Runaway [5SOS AU]

3- Eyebrow Magic

Luke:

I stared at Shareece and then glared at Ashton. He found an opportunity to force me into asking her out and he took it. The guys knew I had been trying to work up the courage to ask Shareece out but had been putting it off...for like six months. Ashton smiled at me before starting a conversation with Nina.

Shareece was looking at her sandwich and was taking hasty looks upwards. Was she looking at me? My wishful thinking got the better of me and I took it as my chance.

"Hi-uh-what's your name? Ummm, I'm Luke," I only just managed to splutter. I should've planned that better.

"I'm Shareece," she nearly whispered, "and I know."

I know too.

"Oh my gosh," she laughed, "that sounded creepier than it meant to. It's just that we're in the same year and-"

"Yeah," I laughed and smiled with her.

"I was wondering if you wanted to- and only if you wanted to- go-" but then I was distracted by Michael. Sitting to my side was Michael doing his eyebrow magic.

Eyebrow magic is what Michael would use if he wanted to- for lack of a better term- get laid. First he would jiggle his eyebrows which would in turn make the required sexual candidate laugh and find him funny. Then it got serious. After they finished laughing he would stare into the individual's eyes. The scientific term for that action is eye fuck. Eventually the person would succumb to his eyebrow magic and practically leap into his pants.

I stared as Rochelle stood from her seat somewhat across from me and began aggressively making out with the eyester himself. Michael pulled one of his arms away from Rochelle's back and stuck the finger up at Tinaya. She obviously made a bet against it working but we all knew that Mikey's signature move never ceased to fail. It was the action the caused him to lose his 'V' card. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a twenty dollar note, putting it on the table therefore forcing Michael to stop shoving his tongue down her best friend's throat. Rochelle smirked at him before waltzing back to her seat. She obviously wasn't a stranger to a one night stand.

"What were you saying?" Shareece asked me.

"Uh- ummm...nothing. Absolutely nothing."

"Oh," she said. The wishful part of me took it as a sign of disappointment in her voice as if she knew what I was going to say and just wanted me to ask her already. The rational part of me slapped that sort of thinking and told me that she wouldn't like a guy like me. Most girls would, but Shareece wasn't most girls. She didn't seem like someone I could just nod at and have her faint. Maybe she was. What if I could just approach the situation like I usually did?

"But I do have something else to say," I stood up with confidence and walked to her side of the table. She froze and stared her blue eyes into mine with utter confusion. I ran my fingers through my quiff once for good measure and leaned close to her so that my breath was on her cheek, "my place at 9. Don't bother wearing anything nice, it'll just be ripped off later."

Her face turned to pure disgust and I knew that I had stuffed up big time. "One, I don't know where you live! And two, I don't want to have my 'clothes ripped off' by a sex driven pig like you! And to think that I thought you were nice." She finalised before fumbling her lunchbox into her bag and storming off. Rochelle and Nina heard everything and chased after her as emotional aid. I sat back in my seat and craned my neck backwards. Now she'd never like me.

"Come on Calum! I need to chase after her," Tinaya whined but Calum just remained oblivious. As soon as she realised that her efforts were pointless she turned to her right and smashed me hard in the arm. I felt tears brim my eyes at the unexpected burning in my left arm. I knew I deserved it but I never knew that a girl could punch so hard. It turned out that Rochelle's rants about feminism were true; women were just as cable as men.

"Don't go hitting Luke, he's just confused," Ashton said but he couldn't help but laugh as he noticed how much pain I was in.

Asshole.

"Well it's not my fault he turned out to be a jerk. And Michael over here tries to have sex with my friend for sport. I don't know about you Ashton but it seems that so far that Calum is a terrible person with terrible friends," she said on full speed.

"What did Calum do to make him so horrible in your eyes?" Michael asked.

Tinaya didn't reply. Instead she sunk lower in her seat and focusing her eyes on her shoes. Her mouth seemed to move but the only way I could hear few of her words was by straining my ear.

"...breathe," she whispered, "1...5...9" I heard her say. I looked at Michael accusingly and told him with my face that he had crossed a line.

Ashton spoke up; being the only nice guy in our group, "it's okay. You don't have to tell us anything. If you want I can take you to the bathroom where Shareece is." She looked up and nodded shyly. Was she bipolar? I'd have to ask Calum later.

No one- not even us; his closest friends- knew what happened between him and Tinaya. One day they were absolutely adorable and the next he was having sex with nearly every girl he thought was "cute". One thing we picked up on about all of his endeavours; they all had dark hair, olive skin and brown eyes (just like Tinaya).

Ashton helped Tinaya to her feet and began walking to the bathrooms.

"Calum, what did you do?" I asked awaiting for an answer that I hoped would finally arrive.

"It's none of your business Luke! So just-just-just stay out of it!" He said before running out of the school gates. Michael and I shared a worried look. The exit lead out into the bush. Even the roads were difficult to navigate.

We jumped out of our seats failing to notice the salty tear on the table where Calum once sat. We sprinted to the gates but as soon as we got there he was gone. We walked down the track that went back to town for a bit but we couldn't see any sign of him there either. Michael was panting and I found it hard to breathe. The difficulty in pushing air in and out of my lungs was not as physical as it was emotional. My best friend was lost in the bush and as Michael began to run back to school we realised that so were we.

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A-N: Oooh! What happened between Calum and Tinaya? How are the boys going to get out of the unnavigable bush? When will I get to the actual plot line? Will I ever stop asking questions? Maybe I will...maybe I won't.

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