Do Opposites Really Attract? {Malum}

Chapter 9

Michael's P.O.V.

It took me a few seconds to process what had occurred. Once I did, I gently pushed Luke off of me. I looked in his eyes, shock evident in my features.

"I mean this in the nicest way possible, what the fuck?"

"I don't know what came over me. You were there and I'm sad and you just looked so kissable. I'm sorry Mikey," Luke apologized.

"So what you are telling me is you used me to make yourself feel better? Wow. Nice to know how little you think of me," I joked with the blonde.

"Cute," he replied sarcastically.

"Clearly. Would you have kissed me if I wasn't?" Luke groaned in response to my comment. "I do hope you realize that I will hold this against you for a while, right?"

"Sadly, yes."

"Good. So do you want to talk about what happened?"

"It wouldn't hurt," he replied before he told me about Ashton. "So for the past two years I have had a huge crush on him. He's such a sweetheart and he's also really attractive, like I want to sit on his face attractive. It was just a silly little crush until we had gym class together last year. He would act all flirty with me in the locker room while we were changing. He would smirk at me when I would take my shirt off, or his eyes would travel down to my lower half and he would bite his lip. When we would play sports, which I suck at, he would try and help me learn how to do things. When he did that he was always so touchy-feely. He always had his hands on my, whether it was helping me properly hold a basketball or having his hands on my back to steady me while I failed at kicking a soccer ball. I always felt as if there was something between us, but neither of us acted on it. Even this year he would send a little smirk my way when we would walk past each other in the hall. Seeing him kiss Calum hurt. I always thought we had a chance, but clearly we don't. He's with Calum. Why would he want to be with me anyway. I'm just the freak who almost killed himself at a party last year. Who would want to be associated with that."

"I would. Well, in a friendship way. Luke you are awesome. If he can't see that you are way better than Calum, then he's the biggest idiot I know. And if he was leading you on, then he is the biggest asshole I know. You will find someone who is right for you. Maybe it isn't him, maybe it is. But as long as you don't try and kiss me again I'll help you find that out."

"Thanks Mikey, that means a lot to me. And can you please shut the fuck up about me kissing you. I was sad and you were cute, so actually it's your fault." He pouted as he said that, which caused me to laugh. He soon burst out laughing as well.

"So," I said once the laughter died down, "why don't we cuddle and watch a movie until your mom gets home."

"I like the sound of that," he answered with a smile.

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I woke up to a weight on my numb arm and hair tickling my chin. I looked down to see Luke cuddled up against me in his sleep. I smiled to myself as I looked over at the clock on Luke's bedside table. Sadly in was 6:30 in the morning. I figured at some point during our seemingly endless movie marathon Luke and I fell asleep.

As I shifted slightly in an attempt to regain feeling in my arm, I heard the bedroom door open.

"Good, you're awake," Mrs. Hemmings said to me as she walked into the room. "How is he. I know how much he liked Ashton. This must have torn him to bits."

"Yeah, he was really upset. But I feel like when I spoke with him about it, it helped him a little bit. He seemed okay when we were watching movies."

"Good. I'm glad. Luke needs a good friend like you. He doesn't have that many after what happened last year."

"What did happen last year? I've hear people mention it, but Luke hasn't told me yet."

"I know he would prefer to tell you himself, so I will just tell you that he was in a really bad place after his father left last year. He made some bad choices, one of which lead to him accidentally overdosing on prescription pills. I know that he didn't mean to do it, but not everyone else knows that. They reacted pretty poorly, and he lost some of the people closest to him. He's fragile Michael. Be careful with my baby boy. Now you should wake him up so you two can go to school today. You already missed yesterday, you can't miss another day," and with that she walked out of the room.

"Lukey, it's time to wake up," I said while shaking his shoulder lightly. He groaned in response, shooing me away. I continued to shake his shoulder to get him up for school, until a pillow hit the side of my head.

"You little shit," I laughed at the smiling boy beside me. We burst into a fit of giggles for a few minutes after that. "Okay Lukey, we have to get up now."

Reluctantly, he got out of bed and rummaged through his dresser drawers. After a minute or two I was hit in the face again. I picked up what was thrown at me to see it was a pair of boxers and a Green Day shirt.

"Hey, you are not going to school in what you wore yesterday."

I thanked Luke, then proceeded to get changed. Luke did the same. Once dressed we went downstairs to see pancakes piled high, topped with assorted berries.

"I hope you boys are hungry," Mrs. Hemmings said with a smile. "I made a ton of pancakes and I don't think I can eat them all myself."

We immediately sat down and began to stuff our faces with the pile of food on the table. Once we finished, Luke gave his mom a kiss on the cheek and we were off to school. The entire walk to the hell hole we listened to Good Charlotte and sang along.

When we got into the school neither of us were looking forward to what was to come. We both had to get all of the work we had missed yesterday, so we parted ways once we entered the building.

Eventually the bell rang, signaling first period was going to start. I walked towards the physics room, dreading the fact that I had to sit next to Calum.

Of course, the second I walked into the room he was already in his seat, smirking at me with a devilish grin. I rolled my eyes at him and took my seat, ignoring his existence to the best of my abilities.

The second bell rang, signaling the period had begun. Ms. Kaplan stood up from her desk and walked to the front of the classroom.

"Good morning class," she said unenthusiastically.

"Good morning," the class mumbled back.

"Today I will be assigning a partner project," and cue the groans of the students. "It can be on any topic that we have learned so far this year. You will have to create and experiment to prove the laws of physics in your topic to be correct. I will be assigning partners for this project, so listen up so you can hear who you will be working with."

She began to ramble off names of students I didn't know, pairing them together. I honestly wasn't looking forward to this stupid project. It would require making friends, something I'd rather not do. I continued to ignore her, until my name was called.

"And Michael Clifford, you will be working with Calum Hood."

A/N look at me another update whoop. See, Luke and Mikey kissed for a reason, just like Ash and Cal. So you kinda learned what happened with Luke. Any thoughts on that? Thank you so much for reading guys. It really means a lot to me <3
- Kitty