Unpredictable: Calum Hood fanfiction

Chapter 13

Hey guys, let me just say before I start writing, I'm extremely sorry it's taken me so long, but I'm only 15 years old, I have a life outside of writing lol :) I'll never leave you guys hanging, I will continue to write until I'm completely done with this fanfic, just give me time! 

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Calum and I don't talk much for a week or two, just share awkward looks and a few forced smiles. Tonight, Ashton invited me and Abby to go to their band practice. Abby insisted I go even after I said no probably around 80 times. 

"C'mon Tori, I know you and Calum like hate each other but you love the rest of them, and they finally thought of their band name and we'll be the first to hear it!" Abby squeals, sending a sharp ring through my left ear. 

"Abby, I have homework." I try and make up a different excuse for the fifth time.

"Okay 1, you've used that excuse already, 2, it's a Saturday, you never do your homework on a Saturday. Please Tori?" She fake cries into the phone and I sigh in defeat.

"Fine, we'll go but if I want to leave I'm going to leave." I hang up as quickly as possible, not feeling in the mood to talk to her.

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I have to leave to pick up Abby in an hour, and I just can't bring myself to get ready. Calum and I haven't spoken at all ever since our argument in his room at 4 in the morning. I feel like now I understand Calum a lot better, now I see where he's coming from, now I know why he has so much anger built up inside him. I can tell one of these days, he's going to snap, and I want to be there to help him.

Calum is a 19 year old boy who's childhood was taken from him. He didn't get a regular play-in-the-park-after-school day, he got a oh-no-not-again kind of day. He went through so much physical and emotional abuse, I'm surprised he's still around. 

I know I wouldn't be able to handle it.

I finally push myself up out of bed and grab a pair of dark jean shorts and a neon blue v-neck. I slip on my pair of black slippers and quickly grab my keys from my dresser, hurrying downstairs so I can leave.

"Where are you going?" I'm stopped midway from the front door to my car by my mother.

"Hanging out with Abby." I turn to look at her and she presses her lips in a line.

"I was thinking we could spend some time together tomorrow? Just the two of us?" I can see the hope behind her eyes, ever since my fathers death I've become very isolated from my mother, probably when she needed me most.

"Yeah, that sounds good." I smile and a faint smile appears across her lips.

"Okay, don't come home too late."

"I won't." I say while getting into my car.

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The drive to Abby's then to Ashtons is far too short. I'm going to be within 5 feet of Calum and I don't think I'm ready to handle that.

"Tori!" Luke screams when I walk through the door but I can't help and look at Calum first. He stares at me while I stare at him, and surprisingly he doesn't look away first.

"Hi Luke." I whisper.

"Sit down, sit down!" Michael shouts as he pushes me and Abby to one couch while all the boys sit on the other across the room.

"So... wanna hear our band name?" Ashton smirks and Abby screams before I can even open my mouth. I can feel Calum's eyes on me and I just want to take him to an empty room and talk to him, about everything.

"Well, we had a massive argument about who would tell you guys, but Calum won." Luke states.

"I did?" Calum asks with a confused look on his face. "Okay, I guess I did. We're called 5 Seconds of Summer." He says blankly and all the boys look at him with an equally mad expression.

"You were supposed to sound happy you dipshit!" Ashton shouts before hits Calum with a pillow, and I think I'm the only one who notices Calum is either upset or uncomfortable.

I choose to distract myself from Calum. I give all the others a big smile and jump up in excitment. I can't believe they're  starting a band, the boys I've known for years are starting a band, and I can tell they're going to be big.

After hugging and congratulating the boys, I walk down the hall to the bathroom.

I swear I haven't peed like, all day.

The door hits a big bag and I push past it and look down. I knocked all the shit out of it, yay.

I shut the door behind me and bend down, immediately recognizing the bag as Calums. A tiny notebook and a bigger notebook are on the floor, the bigger notebook flipped open on a certain page. My mind tells me not to look at it, but I decide to anyway.

The top of the page is titled "songs", and I can only assume its for their band they're now in.

One specific song catches my eye, "The Only Reason".

"When I close my eyes and try to sleep,
I fall apart I'm fighting hard to breathe,
You're the reason, the only reason."

I read a little more of the lyrics before I decide to put it away, but before I do I notice a tiny word in the corner of the paper,

"For Tori".

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Sorry this chapter was so short, not in the best mood tonight and just wanted to update.