No Sharing Allowed \Muke/

41. Elevated or Elevator?

~Dedication: skyscrapermgc ashtonscuterthanyou OMFG1MUKE Ty_loves ~

Thank you so much to these four individuals for being understanding and sticking with this book and for (hopefully) not hating me for my poor planning and attention to this book. I love you so much and there are so many others who've been so great as well and I will make a whole fucking update for those people but for now I hope this is okay. I love you guys<3

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-Michael's POV-

"You've got to be kidding me, right?" Calum asks with disbelief. "You better not be engaged with him, Michael."

"What do you mean?" I ask with irritation. Who is he to tell me who I can and cannot get engaged to? It's not like we ever dated and we've only just met each other recently. 

"Michael he practically abused you! No fuçk that he did abuse you! How could you stay with him after he did so much shit to you?" he asks bewildered and throws his hands in the air. "It makes no sense, I mean I wanted you guys to work things out but come ON. This is just ridiculous." 

"It may make no sense to you Calum but what I do with my relationship with Luke is up to me and him, not you." I say with an edge to my voice.

"Cal, can we please not fight? Luke is already going to be pissed when he finds out I'm talking with you." I say gently but Calum simply shakes his head.

"See this is exactly what I fucking mean, Michael. We can't even have a simple conversation without Luke flipping his shit." Calum points out and even though he's right it doesn't mean he can shit talk Luke like this.

"Listen, Calum, I really want to be friends with you and I really care about you but I don't need your help when it comes to Luke. I have things under control and Luke is trying his best to change." I explain quickly but I can even hear in my own voice how hard I'm trying to convince Calum that my relationship with Luke is fine. Honestly, it is fine. We just have our... ups and downs but whose relationship doesn't have that?

"Okay, Michael just hear me out. You and Luke have a relationship based upon possession. Luke doesn't even want you to go outside let alone talk with other people! That's crazy! And it's to the point where you basically have stockholm syndrome." Calum spits out as if he knows everything Luke and I have been through together. 

"I don't have stockholm syndrome, Calum. It's not like he freaking kidnapped me." I mumble more to myself. It was my choice to be with Luke, he didn't force me.

"He fuçking abuses you." Calum says as if it's the most obvious thing in the whole world.

"He went too far." I counter, trying to make excuses for Luke. Sure, he fuçked up hard but that doesn't mean I'm not willing to defend him to the best of my abilities, no matter how much Luke had hurt me. He's still the love of my life and there's no way I'm letting someone trash Luke just because they think they know what's going on in our life.

"Went too far?! Michael he fucking ABUSED you. He used your body and you had bruises and you were so vulnerable that you had wanted me to kiss you. That's not normal and even you have to admit to that." Calum argues and takes a step towards me.

"Listen to me Michael, Luke is no good for you and he'll only continue to hurt yo-"

"I'm fuçking sorry but am I interrupting something?" 

Calum and I whip around to come face to face with an insane looking Luke. He has a fake smile plastered on his face and he looks about ready to murder Calum. Luke takes a step towards us and I immediately go over to him and grab his arm.