"Are you going to answer it?" Michael was now standing right next to me while we both looked down at my phone.

"I don't want to hear what he has to say." I mumbled. I could hear the words 'we're done' ringing through my head and I didn't want it to become real.

Michael was biting at his bottom lip, "You two need to talk."

"I-I can't!" I was shaking now, the phone would stop ringing any moment and then the opportunity is gone.

Michael grabbed the phone out of my hand, sliding his thumb across the screen to answer the call. I was looking at my now empty hand, dazed and unsure if what was happening, really was about to happen.

"Hello?" Michael snapped, his voice full of hatred. I looked at him with wides eyes, I've never heard him sound so angry, except maybe that time I "borrowed" one of his favorite shirts.

He pulled the phone away from his ear before pressing the speaker button so that I can hear what Ashton has to say.

"Um, hey? Is this Calum? Is Luke there?"

"No, this is Michael."

"Luke said you were hanging out the other day, it's cool that you two are hanging out again." Ashton sounded jealous, when he had absolutely no right to.

"He stayed the night at my house..." Michael said, trying to get some kind of reaction out of Ashton. I rolled my eyes at Michael and his attempts of sounding like a protective friend. When in reality he looked like a frightened kitten standing next to me.

"Did he? Well, could you take him the phone? I need to speak with my baby boy about something."

"Luke doesn't want to talk to you." Michael said bluntly.

"Why the fuck not?"

"'Cause you're disgusting. Cheating on your boyfriend while he put all his faith in you. Trusting you not to do anything stupid while being gone. But, wait! You call him on the phone, trying to put on that fake act and then hang up abruptly after a few minutes when he clearly heard voices in the background and it wasn't just your band members." Michael was irritated now, angry at Ashton for doing this to Luke. "He doesn't deserve you. He deserves everything good in this world and that's not you."

I wanted to cry all over again. Michael is too good for me. He always has been.

"Oh! And who does he deserve? you?" Ashton spat. Luke knew he was probably rolling his eyes right now.

"You didn't deny cheating on Luke." Michael stated.

"Give the phone to my boyfriend right now! I didn't fucking cheat! Let me talk to him!"

I'd had enough of their banter, I grabbed the phone out of Michael's hand and finally spoke. "Ashton..."

"Thank god! Lukey, baby! What's this about me cheating? I would never!" Ashton was pleading, complete and utterly desperate for me to cave in and believe him.

"I don't know whether to believe you and trust that you're the loyal boyfriend that I'd hope for you to be or to dump your sorry ass right now."

"Luke, you have to believe me. I didn't... I wouldn't ever cheat. Those voices were from my stage crew. Seriously, you have to believe me. I love you!"

I was holding back a sob. He can't do this to me. Make me cry, and then proclaim his love for me like what I heard wasn't true. "Don't. Don't. Don't. I know what I heard. Your stage crew is all men, you told me this when I asked about the details, and what I heard was not something they'd say to you and was distinctly female. I know you swing both ways, but I will not tolerate this."

"Fine!" Ashton raised his voice, I flinched squeezing my phone tighter in the palm of my hand. Michael noticed me tense up and began rubbing soothing circles on my lower back. "You want the truth?"

"Yes!"

"We had some groupies come back stage. There was a hot brunette and I hadn't done anything since the night we had sex and I was desperate. She gave me a blow job, it was all casual and meant absolutely nothing to me."

I didn't hold back the tears, the tears that weren't even worth being shed over him. I was furiously wiping my eyes to make them stop.

"That's still cheating Ashton!"

"Baby, it's just a small bump in the road. We can work this out."

"No, Ashton. We can't." I huffed, pausing for a moment before saying the words I'd never take back. "We're done."

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not that long. mainly because it's just the conversation over the phone and there's only so much dialogue one can write omg

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