You Left | l.h.

10

"Yeah, and he used it against me." I finished explaining to Marie what happened between Calum and I last night.

I made sure to sneak out early this morning, I even had Derek come pick me up since I wasn't in the mood to face Calum, yet. I know I was overeating a bit, I understand it slipped but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

I saw Calum walking towards us and I slightly rolled my eyes, hugging her goodbye before turning and walking away, but I heard the last bit of their conversation.

"You need to talk to her."

"I will, I'm just letting her cool down first. I really fùcked up." At least he knows.

The rest of my classes dragged my painfully slow. I finally learned how to ignore Luke in the classes I had him in since I couldn't switch out of all of them.

By the time lunch rolled around Derek thankfully caught up with me and pulled me away so I didn't have to see to see Calum just yet, it'd be awkward anyways.

"Lunch off school grounds?" He questioned as I nodded and followed him out to his car.

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"You didn't!" He laughed.

"I really did"

I just finished telling him a funny story about when I was younger. I went to Disneyland and I was a kid, so of course I thought the people dressed in costumes were the real characters.

I saw piglet take her mask off and I got so confused, I started crying. Once I was explained to how this whole Disneyland thing works I pushed "piglet" into a fountain because I was so upset.

"I was thinking, you want to go on a date this weekend?"

I refrained from spitting out my drink from pure shock, but took a second to think about it. It wouldn't hurt to go on a date with the guy, he was cute, he was sweet, we've been getting pretty close.

"Yeah, sure. That sounds nice."

We went back to finishing our food and thanking our waitress before we left and headed back to his car once again. I was tempted to skip the rest of the school day but I know I shouldn't.

"So, are you going to tell me why you aren't on speaking terms with Calum?"

"We got in a little argument last night, it was dumb, but he used Luke against me and I am kind of overreacting but it still hurt."

"You really aren't over that, are you? I don't mean that in a bad way, I don't expect you to be, you just seem like you want everyone to think you are."

I hated talking about this so much, but maybe it would be good to talk about it, I never really did. I just cried and cried, and cried some more.

"That's exactly it. He was my best friend most of my life and he just dropped me because he got "too good for me" I mean, it hurts."

"Did you have feelings for him?"

"I'm not really sure. I think I did, but we already acted so couple-y that it was easy to ignore. I didn't want to chance it and ruin our friendship but look what happened anyways."

"It'll be okay." He looked over at me briefly to smile and placed his hand on my thigh reassuringly.

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"Knock knock." Calum said while actually knocking on my door.

"Come in." I whispered.

I was laying in my bed, cuddled up into my covers while reading a book. I swear I'm a 40 year old at heart sometimes.

Calum hesitantly came in and walked over to my bed, sitting at the end of it. I closed my book and sat up to look at him properly. This was the kind of awkward tension I never wanted to happened.

"I'm sorry." We both said at the same time.

"What are you sorry for?" He raised his eyebrow.

"I overreacted."

"No you didn't, it's a touchy subject. I shouldn't even bring it up unless you do."

"It's fine Calum, everyone knows, I need to get used to it. I should probably talk about it anyways."

"I'm always here if you need to." He smiled, crawling over to come hug me.

"Don't hate me, but I have a date with him Friday night. I swear I'll be careful."

"It's okay, have fun." He kissed the top of my head, beginning to get up.

"Will you stay with me tonight? I'm feeling kind of sad."

"Sure. Let's put in a good movie and cuddle."

Calum got too excited over small things, but it was well cute. I was thankful to have such a good friend, without him, I don't know what I would do. Unlike Luke, I don't think Calum would ever do something so shady.

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heart to heart with Calum and Evie soon??

and date with Derek??

(also that's me since some of you ask bc my icon is obviously halsey. ship me with 5sos bc I like seeing who people think I would look ok with)

(Also was so torn between what pic to add since I can only add 1 but go to my twitter (@embraceafi) to see more (shameless self promo))

also fun fact about me I despise terms like "ship" but idk what else to use.