Beside You~a.i.

Ch. 19: The Home-bound and the Home-sick

~Bailey's POV~:
I can't keep my mind off of that stupid Evan guy who apparently knows more about my family than I do even though he told me that he had just found my family yesterday and I've been living with them for my entire life. There has to be some reason he could say such a thing...he can't be lying can he?

We're on the road. It's early morning like 7 or something. It appears that even if I stay up till 2 am overthinking about mysterious calls from mysterious guys, I can still manage to get up earlier than any 18 year old on their winter break.

I was just lying in bed, Ava was snoring at this point but Ashton was louder considering I can here him from here...Its times like these when I wonder if I snore too and I seriously hope I don't. That would be a little embarrassing.

Today is our free day. The time to actually spend the entire day together. What will we do? I have a few ideas. But being the non-creative, and completely cliché, person that I am all of my ideas have been done a million times by fictional characters in books and by cliché people just like me.

I eventually got up and dressed. It's not like anyone else is going to be up for a while so I really don't have anything better to do. I walked out of the small bedroom to have some food. Can't blame a girl for being hungry...

I walked up to the tiny kitchen and grabbed some Pop Tarts that happened to be in one of the cupboards. They were blueberry, my favorite. I put them in the microwave for 30 seconds, because they actually taste better when microwaved in my opinion, and then I sat down in the mini living-room-like area where there was a TV. I can probably find something worth watching this early in the morning...

"Hey." I jumped ten feet in the air and immediate fear started to take over. Who the frick....I turned my head to the side in a flash to see the person who nearly made me pee my pants. I was literally close to peeing my pants, not even joking. And of course it was Calum. He was up early that other time a little bit ago when we decided what our ship name was. Remember Cailey? Yeah it was that morning.

"Calum why are you up so early?" That question gave me a sort of déjà vu kinda feeling back to the last time this happened.

He shrugged before answering, "I don't know I just kinda woke up. I've been getting up early a lot actually..." He shuffled his way to the kitchen and returned a few minutes later with a mug of coffee, I still prefer hot chocolate.

"So you just woke up? I mean you look really tired...like you haven't been getting sleep." I turned my attention away from the re-run of a Spongebob Squarepants episode to focus on his response. I am missing the whole dolphin sound swear thing going on but I've seen this episode plenty of times so it's really no big deal.

"It's nothing Bailey don't worry about it. Just been sleeping less." He was avoiding something, I could tell by the hesitation in his voice.

"Calum? Are you okay? You know you can tell me anything right? I'm not going to judge you...and I know something is bugging you. Just spill it."
By this point Calum's cheeks were bright red and he was staring intently at the coffee he held in his hands. His eyes seemed to possess this sad look as he carefully studied the brown liquid.

"Bailey don't worry about it. I'm fine." A frown was apparent on his face, probably caused by me questioning him so much. I just hate seeing people upset and he definitely seems to be feeling down about something.

"Calum I'm not going to stop asking until you give me an actual answer. So if I have to end up asking you a million times just for you to open up to me, than so be it!" I made sure to come off as confident and determined.

"Fine! God Bailey it's really not that big of a deal! I'm just homesick..." He had set down his coffee on the ground before throwing his arms up in frustration. His cheeks were still a deep shade of red but now he looked as if he was about to cry.