bar stool // luke hemmings fanfiction

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Haley's POV

Why did I just say that it wouldn't be a bad thing if me and Luke started dating?! I didn't even mean it! What if he likes me and asks me out or something? Oh god, what have I gotten myself into?

I left the kitchen right after I said it because I didn't want to make things awkward, but now I realize it's gonna be even more awkward because I'm constantly around Luke. It's not like I can just hide away in my room or anything because I don't actually have one. I need to make an escape before Luke comes out of the kitchen.

"Hey, Calum?" I ask, approaching where he is sitting on the couch.

"Yeah?"

"Can you show me your room?" I ask. It was the first thing I could come up with.

"Why?" He looks at me, puzzled.

I bring my voice down to a whisper. "I need an excuse to get away from Luke. I'll explain later."

He nods and takes me up to his room. After we have both taken a seat on his bed, he asks me why I needed to get away from Luke.

I consider just making something up, but I know Luke will probably mention it to him and I'll get caught.

"Well, um... I may have accidentally let him think I wanted to date him, which I don't. But still, I don't want to be around him for a little while because it'll be awkward." I tell Calum.

"Wait, how do you accidentally let someone think you want to date them?" He asks.

"Uh... I kinda told him something I didn't mean."

"Well what was it?" He impatiently asks.

"I'd rather not say..." I trail off and look at the floor.

"Should I just ask Luke then?"

"What? No! Don't ask hi-" I start to say, but I'm cut off by Calum yelling.

"LUKE!!"

"No!" I protest and lunge over to Calum and put my hand over his mouth. He licks it, which makes me tear my hand away.

"Ew! What the hell?" I cry.

He shrugs and then calls Luke's name again.

"Stop it! I'll tell you, okay?" I agitatedly say.

"NEVER MIND." Calum yells again. He sits on his bed Indian-style and faces me, his hands folded in his lap as if he's ready to listen to a super important story.

"Okay, so I kinda told Luke it wouldn't be a bad thing if we dated."

Luke's POV

"LUKE!" I hear Calum yell from up stairs.

"LUKE!"

"NEVER MIND."

I walk into the living room and find Michael and Ashton sitting there.

"Where's Haley?" I ask Michael.

"I don't fucking know." He says.

"She's upstairs with Calum." Ashton informs me.

What? She practically just told me that she wants to date, and now she's with Calum?

"Why was he calling my name?" I ask Ashton this time, since Michael clearly isn't helping in this situation.

"I don't know, he and Haley are probably talking about you or something." He tells me.

"Oh."

I sit on the couch next to Michael and wonder what Haley and Cal could be talking about up there. I know it really isn't my business, but it's really bothering me, and I don't know why.