Forced Score ~ A Calum Hood Story

Chapter 8

Laylas POV

        We had gotten dressed and into the car beginning our journey towards the beach. We made small chat for a little playing a quick game of 20 Questions while before I decided to take a quick nap.

~~~~~~

        “Layla, wake up were here” I stretched out. I quickly sat up hitting heads with Calum.

    “Im so sorry.” I told him, rubbing my own head.

        He chuckled, “Its okay.” He got out of the car going around to the boot to get the towels and such. I stepped out of my side going around seeing if there was anything left that I could help him with. He grabbed my hand, creating tingle throughout my whole body. Why does he do this to me? I don’t think that im supposed to actually get feeling from him. I let him lead me onto the beach, and we find a spot to lay our towels down. I slip off my tee shirt and shorts leaving me in just my favorite pink bathing suit. I grabbed the sun screen from my bag, spraying it onto my arms and legs.

        “Calum can you spray this on my back please?” He agrees spraying it on my back and rubbing it into my shoulders. He asks me to do the same and I agree, before I decide to lay out on my blanket and attempt to get a tan. After laying there only a few minutes I feel my body being picked up. I open my eyes and see Calum running with me towards the water. I start squirming and screaming ‘no’, but before I can get out of his grasp I am thrown into the chilly water. I come up and glare at him laughing at me. I swim over to him and jumped on him, dunking him under the water. He came back up coughing, making me laugh.

        “Why’d you do that?” He asked me, trying to look mad.

        “You threw me in first.” He pouted, before a devilish smirk formed on his face. Before I knew it, he had picked me up again and we were both under the water again.  He came up smiling again.

        “Now we’re even.” I shook my head, laughing.

~~~~~~~

        We swam around, dunking each other and just having a good time for about an hour before we both got tired and decided to head up towards our towels. We dried off, and calum suggested that we go and get some dinner since we had skipped lunch. I nodded, putting my clothes on over my damp bathing suit and picking up my wet towel. Calum grabbed it from me slinging over his shoulder along with his, grabbing my hand again. We walked to the car in a comfortable silence. He threw all our stuff into the car, we decided to go to a restaurant near here that calum had heard about. He held my hand as we made the short way to the small restaurant. Once we made it, they sat us immediately, our waiter coming over quickly.

        “Hello my name is Walter and I will be your server today. Can I get you guys something to drink?”

        “Sprite please.” I politely answered him.

        “I will have the same.” He left to go and fill our orders while we looked over the menu. I found a few things that spiked my interest, before I decided. Walter came back with our drinks setting them on the table and asking us about our food.

        “I will have the fish and chips.” I smiled. He nodded writing down my order, turning to Calum.

        “I want the Cheeseburger with no onion please.”

        “Okay. I will get those right in.” he smiled taking our menus with him.

        “I never got the chance to tell you but you were amazing out there yesterday. I was very surprised by how good you actually were. I had heard you were amazing but I didn’t think you were that good.” Calum complimented me.

         “Thanks. I started playing at 3, and I guess I have gotten quite a bit better since then.” I blushed.

        “You know I’m quite good too. I went to Brazil last year to represent Australia.”

        “Seriously?”

        “Yup!” he smirked.

        “Then why are you still here? Shouldn’t you be somewhere playing?”

        “My band has started to gain more popularity recently and I couldn’t juggle both anymore. I had to choose between them, and I chose music.”

        “Oh. That would be a very tough decision.”

        “It was, but I had my mates and family to help me.” I nodded in response not sure what to say. “So have you gotten any calls from people asking you to play for them yet?”

        “Nope. Not yet at least.” I shrugged. “My mum won’t let me leave before I graduate which makes it harder cause most teams training camps are in May and June. I’m still in school then.”

        “If you get the opportunity why don’t you just graduate early? Your already in the last semester, and basically all those classes are just knock offs. Just ask to take your finals early. I’ll help you study for them, and then when you pass your graduated.” He shrugs.

        “That’s a good idea. I’ve never thought of that. Now I only have to get an offer.”

        “Well if you keep playing like you did yesterday you will definitely get an offer soon. I have no doubt in my mind.”

        “Thanks. I really doubt it though there are way better players than me who they are probably looking at.”

        “You never know. It never even crossed my mind that the Australian team would be looking at me till I got that call that night. Maybe they have scouts out there watching every game. You just don’t know.”

        “I guess so.”

        “When’s your next game?”

        “Tuesday I believe, I also have one on Thursday.” I told him skeptically.

        “Do you have practice tomorrow then?”

        “Yup.” I sighed.

        “Well then if you’re up for it after practice maybe me and you could play against each other. I could show you some of my skills.” He Smirked.

        “Oh. You are on.” I smirked back. He obviously has no chance.

        Before calum could comment back Walter brought us our food and we both digged in. Not bothering to talk and eat. When we finished Calum paid and took my hand again leading us towards the car.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

        When we got home I was surprised to see that no one was there and that the place was spotless. I went straight to my room, changing out of my bathing suit and into a comfortable pair of shorts and a tee shirt. I checked the clock and noticed that it was already 9. I guess we had spent more time at the beach than I thought. I decided to get a glass of water and tell Calum goodnight before heading off to bed.

I crept down the stairs heading straight to the kitchen and grabbed a plastic cup filling it with water. I then went to the living room seeing calum sitting on the couch shirtless watching some show.

        “Goodnight.” I smiled, leaning against the door.

        “Night.” He smiled at me.

        I went back up the stairs, and crawled into bed, setting my alarm clock before falling into a deep sleep with Calum on my mind.