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Chapter Eight: Nerd

I'm currently at Michael's place for band practice. We've been practicing for our upcoming gigs around the city. Not to brag but I know and I can feel that we're getting there, the spotlight's going to shine above us in no time.

"One more round and we'll have pizza!" Michael exclaimed. "1, 2, 3, go!"

We started singing our songs. All originals, written by all of us but mostly Calum the Hooligan. Oops haha.

Courtney and Sara arrived, with pizza boxes in their hands. They're the ones bringing us food every time we have band prac. They are basically present whenever we practice. Kyle, is, well, writing articles or reports in her uni so she's not always here to watch us.

"Hey, baby!" Luke rushes to his girlfriend and showers her with kisses. "What do have there?" he points at the box.

"Pepperoni, the way you like it." Court looked at Luke and giggled. Luke leans over and kisses her again. Damn, their the kind of couple who like to kiss each other a lot.

"Pepperoni!? Dammit. I wanted pineapples!" Calum ranted. He doesn't have a girlfriend and mine's not here at the moment so, Cashton's here at your service *wink wink*

"Don't worry, Calum." Sara said. "We also have pineapple for you and Ashton." she said and gestured at the other box on top of the table. Sara and Michael are cuddling each other like they normally do.

"Ash, Ash!" cal called for me. "cuddle. Here." He was sitting at the couch, beside Michael and Sara.

I sat on his lap and he cuddled me. "Calum, don't steal Kyle's boyfriend!" Sara teased. Everyone in the room laughed.

"She ain't here." Calum said like a slutty school girl.

Kyle was calling. "Hey! I got your message." She goes. "I want to tell you something, in person." I can hear her giggle.

"What's that? Can't tell me right now?" i asked, puzzled.

"Are you off now? I can pick you up now." I said.

"Hey! you can't leave me!" Calum grunted.

"Where are you?" Kyle asked. "Is Calum stealing you from me again?" she laughed.

"I'm at Michael's flat. And yes, Cal's trying to steal me but it still doesn't work." I looked at Calum, it's an indirect to him.

"If you want to pick me up, but I can walk from here to there." She said. "Nash is two blocks away from Michael's flat."

"Nash? who the hell's nash?" i exclaimed.

"He's a friend and a nerd, Ashton."

"Alright, are you sure you're fine with walking?" I asked.

"Yep. Do you want anything?"

"Guys, do you want anything? Kyle's asking." I asked the guys. "POPCORN!" They all shouted.

"And cotton candy!" Calum murmured.

Kyle's POV:

"Did your boyfriend say yes?" Nash asked me. We were in front of his locker, I'm waiting for him to finish fixing his things.

"Yeah. But we have to buy food first, the band's hungry." We started walking out of the uni.

"You know, I never thought you'd be with a badass drummer." He goes. He pushes his glasses up his nose.

Nash is the type of nerd every girl wants. He looks really nerdy and weak but when he took me to prom back in high school, he looked so drop dead gorgeous. We used to be in a relationship but we both figured out that we're better of as friends so here we are now.

"He's not badass. He's a gentleman." I glanced at him. We continued walking down the street.

"I mean, inked, pierced, and dyed." He goes. "I thought you liked good boys."

Nash and Ashton haven't officially met. I only tell stories about him. "Oh no, he's not any of those three. Those are his bandmates." I tell him. "Good boys are bad boys that are never caught, Nash." We stopped by a store to buy what the guys wanted me to bring. I also bought vodka because even if they didn't ask for it, I know they wanted it.

"You're drinking?!" Nash asked surprisingly when the cashier bagged the vodka.

"I'm nineteen, Nashie." I laughed. "I drink responsibly and moderately, don't worry." I winked at him as I push my glasses up my nose. When I'm with Nash, I don't mind wearing my glasses but Ashton and I don't usually wear our glasses in public, just at home.

We reached Michael's house and Nash walked me up to the porch. I rang the doorbell and Michael opened the door. "Hi!" Michael greeted. He stepped aside to let us both in. "Ashton! Kyle's here." He blurted.

"Hey!" Ashton showed up by the doorstep. "Who is this?" he asked rudely and pointed at Nash.

"Uhm, Ashton." I glared at him. "This is Nash."

"Hey, mate." Nash waved like a complete nerd, well he is. "Finally met Kyle's boyfriend." He grinned. "I have to go now. Bye." he told the both of us.

"Thanks for the walk!" i blurted out.

I went stepped inside the house and Ash took me by surprise, carrying me by his back. I threw the bag of popcorn and cotton candy to Calum. Calum has this jealous school girl look in his face. "Is Calum mad at me?" I whispered to Ash's ear.

"Probably because he lost his cuddle buddy." ashton giggled.

Calum glared at me and i just laughed at him. "What, Cal?" i asked him.

He just crossed his arms and frowned, knowing that he's the only one in the band without a girlfriend.