I goddamn hate Luke Hemmings.

Not only is he attached to my best friend, Calum, but he's my annoying neighbor and every Saturday morning he knocks on my door to ask for donations to charities and shit.

Like, are you kidding me?! My parents travel all over the world due to their job and only send me about $150 a month for food and shit, I'm not about to spare my last twenty on some church I don't even attend to!

"That doesn't make me a bad person, does it, Lucy?" I asked my dog the next morning as I prepared a cup of coffee and toast for breakfast.

It was five in the morning, I had just finished a COD match online with a group of fifteen year olds and was about to celebrate my victory by making a complete breakfast and watching Saturday cartoons like any other nineteen year old guy would do...When, of course, someone rang my doorbell and decided to ruin my life already.

"I'm not home!" I called out to Luke, who was probably standing outside in the cold morning, wearing nothing but skinny jeans and a plain black t-shirt. "Go bother someone else!"

"Michael, it's me..." Calum's voice definitely took me by surprise and I immediately went to open the door for him.

But instead...I saw Luke behind him. "Would you like toー"

I closed the door on his face before he could finish his stupid question and heard Calum's voice again. "Oh, you fucking piece of shit! Open up!"

"Nice one, Luke. Using my only weakness to try to lure me..." I appreciated his effort while munching on toast. "I am not donating anything to anyone, now fuck off, both of you."

"Are you stupid?! Michael, it's about to be 8, almost time for us to go to work!" Calum reminded me that the watch on my phone was broken and needed to be restarted every morning at 12.

"Oh, shit..." I could of sworn it was five am. I looked at Lucy, "Why didn't you tell me?!"

"If you're not ready in 6 minutes we're leaving without you!" My best friend warned me and then I had to do the hardest decision of my life, so far...

Should I stay...or should I go?

After singing that song inside my head, I realized I wasted 3 minutes and only had 3 left to run upstairs, throw some cold water on my hair to make it look like I bathed, change, gather all my shit, take Lucy out to pee...Oh, no...

2 minutes left.

"Bye, guys! Have fun without me!" I called out the window and headed to the kitchen to prepare a bowl of cereal until Calum broke in through the opened window and pulled me outside with him. "Oh, shit! Am I being chosen?!"

"Get your ass in the car, Michael! We don't have time for this!"

Luke was already standing out there, holding the door open to his vehicle so Calum could shove me inside and use a safety lock so I couldn't open the door on my own. "Is this a febreeze commercial?"

"We are taking you to work." Luke smiled at me, ruining my damn joke and ruining everything that makes me happy in this world.

"I don't even have pants on." I knew Calum already had everything covered if he was fine with pulling me out of my cocoon in my boxers. "What a glorious day..."

"Isn't it?" Luke went along with my sarcasm and I cried internally. I wanted to stab him.

"Relax, I brought an extra pair in case this happened. We're only going to be training for 4 hours, will you be fine fitting into my jeans until then?" Calum was a size anorexic and I was the size of a God. This wasn't going to work.

"Why don't you just drop me off over here in the street and I can live in a dumpster? I'm cool with that, I can be a prostitute for the rest of my days and live off my pimp's demands."

"Prostitution is illegal." Luke randomly stated and for the rest of the car ride I decided to shut up.

〜 "You're late." Ashton met with us in front of the food court, the mall opened at 8 but apparently, some people come in an hour earlier to set up and shit.

"We're so sorry, we hope it doesn't put our positions at risk." Calum might as well get on the floor and kiss his feet cause he was being such a whore for this job...

"It's alright...Just try not to do it again next time, alright?" Ashton guided us inside and gave us a different colored shirt with the store's logo to wear. "Alright, green for Calum, blue for Luke annnnnd...pink for Michael?"

"You couldn't find the matching skirt?" I assumed he was trying to make me seem like a dumbass, after all. "Let me make this straight...I'm the cool one, Calum is the cool one too, and Luke is the princess so he gets the pink."

I grabbed the blue shirt out of Luke's hands and gave him mine instead.

"Now, Michael.." Ashton was beginning to say something but Luke interrupted him.

"It's alright..I don't mind...Wearing the pink one..."

Ashton gave him a concerned look and sighed. "Alright, it's just for today. I'll get you a different shirt tomorrow, Luke."

From the corner of my eye, I could tell Calum was glaring at me for being a dick to the assistant manager...But it's not like I wanted the job in the first place...

〜 This was total bullshit.

Calum got the cashier position, so all he had to do was take people's orders and handle the money, Luke was the bitch so Ashton had him out in the food court sampling different smoothies the whole time, Ashton was preparing all the smoothies and oh, me?

I had to freaking wash everything.

Don't get me wrong, it's not just that I hate doing chores, but I got the hardest job out of the three of us and I was stuck inside the kitchen where I couldn't move out of, with Ashton.

It's like he purposely kept me in there. For 4 hours straight I was wishing I was the bitch instead of Luke and I could be out there, getting paid to just walk around and give little kids a taste of my smoothie.

"When you wash these, you have to make sure you rinse them very well. Okay, Michael?" Ashton kept on lecturing me on how to do a basic skill. "Otherwise you leave soap behind and that's never good, is it?"

He chuckled a little but I wouldn't move a centimeter of my mouth for him. So after a few tries of trying to talk to me, he finally gave up.

At the end of our shift, he handed us a copy of the week's schedule and explain that whenever he wasn't around, the manager would continue to train us.

"It wasn't that hard, right? I wrote down my number for you guys, in case you can't come in...or you want a day off...or if you guys just need someone to talk to, alright?"

"Thank you so much, Ash, I can't thank you enough for this opportunity." Calum shook his hand one last time and...wait...What the hell...

Ash?!

Since when did he go around, giving people nicknames? He doesn't even call me anything other than 'Michael' or 'Bitch.'

"Hey, don't sweat it you guys...Have a good weekend, Michael, I'll see you on Monday." 'Ash' handed me a smile as I exchanged looks at my schedule and Luke's.

〜 "He has a crush on me." I declared as I beat Luke into oblivion at Smash using pikachu.

"What the hell are you blabbing about?" Calum walked out of my kitchen holding three cans of orange soda.

"Ashton." I placed my Wii remote down to grab more chips from the huge bowl Calum prepared for us. "He has a goddamn crush on me."

"You're insane."

"Well, why else would he give me 5 straight days of work while you and Luke only got 3? I wasn't the one wearing a suit and trying to apply anywhere. I don't even want a job!"

"But the sad truth is that you need one, buddy." My best friend patted my back. "Also, maybe Ash just likes you 'cause he thinks your funny...I wouldn't call it a 'crush' though...He doesn't seem like that kind of guy at all."

"Like the kind who wants to have you all to himself during work hours just to be close to you and touch your butt while you wash dishes?!"

"Unless that actually happens, you're just being a prick."

"Oh, yeah, defend your 'Ash', your 'Ashy Washy' huh? Is he going to be your new best friend, now?!"

"What the hell?"

"Wait...How do I pick a different person?" Luke, unaware of what's happening, tried to move around my Wii U in an attempt to change his character.

"Michael, you're giving me a headache." Calum went ahead and changed it for him, all while shrugging me off. "Let's just fucking play, okay?"

〜 After two and a half hours, Calum got bored and asked if he could spend the night at my place, which I obviously didn't mind if it wasn't for Luke...Who wanted to stay over just 'cause he never got laid and now wanted to share his virgin cooties with me and Calum.

"Nah, Luke, go sleep at your house."

"Michael, don't be a dick or I can have him drive me home and spend the night over there instead."

Oh and leave me all alone with my thoughts? Naw, bitch. "Alright. Fine. Luke can stay but I don't want him in my room."

"I'll sleep in the living room, it's okay." The blonde guy agreed to literally anything we'd say.

I could tell him to kill himself and he'd probably take it serious and ask me why, he was dumb as hell.

"What about we watch Game of Thrones? I wanna see some tiiiiits..." I went ahead and look up the last episode I left on before Luke coughed on air. "What?"

"N-Nothing."

"If you're gonna be a prude about this let's just continue playing games, alright?" I didn't wanna deal with Luke's awkwardness when he's embarrassed for the rest of the night...

〜 Around 11 pm, Calum had fallen asleep on the couch while we watched Jurassic World, and once I was done contemplating suicide because of the suckish movie, I checked to see if Luke was also asleep.

Yeah, they were both losers when it came to staying up late...

I headed to the kitchen to pour myself a glass of water and refilling Lucy's bowl. "I wouldn't mind being eaten alive by a dinosaur, you know?"

My dog just blinked once at me and proceeded to go upstairs to probably sleep on my parents' bed.

I followed after her to grab some extra blankets and once I was in the living room again, I noticed Luke wasn't on the couch. "Oh, great..."

I covered Calum with one of the blankets and left the other one for Luke to unfold whenever he came back or whatever. As I dimmed the lights of the kitchen, I noticed he was sitting on the table, holding his fossil of a phone. "Shit, you scared me..."

"Sorry.."

"I left you a blanket on the couch, feel free to grab juice or water...or anything you'd like...I'll be upstairs, probably awake so, yeah..."

"Hey, Michael...Can I ask you something before you leave?"

I cursed myself for actually agreeing to listen to one of his dumbass questions. "What?"

"D-Do you like Calum?"

{otakuwaii: hay guys! Filler chapter here, I hope it's interesting so far! I promise it'll get better soon! So I have a question !

What's your favorite type of drink?

I'm really into smoothies lol, hence the story so far (omg love that band). Alright so I'll see you guys next Tuesday ! Sorry for the suckish filler chapter I really had to pee when I wrote this hahah}