Idk about the singer but we all know Cal loves some stupid memes, so what if it's just like stupid Twitter replied between Cal and her because they know even with time zones it's fun to wake up to stupid memes

Thanks for the suggestion! I’m combining this one with another one:

hi i love ur writing sm ! could u do a blurb where y/n has been getting a lot of hate from the fans and calum comforts her and stands up for her ?

Hope you enjoy!

Here’s part one, two, three, and four. This is the Distance series on my masterlist!

If you have any suggestions for this series, please send them my way! I’ll use as many as I can while still progressing the universe along as well!

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It’s really hard to say goodbye. Who else is gonna play with his hair and who else is gonna beg him to be lazy and watch movies all day and they don’t even even watch movies and wind up laying next to his pool to gaze up at the sun and talk about the universe. And who’s going to sit with him at too damn early in the morning snacking on ice cream that they were supposed to be saving for tomorrow but it’s tomorrow anyways, so why not have it?

“I’m gonna flood you with stupid memes,” she promises, sunglasses pushed up into her hair and gazing up into the not fully dawned morning sun that casts about Calum. The airport’s not as easy as when she first arrived, but there’s still the distinct hum of wheels rolling over concrete and the sound of planes breaking the barrier between sky and earth. 

“If you don’t, I’ll be sad,” he punctuates the sentence by rolling out his bottom lip. 

She gently reaches up to tap the end of his nose. “None of that. No sadness. Only memes.”

Calum laughs, but nods. “Only memes.” Their hug is long, inhaling again the scent of his almost faded cologne and Gain laundry detergent. And Calum can catch the citrus of her body wash amongst the hearty layer of his own detergent. But it smells so right on her. In the embrace, Calum wants to tell her she will be missed, that it’s going to suck not waking up to her morning face, all pinched up and eyes barely opened. “Let me know when the plane lands and when you make it home. So I know you’re safe,” he whispers instead. 

“Of course.” It’s on her lips, the I miss you, but she holds it between her lips and behind her teeth. She holds onto that because she doesn’t want to burden Calum. Her fingers trail up his back and into the nape of the not fully brunette and just barely blonde strands. She knows her fingers are gonna miss this. 

True to her word, when she makes it back home with her dog in toe, she lets Calum know that she’s safe. And not even a couple hours later, right before bed for her, Calum sees that she’s tweeted at him. It’s a 5SOS meme and Calum chuckles, before responding with his own. 

The thread expands every day, more and more of their replies are just memes with no context, memes that they know the other person will get, memes in tweets and threads that aren’t even related to the original thread. And God, it makes Calum miss her laughing in his ears even more. He pictures her on his couch and her curled up next to Duke, but giving him his space. 

While she loves sending the memes, she almost dreads opening up Twitter. Most people are nice, but some of just nasty. They attack her for everything and nothing all at once. She’s sure she can’t even breathe right if they could have input on that. It’s just starting to add up, people telling her she’s using Calum for clout as her debut album is gearing up to release. No matter what she does, if she explains that Calum and her are genuine friends or ignores the hate, it just keeps flooding in, keeps piling on. 

Calum sends a meme and the lack of a response in the day is concerning but not enough. But as the days pass, and they’ve slowed on the video calls just between his work starting in the studio and hers that’s been underway for a while, Calum knows something is up. So he tries to contact her, Call me when you get the chance. Need to see your pretty face. 

Her reply is a simple, Okay. As the day starts to wind down for Calum, with no call form her, he knows it’s got to be right at the crack of dawn to her, but he has to figure out what’s going on. She answers the call after the first couple of rings. Her eyes are puffy. 

“What happened baby?” Calum asks. His body is immediately flooded with concern and he’s almost tempted to get on a flight right now. 

She explains everything, all the tweets that are basically calling her an attention whore and a clout chaser and it’s just all becoming too much to handle. Calum asks what he can do, what they need to do to make things easier for her. At first, she just rants about how unfair it is and because it’s really just because she really likes Calum and his company and she wants to make this a thing but there’s distance and she does not ever want to be seen as using Calum’s fame in her favor. 

Calum just listens and he can tell by the bags under her eyes that she hasn’t slept a wink. So he encourages just to rest and thankfully, she doesn’t have anything important to do. So once the call ends, they agree maybe they interact a little less on social media on their professional accounts, most of the social media interactions were on their private accounts, just so it was more protected. But every so often, she posted about a care package, or about the bands achievements and Calum posted about her second single, to help promote it of course, but also because he really did love the music she was making and the stories she had to share. But if it helps ease some of the anxiety to do that less publicly, Calum has no issue dialing that back. 

But then he can’t sleep that night. It eats away at him that people would be so nasty towards her and he wishes he could do more than just console through a screen, but he knows he’ll do what he can--no matter what it is. Please know your words have weight. Whatever you say can seriously affect the person on the other side of the screen. Be kind, choose words carefully. 

He truly wants to say more, he wants to use her name but he doesn’t want to add more fuel to the fire, doesn’t want to go against his word that he gave her. So he settles for that and though, sleep comes in waves, he tries to find peace in knowing he’s doing the right thing. 

When she wakes, she doesn’t bother with social media, finishes up her evening, gets ready for bed. She sees the text from Calum and attached is a video of Duke walking around in a Christmas sweater. Because I know you love Duke and Christmas. Keep your chin up, buttercup. It’s all gonna be okay.

Thank you, Calum. It means a lot. She waits, fingers toying on the idea of saying more. There will always be more to say, like it really does make her feel heard and listened too and respected, and she misses him. God, she misses him. 

-H

i want them all tick tock

Send “✆” for a MORNING text.

[ junior year of high school, 2011 ] [6:05am] kaia ➝ teagan: hey ur awake right[6:08am] kaia ➝ teagan: TEAGS U BETTER BE AWAKE[6:08am] kaia ➝ teagan: U SAID U WOULD DRIVEM TO SCHOOL TODAY[6:08am] kaia ➝ teagan: TEAGS I DEADASS DON’T HAVE A RIDE ITS TOO LATE FOR ME TO TAKE THE BUS[8:04am] kaia ➝ teagan: fuck u i walked n hitch hiked w a soccer mom on the way .

Send “” for a text that WASN’T SENT.

[ sophomore year of college, 2013 ] [2:14am] kaia ➝ teagan: i know graham is ur boyfriend and all and ur in love but i just miss the days where it was just us and you weren’t busy with him all the time. he’s a nice guy but there are times i can’t help but feel like he’s stealing you away from me [2:15am] kaia ➝ teagan: i just miss it when it was just us two against the world why did stella have to come along and steal u awayERROR! TEXT MESSAGE NOT SENT! REVIEW THE MESSAGE AND TRY AGAIN!

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[11:43pm] kaia ➝ teagan: TEAGSKISDT HEL PME[11:45pm] kaia ➝ teagan: THEYP ULELD ME UPT O THE ROOF[11:46pm] kaia ➝ teagan: TEHEY WANT TO PUSH EMIRNTO THE POOL[11:47pm] kaia ➝ teagan: HELPTEAGS U KNOWI CANTEHANDLE HIEHGTS HELP

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[3:43am] kaia ➝ teagan: teagan whdy are u stilul my friend aure u srue u aren’t sjust pretending[3:45am] kaia ➝ teagan: we'sre best frmiedns buat sometimehs i feel likhe we’re just irdfting atrap[3:50am] kaia ➝ teagan: i dalways supporlt and deefdn u but whenevre i need yu i feel likce ur never thjere[3:51am] kaia ➝ teagan: i just want ym best firend 

Send “✿” for a SUGGESTIVE text.

[10:57pm] kaia ➝ teagan: why don’t u two should just have an honest fuckign convo like normal people.. i’m always going to be on ur side but it’s been months and i just want u guys to fucking resolve this properly already

Send “ø” for a LATE NIGHT text.

[2:21am] kaia ➝ teagan: help me graham’s drunk again[2:22am] kaia ➝ teagan: he’s doing such weird things n keeps rambling [2:25am] kaia ➝ teagan: HE’S A FUCKKING MESS HELP ME TEAGS IDK WHAT TO DO[2:27am] kaia ➝ teagan: SHOULD I JUST LEAVE HIM DRUNK ON THE BEACH

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[ junior year of high school, 2011 ] [9:30am] kaia ➝ teagan: SO IT TURNS OUT I HAD A POP QUIZ THIS MORNING AND I MISSED IT BC I WAS LATE BC SOMEONE!!! OVERSLEPT[9:34am] kaia ➝ teagan: WHY COULDN’T U JUST WAKE UP ON TIME LIKE A NORMAL PERSON [9:35am] kaia ➝ teagan: THE TEACHER WON’T LET ME TAKE THE QUIZ EITHER BC I WAS LATE WHAT TH EFUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO[9:35am] kaia ➝ teagan: I HATE YOU SO MUCH U KNOW U WERE MY ONLY RIDE TO SCHOOL TODAY

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[5:31pm] kaia ➝ teagan: DUDE TEHRE’S FUCKING FROG NIT HE HOUSE[5:35pm] kaia ➝ teagan: OH YM GODITS JUST HOPPING [5:36pm] kaia ➝ teagan: I SWEAR TO FUKCING GOD IT JUST SMILED AT ME1!!!!

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[4:03pm] kaia ➝ teagan: hey i just wanted u to know htat i love u[4:06pm] kaia ➝ teagan: thanks for sticking by my side through all these years even though u totally could’ve but i mean u probably stayed for the money or wtvr :/[4:06pm] kaia ➝ teagan: anyways… thank u for being my best friend ig….

Send “%” for a CURIOUS text.

[8:59am] kaia ➝ teagan: hey so like…….where tf did u disappear off to last night[9:00am] kaia ➝ teagan: u were gonna watch that video of jude’s lapdance but u just stood up n walked off are u good were the aliens contacting u again[9:02am] kaia ➝ teagan: is that why u just got up all of a sudden were they trying to telepathically speak to u

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[1:15am] kaia ➝ teagan: HEY RMEMEBER HOW PEPPY THE HAMSTER DIED???[1:18am] kaia ➝ teagan: BUT PEPPY HAD A DAUGHTER W PENNY THE HAMSTER[1:19am] kaia ➝ teagan: WELL PENNY THE HAMSTER’S DAUGHET JSUT GAVE BIRTH IM A GREAT GRANDMOTHER!!!!!! IM A GREAT GRANDMA!!!! FUCKS YEAH

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[1:48pm] kaia ➝ teagan:  According to all known lawsof aviation,  there is no way a beeshould be able to fly.  Its wings are too small to getits fat little body off the ground.  The bee, of course, flies anyway  because bees don’t carewhat humans think is impossible.  Yellow, black. Yellow, black.Yellow, black. Yellow, black.  Ooh, black and yellow!Let’s shake it up a little.  Barry! Breakfast is ready!  Ooming!  Hang on a second.  Hello?  - Barry?- Adam?  - Oan you believe this is happening?- I can’t. I’ll pick you up.  Looking sharp.  Use the stairs. Your fatherpaid good money for those.  Sorry. I’m excited.  Here’s the graduate.We’re very proud of you, son.  A perfect report card, all B’s.  Very proud.  Ma! I got a thing going here.  - You got lint on your fuzz.- Ow! That’s me!  - Wave to us! We’ll be in row 118,000.- Bye!  Barry, I told you,stop flying in the house!  - Hey, Adam.- Hey, Barry.  - Is that fuzz gel?- A little. Special day, graduation.  Never thought I’d make it.  Three days grade school,three days high school.  Those were awkward.  Three days college. I’m glad I tooka day and hitchhiked around the hive.  You did come back different.  - Hi, Barry.- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.  - Hear about Frankie?- Yeah.  - You going to the funeral?- No, I’m not going.  Everybody knows,sting someone, you die.  Don’t waste it on a squirrel.Such a hothead.  I guess he could havejust gotten out of the way.  I love this incorporatingan amusement park into our day.  That’s why we don’t need vacations.  Boy, quite a bit of pomp…under the circumstances.  - Well, Adam, today we are men.- We are!  - Bee-men.- Amen!  Hallelujah!  Students, faculty, distinguished bees,  please welcome Dean Buzzwell.  Welcome, New Hive Oitygraduating class of…  …9:15.  That concludes our ceremonies.  And begins your careerat Honex Industries!  Will we pick ourjob today?  I heard it’s just orientation.  Heads up! Here we go.  Keep your hands and antennasinside the tram at all times.  - Wonder what it’ll be like?- A little scary.[1:50pm] kaia ➝ teagan: why the FUCK DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENIND I JUST WNAN TEXT IN PEACE 

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[2:24am] kaia ➝ teagan: sometimes i feel like we’re not as close as we used to be when we were younger. i know we’ve been best friends for such a long time and life is bound to do that to people, but i feel like you only hang around me still because of this whole stupid pretending to be the benefactor situation. back in sophomore year, when you were with graham i was completely thrilled for you, of course i was, he made you happy and you’re my fucking best friend! but then you guys started falling deeper and deeper in love, and then suddenly all of our study sessions and nights together trying to cook became coffee runs with him and weekends out in the city with him. suddenly i wasn’t your best friend anymore, but he was. [2:25am] kaia ➝ teagan: and then when you two broke up? i was heartbroken for you guys, how could i not be? he made you so so happy and you guys were so perfect for each other. but then i finally had my best friend back. even though we’ve gotten a lot closer again then before, i still feel like you only come running back to me because it’s what you’re used to. i feel like i’m only your best friend because we’ve been best friends for so long and it’s just something you’re used to, and i don’t want to be someone you rely on just because it’s like a routine.