Masterpieces {Book 2}

Heat (part 2)

yall seemed to like this so here's part two!

Summary:

Luke and Calum's relationship's changes with time, in good ways and bad ways.

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What Calum didn't tell him the night they were out, chatting in the parking lot, is that he actually lives in the region too. Luke learns about this when the two of them are on the phone, a few days later. Calum owns an apartment in the nearest city center, and even if he doesn't put it into words like this, Luke guesses it's in a rich area. The tiny studio flat he rents himself, for an already outrageously enormous amount of money, is much further from the business district. He briefly wonders how come Calum spends his holidays in such a lost part of the country, but the young man gives him a clear explanation. He's sick of the city. It makes Luke smile. Calum tells him it amused him that they ended up meeting each other during the holidays when they both live in the same city.

                The following week, Calum takes him to the beach. Unlike Jamie and his friends, he's not in the surfing club, though he used to be and he even offers Luke to teach him a few things. But Luke already knows it would be a disaster and he declines, so instead they go swimming and play volley. It feels weird because a group of people their age they don't know welcome them on their sand field happily and a girl with long auburn hair brushed until it shone keeps flirting with Calum, who has to deal with it embarrassedly. Luke wants to laugh when he imagines the face the girl would make if she knew how Calum and he have been going at it for the past few days.

                July will soon come to an end and the two of them decide to actually date. It's not a stressful situation since Luke knows they'll still be able to meet even after the holidays, in the city or in the countryside. Two days after the beach, Luke, Calum, and their group of friends decide to have a night out and to go to a club. Luke is starting to discover how much Calum loves to get drunk. Luke and his friends drink at parties or when they have nights out, but Calum – Calum drinks at home too. That night, they all squeeze up in two cars and drive to the club, which isn't that far from the Luna Park. It's surprising to see it. It seems to appear out of nowhere, in the middle of the countryside, by a quiet winding road. But many other cars and bikes are already parked there when they arrive, and it's not even midnight yet. Luke's heart quivers with anticipation.

                Jamie is here, Jake too, and Finn, Michael, Ashton, as well as the small guy with glasses, whose name is actually Nathan, but the others call him Nate. Scott couldn't come because of a date with his girlfriend. Luke and the others head to the door of the club, and whoever was supposed to check their IDs isn't doing his job really well. But all of them are legal so it doesn't matter much. The first thing Calum does is head to the bar, to "start the night in due form". Jake agrees with him frighteningly fast, and Luke ends up dragged to the bar as well, and receiving a glass full of a red cocktail he doesn't know, and it burns his throat like fire. The music isn't actually music here. It's more like heavy bass and a bit of electronical drums from time to time. But Luke somehow finds himself liking the place.

                They've all been dancing for almost an hour when Calum starts kissing Luke absently in the middle of the dancefloor, and Luke kisses him back with little giggles. He's feeling hot. Jake is gone, with God knows who. "Toilets," Calum says, and Luke smiles. He watches him go, and someone pats his shoulder. Luke turns around. It's Nathan, with his hair darker and messier than ever, and his glasses casting a funny shadow on his face. He's smaller than Luke, slightly thinner, but his eyes sparkle with intelligence.