Eccedentesiast || l.r.h.

Chapter 14 - Car ride

School was finally over and I was super excited for the weekends. Then I remembered my after school plans. How was I supposed to go to Michael's place without feeling a little different?

I also had a theory of which included Michael Gordon Clifford hating my guts. Mainly because I'm ripping his friendship with Luke, his best mate apart. Also, if there was a choice, he would choose Luke over me for sure.

I walked out of biology class with Calum. "Let's go put our books back in our locker and find the boys," he suggested. "Yeah okay," I agreed. What's great was his locker was like at least three lockers away from mine.

I decided my locker combination and chucked my books inside. "All done?" Calum stood at the side of my locker when I shut it close. "Yup," I nodded.

"Ashton's right there," he pointed to a boy with caramel curls at the end of the corridor. "Let's go," I said and put my hands in my pocket.

"Where's Luke and Michael?" Calum asked. At least I wasn't the one asking where either of them were. "They're coming," Ashton said. We waited for them for about fifteen minutes. And in that fifteen minutes, I let the cat out of the bag. "Do I look like I care more for Michael than any of you guys?" I blurted. "Umm," Calum answered and Ashton just looked at me, "I don't know, it's not that any of us mind anyway." "Luke doesn't seem to feel the same," I muttered. "What?" Ashton said, taking me more seriously now. "What do you mean?" Calum said and I let myself spill.

Michael showed up first, then Luke. Michael seemed fine. Even smiled directly at me. So was Luke. But he didn't smile at me. Not that I care or anything.

"Ready to go?" Ashton asked? And he had crumpled balls of paper ready in his hand. We did this almost every Friday. So Michael and Ashton both have cars. We always divide ourselves unequally and randomly by diving the five balls of paper into threes and twos and opening it up to see who ends up in each car.

Ashton divided it on his palm and one by one, we opened up the paper. It ended up as one group included me, Calum and Luke. The other included Michael and Ashton.

"Hey, We can't have two drivers in one car!" Calum said. True. We never really had this happen before.

"How about we make a trade," I suggested before anyone could. I needed my plan to work, but I didn't know if it would not given the amount of time.

"Hmm, let's bring Ashton over to our side," I carefully picked up Ashton's name and brought it over to my side, "And let's just," I pretended to close my eyes and let my fingers hover over Ashton's palm and picked out a paper that hopefully had Luke's name written on it. I crossed my fingers mentally and when I dropped the paper down on the other side, I was relived to see that Luke's name was now with Michael.

I turned to look at their expressions individually. Calum and Ashton looked agreeably neutral, Michael looked a little stunned and uncomfortable, but he also looked like he could roll with it, Luke on the other hand looked like he was not going to have it.

"Okay?" All of them nodded, even Michael, except for Luke, expectedly. "Why was I chosen randomly? Why wasn't Ashton or Michael chosen randomly too?" He argued. "Because we had to side it Luke," I reasoned with him. "Well why did you pick Ashton instead of Michael to be in that car," he pointed at the trio on Ashton's palm. "Why not?" I sassed. He sighed and finally dropped the topic.

"Guys?" I turned to Ashton and Calum for help. They already know the fall out between they're two mates, surely they know what I was up to. "Luke just go with it," Calum said. Ashton nodded as well, "What's the problem anyway?" He said which was a pretty good move and Luke had completely given up. He grabbed Michael by the collar of his denim jacket and walked over outside of where Michael's parked car was.

"Well that was shit," Calum said. "Yeah, a shit move," I sighed. I only wanted them to talk it over in the car. I only wanted to make things better. I might've done what more people would normally tell me, "Azalea/Luke, that's not really a good idea."

"Nah, they're going to have to get over it in the car," Ashton said. "What you did was brilliant," Calum complimented. "Thanks," I blushed and I didn't even care if it was noticeable.