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Calum's mouth was merely a smile, cheeks puffed with air as his mind dragged over one thought to another, trying his absolute hardest to try and string together the right concoction of words; your own eyes piercing into his as a stream of sodium light consumed the confined space around you, his chest inches away from yours as he breathed out shallowly.
"I don't even have a record player," He'd simply hum, his words falling just short of surprise as you failed to keep a tight lipped frown. A flood of fuzzy memories clouded your vision as you remembered him thumbing through vinyl records, smirking to himself at a few album covers that he actually recognised, your conversation's always being half-attempted as you'd revel in watching him through glazed pupils from behind the counter; all the time's he made excuse after excuse to you, always grinning that it was his best friends birthday or his cousins wedding anniversary.
Calum shifted from one foot to the other, his mouth desperately grabbing at words as he watched you through thick, curled lashes, "I came in here to see you. To always see you."
And it felt like the air had been knocked from your lungs, several invisible stabs at your chest leaving you utterly speechless as you wait for his laughter to slash through the silence and deliver the punchline. But he didn't - his own palm dragging down the side of his face as he pulled the corner of his bottom lip between his thumb and forefinger, plumping the skin and rolling into into a small ball of flesh.
"I was desperate to fall in in... So sick of the way I had to watch everyone else around me tumble into whirlwind romances. And I always asked myself when it was going to be my turn; when I was going to finally feel something," Calum's voice was barely audible as the gentle hum of traffic whizzed past the polished windows, "You made me feel something."