Deal // Calum Hood

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Annabelle
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"Oh . . ."
Also known as the only word I uttered whilst my heart was being smashed into a thousand tiny pieces.
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My insides threw tantrums at the sight before me as everything seemed to crumble down. Sam was had been telling the truth and my sister had taken the only thing in the world that was mine.
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The two sprung apart, alarmed by my presence as I turned and clambered down the carpeted steps, past his confused mother and straight out the front door. This was the first point that I noticed tears were cascading down my cheeks and drenching my skin. I couldn't breathe, I could hardly see, but I could hear Calum calling my name.
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"Annabelle, wait!" He yelled after me, he too exiting his house.
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Reluctantly I stopped. He caught up and tried to take my hand to make me turn around, angrily I snapped it back and turned on my own will, glaring at him through the salty water.
"You said you'd never hurt me."
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"What are you talking about? Cassie fell! You know I would never-"
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"Sam warned me that this was happening and I didn't listen. You know that my sister always gets everything, and - oh my god."
I stopped dead in my tracks at the realisation. "This whole time . . . This was a game to you wasn't it? You still hate me as much as you did at the start of all this."
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Calum pretended to be confused and attempted again to take my hand. I didn't let him touch me. I never would again.
"Annabelle, please. You've let Sam get to your head, this is real. What I feel for you could never be pretend."
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My head shook without me even trying as he spoke his lies.
"I can't believe that you hate me that much that you'd go through all that just to hurt me like this. I can't believe I ever believed you -"
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"Annabelle, what are you saying? I've left everyone for you! I left everything I had so we could be together!"
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Calum
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My lips and hands tremble in the cold rain pounding between us. My stomach turns and even though we're outside and surrounded my trees, I can't find air to breathe.
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"Never talk to me again. I hate you. I hate you . . . I hate you." Annabelle choked as her sister appeared. "And you!" She pointed pushing past me.
"I can't believe you'd go along with this too! I hope your happy now, you got what you wanted."
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We looked at her dumbfounded as she ran home through the rain in hysterics.
"Calum, I'm so sorry, she can get things in her head sometimes and her brain just escalates them and it freaks her out." Cassie placed a sympathetic hand on my shoulder which I immediately shrugged off. I hated that she thought she knew her better than me. Of course I knew all of that, I actually listened and spent time with her.
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"Please, just leave me alone." I mumbled, never having felt so empty than I did when turning back to my house to try and make sense out of what just happened.