Deliverance (C.H. Fanfic)

Chapter 2

We've arrived and my heart beat has steadily increased since the moment my feet hit the pavement. When we were standing in line I kept hearing girls talk about who was their favorite and why and I couldn't help but make a comment to Jessie.

"Why do they have to have favorites? All the boys are great and they're all hot. Why do any of them need to be any better than the other?"

Jessie rolls her eyes. "Eli, they're like 5. Who cares what they have to say. About anything."

She pushes my shoulder as we get up to the gate guard that's checking tickets. I still haven't gotten to see them since Jessie showed me them at the school. It makes me nervous when she hands the guy ours. His hands are so big that it makes the tickets look like sticky notes. He nods his head for us to pass and I let out a deep breath.

"Holy shit dude. That guy was huge. He could've flicked you and broken you in a million pieces." I let out a loud laugh.

Jessie laughs too. "I'm not THAT small. But I do agree. Glad we had real tickets." She smiles wide "Just wait til you see where we're sitting."

I tilt my head and raise my eyebrow. She grabs my hand and starts to pull me as we enter the arena. As we walk past rows I keep waiting for her to turn. But she doesn't.

Row 20. Row 15. Row 10.

"Jess. Where are we sitting?" I beg.

She just smiles. Row 4.

My eyes go wide as she points to the seats right in front of the stage. Directly in front of where Calum plays. My mouth drops and I freeze. Jessie turns around and shows me our seat numbers.

"Jess."

"Yea. I know. That was the reaction I was hoping for. My life's mission has been fulfilled." She grabs my hand and yanks me up to our seats.

It's time. My hearts beating so fast I'm pretty sure I'm going to go into cardiac arrest before the boys even touch the stage. Then I see Ashton running towards his drums and instantly I scream.

The concert has begun and I feel like I'm living a dream. Calum runs out and stops at his mic and stares out at everyone. I look over to see Luke and Mikey both at their mics and I can't believe this is real. I turn to Jessie and she has a huge smile on her face. I hug her so tightly and yell thank you.

They've played a few songs, now it's time for them to talk a little bit. I scan over the boys and my eyes land on Calum's face. He tilts his head down and suddenly, his eyes hit mine. For a moment we just stare at each other. Then he smiles and looks away. I can't move my eyes away from where his face just was. When I can finally tear my eyes away, I look at Jessie and she's in awe.

"Did you see how he just looked at you?"

All I can do is nod. Then they start another song so I look back up to the stage. Smiling I just watch Calum and dance to the music. As Calum opens his mouth to sing, his eyes land on me again. I get lost in his eyes and his lips as they move. Every time he stops signing he looks away and moves around but his eyes always come back to mine. I've gone into a trance, bumping to the rhythm and starting into Calum's eyes. I've almost forgotten that there are 3 other boys and my best friend there. But Jessie would never let me forget about her. Part of the way through a song she starts smacking my arm when she realizes how much he keeps watching me. But she doesn't say anything.

The end of the concert comes and of course the boys put on a few encore songs, because they're just that amazing. Calum is the first to run off stage, and I mean he flat out ran. I furrow my brows and shrug myself back into reality not that he's gone. I turn to Jessie who's still coming down from the high of the concert and won't shut up about how amazing they were.

When she finally stops talking for a second we stand up and I turn to her. "Jess. Seriously, thank you so much for this. This was the best night of my life." She doesn't say anything. She smiles and hugs me.

As we go to walk away from our seats one of the guards that was standing at the side of the stage runs over toward us. Immediately I think we're in trouble. I have no idea what we did but we got ourselves in trouble.

He stops in front of us and sticks his hand out. I inspect it for a second and there's a piece of paper in his hands. "Calum wanted you to have this miss."

I pause for a second and look at him. He sticks it a little closer to me. I take it. "Thank you."

"Have a good night ladies. Get home safe." He nods and walks backstage.

Jessie's eyes get huge and she looks from me to the note like 5 times. I just keep staring at it as if it's supposed to do a trick in my hands.

"Eli! Open it!"

I snap back to reality. And open in it so frantically that I ripped a corner of the paper.

Text me beautiful. Hope you enjoyed your night. ;)

And his number is under it. With a sloppily drawn heart and a signature. Calum Hood.

My eyes are as big as an owls as I raise my head and meet Jessie's eyes.

"Holy shit." Jessie whispers. I nod. I can't speak.

We walk back to Jessie's mom's car quickly when we realize how long we spent staring at each other and the note that Calum gave me. We throw ourselves into the backseat of Mrs. G's SUV and lean against each other.

"Did you guys a good time?"

"Mom, it was the best night of our lives." I nod and sink my head into Jessie's shoulder.

"Eli you should text him." She whispers.

"Why? He's probably expecting me to be like some groupie and throw myself into bed with him."

"Well that's a rude assumption." She pauses, "But you're probably right."

After a moment she rethinks her answer. "Who cares. It's Calum freaking Hood. Who cares if you get into bed with him."

I giggle to myself. Leave it to Jessie to go there.

"Jess, I don't want to be used like that."

"You don't know that those are his intentions....unless you text him." She pushes.

I sigh. "Fine."

Hi Calum. I got your note. I did enjoy myself. I'm Elisa. :)

"Now we wait." Jessie grins.

Halfway to Jessie's house my phone buzzes. We're both half asleep so it takes a minute for me to notice. I grab my phone and Jessie looks at me wide eyed. I look at my phone screen to see Calum Hood on my caller ID.

"Oh. My. God." Jessie gasps.

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Sorry this is short. And it's all about eyes, lol.

I hope the story isn't getting off too slowly. I promise there's more coming.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for reading. :)