Fangirl

"You two are so glued together." I heard someone mumble. I raise my eyebrows and look over at Luke, who has his hand in mine and head on my shoulder while he looks through the millions of Instagram dms he's gotten just today.

"We are?" I ask curiously, looking back over at Michael, who's found himself a bowl of chips. I'll never understand why people waste a perfectly fine bowl when they can just eat the chips out of the bag.

"No, we're not, he's trying to mess with you." Luke tells me. "He's jealous."

"Last I checked you and Max are also glued together." I smile at Michael.

He rolls his eyes. "We aren't as clingy as you two are. Luke cries when you leave the room."

"I do not." Luke chuckles, looking past me to glance at Mikey. "You run around screaming, lost, when Max goes to fetch something from her car. Also, why the fuck did you buy a seventeen year old a car?"

"She needs a way to get here and-"

"You refuse for her to have any human contact while doing so." I laugh. Luke giggles and nudges my neck with his nose.

"Ew, oh my god." Michael shakes his head, "I beg of you, get a room before you do that again. Cutesy PDA is gross."

"And what a magical relationship you must have with Max." I joke.

"Hey man, I know how to please a girl." Luke instantly looks disgusted, and I laugh. "All Luke knows is how to blush."

"I don't blush that much!" Luke protests, is cheeks going pink.

"Babe." I whisper. "You're blushing."

"Oh, fuck." He grumbles, which earns a very chunky 'ha-ha' from Michael. "Shush, I'll slap you."

I hear a sigh from the doorway where Calum stands, like everything just went wrong for him. "Why do I always walk into the weirdest sentences with no context? Last night I walked into the kitchen and Riley was like, 'stop whining and just shove it in more' and it was just Luke having problems with his phone charger. Ashton says some really weird shit when he thinks he's home alone by the way."

Michael smiles and laughs to himself a little bit.

"What can we say Calum, you're just so hot our eyes can't handle it so we block you out."

"Hey mate, you have a girlfriend. Watch it."

"But all I can watch is you." Michael gushes, beaming at him.

Calum smiles genuinely at him, and turns to the rest of us. "My friend has a-"

"You have a friend?" Luke asks.

"A friend? Who's this friend?" Michael asks.

"I have a friend, guys. What, you guys can have friends but me having any is weird?"

"Is it a girl?" Luke asks.

"No, he's male."

"Are you coming out right now?" Michael asks, "Should I sit down?"

"Jesus." Calum whispers, shutting his eyes momentarily. "I have a friend who has a beach house, but they're going to England for the fourth of July, for some really dumb reason. Probably to avoid a bunch of twerking men in tight American flag underwear. Anyway, he said we're allowed to use it for the weekend if we want."

"You guys celebrate 4th of July?" I ask them.

"Only because it's an excuse to get mad drunk and scream stuff that's somewhat political." Explains Michael. Makes sense.

"Can we invite people?" Luke asks. "I don't have anyone to invite," He laughs, "but I'm one hundred percent sure you two do."

"What about me?" I ask him.

"You have people?"

"No." I mumble.

"Yet another point for that clingy thing by the way." Michael interrupts. "Y'all need some friends."

"Don't ever say y'all again." Calum rolls his eyes.

"What'll you do, spank me?" Michael giggles to himself as he puts his now empty bowl in the sink.

I expect the Malum to end there, with a sigh from Calum, but yet again, they surprise me and make Luke and I squeal when Calum nods his head once towards Michael and says, "Try me, Clifford."

"It's happeniiinng." I whisper to Luke, and he nods, watching Michael's movements. He turns his head, eyebrows raised, smirk planted, and leans against the kitchen sink.

"You aren't man enough."

"You wanna see how man I am?" Calum raises his eyebrows, and his posture becomes beautifully demanding. "Say that again."

"You guys having a penis fight again?" Ashton asks at the doorway. Calum looks over and his cheeks go pink.

Of course that leads Luke to quietly whisper to me, "Who's blushing now?"

And me to open my mouth, "What the hell is a penis fight?" I say, a bit too excited. Malum is real, bitches. It's been confirmed.

"They aren't penis fights you dingus." Michael says to Ash. "You're getting RiRi's hopes up, look at her, all starry eyed." He turns in my direction, "Sorry babe, Malum is still platonic." I look to Calum, hoping to see some doubt, but he just looks over at Michael.

"I can still dream." I say.

"Yeah honey, dream about Malum all day long." Michael smiles like I'm a five year old trying to look on the bright side. Which I basically am. "And you remember to tell me about them, okay? I mean come on, Malum would be so good."

"I knew you shipped it too!" I yell, pointing at him, "You kept denying it!"

"Michael denies what he can't resist." Calum smirks. Then he runs his hands over his torso and says, "Allllll thisss."

"I'm sorry, I'm the one with the emerald eyes?" Michael frowns, "You wish you could tap this." I'm suddenly so glad Max isn't here at the moment.

"Puh-Leez, have you seen my booty?"

"Booty?" Ashton scrunches up his nose.

"Have you seen my collarbones?" Michael asks, pulling the collar of his shirt down. "You. Fucking. Wish."

"I'm so ready for them to start a heated make out." Luke whispers to me, and I laugh. "I've been waiting since high school for this shit."

"Same here man."

"Anyway," Calum starts.

"Ha! So I do win! You wish you could fuck me!" Michael starts hysterically laughing, and then runs out of the room, probably to go find Max. Just a normal day around here.

"ANYWAY," Calum yells. "Should I go get the keys from him? For 4th of July?"

"Oh right," Luke laughs, "yeah, sure. That would be fun."

"Oh my god," I giggle, "Are you finally comfortable enough to party around me?"

"Wait, you haven't done that around her yet?" Ashton laughs.

"No." Luke shrugs. "I dunno our relationship kind of started around being introverts so I wanted to keep it like that for a while. But considering I've already gotten drunk off my ass and asked you to marry me around you, seems like-"

"You what?" Calum asks, "Wait, no,"

"Nothing happened." Ashton shrugs. "There was some crying, some truth and then they just made out, on the curb, where all our neighbours could watch them."

"Nasty." Calum says.

Cal and Ashton keep on discussing how gross we are for loving each other, when Luke turns to me, "You're okay with me partying around you, right?"

"Yeah, of course." I shrug. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"You're really introverted, you know, and I don't know if you drink so I don't want you to be all left out."

I smile, "You're so nice. No, babe, I'm fine, you can get mad drunk and scream somewhat political things all you want. I'll be in the corner with a book, thinking about how much hotter you are in real life than in fan fiction."

He grins, "I'm hot?"

"Sexy." I correct myself.

He beams, "I'm sexy?"

"The most." I smile, "You're Luke Hemmings, how could you not already know that."

"Yeah and you're Riley Smart, and yet I still have to remind you." He smiles, rolls his eyes. "You're better than everyone on this planet."

"I am not." I blush.

"You really are." Luke tells me.

"I'm going to go get the keys. Adios bitchachos." Calum says. Once the door slams, there's a solid five seconds of silence before he runs back in and says: "Sorry I called you guys bitchachos."

Notes

HEYYYY LOOOOK FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I DO A HOLIDAY CHAPTER NEAR AN ACTUAL HOLIDAY.

some good ruke shit is going down in the 4th of july chapters btw. lots of relationship stuff for everyone actually.

Question - Who ships who with who? Not just Ruke bc that's the main ship, but is there anyone wanting a Cashton or a Malum relationship or for something to happen there?