BREAK THE DISTANCE - Calum Hood AU *ON HOLD

chapter three

calums p.o.v. // chapter three

 The sun glowed down onto my already tanned skin. The heat of a packed Manly beach almost overwhelming in the full sun. I groaned as I rolled over so my back was lying onto the warm sand. Squinting my eyes my mind cleared instantly the sounds of rowdy beach goers, squeals of children and crashing waves made a bright smile appear on my face. 

 I’ve always love the beach, dad and mum used to bring my sister and I to the beach if we had a bad day at school. A small picnic, the crashing waves and the sound of my family laughing around me was all it took to make me feel calm again. Sadly, I am not ten years old and being showered with hugs and kisses from my mummy anymore.

I’m an eighteen year old boy at the beach with a bunch of hung-over idiots I call my friends.

“Cal.. Calum! Hood..? Earth to Calum?! CALUM YOUR BOOMERANG DICK IS HANGING OUT” My eyes widened instantly.

I was up in a shot, realising I was now the entertainment monkey for the bunch of friends sat before me. The laughter grew as I pointed my finger towards the only person that would do such a thing. 

“LUKE I’M GONNA KILL YOU” I clenched my jaw, standing on both feet and tackling the lanky blonde head to the ground. “You idiot” I seethed embarrassed at what he had yelled out to basically the whole town. 

I sat down my head hung in shame as the laughter soon seized from the group and the regular chatter began among them once more.

“Babe, you’re still hot though.” I turned my head around to the petite girl who wrapped both arms around my shoulders. Amber. The girl was beautiful, although her almost too kind of a personality was something I always found so suspicious.

I’ve known Amber since prep, we would always hang before and after school. I would classify it as childhood friends, Amber on the other hand had a completely different story in her head. We had an on off relationship, nothing too serious. Our relationship was almost predictable for most people at the soccer club. She was always so nice to everyone, her parents were picture perfect. Her mum, a nurse and her father, the owner of the soccer club I played for. Although the second she didn’t get what she wanted there would be tears and a tantrum.

For now I’d rather stay away from what Luke would call it ‘the sleeping beast that is known as her needs’. 

“Thanks, cutie.” I whispered back to her surprising myself. “Be my date to the soccer award dinner tonight, yeah?”

“I’d love to!” She giggled, internally cringing. I smiled half heartedly at her.

As soon as she had excepted the request she was off to chat to the other girls on the beach with us, probably befriending them.

“Really scored big with that date, Hood. Wow mate, really, I couldn’t think of anyone else than Mother Teresa herself.” Luke clapped his hands slowly and slapped his hand on my back, the sarcasm dripping from every word he spoke.

“What was I supposed to do? Her rich as fuck parents own the club! They’re basically bribing me with my career, its what everyone is expecting of me.” I huffed, slightly annoyed and that Luke was in fact agreeing with my conscience.

 Luke let out a frustrated sigh, obviously annoyed with my choice of date. “Mate, just because they own the club doesn’t mean they could possibly kick the best player off their team. Besides, we all know that you wouldn’t go for a girl as nice and prissy as Amber.”

 A girl. My entire body stiffened at the thought of Felicity knowing who I was going to a soccer lunch with this afternoon. I always talked to Lic as a way of avoiding conversation with everyone who surrounded me. Plus, whenever I found myself in the presence of Amber I would more than often tend to ignore her. But now that Amber’s my date for the night I’ll just have to make it believable that I want to be there with her.