After the people came to pick her up i ran to the bathroom real quick. when i got out i couldn't find Ashton anywhere. I checked all the rooms upstairs, the kitchen living room and even the basement but i couldn't find him. I went and checked outside. First i checked the front yard then the back. once i spotted our old tree house a little ways back in the woods i knew where he was. I guess old habits do die hard. When we where little and Ashton got really upset he would go up in the tree house.
i climbed up the steps we built agaisnt the huge oak tree, each step making sounds. I found Ashton sitting on the floor, head in hands, knees up to his chest. i slowly approached him and kneeled next to him.
"Ashton." I whispered.
He looked up at me. his face was red and puffy. His eye swollen from crying, which he still was doing. After looking at me for a few seconds he dropped his head back to his hands.
"do you want me to leave you alone?" I asked but he didnt answer.
"ill take that as a yes.' i sighed getting up and walking away.
Before I reached the steps to walk down he grabbed my hands.
"Don't leave me too." He said voice barely audible.
"Oh Ashy." I said hugging him real tight.
While we hugged he snuggled his face into my neck. I felt so bad for him. He just watched his mum die after not seeing her for a few months.
"She waited for you, you know." I said once he pulled away.
"Really?"
"Yup. And I found it weird she remembered you. She couldn't even remember her own name or who I was. You're very special to her, she had to say good bye to you before leaving." I said hoping he will feel a little better.
"I'm gonna miss her."
"Me to." I frown. Then we both herd a car door.
"Shit, they're back." I said quickly climbing down the steps and running to the front yard, Ashton right behind me.
"Ash!" Lauren and Harry yelled at the same time attacking him in a hug while I went over to his aunt and told her what happened. She agreed to taking care of all the wake and funeral plans while we handle the kids.
It was scary thinking how Ashton and I were now 19 and were adults and how we would be caring for a 16 year old and 9 year old. After a few minutes of talking to his aunt she left and we went inside with his siblings.
We all sat down in the living room. Lauren sat in the love seat, Harry sat the floor and Ashton and I sat on the big couch holding hands.
"I've missed you two so much.whats up?" Ashton asked all back to his cheery self.
"I made ten goals at my games!" Harry smiled.
"Really? That's awesome." Ashton smiled high fiving his little brother.
"Nothing new." Lauren say shrugging.
"Any boys?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"No." She smirked.
"Better not be." He grinned.
"How was tour?" Tay asked.
"Great loads of fun. I saw so many cool places." He smiled.
"Cool." She replied.
"So um I have something to tell you." His mood changing back to sad.
"What?" Lauren asked eyes going wide, she moved so she was sitting on the edge of her chair.
"Mum passed." He said trying not to cry.
Taylor got right up and ran away.
"What does that mean." Harry asked blinking his eyes at us.
"Ashton go talk to her, I've got him." I said.
"Okay." He whispered standing up and following Taylor.
"Come sit next to me." I smiled patting the seat where Ashton was just sitting. He smiled happily and jumped up on the couch.
"Mommy went to heaven this afternoon, she's up there with all the angels." I said.
"Does she have white wings and one of those crowns?" He asked.
"Yes. She has beautiful white wings with a golden halo, and you know the best part?" I asked the little boy.
"What?"
"She's up there looking over all of us and she's happy and she isn't sick anymore." I smiled a tear rolling down my cheek.
"Don't cry Cali, she's all better." He smiled whipping away the tear and hugging me tight. Wow this kid wasn't even crying.
He let go of me and hopped off the couch and skipped to his room up the stairs. I decided to go check on Tay and Ash. I walked up the stairs and stopped at her door.
"Don't lie to me! It's not gonna be okay. Harry and I are gonna have to go live with dad. You can't take care of us your job is making music you need to tour to do that. We can't tour with you. We are gonna have to live with dad!" She yelled at him. She was pretty loud I could hear her with the door closed.
"Lauren , I'm gonna try and figure it out. I'm sorry this had to happen. I'm sorry." He said. He wasn't yelling back or anything.
"You can't do anything Ashton! Why don't you just go back on tour and leave us alone." She yelled.
"Lauren please."
"Get out. I hate you!" She yelled.
The door open and Ashton walked out.
"Cali." He said running over to me and attacking me with a hug.
"She hates me. It's all my fault." He sobbed.
"Ashton nothing is your fault. She's just upset and angry and she's taking it out on you."
"Will you try and talk to her?" He asked eyes pleading.
"Yes." I said whipping his face then kissing his cheek.
I knocked on her door and she yelled go away but I went in anyways.
"I said get , oh wait I thought it was Ashton.'" She said sitting up on her bed.
"Lauren. It's not his fault and you know it." I sighed sitting down next to her.
"I know." She said looking at the floor.
"You can't blame him or anyone else. It's out of his control. You know if he could he would take you and Harry in a heart beat and I would as well but it sadly doesn't work like that. I herd what you said to him. I'm actually quite disappointed because you should be telling him you love him not hate him. Hard times like this you should be coming together not apart. Come down when you want dinner." I wasn't giving her a chance to answer because I wanted her to think about what I told her.
Once I got back downstairs I made a few phone calls to family and friends letting them know what happened. The one person I'm not calling is their dad, Ashton is gonna have to do that as much as he doesn't want to.
An hour later and Luke showed up.
"What are you guys doing?" I asked once I saw the 1D crew.
"We herd the news and thought wed fly back here incase something happened." Liam said.
They all piled in hugging me then hugging Ashton. We were all starved so we were gonna get some food for dinner.
"Harry no cookies, we are getting dinner." I called once I saw Harry trying to sneak pass us.
"What?" Styles asked.
"Okay your Styles for now on and he's Harry." I said pointing at them.
"Okay." Styles nodded his head.
"Just one?" He whined.
"After dinner." I said.
"Fine." He pouted putting the cookies back. Harry came back and sat next to me while we tried to figure out what to eat.
"Babe, wanna go get Lauren?" I asked.
"Nope, she's gonna rip my head off. No thanks." He said.
"Ugh."
"We will." Louis and Zayn smiled standing up.
"Be my guess" I said.
We all decided on pizza while Zayn and Louis went and got Taylor. They took a while so I figured they were talking to her.
She came down and sat awkwardly next to Ashton. He looked at me with a 'help me' look. Ashton you can't be scared of your little sister.
Louis cleared his throat and glared at Lauren.
"Ashton." She whispered looking at him.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you, I was just mad and Im sorry I told you I hated you because I don't I love you and you're the best big brother I could ask for." She sweetly smiled.
"And when is the part you ripped off my head."
"Ashton." I said hitting his arm.
"I love you two baby sis." He smiled wrapping his arms around her.
Once we placed our order Styles and I took my car to pick it up.
"Where's your house?" He asked getting in my car.
"Right across the street."
"That's cool that you and Ash grew up right across the street from each other."
"Yeah." The rest of the ride was silent picking up the seven different pizzas we got.
"How long are you guys staying?" I asked.
"Until after the funeral, whenever that is."
"That's really sweet but you guys are really busy and you don't have to do"
"Yes we do. Ashton is like family to us and you to believe it or not diva, your gonna be stuck with us for a long time." He said a huge smile across his face revealing his dimples.
"Oh great, lucky me." I teased pulling in the drive way.
We all sat down in the living room and ate our dinner. It was nice. Ashton's mood had lifted a little bit so has Taylor's, Harry's was the same as before. I felt a little better as well.
Lauren was drooling all over Luke. She's had the biggest crush on him forever. It was quite funny actually.
At nine Ashton put Harry up to bed. While he was doing that we all decided on watching a movie. We started it without Ashton. Half way through the movie Taylor announced she was going to bed.
"Want Luke to put you to bed." Ashton teased.
"Shuddup" she whined glaring at him.
"I'm sure he wouldn't mind, maybe singing you a lullaby." Ashton laughed.
Luke and Lauren both looked at me to help.
"Okay knock it off mr. I needed a bed time story til I was twelve. Good night Taylor." The boys all started laughing then all mumbled a ' night Lauren.'
"Hey, it was til I was nine." He pouted.
"Twelve."
"Nine."
"Okay babe what ever you say." I rolled my eyes and kissed him.