MAZES | cake ✓ | warning:shitty!

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another continuation of last chapter!
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luke in this story is the one on the left lmao

you might hate me for this chapter haha enjoy
~ gia :) :)

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It was a moment of pure, utter silence. The silence was so much, absorbing Calum in his nerves and he could practically feel every boys' heartbeat in the abode. The tension was palpable. The moment the viperwolf blood slid down Luke's throat, the blond boy's breathing stopped.

Completely stopped.

"No, no, no, nonononono," Calum was buzzing, tears pricking his eyes as he watched Luke's head fall back, as if his neck had been snapped.

He tried to scramble towards Luke, but Shawn and another boy who had arrived held him back by the crook of his arms, and Calum fell to his knees, sobbing.

"No, no, no, please, no," Calum's shoulders shook with sobs as the med-jacks around Luke began to frenzy, trying to coax him into waking up like a real doctor would, trying to figure out what's wrong with an unconscious patient.

"A-Ashton! D-Do som-something-g," Calum hiccuped, tears blurring his vision. Luke's bloodied skin was pale, his lips parted and his eyes glazed over.

"H-He can't d-die, no, no, no, H-he's—" Calum was cut off by another sob as he buried his face in his hands, his head spinning. He felt Shawn bend over behind him and began to gently caress his back, murmuring quiet 'shh's' to Calum but everything was blurred out.

He never told Luke that he loved him.

And now he was fucking gone. That's what it seemed like. He wasn't breathing, anyway.

"H-He's my e-everything," Calum whimpered, his voice raspy and croaking, dry and brittle. He felt as if his heart had been ripped in two, his throat tight and chest burning as if one of his ribs had broken and was tearing his heart into pieces — He was falling apart on the inside.

"Calum, shh," Shawn coaxed, gently, trying to sooth Calum but that's when Calm shoved Shawn away, making the co-chief fall right back on his arse, and slid forwards on his knees, pushing by the three med-jacks that surrounded Luke and cupped Luke's cold face with his hands. Cold.

"No, please," Calum cried, softly though. Tears stained his cheeks and fell down onto Luke's cold hands that were sprawled to the side. He felt Ashton put a hand on his back and lightly rub up and down just like Shawn did, and that's when Calum broke.

Completely snapped.

"L-Luke, I know you can't hear me, but," Calum gulped down the lump in his throat and put his hand on Luke's, twining their fingers. Tan skin contrasted pale, a beautiful and milky mixture of opposites, just like their star-crossed love. Someone like Luke falling in love with a frail, lost boy (no song reference intended heh) like Calum – Polar opposites.

Luke was still naked, and he was bleeding through the bandages and while Calum spoke softly to Luke's unknowing body, the med-jacks shuffled around him, dabbing at the sodden bandages with the same cold cloth they had used before.

"Please, please don't leave me. You promised you wouldn't leave me," Calum stroked the back of Luke's hand gently, still kneeling beside him. "You said you loved me."

Calum closed his eyes slowly, sniffing. Tears beaded on his eyelashes and when he closed his eyes, those tears rolled down his cheeks, slowly.

"I'm so sorry I took you for granted. I'm sorry for letting this happen to you, I'm so, so sorry Lukey." Calum was on the verge of sobbing again as his throat tightened, his voice cracking with the effort of trying not to break down.