stay with me(cake)

0.4

"Come on, lets get you to the car and back home" I tell Calum as I place my hand on his shoulder as we walk. He just nods in approval as I open the car door passenger seat for him. He steps in and I close the door and walk to the other end of the car to my door. When I get back in, Calum has his headphones in.

"Whatcha listening to?" I ask in a singsong voice, scaring the crap out of him.

He still doesn't say anything but he tilts the phone screen so that I can see it. Green Day. 21 Guns.

"Hey!" I playfully hit his shoulder. "That's my favorite Green Day song!" He just smiles, though I am pretty sure he was faking it to not make me feel awkward, and nods.

Calums POV

My god, this kid is so annoying(except the good kind of annoying, like when they joke and tease around with you and it makes you blush but you don't say anything to them about it). I wish I could talk more so I could tell him to get away from me, I'm too lame to be hanging out with him. First he bumps into me in the hallway, then, he practically chases me back from the courtyard, he gives me his number, and now I'm riding in a car with him. It's awkward. I really wish I could say something to him. But I just cant.....I try so hard but nothing comes out. When I told him my name, it was the first time i had spoken in years. A lot of years. It felt horrible and amazing to talk at the same time. I guess I was running purely on adrenaline, not wanting to be beaten up. Again. I mean I guess I shouldn't push him away. He is the closest thing I have to a friend. The only person who doesn't care if I talk or not, at least that's what i think...

We get to his house. It's huge. I mean HUGE like amazing, compared to my house which was just a simple raggedy house in a sketchy neighborhood. Luke pulls out a key from his pocket and unlocks the door. We walk in. It smells weird, like you know how when you walk into someone news house it smells weird, like a signature house smell that the people living in it have gone nose-blind to? Like that.

"Sit down at the high-top chair next to the kitchen counter." He tells me while getting a small plastic bag, a washcloth and walking over to the fridge. He fills the bag with ice and puts the towel around it, he hands the ice bag to me and I take it after a second. I just hold it in my hand and stare at it for a minute before Luke wraps the palm of his hand around the outside of mine and pushes the ice pack to my face, where the huge bruise is. It stings for a minute and I flinch, but adjust after a second and Luke doesn't move his had for a good 3 minutes, when he walks to the cupboard and gets two glasses that he filled with water and ice.

"Here you go. Drink it" He moves the cup closer to me.

I sip it slowly, only focusing on what was going into my mouth and not the boys beautiful blue eyes that were standing right in front of me.

I haven't told anyone yet.

That I'm not straight

And do you ever get butterflies in your stomach, the good kind, when you talk to someone you shouldn't, but secretly have had a crush on since 8th grade?? . Me. Right now. This is me. I am this

I would never say it out loud though, I think Luke just wants to be really good friends and that's it....? Even though it would never happen anyways, he's into girls and I'm a mute...

"So Calum... Who ya crushing on?" Luke asks, nudging my shoulder playfully after like 5 minutes of awkward silence from him. I shrug but don't give an answer. "Oh come on, 300 girls at our school and you don't like even one of them?" I shake my head no and look the other direction. I text Luke, even though we are 5 feet apart.

*Me: Im gonna go. Thanks for helping me*

"Let me drive you." Luke says aloud

*me: No it's okay its not the far a walk. See you around.*

He nods but then quickly shouts "Calum!, I forgot to say that I am going on vacation with my mom and brothers tomorrow. It's a month long cruise. I'll be out of school for that long." I nod awkwardly, he was my only 'friend' if you could say that and now he is leaving for a month. "....But we are going to email or text each other every single day and say how our days are going" I smile a real smile, for once. and I show myself to the door. I pull the sleeves of my sweater(Yes a man sweater and it looks amazing on me okay?) over my hands and put my hand over my face, hiding a smile and my extremely red cheeks. God, this boy.

~The Next Day~

DON'T WORRY GUYS THERE'S GONNA BE A DOUBLE UPDATE TONIGHT CAUSE MY TEACHERS ARE AWESOME (ms Casey excluded) AND DIDN'T GIVE ME ANY HW AT ALL TONIGHT! ALSO! The next 'month' in the story is just going to be emails back and forth from Luke to Calum or vise-versa starting next chapter ok see you guys when I update again tonight!!*Doesn't say peaceskies cause ill say it later*

(EDITED ON 9/7/15)