I'm Supposed To Hate You ||Malum AU||

Chapter 53

My first ever piece of fanart thanks to DJCray-Cray . I love it.

Calum wasn't ready to talk to Michael. He had no idea where he would start with all of the problems they'd had throughout the last 5 years. There had been too many. He'd been putting it off for days, every time he had the opportunity he backed out of it. What was he supposed to say to the boy he'd hated for 5 years?

Calum wandered into the toilets halfway through his last period class on a Friday. If he hadn't needed to go, he would have left when he came face to face with Michael himself.

"Calum, just who I wanted to see. How's my favourite Asain?" Michael smiled sarcastically.

"I think it's pretty clear that Thomas is everybody's favourite Asian Michael." Calum smiled back, balling his fist in an attempt to hide his nerves.

"I wasn't looking for a conversation." Michael snapped back, trying to shove past. Calum blocked the door, determined not to back out of it this time. Michael glared at him.

"Move!"

"No. Not until you hear me out."

"I don't want to hear anything you have to say Hood. You've made it clear that you don't like me, I don't need you to justify it."

"That's the thing Michael. I didn't mean what I said the other day. You are trustworthy, you proved that this year and I shouldn't have let my past hatred for you overshadow that."

"Is this an apology?" Michael asked angrily. "Because if it is, its too late. I don't want to hear it, I want to go back to class."

"Michael, just listen to me." Calum pleaded, refusing to move away from the door. "I don't want to fight with you anymore."

"And I don't want to be here with you but we can't all get what we want, can we?"

"Please?"

"It's funny how when I wanted to explain myself to you, you wouldn't hear it and now you want to explain yourself to me - remembering that you've actually done something wrong - I don't get to walk away like you did." Michael scoffed, folding his arm across his chest and leaning against the sinks.

"I made a mistake Michael. It was a misunderstanding and I should have listened to you. I should have trusted you."

"Well, you didn't, did you?"

"You're not going to make this easy for me are you?"

"Fuck no. For years, I've been putting up with your shit. You have to be the most sensitive and aggressive kid I've ever met. If I even looked at you funny, I got a black eye. I said three fucking sentences to you and you called me a dick. Then I kept my mouth shut when I could have spilled your darkest secrets and you fucking blame me. I've had enough."

"I only did those things because you did everything you could do to piss me off. I had no reason to trust you and you needed to be taken down a peg. Your ego would have been the death of both of us." Calum argued, clenching his fist to control his anger. "You were an obnoxious prick who thought the fucking world revolved around you, even at 12. You strolled through the halls with that ridiculous smirk that just irritated me and your presence I just, I couldn't stand it."

"Oh, so you're the victim and I'm the problem as usual." Michael was on his feet now, standing a couple of feet away from Calum. "Even my fucking mother thought it was my fault I got punched, she said I always provoked you. My own fucking mother!" 

"I never said I was the victim." Calum shot back, standing his ground. "I know I was in the wrong just as much as you, Ashton made that very clear."

"So if Ashton wasn't there, you would have been fine with how you treated me? Is Ashton the reason you've shut me in the toilets? Was this his idea?"

"No. I wanted to apologise from the moment I found out it was Nathan okay! But I was so embarrassed that is blamed you that I chickened out and that's how we ended up here."

"You were embarrassed to apologise?" Michael scoffed. "Were you afraid I'd be an asshole about it like you were to me when I tried to apologise? Cause you think I'm an egotistical dickhead."

"I used to! I don't now." Calum shouted, glaring at Michael. Somehow, Michael and Calum had ended up standing a couple of inches from each other, toe to toe in the middle of a school bathroom.

"I don't hate you Michael. I don't think I ever have, not properly." Calum whispered. The two teenagers stood staring at each other for a what seemed like a lifetime before Michael closed the gap between them and kissed Calum. Caught by surprise, Calum took a second to respond. He wrapped his arms around Michael, pulling him closer than he thought was possible.

When they pulled apart, Michael had the same smirk Calum had hated for so long on his face. Calum bit his lip and looked down at his feet.

"I didn't hate you either. Not properly." Michael told him, still smirking. "I just wanted to make you mad because you are super attractive when you are angry."

"I just wanted to wipe that stupid sexy smirk off your face." Calum mumbled. Michael's smirk grew wider, and he stepped closer to Calum again.

"You think it's sexy?"

"Don't mock me." Calum groaned, shoving him away.

"You love it really."

"Sure I do."

"I always knew you couldn't resist me." Michael grinned, wiggling his eyebrows at Calum. Calum rolled his eyes and bit back a smile.

"I'm supposed to hate you Michael Clifford, but you make it so fucking hard."

"That's not the only think I make hard I hope." Michael said suggestively with a wink.

"Get back to class." Calum laughed, shoving Michael's shoulder lightly as he shook his head. Michael chuckled and kissed Calum's cheek, before skipping out of the door with an uncontrollable smile on his face. 

Holy shit.

I'm sorry for not updating on time, I was ill yesterday and I slept for most of the day.