forever and always || c.h.

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"Are you almost ready? We're running late." Calum said and peaked his head through my door.

"We're late?" I asked and snapped my head towards him.

"Just a little bit." He said.

"Okay I'll be down in a second." I said and started getting my stuff together for class.

"Babe we'll be fine if we're a couple minutes late." He said and leaned his head against my doorframe.

"No we have a quiz today we can't be late." I said and rushed towards the door.

"We have a quiz today?" He asked with wide eyes.

"Yea didn't I tell you this yesterday?" I asked as we walked downstairs.

"No you didn't. What is it on? What are we even doing in class?" He said with a bit of panic in his voice.

"Calum you've been paying attention you'll be fine." I said and made my way out of the house and towards his car.

"I don't test well, I won't be fine." He said and stuck the keys in the ignition and pulled out of the driveway.

"You got a 93 on the last test we did, you'll be fine." I said and put my hand on his leg.

"Just ask me questions in case I forgot everything." He said and focused on the road. I did as he asked and asked him a bunch of questions about what we were doing. Obviously I couldn't give him actual math problems because he can't do it in his head but I asked what I could.

"You'll be fine it's just 20 points." I said as we started walking to class.

"Those 20 points could bring my grade down if I don't do well." He said seriously.

"You're stressing yourself out way too much. You have an 86% in this class, if you get a bad grade it probably won't do anything or will only bring you down to an 85. And you're not going to do bad because you pay attention." I said and took a hold of his bicep as we walked. He let out a sigh of frustration and put his head in his hands. He was stressed and he didn't need to be, but obviously there wasn't much I could do to get him to not stress out.

"Look at me." I said and stopped in front of our classroom and got him to look me in the eyes. "You'll be just fine, trust me." I said squeezed his hand quickly before letting go.

"Okay." He said and let out a deep breath before we walked into class.

Our teacher did a lot of review for most of the class, which I think Calum was grateful for. I knew he didn't need this because he was perfectly capable of doing this without all this review. But I could tell it made him feel a lot better about this quiz and that's all that really mattered.

After math I went to my next class which was psychology with Crystal. During that class we were allowed to talk while we worked so me and Crystal just talked about whatever drama was on our minds.

Then surprisingly at the end of class Calum wasn't waiting for me. He usually was standing outside of the door waiting for me every day so we could go home. But for some reason today he wasn't.

I decided to just walk to the car because where else was I supposed to go? When I got close enough I saw him leaning his back against the front of the car on his phone. He looked really pissed off but I don't know why. He didn't even wait for me so it makes me think I did something wrong but as far as I know I haven't done anything.

"Calum." I said and stood a few feet in front of him. He just snapped his head up and looked at me while he put his phone in his pocket. He still looked really pissed and it was making me stress out.