Too Late | m.c [completed]

Chapter 13-The Bullying

I don't really have much friends. I'm usually labeled as a weirdo, a freak, a reject, or even an outcast. Who would want to hang out with a freak? I wouldn't even want to hang out with myself. But too bad. I'm stuck with myself.

With friends, I've only had the same two friends since kindergarten. Luke and Calum. I've been there for them in their worst times when they've been there for me for mine.

As expected and like usual, some guys come up to me and pin me against the locker. "Hey freak, so I saw how your daddy beat the crap out of you yesterday" he scoffed and his friends laughed obnoxiously behind him. "Leave me alone" I plead, but he acts as if he didn't hear me. "Hey, guys, let's try to top off his dad and beat him up" they all laugh and high five each other like the idiots they are.

"Leave him alone" I hear behind them. The three tall boys turn around and laugh hysterically when they see Calum and Luke standing there. "Go away, weirdos" the ring leader turns back to me with a smirk. Then Calum taps his shoulder lightly. The taller boy turns to him with an angry expression. And Calum did the least expected. He barked at them.

"Fine! Freak!" and like that, the three jocks ran away. "I could have handled that myself" I scoff. "No you couldn't have" Luke pipes up and crosses his arms. "We were on our way to lunch when we saw this happen" Calum says. I nod and walk with them towards the cafeteria. Or what they call, 'The Student Dining Center'. It's not the cafeteria anymore.

"So Luke here was just telling me about your new girlfriend Hanna" Calum grinned. "She's not my girlfriend" I mumble. "So why haven't I met her yet?" he asks, ignoring my other statement.

"Because" I shrug, taking my paper bag out of my backpack. "Because why?" he asks. "You'll see her soon" I roll my eyes at my own statement.

"Show Cal a picture of her" Luke suggested. I glared at him, trying my best not the punch him in the face.

I roll my eyes again and take my phone out. As I scroll through my pictures, I could practically feel Calum's eyes glued to my phone. Excited to see her.

I finally get a good picture and show him. He takes my phone from my hands and stares at it for a moment too long for my liking. "She's very hot" he says after a while. I snatch my phone back and continue eating without saying another word and they continue their conversation across from me since I'm in the middle.

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After school that day, I went over Luke's house to sleep over because I knew my dad was home and I really didn't want to get beat up today again.

"Hey, can I invite-" I'm cut off when the door closes in Luke's room. Someone had just entered. So I turn and see Calum standing with his hands clenched around his backpack straps and with a grin. "Invite who?" he asks as he sits down across from me on Luke's bed.

"Nobody" I quickly say.

"Hey, you know who we should invite, actually?" Calum asks with a devilishly smirk. "Who" I plainly ask. "Hanna!" he exclaims.

I almost spit out my drink. "No" I say while I cough.

"Why not" Calum frowns. "She's sick" I lie.

Luke finally realized my delema and changed the subject. "I think we should talk about something else. Like my new girlfriend" she smiles like a little child and looks down.

I agree and Calum reluctantly agrees a minite later.

"Okay. So I've been talking to her for a while. Her name is May, as Michael knows" he chuckles to himself. "Yeah, yeah. But I think we should talk about Hanna. Michael, go on" Calum turns to me now.

I look over to Luke, both of us confused. "Why do you want to talk about Hanna so much?" Luke asks. Calum just shrugs.

Then there's a ring and we all look at each other to see who's phone is going off. Then we all look at our phones and it turned out that Calum's mom was calling Calum. "I'll be right back" I mumbles as he gets off the bed to go into the hallway.

Luke gives me an annoyed glare, mocking Calum and I laughed a bit.

He came back in a couple of minutes later and sighs really loudly. And dramatically.

"Hey, sorry guys. I guess this night has to come to an end. I have to go" he swings his backpack on his shoulder and walks out after saying a goodbye.

Then Luke turned to me when we both heard the front door shut.

"Why were you being so weird in front of Calum?" he asks with furrowed eyebrows.

I got up and throwed my backpack over to his chair. "Where am I going to sleep?" I decided to dodge the question because I knew it was stupid of me to act the way I did but I kind of felt over protective of Hanna. I didn't like how Calum called her hot and kept asking about her. It was weird and I didn't like it at all.

"The couch"