English Love Affair//Luke hemmings//5sos

Chapter 20

Calums POV

I stare at the blank sheet of paper in front of me.

I pick up a pencil and put the point on the page.

I can't find anything to write.

I want to write about Alex but I can't find the words.

There are to many to describe how I feel.

Slowly I move my pencil across the page writing a title.

Confused

I stare at the sheet for at least a minute before crossing out the title.

I wonder where she is now.

Zoe told me she'd moved out for a bit to give her and Luke a bit of space.

She won't answer my texts or calls either.

I barely know her yet I miss her and I miss Freya.

Sighing I pick up my pencil again and write a new title.

Wherever you are

I try and think of some lyrics any but none come.

I scan my brain for words but all that come are

Every night I almost call you just to say it always will be you, wherever you are

I stand up and grab my phone dialling Alex's number for the hundredth time this week.

Before I can finish typing it in my phone vibrates.

I slide across the answer bar whilst saying

"Hello?"

"Hey Calum it's...um...Alex"

"Well um Alex I've been trying to get through to you all week" I hear her lightly chuckle in response.

"I've had my phone off"

"Why?"

"I guess I just wanted a break"

"Well how was it?"

"What?"

"The break" I sigh slightly exasperated.

"Awful that's why I rang"

"What happened?"

"My step-sister Rachel, she knows"

"WHAT" I shout.

"she knows and my parents also know"

"How?"

"I guess she must've been looking through my suitcase and found the pregnancy test"

"Will they tell anyone?"

"I don't think so, she wouldn't stoop so low" I hear her suppress a sob.

"Hey are you okay?" I ask softly.

"I just hate her so much" she starts crying freely her breath becoming rugged.

"I'm so sorry Al"

"For what? You've done nothing wrong and all I've done is screw up your entire life" she yells.

"That's not all you've done" I take a deep breath.

"What else have I done now?"

"You've made me love you"

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Alex's POV

I drop the phone.

He just he loved me.

The words I've been waiting to hear since 2011, since I first saw him on youtube.

"I love you too" i squeak through the phone.

I hear him let out a sigh of relief immediately coming more relaxed.

"My parents want to meet you" I say.

"Yeah sure they do-I wonder how a meal would go with the bloke that knocked up their daughter"

He laughed.

"I'm not their daughter" I insist.

"Huh?" He asks.

"I'm adopted" I mumble.

"I'm so sorry"

"Don't be and please please promise not to treat me any different" I wince.

"I promise" he responds.

"Could you....could you come around today"

"Err...yeah I guess" he sounds taken aback.

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"So who's this Calum guy then?" Rachel smirks.

"My boyfriend" I hold my head up high.

Sure we weren't official but we just said I love you ,so I'm going to hazard a guess that we're now together.

Her smirk ebbs away revealing a look of disgust.

"So another sleaze bag"

"No, he's a gentleman" I smile at her.

"Okay so a balding forty year old, with no job and trust me is going to live you once that baby's born"

"OMGOSH NO. First of all I refuse to date someone more then five years older than me let alone twenty and secondly you must think I look like you if the only guy you think I can get is like that" I place my hand on my hip.

"Yeah sure, and when are we gonna meet your imaginary boyfriend" she sniggers.

"Tonight, he's coming round in a bit" I look at my shocked parents.

How are they so blind?

Can't they see Rachel for who she is, she can say what she wants and they don't care.

"Well it'll be nice to meet him" my mum fakes a smile.