Calum.

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Hazel's parents divorced, and he went back to America. I guess things here weren't meant to be for him. Anyways, Hazels mom runs the bakery now, and so does Hazel pretty much. I help out up front, and so does my sister out back. Hazel's mom also went be an to America, but it's only temporary. Something I love about her mom is how accepting she is of me, and my crazy fucked up life. She never questioned me, or my intentions with her daughter. She trusted me, and I knew I could trust her.

Today was going a bit slow, so we ended up closing the bakery. Mali left, and I stayed behind with my love. "Cal, are you practicing with your band tonight? Do you maybe wanna...before you go?" We shared a lot of intimacy, Hazel always wanted more of me, and I always wanted more of her. She was a huge addition in my life. "Yes, and yes...I'd love that actually." I came up from behind Hazel, and hugged her close to me - close, but gentle.

I kissed her neck, and she turned around and kissed me. "Babe, we can't do this here." She was always so cute and sexy, her voice always sent shivers down my spine. We ended up staying for an extra thirty minutes or so, and then leaving and going to her house. We spent a lot of time at her place, of course when we wanted to be naked together. I took my shirt off before heading upstairs to bed, where we messed around for a little while, just us.

"I've gotta head out now, Luke is going to be meeting me at the pizza place, and we'll catch Ashton and Michael at the usual spot." I put my shirt back on and kissed Hazel before heading out "I love you, please be safe babe." She told me. "I love you too." I headed out, and made my way to the pizza place to meet Luke.

"Hood, how's it hangin'?" Luke was munching on a slice of pepperoni pizza. It was different not seeing Luke as frequently as we all used to. He has his own life going on, and I imagine he's on a good path. "I could ask you the same thing" I said through a smirk.

While on our way to meet the other two, we rambled about our general life updates. I helped Hazel at the bakery, and Mali with her vehicle cleaning. He almost got his girlfriend pregnant, and had to redo an exam because he was so stressed he failed. I had to push my mom out of my life again, while Mali accepted her for who she is. Luke had to get a vehicle because his was stolen. We talked about random shit we'd been facing until we got to our destination, and greeted Michael and Ashton.

We practiced for about three hours or so. Well we practiced, and also goofed off. We all had fun together and kept in good spirits. "How's everything with your girl mate?" Ashton asked while facing Luke. "Well, Marisol has been amazing, thank you for asking. We slowed down after the pregnancy scare, but other than that, we're taking things easy. Planning a birthday party for her soon, obviously you all are invited." Luke really liked this girl. I could tell because he was grinning through everything he said.

"And you?" Michael asked me through his spins in a spinny chair, and surely stopping to face me. "All is good, Hazel's mom is gone to America for a month or something like that, so we've just been taking care of the bakery." I nodded while slouching and sliding down my hard plastic chair. "Do I still get free cookies?" Luke beamed afterwards. "Only if I get my own room at this party you're throwing." Ashton interjected, but also got cut off by Michael who claimed "No, No, I get the free cookies!"

"You all get shit cookies, how's that?" I chucked at the nonsense of it all. It's always a mess having a conversation through rambling and immature raised voices. I stepped out while they argued about cookies, and I called my Hazelnut.

"Hey, how's practice?" Hazel asked while partially sniffling. "It went great as usual, is everything alright? You sound like you've been crying..." I was concerned, I was hoping she was okay, and not doing what I feared she fall back into. "Yeah, uhm just come home when you can, yeah?" I promised I was on my way. I stepped in momentarily to let everyone know I was leaving. "Why so soonuhhhh?" Luke whined. "I gotta check on Hazel." I grabbed my black coat. "What? Is she okay?" Ashton asked all of a sudden focusing on the big picture? "It's not...?" Michael suggested. "I honestly don't know."

They all knew about what happened with Hazel and having to get help. It wasn't something we could hide, because she was always around us at the time, and randomly disappeared, so it couldn't be hidden really. I said my farewells and raced back home, where both Mali, and Hazel were sitting outside on the porch. "Why are you two outside? What's going on?" This was weird. I started making my way towards the house. "Calum wait." Mali stopped me.

"There's something you should know before you go in there..." I stopped dead in my tracks and turned to face them. "Mom came back." Mali started. "She came, and trashed everything. The police just took her not too long ago." I was shocked this happened. I couldn't say anything because I didn't know what to say. "And that's not all, she's using drugs now." I turned around and went inside, while the both of them waited on the porch outside. Hazel came in after a few minutes, letting me take everything in. Everything that made my living room, kitchen, the whole downstairs was demolished. I could see my sister and Hazel tried to clean up some, but that didn't mask the damage that was done. "Calum I'm sorry this happened..."