eccentric 》 muke | cashton

twenty two 》michael

I waited patiently in the music room for Calum to show up. Ashton, Skite, and Flannery were all gone today so we'll probably have a quiet group.

I couldn't help but notice that Luke had a SnapBack on which made him look pretty badass. He also wore a sweatshirt which made him look very soft.

Calum finally walked in. He looked very tired- like he was crying or something. He looked over at me then panicked and took the seat farthest.

Ouch.

I tried not to let it bother me, or at least make it look like it wasn't bothering me. We met up in our groups and Calum of course didn't have anyone in his group so Carol moved him with us.

She gave us a sheet of paper with a few questions printed on it.

"Have you ever been to a therapist." I read the first one and looked up to see if they would answer.

Both of the stared down at their shoes, silent so I sighed and said, "Well I've never been to therapy."

"Me niether." Calum mumbled.

I turned to look at Luke and he just shrugged. I'll take that as a yes then moved on to the next question, "Do you think it helped or made it worse?"

Since I knew Luke wasn't going to answer that question I moved onto the next one, "Even in the first week are you able to see changes and has this group helped?"

I snorted and shoved at Calums shoulders, "How about you? You've kept your hands off of everyone."

Calum just turned bright red. I huffed in annoyance and turned to Luke who was staring at him with a guilty expression. They obviously know something I don't.

"Okay someone else read the rest." I said sticking my hand out so one of them could grab it.

Calum grabbed it from my hands and cleared his throat before reading, "Do you think you'll see better results with medication or-"

"Definitely not with medicine." Luke quickly said.

"Yeah... there's no medicine for me." Calum shrugged ripping at the corner of the paper.

Then Luke got up randomly and walked out the room. I hope he's just going to the bathroom or something and not leaving.

But this gives me the perfect chance to chew Calum out on why he's being so weird.

"What's your problem today?" I asked him.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

I rolled my eyes, "Don't lie to me. Did I do something?"

"No."

I sighed extremely loud. I know he and I aren't that close and all but if he's mad at me I'd atleast like to know why.

"Wait." I gasped, "Did you sleep with Ashton? Is that why you're all panicked? Is that why he's not here?"

"What? No!"

"Then just tell me what's wrong." I wined.

"I'm just tired, that's all." He said sounding like he didn't want to talk about it.

I knew he was lying but I don't want push it so I let it go after saying, "You don't know what tired feels like."