Kisses [Malum]

Chapter 3

It was the next day and the boys were getting ready for a show in their dressing room. The energy was high and everyone was in a great mood, well except for Michael. He was grumpy, and normally he was the one who was always smiling so it was odd for him to be in a bad mood. He couldn't help it though. He was grumpy the moment he got out of bed this morning. His reason? Calum kept him up all night with this snoring.

"Okay boys, 30 minutes before you go on stage." The manager warned.

"Thanks Josh!" Luke exclaims so the manager doesn't think he's been ignored.

"Mikey your mood needs to be uplifted before going onstage." Ashton states patting his friend's knee.

"I'll be fine, just leave me alone." Michael pouts moving Ashton's hand from his knee as he goes to get off the couch and walk away.

Michael was just making sure his guitar was in order and that he had his picks ready when he felt a hand tug him down the hallway into the shadows.

"Calum? Wha--" But he gets cut off when Calum presses his lips to Michael's . At first Michael is a bit shocked but then relaxes into the kiss. Calum pushes Michael to the wall as his hands go to his waist as the kiss deepens. Michael's goes around Calum's neck as they tangle their tongues together. But it's not long before Calum is pulling the two apart and resting his forehead on Michael's.

"What was that for?" Michael asks breathlessly.

"Maybe you'll stop being a grump now." Calum replies.

"You're cute." Michael says smugly before kissing Calum once more. Just a quick peck though. "I'm sure the others will be looking for us."

"Right. The others." Calum says as if he has forgotten.

"But I enjoyed this." Michael smiles and Calum returns one.

"Me too."

"Michael?! Calum? Where did you two go?" Ashton calls out. The two boys give each other the once over to make sure you can't tell what just happened.

"We're coming!" Michael yells back.

***

They were on the tour bus that night after the show. It was an amazing performance and everyone was still buzzing from it. They sat around the table with a few beers in their hands and there was music playing in the background.

"Let's play truth or dare." Luke suggests.

"I don't know..." Michael trails off.

"Oh come on it'll be fun!" Luke assures him.

So the game began, it started off simple, questions that they all mostly knew the answers to and the dares were just goofy, combining different foods together and eating it, licking a strip off of the tiles, flash their butts for oncoming vehicles but then it got interesting. They were pretty drunk.

"Michael I dare you to kiss Calum." Ashton slurs.

Both Calum and Michael say in unison, "what?"

"Come on just kiss him." Ashton says.

"Why?" Michael asks.

"Because it's a dare. "

"Uhm."

"Just do it Clifford." Luke pipes up so Michael leans towards Calum and kisses his cheek.

"We said a kiss, meaning lips, not the cheek." Ashton says.

"You didn't specify, I technically kissed him, therefore I did the dare." Michael points out.

"Damn." Ashton pouts.