School Spirit | Muke/Cashton✔

Seven

Calum's P.O.V

The fucker left me to fall asleep by myself. I mean, it wouldn't have been that hard to do so if Ashton didn't snore like a fucking train. Jesus.

I laid there, thinking about what had happened while the rain still poured down.

So, Ashton and I had a tickle fight- well, more like he just tickled me because I never win when it comes to tickling-, then he said he didn't want to get up, then I mentioned my boyfriend and he immediately got up. Did I do something wrong? Or was he just being considerate since I have a boyfriend? I mean, it did seem like he was being flirty.

I yawned, finally turning over and falling asleep.

×××

I woke up to a dim room, making me remember where is was and realize that it was still raining outside. I reached over to Ashton's bedside table, noticing that he was gone, and grabbed my phone. I went to the school's website and saw that they had cancelled all classes for today and tomorrow. Sweet.

I sat up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. I swung my legs over the edge of the bed, stretching a bit before standing up. I yawned making my way into the hallway and walking downstairs.

I was immediately greeted by what sounded like a young girl yelling, followed by the owner of the voice to come stomping down the hall.

"Mum! The power got turned back on, so I can charge my phone, but I can't find the char- who are you?" She asked noticing me at the foot of the steps and gave me a frightened look. When I didn't answer, she yelled again. "MUM?!"

"O-oh no, I-I'm Ashton's friend. I spent the night here last night 'cause of the storm." I frantically told her, stepping towards her.

Ms. Irwin came into the hallway soon after, assuring who I found out to be Ashton's little sister, Lauren, that I wasn't some killer who snuck into their house.

"Thank god, I thought you were here to kill us all." Lauren sighed, clutching her chest.

I chuckled, "I can assure you I am not. And by the way, um, where's Ashton?"

"Oh, he's in the study. That's where he usually is if you can't find him." His mum informed me, making me smile to myself about the thought of Ashton always secretly reading.

She had Lauren lead me to the study, which was connected to the living room. I hesitantly entered, not wanting to interrupt Ashton.

He looked up from his book, catching me off guard when I saw he was wearing glasses.

He gave me a small smile as he spoke. "Oh, hey. Sorry, I just love reading on days like this. It's like perfect reading weather or something."

He closed his book and scooted over on the small couch, patting the spot he had made. I awkwardly took a seat.

"Sorry about going into 'douche-mode' last night. I just felt bad whenever I found out you had a boyfriend." He said, setting his book aside.

"Oh, it's no big deal." I tried lying nonchalantly, but it didn't too convincing to me.

"Cal, yes it is. If that had continued it most likely would've led to you cheating, and that's not good." He shook his head. I got butterflies in my stomach at the thought of what happened last night going further than what actually happened.

"Ashton, it's okay. Nothing happened, so it's okay." I reassured him, giggling at his slight paniciness.

He just nodded, grabbing his book again. He looked at me and raised an eyebrow questionably.

"What?" I questioned.

"Usually whenever I start reading in front of people they immediately leave because they find it boring. Why aren't you?" He inquired.

"I don't think it's boring. In fact, I think it's rather cool how you have this little secret."
"Really?" He gave me an astonished look.

"Yeah, totally." I chuckled.

Before Ashton could answer his mum came into the room, holding two plates full of food.

"Breakfast is served." She mused handing the plates to us.

We both thanked her and I began to eat. I glanced at Ashton, noticing he hadn't touched his food. It was just set down on his legs as he continued to read.

"You gonna eat?" I chuckled before taking another bite of my waffle. Since the power had come back on sometime while we were asleep, Ashton's mum could actually cook food.

"O-oh, um... I'm not that hungry, so..." Ashton shifted uncomfortably.

I raised an eyebrow at him, but he just shook his head to assure me. I gave him one last look of disbelief before returning to my food.

×××

"What d'we do now?" I asked Ashton curiously after returning to his room.

"We could always workout again?" He suggested, shrugging as he sat down on his bed.

"That's no fun." I whined, sitting next to him.

"Life's no fun." He said thoughtfully through a sigh.

"True, but seriously, what d'you wanna do?"

"I don't know, take a look over there and you tell me." He pointed at his TV, game systems, and bookshelf that had both books and movies on it. As if the study downstairs didn't already have enough.

I stood back up and walked to what seemed like the entertainment corner of his room. I saw that he had a Wii and I hopefully looked through his collection of games for the system.

I finally found what I was looking for; one of the Just Dance games. I grabbed it and eagerly showed it to Ashton.

"Oh, um, I'm not very good at that." He admitted, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Oh come on, no one is." I chuckled, pulling him up from the bed and across the medium-sized room, over to the TV.

He sighed in defeat and reluctantly put in the game, turning the system on first.

Ashton's P.O.V

I mean, it was exercise, so I just went with it. I exercise a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

I smiled as I danced with Calum, noticing how he would move his hips to the beat even if it didn't say he was supposed to. It didn't seem to be changing his score though, because he was doing better than me.

I was not about to just let him win. Nope. I'm too much of a bitch for that. Yep, I'm a bitchy cheerleader. I'm too competitive for this.

I instantly started actually trying, getting almost every move perfect.

Once the song was over, Calum looked over at me with an astonished expression.

"What?" I asked in confusion.

"Damn boy! You can dance!" He exclaimed.

I blushed at his bluntness. I rejected the twisting feelings in my stomach and simply turned the game off.

Calum had a boyfriend. He was happy. I couldn't just let the feelings that have already started develop more.