Neighbours // c.h.

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"I have a question." Jenna finally managed to say.

"Go ahead."

"What happened to the tape?"

"I guess that while we were fighting, the flash disk that contained the video fell out of Luke's pocket and Paige took it, because he couldn't find it afterwards. But knowing Luke, he probably has another copy."

"Yeah, but nothing came up, right?"

"Not yet."

"And what about the band?"

"What about it?" Calum looked puzzled, as if the whole situation had no effect whatsoever over the band, or Calum and Luke's relationship for that matter.

"Don't you guys.. I don't kno-"

"That's different. When we first started the band we agreed that whatever happens outside the band, stays outside of it." Calum shrugged.

"Hmm, reasonable enough."

"So far it's worked for us."

"It's just that.. I can't believe it. He's an asshole."

"I told you you'll think differently of him."

"Oh no I always thought he was an asshole. It just didn't stop me from liking him." It felt wrong to say it aloud. She's never talked about it to anyone before, and the fact that her neighbour who seemed to be oblivious about everything had actually known about it all along made it even stranger.

"It's okay."

"Was it that obvious?" She felt silly for asking. If Calum figured it out, then everyone else has. Except for the asshole himself.

"Not really. I just notice a lot of things but never use them against people. Not like he does."

Yes, that was another thing about Luke. He had a brilliant ability to observe your greatest weaknesses and point them out, in the worst way possible. But since he had not done it to Jenna- yet, she didn't mind it.

"What I don't get is why did he even do it?"

"It's the obsession."

"Jenna, don't get all psychologic right now."

"But it is pshycologic." Jenna's expression suddenly turned very serious, while Calum scoffed at her words.

"Just hear me out. Luke is in love with the idea of being in love with Paige, that's just it. He knows she won't ever like him and that she was only doing it to get her father angry, and she made him miserable for years, so he decided to use it against her. In his head it's like 'I can give her the world, but if I can't have her for real then I'll break her'." She took a long breath and let her long analysis sink in.

"That actually makes a lot of sense. But guys aren't that complicated. I guess he was just very drunk at the time."

"And he was drunk while he threatened her of sending their sex video to the whole school? Yeah, right."

Calum didn't answer her. He really didn't want to continue this debate anymore.

They remained silent for a while, but it was okay. Jenna thought about all this new information. Somehow, she didn't feel like she cared that much. Deep down she knew things would get nasty because Luke wasn't the best at handling, well, anything. And that shit has been going on for a long time. It simply had to reach a breaking point, and that was it.

And as for Paige, the girl always managed to keep everything about her personal life secret- it became creepy sometimes. Therefore, Jenna was at least a ninty percent sure that sex tape won't be seen by anybody.

"However, something good came out of this," Calum chuckled, "We had to go to the nurse."

Oh,yes. The school's nurse, more like forty-five-year-old-and-still-hotter-than-every-cheerleader-in-the-school nurse. She was every guy's fantasy, and none of them were ashamed of it.

"You're disgusting."