Stay || c.h. *completed & editing*

Chapter 9.

Dear Laurie,

Mom keeps trying to tell me how to work my own life. She grounded me from seeing Calum and it's getting on my nerves. I don't understand what she has against him honestly.

I texted him a few minutes ago and told him I was grounded. He doesn't want me to sneak out but sitting here in my room by myself life this is just making me depressed and miss you.

Calum is going to be here soon and hopefully I won't get caught. Who knows what mom would do if she found out that I'm still defying her.

I miss you so much Laurie. I just really wish you were here.

Love,

Ellie.

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Calum was waiting for me outside. I snuck out my window, greeting Calum.

"Hey," he said, leaning in and kissing me on the lips. He didn't pull away right away, and neither did I.

Finally he did and held something out to me.

"What's this?" I asked.

"Take them," he smiled.

I took them from his hands and looked at them and practically screamed.

"Oh my God Calum!" I threw my arms around him, jumping and wrapping my legs around his waist. I kissed him multiple times all over his face while he laughed and held me.

I finally pulled away and calmed down a little. "How did you get concert tickets to Blink 182?!"

"That doesn't matter," he smiled. "We're going to see them tonight."

"Tonight?!"

He nodded, laughing. "I'll come and get you tonight at 10. You can sneak out and come with me."

I threw my arms around him again. "Thank you so much Calum!"

"Okay, well I don't want you getting in trouble before then so I don't want to take you away from you house," he said.

"Then come inside with me," I said. "I'm so bored Calum, please."

He sighed. "Okay. Okay but when your mom gets home I'm leaving."

"Okay." I nodded, turning around and climbing back up to my window, Calum climbing up after me once I was inside.

I pulled him inside with me and closed the window, and he looked around my room.

"So this is your room," he said, looking at the different things I had in my room. I had my vanity, where I did my hair and the occasional makeup, the mirror with tons of pictures of Laurie and I. Calum looked at them, turning back around to me sitting on my bed.

I kicked off my shoes, moving back to the headboard. I reached to the table next to my bed, turning on some music, sitting back on my bed as Calum continued walking around my room and looking at my posters and everything on my walls.

"I didn't really expect your room to look like this," he said.

"What were you expecting?" I asked.

"I don't know, honestly," he said. "Just not this."

I didn't reply, too intrigued by how nice his ass looked in those jeans.

"You know I really care about you," he said. "I don't know really what it is, but I'm just really attached to you and I don't want anything bad to happen to you. And I would never, ever let anyone hurt you."