Lost Alone In The Dark ● Calum Hood fanfiction ○

Chapter 35 ● I know something's up ○

Calum takes a seat near Luke on the couch. Michael and Ashton are flicking through movie channels trying to decide a movie entertaining enough to watch. They eventually find one they like. "I'm gonna find some snacks" Luke tells them forgetting that he's sitting on that suspicious letter they don't want Calum to know about.

"What's that?" Calum asks pointing towards the letter. Luke thinks for a while before replying "Oh umm... it's a letter I was writing to my mum" Luke replies awkwardly grabbing the letter from where he was previously seated. "You still write letters to your mum?" Calum asks trying to hold back his laughter. "Don't you have a phone to call and text her from?" He adds another question. "Yeah, but sometimes I like something more sentimental" he replies. "Oh alright" he responds.

Since when does Luke write letters to his mum? I just had to play along. But I know something's up. He did have to think for a while before he answered me. Could it be something Daphne sent? Or am I just overthinking this? Maybe I should talk to Darren about this; I mean he probably knows what's up after all Cade is his brother. Calum thinks to himself.

Luke comes back in the room with bags of crisps for all of them. He hands each of them a bag and they thank him. Calum has too many thoughts rushing through his mind so he isn't focussed on what's going on on the television in front of him. Whereas the three of them have their eyes glued on what's going on on the screen. "I'm gonna go rest for a bit" Calum tells them getting up off the couch. "Alright" Ashton replies turning his attention to Calum for a moment before giving his attention back to the television again.

Calum goes upstairs to his room and lies down on his bed. "Darren" he calls him. "What do you want Calum?" He asks him through his thoughts. "I think Cade and Daphne are up to something" he tells him. "How do you know?" He questions though his thoughts. "I saw Daphne walking towards my house and I think she sent my friends a letter" he answers. "They're probably doing something then" he replies. "Why are they bringing my friends into this mess though?" He questions. "I don't know, I'll let you know if I find out" he answers through his thoughts. "Okay" he replies. "Is that all?" He asks. "No, did you know that Daphne and Cade were working together while you were messing with Valley's head?" He questions. "I kind of did but I wasn't really sure" he answers. "Do you trust Cade and Daphne?" He asks him. "Cade not at all, Daphne a tiny bit" he replies. "Okay" he responds.

I wonder what the letter says. Could they be threatening them? Is it about me? Is it about Darren? Did they sign their names at the end? I could try looking for it but I have no idea where Luke left it Calum thinks to himself.

"Is the letter safe from Calum?" Michael asks Luke. "Yeah I'm just gonna keep it with me wherever I go" he replies. "Do you think he believed your story?" Ashton questions Luke. "He seemed kinda sceptical about it" he answers. "That's not good" Ashton replies. "I know" Luke responds.

"Calum" Cade calls through his thoughts. "What do you want Cade?" He questions. "Are you still annoyed with me?" He questions. "Of course I am" he answers. "Why do you believe I wrote a letter to your friends?" He asks. "How do you know about it?" He asks back. "I can read some of your thoughts" he replies. "Oh yeah, what am I thinking about now?" he responds. "I can only read your thoughts which relate to me" he responds back. "Oh okay" he replies. "You didn't answer my question" he responds. "Because you're the only one actively making a bad impact on my life at the moment" he responds.

"He knows I helped write the letter" Cade tells Daphne. "That means we can't blame it on Dare unless you convince him it's not you who sent it" she replies. "How?" He questions. "I don't know make it seem like it wasn't you and was Dare" she answers. "I'll try" he replies.

"I didn't write a letter to your friends" Cade tells Calum through his thoughts. "I don't believe that" he replies. "Have you seen it?" He questions. "Well I didn't see the actual thing but I did see an envelope and an outline of blue ink on paper" he answers. "So how can you be sure I wrote it?" He asks. "I don't know my intuition tells me you were involved in this" he replies. "I can assure you I'm not a part of this letter crap" he replies. "Give me some proof you definitely weren't part of this and then I'll believe you" he responds. "Okay I'll find the proof and show it to you" he replies. "Alright" he responds.

Daphne is definitely part of this letter crap. I basically caught her red handed going to my house to deliver it. The envelope didn't have my address on it so the postman couldn't have delivered it. I don't think she would be working with Darren so it's obvious he wouldn't be involved. So it's either her working on her own or with Cade or someone I don't know about. Calum thinks to himself.

"Ashton I don't care what you say I'm going to meet up with the person who sent the letter" Michael tells him. "Are you out of your mind?" Ashton asks him a question in reply. "No, I just wanna figure out who this is so we can be aware of whatever the hell they're up to and possibly prevent them from doing something awful" Michael answers Ashton. "He's got a point there" Luke replies. "I guess so, but Michael weren't you the one who noted that this could be some kind of trap?" Ashton asks. "Yep, but even if this is a trap we could go face to face with them and try to convince them whatever they're planning to do is a bad idea" he replies to him. "I don't like where this is going" Ashton responds. "Oh come on Ash, we can't keep hiding away from danger it's just not gonna go away if we keep ignoring it we gotta do something" Luke replies to Ashton. "Fine, we go meet these creeps if that's what you both want. But don't say I didn't warn you if this plan goes terribly wrong" he responds to the both of them. "Okay, so we go where they told us to meet them?" Michael asks. "Yeah" Luke replies.