|If You Love Me|✔️

Chapter 10

Calum
I hummed as I skipped down the hallway, looking for Michael or Luke. I couldn't find them and that made me frown.

I pulled out my phone and checked the time, it was lunch and Luke and Michael told me to meet them outside, but they weren't there.

"Slut!" I jumped at the loud voice and looked around, there was no one in the halls. I furrowed my eyebrows and turned the corner.

There were two jocks who had Luke pushed up against the wall, all three had a scowl on their face.

"Hey! Let him go! Now!" I yell without hesitating. They both look to me and laugh.

"What're you gonna do? Huh pretty boy?"

I laugh too and walk up to the guy that was holding Luke up, not even thinking before punching him right in the face. He stumbles back and I don't let him recover as I punch him again.

He drops to the floor and I get on top of him, hitting him repeatedly before his friend pulls me off. "Don't touch Luke again or I'll kill you!" I yell but he just wipes his nose and walks towards me while his friend holds me.

"Let him go!" Luke yells but before he can do anything the guy was up and landed a punch to my stomach. I whimper and then suddenly the arms that are holding me disappear.

I look down and Luke's on top of the guy, beating the crap out of him. Then before the second jock can do anything, Michael turns the corner and rushes over.

He pulls Luke off the guy and Luke just struggles to get free, trying to continue to beat the guy to a pulp. "He hurt Cally." Luke mumbles and I smile, grabbing his hand.

"I'm fine Luke." I mumble. He nods but doesn't look convinced.

"Let's just go before a teacher shows up." Michael says, not sure on what happened.

He grabs my hand and starts pulling us away, but the jock, helping his friend up mumbles "faggot." And that's all it takes for Michael to drop my hand and turn around.

"What did you just call us?" He asks calmly. The guy gulps but shrugs.

"I called you a faggot. You were-" he doesn't even finish his sentence before Michael punches him and he drops to the floor, out cold.

I have to bite my lip to stop myself from smiling as Michael walks back over and drags us away.

He doesn't stop at our usual spot where we eat lunch but instead keeps walking until we get to the parking lot.

"Michael? What're you doing?" I ask.

"We're skipping so I don't go back and beat those guys to death." Michael mumbles.

"Um...I have a detention after school." Luke mumbles and we both give him a confused look.

"Why? Didn't you have one Friday?" I ask and he nods.

"She um gave me another one because I skipped the detention before that and I was 2 minutes late." I shook my head and bite my lip.

"Ashton's gonna be so mad." I mumble but it comes out sounding kinda happy, which I might've been.

"You sound glad." Michael mumbles and raises an eyebrow. I blush and look away.

"Why would I be happy about that?"

Michael smirks but shrugs. "I can't imagine why."

Luke looks confused and raises a eyebrow at me. I just giggle.

Michael ends up bringing us to the coffee shop where we just hang out for the rest of the day.

It only takes a few hours for a fuming Ashton to come through the doors. He sits down, his teeth gritted.

"You guys skipped." He said and everyone stayed quiet. I played with my nails as I giggled and his head snapped up to me. "This is funny to you?"

"Well...I don't like school so I don't really care but it wasn't our fault anyway."

He glares at me, Luke shrinks back but I'm not fazed. "And how is not your fault?"

"Well I was just looking for Luke and Michael when I heard someone being a douche like usual and I-"

"No swearing." Ashton interrupted. I rolled my eyes and I could see his hands tighten into fists.

"Sorry. But like I was saying, I heard something so I checked it out and it was two guys being mean to Lukey. So obviously I defended him and one thing led to another and I might have hit the guy multiple times but then Michael showed up and everything was okay but Michael was mad and you know him and his temper so...yeah we left."

Ashton inhaled slowly and closed his eyes. "Are you guys okay?"

"He hit Cally." Luke mumbles and I shrug as Ashton looks at me worriedly.

"I'm fine, I did worse to him and besides, I got to get out of school so it's cool."

Ashton gritted his teeth again. "I understand that what he did was wrong but you should've went to the principle or called me."

I rolled my eyes again and he looked at Luke. "Can we switch seats?" Luke nodded quickly and moved while Ashton sat next to me.

His hand immediately went to my thigh and he squeezed. I squirmed a bit and decided to test him further. "I'm not a snitch, I wouldn't tell the damn principle anything and besides he wouldn't do a fucking thing."

Ashton gave me a look that shut me up, I had pushed him enough for today. And besides...he was going to punish me regardless.

Maybe Ashton will punish me like last time?

I guess we'll just have to find out.

My books always take a turn and go this way...oh well.

What do you think Ashton's gonna do??

Stay lovely🌹

-Olivia