Torn

37 - Closure

The alarm blared out from Calum's phone on the bedside table and I groaned.

I turned over in the bed and opened my eyes. Light immediately flooded in and I regretted opening them instantly.

Calum was still sleeping peacefully, not fazed by the alarm still ringing from his phone.

"Cal." I whispered and the soft snores still escaped his perfect lips.

"Calum." No reply.

"Fuck this." I repeatedly poked him in his squishy cheek, and yet he still slept. I resorted to hitting him with my pillow. I hit him square in the face and he woke up immediately.

"What was that for?" He asked in his morning voice, it was so hot. Damn.

"Turn off the fucking alarm." I glared at him playfully.

"Were you incapable of doing that yourself."

"Yes."

"Your lucky your cute."

"Thanks." I smirked sarcastically.

"Why are we up so early?" Cal groaned.

"It's 9am.."

"I don't like sun until at least 12."

"Tough luck." I treaded carefully out of the bed, the cold tiles a shock to my feet.

Today was a day for adventure.

3 hours later

Calum was a sweaty mess. It felt like the first time I'd met him, when we were in the gym. He was still the same old slacker.

"We.. We did it." He reached his arms up weakly.

"Pfft I basically had to drag you up here." I laughed.

"It's a beautiful view though." He pulled my to his side, pressing a kiss to the side of my head.

We'd lost Luke, Mikey and Ashton somewhere along the way, I reckon they should have been here soon.

We were at the temple in Bali, it was so beautiful to look at but hell did it take a while to get up there.

"WE DID IT. FUCK YEAH." I could hear Mikey shout behind us. I turned and smiled at him, noticing it was just him and Luke. I presumed Ashton would not be far behind so I gently pulled myself away from Calum.

Ashton did not know about the relationship between me and Cal. Not that it was a relationship. We just really liked each other. A lot.

"Av can I have a word." Mikey asked me.

"Sure?" I furrowed my eyebrows together, why did Mikey want to speak to me?

He led me away from Calum and Luke to the other side of the ledge.

"You okay Mikey?" I asked.

"I want you to know the truth."

"About what?"

"Everything."

"Okay then."

"Bryana and Ashton never broke up. Ashton just said that because he liked you as well. He was stupid and he knows that so last night he did break up with her. I was there and saw him do it."

"So you knew and you never told me?"

"I found out same time as you, well when Calum told me anyway. Ash told me this last night." I was told.

"Okay. I understand that but what else is there you need to tell me?"

"You know when you were 10?"

"Yeah?" I was confused. What about when I was 10?

"I'm Michael."

"I know your Michael?" This boy was confusing me so much.

"No, I'm the Michael who dragged your dad off of you. I'm the boy next door. Only I'm not 3 years older, I was just tall for my age." He rambled.

This hit me hard. It was like I was being repeatedly punched in the heart but in a good way. It felt like all the weight was being lifted off of me. Finally after all these years, I had someone to thank for getting that monster away from me.

"Ava." Michael said, snapping his fingers in front of my face.

I hugged Michael so tightly, I think I cut off his circulation. But he hugged me back just as hard.

"Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou." I whispered into his chest.

"Don't thank me, it was years ago I just know you needed some closure."

"It's the best fucking closure I've ever had."

"Hey Ava will you take our photo?" My favourite Aussie's voice rang out.

"Sure, I'll be right there." I called back to him.

"Come on then darling." Michael said softly, pulling me back to the others.

"Right, all four of us are gonna sit on this ledge and you've got to take a picture of us from behind. Got it?" Calum babbled to me.

"Yeah I got it." I smiled at him.

Ashton had joined the boys at some point and he looked back at me with longing. I just ignored him.

The four boys settled onto the ledge and looked out to the distance.

I snapped the picture and looked at it.

Perfect.

4 hours later

We were now at a zoo. Well it wasn't really a zoo, I don't even know what it was.

Mikey had a monkey placed on his shoulder and I was trying to not laugh as I took the picture.

"Okay done." I giggled.

"Okay now get this fucking thing off of me." He said through gritted teeth.

A keeper came up behind him and carefully took the monkey off him.

"Ew that was awful." He wrinkled his nose.

"Looked it."

"Shut up."