four letter words // hemmings au

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As soon as Luke made it back inside to the guys he pulled Michael away by the collar of his shirt, taking him over to another spot. The two received weird looks from Calum and Ashton, but they soon returned to their conversation.

"Ow? Dude what the hell?!" Michael whines, shoving Lukes hand off of himself.

"I did something bad." Luke mutters under his breath, looking around the room for any sight of Ella nervously. He couldn't stop thinking about her stupid smile and how good her ass looked in those shorts when her hips swayed. Luke doesn't know why he's freaking out so much. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all, he just talked to her. It's not like he fucked Calum's sister without knowing who she was.

"What is it?" Michael sighs, rolling his eyes.

"I was smoking outside, minding my own business and then a girl came up to me asking for a ci-"

"Give me the short version of the story Luke! Slow down a bit." Michael laughs, tapping him on the shoulder.

"I smoked with Calum's sister and she may or may not have caught me staring at her ass." Luke spills everything out suddenly, covering his mouth so fast afterwards that it hurt. His cheeks start to turn a bright red from embarrassment and Michael widens his eyes, turning around to check if Calum was watching them. Luckily he wasn't.

"I couldn't help myself she's just.. Ugh, you won't understand." Luke groans, bouncing slightly on his feet to try and stop himself from doing something crazy. His mind is racing at a million miles per hour from being so flustered.

"What part of my message to you didn't scream "Oh maybe, just maybe I shouldn't talk to this girl because she's my fucking bestfriends sister!" Luke rakes his hands through his hair swiftly, he's beginning to worry more about the situation now. Him and Michael know how protective Calum will be over Ella if he finds out about this.

"I didn't see your message until after I spoke to her! Plus, It's not like I was hitting on her or anything, she has a boyfriend anyway." Luke protests, furrowing his eyebrows as he lets out a frustrated huff. It's not like he wants to get with every single girl that talks to him, surely Calum would understand that. If only it was true for tonight though.

"Luke, Calum can't know about this." Michael explains carefully, making sure Luke understands well and clear by shaking him by his shoulders.

If Calum were to find out, he would automatically think that something may be going on between them. Luke would rather just stay quiet and secretly be jealous about Ella's boyfriend to himself. Even if he was going to keep talking to her without the others knowing, Luke doesn't want to take any chances.

"What's going on lads?" Calum asks with a grin, throwing his arms over two of his best mates.

"Nothing. Just girl trouble, you know what it's like." Luke laughs nervously, playing with the collar of his shirt. Making things awkward is his specialty.

"Who did you find Lukey?"

"Oh I didn't catch her name. She's just really attractive." Luke was only partially lying now with this, still keeping Ella's identity hidden from Calum. As if it were perfect timing she appears in the back, greeting Ashton and introducing herself.

Calum hummed to himself and nodded.

"Well if you see her around point her out to me." Calum nudges his shoulder with his elbow, making Luke flinch and laugh out again. God he probably just gave everything away at that second, how could he be so fucking stupid.

"Will do." Luke gulps.

"Let's get this gig on!" Michael changes the subject before Luke would go on to confess to Calum out of being so nervous, the tension was killing him. Michael drags Luke and Calum over to join Ashton, who is now setting up his drum kit at the back of the stage.