Forever and Infinity || a.i.

Chapter 9: Lunch

P.E. was fun, I guess. The boys made the group activity really fun. They kept cracking jokes about big balls because we had to pass 3 really big bouncy balls under and over, right and left, and a bunch of other patterns.

"Ugh! They're so heavy." Michael said.

"These balls are huge." Ashton said, while passing it to me behind him. "Claire, can you handle it?"

"Yes, actually Ash." I laughed.

"Ya sure, baby?" he laughed

"Oooo!" Chloe giggled. She seemed to be a little bit more comfortable around them, making small comments and laughing.

"Oh my god!" I laughed. Then Coach Reynolds blew the whistle, signaling that we had 3 minutes left in class and that we should start getting ready to go.

"Hey, you guys wanna eat lunch together?" Calum asked.

"Yeah! I mean..." Chloe said, her cheeks already turning pink. "if Claire wants to, I guess I'm ok too."

"Sure." I shrugged.

"Cool. You can sit next to me." Calum said shyly, smiling at Chloe. She was as red as a cherry.

The bell rang and we all walked to the cafeteria. I had to buy lunch today and I had to have Chloe help me because I was having trouble with finding out which lunch line I was supposed to be in. I always did.

"So, Cal..." I said.

"Yeah..."

"He likes you. It's obvious!"

"I don't know... ok maybe!" she smiled. "What about you and Ash." She raised her eyebrows.

"It's still my first day, but I feel like all of you guys are my best friends. I don't know about Ash. Maybe I like him, just a little bit." I said, showing her 'a little bit' with my fingers.

"Mhmm."

We were at the end of the lunch line now, so I bought my lunch and waited for Chloe. We searched through the crowd for the boys, but we couldn't find them, so we decided to go outside. And sure enough, there was 4 figures waving at us from the corner of the courtyard. Cal, Ash, Luke, and Michael.

We walked over to them, Cal immediately scooting away from his spot next to Michael to move closer to Chloe. I was sitting next to Chloe with Ashton on my other side, Michael and Luke in between Calum and Ash.

"Ok, so here's the thing." Luke said suddenly. " We have band practice every Friday and if you girls wanna come, you can." he smiled at us.

" So Chloe was right! You guys ARE in a band! What's your guys' name?" I asked.

"5 seconds of summer." Michael replied

"So? Do you guys wanna come and watch?"

"Ok! Chloe?" I asked, turning to her.

"Sure."

"Great! Boys, we now have an audience!" Ash said excitedly. We all laughed at his excitedness, then a skinny blonde girl came over and sat in between Calum and Michael.

"What are we laughing about?" she said, brightly.

We all went quiet, until Ashton said, " What are you doing here Brooklyn?" he said, glaring at her.

"Oh! I just wanted to eat lunch with my friends. Is that okay with you Ashton?" she said, returning his glare.

"What friends?" Cal said, finally.

"Michael's my friend!" Brooklyn said.

"No I'm not." he said scooting away from her, resting his head on Luke's shoulder.

"Yeah, cause he's my friend!" Luke said, patting his head. I tried not to laugh.

"Well, I'm Luke's friend! We were talking earlier weren't we, Luke?"

"Doesn't mean anything. I was just being nice." he shrugged, looking at all of us, except Brooklyn.

"Just face it Brooklyn. You don't have any friends here. Go sit with your other 'friends' or you can go sit alone, I guess. There's an empty table over there." Ashton said pointing to an empty table near the boys bathroom.

"Whatever. I can do whatever I want. I don't have to listen to you anymore, Ash."

"Correction! It's Ashton, now." Calum smiled, pretending to be polite.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ashton said.

"When we were together, all you ever did was push me around. 'Brook do this' 'Brook run to the store and get this' ' can you clean that up Brookie?'."

"He treated you like a princess." Chloe said so quietly that barely anyone could hear.

" How would you know, Zoe! You barely even talk, anyways!"

"It's Chloe." Calum said, his voice slowly rising. " And she can talk, for your information. Her voice is... cute." he said smiling at her.

"Why do you care if I know her name or not, Calum?!"

"Because..." he said looking away.

"And what about you, new girl? You haven't spoken yet!"

"She has a name! It's Claire for your information and she doesn't have to speak. She doesn't know what the fuck we're talking about!" Ashton snapped.

"Well, Ashton's mine! And stay away from him or you'll be sorry, I swear." She said to me, starting to get up.

" Shut up, Brooklyn!"Luke said. " There's plenty of other guys in this school who would pay to fuck you. Ashton isn't one of them, okay?"

She flipped us off and walked away.

"Are you ok, Chloe?" Cal asked, looking at her.

"Yea. She barely said anything to me,Cal. I'm fine."

"Don't worry about her, Claire. She's a total bitch." Michael told me.

"Yeah." Luke added.

"She doesn't bother me one bit." I said. It was true... well, maybe.

Authors note:

Hi guys :) sorry for the language :/ but it would've been boring without it :P but yea thanks for reading I guess :) and ily!

-Caitlin <3