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Two: Their bad pasts

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Chapter 2

Luke

“If you want it, come and get it.”

My face went all hot again, and my fingers began to stick to the door which I was clinging onto so dearly. “Stop it Calum. What if my mum comes up?”

“Then I’ll say I’m giving you a hand. That you forgot your clothes and I’m bringing them for you.”

Fuck Calum, fuck him. I hated him but at the same time I admired him. Why did feelings have to be so complicated? Why couldn’t someone just be told everything about a person so I wouldn’t have to worry about him hating me or saying something sensitive?

“What do you want?” I said eventually, hoping it would be something trivial, like ‘let me borrow your shampoo’ or ‘can I borrow a shirt’.

“I want you to come and get it.”

I grabbed my nuts and manned up. I was going to go out there, take the clothes, run into my room and shut it before he could get in. I was going to do it in three… two… one-

“Luke, could you take Molly for a walk?” mum called. Shit. Shit, shit, shit. She was coming up the stairs. Swallowing, I pulled Calum into the bathroom and covered my hand over his mouth. “Luke?”

My chest was pressed against his and I could feel both our heartbeats going faster than a racing car. “I’m just getting dressed, I’ll take her in a second,” I said back, breathing quickly. She replied with an ‘ok’ and went back downstairs. Phew. Then I realised I was still pressing Calum against the door, and looked down at his face. He was only a little bit shorter than me, probably a few centimetres. His eyes locked with mine and he played with his lower lip, biting it and pushing it out. I kinda wanted to continue where we left off but then I realised that Calum did have a girlfriend, and was most definitely straight.

Suddenly, he dropped my clothes and put his arms around my waist. “W-what are you doing Calum…?”

He smirked, then pushed me away. “You have to walk the dog, don’t you? Let’s go together. Hurry up and get changed, I don’t want to take advantage of the fact that you’re literally naked.”

So he was nice sometimes. He left the bathroom and I heard my door open and close. Quickly, I pulled on my pants and jeans, as well as my tee, before roughly drying my hair with the towel. When I went into my bedroom, Calum was sat at my desk with my guitar, looking really sad.

“Calum?” I called, because it seemed as if he hadn’t seen me.

“Oh, you’re back.”

He sniffed and stood, placing my guitar back on its stand. “Do you play the guitar?”

“Shall we go?”

Again with the subject changing! I could only nod and follow him out the room. Once downstairs, we put on our coats and I put on a hat. Molly came padding over and I put a lead on her. It was one that Celeste bought us for Christmas last year, and the only one that Molly hadn’t chewed up. Calum bent down to stroke her, with genuine love.

“I’m guessing you don’t have a dog,” I said randomly. Calum didn’t look up and continued to stroke Molly.

“No, but I want one real bad.”

I let Calum hold the lead when we went outside, and decided on my daily route. Usually I took Molly round the neighbourhood, through the park and then home. However, Calum seemed to have other plans. Halfway through the walk, we stopped at an old looking house with peeling paint by the sides of the windows and a broken gutter.