Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter seven ○

"Willow! Ruby!" Cassie yelled when she saw her two best friends. They were standing at the airport waiting for their best friend to arrive. She ran over to them and hugged them tightly, these last few days had been eventful and tiring, she just needed her two best friends right now.

"Tell us everything!" They immediately yelled while holding on to Cassie tightly. "Let's go home first." She grinned and looked at her security, who nodded when Cassie called him over. Willow and Ruby looked at him for two seconds but then realized it was needed, since it was going crazy outside.

"Just follow his lead," Cassie whispered and the two girls nodded.

After getting ushered into a cab after almost getting harassed, they were ready to go to Cassie's house. "When are you going to talk?" Willow said, poking Cassie's side. "When we get to my house." She said and let her head fall back slightly.

Her phone lit up, signaling she had gotten a text from somebody but she was too tired to care at the moment. When two other texts got delivered and she still didn't answer, she got a call. She groaned when she saw it was Luke.

After their weekend in New York, she really had enough for a while. She had opened up too much all at once and he now knew too much. They had promised to keep it business but they were totally not keeping it business. They talked too much, the both of them.

Two people, desperate to talk about their feelings. And then alone in a hotel room, you couldn't even stop it if you tried.

"Yes?" She said to answer the phone, Willow and Ruby looked at their best friend while she was on the phone. "Why aren't you replying?" Luke groaned on the other end. "Gosh, sorry, what?" She groaned back when she heard a lot of sounds coming from the other end of the line.

"Luke I can barely hear you what's going on?" She said, furrowing her brows. A sweet voice was heard in the background. "I can't believe you," Cassie spoke and then hung up. "Okay, now you have to tell us what's going on," Ruby said and Cassie nodded.

When they finally walked through the door of Cassie's apartment, they all sat down on the couch and it was quiet for a second. "Talk!" Willow then yelled and Cassie nodded. "Okay, let me finish talking before you say something back." Cassie said and stared out of her big window.

"I got hired by my dad to fake-date Luke, for the upcoming year." Cassie started but already got up to walk over to her fridge so she could get a water bottle. "He wanted me to fake-date him because of the trouble he has gotten himself in to, after the incident at that club not too long ago."

"So since when are you Robin's pet instead of daughter, last time I heard you talk about Luke, you said you hated him." Willow spat at her best friend. "Gosh, harsh." Ruby said, staring at Willow.

"Look, I can't say everything, I'm actually breaking the rules by telling you two." Cassie started talking. "If you tell anybody, the contract will get broken and I will have to pay everything back." She groaned an let her head fall back.

"Why would you do this?" Ruby said, a touch of care in her voice. "I had no choice, okay?" Cassie said, her phone ringing again. "Now if you will excuse me, just order like pizza or something." She said, getting up and walking out of the living room, up the stairs and in to the room furthest away from the living room.

"What?" She spat when she answered. "Cas." Luke started. "No, don't you dare call me Cas, you don't have that right and you never had and never will." She said. "Sorry." He replied. "It was just," he said, not quite knowing how to work out this sentence. "Calum met this twin and they-" Luke started saying, getting completely off track.

"You know what, Cassie. Stop being such a hypocritical bitch and give me space. You've been super clingy and it's freaking annoying, I don't have to explain myself to you, I can do whatever the heck I want, if the paps don't know than that means nothing has happened." Luke said, and then hung up.

Cassie let her body hit her bed, and closed her eyes for just a few seconds. A long and deep breath came out of her mouth and she just relaxed for a while. "Why am I doing this to myself?" She said and got up to walk in to her bathroom.

She stared at her reflection in the mirror, realizing this is definitely not the end of the world. "Stop being such a pain in the ass, let him go crazy." She said to herself and then walked out of the bathroom and over to her closet.

She just needed the perfect outfit, and her friends to play along, and this would mean she was going to play fire with fire.