Ch. 4

                                    

                                          
“I’m scared to get close and I hate being alone. I long for that feeling to not feel at all. The higher I get the lower I sink. I can’t drown my demons they know how to swim.” I sing as I rinse the fruity shampoo out of my hair. This is my usual Saturday routine. I wake up at ten, shower, hang out with Matt or Kendall which needless to say I’m avoiding Matt entirely now.
                          
Kendall is busy with a family retreat. She calls it ‘sex and the poison ivy’ because nature gets her parents horny and they do stuff in their tent while Kendall somehow gets poison ivy. She can literally get poison ivy in a Starbucks.
                          
I’m all alone. This is a great day for me to go on Netflix and watch some anime…or I can do my homework and be a productive child. Ha nope.
                          
In the end, I decide to go to the skate park and ride Ollie around. I grab the car keys and head out. I’m not going out too long, I just want to test Ollie out.
                          
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 When I reach the villa’s parking lot, I’m grateful for the lack of people. Usually I don’t mind the guys since they are nice to look at, but they tend to think that I’m an amateur.
                          
He rides smoothly.
                          
I ride for about twenty minutes and take a quick break when I hear my phone ring. I quickly run to it so no one notices that David Tennant is my ringtone. I don’t check my caller ID because I know it’s my mom. “Hello?”
                          
“Your ringtone is really loud.” This isn’t mom. I check who called. Calum. How does he…oh he’s here.
                          
“Where are you?”
                          
“I am walking up to you right now.” I turn around and see him walking up the stairs to the bench. I meet him halfway and hug him. “It’s cool that you board.”
                          
“Yeah, I’m giving Ollie his first ride.”
                          
“Ollie?”
                          
“My board. I got him last night when I came home.”
                          
“Nice. Let me see you ride him.” He said and I oblige. I’m not one to show off- eh nah I love to show off my boarding skills. I just want Calum to be impressed. As I’m boarding, I hear some girls scream –hopefully in happiness- and I board back up to Calum. He’s talking to the two girls.
                          
“Who are your friends?” I ask him, trying to control my jealousy in my voice.
                          
“This is...” He points to the hot blonde who is barely wearing any clothing. How is she so confident with her body?  I can’t even wear a band tee if it clings to my stomach too much. My motto is black and baggy then I’m happy.
                          
“Claire.” She aids. “And this is Taylor.” Claire points to her equally hot friend. The only difference between them is that Taylor is a brunette. Other than that they almost look like sisters.
                          
“How do you know Calum?” Taylor asked a bit of jealousy in her voice. She probably liked Calum for a while. I feel like this is the only time they’ve ever talked. Maybe Calum is super popular in school and all the ladies crushed on him. Did I just say ‘all the ladies’? Wow, I’m lame.
                          
“I met him at the Fall Out Boy concert yesterday.” She nods and turns back to Calum and doesn’t say anything for a while.
                          
“So do you have a twitter?” Claire asks.
                          
“No.”
                          
“You have to get a twitter! Like once you get twitter your whole view of life changes.” Taylor explains.
                          
I politely shake my head. “No thanks, I already have Tumblr and Netflix, my life is consumed enough. Not to mention Youtube.”
                          
“You should get one.” Calum said.
                          
I sigh. They’re going to keep on telling me to get one until I do. “Fine we’ll see.”
                          
“Awesome. Well ladies I have to go. Nice meeting you.” He hugs them and they look so nervous and happy. You don’t get this happy or nervous when you hug a high school crush. Who is he? We walk to the bench and watch the boys come back from lunch break and take over the skate park like ants attacking their prey. I see Claire talking to two boys, probably their boyfriends. “Calum,” He turns his big brown eyes towards me. He’s like a cute puppy. “Who are you?”
                          
“I don’t know how to answer that.”
                          
“Like…those girls treated you like a celebrity.”
                          
He bites his lip. “I don’t want to sound conceited or anything, but do you know who I am?” I shake my head. “Umm…I’m in this band called 5 Seconds of Summer.” And he starts telling me how they got started and how big they’ve gotten because Louis Tomlinson (the guy from One Direction) noticed them and they went on tour with them and now they’re going on another tour.
                          
“Oh.” Is all I say. How am I supposed to respond to that? Actually, there’s probably a million ways to respond to that, I’m just bad with words.
                          
“Are you going to treat me differently now?”
                          
“No, I’ll make fun of you more than anything.” I tease making him laugh.
                          
“Great.”
                          
“So let’s get out of here. I don’t want a bunch of teenage girls to kill me because I’m associated with you.” I smirk.
                          
“My friend brought me here, but I’ll text him that I’m going home with you.” He said.
                          
“No, hang out with your friends, I’m not desperate to get you into my bed.” Let the teasing begin.
                          
He chuckles. “Alright, but let me walk you to your car at least.”
                          
I shrug. “Okay.”
                          
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What sucks about Kendall being gone is that she doesn’t have her phone, so I’m stuck here waiting for a Monday. No one should ever even be hoping for a Monday. Now I regret letting Calum hang out with his friends. Damn I sound selfish.
                          
And with that thought I go on YouTube. Oh I’m so productive. I grab my iPad and go to the app store first. Calum said I should get twitter and honestly, I have no reason not to. It would be faster to see what he’s up to. Once the app finally downloads, I sign up. Then I proceed to follow people. Calum and his band first then some of my favorite youtubers and some band members that I am infatuated with.
                          

                          
Now it’s time to watch YouTube.