Description: Calum Hood, the schools golden boy. He’s the reason that the varsity team is unde

Description: Calum Hood, the schools golden boy. He’s the reason that the varsity team is undefeated for four years. He’s got perfect grades, a scholarship to one of the best colleges in the country. But no one knows his secret, that his passion for music is bigger than his passion for soccer. And what happens when Ember Williams finds out that secret? Read to find out!  13.Calum’s POVAfter ice skating for an hour longer, we decided to leave. Ember fell a total of five times. She gave up, and asked to leave, so I agreed.We went to get some hot chocolate, and walked around for a little while. I was in pure bliss, walking around alone with Ember, no distractions, no school, no family, just us. I couldn’t help but grin at her every time she smiled or blushed. After walking around, it got cold, and late, so we decided to go home. As I drove her home, I was kinda depressed that our date has to be over. I wanted more time alone with her. “We need to to this a lot. I love having you to myself,” I admitted.Although it was dark I know that her cheeks turned red. She nodded and mumbled an agreement. Once we got to her house, I walked her to her front door as usual. We sat there in each other’s arms for a few minutes, then she went inside after a long goodnight kiss. As I drove home, all I could think of is how amazing my life is, all because of one girl. …Ember’s POV“So, how was your first date?” Jess asks, wiggling her eyebrows.I roll my eyes, and blush, “It was amazing. We went to this cute little diner, then ice skating. After that we got hot chocolate and walked around for a little while”Kim grins when she hears “ice skating.” Her and Jess both squeal. Because I had a date with Calum yesterday, we moved our traditional Friday night sleepover, to Saturday. Right now we’re sitting in my room, watching a movie that no one is paying attention to, and talking about whatever we want. It just turns out that right now we’re talking about my love life.“Aw how cute!” Kim exclaims, shoving a handful of skittles into her mouth.“And romantic!” Jess adds.I blush even harder, and nod, “It was… What about you and Tyler? Have you gone on any dates?” I ask, trying to get the attention away from me.She smiles and bites her lip, “We’ve gone to the movies, but he’s not really one to go on dates…”I don’t understand what she meant, but Jess gasps. I furrow my eyebrows at her, and her eyes widen.“You know, they don’t go on any dates,” she says, and I still don’t get it.“So?” I ask, and grab a handful of popcorn.“So what else are they gonna do if they don’t go on dates?” Her eyebrows lift, and she expects me to get it.“I don’t know, hang out, watch movies, be together,” I list, my mouth full of popcorn.“Well they are together, literally.” She mumbles.Kim slaps Jess’s arm, causing the M&M’s in her hand to fly everywhere. I sigh, not bother to tell her to clean it up, because I know she won’t.“Ow!” Jess whines, and glares at Kim.“Well you…” they start to argue, and I sit there, still confused.There’s plenty of things you could do as a couple, and not go on dates. You could watch a movie or TV show at home, you could make food together, you could basically do anything. I don’t get what she means at all.“Guys, guys!” I stop them from arguing, “I still don’t know what you mean.”“They have sex for god’s sakes!” Jess exclaims, and Kim slaps a hand to her forehead.“Oh…” my face distorts to disgust.“Now don’t tell me that you and Calum don’t do it, you two practically eat each others faces off every time you see each other!” Kim glares, annoyed by the look on my face.I blush, and shake my head. I start to play with the popcorn kernels, forming them into random shapes.“Wait, you two haven’t done it?” Jess asks, her eyes wide.“No!” I exclaim, feeling extremely uncomfortable with the situation.“Wow,” Kim says, then goes quiet“Yeah, wow,” Jess repeats.I look down at the odd shape of the popcorn kernels in my hands, utterly embarrassed. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with us not having sex yet. I’m not ready for it, and Calum respects it. Plus we just became a couple last week, and I don’t want to rush things.“Hey, don’t worry, that’s awesome if you’re waiting,” Jess pushes my shoulder playfully.I look up at her, to see if she’s serious. She gives me a sweet smile, and I know that what she said is genuine. I nod at her, and look away, still slightly embarrassed.“So how’s Andrew, Jess?” Kim speaks up, thankfully changing the topic of the conversation once more.I notice Jess’s cheeks turn red, and she starts to play with her hair. They’d been texting each other ever since the night at the pizza joint after the soccer game that Calum asked me to prom in the middle of. I didn’t know that it was anything serious, but her actions are clear, she likes him.“He’s good,” she vaguely replies, and takes a drink out of her water bottle.“How good is he?” Kim sniggers, and Jess spits out her water, everywhere.“Kim!” I yell, and jump up to get a towel. All she does is burst into laughter, while Jess is choking, and I’m trying to clean my room. After a few minutes everything is dry, and Jess has stopped choking. Kim still sits there, laughing hysterically, clutching her stomach.“Oh my god…. I’m sorry…. that was just…. hilarious,” she says in between laughs. Her laughter dies down and she wipes the tears from her eyes.“That was not hilarious,” Jess says through gritted teeth.“Okay, I’m sorry. I really do want to hear about him though,” she says genuinely.Jess sighs, but starts to speak anyway, “He’s really sweet. Like the sweetest guy I’ve dated.” “Wait you guys are dating?” I interrupt her.Her cheeks turn bright red, “Yeah.” “For how long?!” Kim practically shouts. “Since Thursday, when he asked me to prom”, She smiles a she speaks“Oh my god!” Kim and I squeal at the same time.“Wait that means we’ve all been asked to senior prom,” Kim realizes. Earlier she announced thatTyler asked her prom, and of course she said yes.“I never thought this would happen,” I mutter, amazed.“I know,” Jess agrees.We all sit in silence for a few moments. I never thought I’d even get asked to my own senior prom. Now I’ve been asked to Calum’s while I’m a junior. It’s just so surreal to me. I know Kim would get asked, she’s, pretty well known to the guys at our school. As for Jess, I had no doubt that she wouldn’t get asked, she’s so pretty and nice to anyone. I just never thought I’d get asked.“We have to go shopping for dresses together!” Jess exclaims, interrupting my thoughts.Kim agrees, and I do too. Suddenly I get an idea.“We should do it soon. Calum’s sister is in town, and I think I might ask her to come with. Because she knows Calum the best,” I explain.“Yeah that’s a great idea! The more the merrier,” Jess winksI smile at her, “So when should we go?” “How about Tuesday? The boys all have soccer practice late that night,” Kim says.“They’re all on the team, I totally forgot that. Wow. But yeah, Tuesday sounds good,” Jess says.I nod agreeing with her on both subjects. That it’s weird that we’re all dating seniors on the varsity soccer team, and that Tuesday would work. I pull out my phone to text Mali.A few minutes later she replies saying she’d come with, “Tuesday it is.”…“What about this one?” Jess holds up a strapless blue dress that is way too puffy, and short for my liking.I shake my head for what seems to be the millionth time today.“Ugh come on just choose a damn dress, this is taking way too long,” Kim groans, tired of dress shopping.We’ve been shopping for nearly five hours, and haven’t stopped since. It only took just over an hour to find Kim’s dress, a sexy dark red V-neck dress with long sleeves. She matched it with black pumps and some jewelry that looked good with it. She looks amazing in the dress, and she knows it. It took a little longer to find Jess the perfect dress, but eventually we did find it. Hers is a bright pink gown that reminded me of a wedding cake. It’s strapless, and has a sweetheart neckline, with silver studs bordering the top of the dress. It’s straight, but extremely puffy, with many layers of material to make the dress even bigger. She got sparkly silver pumps, and matching jewelry as well. As for me, I have found nothing that 1.) Looks good on me at all and 2.) I like the slightest bit.“I’m sorry, I just can’t find anything,” I exclaim, just as frustrated as Kim.She gives me a look, and I groan, “You no what, I’m never going to find anything that I look good in. I’ll just tell Calum that I’m not going, and to take someone else. It’s fine,” I ramble, and start to walk away.“Hey, hey, hey, don’t think like that. We will find you a dress that looks amazing on you, and you will go with Calum. There’s no way he’d take anyone but you. Don’t worry, we’ll find something, I promise,” Mali says sincerely after grabbing my arm, stopping me from leaving.I sigh, but nod my head, hoping that she’s true. She gives me a wide grin.“Good, now go try these on,” She shoves another pile of dresses, and pushes me towards the dressing rooms.I try each of them on, and hate all of them. Most of them wouldn’t even zip up because they were too small, and they were the largest sizes! After I change back into my plain t shirt and jeans, I just stare at myself in the mirror. I pick out every flaw I have, my thick thighs, big stomach, not even relatively pretty face. All I can think is, How does Calum even like me?I begin to break down, tears of frustration, and self hatred well up in my eyes. I try to blink them away, but they stream down my face. I try to get myself to stop crying, but nothing works. Now that I’ve started, it only gets worse.“Ember, do you like any?” I hear Mali’s voice from behind the door.“No,” I sniffle.“Are you okay?” She sounds genuinely concerned.A sob leaves my mouth, “No.”“Let me in Ember, please.”I unlock the latch on the door, and sit down on the bench. I look up to see Mali’s face full of concern. Immediately I’m embarrassed that she’s seeing me like this.“What’s wrong?” She crouches down to be at eye level with me.“None of them even fit,” I mutter, and more tears stream down my face.“Oh honey that’s okay we’ll find one that does,” She reaches out and wipes a stray tear away.I shake my head, “No we won’t, you don’t understand. This doesn’t ever happen to you, because there’s always have something your size,” I gesture to her flat stomach and small waist.She frowns at me, but pulls me into a hug, not saying anything. We stay like this for a few minutes until my tears die down, and my breathing is steady. Eventually she pulls away from me, but stays crouched down in front of me.“I need you to remember this. Calum loves you, for who you are. He doesn’t care that you’re bigger, in fact, he loves you even more for it. Everyone loves you for who you are, so it shouldn’t matter how much you weigh. You need to start loving yourself for who you are, because your opinion is really the only one that counts. You are a talented, kind hearted girl, who is gorgeous not just on the outside, but on the inside as well, you gotta start believing that.”The way she speaks, and the look in her eyes, make me believe every word of what she says. She smiles at me, causing me to smile back at her.“Now come on, we’ve got a dress to find, that will make my little brothers jaw fall to the ground, and I think I saw the perfect one,” She grins and slings an arm around my shoulder, walking me back to the dresses.It feels like I have an older sister, and I couldn’t be more happy about it.Chapter 13! WoohooooMore bonding with Mali, and Ember gets deep.Honestly, this is an experience that has happened to me. (not exactly in the same context, but you know what I mean) I’ve broken down in a dressing room, and can I just say, it freaking sucks.Guys, you’re all beautiful inside and out, please know that.I love you all.<3 <3 <3Just FYI, the next chapter is most likely the last chapter of this story. I’ve written basically everything I had planned at the beginning of the story, plus more, and I’m pretty happy.Give it some notes if you enjoyed this chapter!Hugs & Kisses-Hannahxx -- source link

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