The boy next door (Calum Hood fic)

Chapter 31

That night, all I wanted to do was sleep. But the moment Mr.S left the room, Calum was eager to talk to me. I didn't want to hear it so mostly I just shook it off, and gave one word answers.

"So....would do you suppose we do in here?" He stood next to his bed looking at me, unpacking my stuff.

"Nothing," I continued to unpack and avoid his eyes.

"You okay?" Our eyes eventually meeting.

"Yeah, I'm fine. " I set my bag down and headed to the bathroom. I quickly got ready for bed, and crawled in.

"Goodnight,"

"Goodnight," And off went the lights.
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The next morning, I was awoken by Ms. Carrie, my science teacher bursting in our room. "Heard you guys got into some trouble. Well, now it's time for you guys to work. " She smashed two pans against each other, to which I cringed at the sound and she said, "You guys have breakfast duty. "

Morning, was a slow process. I took the bathroom first before Calum could even say anything, then was followed by several awkward encounters. Our chests bumped as I came out of the bathroom to where I mumbled sorry and quickly headed to the kitchen. Ms. Carrie was just standing there, looking at me strangely. When Calum came, she began explaining all the cooking we had to do. And boy, was it a lot. Calum tried making conversation, but I just avoided it and pretended to go look for something to add to the eggs I was cooking on the stove. When he followed me, I would grab something random and say, "Got it!" and head back off to the searing sound.

He tried to talk to me about that kiss, but again, I would just avoid him and change the subject. Eventually, the asking frequently stopped, and I thought he just stopped trying. Our friends tried talking to us, but it was no use. We were pretty much bound from seeing each other. Teachers were watching in every corner, and so were the students. It was humiliating to me. We had to sit at a different table then everyone else, but it was just the two of us. The teachers just simply, had different plans.

After breakfast was over they made us clean up, which took up most of the day activities. We were then cleaning up any place that needed to be cleaned, and preparing for meals. What about Calum you might think, but he was a different story. He could tell I wasn't in the mood for anything else than this whole week being over, high school included. We would make silly little comments here and there about the chores we were doing but besides that, talking was limited.

The teachers had us set up for this "movie night" they were going to do. Of course, me and Calum weren't invited for anything else besides helping set up. The plan for us, was to just set up the movie (which was going to be held outside) and for us to prepare dinner for them. I didn't understand the exclusion me and Calum were getting for our actions, but it sure wasn't doing us any justice. If we were suppose to "learn our lesson" then at least we should've done something more educational.

They had us make some snacks for them, to start off. We managed to pull together four big bowls of popcorn, enough refreshments for everyone to have at least one soda, and some candy bars they had in the cabinets. This whole process was quiet, and awkward. You could hear a pin drop.

Once the snacks were done, we went outside to go set up. They gave us a diagram of what they wanted it to look like. They also gave us no help. Calum and I carried the big white sheet, where the movie was going to be projected. Soon followed we had two tables on each side where the snacks were going to be laid on.

After everything was done, Calum and I were sent to our rooms for a bit of time while everyone else was being dragged out of their cabins to watch the movie.

Once Calum and I reached our rooms, I plopped down on my bed and stared out the window. Calum mimicked my actions and plopped down on his bed as well.

We lay there a bit in silence before Calum spoke out, " Sarah, do you want to watch the movie?"

"What do you mean, we're not allowed too," I faced towards him, " We have to be locked inside this jail cell."

He then turned towards me, " There's still a way,"

"No Calum, there isn't. "

"There's always a way. "

"Well I'm not willing to get in trouble again. " Although, the curiosity did spark my brain where he got that idea.

He chuckled," I can promise you we won't get in trouble." He began standing up.

"No Calum, we can't. " He began tugging on my arm and whining. "Come on Sarahhhhh lets watch the movieee. " Goddammit what did he want.

"Fine," I got up a little too fast I stumbled on to him.

"You okay there?" He smirked down at me.

"Yeah, fine. " I pulled myself out of his helpful grip. "Now where's this place you want us to watch the movie from?"
He stared up out the window.

"Oh no no no no no," I laughed sarcastically. "I am not going up there."

"Come on, the teachers won't find out."

"Are you fucking crazy? The roof? I expected you to say something like the kitchen or something but the roof?"

"Who's gonna see us? They'll be too busy watching the movie. " He began opening the window.

"Well first off we're gonna have to set up for dinner soon, and how are we-"

"Just shut up and let's go," He interrupted me. I wanted to try and get out of there, but it was no use. All my excuse cards I pulled were over.

He began climbing out the window, pulling himself up on the roof. The height wasn't much, and the windowsill seemed supportive enough. I sighed, then went after him.

Once I pulled myself on to the roof, the view was nice. Nothing too incredible but nice. And he was right, you couldn't see anyone down there. They were all hidden. Only the movie screen was visible. I didn't know how long this movie was gonna last, and I was worried about time. But all I could really think of was to not get hung up on Calum Hood.