Broken Pieces {5SOS}

5: Same Old Hideout

*Kat's POV*

"So, what are we doing here?" I asked and smiled a bit.

"Hm?"

"Why are we at the park?" I asked.

"Oh, you don't remember this path?" He asked, dragging me along.

"It's kind of hard to know since you made me cover my eyes. Oh, and I keep almost falling." I said and he laughed.

"Alright, alright. Don't open your eyes. Just.. jump up a bit." He said and I shook my head.

"No way. I-"

"Jump onto my back. I'll make sure you won't fall." He said.

"I-"

"Do you trust me, Kat?" He said and I sighed before nodding my head.

"Yes, Calum. I trust you." I said and bit down on my lip.

"Then, just jump." Calum said and I jumped up, hoping that he would catch me, and he did catch me.

"Oh thank goodness. You caught me." I said and let out a sigh of relief.

"You didn't trust me?" Calum said in a fake pouty tone.

"I did. I was just a little scared. That's all." I said and he laughed a bit as he held onto me and started walking again.

"Yeah, yeah. I thought Katherine Maria Harlow never got scared." Calum said in a almost mocking tone.

"Calum Thomas Hood!" I screeched and slapped his arm. "Don't speak that name!"

"Hey, hey! I won't speak my name then-"

"I meant my name." I said and wrapped both arms around his neck.

"Oh my gosh. I didn't know." Calum said sarcastically. "I had no idea that you hate your name, baby girl."

"Calum. Where are you even taking me?" I whined, keeping my eyes closed.

"You're not peeking, are you, Katherine?" Calum said.

"If you call me Katherine one more time, I'll ruin your surprise by opening my eyes right now." I said and he groaned.

"Okay, okay. We're here, Kat. You can now open your eyes." Calum said and set me down.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw that we were standing in front of a pond, and there was a rock big enough for one of us to sit on, and there was so many pretty flowers surrounding us. We were at our old secret hideout.

"Calum!" I said and gently slapped his arm.

"Whaaat? Why'd you slap me?" Calum whined and rubbed his arm where I slapped him. "I thought you'd like this. This is where we met, after all."

"I'm sorry, Calum. I love it. This is just crazy, Cal." I said and he smiled as he looked at me.

"Didn't have to slap me for it. Geez. I almost forgot how violent you get when you get excited." Calum said and I giggled.

"Sorry." I said and leaned my head on his arm.

"I still don't like all this junk around us." Calum said and looked around. "But I know that you like it, so.."

"Gosh, Calum. It isn't junk. It's nature. Look, flowers, a pond, oh.. and the rock." I said, pointing out everything I said.

"I know, I know. I'm just not into this kind of stuff. I'm more into the-"

"Beach. I know. Just like the fact that I'd rather dance, you'd rather sing. I like reading, you like movies. I prefer popcorn, you prefer pizza. I-"

"Yeah, yeah. I get it. We have our differences. We always have, but isn't that how we get along so well?" Calum said and I nodded my head a bit.

"Yeah. I'm so glad you didn't forget me, Calum." I said and hugged him once more.

"I'm glad you actually did what the notes said. You've never been one for clichés." Calum said and I chuckled.

"I should've known it was you. You're into the sappy, romantic, cliché movies." I said and he put his hand over my mouth.

"Shh. No one is supposed to know that."

"No one ever comes this far from the park. No one can hear me, except for you, CT." I said and he grinned before biting down on his lip.

"What did you call me?" He said and I shrugged.

"I called you CT. Don't you remember that? I always called you CT, you always called me baby girl. We gave each other nicknames pretty much five minutes after we met." I said and he smiled a bit.

"I figured you'd probably forgotten that nickname.."

"How would I forget it?" I asked.

"Well, I know for sure you've most likely been keeping up with everything 5SOS, and so, I figured you probably got used to hearing me as Calum, or Cal, or CalPal, I don't know.. all those-"

"You will always be CT to me. You always have been. Okay?" I said and he smiled a bit.

"Thank you, Kat.. I-"

"Why do you like the nickname so much, anyway?" I asked.

"Well, as I recall, a certain little 5 year old girl came up to me and asked me my name when I was sitting right here." Calum said and sat on the big rock. "And I told her that my name was Calum Thomas Hood. So, she said-" He stopped the sentence, knowing I would complete it, since it was what I had said when we were 5.

"Wow, that's a long name. Can I just call you CT?" I said and sat next to him, reenacting the moment we first met.

"I think that'd be cool!" Calum said, acting like his five year old self. "Can I call you baby girl?"

"What? Why?"

"Because I heard that man call you baby girl.."

"That was my daddy."

"Well, I want to call you that too."

I laughed a bit and laid my head on his shoulder.

"That was fun. I remember that you used to call me baby girl just because my dad did. But, eventually, it became personally your nickname for me. I mean, dad still called me that too, but you said it in your own way. I-"

"Shut up, you talk too much, baby girl."

I laughed a bit as he laid his head on mine.

"Well, I'm sorry."

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Chapter song: History - 1D
Reason for the song: pretty sure that's self-explanatory.