Chapter 22

MCKINLEY P.O.V

This year for Luke's birthday we got a group together and decided to go to the beach. Luke woke me up at the butt crack of dawn before rushing off to wake up Nicole. The funniest thing I ever saw was Calum coming out of her room, in only a bathing suit, his hair a mess and bitching at Luke.

"Well well well, Mr. Hood." I smirked as I slipped on my shoes.

"Shut up, McKinley." He groaned and took my cup of coffee from me. Nicole came out in a pink bikini and a pair of shorts on. I laughed at how refreshed she looked but knew that Calum was not a morning person. Luke would be driving with me, Nicole and Calum. Ashton was going with Michael and Lynn and a girl named KayKay that Ashton had developed a liking too. Luke had two coolers packed. One with beers and wine coolers, the other with food and waters.

Usually for our birthday's we would go big and do a nice fancy dinner with a big gift but he didn't want that this year. I of course still got him a gift but it was not really something he wanted, just a joke that I gave him. And he blushed like a crazy person when he opened a pocket pussy that I molded to look like mine. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever done but it was just a joke. Whether he used it or not was up to him.

I then got him a bottle of alcohol that he enjoyed so I'm sure he would be using that before he use the other thing I bought. Ashton came into the apartment and grabbed one of the coolers and the rest of us followed him out while Luke grabbed the other.

I opened the drunk of my car for them. As soon as Luke made the plans to go to the beach, he refused to take his car claiming that he wasn't going to get sand in his. So we were taking my car instead but I was making him drive. As soon as we got into the car I connected my phone to bluetooth and played music to get everyone hyped up. We had all the windows down as I looked over at Luke, who's blonde curls were blowing in the wind, I couldn't help but fall deeper and deeper in love with him.

"What?" He shouted over the music as I had stopped singing and was just staring at him.

"I love you." I answered pulling his face to me and kissing his cheek. Of course I would really like him to pull over so I could ride him in the front seat but we had two people who probably wouldn't appreciate if we did that. So I settled for the kiss.

"I love you." He smiled back. The drive to the beach wasn't that long and when we got there, there was already a line of cars to get into the parking lot. But we drove past it.

"Where are we going?" I asked before he pulled into someone's driveway. "Luke this is someones house!" I shouted turning down the music. I could see Michael's car parked in the driveway and they were all pulling things out of the car.

"Lynn knows these people. They're letting us use the house for the day." He answered parking and kissing me before getting out. I got out and Lynn came over with her big belly and held my hand.

"Let me show you around." She smiled dragging me into the huge house. It was all mostly open. The only area of the house that was closed off were bathrooms, bedrooms, and the game room. There was a double staircase leading to the second floor where all the bedrooms were. Every room had a bathroom but I was mostly impressed with the game room.

KayKay came into the house telling us that they had everything set up on the beach. We helped Lynn get down to where everyone else was. There were rocks on either side of where we were, making the beach completely private. There was a tent set up with tons of food under it. There was also a blow up water slide.

"Holy shit." I breathed as I held Lynn into a chair. There were tons of people around. Some I had met at other parties. Luke came over and dragged me to meet some people. Some were artists that he had worked with. He seemed so happy and that was all I wanted for today.

At some point, I found my way to the waterslide. Of course Luke was right behind me shoving me up the stairs with his head when I didn't move fast enough for him. I kept trying to shove him away as he was riding my bottoms up my butt crack.

"Luke!" I shouted when I finally got to the top. Of course I had no time to prepare myself for the slide because he shoved me. Instead of sliding down, I tumbled down and hit the little pool at the bottom upside down and face first. I got out of the way in just enough time for him to fling himself down, flying right passed the pool and into the sand.

I nearly fell from laughing and trying to get to him. He was spitting out sand while people recorded.

"I need a beer after that." He groaned holding my stomach. I chuckled and went to grab one for both of us. "Chug babe." He clinked his against mine and tipped it back, chugging it. I did the same before we raced to the ocean and both ran weirdly before diving in. I clung to him as we floated. A few of his friends were also in the water but were further out than we were.

"Should we blackout tonight?" I asked. The last time I got blackout I had to get my stomach pumped but I wasn't sure if he knew that.

"Hell yeah."

*LUKE P.O.V*

Around 4pm, I somehow ended up in the bathroom McKinley nearly asleep leaning against the sink as she went to the bathroom. She needed my help standing up. She had been drinking since 11 so I wasn't shocked that this was this drunk. Of course she wasn't blackout yet but she decided to eat something and relax for a little so she could drink more before totally blacking out.

"I need a nap." She said gripping my hands. With the sun, the heat, her swimming and going down the slide, I knew she would eventually crash and a nap seemed like the perfect thing right now. But, the music outside seemed to get louder as a DJ set up his booth on the patio.

"You need to slow down." I commented handing her a water bottle when we walked back out to the patio that was above the beach. She slowly drank it before making herself a sandwich. While she ate I put sun screen on her so she wouldn't get burnt.

After her second sandwich she seemed okay so we went down the slide a few more times before she wanted to go back in the water. This time there was a much bigger group in the water that we mingled with. She clung to my back as I floated near Michael and Calum who both had beers in their hands and were watching Nicole dancing on the shore with a few other people.

"Stop looking at her like that." McKinley pointed her finger at Calum.

"She's hot." He answered making her gag.

"I know that but gross." She buried her face in my neck.

"And I hit that last night. Surprised you didn't hear." He shrugged.

"We were busy." I smirked. She slapped my chest but Calum laughed throwing his head back. Michael seemed bummed. "What?"

"Everyone is getting laid but me."

"She's pregnant, Michael. At this stage she looks uncomfortable. Ever thought of massaging her? Getting her calm?" I asked.

"She doesn't want me touching her. I don't blame her." Jack went through this when Celeste was pregnant. Around 16 weeks she was super energetic and wanted it all the time but once her belly grew to the point where she couldn't see her feet, her back was hurting and she didn't feel "sexy". Of course she wasn't going to put out if she wasn't in the mood.

"Just give her time." I answered as I felt McKinley go limp in my arms. I turned looking at her face. I could feel her breathing against my neck. "I'm gonna go find somewhere to lay her." I answered carefully carrying her out of the water purposely blocking Nicole from Calum's view.

"Is she okay?" Nicole asked.

"Yeah. I think she just fell asleep." I smiled heading towards the house. Lynn showed me where I could lay her. She automatically rolled over and held onto a pillow. I laid behind her holding her to my chest.

Two hours later I felt her stir and groaned as she moved into me. I opened my eyes to look at her. Her top was all over the place and I had the perfect view of both of her boobs. I flicked one of her nipples making her hiss and sit up to fix it.

"Feeling better?" I asked. She nodded and stood to stretch and fix her bathing suit. We went back down to the party and everyone cheered when we came out, confusing me. "What?"

"Did you not just get laid?" Ashton asked.

"No. We were sleeping." I laughed. Of course then the DJ played "I just had sex" which embarrassed both of us. I grabbed a beer while McKinley took a shot. I grabbed her and kissed her. She tasted like vodka but still, I didn't care about the song, or the people. I only cared about her and how much I loved her.

We decided to do cake before everyone got too drunk and it ended up everywhere. Lynn said that we could all chip in and hire a company to clean up, so that was the plan. Everyone sang and I blew out the candles before someone cut it and handed it out to anyone who wanted a piece.

While everyone was cutting and eating the cake. I brought McKinley over to the rocks and helped her climb onto them so we could watch the sunset. She sat between my legs and leaned into me as we watched the waves crashing onto the rocks. At some points we could feel the mist on our faces.

It felt nice to even have an hour of peace just with her. I had bribed the DJ to play all of her favorite slow songs for the time it took for the sun to go down. She seemed so relaxed. I couldn't help but wrap my arms around her and make her feel protected. It was a feeling that I hope she always had. A feeling that I hoped I could give her for the rest of her life.

"I love you." I whispered kissing her neck.

"I love you." She smiled turning her head to kiss my lips. We watched the sun disappear beyond the horizon before I helped her down and we got back to the party. We were both handed shots as we got back to the patio. And for the rest of the night, anytime she took a shot, I took one. I couldn't even remember how many deep we were when I watched her walk over to a bush and throw up everything that was in her stomach.

"Luke! Are you kidding me?" Ashton said coming over to us where I was trying to hold her hair back.

"Ashton, relax man." I slurred rubbing her back.

"Luke, you don't understand." He shoved me out of the way while he helped her. "The last time she drank this much she needed to get her stomach pumped." Ashton seemed like he was the only one sober. I wonder if it was for this reason. To take care of her when she got too drunk.

"What?" I asked watching her throw up more. He was checking over her body in the best way he possibly could with her moving around so much. "She didn't tell me that." He ignored me while he got her stable before lifting her and carrying her into the house away from the crowd.

"Get out of the way Luke!" He shouted when I tried to get in front of him to stop him. "I'm taking her to the hospital." I followed behind him as he got her into her car and I got into the back with her keeping her head turned in case she threw up. It sobered me up real fast as he drove. I had never been so terrified in my life. She seemed lifeless. Her body was a lot colder than normal and her lips seemed almost blue.

She was breathing but it was scariest 20 minute drive of my life. When we got to the hospital Luke ran in shouting that we needed help. A whole team of people came out and helped me lift her from the car to the gurney. They quickly wheeled her inside and got her into a room, shouting questions at us.

"She's been drinking. A lot." Ashton answered giving them every little piece of information her could. "She got her stomach pumped about two months ago. Her name is McKinley Davis. Date of birth is May 15th, 1996."

"Get the O.R ready." A doctor called out and a nurse ran off to make the call to the O.R. "Why was she drinking this much?"

"A party." Ashton answered. Within the next few minutes they got her stable, got her body temperature up and wheeled her off to the O.R to get her stomach pumped. "How dare you, Luke. She could have died!" He shoved me as we were waiting in the waiting room.

"I didn't know!" I shouted back. A nurse came over to calm us down. "I'm her boyfriend, Ashton. Not you. You don't need to look out for her anymore."

"Clearly I do." He answered. "You didn't see her Luke." He said calmly looking at me. "She may have forgiven you, but I haven't. She was a mess. I slept over there every night to make sure that she wouldn't swallow a bottle of pills." He sat down. "She's like a sister to me and I had to pick her up when you dropped her."

"I never stopped loving her."

"I know. But that doesn't mean anything, Luke. You still broke her heart. She still nearly drank herself to death and I know tonight she was having fun but she can't be drinking like that. Not after already having her stomach pumped once. It can do damage." I had no idea just how bad this could be. Yeah, kids in high school were getting their stomachs pumped all the time drove drinking too much.

An hour later the doctor came out and gave us an update. Pumping her stomach went fine and we were able to go see her. The doctor asked us more questions but at the end of the day they just decided that she was just having too much fun and couldn't control herself. We both assured them that she wasn't an alcoholic and that she doesn't usually drink like this.

"I'm sorry." She whispered when she finally woke up. I held her hand trying to keep her calm.

"For what?" I asked kissing her hand.

"Ruining your birthday." It was well into the morning and as exhausted as I was, I needed to know that she was okay. "For puking everywhere and ending up in the hospital."

"You never told me that you got your stomach pumped." I commented. She shrugged. "Was that just something you never thought to tell me?"

"It wasn't important."

"It is when we're drinking like that." I softly answered. "You could have died." I didn't want to imagine it. Having to live without her. I had already done it once but this would be final. It was something that I never ever wanted to happen. "I can't lose you."

"You won't. I'll never drink like that again." She said opening her arms so she could hug me. "I love you. Thank you for staying with me." When she was finally discharged, I drove us home. Ashton was not happy with me and I think as much as he wanted to be mad at her, he couldn't. Obviously we didn't mean for this to happen.

We stayed in bed for the day and as much as I wished our night had ended on good terms, I was just glad we made it home.