ⓒⓞⓛⓞⓤⓡⓢ |c.h + l.h|

Chapter 10.

A/N: just a heads up, but there's mentions of underage drinking in this chapter and basically everyone's drunk. Just thought someone might like to know...

Calum glanced around the room full of sweaty bodies and flashing lights and wished he was anywhere but here. Everyone seemed to be drunk, even though most of the people here were underage.

In fact, Calum seemed to be the only one that wasn't intoxicated, and he could actually tell his left hand from his right. Well, Luke also wasn't drunk, and he was leaning against the wall on the opposite side of the room, casually talking to some guy. Not that Calum was watching Luke for the whole night or anything. He was just simply... observing.

Then Calum saw Luke whisper into the guy's ear and no, Calum wasn't jealous. And he still wasn't jealous when the guy giggled and smiled sweetly at Luke. And he most certainly wasn't jealous when Luke kissed the guy softly, before they pulled apart and the guy walked away into the crowd and Luke just smiled softly as he watched him.

Calum just isn't the kind of person to get jealous, okay? Luke can do whatever he wants, and Calum accepts that because
A) Calum doesn't own Luke 

B) Calum will never own Luke because Luke is an independent individual human being and Calum would never degrade someone by claiming that he 'owns' them.

Okay so maybe Calum is a bit of a social justice warrior. And maybe, just maybe, Calum is a small bit jealous but shhhh.

Suddenly, someone tapped on Calum's shoulder and Calum turned around and lock eyes with...Aaron? Wait what's he doing here?

"Hey Cal. How's everything going? Oh my gosh I haven't seen you in ages! Wow you've changed so much darling!"

Calum mentally facepalmed. Aaron's totally out of it. "Aaron, you saw me today. On our date. You know, just a few hours ago."

"Oh yeah...Well you look kinda hot today. But do you see that dude over there?" Aaron giggled.

"There's so much people here. What dude?"

"Ugh Calum the one over there," he pointed somewhere across the room really vaguely.

"Oh, yeah. What about that dude?" Calum pretended to know who Aaron was talking about so he wouldn't have to stand here all night.

"Yeah...He's kinda hot too."

"Oh cool. You wanna go talk to him then?" Calum wasn't even remotely jealous, okay?

"Nah. I was talkin' to him earlier. He's so pretty," Aaron sighed.

"Okay..."

"Oh Calum don't worry, you're pretty too! You're really really really pretty!"

Calum laughed lightly. Aaron doesn't know what he's saying because he's so drunk. "Okay Aaron."

"C'mon Calum, I need to get another drink. You want one?" Aaron said, grabbing Calum's hand and tugging on it.

Calum didn't actually plan on drinking tonight, but maybe he'll just let loose tonight. Just this once. So he let Aaron drag him through all the people and into the kitchen.