drown × calum hood [complete]

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Chapter Twenty-Three: Growing deeper and deeper

he looks so sad noooooo

Dedicated to: iharpur101 even tho u don't read fanfic (???)

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×Calum×

A few days later, he got the news that Bella was in hospital because she had collapsed.

He didn't have his drivers license yet so he called Luke and begged him to come pick Calum up. Calum knew he sounded desperate, but he didn't care. He needed to see her.

When he got there, he was held back for not being a relative so he lied and said he was Bella's boyfriend.

He saw her lying on a bed, tubes in her arms and face and her face a deathly pale. The room was filled with the uneven beeping of the machine monitoring her heart. His own heart broke at the sight of her.

A woman who looked about 38 waddled in, a hand on her round stomach. She was like an identical twin to Bella and Calum immediately knew this was her mother.

She yelled at him in another language - Spanish? - until a small girl about 8 or 9 or 10 years old came in and tried to calm her down. Calum stood there, confused at what they were saying until a boy about 8 years came in and announced, "Mamá said she's sorry."

"Oh. Um, tell her I accept her apology...?" His statement trailed off into a question.

The small boy introduced himself as Leo, and said he would be Calum's translator.

Every time his mother said something, Leo would ask her something in Spanish where she would just nod, too upset to speak.

"Mamá says this is all her fault. I know it's not, but she doesn't believe me because I'm her son. Can you tell her?"

His English was kind of hard to understand with his thick Spanish accent but Calum could vaguely understand what he was saying. The boy could speak better than Calum ever could even though there were only five people in the room, including Bella.

"It's not your fault. She... She probably didn't want to tell anyone about this because of fear she would get kicked out."

Leo translated for his mother as Calum spoke.

"I know you love your children and you think this is your fault, but it's not, Ma'am."

Calum didn't know what to call Bella's mother, but she wiped tears from her eyes and smiled at him, saying, "I can see... why my daughter liked you."

And then she left after kissing his cheek and Bella's forehead, her two children following her.

He blinked in disbelief. Bella liked him?

[prepare for a speech]

"Uh, hi Bella. I know you probably can't hear me, and that this is like one of those cheesy cliché moments in the movie. Your little brother told me "Vela" means "candle" in Spanish. So I kinda want to say sorry for calling you candle.

"But candles are a good thing to have. They're like... they're like a necessity in life. Like when the lights go out the candle still burns bright. You're still happy in the worst times, and you support me and Mali through everything.

"This is so cheesy oh my God. But if you don't understand what I'm trying to say, I'm trying to say that... I-I love you. Even with your anorexia, I know you can make it. Stay alive for me, please. I know you can."

And a long, ongoing noise pireced through the room.

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wtf this was so long

thoughts on cal's little speech?

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