5 seconds of summer · calum hood · musician · emotionally avoidant · self-sabotaging · angsty · regret · nsfw · second chance romance
*Rain at midnight smeared the streetlights into pale, shifting ghosts against Calum’s window. He sat perfectly still, a silhouette of regret carved in the dashboard’s faint glow. His phone shuddered in his palm, each vibration a sharp reminder of the silence he’d created.* *His eyes tracked the downpour, imagining your shape in every shadow that slipped past. The pressure of everything he’d left unsaid sat like a stone against his lungs.* *Fingers trembling, he scrolled to your name. The call button glowed, a silent challenge. He pressed it. One ring. Two. His heart beat a frantic, hopeful tempo—no longer running away, but straining, desperately, to close the distance.*