Don't Stop

15

Two hours later and the movers have finally arranged the house to our desired description.

Lauren and I were currently spreading the last sheet over my bed. Surprisingly, with all the help, we finished with all furniture that we purchased today.

"I'm gonna head down stairs with the lads and hang out. You coming?" She asks, making her way towards the door.

"No, I think it's nap time for me." I chuckle and flop down onto my pillowless bed.

"Alright, I'll tell the others." Lauren smiles and closes the door behind her.

I open my new drawer and pull out a pair of yoga leggings with a t-shirt. A yawn escapes my mouth as I slip them on and throw myself onto the big mattress.

Right when I was close to drifting off, a knock came from the door.

"Come in." I yell into the mattress. I am way to lazy to move my body right now.

The door opens and shuts softly and the bed dips down. Arms wrap securely around my waist. I smile into the blanket, it was Luke and I already know it.

He plants a kiss on my cheek and shuffled closer to me. I look down at the arms that are holding my waist but instead of Luke's familiar pale skin, I'm greeted with a tan set of arms.

Ones that I immediately knew belonged to Calum. I gasp and shoot up.

"Calum!" I whisper-shout. "What the hell are you doing?" I cringe even at myself using a curse word.

"Cassie, what's wrong?" Calum acts confused and I can't see why. He has to see that I was taking a liking to Luke more. Apparently everyone could see it but him.

"Are you crazy? Luke would kill you right now!" I say. "Get out and don't touch me!" I swat his hands away.

"You seriously cant like Luke! You can't change him like you think you can, Cassie!" Calum says angrily. "With me, you'd have no problems, nothing to worry about!"

"Calum," I say softly. "I'm truly flattered. But this can't happen, 'we' can't happen. Don't you see that?"

"I don't understand Cassie. Is this because of what happened in the pool?" He furrows his eyebrows.

"Absolutely not. I was never angry about that. This is about me not feeling the same way about you in the way you feel about me." I respond sadly.

"You know you do, deep down. You're just lying to yourself and keeping yourself occupied with Luke, don't play him like that its not right." Calum says rudely, like this was my fault.

"I am not using him in anyway, you know why? Because I have no damn feelings for you!" I shriek and it echoes in the room. "You're a brother, not someone I would kiss."

"When you figure out that you're lying to yourself and that you know you and Luke aren't good together, just remember I told you so. And when you're ready to admit that, I'll be listening." He spats and stomps out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

I groan in frustration and stuffed my face into the mattress.

A soft knock comes from the door and I ignore it hoping whoever it was; probably Lauren; would go away. She knocks again.

"Not now Lauren!" I groan and crawl under the blankets.

The door opens anyway and she closes it. But when I look up to tell Lauren to get out instead, it was Luke.

"Hey, love." Luke smiles sadly. I sigh and pull the covers over my head. "Cassie," He breathes.

I feel the bed dip down just like it did with Calum. My heart sinks at the thought of what just happened. I don't want Calum to be angry with me.

"Just let me sleep." I whine.

"I will if you let me see those beautiful eyes." Luke coos and I groan.

"Don't make me happy, I don't deserve it." I grunt.

"What's wrong?" I can practically hear him frowning and it makes my heart pound.

"Nothing," I shake my head and flip onto my back so I could see his beautiful face.

"Don't lie." Luke says and shifts so he could see my face.

I close my eyes and sigh again quietly. "It's Calum."

"What did he do this time?" Luke mutters annoyingly.

"Um," I hesitate. I wasn't sure if I should tell him what he did. What if he beat up Calum or something? Would he even do that? It's his best friend. "I was laying here, and he kind of came in and held me. And I thought it was you," I rush.

"What?" Luke spats angrily.

"And then he kissed me," I squeak, bracing myself for his reaction. "On the cheek! Just the cheek!"

Luke begins to get up quickly but my hands shoot out and grab his bicep. "No! No, Luke, please. He just wants someone."

"Cassie, let go, just let me go talk to him." I can practically see the red he was probably visualizing right now.

"You and I both know you won't be talking much." I say desperately. "Now please, just calm down, for me."

"I'm not letting anyone else take a girl away from me again." He spats.

I grow silent at that. Did he really think I would just randomly fall in love with Calum and ditch him?

I had absolutely no feelings whatsoever for Calum and I knew I would never develop any in the future. He had nothing to worry about.

"Luke..." I trail.

"Cassie don't lecture me about this right now, just let me go see him." He tugs his arm but I refuse to let go.

Luke and I both know he can easily get out of my grip, but I think he's afraid of hurting me in anyway.

"Talk about it with me." I plead.

I'm still on the bed and he was standing at the edge, due to the fact that I won't let him go anywhere.

"If I would have talked to this guy about how I felt, I would have never lost Case-" I stop him right there and pull myself up to my knees, quickly grabbing his stubbly face in my hands and smashing our lips together.

He breathe in heavily through his nose, in surprise and grabs my hips. His hands pull my body close to his until there was no space left. I take my hands off his face and wrap them around his neck.

If it wasn't for him, I would have fallen off the bed already due to the fact that he was standing at the edge of the bed and I was on my knees, making us the same height.

Luke moves his tongue slowly across my lip but I smile and keep my mouth closed. I can feel him frown and it makes me giggle.

I pull apart for breath and rest my head on his shoulder.

"You can't do that to me." I gasp, trying to inhale as much oxygen as possible.

"What?" He laughs quietly, clearing calmed down.

"I can't breathe," I tighten my arms around his neck.

"Sorry," He kisses my cheek. "I've got the lungs of a singer."