Distance ➵ Michael Clifford

➵ chapter two: michael

It's been 2 days since Michael had the balls to talk to Winona. Michael smiled as he scrolled through Winona's instagram while eating breakfast, it was mostly photos of her pets, books, buildings, plants, lights and some of her friends whom she considered was her "muses" and once in a while he would see photos oh just her eyes or photos of herself wherein she would cover her face with her hand or her hair 

"Who's photos are you looking at?" Calum nudged him as he tried to lean in to see what his friend was looking at and Michael quickly locked his phone "Nothing." he replied but Calum smirked as he poured out his cereal before turnin around to get to the fridge "Michael, that smile on your face says something else, what could you possibly be smiling about at-" Calum paused to look at the clock "8 a.m. last time I checked, you're not a morning person." Calum commented as he got the milk jug from the fridge to add to his bowl of cereal

"I just got a good amount of sleep Calum, no other reason." Michael lied and his friend just raised his eyebrow, being skeptical of his answer "Sure Michael." Calum muttered and still tried to peak on his phone even through they were sitting across each other on the counter "Stop it Cal!" Michael screamed playfully as Calum got up on the counter to grab Michael's phone "Oh, you're a stalker now." he teased as he scrolled through his friend's phone 

"Give it back Cal, I'm not stalking her, I'm appreciating her craft and we're technically friends." Michael defended himself even though being halfway down her account is kind of stalker-like "Oh yeah? Since when?" Calum challenged and before Michael can answer his phone notification beeped and Calum smiled in a sinister way "Calum, I'm warning you." Michael pointed at him "Allow me to read-" he cleared his throat and held a fork against Michael to keep him back 

"Good morning Michael, I'm in my History of Psychology class at the moment and I am still very sleepy even though I already overslept. If I don't reply it means the school wifi is shit." Calum finished and Michael grabbed his phone back "Who is Winona?" Calum asked "Look-" "Is she the one whose tweets you've been liking? Michael has a crush!" Calum teased and Michael put on his coat and beanie "Fuck off Cal." he said playfully and grabbed his car keys "See you later Mikey." Calum still had a smile on his face as he saw Michael's red cheeks.

He got inside the driver's seat and he pulled out his phone so he could reply to her without any disturbance "I'm on my way to work and you should get some rest when you get home, catch up on your sleep. If I don't reply it's because I'm driving." he sent the message and pushed in the key to start up the engine to his car.

As he got to the building where he worked, he immediately got his phone out and there was a message from her "Highly unlikely, I have homework to do. Also, you never mentioned about your job." she said and Michael shook his head as he leaned on the elevator wall waiting to get to his floor "Nap before you do your homework, also, I work as a book cover designer." he replied and the elevator doors opened and he walked out and headed to his desk and he took off his coat and beanie and continued to work on some designs that was previously discussed during a meeting and talking to Winona, being so good at multi-tasking "How about you do my homework for me." Winona replied and Michael sent a photo of the amount of work he has to do and sent it to her "Well damn, guess I'm gonna have to do it myself then." she said and she was still typing a follow-up message "Try not to stress out too much and take a break if it gets too much and don't forget to eat lunch. I'll talk to you later Mikey, got another class."