we are flowers {cake au}

chapter 3; he's really not that hot. really. (september 7)

but that's just a stupid dream that I won't realise
cause i can't even look in your eyes
without shaking,
and i ain't faking.
el scorcho; weezer

✿ luke ✿
"do you like pizza?" luke blurts out, and covers his mouth directly after. "i'm sorry."

luke actually isn't sure why he did this because calum is really chirpy and luke isn't one hundred percent sure he likes chirpy people.

calum laughs. (luke makes a mental note: calum gets squinty eyes that are cringe worthy, but the good cringe worthy. a hot cringe worthy.) "it's fine. i love pizza!" he says. "are you asking me out, luke hemmings?"

luke's face heats up. "n- no. no. yes? it's just, well, you're new to town. from california. you don't know any good pizza places here."

"you make a good point. i'll consider it," calum replies, and luke is totally freaking out because he doesn't know how serious calum is being.

"o- okay. okay. consider it," luke says, and he wants to smack himself. what a stupid thing to say. "i'm sorry."

calum laughs. (the squinty eye thing only gets better each time he does it. how.) "don't say sorry."

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"i considered it. long and hard. i say yes. i like pizza. i'll go out with you," calum appears at luke's front door two hours later.

luke is suddenly more flustered than he'd imagined he'd be at noon on a sunday. "um. okay."

calum looks at him expectantly. "well?"

"oh. i don't have a car. i'm sorry, i should've thought of that."

"it's okay. you can drive mine." calum hands luke his keys out of his pocket and oh, god, they're warm and they were sort of indirectly touchingcalum'sbody and luke cannot hang.

luke looks at calum's car, calum's keys, and then finally at calum. "okay."

"your lip ring is kind of hot," calum says suddenly, and god does luke heat up at that.

"you told me yesterday," luke replies and he's looking at his feet and mumbling because calum is kind of hot, and luke can't look at him.

"i told you i like your lip ring yesterday. today, i'm telling you that it's hot. it is."

and luke really doesn't know what he's saying before he says it. "well, i like your tattoos. they're hot." he clamps a hand over his mouth. "dammit," he mutters.

"oh, god. my tattoos? thanks."

they just stand around in their front lawns staring at each other and at their feet and they're biting their lips and toeing at their shoes.

"let's go," calum suggests, and luke nods.

they make it to the pizza place and get out and sit at a table and it's cute, with a candle in the center, and luke feels like this could be a date, but who is he to ask out a hot boy like calum?

"this is one hot date," calum remarks, as if he was reading luke's mind.

luke looks around and chuckles; they're surrounded by a dozen couples over the age of forty. "it is. do you like pepperoni?"

"i do like pepperoni."

the waitress comes over to the table. "hi, luke! who's your friend?"

"this is calum. he's my neighbour."

"it's nice to meet you, calum! i'm delilah," she says.

"hello," calum says and luke melts at his cute little grin.

"what can i get you boys to drink?" delilah asks.

"i'll have a pepsi," luke says.

"i will also have a pepsi," calum says.

"alright, i'll be right back with your sodas!"

calum grins at luke. "you know every one?"

luke returns the grin and says, "basically. my mother had a lot of friends." luke knows calum heard the 'had,' and he's grateful that he doesn't comment on it.

the two boys chat a bit until delilah returns with their drinks. "now, what can i get you to eat?"

"one large pepperoni pizza, please," luke says, smiling at delilah.

"alrighty, one large pepperoni pizza, coming right up!"

calum grins at luke again, and it feels like déjà vu, because this is exactly how it went down when delilah left the first time.

"i think you're really cute," calum says.

luke heats up and he hopes his face doesn't look too red and stupid. "oh- well, th- thank you."

"don't be so formal, luke! loosen up! we're neighbours, get used to my compliments!"

"i'm sorry."

"quit that, will ya? you're really cute, and it's not your fault. blame science. blame genetics," calum says.

"okay."

who even is calum hood, luke wonders. who is he and how did he come into luke's life so quickly and so, so wonderfully.

delilah gets back with their pizza and wishes them happy eating.

"this pizza will blow your mind," luke tells calum.

"yeah?"

"yeah. definitely."

luke takes a slice of the pizza and puts it on a plate and hands it to calum. "eat. enjoy." he gets a piece for himself, too.

calum takes a bite. "mmm, this is really fuckin' good!"

"shh," luke hushes calum and laughs. "don't swear so loudly, there are senior citizens!"

"oh, yeah," calum laughs.

they finish eating and finish laughing and finish their 'date.'

"did you have fun?" luke asks.

"yes," calum replies. "will you take me out again?"

luke becomes flustered. "oh, um.. yeah."

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hiya here's an update even though only like one person actually likes this story :-)

-m