My Bully~ Calum Hood

9.

Walking to class with Luke wasn't as awkward as I thought it would be, it was actually fun. I let him lead us even though I knew more than him about the school but we ended up getting lost a few times causing Luke so get nervous. He told me a bit about his family, one of his older brothers went here but refused to show him around the school explaining his lack of knowledge.

The walk wasn't long so before we knew it we were to our psych class. The room was relatively full, compared to my other classes, and we got to choose where we sat this time. I started following Luke down the isle assuming we could sit together, he choose a seat and I sat down next to him.

The teacher started talking right as the bell rang, "Welcome to Psych 101, I'm Mr. Houston. For those of you who don't know Psychology is the study of Mind and Behavior. I'm sure most of you are only taking this class as you saw it was required but I promise this semester will be anything but boring. We will have 3 projects over the course of your time here, 2 of them will be gr..."

The teacher was interrupted as the door opened revealing a tired looking Michael. He looked at the teacher then to the seats, his eyes locking with mine. He smiled and began walking up my isle when he was stopped by my teacher.

"Hello, so nice of you to finally join us. What's your name young man?" He asked firmly.

"Hello everyone, I am Michael Clifford" he said smiling to the rest of the class.

"Well Mr. Clifford, being late on the first day of school does not put you in my good books, I expect you'll be on time from here on out or else don't show up. You've interrupted my introduction speech so please take a seat so I may proceed." The teacher looked pretty pissed off but Michael shrugged and walked back to the seats.

Next to me I heard Luke giggle at him and I looked up to see Michael pass my seat and take the open one next to him. They high-fived and started talking about something I couldn't hear. The teacher was already back on track with his "introduction speech" but I was too caught up on the fact Michael and Luke knew each other to care.

I heard my name being used in the conversation they were having, making me snap my head to look at them. Michael was staring and me but looked away and continued to talk to Luke. I heard his say something about "just invite her dude."

I tried not to eavesdrop and looked back at Mr. Houston who was talking about how he ran his class. A few minutes later I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned to see them both staring at me.

"Uh, Elyse.. I was just wondering, we are in a band with two other people here. We are practicing tonight if you want to come see us play.. and sing and um oh Abbie will be there too. It's fine if not but..." Luke rambled nervously.
I almost giggled at how adorable he was but managed to contain myself.

"I would love to, when and where?" I tried to say cooly but on the inside I was dying. Was Luke Hemmings asking me to see his band play, this doesn't happen to me... Good things don't happen to me.

Luke took my phone and put his number in it and said he would text me the details. According to Michael they were amazing and could play tons of songs, even wrote a few of them. He also said there were two other members, one in our year and one above us.

The bell rang shortly after, as I left the room I heard Michael say a bit too loud to Luke "Dude I told you she liked you!!"

The rest of my classes went by quickly and before I knew it I was on my way back to my dorms. Luke had texted me to meet at some small restaurant called Deweys at 6. It was 5 now which meant I had time to get ready and talk to Abbie about Luke.

I walked through the door to see Abbie already putting on makeup, she turned to face me when I walked in and ran to hug me. She started yelling about how excited she was the Luke invited me, claiming we could go on double dates now. I just smiled and shook my head at her until she let go of me and let me get ready, although still talking about dating.

The time passed quickly and before I knew it, it was time to leave. I looked in the mirror, I looked alright.. I hope. The restaurant was a bit of a drive, it was the only gig they could get today because Michael knew the owner. My stomach was full of nerves and Abbie wasn't making it any better, talking about how cute we would be as a couple.

We took Abbie's car which was nice, she had music blasting already as she turned on the car. It was some new pop song that was on the radio, I didn't know many "popular songs", you could say I had a more Alternative or Punk taste of music. But I sat through the annoying, repeating lyrics of some artist that sounded the same as every other artist to me.

My stomach was doing flips as we approached the small burger joint, maybe I should've said I was sick. I wasn't good with this whole socializing thing, what if I ran out of things to make me sound cool.

"This was a bad idea" I say out loud, Abbie hears and turns around. "You're so cute when you're nervous don't worry, Luke's a cool guy. You'll do fine I promise, and if you ever need to, we can go home." She pulled me to the door.

I took a deep breath and opened it, the smell of grease and breaking filling my nose as I walked in. Abbie took a seat at a booth next to the stage where I'm guessing they were to perform. I sat across from her and tried to calm myself a bit.

Michael ran out from behind the stage and came to kiss Abbie, making me fairly uncomfortable. Luke walked out shortly after and scooted into the booth with me.

"I think my lungs just broke, there used to be air in them. Oh god I'm such a dork, just breath.." I thought to myself.

Luke looked extremely good with his all black outfit and quiffed blonde hair. He threw his arm around me and said he was glad I could make it. Michael sat in the booth with Abbie and we began talking about the songs they were about to sing. A bit into our conversation someone walked in and came to sit with us. Abbie got up to hug him and then they introduced him to me.

Ashton, was a very muscular looking man, he was the one a year above us. He was the drummer of the band. He was very attractive, the whole band was really although I've never seen the other member. He was apparently the bass player and he was also late, they say he always is.

Luke checked his phone for the time for the 5th time in the last minute. He was getting nervous about the other member not showing up, so was Michael. Ashton was already on stage setting up his drum kit and microphone. Luke got up to call him and I saw him yelling into his phone from the corner of the room.

"He's on his way, should be here in five minutes. We better go set everything up, wish us luck." Luke said taking Michael away from the booth. Michael and Abbie kissed one more time before he was dragged onto the stage by Luke.

We heard a chorus of quiet noises, them getting their instruments prepared for the show. Soon a couple walked into the restaurant, they were both tall but I could only see the girls face. She came and sat next to Abbie who got overly excited and introduced us.

I was too busy to pay attention to what they were saying, that boy looked oddly familiar, did I know him? I hadn't seen his face because he walked straight to the bathroom but something about his hair and outfit reminded me of someone I couldn't remember. So I decided to ask Abbie.

"Abbie, what's that boys name, the one about to play with them." I felt bad for interrupting their conversation but it was eating me alive. His apparent girlfriend gave me a dirty look for interrupting them or asking about her boyfriend, I couldn't tell.

"His name is Calum Hood" she said with attitude. I instantly turned red, my palms sweating. That's how I knew him, there's no way that's really him though right. He couldn't have been smart enough to get into this college, not my college.

"Oh my god.. Uh Abbie not to be rude but can we leave. Please, you said we could leave whenever I wanted, I need to now please please" I begged but her facial expression showed the answer.

"What!? No we just got here they haven't even played yet! What's your problem?" She said, sounding angry. I had to leave I couldn't stay here not with him it was too much.

"I can't explain but um I'll call a taxi or something I have to go sorry." I said fast knowing he would be coming out of the bathroom anytime now. I walked with my head down to the door, I was almost there when I bumped into someone.

Are you kidding me!? I looked up to see the face that has haunted me for years. This has to be a nightmare, I'll wake up and be fine. But I didn't feel like a dream.

"Elyse.. Elyse Carter?" He whispered.