Kandice's POV

I knew what had to happen next if I wanted my plan to work, but it was no where near easy to do.

I had to be-friend Calum again.

Even thinking about it was painful but without his friendship, all of this would be for nothing.

"You know I said you should do this months ago." My mum sang from the doorway of my bathroom as she smiled smugly at me, she was always one for rubbing it in when she was right.

I rolled my eyes and didn't bother to tell her the real reason why I was going through with this.

"Whatever." I huffed as I curled the last piece of my hair before smoothing it into place.

"I miss the old you." She stated out of nowhere making me raise an eyebrow at her as I turned around to face her.

"That boy across the road that you still seem to think is oh so lovely, ruined the old me, I can't go back now."

This time she rolled her eyes at me and backed away obviously not wanting to see what I would do if she had said something back.

I closed my eyes and sighed heavily before turning back to my mirror and applying some simple chap stick then decided I was ready to get this out of the way.

I managed to walk all the way to the front door without backing out but as soon as my hand touched the doorknob, I shivered and turned around to run back to my room.

Something inside me stopped me from actually doing it and I swung the door open fast hoping to get this done as painless as possible.

But deep down I knew it wasn't going to be that simple.

My feet quickly scrambled across the street and before I even knew what I was doing, I had already knocked.

Shit!

It opened to reveal a loud laugh coming from Calum as he looked at something over his shoulder but immediately stopped when he turned to see me at the door.

"K-Kandice?" He asked in a very disbelieving tone as he stared at me shocked.

I nodded slowly not knowing exactly what to say.

This really should have been thought about more but I seemed to think I could just wing it, and now I'm proving myself wrong.

"What are you doing here?" He asked still wide eyed as he watched me nervously.

I don't understand how he could be nervous when I'm the one standing in front of someone who dumped me about to ask if we can be friends again.

The words seemed to be stuck in my throat as he looked right in my eyes, he opened his mouth again like he was about to say something but I quickly cut him off.

"Can we be friends again?"

There was a silence as his eyes grew even wider from my words.

I bit the side of my cheek as I looked down at my feet, I felt like I was about to be rejected and all I did was ask to be friends.

"Do you miss being friends as much as I do?" He suddenly asked making my attention snap back to him.

"Uh... Yeah."

This had to be the first time I had ever lied to him.

I actually felt horrible about it, guess that means there has to be some good left in me.

"Oh thank god." He breathed out heavily before trying to swing his arms around my shoulders.

I gasped lightly as I moved away from him.

"Just friends." I stated feeling that it was pretty obvious but if I had to say it then I had to say it.

"We hugged all the time before we were together, why is this friendship any different?"

I felt awkward as I had no real answer for his question but thankfully the silence was broken by someone yelling Calum's name as they told him to hurry up.

He opened the door further as he smiled to him and I did my best to return it in the most believable way.

"The boys are here, want to come say hi?"

I let out a small chuckle as I nodded and he beamed happily letting me inside.

We walked into the kitchen just to be greeted with three shocked gasps.

"Kandy!" Luke shouted as he smiled wide and he pulled me in for a hug which Michael joined in on.

I haven't talked to these two in months and truthfully I did miss them.

It sucked so much not being able to hang out with them.

Finally Calum told them to knock it off as he pulled them off me.

"Kandice and I are going to try and be friends again." Calum said proudly as I leant against the counter and looked up to see Ashton's eyes right on me.

"Just friends." I stated again and looked down as I couldn't hold Ashton's stare any longer.

I didn't want to make anything obvious yet but at the same time it seemed like he did.

Honestly it was hard to convince myself that what Ashton and I were doing was strictly business, it was hard to think that way when he didn't know.

I received a pat on the back from Luke letting me know that he was proud of me for my 'friendship' with Calum before I decided that this was enough for the day.

"It was great catching up but I think we should take this slowly so I'm going to leave now."

They nodded in understanding before Ashton spoke up.

"I'll walk you out Kandy."

I pursed my lips together and nodded knowing that it would only look weird if I made a scene about it.

We walked silently into the hall where he suddenly had me pressed against the wall in a matter of seconds.

He hummed next to my ear as he held my wrist above my head.

This was probably turning me on more than it should be.

"I think you're becoming more addictive by the day." He whispered hotly before pressing his lips to mine.

I kissed back without even thinking about it, it just seemed fun and gave me a rush know Calum could see.

Reminding me that this was to hurt him and that was it.

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