I was sitting across from Drea and Bailee at a local coffee shop down the street. Drea had called me up and asked me to meet them to have a "talk." They didn't tell me what we were going to be talking about.
They had cups in their hands, obviously of a drink. Bailee probably had hot chocolate, which was her favorite & Drea probably just had regular coffee.
"Can I at least know what we're going to be talking about? It's not like I do drugs or pop pills or drink alcohol all the time." I ask.
"We just want to make sure you're okay after that article, you know?" Bailee sighed.
"Guys, it might not even be true. They don't even have proof. She's famous, he's famous they're going to hang out. I'm not that worried about it." I lied, it hurt seeing that headline and being me, I was scared that now that he didn't have me in the way, he could do whatever with some famous chick that was obviously better than me. "I want to hear it from him, not some website that literally lies about everything."
"Have you even talked to him about it?" Bailee asked, getting obviously frustrated that I wasn't going to do anything about this situation.
"No, but-"
"No buts shy!" Bailee shouted.
"Hahahaha, no butts." Drea giggled, which earned her a glare from Bailee.
"Listen, talk to him. You even said he's been ignoring you lately and having like minute conversations with you!" Bailee pleaded.
I stood up from the table and pushed in my chair. "It's my relationship. Let me handle it. You guys can tell me to do something with it so easily because you don't have to live with the consequences. I do." I said and began to walk home.
I didn't like the idea of talking to him about it, but I know that's what I had to do but I didn't want to seem like I didn't trust him. I contemplated all the way home and decided I would do what Bailee told me, talk to him but I wasn't going to do it over the phone. I got on twitter and searched up one of those 5SOS accounts that told you where they were and where they were staying. It said they were in North Carolina but their next show was going to be in Tampa tomorrow at the Tampa Marriott.
I went online and searched for tickets that left later today. I wanted to talk to him face to face so I could really see his emotions and how he acts. Plus, it would be nice to go to a warm state during the winter. I gathered all of my savings and bought a ticket.
Then, I got to work. I started packing. When I got done, I rolled my suitcase downstairs with my printed ticket and ran to tell me mom who was mad at first that it was so last minute, but after I told her why, she agreed to let me go.
Getting there.
After landing and gathering my suitcase, I called a cab and had them drop me off at that hotel. I had gotten a room, just in case things didn't go so well with Luke and I. I got my key and headed up to my room. I set my suitcase in my room and went to find Luke's room whom he probably shared with Calum again.
I found it and my heart started pounding. I didn't know if I should even go through with it, but I was right in front of the door so there was no turning back. I was already here and spent a bunch of my own money, might as well try, so I knocked.
After a few seconds of my heart hammering against my chest, the door open. Luke was in front of me, looking surprised. I mean, I would too if he just showed up in New York unannounced. I stared at him, ready to speak when I saw someone in the background, and that someone wasn't Calum. It was a girl, but more specifically, Adriana Lima, in nothing but a bra and underwear.
"Um, Shiloh, hey." Luke laughed nervously. "What brings you here?"
"Oh I don't know, to see my boyfriend. But it looks like someone already did that for me." The tears were coming now. How could I be so stupid? No one would just take a random girl on tour that he only had known for a day and confess his love for her.
"Shy, listen!" Luke called, as I started walking down the hallway.
"We're done. Have fun with your new model." I said, turning back around and running down the hall and back to my room. I shut the door and let the tears flow until I realized that I was in Florida, there would be so many more guys I could talk to and the hotel I was staying at had a pool.
I got on my swimsuit and went downstairs, knocking into a body as I came out the door. "Oh, god. I'm so sorry." I apologized.
"It's oka—Shiloh?" I looked up and saw Calum.
"Oh, hi." I said, keeping my head down.
"What're you doing here?!" He asked, seeming just as shocked as Luke looked.
"Well, I came here to see Luke, but apparently someone else did too." I said, tears almost spilling out again.
"Oh, yeah. I'm really sorry about that. Were you going to the pool too?"
I nodded.
"Come with me." Calum smiled, motioning me to walk in front of him.
We had a conversation about the whole Luke and Adriana thing. He told me how he had asked Luke for my number so he could tell me, but Luke refused and Calum never had the chance to sneak his phone. "Thank you for at least trying to be a good person."
"He totally changed after you left. It's not the first girl he's brought to a hotel with us after you left. I don't know what got into him." Calum explained, making me just want to cry even more.
"I was so excited. I was going to ask him to come to my graduation, but now I don't even think I want him there. He'd probably just bring another whore." I shrugged, setting my towel down on an empty chair beside the pool and Calum did the same.
"Can I come?" Calum asked, sitting on the chair and smiling at me.
"Sure." I smiled back.
Calum and I continued a conversation about how I was doing in school and being Valedictorian. We had gotten in the pool after a while, but continued talking. Calum always had an answer for any question I had, or a question for anything I said.
"Can I ask you something?" Calum asked for the twentieth time. I nodded. "What did you see in Luke? Why not Ashton? Or Michael? Or me?"
"He was the only one who noticed me. He looked for me at the concert, he replied to my DMs, he was the only one who actually tried to talk to me." I sighed.
"I may not have noticed you then, but at the concert, Luke told me he was going to look for you and he told me where you were. I looked for you too and I notice you now. I know it's too late, but I do now."
"Thank you, Calum."
Before I could look up from my hands that I was fiddling with, Calum's hand was on my face and made me look up at him and suddenly, our lips were connected.
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