The Road Within: Completed

Nine- the escape

whoa, look what i just did. a triple update?!?! holy cow balls! Love you guys. 

this one goes to the lovely Hello_Charlie5! <3

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Calum felt disgusted with himself, his behavior and actions were inexcusable. When he got back to his room, with the guidance of luke, he found the room empty. He took that opportunity to quickly shower before ashton could return and complain.

he took a nice long hot shower, letting the water sooth his aches and mind. he felt like it was washing away his worries and the horrible thing he did that day. It felt great to stand in silence, other then running water, and not worry about a thing. 

after he got out, he wrapped a towel around his waist and stood in front of the mirror. he loaded his tooth brush up with tooth paste and started to nosily brush his teeth while he stared at himself. He would never admit it, but he loved looking at himself in mirror. He looked normal and it was great, even his tattoos looked hot. 

He ignored the sound of the room door opening and closing, assuming it was ashton. He leaned over a little, ready to spit. He froze when the bathroom door swung open, causing him to jump and scrunch his face up. his lips pulled tight in annoyance expecting ashton to start yelling at him. 

Michael took a step into the steamy bathroom with his arms crossed. He grinned looking calum up and down and leaned against the door frame, simply watching calum react to him seeing him almost completely naked. Only thing stopping michael from enjoying his view was the stupid towel around calums waist. 

"oh" calum stuttered. he leaned down more and spat out the toothpaste. 

"so, if you could go anywhere in the world. .." Michael looked back up at calums face, noticing him questioningly stare back at him with a cute twitch. " where would you go?" 

Calums hand went to his chest, he paused to think. his fingers tapped his skin lightly, pulling his gaze away from michael. " um.." he started to say. He shrugged and looked back at michael, " the ocean." he said calmly with a smile. 

Michael let his gaze drift back down to calums waist, loving his shapely curves. he again looked back up at calums curious gaze and grinned. he uncrossed his arms and held up his hand. Dangling from some of his fingers were a set of car keys. He wiggled his hand a little, letting the keys loudly rattle. 

Calums eyes widened and sparkled with excitement. Was that michael offering to take him to the ocean? he grabbed a rag and cleaned off his mouth just before stepping closer to michael, forgetting he was just in a towel. 

Michaels grin turned into a small playful smirk, he wiggled his eyebrows up. " be ready tonight after dark. Wait till mask boy falls asleep and meet me in the parking lot." he stepped away from between calum and the wall, quickly heading to the door and exiting the room. Leaving calum behind with a pounding heart and mind full of thoughts of what he wanted to do when he got to the beach. 

---Time Jump---

Calum laid flat in his bed with his covers pulled to his chin. He crawled into bed before ashton returned, he was already dressed. He faked being asleep till Ashton got ready for bed. 

After waiting in silence, other then his twitches and tics, he heard the sound of soft snoring coming from the other side of the room. Grinning, calum yanked off his blankets to sit up. He ran a hand through his messy hair then stood up tugging down his black tank top that had Green Day written in bold and green letters across it.