Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Calum remembers the way Michael said: “No husband of mine shall beat me at a video game!” and Calum said: “I’m not your husband” and Michael mumbled something that sounded a lot like: “No, not yet.”'
Calum falls in love with his best friend and everything is easy, until it isn't anymore.
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- Part 1 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Michael remembers sitting in the cafeteria at school and gazing at Calum with such fondness and feeling a jolt of shock when Calum returned the look just as warmly, and Michael remembers wondering vaguely when they stopped being brothers and started being something else instead.'
Michael falls in love with his best friend and it feels like being torn apart.
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- Part 2 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Ashton remembers how Luke told him he was like the sun, and he thinks that if he is a sun then he's burning out now, a dying star that can't hold on much longer.'
Ashton tries so hard to fix Luke that he almost breaks himself along the way.
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- Part 3 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Death had always seemed like a foreign concept to Michael Clifford.
It all seemed a bit detached if Michael was being honest with himself. It didn’t really compute.
It stopped feeling quite so detached when Michael was sixteen years old.'Michael learns the true meaning of grief.
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- Part 4 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Calum remembers kissing Michael again - fierce but gentle - and he remembers the love blazing in the confines of his chest like an open flame, like a Phoenix in a bird cage.'
Michael feels hopeless and Calum shows him the light.
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- Part 5 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers asking the older boy: “So… where are you going, Ash?” and Luke remembers Ash mumbling something that sounded quite a lot like: “Wherever you’re going.”
Luke remembers the slow smile that spread across his own pale face as he watched the older boy run off.'Luke is afraid that he's losing his mind and Ashton tries to distract him by taking him on a road trip.
And maybe they're in love too. Maybe.Series
- Part 6 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Calum remembers crying and hiding his face in his hands, and he remembers how Michael gently but firmly pulled his hands away, kissed the scars on his wrists (but not his thighs because "dude, I don't swing that way"), and then offered to paint Calum's nails with this lilac coloured nail varnish that he'd got from somewhere.'
Calum only ever wanted to look pretty and Ashton fell in love with the shy, quiet boy in the pink t-shirt who played bass in their new band.
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- Part 7 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Michael remembers how Calum was a bit like his own personal space heater, except a whole lot softer and more cuddly, and Michael remembers how he smelt good too which was definitely a bonus.'
Michael is freezing and Calum just wants to keep him aflame.
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- Part 8 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers hiding his smile in Cal’s neck as he snuggled closer in the dark, the fear finally gone and replaced with relief and… and something else… something warm and fuzzy that made Luke’s tummy do weird little flops as he thought about what Cal had just said.'
Calum and Luke loved each other their whole lives, long before they really understood what that meant.
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- Part 9 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'“I’m never going to leave you, Cal-Pal. Not in a million years.” Michael remembers pressing another kiss to Calum’s lips then and feeling him respond this time. “I love you too.”'
Michael and Calum share their first kiss in secret when they're eleven... and things kind of escalate from there.
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- Part 10 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Calum remembers how, the further away he got, the clearer his head was, and Calum remembers quickly becoming aware that his head was not a nice place to be when he felt like this. Calum remembers wishing that Michael was there with him to make the pain go away before he remembers what he’d said.
"It’s over, Mikey. I can’t do this anymore."'Calum is hurting and Michael is afraid that he's making things worse.
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- Part 11 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers how he stopped feeling bitter when Michael bounded in (already hyper on Red Bull) and pressed a huge kiss to Luke’s cheek before he began to loudly serenade him with whatever Green Day song was his favourite that day.'
Luke is jealous of Calum and Ashton's relationship until he realises that what he shares with Michael is even better.
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- Part 12 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Ashton remembers how his smile softened then and he pressed a gentle kiss to his boyfriend’s forehead, and Ashton remembers how the tiny, sad sigh that escaped Michael hurt him more than the hate online ever could.'
Michael can't see how wonderful he is and Ashton does his best to change his boyfriend's mind.
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- Part 13 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers thinking that all he’d have to do was take one more step forwards into nothing and then it would all be over.
Luke remembers thinking that one little step should not have been so hard to take.'Luke wishes he was dead, but he wishes his three bandmates loved him back even more.
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- Part 14 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Ash remembers when someone posted a photo of him drawing a butterfly on the girl’s wrist on Twitter, and Ash remembers that that was when the trouble started.'
Ashton waited his whole life for something big to happen but, when it does, maybe things aren't as great as he always imagined.
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- Part 15 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers how he spent more and more time in the woods until, one day, it occurred to him that he didn’t even feel like he belonged in his own home anymore.'
Luke is losing himself and no one is around to catch him when he falls down.
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- Part 16 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Michael remembers wondering vaguely when the tables had turned so much because he was pretty sure this had all stemmed from him being jealous but now Luke was riding Michael like there was no tomorrow and Michael remembers Luke sucking at his neck and feeling like he was going to die.'
Luke is teasing Michael during a show and Michael tries to show Luke who's calling the shots, except it doesn't exactly turn out that way.
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- Part 17 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Calum Hood remembers how meeting Luke Hemmings was a bit like the moon coming out. He remembers how it felt like everything was dark before Luke, but how, afterwards, it was bright enough for Calum to see the stars.'
Luke is cold and sad but Calum thinks he looks like a painting.
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- Part 18 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Luke remembers Ashton whispering: “That’s okay, Lukey. It’s all gonna be okay” and dropping a kiss onto the top of Luke’s head, and Luke remembers how they just stayed like that until Calum and Michael came back over half an hour later with kiss-bruised lips that Luke and Ashton were kind enough not to comment on.'
Luke wants everything to end but Ashton shows him that not everything is as bad as it seems.
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- Part 19 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories
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'Michael remembers how his mum was still grinning when she gave him a hug and said: “Marry someone who has a different favourite cereal to you, Mikey. That way they won’t eat all of yours.”
Michael still thinks that’s the best advice anyone’s ever given him.'Ashton and Calum suggest a game of Spin The Bottle because Michael and Luke haven't had their first kiss yet.
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- Part 20 of Beautiful Words - 5SOS Stories