Shooting Between Us: 3 years on COMPLETE

Chapter Twenty-Six

Happy Halloween Everyone!🧟🧛🏻🕷🕸🧙🏻‍♀️🦇👻🎃☠️😈🧝🏻‍♀️ (an woodland elf is not a Halloween thing but ima choose the elf emoji anyways because they look cool and I wanna be one)

This feels so weird, I've never wrote a book longer than 26 chapters JAISHAHS also we are back to Calum's POV now, hope you enjoy, queens!
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Calum's POV:

BEEP BEEP BEEP

There it was again. The alarm, same as usual I smacked my hand against the button of the loud and irritating box that woke us up from our beauty sleep every morning. "It's so loud, we gotta do something about that, Jesus" I mumbled and yawned as I snuggled onto Luke. Yesterday was a lovely day, it had its wobbles and it had its moments of awkwardness but I think it went really well. "Mhmm let's not get up yet" Luke mumbled back, still with his eyes closed. It was a routine I guess for us to cuddle for a little bit longer before getting up. I reached over and squeezed his cute little butt as we cuddled. "A few minutes..." I pecked his forehead. He jumped slightly when I squeezed him, he probably wasn't expecting it. He let out an adorable tired giggle "Jesus Cal! Thought you got enough of that last night.." he joked. "Can never get enough..." I brushed my nose up against his forehead. "I guess I've got a lot of job hunting to do today.." I rolled my eyes at the thought. Luke was keeping me going, he really made me feel safe and happy. "Good luck with it babe, I'll keep an eye out for you too.." "thanks darling" I kissed his forehead "I just don't know what Chuck will do now... I haven't heard from him since I hit him yesterday." I confessed. I completely forgot about that, and I didn't tell Luke that I hit him either until now. "Wait you hit him?" He opened his eyes and looked up at me. "Can't say I blame you. Hopefully he'll take it as a sign that he needs to fuck off." Luke sighed and stretched. "Um yeah... well I'm not too sure knowing him.." I felt uneasy. Luke rolled out of bed and put the kettle on, and started making us both coffee. It's a fun fact that we both couldn't handle anything in the morning without a hot cup of coffee first. Speaking of chuck reminded me of the horrible pictures and videos he took of usc making me feel even more unsettled. "What if my mum sees those pictures? Fucking hell her drunk son getting fucked by some glass eyed prick who bullied him in school? I don't think I'll be able to cope..." I got up and Luke passed me my coffee. "They won't get our Cal, I'll make sure of it." Luke reassured me. I really did not know how to feel, I feel really disgusting about it for a start. I sipped my coffee "Thanks darling, for the coffee and for the reassurance. But he has the photos backed up on other devices he told me..." Luke looked at me in a 'oH shit' manner and downed the rest of his coffee. Not safe, but it's luke. And I'm used to him having a caffeine addiction now I guess. "Jesus...he's gotten more... fucked in the head." "And to think that I even thought for a second that he didn't." I rolled my eyes and decided to down my coffee too. "I'm such a fucking idiot." I told myself, I felt like the lowest of the lowest for letting him manipulate me the way he did. Luke started making more coffee, which I didn't question. "You aren't an idiot Cal... like you said, he's a good actor. He nearly had me fooled again myself. Then again I'm no better for believing so with Meredith." He rolled his eyes at having to say her name out loud, and I really can't blame him. "They're both a pair of dickheads. I swear if she comes to stalk me again I'm getting my sister to knock her out." I wish I was kidding when I said that. But she would. Mali is a sweet girl and I love her dearly, but she's not the sort of person you'd want to get on the wrong side of. She'd have ya, she would. That's right. She would have you.

"I don't fucking blame you." Luke agreed as he started getting ready for work. "I'd much rather stay with you today..." "I wish you could too... but eh I guess you gotta make that money!" I said, thinking I will probably just stay in my pyjamas for a little while. "Yeah...yeah it will be fine." He said nervously, not sure what he was thinking about but I could tell he ready for the day he had ahead of him. I thought it would be best to just ask him. "Things going alright at school? You seem a bit...off about it all recently..." "I mean sure, well yes...but I guess it's kind of...well really-" he started to stutter. Jesus Christ Luke, not again. "But I don't but- you know what I mean?" He added. I looked at him like 😶. "Right..." I said, not knowing how to respond with how much I was trying to process everything he was telling me, which was nothing but a bunch of stuttering really. ".....I'm not making sense am I?" He sighed. "Well... not really but by now I've kind of developed a skill of de-coding you when you stutter, and it sounds like you're not happy..." I had to be honest with him. How could I not? He then started getting dressed, I was kind of looking at him like OOF but at the same time I couldn't help but fill my mind with sympathy for Luke. "Yeah...just something, don't worry about it, it's probably just me being stupid." He looked down. My heart started to ache, I hated it when he spoke about himself like that. "Um...what do you mean? You aren't stupid Luke. Talk to me.." I stood up and walked sober to him. "That um..student..she's being really weird, I guess you could call it." He shrugged. "Which one? If any of the students are giving you trouble just tell Dave." I tried to advise him. "It's not as easy as that cal... she's an angel in his eyes.." he only had to say that for me to realise he was talking about the girl who made a pass at him in the hallway in front of me. "Oh god not that kid, what's her name? Asparagus? Avocado? Artichoke?" I tried to jest to make him laugh, suppose they are some funny nicknames we could use for the thot. "Arzaylea... I'm sure she will get bored and back off.. don't worry." Luke shrugged again as he started putting his shoes on. "What's she doing? Being loud? Disturbing?" "Not exactly..." he said quite hesitantly "well remember what she was like the last time you saw her?" He asked. It was a while ago. When we first got our new jobs, but I could never forget a day like that. It was mental. "Oh god yeah. When she was being all needy around you, couldn't tell if she was serious or not." I admitted, which is true. It might be some sort of lame school prank. "Well..lets just say she's like that...more?" "How so? I mean it's common for kids to have crushes on teachers, or can't be that bad can it?" I simply said, regretting it straight after. I suppose I shouldn't be so presumptuous when I don't know his situation. "It's just... you know what. Forget it. I'm probably overthinking it." Luke sighed and stood up, but I couldn't let him go to work with shit on his mind, we are engaged now and we communicate so well as a couple so I think it would do him good to get anything off your chest. I cleared my throat as I tried to get him to sit back down "no...no babe tell me, I'm sorry..I'm sorry. I want you to talk to me." I held his hand and he eventually sat down.
"She says..a lot of inappropriate things..like.. sexual..or flirt, she'll moan in the middle of class when I try to get her to shut up.She says she has stalked me on Instagram and that's how she's found out my first name, she wrote bloody "Larzaylea" on the desk! Then when I stood up to her she said how she can turn it all around and get me..you know..fired.." Luke took a deep breath. Jesus Christ, she sounds crazy. Meredith 2.0 more like. There's having a crush, and then there's making someone feel like they need a restraining order. "You're kidding? What a tramp, surely Dave will believe you if you speak to him about this, he has to!" I started to feel irritated at the thought of my boyfriend being manipulated by a pathetic teenager. Luke sighed stressfully "I don't know Cal...what if I fuck things up more?" "Well if you have your doubts...you have to prove it. Get her to act the way she does in front of Dave." My advice probably was gonna be tougher or Luke to pursue than it sounds. "How? She acts like a complete different person around him.." "Well...when she's in one of those moods, go for a walk with Dave and then "accidentally" bump into her." I feel like my advice is useless, but I wanted to think of what I could to try help him. "Yeah I guess it doesn't hurt to try right?" Luke smiled as he looked at the time. "Right...I better be off. I've got some papers to mark, but I will see you later" Luke put his jacket on. "I love you babe. Have a good day at work, I'm gonna go see Steve today." I pecked his lips. Chuck probably fucked up my chances of getting my old job back, but I've known him since I was eighteen. So surely he will believe me. "I'm sure he'll be glad to see you, I love you more..." Luke blew me a kiss before leaving to get the bus to work. Before he could leave, I decided I wouldn't mind spending a little more on petrol money just to spend a few moments with him, even if money is tight at the moment. So I offered to drop him off, considering the anchor wasn't open until 12pm anyways.