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chptr 8

"This is bad. This is really bad." Calum ran his fingers through the blonde highlights in his hair and paced Ashton's room in frustration. Michael and Luke were lying side by side in Ashton's bed, trying to push each other off. Ashton sat on a bean bag with his laptop in front of him.

"What is," Ashton mumbled distractedly, typing with ferocity.

"Shit, man. Shit." The tanned boy jumped up and down nervously until Luke threw a pillow at him, shouting, "Calm the fuck down!"

"I can't just calm down!" He whirled angrily at Luke, who was laughing with Michael. "I think I'm--" His phone rang, which told him there was a text from Leia.

from: leia!!
i want to get high as FUCK

Calum grinned stupidly, but then snapped his head up back to the blue-eyed boy. "I think I like Leia."

"Wow. Really. We never knew," Ashton said in a robotic, emotionless voice. Calum kicked his beanbag chair, which caused the other boy to break out into a devilish grin.

"I'm fucking serious," he growled.

"We know you like Leia, duh," Michael said. "You practically get a boner every time your phone rings." The three boys exploded into laughter while Calum whisper-screamed bloody murder. When they calmed down, Calum resumed speaking.

"First of all, fuck you guys. Second, it's been a month and a half, and I don't even know what she looks like but I'm freaking out because I really think I like this girl and--"

"Okay, we get it, Cal." Ashton was rubbing his eyes tiredly.

Calum dropped himself on top of Michael and Luke, making them cry out in surprise and complains. He sighed heavily. "Fuck my life."

Michael managed to wriggle out of Calum's weight and crawled to Ashton's side to check out what he was doing. The curly-haired boy grinned and whispered to him, and soon they were both whispering to each other.

Calum took over Michael's spot in the bed. "Are you guys talking shit about me in front of me?"

"Did you know there are over a hundred Leias in Sydney alone?" Michael informed, reading from Ashton's screen.

Calum sat up so fast his vision went blurry for a moment. "What are you guys doing?"

Ashton shrugged. "Looking for the love of your life."

Calum scrambled to where the two boys were sitting and scrolling through Facebook profiles of girls named Leia in the Sydney area. There was a lot of them of every age and every size. Calum wondered if his eyes had already landed on the infamous Leia already.

"With your information on her, we can probably narrow it down," Ashton told him with a small frown, "but that's only in Sydney."

Calum sighed, knowing the attempt was futile. He took his phone out and begged his lucky stars that Leia would send him a scrap of contact information, something that would help him find her. But of course, it didn't.

His phone did buzz moment later, though.

from: leia!!
do u think maybe trees scream MY BABIES every time a leaf falls

It didn't help him find her, but he felt infinitely better.