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Chapter Twenty Nine

Chapter Twenty Nine

Anni POV

"Just pick one!"

"You're the lady, you pick one!"

"God, Calum, just pick a goddamn movie." I say with a groan. He rolls his eyes at me, and finally clicked his laptop, choosing a movie at random. I curl up into one of the blankets, wrapping it around me as if I were a burrito.

I wriggle around a bit, the dress the girls having chosen becoming annoying. I lay still for a few seconds, and then begin to wriggle around even more. Calum stares at me with a frown,

"You alright there, Anni?"

"Yeah, sorry, my dress is annoying me." I whine. I sit up and throw the blankets off of me. Calum stands up and to my surprise, pulls me up with him.

"Come on, you can borrow something of mine until I drop you home."

He pulls me towards the exit of the attic, and clambers down the ladder. I'm grateful to the fact that he doesn't look up, because if he did, he would get a view straight up my dress. Oh shit, I was going to have to climb down a ladder in a damned dress.

"Uh, Cal, I'm in a dress."

"So?" he asks from the bottom of the ladder.

"So, if I climb down the ladder, you are going to get a view of my underwear!" I spluttered.

"I wouldn't mind that." He says cheekily

"Just look away while I climb down. And no peeking!"

"No guarantees."

"Calum!" I scold. I proceed to scramble my way down the ladder, holding my skirt with one hand and climbing with the other. After my ungraceful landing, I turn around and face Calum, who's already got a shirt and some tracksuit pants in his hand. I smile and thank him as he throws them to me.

Pulling the pants on underneath the skirt I say,

"This has been really fun, Cal. I still can't believe that you put this much effort in though."

"Anni, it's honestly not that big of a deal, I have already spoken to you about this. You deserve to be treated like this!" I shake my head stubbornly,

"Cal, you honestly see me as if I was Miranda Kerr or something. You are just being delusional." I pull his t-shirt on over the top of my dress. Cal opens his mouth to respond, but stops, too perplexed by my actions.

With him still watching me, I reach up the back of the shirt, and with a bit of an effort, manage to pull the zipper down. Once unzipped, I pull down the dress, letting it fall at my feet. And to Cal's amazement, I stood in front of him, fully dressed without him seeing any extra skin than necessary.

"How did you-?"

"It's called spending several years of getting changed in a locker room without anyone seeing you." I say, stepping out of my dress and picking it up. I lay it on his bed, and I feel him still staring at me.

Calum POV

To say I liked her in my clothing was...an understatement at least. God, I could barely control myself whilst around her, and her in my clothes made it much harder. I swallow loudly, and turn back towards the ladder.

"Come on, let's go watch a movie."

She follows me back up to the attic, and once we are at the foot of the bed, we both jump into it at the same time. Somehow, I manage to end up pinned underneath her, with my hands on her waist and her's next to my head. We both start laughing at the ungainly fall.