#andy you absolute beautiful madman

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do you ever just hear a song for the first time and it leaves you metaphorically frothing at the mouth and shaken up on the inside like bond's beverage of choice and almost crying for absolutely no pinpointable reason? because same

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Angel. (c.h.) (Part III)

Read part 1 here | part 2 here

A few days after his encounter, Calum sits at a tiny café in the other end of town at 10 in the morning, stirring his cup of coffee as he thinks about her. His friends are settled comfortably in front of him, listening to each other narrate stories as they sip their respective drinks. But Calum barely hears anything- his mind is running a mile a minute, analyzing every detail of that night.

The more time that passes, the more he's convinced that the whole thing was some sort of anger-induced hallucination. The whole incident seems surreal. At any rate, he's unable to get her out of his head.

"Earth to Calum. Earth to Calum!" Ashton snaps his fingers in front of him, and he's called back to reality. "Seriously, man, get over her and chill out." He's got a huge grin on his face; Luke and Andy are hunched over with laughter. "I was just telling them the toaster story."

The thought brings a smile to Calum's face- they'd almost burned the house down, trying to use the toaster. It was a hilarious story, it wasn't surprising that they were completely losing their shit listening to it. He opens his mouth to pitch in, but his eyes drift to the front of the store, and he falls silent.

She's right there.

She looks more put-together than she did that night- she's in a perfectly fitting lilac sweater, black leather jacket and black jeans, hair down, her spectacles sitting low on her nose as she stares at the store's menu. A thought crosses his mind, that maybe she's not actually there, and that it's mind playing tricks on him.

"Holy shit, is that her?" Ashton pipes up, and Calum realizes that the three other men have seen her too- so, she's real. He firmly closes his mouth, and nods.

"You look like you've seen a ghost, mate," Andy says.

"That would make sense, after all, he thought he hallucinated her," Ashton replies, sending all of them except Calum into another fit of laughter.

Calum, however, isn't paying attention- he can't believe that she's actually there. She hasn't noticed him yet.

He stands up, to try to catch her attention, then realizes that he doesn't know her name. His friends watch on, amused, as he quickly walks over to her. She still doesn't notice him, not even when he's standing right behind her. "Hey, angel."

He's scared her- she almost drops the phone she had in her hand, and her eyes widen when she notices who's there.

"Oh my god, I- uh-"

"Hey," he says again, a small smile appearing on his face. At that, a huge smile erupts on her face, the kind that you hear about in books or movies, but never really see in real life.

"Hi," she responds breathlessly. "Fancy seeing you here."

He chuckles. He feels as light as he did on the beach the other night. "I-"

"A hazelnut latte for ____," the barista calls out from behind the counter, and her head whips around. She carefully accepts the drink from him, murmuring a thank you. "Do you want anything?" she questions Calum, and he shakes his head. "My coffee's over there, thanks," he responds, casually pointing at his table. Noticing his gesture, his friends wave wildly at them, and he can hear their laughter all the way across the room. She waves back awkwardly.

"Your name's ____?" he asks. It's a beautiful name; not really what he expected, but now that she's in front of him, he realizes that it suits her perfectly.

She nods simply, taking a sip from her latte. "Sorry I just ran off the other night, I was a bit... fazed, I guess."

Calum thinks back to that night- when she disappeared around the corner, the realization that he would probably never see her again had paralyzed him. He realizes that he can't let that happen again.

"I didn't even tell you my name, did I?" she continues, chuckling softly. The familiar sound stirs his heart. He looks out the window, in the hope that his face doesn't betray his strong emotions. "I freaked out and just left, and I thought we would meet again, I don't know, I- " She pauses, lets out a breath, takes another sip. "It occurred to me later that I might never see you again."

He looks back at her, and she's looking right back at him with the same hope, the hesitation that he had seen in her eyes nights ago.

"Do you want to go out for lunch?" he says abruptly. Surprise takes over her face. "Or dinner, or maybe coffee, or maybe nothing at all, I wasn't-"

"Yes," she says firmly, and her face breaks into a smile. It reaches her eyes; just like that, the whole room is brighter. "Well, maybe not lunch, I have a meeting, but we can figure it out, you know? As long as I get to see you again."

He can feel the sides of his mouth being pulled into a grin. He probably looks like a madman, but he doesn't care- she said she wants to see him again.

"Yeah, yeah, we can- we can figure that out," he says.  Her cheeks turn a soft red, and she looks down at her feet, and Calum feels like his heart is gonna leap out of his chest.

"Calum!" he hears Luke scream, and both of them turn to see the others waving at him. "We gotta go," Luke mouths, tapping his watch.

"Oh, damn, I should be going as well," she mutters, looking at the time on her phone, before looking back up at him. "Phone number...?" she drifts off, and he swears quietly, pulling out his phone and handing it to her. It elicits a laugh from her, and honestly, he would give anything to make her laugh like that for the rest of her life.

She taps in a few numbers, saving it in her name, before placing it back in his outstretched palm shyly. "Well, I guess I'll see you around, then?" she says, unsure, as if there was any chance in the world that he would just let her go after this.

"Yeah, we will," he replies, and the pure, warm smile that she flashes him before she walks away is enough to send the butterflies in his stomach into a frenzy.

And Calum thinks, that maybe, things will finally look up for him after all.

I know it took me a while, but here’s the final part, hope you guys like it! Don’t forget to give your feedback, it would mean so much to me! And if you have any fic requests, please ask away.

Also, thank you for all the love that the first two parts have gotten, I’m absolutely overwhelmed<3

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