We Haven't Forgotten

(Calum’s POV)
I wake up to the sun shining in my face and my arms wrapped around the oh-so-familiar body with a flowery scent. I sound like such a psychopath, knowing what she smells and feels like even though it’s been two years. I’m careful on not waking her but my phone starts ringing. I cringe and slowly pick up my phone to check who it is.

“Hello?” I croak

“Where are you? We were supposed to meet at the studio and talk with Janice and out manager!“ Michael is currently yelling into the phone.

“Uh, yeah. We’ll be there, we went to sleep pretty late last night though.” I sigh, holding the bridge of my nose. Janice is now up, staring at me with her large, concerned eyes. ‘Okay?’ she mouths and I shrug my shoulders.

“Oh? I’m guessing we’ll talk later about this. Just hurry the fuck up because Ashton is freaking out, he thinks you did something to Janice.” He says chuckling.

“Fuck off Michael, we were watching some movies. Tell Ashton that he better calm his ass down, we’ll be there in 20- max” I sigh. Just as I hang up Janice hides half of her face in her pillow.

“What was it?” she asks.

“Our manager want to go over some stuff with you. We’ll be there too, it’s just there are some rules that we have to over and shit.” I sigh. The guys and I left a box of things we’ll need at Janice’s, just so we don’t have to recycle dirty clothes.

“20 minutes?” she asks and I nod. We rush to get ready and I don’t even bother with my hair. Once we get into the car and chuckle quietly.

“Calum, this can’t happen again. W-What if something happens? O-Or you’re forced to date someone for publicity? Maybe you’ll cheat on me again.It’ll just hurt me again. Calum?” she asks. I can’t believe she’s doubting me.
“Why would you think that?” I really hope that Janice had a slip up and didn’t mean any of that

“I don’t think, I know. I know you Calum and I know that eventually when you bored of things you move on. W-What if you get bored of me?”

“Are you serious? I’ll fight for you, make it right for you. You blow me away J, why would you ever doubt me?”

“I-I’m not doubting you, I just-“ I cut Janice off before she says anything else.

“You just nothing. We have to go, we’ll be late.” I snap and pull out Janice’s apartment complex parking lot.
(Janice’s POV)

“Calum, that’s not wha-“ I quickly interrupted by him

“There’ll probably be some rules against dating, I guessing that you have no problem with that.” He says quickly.My heart is torn at how quickly he’s putting up walls. He takes a hard turn and someone beeps at him.

“No, Ca-“ I’m interrupted again, but not by him, but by his phone.

“Can you answer that?” he still won’t look at me.

Look at what you did you idiot.

“Calum’s phone.” I say quietly.

“Calum! Where the he- I’m sorry, who’s this?” an angry male voice starts yelling at me.

“Uh, Janice. I’ll be part of PR.” I say quickly. Out the corner of my eye I spot Calum smile. I put him on speaker.

“I’m right here boss, we’ll be there in like five. Traffic is terrible.”He sighs.

“You better, or the line to a contract termination will be closer than you think.” He warns

“What! You can’t be serious?” his voice cracks loudly and his eyes almost fall out his head and slams on the brakes, hard.

“You’re on thin ice Calum. Not only have you broken rules that we’ve made together, but you spent such a long time moping over that girl Jude. She ruined your career bud, get here now or you and the boys face consequences.” He says and the line goes dead. By this time, Calum is speeding through the streets and in no time at all we arrive at a large building.

“We’re here.” He sighs. We quickly emerge from the car and met by the other guys.

“Get inside! We’re late for the meeting and Kate is almost crying because you’re not here.”Michael yells and Luke laughs. I run a little, trying to catch up with their long legs.

“Oh good old Kate. She’s a piece of work, after you guys slept toge-“ Luke stops midsentence as we enter an elevator. “Right.” Luke whispers as he takes a glance towards me. Sometimes it feels like high school all over again with the guys sharing secrets and wanting to be appropriate around me.

“She won’t stop calling me.” Calum groan and Ashton grabs his arm.

“She’s a clingy one, glad you got rid of her for me.” He laughs and Calum looks over at Ashton with a disgusted look.

“No wonder she’s so clingy, Kate’s your sloppy seconds.” Calum retorts with a chuckle and the elevator erupts with laughter.

The elevator dings open and I hear a ‘Calum’ yelled from a faraway place. The room is buzzing with energy and guitars are being passed around. I admire my surroundings with several people on phone calls and other groups in a meeting. Suddenly, a bright face appears in front of mine.

“Great! You must be Janice! We’re so excited to have you! I’m Kate and I’ll show you around, right now you need to meet with John, he’s the guys’ manager and he’ll go over the details with you. Your badge is right here and a list of what you’ll need when you go on tour with them is in this folder.” Kate smiles a sincere smile and places a folder in my hands.

“Oh, and when we meet in the office, there’s a dress code.” Kate frowns, taking a look at my skinny jeans and shirt. I glance at her grey pantsuit that outlines every perfect curve of her body and her cream blouse that lies underneath it.

“Pretty neat huh?” I hear behind me and I find Ashton smiling and greeting other people.

“This is awesome, other than the dress code thing, but I love it.” My face breaks into a wide smile, and suddenly, all of my problems with Anissa, Sam and Calum disappear.

“Oh, there’s no dress code, Kate likes scaring the newbies but never with a dress code.” Ashton smiles. My shoulder is tapped from behind and find a middle aged man with tired eyes smiles at me. He’s dressed casual and I find that everyone here is as well.

“I’m John, you must be Janice.” John shakes my hand and he places a hand on my back.

“Let’s go to my office and discuss some details.” He says and we walk to his office. John and I discuss details, like what I can and can’t post on social media, take advantage of them being famous and shit like that.

“Okay,” John chuckles, “there’s the whole thing with you and Calum so I called him in.” John waves at the assistant at her desk and she opens the door, revealing Calum. He sits in the chair, his long legs hitting John’s desk.

“I need to know that there won’t be any problem with her going on tour. The other boys basically begged me to let her, but I also don’t want drama. That’s the last thing that I need.” John sighs.

“There’ll be no problem.” Calum says coldly, his eyes staring hard at John.

“Janice?” John turns to me, and a sad look remains on Calum’s face.

“No problem.” I force a fake smile and tear my eyes away from John and into my lap, my hands turning blurry. John dismisses us and as we walk out, Michael, Luke and Ashton are waiting for us. I suck it up, taking in that I’ve been offered a great opportunity for my career and I won’t let Calum ruin it. Michael immediately notices my somber face.

“What’s wrong?” Michael asks.

“Nothing, nothing at all.”

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