Negative Space (Calum Hood A.U.)

Chapter 23 - Goodbye Kiss

June's POV

"You just happened to be near him, that's why he fell for you."

Those words kept playing over and over my head. The moment Sydney walked out of the room, I followed suit, but towards a different direction.

I never thought of that before, nobody pointed that out before until now. Did Calum only fall for me because he sees me everyday?

What if? What if I didn't live in their house, would he still have fallen for me? Would we be in this position right now?

"It's not true." My thoughts were interrupted when a voice spoke behind me.

I ran outside the house earlier and was now sitting at the patio by myself.

Calum sat beside me by the steps. "What Sydney said wasn't true. I know you're thinking about it but it's not true."

Just because he says it's not true, doesn't mean it couldn't have been possible.

"If I didn't live with you, how could you have liked me, then?" I've thought of a thousand ways on how he would've fallen for me but the only possible way was that I lived with them, which what happened.

"You would've still written me that letter, right?" He pointed out. I wrote that letter to him without knowing that I would be living with him, that he would be a big part of my life. I took my chance, which lead us to now.

Calum reached for his wallet in his back pocket and started taking something out from it. It was a piece of paper.

It was not just a piece of paper, it was my letter. He kept it. He kept my letter.

"You threw this away." He briefly said.

"You keeping my letter doesn't prove anything." I reasoned out. He might've just kept it because he was feeling guilty or something, I don't know.

"Yeah, it doesn't. So are Sydney's claims. They don't prove anything. Just because she said it, doesn't mean it's true." He elaborated.

Calum scooted a little closer to me. "Hey, look at me." I hesitated at first but obliged anyway. I looked up at him, "I love you and there's a reason I fell for you, and it's not because you were near me. It's just a bonus, actually."

He intertwined our hands together as I lean on his shoulder. "I didn't fall for you because you were close to me, I fell for you so I kept you close."

When he said that he fell for me so he kept me close, that one hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt that.

"But didn't you move out? That's not keeping me close." I chuckled, looking back up to him.

"There was the marriage! Plus I couldn't keep you away even if I wanted to. Not that I wanted to." He reasoned out, pertaining to the time I ran halfway across town and got injured.

"Okay, fine. I'll stop thinking about it if you tell me when you first liked me." I said and he groaned. We never talked about it 'cause he kept dodging the question.

He knows when I started liking him, it was in the letter but I have no clue as to when he did to me.

"I actually don't remember exactly when. I just did." He's not giving me any and I want to know!!!!!

I kept on shaking him in hopes that I would get something from him. "Fine, fine. I didn't like you cozying up with Luke that much. Especially that time he first arrived at home."

Wait. When I first learned that they're cousins? That was too long ago! He liked me that long ago?!

My grin started getting wider and wider, I bet he's getting scared at how big my grin was. "You already liked me then! Aww. That's so cute!"