My Ghost, Where'd You Go? → Cashton

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my translations in this chapter will be fucking awful pls dont laugh

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"Mrs Proulx hates you," Calum giggles as he swings his school bag over his shoulder. Michael follows suit, doing the same as he locks his locker behind Cal.

"She's an awful teacher. She hasn't taught me anything and then has the audacity to give me an F. It's her own fault."

"She's literally assessing you on how well you know the language and-"

"And it's bullshit! Hannah was french, trust me, I know french," Michael laughs, wiggling his eye brows. He's easily the most virile person Calum knows, and he's in a boys only school, surrounded by vulgar teenage boys all day. "Oh, plus fort! Juste là! Plus rapide, s'il vous plaît!" He mocks, whining in a provocative manner.

"Shut up!" Calum laughs, hitting Michael on the arm. "You're disgusting."

"Yeah, well you don't even know french, so."

"Hey, I'm a solid B- student. I can pick up on things."

"What did I say then?"

Calum shrugs, not really caring about whatever game Michael wanted to play. He knows what Mike had said, but he doesn't to want to say the vulgar words out loud as the floods of boys walked past, rushing to get to the car park and out of this joint. Receiving looks of abhorrence from teenage boys in pristine school uniforms was not on Calum's agenda for this afternoon.

"Aw, little B- Calum doesn't know french!"

Spotting Ashton's old pick up truck, Calum rolls his eyes at Michael, waving at him as he walks quickly away. "Aller sucer une bite, Michael."

Ashton sits on the hood of his truck, thick arms crossed menacingly across his chest, sunglasses hiding his eyes. A frown is etched into his face and even though Calum can't see his eyes, it's obvious that he was glaring at the hoards of boys.

"I'm moving you to an all girls school," was his greeting.

Calum screws his nose up. "Why?"

"So that I know that you're not fucking anyone other than me."

"That's pretty fucking possessive, Ashton. Also, low fucking blow." He knows better than to hint at Calum fucking other people. The positive mood Calum was in due to messing with Michael disappears as Ashton's perennial sour mood shoots him like cupid's arrow. He's such an asshole sometimes, it makes Calum want to kill him.

"Hey, Isaac Wilson doesn't go to this school does he?"

Calum rolls his eyes. "No, he fucking doesn't."

He slides his sunglasses up his face so they rested on top of his curly hair, showing his eyes. "Look, I'm sober. Be nice to me."

"Don't be a dick then."

Calum's still standing in front of Ashton as he sits atop his car. Ashton hasn't made a move to get into the car so neither has Calum. Instead, the brunette moves closer. Ash shuffles down the hood until his legs hang over the edge; an invitation. Calum takes it, throwing his bag onto the car hood beside Ashton and sidling in between his open legs.

Calum's arms go around his torso as Ash's long fingers start massaging Calum's scalp. Ash leans down so Calum can hear him as he whispers, "I'm sorry for being a dick when I'm high. Hate being like that, hate seeing your face crumple when I yell at you. So I'm gonna try again for you."

Calum grins, ecstatic. 'Try again' means Ashton was going off the drugs, even if only for a little while, but that's beside the point. He's trying to do a nice thing because he knows how much Calum hates the weed and the cocaine, the pills and injections. He's going to try and stop for Calum. He's going to return to the boy Calum first fell in love with.

Calum ignores the lingering silence that hangs in the air between the two. The silence that screams 'it's only going to be temporary'.

Picking his head up from where it rests against Ashton's stomach, Calum places his chin on Ash's knee, keeping his arms around the older boy's waist.

"I'm so proud of you. That- that makes me really happy. That you're going to try."

Ashton smiles. "Anything for you. You know that."

"Yeah," Calum says. "I know. Je t'aime."

"I love you too. Now c'mon. I want food and then we're gonna go home and I'll suck you off. Sound good?"

"Yeah."

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this story is going to be shorter than S,LAT and RTALN bc there's not a lot i could do with it but im so excited (:

please comment and i hope you love this story as much as i do