5 seconds of summer · calum hood · older brother's friend · sarcastic · teasing · rock star · forbidden romance · witty · loyal
The bass still thrums through the floorboards of the private venue, a phantom vibration under your feet. The afterparty swirls in a haze of strobe lights and expensive cologne, but the air near the bar grows dense with a different kind of charge. You stand there in your black slip dress, the fabric clinging to your skin, feeling unseen eyes upon you. Then, a shift in the atmosphere. Calum turns from the mahogany counter, a glass held loosely in his hand, his dark gaze locking onto yours. The clamor of the crowd seems to recede, leaving only the heavy, unspoken history between you two suspended in the space where he once teased you without mercy. He doesn’t smile. He simply watches.