We sit in my room with the pizza box in front of us, music playing throughout the room and when she asked to talk about him, I managed to delay the conversation a couple hours, but I can't go around it anymore.
"He is defensive over you. I thought you guys didn't like each other?" She asks. I shrug, not knowing what to say. "He is hot, but is he your type? I figured you'd go after a guy who is, you know, more well behaved and more of a gentlemen. Not someone who goes around beating up defenseless people." She says and I pause mid chew.
"Who?"
"Denver, walked up to him in the locker room and slammed his face into a locker door and kicked his ass. They didn't want teachers to know, so Boston is claiming he slipped." She says and I can't help but smile.
"For starters, Denver deserves everything he gets. Second, Calum is my type, honestly, but I don't think I like him that way." I say and shrug. It's none of her business. God, I hope Lyle is okay. I pull out my phone and text him, casually asking him how he is. Knowing Lyle, he won't answer me but at least I tried.
''Emily likes a bad boy? Who would have guessed it." She says. "Why not try and date him?" As she drags up all these reasons I need a boyfriend, I pull out my phone and I text Calum, too.
Emily:
You're pretty cool.
Calum:
I hope you're not just now figuring this out. That would be bad.
''Who are you talking to?" She asks me.
"Mom, she is asking how I am." I say and she nods.
"So?" She ask me.
"So what?" I ask her.
"Why not get a boyfriend?" She asks me, poking my knee and rolling her eyes.
"I don't want one and I don't need one." I say and sigh.
"Oh bull, everyone needs someone." She says. "It's nice sometimes, knowing there is always one person you can have around who doesn't completely judge you." She says and I smile, knowing that she fucked that up for herself, just like she said.
"I am perfectly fine alone." I say, keeping that little thought to myself
Calum:
Can I come over?
Emily:
Gorgy is here.
Calum.
Couldn't care less. Coming over. She doesn't like it she can... Well yeah
I smile and set my phone down. "Forgive me." I say and she frowns.
"What did you do?" She asks.
"Nothing." I say. Not long after I say that, my bedroom door is being opened and he is walking in. He has a black hoodie on, similar to the one I have, and black sweats.
"Oh, uh, hi." Gorgy says and she looks over at me with a suspicious glare.
"Hey," He says and sits down behind me. "Where is the tiny pupper?" He asks me, completely ignoring her.
"Uh, under my bed asleep." I say. "What exactly are you doing?" I ask lowly and he shrugs, sitting next to me with his back to her.
"Bored. I've come to hang out with you and your... friend. Mine are losers." He says.
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Fiksi PenggemarAs dysfunctional as it was, it somehow worked. Half the time. Calum wanted to choke her for rolling her eyes. Emily wanted to slap his smile off his face. They loved each other, but it was tough love. Tougher than either one of them could handle.
