Icing on the Cake

~40~

“Michael, are you okay?” Calum asked.

“I’m sorry.” He said. “You didn’t deserve to be conformed like this. And I’m sorry that I’ve been ignoring you for so long. You were right Luke, it wasn’t your fault.”

“Well, I don’t think I’m ready to see him as the victim.” Ashton said.

“How could the producers just cut us loose like that?” Michael asked.

“It’s all in those contracts we signed.” I said. “They owned the name 5 Seconds of Summer. They owned us, really. They owned the name, the YouTube channel. That's why we had to delete all videos about what the principal said about us being gay."

“Luke,” Michael started, “What you said to Ashton, while you were in the pool, was all that true? That all happened.”

“This is what happened.” I said.

***Flashback to October 5, 2016***

“You know,” I said in the microphone on stage. “We got our starting’s here in Sydney. We grew up here, and you guys have a really special place in our heart, so it’s great that we get to do our last stop of the tour here! And there’s something that we need to announce. Something no one has known. Something that goes all the way back to five years ago here in Sydney before we were barely 5 Seconds of Summer. Calum and I went to prom together, we were, are, boyfriends.”

The crowd went wild, and then Calum came over and started making out with me. I was thinking people would think this was a publicity stunt. The crowd was screaming so loud.

Ashton and Michael were stunned. We walked off stage like always. While backstage, Megan grabbed my arm out of nowhere, tossing me back towards her. She was very angry. “You just made a BIG mistake!” She snapped.

At that moment I realized that I really fucked up. But the damage was done, so might as well go all the way.

I went to my home in Sydney, and shaved all my facial hair off. I tweeted that Arzalyea and I broke up publicly. I went to McDonald’s while wearing a gay pride rainbow shirt. I walked to Megan’s office, eating the cheeseburger and yelling fuck you over and over and over. I cried, so many emotions were released. No matter what happened, I was free.

***End of Flashback***

“Oh my God.” Michael said solemnly. A moment later he said, “Look, we can still continue on with the band. We can tour our latest album. We’ll just go under 5SOS. They don’t own that name.”

Calum and I looked at each other. “Sorry, mate.” Calum said. “We can’t do that.”

“Why?” Ashton snarled.

“Well,” I said. “Calum and I have been doing something over the last few months, and…we’re doing something that we’ve both wanted for a while, and we’ve talked about, and decided now was a good time. We’re…planning our wedding.”

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Happy 4th of July my fellow Americans! I hope you enjoyed now imma watch the fourth of july macy's show where 5 seconds of summer is performing. (but they keep interrupting for severe weather annoucements.)