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This chapter is dedicated to babyjayla for all her super sweet comments! Love you!

*Recap*

 We just sit there in silence, awkward silence, before he says one word. The one word, is enough to make me want to cry.

"Why?"

When I don't answer, he looks at me, and turns my body to face him. "I said, WHY?" He repeats, sternly this time.

I look him in the eye, and shake my head. "I-I don't know." I mumble.

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"Why Michael?" Calum questions, not breaking eye contact with me. "What could Michael give you, that I can't?" He raises his voice a bit, making me jump. Once again I don't answer his questions.

"I FUCKING LOVE YOU, AURIELA!" He shouts. "Do you not get that?" He asks, lowering his voice. "Do you think that I compare every girl to Cinderella?"

"Bu-but, I thought you said that because of my name. And my hair and eyes?"

"I said that because, because- I don't even know!" He exclaims, getting frustrated with himself.

"I guess that was like... my attempt at flirting with you." Calum sighs.

"Calu-" I begin.

"Whatever! It doesn't matter anymore! Your obviously infatuated with Michael! I'll just get the fuck out of your life!"

"Calum I-"

"Just....just stop. I don't need your pity." The beautiful boy snaps.

"Calum! Will you just STOP interrupting me!" I yell, grasping his attention. "I like you... a lot. I-I, I don't know why I agreed to go out with Michael. I thought- I don't know." I sigh running one of my small pale hands through my thick black hair.

"My brain did it. I was going to say no. But my brain took over and said yes. I'm sorry Calum."

"You like me?" He grins.

"Yeah..." I answer quietly.

"I can work with, like." Calum affirms.

"What do you mean, 'you can work with, like'?"

"Well I'd eventually like it to be love."

"We'll see." I grin.

"Would it be inappropriate if I kissed you? Ya know, 'cause one of my best mates is going out with you..?"

"Yes I think it would be extremely inappropriate." I giggle. "If he were to find out..."

"So...your saying... I can kiss you- As long as Michael doesn't find out?" Calum concludes. I giggle in response.

"Good," Calum says leaning in, "You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this." He whispers, right before crashing his lips onto mine. Forget fucking butterflies, it feels like a herd of elephants decided to roam around my stomach. I feel Calum's large muscular arm snake around my waist. He pulls me into him, deepening the kiss. I'm gently pushed onto the ground-our lips disconnecting for a moment, but not for long as Calum crawls on top of me- smashing his plump pink lips to mine. We continue kissing-or should I say snogging- until we are interrupted by a voice, a very familiar one at that.

"Uh, I think we found them..." I hear the deep voice I know all too well say. Me and Calum pull apart quickly, Calum clambering off of me. I try and fix my messy hair, and pull out the little bits of grass I find.

"Oh would you look at that Auri, it seems as if your head was lying in a pile of dog shit!" Luke declares chuckling. I frantically look at the spot my head was in moments ago. To my surprise I just find nice green grass, no brown mush.

"You scared me Luke! Don't do that!" I exclaim calming down a little bit. I look over at Calum who seems.. scared, very, very scared. I follow his gaze only to find a certain pale boy, who saved my ass earlier that morning.

"M-michael..." I stutter, and for some reason he smiles.

"You don't like me do you?" He asks still smiling. 

"N-no I-I do!"

"No, you don't." He chuckles. "It looks as if we were going out with each other for the same reason."

"What do you mean?" I ask, confused as fuck.

"I don't like you, like that. I fancy this girl, Rachel. She doesn't even know I exist." He sighs.

Calum finally comes out of his scared little boy trance. "I know the feeling," He says, glancing in my direction.

"S-so... you just wanted to go out with me to make her jealous?" I ask.

"Yeah.." He scratches the back of his neck nervously. "I'm sorry Auriela,"

I smile, "No it's fine! I was kind of doing the same thing." I chuckle lightly.

"You don't say," Michael says sarcastically. I giggle.

"Now Calum," Michael says looking over at the dark haired boy. "I may have been going out with her to make another girl jealous, but that doesn't mean your off the hook for kissing her." I glance over at Calum, who looks like he wants to go hide in a hole.

"I'm only joking mate." Michael chuckles. "As long as you never kiss any other girl that's mine- we're good."

"You made that sound as though you date more than one girl at a time." Luke states.

"You know that's not what I meant Lucas!" Michael yells.

Calum stands up from his spot on the grass, and extends his hand to me. I gratefully take it and he pulls me up. Not letting go of my hand once I'm up, but wrapping his warm fingers around it. My hand looks like a child's compared to his ginormous one's.

We walk back towards Luke's flat, so the guys can finish their practice. Calum never let go of my hand, which I was happy about. Ashton, the curly haired boy, saw me and Calum holding hands and decided to mock us, by grabbing Michael's hand. His hand only held Michael's for a few seconds, before Michael jerked away, pushing Ashton onto the ground jokingly.

"Why are you so mean Mikey?" Ashton fake cried, standing up from the ground.

"I'm not fucking mean!" Michael exclaimed, pushing Ashton back on the ground.

The two boys continued to push each other around, whilst the rest of us kept walking

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-Carissa (5sosnyoutubers )