web of secrets : cake

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When I woke up Calum was in my face laughing. "good morning you blonde idiot!" he laughed. "Uh good morning?" I questioned looking around. "you didn't wake up so I let you sleep it's 6 am." Calum simply said.

"What!?" I yelled. Calum stepped back looking confused. "what?" he questioned. "I was supposed to meet Ashton at the park." I sighed. "oh well you could have told me, you bitch." Calum said wacking me with a pillow.

I got out of bed and looked at my phone seeing unread messages from an unknown number. it was Ashton so I texted him back, simply saying sorry. I glared at Calum and he laughed, going back to his phone.

"so about Michael?" I said. Calum stiffened up and sighed setting his phone down on the desk. "Michael wasn't always shy." he said. "so when did he become shy?" I ask. "after the fight." he said. I stopped looking through my closet and looked at him.

"w-what fight..?" I asked. "you okay luke, you sound nervous." he asked. "no I'm just wondering." I said shrugging off a gut feeling. "well Michael and this guy, I don't know who got into this really bad fight—." there was a long pause before he said, "only Michael came out alive." he sighed.

my heart stopped beating for a minute before I asked Calum who the guy was. "I don't know you can probably search it up." Calum said. "oh okay." I said. "you better get ready for school. we have a 20-minute drive, Hemming." Calum said.

I turned back to my closet and picked out a grey and black sweater thing, and some basic black pants. I put on some colourful socks and then my combat boots, before unplugging my phone and walking downstairs.

Calum followed and walked out the front door. I went to the kitchen where I saw my mom and told her I'm going to school and I love her. "luke before you leave." she said. "yeah mom?" I asked. "I'm sorry about yesterday, you shouldn't have to witness that." she sighed. "it's okay mom," I said.

I walked towards the door and opened it calling out an 'i love you' before walking to the car. Calum was waiting outside of it tapping his foot roughly. "hurry up luke! my god." he glared. "god Calum, fuck you." I grumbled before unlocking the doors.

we drove to school and got there 5 minutes before class started. I got my books and walked to first period, sitting down on the bleachers waiting for the attendance of all the seniors. when it was done I decided to leave.

the bell rang when I arrived at my second-period class so I walked inside sitting down at a seat in the back of the class. ashton walked in and sat next to me and immediately started rambling on.

"so you fell asleep last night hemmings?" he joked. "yeah Calum was supposed to wake me up but that never happened." I laughed. "oh well, do you still want to know?" he asked. "I already know everything, Calum told me." I sigh. "oh.. well that's Michael Clifford for you." he laughed.

second period went by fast and it wasn't until lunch I was having seconds thoughts about sitting with Calum and Michael. when I sat down the mood wasn't how it usually was it was tense. "so you heard about the fight." was the first thing Michael said.

"yeah." I mumbled. "please know I didn't try to hurt him. we were in a physical fight, and I pushed him really hard and he hit his head, I didn't stab him or anything." Michael said. "why were you two fighting in the first place?" I questioned.

"it was over something I don't even remember till this day. I was a freshman, it was dumb, dumb, dumb!" he nearly yelled.

"he was transported to a hospital, and he died during a surgery, I should have been charged more than I was given." Michael cried. "Michael it's in the past," Calum said in a soothing voice. I glared at calum before getting up and walking away.

this wasn't okay, Michael obviously wasn't okay. he pretty much killed someone for god sakes!

I ran into someone and looked down seeing Ashton, and he apologizes before following me. "so where you going." he laughed. "you're like a pest." I joked. "ouch Luke that hurt." he frowned. "I'm sorry Ashton." I said. "it's okay."

Ashton followed me back inside since we have a place where we can eat outside. we just talked about things, until Ashton dropped a bomb.

"Hey whatever happened to jack?" he questioned. "uh he died in this junior year." I mumbled. "oh why?" he asked. "I don't know, I was never told about it,"I said grabbing my books for my last 4 classes.

"well I hope you find out how." he smiled. "thanks, Ash." I smiled back.

the bell rang and I walked to the rest of my classes. the day flew by really fast for some odd reason, and I was surprised when I didn't see Calum waiting for me by my car.

I frowned and assumed he went to hang out with Michael and drove home.

when I walked in I saw my mom on the phone, and I just waited for her to be done with her phone call. when she hung up she looked at me and smiled.

"how was your day?" she asked. "how did Jack die." I blurted out. her face turned from happy to sad in a matter of seconds, and she told me to sit down.

"Jack died in his junior year," she said. "I know that mom, but how?" I questioned. "he got a head injury and when he had to get surgery he died." she sighed. "how did he get a head injury?" I asked. "somebody pushed him." she said. "who—." "luke stop asking please?" she begged. I simply nodded and told her I'm going to go work on homework.

when I got into my room I sighed and looked up who Michael Clifford practically killed, and my heart dropped when I saw the name.

Jack Hemmings.

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kinda obvious but I thought I'd add a twist? I hope this chapter is good. I have my orientation for school today and I'm not ready.

hope you all enjoyed! I'm going to go edit this on my laptop and then watch 'to all the boys I loved before' and try to sleep since it's pretty much 1 am by the time I'm done writing this.

it took a good hour to write this entire chapter, which is long but also because I'm doing stuff on my laptop and my friends are texting me, so yeah. but enough rambling.

hope you enjoyed, vote, comment, share, do what you gotta do. see you guys later bye! (: