Deal // Calum Hood

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Calum.
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The weeks dragged on as Annabelle was continuously snatched from me by her sister. It was gruelling but I could not risk annoying their family any further by intervening.
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It finally changed for the better some fort-nights on. Annabelle arrived at school sporting the largest, most excited grin ever and I immediately knew. My patience and Annabelle's persistence had worked. We could finally spend time together outside of school again.
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The first attempt was awkward. Her sister watched our every move and it was uncomfortable. The rules were strict and Annabelle and Cassie would come over once a week for an hour, no more and no less. Luckily things progressed as Cassie began to trust me more and more, and once a week turned into two days and then three, and so on until now which is most days.
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And then our progress reached an all time high when they came over one Tuesday afternoon. I had been telling Annabelle all week about this song I loved and was bursting to show her.
"My iPods in my room, come on." I grinned. The two of us began to move rapidly except Cassie brought us quickly to a halt.
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"You two go up . . . I'm going stay here." She announced.
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Not wishing to jinx it, Annabelle and I exchanged looks and raced up the stairs, leaping into each other's arms right away and sharing a victory kiss. After this Cassie began to trust us alone and would simply just be at the house. As the weeks continued to go by Cassie and I became slowly became friends and nothing pleased Annabelle more.
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Annabelle and I were delighted. My parents were happy and loved Annabelle, whilst her parents were happy we were living our separate lives. Everyone in the whole world seemed at peace . . . Everyone except Sam. He despised the entire situation. He literally couldn't handle the fact that Annabelle and I were even friends, let alone the fact that we were dating.
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He'd beg me to break it off.
"You're ruining everything." His cracked lips would constantly insist. "It's not too late, come back. Be the Calum you know you are again."
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Though his pestering was irritating, I valued it as I knew as soon as he gave up on me he'd start on Annabelle. Something I couldn't bare.
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"Look, Sam. I'm sorry that you don't like this, but I really like her. You know I wouldn't be like this if it weren't true."
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Sam's shoulders collapsed along with his small remaining strands of hope.
"I thought you didn't like the idea of love. I thought we both felt that way."
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His use of the word love made my heart miss a beat. Love? Love is such a huge thing and I'd only been dating Annabelle a few months, love was, love was I don't know . . . I didn't. Did I?
"We said that when we were much younger, Sam. Every 12 year old boy thought that."
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Sam just looked at me, half in a sulk, half as if he didn't know who I really was, meanwhile I was glad he was finally understanding that I didn't want to be that mean guy anymore, to be quite honest I never had.
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