Calum Hood One Shots

Serendipity [Fake Dating!Calum]

Summary: Peyton and Calum weren't the closest of friends—or even friends in the first place—which makes the fact that their parents are best friends all the more irritating. And their constant desire of wanting their children to date unbearable. When their families take a trip together to Paris, Calum comes up with the ingenious plan of acting out a fake relationship to get their parents off their backs. Falling for one another was inevitable, wasn't it?

"Say hi to Calum for me!"

Peyton rolled her eyes at her mother's words, not bothering to turn around as she lifted her hand in a half hearted wave before stepping out of the house. She ignored her twenty-one year old sister Edie's snickering, or the giggles of Edie's girlfriend Diana as the three of them left the house and walked up to the Uber waiting for them.

As they settled in, Diana leaned forward to look at Peyton from the other side of Edie, the amused expression present on her face as she asked, "Do you think your mom will ever accept the fact that you and Calum, like, hate each other?"

A scoff escaped Peyton, eyes on her phone as she scrolled through Instagram after texting Luke that they were on their way. "At this point I'm pretty sure she likes to remain purposefully oblivious."

Edie snorted. "Ignorance is bliss."

Peyton gave an amused shake of her head, locking her phone before leaning back and staring out the window. It was almost ten o'clock, the sun long since having set and lights from street lamps and buildings brightening their surroundings as the Uber took them to the bar. It was their friend Luke's birthday and instead of having a big celebration, he wanted to just get together at his favorite bar, which Peyton was up for. She's known him for about seven years, met when they were sixteen in high school, and still remain close after graduation and going to different universities. They had many mutual friends, but there was that one guy that Peyton felt like she could've gone her entire life without knowing.

Maybe it was just her being petty for all these years, but a bad first impression was enough for Peyton to groan at the mere mention of Calum Hood's name. The first time they had met was at her high school graduation party that her parents threw, inviting her family and entire graduating class. Prior to graduation, they'd met Calum's parents through a mutual friend and had immediately hit it off, inviting them and their son who went to a school on the other side of their large town to Peyton's party as well, where within ten minutes of his arrival, Calum had managed to spill a drink down her dusty pink dress and then instead of apologizing, told her to watch where she was going when he had been the one to bump into her.

It was a cliche scene of a first meeting gone wrong, and it was definitely something that could've resolved itself quite easily, had it not been for Calum's stubborn nature for refusing to apologize and Peyton's pettiness of not wanting to let it go. His parents had forced him to apologize at the time and when he did, it seemed as though Peyton was the only one who could tell how insincere he sounded, their parents' fondness for one another making them deaf to the sarcasm in Calum's tone.

Ever since then, Peyton and Calum had never been on the same page.

To make things worse? Their parents thought they'd make the cutest couple. So for five years, that's the one consistent kick they've been on. The only thing Peyton and Calum could agree on was how stupid and horrible that idea was because, really, what could possibly give them that idea?

Arriving at the bar, the colored lights and loud music were welcoming as the three girls immediately made their way towards the bar, ordering themselves drinks before spotting the group of people they were to meet. Luke and everyone else were settled on the couch towards the back, the table in front of them already home to many beer bottles and glasses.