The Prince (Lashton au)

Luke

I wipe my eyes gently with the potato sack I was dressed in. They are very tender from all the crying I've been doing. My throat hurts when I breathe. This is a harsh punishment.

I hear footsteps approaching me from the hallway and I scooch closer to the corner.

"Luke it's me Jamie." She whispers.

"Jamie?" I reply.

"I'm letting you out but your going to have to be quiet. I'll help you find the performance but your on your own from there." she whispers.

She unlocks the cell door then unlocks the cuffs around my wrists. I rub them.

"Put these on." she says handing me a pile of clothes.

She turns around and I pull of the potato sack and pull on the commoner clothes.

"Thankyou." I say.

"And I mean it."

She pulls me out of the cell and to a wall with a lantern on it.

"Jamie this is a wall not a door." I say stifling a laugh.

She pulls a chain on the lantern and the wall slides over.

"Oh." I say.

She chuckles.

We walk through the secret door and it closes behind us.

"Follow the path and it lets you out behind an abandoned building. Turn left and walk then take your second right and you should be there." she says shooing me away.

I run down the dark tunnel and it lets me out right where she said.

Bad thing is I completely forgot the directions she gave me.

I take a chance and take a left.

It lets out at a bathroom. I bump into a commoner.

"I'm sorry." I say huffing and puffing from the run I just did.

God I am so out of shape.

"It's fine." he says turning towards me.

His beauty shocks me. Thick brown curls. Huge brown eyes. Nice tone skin. Simply stunning.

"I'm Luke, you are?"

"Ashton. Aston Irwin." he says shaking my hand.

"Aren't you the prince?" He asks.

"Umm yeah something like that." I reply.

"Shouldn't you be at the castle?" he says.

"Supposed to be but I wanted to see the performance that I can't seem to find." I reply.

"Lucky for you that's where I'm going. Just had to take a quick wee." he says taking my hand and pulling me forwards.

His action takes me by surprise. My small cold hand in his huge warm one. If only this could be an always thing.

We turn right at the second turn.

Here we are. A small stage in the center of a group of people. We take a seat in the middle of the circle and watch. They look so funny jumping around.

"That is not what life is like in the castle." I say in the middle of a laugh.

"What is it like then?" Ashton asks.

I almost forgot he was here.

"Well that's a long story." I say.

"I have time." he replies.

"Meet me at the bathroom tomorrow at 1:00 and I'll tell you." I reply.

The performance has ended and the area has cleared. I walk the way we came from and run to the castle. Time to return to the rags.

(A/N) I know it was short but the picture at the top is Luke's commoner clothes. Lets pretend Calum isn't there.