Opposites Attract (Calum Hood A.U.)

Chapter 39.5 - Not Your Fault

June's POV

9 hours ago

Can we please move out?

9:32 pm

That was the text I sent my dad after I found out about Calum's engagement.

I didn't know where to go. I have to move out of his parents' house because I know he'll be there.

My dad called me moments after that text and he agreed to me about moving out. Well, he was at the party, so I'm pretty sure he saw the whole thing.

He still doesn't know about my relationship with Calum and I think it's better that way. He just knew that I would be hurt living in that house knowing I would be able to see him.

I told him I would be staying at a friend's house tonight when in fact I plan on staying with Calum, even for the last time.

And that's what happened.

Present time

8:30 am

Aunt Joy had been crying for about an hour now begging me not to leave the house. "June, can you please just stay? I won't let Calum near you, just stay?"

I hugged her and cried on my shoulder. I've come to love staying here and being with Aunt Joy most of the time, us being the only two women at home since Mali's still in London.

Speaking of Mali, I'm not sure if she knows about everything but if she did, I couldn't imagine how she would act.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Joy. This is for the best." She rubbed my arms and looked at me, "Just, take care okay? Call me everyday and you can always visit me. Why can't you just tell me where you two are going to live?"

I just shrugged and went outside to see my dad putting boxes in the moving truck. I looked around and to the house.

This was where it all started. The fights and all the shit.

I'm going to miss this place.

My dad bid farewell to Calum's parents and they both waved at me, Aunt Joy crying her eyes out, Uncle David seemingly to have an expression I couldn't decipher if it was sadness or guilt.

My dad and I got to his car and drove following the moving truck ahead of us.

"Are you okay?" I heard my dad spoke beside me and I just nod. I decided against telling him about my relationship with Calum because I know he'll be devastated even more than me.

I didn't want him to think Calum's a bad guy because he's not. He's the complete opposite of that. He just wanted to be happy and he wanted it with me but he chose to do the right thing even if it'll hurt him, and me, for that matter. It wasn't his fault. Nothing was his fault.

We decided to stay at our servo for the night until we could find a better place to stay.

Calum had been calling me since this morning. He probably freaked out when he didn't see me the morning after.

I know, I'm a terrible person for leaving him after just making love. But I couldn't stay.

Even my friends have been texting and calling. I haven't talked to any of them and it's eating me alive.

We then later arrived at the servo. It was already open given one of his helpers probably opened it.

We walked straight upstairs in a spare room and his helpers helped with bringing the boxes upstairs.

"June." I stopped when I heard my name being called from downstairs.

When I turned around, I saw him. I was shocked to say the least. How did he know I was here?

"What are you doing here?" I asked him and he walked closer to me.

"I need to talk to you."

"Well, I don't. So can you please, leave? And don't tell anyone you saw me here. Not even Calum." I discreetly and carefully told him, not wanting to get attention from the customers in the servo.

I started walking back upstairs when I felt him follow me. "Fine, follow me."

I walked to the back door of the servo instead of upstairs to have a little privacy.

"Now tell me what you want."

"I want to help you."

"Help me how?" I asked impatiently, just wanting to get this conversation over and done with.

"I'll help you with Calum. We could stop the wedding and you two will be happy together." I was shocked.

"Are you shitting me? Eric, Naomi's your cousin. And you hate our guts, why would you help us, now, huh? Is this some kind of a joke, are there fucking cameras in here? How the fuck did you find me here?" I rambled and my sudden outburst took Eric by surprise.

"No, I'm not lying to you, okay? I've done shit to you and Calum and I just want to make up for it. I regret everything I did. Calum had never been anything but nice to me but when it comes to you, it's different, he protected you. And I want that, too. Luke's right, just because I'm miserable, doesn't mean I have to make other people miserable, too."

I couldn't believe what I'm hearing right now. "I'm sorry and to make up for it, I'll help you stop the wedding."

"That's it, Eric. I don't want to stop the wedding."

He looked at me confused and I continued, "It's for the best and I-"

"It's Naomi's dad, isn't it?" I nodded and he sighed, "Calum's a good guy. And he deserves to be happy."

Before I could talk, he spoke again, "Let's do it."

"What?"

"Let's stop the wedding."

I didn't know he owe that much to Calum. Was he really that mean to him? From what I know and what I observed before, they were close before Eric became a jerk just this year.

Then it hit me, "Is there something you're not telling me?"

He was taken aback by my question and I wondered aloud, "There's another reason why you wanted to stop the wedding, not just because you want Calum and I back together."

He looked around like some lost puppy as if I already answered my own question.

"Naomi's not my cousin."

I looked at him confused as to why he even lied about that. I was about to ask him what's his relationship to her when he answered it already.

"She's my ex-girlfriend."

This time, I was the one taken aback by his words.

"And I want her back."

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A/N

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