Nice To Meet You Again || Calum Hood

Chapter 9 ~ Singing

Jessica

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"Who wants to open it?" I ask.

"You can." Ashton answers. The other guys nod.

"Okay." I go on my knees and get the lid off. I look at the things inside. "What's this?.." I pick up a framed picture. "Why do I have this?" I stare at Calum in confusion.

"Uh.. Friend stuff." He shrugs.

"This is friend stuff?" I ask, looking at a picture of us kissing. "Calum."

"No.." He takes a deep breath in. "Um.. How do I say this?"

"You guys were in love." Michael blurts. My eyes widen.

"Huh?" I ask in a dumb, shocked voice. Calum nudges Michael.

"Uh.. Well.. We weren't exactly in love.." He mumbles.

"But we still dated?" I question. He nods. I regather my thoughts and just think for a moment. "Okay." I nod. "So, what else? Oh yeah, let me show you guys." I go to a video on my phone. "Do you guys remember this day?"

"Yeah." Calum lets out a soft chuckle.

"I remember a bit too." I cock my head sideways a little, smiling. "I remember running into a little girl. She was.. lost." I furrow my eyebrows. "Her name was- it was Lilly. That's all I remember besides being extremely nervous."

"Maybe you're slowly remember things from a year ago." Rylie pokes me.

"Maybe."

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Calum

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Slowly remembering things? No, that can't happen. I mean, sure I want her to remember the good things but the bad things? No.

"Maybe." Jess says. She looks confused but happy.

"Cool." Mikey nods, looking at me.

"Maybe you two could get back together." Ashton smirks, looking between us.

"Haha, that'd be.."

Weird.

"Interesting." Jess finishes.

"Yep." I say. She continues to go through the box that she packed, all reminding her of me. She takes out a huge shirt I gave her a day or something before she left. She puts it aside.

"Look!" Jess takes out a piece of paper with a number written on it.

"I'm surprised you never threw that out."

"Maybe my 15-16 year old self wanted to keep it because it was special or something." She shrugs, putting it on top of the large shirt. She continues to take out bracelets and other things like letters, pictures, a necklace. Then she gasps. "I remember this day." She takes out  framed picture of us.

"So do I." I ask to see it and she hands it to me. I still have one like this, it's a framed picture of our first date. "I still have mine." I mumble the last part.

"Aww, that's cute!" Rylie heard me. So did Jessica.

"You do?" She beams. I hand her back the picture and nod. "That's sweet."

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"We should go to the tour bus." Luke suggests. "To play a song for them or something." He gestures to the two girls right in front of us.

"Okay.. Jess? Can you drive?" I ask.

"Um.. No.." She looks away in embarrassment. "I can ask my mum though if one of you can use her car." She gets up and goes to wherever her mum is.