Mute

Chapter 16- Year 3000

Calum's P.O.V:

The guys and I were all watching a movie, trying and failing to distract ourselves when the door bursted open.

We all turned around quickly, alarmed, but automatically stood up when we saw Kat. She was breathing heavily, looking like she ran here and we all ran up to her, me in the front.

"Where were you!?!"

"Are you okay?!?"

"What happened!?!"

"Kitty!!!"

All the boys questioned her, well, other than Michael of course. I stayed silent, scanning her over to make sure she didn't have any injuries. There was no blood, luckily, but her wrists were red and looked slightly swollen. I opened my mouth to speak but quickly lunged forward, catching Kat in my arms as she fell.

As soon as I got her in my arms I brought her upstairs, into my room where I knew would be the best place for her to rest. The boys followed behind and I looked behind me as I placed her on my bed.

"Can you please get her some water and a wet washcloth?" I asked and they nodded, running out the door. I looked back at her, seeing her tired eyes focused on me.

"You're okay now princess, I'm gonna give you some water and then you need to rest okay?" I asked and she nodded slightly, obviously not liking the idea of having to do anything before sleep.

The boys came back in with what I asked them for and Ash and I carefully lifted Kat up into a sitting position, putting the glass up to her lips. After she drank about half of the cup, Ash put it on the bedside table and she layed back down. I lightly placed the washcloth around her wrists to make sure they went down slightly, putting it to hang off my nightstand.

We all got up to leave, me last, but as I was walking out the door Luke stood in front of me.

"Can you please stay with Kat? She sleeps better with you here" he said, not allowing me to break eye contact. I swear Luke can hypnotize anyone as long as they look into his eyes.

"Okay" I said and he smiled widely before running off, calling out Ashton's name.

I walked back to Kat where she was lying in the bed, sitting down next to her. Her eyes were forced shut, looking to be in some kind of pain so I quickly kicked off my shoes and socks, slipping under the covers and spooning her from behind, being careful with my bad arm.

She quickly flipped around, nuzzling her nose in the crook of my neck, causing me to chuckle lightly and place a light kiss on the side of her head. She hummed contently, her breathing settling down as she fell asleep.

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After around a hour I finally fell alseep, not moving my position with Kat even though my arm went numb.

I woke up with a grunt as I felt someone jump into my stomach. I squinted my eyes open, seeing Luke chuckling and sitting on me.

"Get up you're taking up the entire bed" Luke said and I looked around me, seeing that he was in fact correct and Kat was out of my arms. Luke was sat on top of me while Ash and Mike were talking in the corner of the room, Mike lightly strumming a guitar. Kat was sat in my desk, scribbling something down on a sheet of paper.

I chuckled, amused by  how comfortable they got in my room. I don't mind, I got just as comfortable in Kat's room at the last sleepover anyways. I sat up, Luke scrambling off off me and looking at me with concern at I winced in pain.

"You need to be more careful" he whispered to me, probably not trying to draw attention to my arm. I nodded, giving him a half-smile and standing up, walking over to Michael.