Dedication to KissMyLashton bc your comments made me laugh 😂 (read the A/N below or else. Jks. but just do it.)
"Ashton is awake." The doctor said. When seeing everyone's shocked expressions he continued. "He can have visitors, but only immediate family." Luke frowned, simply because he thought he was going to be aloud to see Ashton. He was happy that Anne was getting to see him though. By the time Luke properly made out what the doctor had said, he was already leading Anne to Ashton's room. Luke sat down and sunk deep into his seat. Words couldn't comprehend how guilty he felt after everything that's happened. Maybe Calum was right. It was his fault. Although he wasn't blunt about it, Luke knew what he must have thought. Calum wouldn't have just hit him for no reason. Luke turned in his seat and looked towards the raven haired boy sitting in the corner of the room, with his legs up to his chest and ear phones in his ears. After battling with himself for several minutes he decided to just go and talk to him, Luke slowly stood from his seat and made his way over to where Calum was sitting. When he noticed Luke's presence he huffed in annoyance and took out one of his ear phones.
"What do you want?" Calum rejoined, making Luke roll his eyes and take a seat in the chair next to him.
"Listen, before you take another crack at my face, I need to talk to you."
"And why would I want to do that? You're the reason why Ashton is in here." Calum stated blankly, putting his ear phone back in his ear which was the last straw for Luke. Luke clenched his fists and ripped the ear phones out of his ears and threw his phone to the ground before angrily grabbing Calum by the shirt and shoving him against the wall, earning gasps from nurses and a few other people in the waiting room.
"What the fuck is your problem?! I already know that it's my fault, I don't need you confirming it for me!" Luke yelled. A few nurses and doctors rushed into the room and tried to get Luke off of Calum but he wasn't having it.
"Get the fuck off me!" Calum screamed, trying to take another swing at Luke's jaw, but instead Luke pushed him to the ground, climbed on top of him and started hitting him whilst Calum's hands made their way around Luke's neck. It was like everything was in slow motion, people were yelling, the doctors were trying to pull him off, but all Luke could feel was adrenaline pumping through his veins. That was until he saw his mother staring at him wide eyed, holding a tray of food she must have gotten from the hospitals cafeteria. She quickly passed the tray to a stranger and rushed over to Luke. Luke tried to pry Calum's hands from around his neck, he was slowly losing focus on everything around him and started to choke as the air left his lungs. Calum was soon restrained and Luke dropped to the floor, exhausted. He took deep breathes in and out to get his breathing back under control. He only just noticed Liz kneeling down in front of him, he read her lips and it looked as though she was saying something to him. She didn't seem angry, just worried. Almost scared. Luke shakily stood from the ground with help from his mother and a few doctors and looked around the room. People looked horrified. The blonde boy looked at his knuckles, in which they were a tad torn up. He shook violently when seeing Calum's bruised and bloody face pop into his mind, he didn't do much damage but it was enough for him to be traumatised. Liz gently took his arm and pulled him out of the waiting room after saying a few last things to the doctors.
As soon as Liz got Luke out of there, she told him to follow her to the bus stop because Luke crashed the only car they had. It took a lot of forcing, he badly wanted to go back in and see Ash but he finally gave in and they made their way towards the bus stop. When the bus stopped at the traffic lights, she looked over at her son and frowned when seeing him looking out the window, occasionally wiping his eyes. Liz sighed and looked back towards the road when the traffic lights turned green. For the whole ride home Luke sat in silence, staring out the window and singing an All Time Low song in his head that instantly made him think of Ashton.
'Cause I can't breathe without you near.
You keep me safe,
You keep me sane,
You keep me honest.
You keep me alive,
On the edge of tonight.
Chasing tomorrow,
With fire in my eyes.
You're like a siren in the dark,
You're the beat playing in my heart.
You keep me alive,
On the edge of tonight.
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As soon as they got off the bus, Luke walked in front of Liz and tried to get home as quickly as possible. He frisked himself, in search for the spare key he kept on him and sighed in relief when he found it. He quickly unlocked the door, ignoring his mothers calls for him to stop. He wiped a stray tear from his face as he was about to walk up the stairs, but twitched when Liz yelled at him.
"Luke, stop please!" Luke held his breath, knowing that if he didn't he would start to cry. He didn't like crying in front of people. It made him feel weak. He just wanted to be alone, everything was so fragile right now.
"Turn around and look at me." Liz pleaded. It took him a lot of courage to turn around, but he didn't look her in the eye. Instead, he just kept his focus on the ground.
"I understand that you might not want to talk right now, but I have to ask. Why did you do this? What made you do this?"
"He-" Luke choked, more tears threatening to spill. "He said it was my fault, that Ashton's in the hospital." Liz sighed and shook her head.
"Honey-" Before she could say anything in hopes that it'll cheer him up, he hastily cut her off.
"Don't you dare say it wasn't my fault, because it was. I wasn't watching the road, I reached over to him to make sure he was okay and I wasn't paying attention. I should go to jail! I should have lost my license! I could have killed him! It's my fault! It's-" Luke dropped to his knees and buried his face in his hands, letting out the sobs he couldn't be bothered to keep in anymore. His mother felt her heart shatter for her son. She hated seeing him in so much pain. She walked over to him, bending down to rub his back soothingly but he pushed her off and started heading for the stairs. This time, she didn't bother calling for him. She knew he needed some time to cool off. Liz wished this would all blow over soon. She has something to tell him but she wanted to tell him when there isn't anything else going on. As soon as the distressed boy got into his room, he immediately slammed his door shut and walked over to his speaker, plugging in his iPhone and turning up the music as loud as it went to block out his screams and cries.
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'You like All Time Low?'
'Oh my god, I didn't know anyone could hear me. But yes I do.'
'Relax. You have an amazing voice! I can't believe you like All time low! I worship them'
'Do you need some water? Like, to get rid of your hiccups? I can't stand having hiccups for more than 2 minutes.'
'Oh, no that's okay. It won't help anyway.'
'Have you tried.. Um, holding your breath?'
'Say cheese!'
'L-Luke! What are you doing?'
'You needed a photo for your contact.'
'Mm, it's cute too.'
'But-'
'The bus is waiting, hurry!'
'After you.'
'Was that your way of being romantic?'
'No! I was- being nice?'
'What the fuck were you doing?'
'I was holding my breath.'
'Why?'
'I was trying-'
'To what? To kill yourself? Do you know how worried I was?'
'No, I'm sorry! I was trying to stop my hiccups, I hate them. They make me miserable!'
'They make you unique.'
'So?'
'It's-It's perfect.'
'Really? I was scared that you would hate it.'
'I love it. It's great.'
'Why did you buy me this? Why did you spend all of that money on me?'
'I hate seeing you squint at the board to try and copy down notes. I see you lean over and copy mine because you can't see the board properly. You lost your only pair of glasses and I didn't want you to have to pay that money to get another set so I got them for you.'
'Please return them. You shouldn't spend your money on me. I can't keep these.'
'You can and you will. Your eye sight may be failing you but I sure as hell won't.'
Ashton's memories of him and Luke together came flooding back faster then whiplash, it soon brought him back to reality. His eyes shot open and like in the movies, he was blinded by a bright light. He couldn't help but think it was cliché. After a few minutes of frantically looking around, his eyes had finally adjusted and he took in his surroundings, learning he was in fact in a hospital room. He was utterly confused as to why he was there. What happened? He asked himself. He tried to sit up but winced when feeling an abrupt shooting pain in his leg. Ashton's head pounded and body ached as he tried to wriggle out of the blanket that was covering him. He felt suffocated in his own body. He started breathing heavily when he also realised that no one was around. Where was his Mum? His brother and sister? Calum? Michael? Luke? He heard beeping and looked towards the heart monitor which was beeping faster and faster. Tears blurred Ashton's vision as he tried to find a way of letting someone know that he was awake. He wanted Luke. Where is Luke? He began yelling out for the blonde boy, not really sure why he wanted to see him so much but he did. He hoped that he was here right now, he wanted to see his face and stare into his blue eyes. Ashton began weeping and hiccuping when nobody came, it was almost as if he was alone in the world. He felt like he was dead. Hell, maybe he was but he didn't know.
"Ashton!" Anne shook Ashton side to side, trying to get him to stop kicking and screaming. The brown haired boy let out a shriek when he was knocked back into his senses once again, he looked around the room and saw the worried expression on his mothers face as well as a nurse that was also in the room. The nurse neared him, and he cowered away. What in the fuck was going on?
"It's okay honey, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm here to help." He didn't want her help, he wanted Luke.
"Where's Luke? I need him, where is he?" Ashton whimpered, trying to get out of the bed. He wanted to slap the nurse when she pushed him back down and said he couldn't get out of bed yet.
"Okay, okay. I'll go and get Luke." Anne said, standing from the seat that was near Ashton's bed. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.
"Who's Luke?" The nurse had asked him, while they were waiting for her mother to bring Luke. He was getting impatient, wondering what was taking so long.
"He's, uh- one of my friends."
"He must be very important to you." A small grin made its way to Ashton's face when he saw the smirk grow on the nurses face, she was one of those people who when they smiled, you couldn't help but smile too. Kind of like Luke.
"Yeah, he is."
"How long have you's known each other for? If you don't mind me asking."
"It's fine." Ashton assured. "We've only known each other for a week."
"A week? Wow, you guys must have really hit it off." Ashton chuckled.
"We did actually, it feels like we've known each other longer. I've told him things about my life that it took me ages to tell my other friends. I really trust him."
"Do you happen to like this boy? As in, more then a friend?" The nurse asked.
"No." Ashton said, shaking his head. The nurse glanced at him and rose and eyebrow.
"Maybe." The nurse took a seat beside his bed and coaxed him to go on.
"I don't know." Ashton sighed. "It's complicated."
"How so?"
"Well-" Ashton was cut off when seeing Anne Marie walk into the room. He frowned when he didn't see Luke.
"Mum, where's Luke?" The nurse slowly stood from her seat before saying that she would check in on him later. Anne stepped aside to let her out of the room and took a seat on the edge of his bed.
"He left.."
A/N
IM BACK MAH BITCHES!! DID YOU MISS ME? YEAH? SAME oMG. SORRY IF THIS CHAPTER IS SHIT AND YOU DONT LIKE IT BUT I KIND OF LIKE IT SO IDK. I LIKE HOW I PUT A FLASH BACK OF LASHTON MOMENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS CHAPTERS LIKE THAT WAS GENIUS. THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH FOR ALMOST 8K IM STABBING MYSELF IN THE EYE HOLY SHIT. I THINK ITS COOL THAT I HAVE 8 CHAPTERS POSTED AND ALMOST 8K. THAT MUST MEAN I GET LIKE 1K EVERYTIME I POST A CHAPTER WHOO. WHEN THIS STORY GETS TO 10K MY FRIENDS AND I ARE GONNA SIT DOWN AND EAT PIZZA AND DANCE LIKE RETARDED CHICKENS TO 1D.
Anyway, so right now I'm studying to get my learners permit (if you don't know what a learners permit is then what the hell. You should know gosh.) *flips hair* and I have to start studying for my half yearly exams and I really badly want to get a job bc I need money for band merch. Jesus I've been doing a lot of stuff lately. I barely have free time. IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL GO AND READ LUCKY CHARM. AND IF YOU ALREADY DO THEN ILY5EVA. NAH I STILL LOVE YOU BUT GO AND READ IT PLS.
IN OTHER NEWS I WROTE SMUT FOT THE FIRST TIME. IT WAS TERRIBLE. IF YOU WANT TO READ IT, ITS IN MY DUCAS ONE SHOTS. (If you don't know what ducas is you should really look up After Our Juliet. They are absolutely amazing like wow. And they like 5sos so bonus.)
hahhahaha im laughing bc my friends friend sent a little bit of my ducas one shot to them and they like read it and shit. And they tweeted and said they were disturbed and I like laughed and cried and freaked out bc it has rimming in it but ok. And then I found out they only read the part where they started kissing and I was so relieved. And then a few days later this chick sent them the fUCKING LINK AND I WAS LIKE NO GAL. But daddy kinks do not work with AOJ like I cringe. stop. It was awkward and eeeeh. Cute things work with ducas. Bc cute.
WHO WANTS A CHARACTER ASK (just curious bruh.)
This A/N has been longer than Luke's legs sO. *wink* bYEEE (don't forget to comment heaps and vote and shiz. Or I'll poop on everything you love. Jks. Ewwy.)
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