Happy • Cashton

21. Mountain dew

"I'm still confused, what is his phone doing there?" Michael asked.

Ashton sighed deeply "I have no idea" he responded and sunk into the front seat.

"Maybe we should call the police" Luke said. "No! Absolutely not" Ashton refused.

"It's not like we're getting somewhere on our own Ash.." Luke said.

Ashton looked outside the car window and saw a supermarket. "Can we stop by there, I need to get milk anyways" Ashton said ignoring Luke.

"Yeah..sure" Michael said as he pulled up into the parking lot. Luke rolled his eyes in the back seat and crossed his arms.

Michael parked the car neatly and got out with the rest following along.

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Ashton sighed as he grabbed a carton of milk and putting it in his basket along with the apples. He had slight bangs under his eyes and his head was hurting from the light.

"Do you two need anything? Maybe for on the road or something?" Ashton asked Luke and Michael.

Luke shook his head while putting his beanie over his head "Mountain dew please" Michael said as he wrapped an arm around Luke's waist.

The three all felt the sadness and loneliness without Calum, with just the three of them it wasn't right. They all missed Calum so much.

"Maybe we uhmm..maybe we should visite the police station" Ashton said as they walked down the aisle.

"It's for the better" Luke nodded while giving Ashton a sympathetic look.

"After this, we'll make our way straight to the station" Ashton said looking behind him at the two while talking. He was so distracted that he bumped into someone as he was about to turn the corner.

"Woah" Ashton said as he gripped the stranger her arm gently.

"Sorry about that, I wasn't looking where I was going" Ashton said and gave a small smile.

"It's okay.." the girl said and smiled back while picking up her packed toilet paper. "I think I've seen you guys before, but I can't really remember where" the girl said as she furrowed her eyebrows.

"I don't really know honestly" Ashton said. Michael shook his head "sorry, I don't know either" Luke responded. The girl nodded her head. "We really gotta keep going" Ashton said starting to get slightly annoyed and walked past the girl.

He quickly made his way to the register where a lanky guy was scanning products.

Ashton lifted up his basket and took out his products and putted them on the treadmill. He then looked at the people infront of them who were taking forever to pack their stuff when they didn't even have that much.

This made Ashton even more annoyed. He bit his lip as he crossed his arms, trying not to snap at those people.

When the people finnaly had left, his products were being scanned by the guy.

"Hello" the guy said as he gave a bright smile. Ashton nodded and smiled fakely back. "Your tottal is 4,56$" the guy responded.

Ashton nodded and took out his wallet. Him being clumsy and tired, he dropped his wallet to the ground.

"Aargg, goddamnit! Nothing works now is it?" Ashton said as he crouched down to grab his wallet.

"Bad day?" The guy said behind the register. Ashton nodded "I guess you could say bad week" Ashton said as he opened his wallet. "Our friend Calum went missing this week..we're so stressed, sad and paranoid.." Ashton spoke as he gave the guy then dollars.

"Hold on..Calum.." the guy said as he frowned and took the then dollar bill. The guy leaned against the register "does your friend have dark hair?" The guy asked. Ashton's heart started beating faster "yes! brown eyes and a lot smaller than me?" Ashton said as he rested his hands on the register.

"Yes! I saw him with this other dude, he was kinda acting weird and said your friend had fell down the stairs or something...it looked like he wanted to tell me something..but he never did" the guy replied.

"He was with someone!?" Michael said. "Could you describe him aswell?" Luke asked. The guy scratched his head. "Uhh, he had brownish hair and uhh, oh yeah, he was very very tall" the guy replied.

"That's gotta be Jesse for sure" Michael said. "Hurry up!" An old grumpy lady said behind them. Luke nodded "we will we will" he said softly as he gave the lady a smile. Michael rolled his eyes.

"Around what time were they here?" Ashton asked. "Uhh" the guy stopped himself and looked at his watch "aboutt, 20 minutes ago" he said.

"If you wanna talk then go somewhere else!" The old lady began bragging again. Michael groaned "just one more second miss we'll b-" Luke started saying nicely when Michael cut him off. "Listen here you old witch, our friend is missing and we are about to find out where he is, so excuse you misses grumpy!" Michael said spatting at the old lady.

That was the second Michael had snapped from irritation and stress. "Michael!" Luke said and slapped the back of Michael's head. "Be nice" Luke whispered and turned back to Ash.

"Thank you uuh" Ashton said and read his name tag. "Mark, thanks we appreciate it so much! Keep the change" Ashton said and smiled. "No problem, goodluck finding your friend" he responded before the three ran of with their grocceries. Ashton gave a thumbs up as they were leaving the store...