Painting Flowers For You

Maybe we can be each other's company?

I lay in Calum's muscular and tattooed grip as he snored gently in my ear, making me smile to myself. Currently, we were the only ones in the house, David and Joy were visiting Mali in Perth for a week, and I was currently lying in Calum's bed, with my head on his chest allowing me to hear the soft beats of his heart.

I felt him stir in his sleep and the rise and fall of his chest started to regulate which signalled he was going to be waking up at any moment. It was at this point, as I traced arms that he was in fact shirtless, so I took great delight in tracing over his inked skin, following the intricate patterns on his beautifully tanned skin.

As I followed the ink up to just underneath his jawline, I loo up at him only to realise he is awake and looking down at me, he smirks down at me and I smile up at him. I feel an arm being slung lazily across my back, pulling me in further to his chest and I wrap my arms around him tighter than I did whilst I was sleeping.

He snuggles down next to me, keeping close to me because each other's body heat radiated to the other, warming us both up. He leans down and kisses my forehead and that small kiss sends shivers through y body and makes me want more. I smile up at him.

"Cal? Can we go out today?" I ask him sleepily. As I ask him this I cuddle in closer to his bare torso, gently running my nails across his inked arms, feeling him shiver at my touch I smirk and run my nails across his bare torso.
"Sure we can Leigh, the boys and I were gonna go hit up the back beach, wanna join?" he says to me, knowing full well I would accept because I don't like being alone. I nod back at him and tells me that he has to go get ready so I head back to my room to get myself ready.

I found my black high waisted bikini bottoms and a black bikini top and slipped on a black pentagram crop top and a black skater skirt and my black Dr.Martens. I applied winged eyeliner and blood red lipstick and brushed my mermaid coloured hair and scrunched it up into a high ponytail.

I stepped back and took a look at full length mirror that Joy bought for me, and as I did so, I noticed my skin looked more tan that it ever did. I packed a bag full of beach essentials and grabbed my speaker, lighter, grinder and bottle of whiskey and an oversized black jumper and some shorts to put on after we go for a swim.

I pulled my phone off charge and met Calum outside near his truck, ready to go to the back beach.

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After half an hour of driving, we stopped and grabbed some snacks for our trip to the back beach because by the time we got back it would be early morning of the next day.

We had been driving for almost an hour now listening to the beautiful voice of Kurt Cobain and the gruff voice of Calum singing along.

I was seriously falling for him, he probably just couldn't see it. He broke down the walls I had built around myself to prevent anything else happening to me.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Kurt Cobain's voice wasn't flooding through my ears and into my soul. I looked up and realised we were here, finally, after 2 hours of driving. We grabbed out bag and stepped out of the truck into the hot Australian sun.

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I walked over to Luke with Calum in tow and followed Luke over to Mikey and Ash and the other boys girlfriends; Vi, Oli and Sykes. I knew the girls very well as I had attended the exact same pre-k, elementary, middle and high school as each one of the girls. Me and Calum were the last two single people in the group, so naturally the other six had assumed that me and Calum would have been dating since the time we started to hang out as one big group, but sadly, they had thought wrong.

There was nothing but a friendship between Calum and I. Nothing at all, and as much as I hated to say it, it was true.

Of course, the guys and girls have tried everything to get the two of us together, but after almost a year of failure, they gave up.

I had always denied my true feelings for Calum until I was told by Sykes that Calum had been seen with a girl the whole group supposedly hated, her name was Amber. It wasn't how she looked, it was the way she acted, for about a year she had been friends with me and the girls and had found out our secrets and spread them around the entire school a month before we finished for summer break which made people laugh, and most importantly, look at us in a whole new light. Of course me, the girls and the boys, made a group pact and swore to themselves to stay as just the 8 of us, that way they had no worries of anymore rumours and speculation. Of course, the pact remained until Calum was caught making out with Amber.

In that moment, I felt everything for Calum: love; compassion; desire and lust. I loved him and didn't and wouldn't ever know and he most certainly, wouldn't ever love me, right?

Or so I thought?