Ready for your pancakes?"

"Yes daddy! Get me outta this thing please!" she struggles with her care seat strap. I chuckle and go around the car to unbuckle her.

I pick her up and we walk into the small restaurant, seating ourselves. I set April down in a booth and slide into the side across from her. She struggles to open her menu, it being very large and heavy.

"Here sweetheart," I say helping her find what she is looking for, "here's the kid's menu." I say pointing.

"I'm not a kid! I'm a big girl!" she argues. I laugh at her little outburst.

"I know you are princess, but that's all the super yummy food." I say, raising my eyebrows at her.

"Really?"

"Yep." I say, nodding, "In fact, I may even order from it." I smile. She giggles and continues to look. A very bored looking waitress comes over, and stands in front of us.

"Can I help you." she says more like a demand than a question.

"Yea, um, sweetie do you know what you want?"

"That." she points to her menu, I turn my head to look at it.

"Um, she wants chocolate chip pancakes." I tell her. She scribbles it down then looks at me. "I'll just have the same." I tell her, she writes it down and walks away without another word. "Oh, wait!" I call after her.

"Yeah?" she asks, clearly annoyed.

"Do you have a phone I could use possibly?"

"Ever hear of a cell phone?" she says rudely.

"I lost it." I say bitterly. She sighs and rolls her eyes.

"Yeah, it's up front."

I pick April up and we go to the front of the restaurant. I see the old cream phone hanging on the wall and set April on the ground while I dial it.

"Who are you calling daddy?" she tugs on my jeans.

"Um, I'm calling uncle Ash." I wait as it rings, my heart pounding uncontrollably.

I can hear the ringing stop, and Ashton breath loudly on the other end. Well he obviously is still pissed. But is he pissed at me or at Michael? I couldn't tell.

"Ash?" I breath, nervous. "I know this sounds stupid, and I know that I'm an idiot. I need to talk to him Ash. I need to hear his voice, I love him. Please, please let me speak to him." I beg. He is still silent, but his breathing has become more rapid.

"Ashton? Are you there?" I ask.

"Uh, Hi Luke." I hear him say. That wasn't Ashton...no. That was Michael. Tears prick in my eyes, god I missed him so much. I didn't know what to do right now. This whole thing is so fucked up, my mind is telling me to just hang up, because of all the awful things he's done. But my heart is yelling at me to get on a plane and go back to him.

There are so many emotions running through me I don't know what to do, I cry silently, praying April won't notice.

"M-Michael?" my voice cracks, shit. Now he knows I'm crying.

"Hi kitten." his voice quivers as well, and I know he is crying too.

"Michael how stupid could you be?" I almost scream into the phone. How could he try to leave? Kill himself? "Why would you do this? I don't understand any of it! You want a divorce and then you fucking text me saying that you love me and the next morning I get a phone call that you tried to kill yourself." I whisper the last part so April doesn't hear, even thought she was too bust playing with my shoestrings to notice.

"I-I'm so sorry Luke, I love you so much kitten. I didn't know what I was doing, I-I love you and I don't want anyone else." he sobs. "Please, please forgive me. It wasn't me..I didn't want to, they made m-me." he cries harder, "I want you Luke, please."

"Michael I...I don't understand. You didn't come. I told you that if you came then I wouldn't have left. If you came then I would've known that you loved me and I would still be there. But you didn't come...and then you send me fucking divorce papers? I don't get it." I tell him, getting angry, while tears still roll down my cheeks.

"W-what? Kitten I don't want a divorce! Why the hell would you think that? I love you. More than anything. I don't ever want to leave you. I signed those papers because I thought that's what you wanted...and I-I still don't want it. I want to be with you, and I didn't send you those. Calum told me you did. And you never told me to come and see you! I didn't even know where you were! You told me to stay away and I just wanted you to be happy..."

"I told Calum to tell you." I say, confused.

"He did, he told me that you wanted me to stay away and that you left. He also said that you were going to send me divorce papers by the end of the week. He said that you wanted me to sign them, and that you didn't want me to contact you. That I needed to forget about you. But I can't Luke, I'll never be able to forget you."

"B-But that's not what I said. I didn't tell him that at all." I stammer, I cannot believe this is happening...why would Calum lie like this?

"That's what he said though. I swear if he would've told me where you were I would've come that very second. I can't live without you Luke, I just can't." he begins to cry again. "I'm so sorry." he whispers.

"Michael, I love you. I never stopped loving you. I-I miss you. I don't want a divorce. But, I'm not even in Australia anymore. I'm in America, staying with Calum." I say.

"You're with Calum? Did you know that he lied? I mean, Luke...he tricked me into divorcing you. I almost killed myself! Why are you with him?"

"I didn't know. I had no idea, I was just sad and hurt and he helped me get away. I didn't think that you loved me anymore Michael. I didn't know what to do, I just left." I breath. Why would Calum do this? I am so confused about everything.

"Luke, just please come back. I miss you too much. I miss April, I don't want you two there with him. I don't know what he's trying to do, but I don't like it. I need you two here."

"I want to be there too Michael, but how am I supposed to get to you? I could barley afford to buy ticket for me and April to come here, and Calum is paying for everything while we are here, I can't come back." I say, defeated.

"Then I'll come to you, I don't care Luke, I will do anything to just have you in my arms again. I just want to kiss you and feel you against me again-"

"Michael, I do love you, I really do. But I don't know if I can trust you."