Before fame; a 5sos fanfic

Chapter 15

Luke:

We all ended up staying at the Hood house the next day. I woke up on the floor beside Clarissa's bed, on which she was cuddled up to Michael. I had a terrible kink in my neck and my feet were numb. Ashton had slept on the couch and Calum, obviously, slept in his own bed. I got up off the floor and stretched. I glanced over at the bed to see Clarissa, her head resting on Michael's chest with his arms wrapped tight around her. My heart clenched. She was mine. I was the one who always comforted her after a rough time by holding her and wiping her tears away. And now... Now she was replacing me... with Michael. I wondered if this is what the guys felt when they saw me snuggling with Claire all the time.

Then I realized, I was being ridiculous. I held her all the time, and she wasn't mine. Oh, how I wanted her to be, but she wasn't. So, technically, I had no right to be jealous.

But that didn't stop me.

I clenched my teeth and left Clarissa's room. Walking in to the kitchen, I discovered that Calum was already awake and happened to be making waffles. I nodded my head at him and he smiled in response. I slumped in a chair and put my head on the wooden table. What was going on? Why was everyone keeping secrets? I ran a hand down my face and sighed. Calum seemed to notice my distress without even looking at me and snickered. "What's bothering you?" he asked, although it seemed pretty damn obvious to me. I stood up, frustrated. "You wanna know what's wrong? What's wrong is that everyone is keeping secrets from me and I don't know anything. I'm frustrated because I can see that Claire is hurting, but I can't help her because I don't even know what's going on! What's wrong is that the girl I've known for years, the girl I thought I knew everything about, has been lying and keeping secrets from me the whole goddamn time! And what's wrong is that I'm on love with her but I can't be with her because that'll ruin a whole lot of friendships and I don't want that to happen and she doesn't even like me that way and I'm just sitting here jealous of every damn guy that looks at her!" I took a deep breath as the end of my rant. Calum looked a little surprised. I was shy and softspoken, I didn't raise my voice in an angry or threatening matter very often, and if I did, it meant I was very distraught. Calum knew this and put the bowl of batter down before pulling a chair out and sitting across from me. "What do you want to know? I'll tell you anything, unless it's not my place to tell." I sighed. There were so many things I wanted to know... What was most important?

"Who's Mason?"