small world | c.h

{ itsutsu }

brin woke up to the sound of chips crunching and she realized her playlist ended and she was starving. she looked around and still saw they were in the air and groaned. she looked to the left to see if calum was still there and for some reason, he wasn't. she tried her best to sit up and once she did, she tapped the screen in front of her to see how long they had.

"we have 30 minutes till we land," she heard her boss say beside her. brin looked over at her boss and saw that one headphone was placed behind her ear and she was eating some chips. brin stomach growled.

"you want some?" said her boss laughing, noticing she was starving. she pointed the bag towards brin and she instantly grabbed them, stuffing some into her mouth.

"did you not have anything for breakfast?" zoe asked. brin was about to answer until she noticed zoe look behind her and brin turned around, her face meeting calum's.

"have a good sleep?" he said, clearing his throat and pulling out his phone. brin looked as his hands were red and gripping his phone really tightly. she was going to answer but she cowered back into her seat. she was going to put in her headphones again until calum grabbed her wrist, her head immediately looking up at his.

"why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend?" he said quietly, his face seeming to look hurt. brin stared at him but he didn't look her in the eye. instead he looked at his hand grabbing onto her wrist.

"you didn't need to know."

"why not?"

"because calum," she pulled her wrist away. "it's my life now. you aren't in it anymore and i don't need to tell you everything about it." she looked at angrily and turned her body away from him. calum sighed, knowing that it was none of his business but he just loved her.

he sat beside michael who was quietly watching reruns of old pokemon episodes and calum did the thing he should've done two years ago and should've kept doing. he instantly went onto instagram and any twitter and typed in brinsley allen and instantly her beautiful face popped up, 2.3k followers and all. he looked through her pictures and smiled as she was so happy in all of them. her with her friends at a party, her and her friend cassidy(from which he remembered) hip to hip as they posed in front of the statue of liberty. she looked so happy. especially in this one specific picture. calum's heart dropped down all the way to his testicles and he could feel things bubbling in his throat as he stared at a picture of brin and this random fucker nose to nose underneath of a mistletoe with the caption "thanks santa". the caption made calum sick but he didn't think about that right now. he thought about how happy they looked. calum immediately shut off his phone and stuffed it in his pocket, cowering into his seat.

"what's up?" michael said taking out and earbud and turning to his friend.

"nothing."

"so, you and brin are up there by yourselves huh?" he said, looking calum up and down as he noticed calum tensing up at the mention of her name. "how is it that after two years you two managed to find each other and you're sitting next to each other?"

calum looked up at michael and looked back down at his feet. he didn't know exactly how to answer that. how is that two years ago they were so perfect but now they were complete strangers. calum played with his lip and Michael gave up trying to talk to him about brin and he turned back to his movie. calum rubbed his temples and sighed, tapping the arm rest before standing up and going back to his seat.

"brin," calum said before touching her hand. she pulled away and pulled out one earphone, her attention still on her phone. "i know it wasn't any of my business-"