the duff : 5sos

chapter 4

Brooke's pov.

I lay down in my comfortable bed thinking about what happened with Calum. He was an asshole, i'm not the duff. At least that's what I think?

Who am I kidding! Calum has got me thinking about me being the duff all this week and it's gotten me anxious, I wanted to rip his tongue out.

I needed to de-stress and the right way to do that is by listening to nature sounds. That always helped.

I turn on the computer and play nature sounds, some of waves at the beach splashing softly against the rocks. I relaxed every muscle possible in my body and then I couldn't. My muscles became tense once I heard Calums exact words playing over and over in my head like a scratched CD.

I did feel like shit, maybe I was too hard on Calum. Maybe I should've just listened to him at the party.

I call over Casey and she is here in less than 15.

"Casey I got into an argument with Calums at the party" I say to her and she wasn't even half way inside my room. She stares at me blankly and runs to my bed.

She grabs my hands and smacks me with it. "B is that why you left the party so early? because you got in an argument with the schools hottest boy!" She screams at me hurting my ears.

I nod my head and she starts walking around my room, "Brooke why the hell would you do that" Casey yells at me once more and I feel like I should have never told her.

"It was a moment of stupidity, he started it though it's not my fault" I add and continues to pace back and forth around my room, I come to her slap her telling her to snap out of it.

Usually that's what Casey needed sometimes, she was too over dramatic and she wouldn't snap out of it unless we slapped her or yelled at her to do so.

Casey stops panicking and basically gives me a half an hour lesson on how not to act rude towards Calum. I disagreed with her so much, so what if he's the fuckboy of the whole entire school? That doesn't mean I don't get to call him out on his bullshit.

If no one calls him out on his bullshit he's gonna think he can do whatever he wants and I of course didn't want that.

"Casey it wasn't even that bad, I just threw my soda at him" I say quietly and she gasp throwing her bag at me. I cover myself with my pillow before she throws anything else at me.

After that whole entire scene with Casey she calmed down and time seemed to be going by very quickly.

It was already 7:30 which was Casey's curfew to be out considering she had to take care of her siblings.

When she left I found mom crying in her room, dad's absence was hitting her pretty hard. Around this time of the month was when her and dad split. He filed divorce papers and she had to sign them.

I have to admit it was pretty rough on me too, just him leaving us like we were nothing made me feel like complete shit. I was also glad he left, he helped us do nothing. Sure, we were a little poor after it but it's not like it made a difference.

Somehow me having an argument with Calum made me feel idiotic, fighting with someone like him was stupid.

And of course I tried, tried, tried, to forget.

But failed miserably.