LOVER |c.t.h|

SEVENTEEN|CALUM|

Hi... I love drama<3 

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CALUM POV:

OCTOBER 23RD

I'd been sitting here for who knows how long just watching the water, hoping she would come, and she did. I didn't think it would end this way but I'm glad it did. I was kissing her, and I liked it.

I pulled back to see her completely dazed. "I'm sorry." I whisper.

"It's okay," she shakes her head and looks back at the water.

"I really want to do this Emery, more than you know." I tell her the truth. "I know that you've been hurt, and I know this is all scary, but I think we can make it work, I really do." I go on. "I want this."

She sighs and picks at her nail beds. "I want it too, Calum, but what if I do something wrong?" She asks.

"I'm here to help you." I knew that I wasn't as qualified to help her, but I would die trying.

"How do you know what the empty feeling is like?" She questions.

"I uh-" I hesitate. "I was in therapy for a long time, I went through the same process of letting go, that's how I know Amberetta." I tell her. "That's why I knew she would be good for you."

She looks at me, "You let me yell at you and accuse you of knowing nothing about therapy, why would you do that?" She felt guilty, I could tell.

I grab her hands so that she quits picking her nails. "Because Em, you didn't need to be burdened with my issues, they're long gone and nothing that you should have to worry about."

"That's bullshit," she shakes her head. "You should have told me; I was being a bitch."

I smile softly and run my fingers through the ends of her hair. "I'm all better now, you being a bitch doesn't hurt me."

Her jaw drops as a small laugh escapes, "you didn't deny that I was a bitch!"

I let out a deep laugh as I watch all her features soften, she was a living breathing dream. "Are you going to be, okay?" I ask. "With us, I mean."

"Yes, I will be." She nods surly. "I'm healing, I think I can do this."

"Good."

We lay back and watched the sky, it was dark so there was really nothing to watch except passing planes. She pointed out where the stars would be and told me stories of different constellations, it made me sleepy.

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After a few more hours of sitting and talking I took her home, though I could have stayed there for hours.

"Calum!" I hear a familiar Aussie accent calling my name, within moments my bedroom door is flung open by none other than Molly Harper. I was stunned to say the least.

"Molly?" She never was one for knocking.

I was more than excited to see her but something in me told me this wasn't what my world needed right now. Something was telling me to run and run fast...

"As I live and breathe!" Her shiny red hair had been tossed into a high ponytail that was brought together with a pretty white bow. She was a beautiful girl, there was no lying about that.

"What are you doing here?" I furrow my brows.

"Well, if you ever decided to look at your phone, I did in fact text you." She walked around my room, looking over my things like she always does.

I open my phone for the first time in what feels like ages to see multiple missed messages from molly. "Shit, I'm sorry I was-" I stop myself, why did I stop?

"I get it sunshine; you are a busy guy." She finally sits next to me on my bed, taking in all my features. It was like she was studying for a test.

"God what has it been? 3 years since I was last here?" She asks. "Feels like a lifetime, I missed my sunshine."

I smiled; she was always one for dramatics.

"I am starving, care to take me for some breakfast?" She smiles with her perfectly straight teeth.

"Why not." But there was that feeling again, telling me to run...

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Welp... I'm here and I came with some trauma to dump.... what's new really?