drown × calum hood [complete]

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Chapter Thirty-Three: Hold my breath and let it bury me

r u kidding me we have 2.5K reads wat

Dedicated to: I_Read_Fadedlines bc boyxboy yes

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×Bella×

She woke to a cold bed and a cold, thin layer of sweat covering her body.

She was still dressed in her jeans and blue flannel which were sticking to her skin because  of her sweat.

She pulled her flannel off first and then her jeans, leaving her in only her shirt and underwear.

Sighing, Bella lay down again and stared at the ceiling. Her dream had been one of the weirdest yet, being about Calum.

Grumbling to herself, she pulled the blanket off and tiptoed to what she thought looked like Calum's room.

Knocking on the door with her knuckles as quietly as she could, she heard a small, "Come in."

She pushed the door open - which creaked extremely loud - and pulled her shirt down.

Calum looked at her, shining his phone screen to see who it was.

"Oh, hey."

"Um. Could I come in?"

He let out an almost silent laugh. "I said to, didn't I?"

Mentally facepalming herself, she shut the door behind her and tugged her shirt down again, sitting in the moon chair.

"You don't have to be scared."

Bella scoffed. "Why would I be scared?"

In the dim moonlight she saw Calum shrug. He gestured for her to come over and she sat beside him, crossing her legs. He wrapped his arm around her waist and nuzzled his face into her neck, pressing a kiss to her sweaty skin.

"Why are you sweating?"

"I- um, I got hot."

"Why didn't you take your blanket off?"

Why didn't you take my clothes off? She blushed at the thought that sounded so dirty but was meant to be in the most innocent way possible.

"I couldn't be bothered."

He gave her a chuckle before brushing his eyelashes against her neck.

"Liar."

Now it was her turn to laugh.

"I'm not lying."

She was.

"Whatever you say."

He lifted the blanket so she could climb in and she was engulfed in warmth.

"Cuddle?" Calum's voice was so babyish it was cute.

"No."

"Pweeeease." He nudged his face in her neck and whimpered like a puppy.

"Make me."

"Naw, you're no fun." Calum pouted and folded his arms in front of his chest.

"Sowwy."

She wrapped her arms around his torso and buried her face in his shoulder.

"You're warm," she commented.

"Thank you."

He pressed a light kiss to her temple before he lay down, pulling Bella down with him.

"Get some sleep, yeah? I'll see you in the morning."

She sighed in acknowledgement before closing her eyes once again, seeing complete darkness.

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ok i apologize for this chap bc it was rushed and a filler and i have been having such a bad writers block you guys don't even know

also, i have a new book called "gender fluid" for malum and i'll be posting the first 5 chapters very soon so make sure to look out for that!! :-)

qotd: what's your name? (and if it's in a different language which language is it?)

[mahina obvs and it's māori. mahina means twilight and mahinarangi (my full name) means twilight sky]

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-mahina xx