Bully||Calum Hood

eleven

*Katie's POV*

I stood up in shock, I thought I had locked the door but obviously I hadn't.

"Calum-get out-" He still had his hands covering his face probably scared incase I was doing the toilet or something.

He slowly moved his hand away and I hid the blade behind my back as I pulled down my sleeve, holding the ends. I honestly couldn't deal with any more drama today.

He looked to my arms then at me.

"Katie..why do you always wear long sleeves?" He followed me out the bathroom as I sat on my bed.

"Because of you..." I whispered, not wanting to face him.

"What?.." He asked looking.

"Doesn't matter" I mumbled pulling at my sleeves, "Look thank you for everything tonight I appreciate it but I'm just really tired, I want to sleep" I said shifting in my position.

"No, Katie.." Calum said causing me to look at him, "I need to apologise."

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Calum decided it would be better to get out for some fresh air, I think we both really needed it, I was hesitant at first but Calum basically dragged me, so we were at the park. Of course it was extremely quiet seen as it was around 2am.

"So, why are we even here? If this is some stupid prank for everyone to laugh at me, can we get it over with so I can go home?"

"Why do you expect that this is a prank?" He asked looking at me as we walked.

"Are you seriously asking me that right now?" I said scoffing and shaking my head while kicking some stones.

"Look I'm sorry for everything Katie, I know I've treated you like shit for years now and you didn't deserve any of it-"

"Well if I didn't deserve any of it, then why'd you do it?" I asked looking at him.

"It's stupid and doesn't matter" Calum said.

"No, well, actually it does matter and I think the least you could do is tell me. I'd like to know why I've been treated like a worthless piece of shit for the past three years" I said.

"Do you remember when we were young?" He asked me sitting down on the bench as I sat at the other end and slightly nodded.

"Your mother and mine were great friends" I said.

"Yeah, so I would always be at your house, and yeah we were only six or seven but we got along great" He started as I thought, I hadn't really ever looked back into my past before but now I was I did remember Calum.

I nodded and urged for him to go on, "And well I guess you could say I had a crush on you" He said looking down "And it didn't exactly go away..."

I sat there speechless, what was I meant to reply to that? This didn't change anything, of course I was still annoyed.

"Okay well that's um.. what does this have to do with you bullying me?"

"I did it because I liked you" He said hesitantly as if he was keeping something from me.

"Okay, that's a load of bullshit, if you like someone, you tell them, you don't fucking bully them!" I shouted at him, laughing slightly.

"No ju-"

"I'm not finished" I interrupted, "Do you even realise what you have done to me? I've been going home from school for years feeling like shit. I would go home and I would sit and think what I had done to make basically the whole school hate me and now you're telling me it was because you liked me?" I stood up letting my anger out.