Try Hard [Calum Hood]

Barbeque

~Chapter 8~

Now my brother, Judith, Ari and I were walking through Ashton's driveway. We arrived to the door and I knocked. A little boy opened and he just stood there, staring at me. After an awkward moment, Ashton appeared behind the kid.

"Hi." I said shyly. Then, we entered into the house. It wasn't so big, but it was cosy. At the backyard there was a barbecue, and there were the boys and Judoth too. Ari and I, directly, went to greet them. While I just arrived where the boys were, my brother, Yago, and Ashton's, Harry, were playing football. When Calum, Luke and Michael saw them, they started to play too. They started playing dirty, so Ari and Judith went to make peace between those animals.

Ashton and I were at the barbecue.

"How are you doing?" He cares about me and we only have known each other since yesterday, and it wasn't that much for me to know a lot about him or him to know about me either.

"Better than yesterday." I could feel a silly smile forming in my face.

"Great. I didn't like seen a beautiful girl like you being sad." When he said that, I started blushing so hard. I was literally like a tomato.

Unwittingly, I was looking to his pink lips. They seem so soft and kissable. In one second, we were both leaning, our lips barely touching each other's, when the football ball hit Ashton in his arm. We quietly looked where the boys were playing, and I could see Calum looking at us. Ashton looked at him with a death glare. Calum returned him the glare and went with the other boys.

When I turned to look at where Ashton was noe, he already started making the hamburgers again. I called the boys and we all take our seats. I was sitting between Ari and my brother, next to him was Calum. In front of Yago was Harry, in front of Ari, Michael. In front of me was Luke next to him Judith and next to her Ashton.

While we were eating, Calum said:

"So, Yago, you're good at football. Did you play in Spain?"

When he said that, my brother had a big grin in his face.

"Yeah! I love football. Is one of my favourite sports." He seems so happy now.

But I know that, inside, he was empty. He misses his friends and his football team so much. They were like brothers. It's too hard to be in the other side of the world, far away from your family. Calum keeps asking questions to him. He asked things about his team and more stuff. At that moment, my brother had no emotion in his face. That wasn't good tho. When he's like that, either he starts crying or he starts throwing things and yelling.

He gets up and starts running to the driveway. I gave a disgusted glare to Calum and I start running after him too.

He was siting on the front door porch. He was crying and I felt bad for him. I sit with him and comfort him for a while. Most of the part of the time, we were like a dog and a cat together, always fighting. But he's my little brother, I have to protect him too.

10 minutes after he went to play with Harry again, I started watching old photos in my mobile phone. They were of my friends and I. I found some where we were like 5 years old. In that moment, I heard someone walking near me.

"You were the cuttest thing I've ever seen, when you were younger." I looked back, hoping that I could see Ashton, but he was Calum.

He sat right beside me and then point to my screen.

"Who's she?" He said.

"Maria." I smiled. "She's my best friend back home."

He pointed to another person in that photo.

"And him?" He asked again.

"Hector." I said with a small grin.

Hector was 6'1ft tall, with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. We grew up together, and as it's typical, at the end we fell in love with each other. He more than me, tho.

"Who's he?" Calum asked curiously.

"My first love..."