Shy Whispers || Michael Clifford

17

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Chapter 17

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Today is the day.

Today's the day Luke comes to sit with me and Michael. I hope it goes smoothly. I mean, a number of things could go wrong and a lot of them involve Michael getting angry and hurting- okay maybe I shouldn't think of stuff that can go wrong.

Michael takes out his sandwich and gives me half like normal.

"Mich-"

"You want the other half too?" he asks hopefully and takes it in his hand, starting to outstretched it towards me. I push his arm back and shake my head.

"No, I feel bad for always taking your food."

"Well don't," And that was the end of that.

I look up to the front of the room and smile when Luke and Calum walk in. They say a quick goodbye and Luke turns towards our table, giving me a warm smile. When he arrives, he walks around to my side and sits down next to me, giving Michael an awkward smile.

"Hey, Cecelia," he says and leans over to give me a quick peck on the cheek.

Okay, let me explain. I haven't had my first kiss; yes, even though I've been dating Luke for awhile now. It's not that I don't like him, I guess it's just that I don't trust him enough yet. I mean it takes a lot to earn my trust and I don't give away things like my first kiss lightly. I explained this to him on our third date when he tried to kiss me and he seemed perfectly fine with waiting.

"Can you not do that in front of me?" Michael growls and takes an angry bite out of his sandwich, if that's even possible.

"Oh calm down," I say to Michael and turn to Luke, "so how are you?"

"I'm great!" he says and nods awkwardly.

"And you, Michael?" I ask sweetly, praying that he won't be mean to Luke.

"Just perfect!" he says in a girly voice, trying to imitate me.

"Shut up."

"Fight me, bitch."

"You wouldn't want that, I would beat your ass."

"I would love you to beat my ass any day," he says and smirks at me.

"Alright fine, you win," I laugh and put my hands up in the air. At this point in our friendship, it doesn't even faze me when Michael says stuff like that. It's become quite normal actually.

Luke on the other hand isn't used to our 'friendship' so when I glance over to him, his eyes are wide and he's looking back and forth between Michael and I. I let out a chuckle and just pat his hand that's resting on the table.

"So how's guitar going?" Michael says, looking down at his food.

It takes me awhile to process the fact that Michael is actually trying to make conversation with Luke and a wide grin appears on my face.

"Good, I've learned a lot of new songs. How about you?"

"Yeah it's been alright. I've actually started writing too," Michael says back and glances over to me quickly.

"Oh that's cool. Calum has too, maybe we can-"

"Yeah, maybe."

Even though that seemed a tad bit rude, I smile at Michael. He's actually trying to get along and that makes me really happy. I know they had a previous feud over some girl but I really hope then can overcome that and be friends again.