Love Triangle | calum hood and luke hemmings

5: Oops

CARTERS POV

I wake up lying next to a sleeping Calum, and everything from last night comes back. The same two words come into my mind. Oh shit. But at the same time, I smile at the thought of what happened last night. 

"Calum." I shake him. "Calum."

He groans. "What?" 

"Time to get up," I whisper in his ear. 

He groans again and buries his head in my pillow.

Then he slowly turns his head and examines his surroundings.

"Wait..." he says, clearly confused. "That really happened?" 

I chuckle. "Yes, dork." He smiles. 

"Oh, shit," he says, but in a good way. "What time is it?"

I check my phone. "11:57." Then it hits me. Luke's picking me up in 3 minutes for our date.

"Fuck." I jump out of the bed.

"What?" Calum asks, worried.

"Luke's picking me up in 3 minutes," I explain There's a knock on the door. "Make that now."

"Shit," Calum says. 

"Carter?" Luke's voice comes through the door. "Carter?" I hear the front door open and then feet on the stairs. I begin to panic. 

"Fuck, Calum. Hide," I tell him. We're both in just our underwear, so I quickly throw a white t-shirt on.

"Where the hell am I supposed to hide?" Calum panics. 

"I don't know," I squeal. "The closet." Just as Calum begins to open the closet door to hide, Luke barges in. We all freeze, me in a t-shirt and my panties, Calum standing in plain sight in his boxers, and Luke with a shocked look on his face. 

"Oops," comes Calum's voice from behind me.

"What is this?" Luke exclaims.

"Luke," I say. His face shows anger, jealousy, and hurt. "Please, let me explain." I awkwardly pull a pair of black skinny jeans on.

"What are you gonna say?" he spits. "That you had no problem having sex with Calum, but you wouldn't do it with me because it's not fair?" He turns and walks out of my room. 

"Luke, please," I follow him out of the room. "It just happened all so fast. I didn't even realize what was happening."

But Luke isn't listening. He just keeps walking. Down the stairs. Out the door. To his car. 

"Please, Luke. I'm sorry!" I plead. He gets in his car, and I can see the tears streaming down his face. He starts his car and pulls away from me and drives away. I stand there, completely hopeless. I turn and head back inside. Calum stands there waiting for me. He looks at me with a sympathetic look and opens his arms. I rush to him, needing to be comforted. I begin to cry. Calum leads me to the couch so we can sit. He sits, me sitting on his lap, still wrapped in his arms. He strokes my hair. "Shhh," he soothes. "It'll be okay."  His presence calms me slightly and my crying comes to a stop. 

"Ok," he says. "I'll go ho-"

"No," I interrupt. "Please don't. I don't want to be alone."

He looks at me, a soft look. "Ok," he says lightly. He leans over so that we're lying on the couch, facing each other, our arms wrapped around each other. 

He kisses the top of my head. "It's gonna be okay." So we just lie there together.

LUKES POV

After I leave Carter's house, I go straight to Ashton's. He always knows what to do. I knock on his door. After a minute, it opens and there stands Ashton. He notices that something's off. 

"What's up?" he asks. I walk in and turn to face him. 

"I went to Carter's house to pick her up for our date, and I found her and Calum in her bedroom," I spill. 

"Oooooooo," Ashton responds. "Sorry, dude." I nod. "You need to talk to her, though. You can't solve a problem by avoiding her and holding a grudge. Especially to Calum. Calum likes her, just like you do, and would you have stopped with her because of him? I doubt it," Ashton says. "Just think about it, and process it before you get all upset. OK?" 

I nod. "Ok. Thanks, Ash."

"No problem, dude," he responds. I leave and get in my car, heading to Carter's for the second time.