cake oneshots || book two

Saftey Pin

Credit: thatfangirlingfreak

Been awhile since I've posted a non smut haha

(Italics are flashbacks...you probably knew that)

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Calum anxiously taps his pencil against his desk, replaying last night over and over in his head. How could he be so stupid?

"Hey mate, can you cool it with all that tapping? Some of us are actually trying to work," the guy working nearby peaks over, looking irritated.

"Sorry," Calum sheepishly mutters, running a hand through his curls. His coworker rolls his eyes and sits back down.

Calum can't help but wish that Luke was there as he stares at his empty desk.

Ashton told him that the blonde was sick, but he knew better. Since he started this job, Luke had never been sick once.

"Hi? Um, I'm Calum. Hood, sorry," he stutters awkwardly.

"Oh yes, the new employee! We've been expecting you," The receptionist chirps. She points towards the corner in the back, a small area with only two desks in it. It's blocked off from the rest of the office by a sort of cubicle.

There's a blonde guy in one of the desks already, so Calum goes over to the other one. He takes his seat, following the list of instructions the lady handed to him. It's not until he's halfway through setting up his computer that the guy behind him turns around to greet him.

"Oh hi, you must be Calum Hood," he says, grinning.

Calum swivels his chair around and swears he's never seen someone so beautiful. "Y-yeah, that's me."

"I'm Luke Hemmings, nice to be desk mates with you. Or cell mates, since this place is pretty much jail. But anyways, here's a present for your first day of prison."

Calum raises his eyebrows as Luke gives him a plastic container filled with safety pins. "Uh, thanks?"

"Sorry, Ashton was supposed to get you something better, but no one would chip in."

"No, I think it's great." Calum grabs a piece of paper and scribbles something down on it, covering it so Luke couldn't peek.

He takes one of the safety pins and walks up to the bulletin board on the wall at the back of their small corner. He pins it into the cork, smiling.

"'Calum and Luke's Jail Cell.' Clever, but why does your name get to be first?" Luke pouts.

He chuckles. "You have to earn your place, young warrior."

"You're the new guy!"

"Sh, you still have much to learn, Hemmings."

"Whatever, Hood."

Calum smiles at their lame sign that managed to stay stuck in the board. Well, one of their lame signs.

There's the Calum version, then the Luke one.

"Last night when Ashton was wasted, he told me that our names together would be Cake."

Calum laughs loudly as Luke recounts the whole story that lead to this riveting discovery.

"I've only been working here for a few weeks, and he already thinks we'd be cute together?"

"I know! That's what I said, but Ash was insistent. 'There's real chemistry there, Lucas. You guys are soulmates. Love at first sight.'"