social casualties | 5sos au

Chapter 45 {By Ramey}

I sat on my bed while Calum threw a ball against the wall.

"No babe.."

"Tell me the truth..are you alone there with Calum..?"

"No! Blake everyone is here..Neptune, Luke, Michael, Ashton..."

"Put Neptune on the phone..." He demanded.

Shit..

I looked at Calum who just widened his eyes at me, he had heard everything since the phone was on speaker.

The guys and Neptune went to go hang out at some thing and meet One Direction, well, have the guys introduce Neptune to them.

"Put...Neptune..on the phone"

"No.."

"I bet you're just fucking Calum! What the hell?!"

"What no! We're just in the hotel room having dinner."

He hung up and Calum shook his head and stood up from his chair.

I sighed and then shrugged, setting my phone aside.

I wasn't too interested in going out to meet One Direction with Neptune because that meant me putting on appropriate clothing and doing something with my hair. I just said my stomach hurt, and even though Neptune saw right through my half-hearted lie, she let me stay, and ended up getting Calum to stay with me with very little persuasion.

We were gonna be at an after party in a few days with them anyways.

"What a dick." Calum scoffed.

Normally, I would've told him not to speak about him like that, but I agreed at the moment. He had gotten way too 'protective' since I left Australia.

I just laughed.

I got a text from Neptune:

Neptune👽🤙🏻: dude i'm gonna meet 1D in like 3 minutes holy shit

Me: send pics lol

Neptune👽🤙🏻: make out with cal lol

Me: well shit that escalated quickly

Neptune👽🤙🏻: 🤷🏼‍♀️😉

"Are you hungry, babe?" Calum asked, still bouncing that ball off the wall.

I looked at him for a minute.

Babe?

But he was being completely serious, I guess UK slang was wearing off on him, because he never did that when we lived in Australia.

"Uh...sure." I looked at him as he dropped the ball and went to kitchen.

I followed behind him and leant against the counter as he used the hotel phone to call Papa John's.

He ordered a large pizza with half pepperoni and half onions along with a bottle of Dr. Pepper.

I smiled at him as he hung up.

"Wanna watch Netflix?" he offered.

"Um..no...I just wanna talk." I smiled. I know what 'Netflix and Chill' means. I see you, Hood.

"Wow, you actually want to talk to me?" He laughed in disbelief.

I nodded as we both sat down on my bed.

"So what's up with you, Mr. Famous?", I nudged him.

"Nothing really..." he admitted.

"Dude, you're living your dream. What do you mean nothing?", I laughed at how ridiculous he was being.

"I mean, it's cool but I missed you." He sighed.

"You have girls throwing themselves at you, what were you missing me for?" I chuckled nervously.

"But they're not you." He looked at me, and I realized he was serious.

"Oh..."

"Rylie, listen... I'm sorry about how I left you and Neptune. I really needed to grow up." He looked at me with an apologetic look.

"Well, you sure have grown up from the little lanky guy you were," I chuckled, poking his muscles, "But I was being immature. I finally had a guy interested in me and I was lost. I stopped smoking, Cal. You were just looking out for me."

He smiled and put his arm around me, pulling me closer to him.

Someone knocked on the door, probably the pizza guy.

Calum rubbed my arm and kissed the side of my head before getting up to pay for the pizza.

"You're not in love..." I whispered. "You're not..."

Who was I assuring though? Me or him?