Another Life With You || sequel to IWCT

Five

"Here, wear this." Calum smirks, handing Skye the hoodie he had been wearing when he came over. Shyly she takes the clothing item, sliding it over her naked body along with her underwear.

"This doesn't really change the predicament we are in, Cal..." She adds as he slides his pants back on.

"Shhh." He smiles, kissing her softly a couple times, "We'll figure it out. I can't not see you again, Skye. It's a physical and emotional impossibility. Come here." He takes her hands leading her across the room to the couch, pulling her into his lap as he sits.

"It feels so right, but so wrong too." She sighs, smiling at the way his fingers automatically start tickling across her bare thigh.

"You ruined me, Skye, literally. I was a different person, and not a good one, without you. And yet when I saw you again, all I wanted was a second chance. I didn't hate you, I wasn't angry, I just wanted to have you back. That means something to me. It means that despite everything you put me through when you left, that all I felt was longing. Like my eyes saw you and my heart said, home is back in LA. I can't, even for Nika, stop this." He whispers, leaving long kisses against her hairline.

"I feel at home with you too, Calum. But what about literally every other person in your world. Your daughter, your band, your fans... they all hate me. I might me the most hated ex any of you have ever had. And that is saying something."

"I don't know." He sighs, hugging her tightly to his bare chest, "I'll have to figure out how to have both I guess. To have the fans and my family happy, and still have you. At least until I can figure out how to get them all on my side of this. Until they can see you aren't going anywhere this time, until they can learn to trust you again."

"It took two and a half years of bliss before I left last time, Calum. Ashton will not fully accept I'm here to stay for at least that long, others might not either. They will have a thousand counter arguments. They don't like me, they don't like what I did, or how I did it. Am I worth the fights and hostility it will include? Is it worth fighting with all of them. Is it worth fighting with Nika?"

"You are worth every single fight, Skye. I stand by that. I met you five years ago and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't care that things fell out. Sometimes it's just about timing, and timing is right this time, I can feel it."

"I want to believe you. But I'm scared we will get a little ways into this fight and you run out of steam . I'm afraid you'll look at me differently after fighting with Nika and Ashton for weeks. I'm afraid you'll learn to resent me and our relationship because all the people you care about are fighting so hard against us."

"Hey, you have been the most important person in my life for years, Skye. All the wrong ways I changed when you left, they were all directly related to the fact that my home suddenly wasn't at home with me anymore. Nika is my daughter, and she is important. But there is something about us, Skye, about you and me that is just perfect, some sort of soulmate shit. I hate using that term, but it's the only one I can come up with to explain how connected I feel to you. I cannot let it go again." He lifts her chin so he can make eye contact as he confesses.

"I feel like that too. All the cheesy shit, in a thousand lifetimes I would always search until I found you type stuff. But I also believe in reality, and reality is no one in your life likes me at all. And that is going to affect us." She sighs, falling back against his chest.

"What if... what if for now, my world doesn't know about us?" He whispers into her hair.

"How is that ever going to be possible?" she chuckles sadly.

"You have your own place, Nika has a nanny still, I don't owe her an explanation of where I am going. If I need her to stay with Nika late after a day in the studio I'll just text her and then I can come here. It would limit what we could do a little bit, not wanting to get caught by paparazzi. But at this point I would do anything to be with you, Skye, to get to see you, talk to you, hold you, love you again."

"I hate lying to everyone, especially Nika..."

"It wouldn't be forever. Just until I could get them to relax about the idea enough to start opening up. I need to see you, Skye. However I can."

"Don't hurt anyone with this plan, please, Cal. I need you too, but I don't want things to be made worse by this."

"I'll be careful. I promise. But this time, this time my heart gets to be put first. And my heart wants you." He smiles softly, brushing his thumb across her cheekbone

"My heart wants you too, Cal." She sighs, leaning up to connect their lips again in a deep kiss.

"You've got me." He chuckles softly, pulling back just enough to rest his forehead on hers.

"Let's just hope none of this ends in hellfire."

"You worry too much, baby." He chuckles, pecking her lips a few times.

"So, if I'm Calum Hood's secret girlfriend what are the perks?" She smirks, giggling softly.

"Do I need to remind you what happened on your kitchen counter half an hour ago?" He laughs, pushing her back so she falls against the arm of the couch.

"I think I remember that perk still." She chuckles, "I mean, do I get to keep the hoodie?" She asks, playing with the hem of the black material.

"And any other I ever bring over and you want." He nods, shifting to lay down beside her, cuddling into her chest.

"How often do you realistically think you'll be able to come over if this is a secret? We lived together for Skylum act one. I might get needy not having you around all the time."

"As often as I can without raising alarm. Three or four times a week at least hopefully. Don't worry, I will need to see you a lot too."

"We are sorta doing it all wrong aren't we?" She laughs, scratching softly at his curls, "I mean we lived together before we dated, dated while living together. Broke up without actually breaking up. And now that we are trying to start this again like a normal relationship usually starts we have to hide it from everyone because they won't get it."

"Messy doesn't mean wrong, Skye, messy just means we know it's worth fighting for. How ever we have to." He sighs, hugging around her waist tighter.

"I should have fought harder the first time, sorry I let life overwhelm me and you became collateral damage." She sighs.

"You are worth every single fight, Skye, stop apologizing for prioritizing your family in that moment. I can't even imagine how hard that was for you and your brothers."

"I still wish I could have managed to keep you through it all. The day mom died... all I wanted was you." She whispers.

"I'm here now, and I am not leaving, and I know you aren't leaving again either."

"Never." She nods, shifting down slightly to cuddle him closer.

"We'll make it work, okay? I need you."

"I need you too." She sighs, pressing her lips to his forehead as she hugs around his neck tightly.

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