Mistakes • c.h ON HOLD

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Rosemary Holmes

1 WEEK LATER

I sit up in my bed hitting my alarm clock and feel someone hovering over me. I open my eyes slightly and look at the figure. "morning toots" Calum leans down and pecks my lips. "Calum I gotta go to school" "nope,its a snow day" I roll my eyes and push him. "It doesn't snow in California" I say and look at how I'm dressed. "Umm...can you get out...please" I ask and he pouts. "Fine" he walks out of my bedroom and I sigh at my over loaded closet. I move the hangers around to try to find a cute outfit. I grab a pair of black skinny jeans and a beige sweater.

I brush my hair out and look in the mirror, I strip down and get into the shower. The hot water droplets pelt my smooth skin and I relax after a couple seconds getting used to the warm water. I grab the bottle of shampoo and squirt it in my hand and run the shampoo through my wet hair.

When I get out I wrap a towel around my my bare body and look in the in the mirror. I see I had a zit above my eyebrow. I groan I annoyance and pop it. I grab a tissue and wipe off the nastiness and start to get dressed.

I walk down the stairs and sit at the bar stool and see Ashton starring at me as I grab my fork and I eat a piece of my eggs. Me and Ashton still haven't talked since I got out the hospital. I'm not going to apologize until he does. He looks at me eat and I sip on my coffee. "So Rose what are you studying this semester?" James asks and I swallow the piece of pancake in my mouth. "I'm studying the same thing, writing,but I'm in honors cause I took it last semester" I smile and he Ashton chuckle.

I frown and grab my bag,"I got to go" I say and start to walk to the door. I slip on my shoes and look at myself in the mirror at the front door and walk out. "boo!" I jump and hit Calum. "I fucking hate you" I say and walk to my car. "but why?" he pins me up against my door and he pulls himself closer to me. He wraps his arms around my waist and he plays with the belt loop on my pants.

I look down and he kisses my forehead, "What's wrong?" "It's Ashton again" I say and he tenses. "I thought I-" he stops himself an I tilt my head. I look into his eyes and I hear the front door open. I look and see Ashton and he doesn't see me. He kicks a rock off the porch and I bring Calum's lips to mine. I can see Ashton clench his jaw and I smile into the kiss and Calum sets me on the hood of my car. He separates my legs and stands in between them.

Ashton goes in side and I relax, "I know why you did that" he says and I shrug. "He's still pissed at me and you" Calum chuckles. "his opinion never stopped me from any of my choice's,like when I snuck into your room that one time" I smile. "Hey how bout we skip today and go somewhere else?" I look and see Ashton looking at us again and I nod.

"Yeah,let's go" I smirk and we get into my car. Calum drives since he knows where we're going and I look out the window.
He taps on the steering wheel on the Blink-182 song and his voice was heaven to my ears.

He whispers sings the rest of the song and he sees I'm starring at him. "sorry" he says and stops at a stop light. "no,i like when you sing" I smile and he nods. "I like to sing" he puts his hand on my thigh and rubs it. He looks at the radio time and it reads 9:07. "can um you drop me off at school at about 1?" he nods "dude I didn't sign up for anything so they stuck me places and guess where I got stuck" he giggles. "Where?" After his giggle feast he speaks "Yoga" and I start laughing.

"I have Yoga" I say laughing even harder, "Man now I'm gonna be even more embarrassed,but hey I get to see you in some tight pants" he winks fast like he's use to doing it. "I like when we're like this" he says and starts to drive. "me too" and he pulls up to this 70's styled diner and I smile.

"My dad use to take me here all the time" I say and his eyes widen. "this place is my favorite cause they have bomb ass milk shakes" he says an makes me giggle. "come on" he takes my hand and we walk in side by side. A waitress with a poodle skirt and a white crops top comes up to us and smiles. "Hi,2?" and we nod. She walks us over to a blue boot and the cushion was sparkly and I grab my menu. "Caitlyn will be your waitress today and if you need anything you can ask her.

She walks away and I look at the menu,I feel a foot be set on my lap and I look up at Calum. "I have long legs I'm sorry" he says. I shake my head and look back down at my menu. I decide to get something small since I already ate. A stack of pancakes which were only two pancakes.

"Hi I'm Cait-Calum?" Calums he's shoots up and he tenses up. "Um uh...Hi" he says and I look at the girl. Her blonde hair was perfectly curled and she was wearing the same thing as the lady who sat us. "Uh..." She looks down at her note pad and I see Calum sit up straight and I sit there awkwardly. "Rose,this is Caitlyn,I hate to introduce who like this but she uh...she's one of my hookups" he looks at his menu and I smile.

"Calum can we talk" and he shakes his head,"Can we do it later" she nods and takes are order and walks away awkwardly. "Rose,please don't be mad" I look up from my phone and see he had both of his arms on the table and I wasn't touching the table. It look like I was trying to ignore him which I was partly.

"I'm not" I mumble "Hey baby" I look beside me an see Lenny. "You got to be kidding me" Calum groans his voice cracking like he was about to cry. "slow ya roll Hood" his ghost form still scared me and I look at his shoulder. "Rose I'm ok" he says and I nod.

"But I'm here cause I'm it's Ashton" he puts his hands together and opens them opening a screen and I'm happy no one could see this. "He um has been doing some bad things since last week and he got super waste last night and he did something I never though he would do" he smirks to Calum. "Don't" Calum snaps and I look at Lenny.

"Him and Calum-" "DONT!" he screams and everyone was looking at us but no one could see Lenny. "Calum I've been observing you a lot and I'm pretty sure Rose should know what you've been doing." he says and Calum shakes his head. "No she doesn't" he says trying to stay calm. "Rose,Calum has-" Calum throws the salt at him and Lenny starts to fade away. "ASSHOLE!" Lenny screams and vanishes.

"Calum,what was he about to say?"

"I've been planning something that I don't wanna tell you about cause I'm doing it in steps and uh there's 5" I nod "ok." I say and look at my phone again and he sighs and takes my phone locking it and takes both f my hands. "Step One,Rose will you do the honor of being my girlfriend" That's what I didn't expect was to have all eyes on me till the most embarrassing thing happened.