The Only Reason || Calum Hood

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"We need a name for it." Calum says and he grabs a bright blue felt.

"Taking the long way home?"

"Way it's supposed to be?"

"Pizza?"

"Old school yard?"

"Red light?"

Names swirled around us until we found the right one.

"Long way home?" I ask and he nods, smiling.

"Perfect." He says and quickly kisses me. We pack everything up and decide to head out for lunch.

We walk for what seems like ages until we come to a small little French café.

"This place it cute." I say as we sit down at a small table outside in the sun. We over look the menu and order.

The lady walks of and Calum smiles at me.

"What?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"Nothing."

"No, you don't smile like that often." I say and he chuckles slightly.

"I was just thinking of how lucky I am to have you." He says and I blush.

"It should be the other way around." I say and he laughs slightly.

"I think it should be how did we end up with each other?" He asks and I nod.

"Yea, you're one of the best things that have ever happened to me." He continues and I can tell that I'm blushing like a ripe tomato.

"You're so cute." He says and I take a sip of my icy water.

Our lunch arrives shortly after and we eat and make small talk.

"Where are you most excited to play?" I asks and he thinks for a second, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Defiantly back home in Sydney." He says, slurping his onion soup.

"Didn't you say that the show is sold out?"

"Yea," He nods his head, excited. "It's gonna be an awesome show." He says and I roll my eyes playfully.

"Sure it is Hood." He chuckles slightly and we eat in a peaceful silence.

After we had finished, we paid, collected all of our stuff and we walked away.

"Ice-cream for my lady?" Calum asks and I raise my eyebrow.

"As long as you never speak like that ever again." He laughs and we wander around the city, looking for any place that sold ice-cream, that wasn't from Mc Donald's or Burger King.

"What about here?" I ask, using my free hand, that wasn't held by Calum's, to point to an ice-cream parlour down a small ally way that smelled oddly like scented vanilla candles.

Ashton would like it here, he loves scented candles.

"Sure, and it smells like your room Al." He laughs and I just roll my eyes at him and mutter thanks.

We walk into the brightly coloured building.

I look at all the different flavours and sigh, not knowing which one to pick.

Oh, the struggles.

"Stop drawling Al." Calum laughs at me and I quickly stand up strait.

"I wasn't drawling." I say and he rolls his eyes and orders.

We walk to a nearby park, eating our ice-creams and making bad jokes.

"Why did you get Hokey Pokey? They had so many cool flavours." I say and he raises an eyebrow.

"Says the one who got Goody Goody Gum Drops." He laughs and I continue eating it.

"Thanks for today Cal. It was really sweet." I say and he smiles back at me.

"Not a problem, but we should probably start heading back, the other will be wondering where we are." I say and he nods. So we walk back to the hotel, holding hands, eating ice-cream, and once again, making bad jokes.

"WE'RE BACK." I scream and Rachel comes rushing out, pushing us back outside and closing the door.

"Guess what!" She says, bouncing up and down, a huge smile on her face.

"What?" We both ask in union and she just looks at us, a bored yet playful look on her face.

"Guess"

"Luke gave you the D?" Calum asks and I slap his arm and Rachel glares at him.

"You dirty little shit, no. He asked me to be his girlfriend." She says and I hug her and we squeal.

"Congrats!" I say and her smile returns.

"Thanks, he's so cute." She says and we walk back into the hotel room to see everyone in random places, eating, playing video games and on their phones. Rachel walks over to Luke and they ingage in conversation, exactly like Ashton and Beth and also Michael and Beth.

"Hey guys!" Michael says and he throws a can of Pringles our way.

"Thanks." I say, take them and sit on the large window sill, looking 20 feet down.

The rest of the afternoon was just lazy, full of eating, procrastination and laughing.

It was nice to finally have a group of friends who got me.