Strings Attached (lashton, editing)

Twenty-Eight.

"Oh, right. I forgot, sorry," Luke turned back to the waiter and handed over his ID. "Just one I guess." 

As the waiter walked away, Luke picked up his menu and didn't say a word to Ashton who just stared at him. 

"Does it annoy you?" 

"What?" Luke furrowed his eyebrows and looked up at Ashton. 

"Does it annoy you? That I'm still underage? Even after the summer I'll only be twenty," Ashton asked feeling his stomach turn. The small age difference had never been an issue before and the two didn't go out a whole lot so it usually didn't matter much, but Ashton knew if they were to last another year; the limitations of the age difference could be what gets in their way. 

"No, of course not Ash. I just forgot," Luke stated. "It can be frustrating, but we can't change it." 

"Frustrating?" Ashton breathed out. 

"Ashton, not like that," Luke sighed out putting his menu right down. "You know I don't care about the age. Don't be mad, baby, please."

"I'm not," this time Ashton was the one to move his menu in front of his face and hide from Luke. 

Sighing, Luke went back to looking at his menu as a heavy silence set over the two. They ordered and ate in silence, barely looking up at one another or uttering a word. 

Ashton sat playing with the few scraps on his plate, not wanting to look at his boyfriend who just watched in worry as they sat in silence. Even their drive home was silent, the radio being the only noise filling Luke's car. 

"Are you going to say something?" Luke turned to Ashton, wanting to have at least some kind of conversation with him. 

"What do you want me to say, Luke?" Ashton kept his body facing forwards to look right out the window, fiddling with his thumbs in his lap. 

"I don't know, anything would be fine, Ash," Luke sighed out once again. "Maybe assure me you're not mad at me." 

"I'm not mad, Luke," Ashton still refused to look over at his boyfriend who only felt more and more desperate by the second. 

"Are you sure? Because you've barely said four words to me all night. If I wanted to take a child out for dinner, I would've just taken Tim," Luke snapped, feeling fed up with the way Ashton was acting. 

"Seriously?" Ashton snapped back, finally turning to look at Luke - fury set in his eyes. "You're seriously comparing me to your five year old son." 

"What else do you expect me to say? You won't look at me, you'll barely talk to me! I forgot for a moment that you were underage and you've been having a hissy fit ever since!" Luke's voice slowly got louder as he spoke to Ashton. The two were sat in his car outside Ashtons dorm and the small space was starting to feel too crowded for the both of them as they continued to argue. 

"Jesus, maybe find someone your age so you don't have have to worry about what you can and can't do with them," Ashton snapped one last time before swinging the door open and waltzing out of Luke's car. 

"No, don't you dare just walk off Ashton," Luke scrambled to get out of his car to follow the boy who only walked faster into the large brick building in front of them. "Ashton! You know it's not like that!"

Ashton didn't bother to turn around or reply, he just continued marching into the building and away from Luke. He glanced back quickly before stepping through the front doors as Luke continued to call his name and begged, pleaded, for him to just stop and turn around. But he didn't, he continued up to his dorm, leaving his distraught boyfriend on the side of the road just so he wouldn't hurt his pride. Not after he'd let his insecurities get the best of him. 

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I'm back!! Life has been crazy busy and I really didn't know how to write this chapter but here we are! Let me know your thoughts! 

Ashton being busy with college? 

Him and Luke going out for dinner? 

Luke and Tim missing Ashton and Ashton missing them back? 

Luke and Ashton unsure what they're going to do over summer? 

Luke forgetting Ashtons age?

Ashton getting upset? 

Their fight? 

Luke calling Ashton a child and Ashton stomping off? 

Ashton feeling insecure about his age?

Let me know what you think and leave a vote/follow/comment if you enjoyed it! Always appreciate the support!

What would you like to see from this story? Favourite moments? 

- Grace