35. Misplaced Devotion

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"Reece, oh my god, stop!" Calum shouted as I threw the last of his stuff out of my room. "I didn't know it was your room!"

"Yeah, okay, sure you didn't." I grumbled before I slammed my door on his face. There was no way he didn't know this was supposed to be my room. It was very obviously a girl's room, and since Zoe wasn't going to let him sleep in her own bedroom and this obviously wasn't Jonas's room, the only other option was that it was my room.

I thought for a second Calum had told his stupid friends about us when Luke said they thought it'd be funny to stick him in my room. Luckily I had just jumped to conclusions there.

I was a bit annoyed that Zoe forgot about me. I had checked with her three whole times before I came so that this exact thing didn't happen. I didn't mind 5sos being here. It wasn't really my house or my place to say they couldn't. I just minded that Zoe forgot about me and Calum was allowed inside my bedroom.

I hadn't seen him since the awful dinner. He didn't call or come over or anything and I didn't find out of care why. I needed to keep clear of him for a while. I really couldn't risk Jeremy finding out about him and since the only other person who knew about it was Zoe, at the moment I was safe.

I just had to keep him away from me while I was here.

Ultimately it wasn't difficult. I had to work and was gone almost every day I was in New York and 5sos were in New York for their own work. They were busy doing their own thing. When we were all there together though, I was more than usually shoved to the side next to him and he was more than usually just as unhappy about it as me. There was a very consistent flow of grumbling and picking at each other the whole week. Which got on everyone's nerves but he started it.

When I got home, I spent my off time with Jeremy when he was in town and hanging out with Crystal and Bryanna. A lot of days I was busy though. I didn't see Calum until he showed up holding Lorelei's hand at Jonas's album release party weeks later.

Jonas's band Honest Lies (is that what is was??) was finally releasing new music and he was throwing a giant pool party bash for it. He had apparently invited Calum and his evil mistress. I had never seen him hold her hand before.

"Hello?" Zoe waves her hand in front of my face and I jumped away fro looking at Calum. "You completely missed everything I just said."

"Yeah sorry." I scrunched my nose up, "What were you saying?"

"I was saying that I'm staying with Ashton tonight so don't wait up for me." She said, obviously leaving out details she had already said. She looked in the direction I had been staring and sighed. "What is with you and him? It's like you have some kind of radar when he's around."

"I don't know but it's actually the worst." I grumbled, "I'm gonna go get something to drink."

"Remember Jeremy!" Zoe shouted after me which made me laugh.

"No worries, Z." I waved my hand over my shoulder at her and went over to the drink table. Alex was over there passing out drinks all smiley and happy to be here.

"Here ya go, Babe." He said handing me a cup of something fruity smelling. He knew what I liked so I didn't question it. "So are we having fun so far?"

"Are you Jonas's hype man today?" I asked laughing as I took a sip. It was very good and it made my insides all warm.

"Always." He said with a cute wink. He and Jonas were actually the cutest in the world. They were perfect together. Jonas was a specific kind of weird and Alex was a decent match of normal. "So where's Jeremy today?" He almost sang his name. I owed my entire relationship with Jeremy to him. I never would have even talked to him if Alex hadn't called him over.

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