❛ 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥 ❜

𝟎𝟎𝟒; 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬

CARAMEL
- Girlfriends -

Octavia had decided that whoever came up with the idea of morning lectures was a stupid person. Somebody with a death wish, that couldn't care less about the well being of others and was only actually concerned with making the lives of people miserable.

It was 9am and the girl was hungover.

And what better to bless her sight in her hungover state than Calum Hood? Literally anything would've been better. Even on her speed walk across campus to the lecture hall, the only thing racing around the redheads mind was him and not in a positive way.

He was so infuriating.

The first time Octavia had met Calum, he saw her semi naked and slammed a door in her face. The girl was round Michael's, changing in his room into something more comfortable than her jeans- and clearly thinking his new friend was in there, the dark haired boy stormed in without a second thought and caught Ovtavia in her bra and underwear pulling on a pair of sweatpants.

It didn't end there. You would think any normal person would apologise and leave, Calum decided to scan the poor girl a couple times before letting a laugh fall from his mouth and walking away slamming the door. And yes that irritated Octavia but she thought she'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

Until it happened again.

This time however, after catching the girl, Via made to run after him and the door that was slammed ended up smacking her right in the face and her nose started bleeding. She was 50% certain it was broken but luckily it wasn't. Everytime she saw the boy after that, he would make snarky comments about her changing or wearing minimal clothing and so Octavia gave up on her attempts at being nice to him.

All the boys knew. Both sides of the story. Michael heard it from Via first then asked Calum whereas Ashton and Luke heard Calum's version first and were only told the other side of the story when asking Ovtavia how she felt about 'calum being lucky'.

She fucking hated him. Absolutely despised him. And it appeared she did so much, Octavia didn't notice the small brunette making her way into the seat next to her before her Professor arrived.

"Octavia!" A perky voice cheered, bouncing down into the seat besides the girl and almost slamming her bag down on the table, taking Octavia by surprise.

"Do i know you?" The girl blanked furrowing her eyebrows. This new face was fairly short, her brown hair falling at her shoulders and she wasn't wearing any makeup. Octavia was pretty certain she had never seen this girl in her life.

"Sorry I'm Amy." She introduced herself, waiting in anticipation but continued speaking once she saw the blank stare she was being met with. "We met at the party last night." Amy basically spelled it out as if she was speaking to a toddler.

"Sorry I got so drunk and I'm incredibly hungover and can't remember a thing." Octavia let her head fall onto the palm of her hand as she let out a sigh.

"That's okay it was only a brief meeting." Amy grinned harshly with her teeth, the smile being incredibly fake but she didn't try hide it. "I don't really drink either so no doubt I would remember you." She shrugged.

"How did we meet?" Octavia queered, picking up her pen and taping it up and down in the air - avoiding the desk because she'd been told several times that excessively tapping her pens on the desk was quite the irritating sound. The girl couldn't help it, it was an anxious habit.

"Oh it was in passing!" Amy waved off, physically picking up her hand and shaking it. "Pretty sure you were on your way to get laid we didn't wanna intrude." The brunette turned her body so that she was entirely facing the redhead.

"Uh I didn't get laid last night," the girl furrowed her eyebrows as she responded, bouncing the pen up and down at the same pace her knee began to bounce. "But I appreciate the confidence you have in me anyway." She let her eyebrows furrow slightly, trying hard not to come off as mean just because her face was forming shapes that would make her come off that way.

"Oh shit sorry!" Amy blurted out, her hand shooting up to cover her mouth as her eyes widened, Via holding in a laugh at the expression she was seeing. "It's just that-" she paused, letting out a breathe as if she was thinking through what she had said, it almost felt rehearsed and momentarily forgotten. "You and Luke disappeared suddenly and Cal said it was a reoccurring thing."

"Me and Luke?" Octavia recoiled. "Absolutely not." A laugh mixed with a scoff escaped her lips in amusement at the accusation. "But I- wait Cal? As in Calum? Hood?" Octavia clarified slowly. This guy was ruining her damn life. He knew for a fact her and Luke weren't hooking up. So what was his problem? Well other than his very obvious distaste for the redhead and his want to ruin her life at every given moment.

"Oh yeah that's why it was brief we were kind of getting together-" Amy shrugged nonchalantly, her voice raising ever so slightly as she glanced over her shoulder before shaking her head as if it was an inside joke she was talking about.

"Of all the boys you chose Hood? Octavia clarified hesitantly, wanting to make sure she had heard everything correctly, her eyebrows narrowing in on each-other before springing upwards.

"He said I was pretty special." Amy scowled. "I think he's gonna ask me out." A smile fell on the girls face as her tone became cheery and dreamy at the thought of the dark haired boy she was 'getting together with'.

"Cal doesn't usually do relationships." Via snapped, a scowl settling on her face and her tone sour and snarky - completely disregarding the fact that for the first time she had called the boy 'cal'

"I guess I'm just different." The short brunette fluttered her eyelashes before obnoxiously giggling. "Mhmm that's gotta be it." Octavia rolled her eyes before picking up her stuff and moving seats, ignoring the shocked gasp that fell from Amy's lips as she made her departure.

The redhead went to pick up her phone, in an attempt to textMichael and pre warn him she may be thrown in jail for murder pretty soon and begging for the world to swallow her whole after what had occurred that morning. However slipping her hand into her jumper pocket, she couldn't find the small device. Via went straight into panic mode, going to get up and leave in an attempt to go find Luke and ask him if he knew where the device was.

Luck was clearly on her side as the Professor chose that exact moment to walk in and begin his class. Solemnly the girl opened Luke's laptop deciding she could deal with the situation later and focus on making notes now - before quickly remembering she could just log into her social media on Luke's laptop and message his accounts from there. So she decided the lecture could wait and she would ask someone for the notes later. She was going to find her phone.

a/n

happy 27 to my boy <3

potential double update in his honour btw.