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Chapter 12

* Calum's P.O.V*

A bit disappointed I walked back to my friends. I can't help it. I don't know her for that long, but I think I really like her. She's just so down to earth. I know she's a fan of ours, but she doesn't show or treats us different. She just acts normal around us, like a friend. She made that pretty clear. Been friendzoned for the millionth time now. I get it though, her and Austin seems honestly in love with each other. They are my vision of a perfect couple. The way she talks about him, how he greeted her the other minute... But I can't help feeling chemistry between us whenever we talk. Maybe it was just my imagination, but when I flirted with her during lunch, I had the feeling that she flirted back. That must mean something, right?

"- What are you thinking about, pal?" Luke walked up to me, followed by Mikey and Ash.

"- Nothing.

- It's her isn't it? Ohhhh our little Calum is in love." They spouted their lips and were making kissing sounds.

"- Shut up." I was pretty annoyed. " It's worse enough I can't have her, I don't need you three to make it even worse.

- Wow.... You've got it bad. Maybe even worse than with Mil...

- Don't say her name, I just got over her.

- Miley." My eyes were about to turn into lightening that would mean the end of our drummer's life.

"- Sorry.... Sorry... Sorry... Please don't kill me." Miley was my ex-girlfriend. We had to break up when my career started to become big. That normally wouldn't be a problem, but the fact that she was also moving to Belgium, made it worse. Even when I was home, I wouldn't be able to see her. So we broke up, but decided to stay friends. But that didn't last long either. I haven't spoken to her in months and according to her facebook she has moved past me and has a new boyfriend. I'm happy for her, I also moved on and I was over her. Only not when they said her name, it brought back memories.

"- We're going that path huh? What if I bring up Jessie, or Leila, or even better: Anna?" We all had the same past with our ex-girlfriends. We met them as a group of friends that moved for a year to Australia to explore the country, but they had to go back after. We met them at their first week there and we've been together for at least ten months. We all had to break up with them when they had to go back to the UK. At least this shutted them up.

"- Okay, you're right, we're sorry.

- You should be. At least you can be succesful with flirting with those girls, they're all single. I think I might be falling in love with a girl that is happily in love with her boyfriend that is one of the hottest starts at the moment.

- Wow wow wow... You've only like talked to her twice." Ashton seemed surprised.

"- Yeah, what you guys don't know is that I've been texting and talking with her all week. Almost all the time. She's just so down to earth you know. She understands all kinds of things and she trusts me. She has told me things that I would never tell someone that I had just met. She's just a sweet girl that looks behind my fame and wants to know me because of my personality, not because of the status that is attached to my name.

- I think you should take a shot at it." I looked with open mouth at Michael.

"- What?

- Yeah, you guys have been talking all the time, I mean, if she really cared about her boyfriend she wouldn't do that. I even saw her flirting back at you at lunch." So this wasn't in my mind.

"- But she friendzoned me. Like big time. She took me aside the other minute to thank me for what I did and Austin came to pick her up. They kissed in front of my eyes and introduced me as her friend and Austin as her boyfriend. That's triple friendzone.

- Don't give up yet. I think she might like you too.

- But I don't want to be know as the guy that was the reason for the break up between the hottest couple of the moment. I really don't know what to do anymore.

- See how the next week goes. If she reacts flirty on all your messages and flirts back when she's here again next week, go for it, that means she doesn't have full confidence in her relationship. If she's just friendly and accepts the flirting, but doesn't do anything herself, then let it go and just be friends.

- Why aren't you more like Ashton, Mikey?" I said joking. "At least he's useful." Before this would turn into a fight again, I suggested we would leave and go to the house. But maybe they were both right. I really like her. I should try, because maybe she likes me back. But I don't want to be the guy that breaks up a beautiful relationship. I'm just going to wait and see. Everybody probably wants to steal Austin Mahone's girl. She's beautiful. But I believe she belongs to me.