Punchbag - Calum Hood (5sos) Alternate Universe [ON HOLD]

15: calum

15 : bohemian rhapsody - queen (cover by panic! at the disco)

Why the fuck have I never seen this cover before

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©alum

I splashed my face with water and was sitting on the sofa just in time to see mum and the man who I presumed was Rick to walk through the door. She threw her keys in the bowl and lead Rick through the the kitchen, completely ignoring me.

"Mum?" I yelled. again, she ignored me and carried on talking to Rick. For once, I couldn't see that I'd done anything wrong, so I got up out of my chair and went into the kitchen.

She smiled at me and gestured to Rick. "This is my partner, Rick."

I sniggered. Partner. "Hi Rick, nice to meet you. I'm Calum." I held my hand out for him to shake and he took it gladly. "I think I'll be going upstairs, there's someone I want to ring."

"Your dad?" mum queried, and I shook my head. "not... Cassidy?"

I frowned. "What's wrong with Cas?"

Mum sighed. "She's just been here. Why don't you stay down here and help Rick and I with dinner?"

I bit my lip. "I want to ring Cassidy, thanks."

"Calum," mum's voice was sharp. "I'm asking you to stay down here. Do as you're told."

"I have boxing tomorrow," I blurted. "I'm ringing her about that."

Mum's face softened. "Oh, I see, off you go then. Dinner will be 20 minutes though, Cal, okay?"

I nodded and shot off upstairs. I dialled her number and but it went straight to voicemail. I'm never any good at leaving messages, so I hung up quickly. I felt bad then, so I rung her again.

"Hello?" a voice that wasn't Cassidy's; it was her sister, Rachel's) answered the phone, sounding very tired. It was late, after all, just past 9 o'clock, but me and mum always eat late.

"Hey, um, can I speak to Cassidy?"

"She's asleep, sorry," Rachel paused. "Hey, are you... are you two together or something?"

"No," I said, rather downheartedly.

"Oh, ok. Well, I'll tell her you called," Rachel yawned down the line.

"Okay, sorry to wake you," I mumbled.

"That's okay, Calum, bye," Rachel put the phone down.

I trudged downstairs to see Rick flirting with my mother, which made me feel a mixture of disgust and jealousy. I hit the banister in despair and sat down in the living room. Mum and Rick came in some minutes later, deep in conversation.

"Oh hi, Calum, have you spoken to Cassidy?" mum smiled at me, which was something she didn't do often.

"No, it went to voicemail," I said glumly.

Mum didn't seem to notice how I was feeling because she just carried on smiling. "Oh, dear. Could you do me a favour and ring your father, please? He said he wanted to speak to you. We've been talking about America for a while, see, so I'm sure he'd like some feed back on that. I'll call you down when dinner's ready."

I nodded silently and went to ring dad. He took ages to pick up, it almost went to voicemail.

"Dad?" I was nervous to speak to him because of what happened last time. I hoped he wasn't mad at me.

"Hi, Cal." I could tell as soon as I picked up he was otherwise occupied. He may be a man but he can multitask like a bitch, my dad.

"Mum told me about... America," I swallowed and my chest tingled at the thought of it.

"Oh! And? What do you think?" I could hear the grin on dad's face.

"I think I don't have much choice in it really, so I?" I said bitterly. "But, you know, if it's actually going to happen, I... I won't kick up a fuss."

"That's great, Calum!" said dad enthusiastically. His words were followed by a loud crash and cussing (on his part). "fucking... Mali! Come here please!"

I heard some more inaudible speech and was about to put the phone down until I heard his voice again. "Sorry, Cal, I'm gonna have to go. Look, thanks for giving it all a chance. You'll really like it here, I promise."

I smiled weakly. "Bye, dad."

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i contemplated rick being the teacher he beat up but i thought that'd be too predictable u feel

im sorry it's short like really short but i couldn't think of anything else to put and i thought that was a good place to end it

- cx