Drunk on love / Calum Hood

20. Proud

-Calum-

”Eh, guys, I’ve wrote something” I said and started digging in my bag after a specific paper. I found it and flattened out the wrinkles and handed it over to Luke. ”It’s just something I needed to get of my mind. Maybe we can make it sound good”

Luke started reading it, his elbow was placed steady against his knee and he placed his chin leaning in his palm. ”When I close my eyes and try to sleep. I fall apart, I'm find it  hard to breathe. You're the reason, the only reason” he mumbled as he read the chorus. I stood in front of him, watching for any kind of reaction. 

”This is great, Cal” He said and his face lit up. 

”Let me see!” Michael said and took the paper from Luke’s hands. He read it as well and started playing on the guitar, trying to match the chords with the lyrics. ”We can totally make this work, guys” He said while playing on the guitar, not lifting his eyes from the paper. The lyrics was great, I can admit that. I glad they didn’t ask who it was about. These past days since I’ve seen Grace the last time, I’ve been thinking about her and what she said a lot and I needed to get it out of my head. 

Ashton read the song as well and hummed on the melody as he read my words. The ringtone from the phone on the nightstand took over and we all stopped what we was doing. Ashton reached over to it and looked at the display. ”Unknown?” I mumbled before pressing answer and placing it against his ear.

”Hello?” He said into the phone. We couldn’t hear what the other person was saying so all of us was sitting quiet trying to figure out what was going on. 

”Yes, this is he” It was a long pause after he confirmed who he was.

”Uhm..okay, I’m coming right away. Thank you, sir” He said and ended the call. 

”What was that about?” Michael was the first one to ask, but all of us was just as curious as he was. 

”It was the police..” He took a small pause before he continued. ”Grace has done something stupid again, I have to go.” He said and dried his hands from the sweat on his jeans before standing up. He walked towards the door but stopped right in front of it and slapped himself on the forehead. 

”Fuck, I can’t drink, I’ve had a beer” He shook his head at himself.

”I’ll drive you” I said and pulled my car keys out from my pocket and walked over to him. He gave me a nod as a ‘thank you’.

”We’ll be right back, guys” Ashton said before walking out and Michael and Luke said goodbye to us. We jumped in my car and I drove off. After my fast driving and Ashton having a nervous breakdown, the police house came in sight. I parked on the parking lot beside and both me and Ashton started hurry over there. Ashton slammed the door open and walked over to the reception, I stood a couple of feet behind him. My eyes was scanning the whole room. Ashton came back over to me and dragged me over to the sets on the other side on the room.

”So?” I asked as we sat down, Ashton had an unreadable face expression. But I figured that it was a combination of worry and anger.