5sos Imagines

Ashton AU Where he's not famous and moves to Ireland: Part 1

"What's happening, mum?" I asked, walking sleepily out of my room and into the living room to find my mum staring out of the window. "New neighbours. Did all the noise wake you up?" She asked, walking to me and giving me a hug. "Kind of. And I have to study" I said, hugging her back. "When shall we meet them then?" My mother asked me, stepping away from me. "Why would I do that? I'm fine this way" I said, shrugging. "Come on! They're our neighbours! If our house is burning down, we'll probably have to run to theirs. So it's always better to talk to them a little, Y/N" my mother replied, laughing a little. "Maybe in the evening then. If our house doesn't burn down by then" I said, walking back to my room.
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"Come on! Let's go" I said, to my 8 year old sister who was watching some cartoon on TV. "You're taking me to the park?" she asked, excitedly. "Yep! Let's go!" I yelled, pulling her up. I quickly told my mother and held my sister's hand as we walked to our favourite park.
"Thank you so much!" I heard a blonde woman saying to the driver of one of the moving trucks. She had such a strong accent. She looked at me and smiled. 'In case our house burns down' I though and smiled back at her.
"Those are our new neighbours" I said to my sister. "She sounds weird" she said, laughing a little. I patted her head and said, "That's mean! They're from another country. Australia, I think" "Is that the kangaroo country?" "Yes" I said, laughing. "Here we go" I said to my sister after a 10 minute walk to the park. "SWINGS!" She yelled and ran past a bunch of trees towards the swings and I followed her slowly, until she suddenly slowed down. "What's wrong?" I asked, walking to her. She pointed at the swings and murmured, "They're both taken.." And I noticed that there was a boy around my sister's age on one swing, a slightly older girl on the other and a boy around my age standing behind them. "Those are my swings" my sister said, sulking. "Come on. Maybe they'll share" I said, holding her hand and walking up to them.
The 3 of them seemed so happy I actually felt kind of bad walking up to them and asking them to share. "Hi" I said, looking at the oldest boy. "Hey" he replied, looking at me and then at my sister. "Um I'm Y/N and this is my sister, <Your sister's name> and-" "I'm Ashton, this is Harry and this is Lauren" he said, cutting me short. "Ashton. I was wondering if you guys would be willing to share these swings with my sister. We come here a lot and she kind of thinks the swings are her property" I said, smiling a little. He nodded at me and said, "Hey Harry. Why don't you play on the jungle gym for a while. Then you'll get tall like me when you get older" "Really?" Harry asked, and Lauren looked back at Ashton and raised her eyebrows. She was a smart girl. "Obviously! Go on!" Ashton said, and helped Harry off the swings. "Thank you, Ashton!" my sister squealed and ran to Ashton and gave him a quick hug before sitting on the swing.
I walked behind her to help her push the swing. "Thank you" I said, pushing the swing. "No it's okay" Ashton replied, smiling at me, bringing my attention to his insane dimples. "I can take it from here!" My sister yelled and I stepped away from the swings. "You can leave my swing too, Ashton" Lauren said to Ashton, making him step away. "What now?" Ashton asked me. "Come on" I said, walking towards a little park bench that was close enough to the swings to run to your sister if she fell off but far enough to give you some space. "This is my little place" I said, sitting down. "It's tiny" Ashton said, trying to sit comfortably next to me. I laughed moving to the corner giving him a little more space.
"So you're not from here?" I asked. "Clearly not. I'm from Australia. I just moved here with my mum and Lauren and Harry" he said. I laughed and said, "You need to talk slower. I understood maybe 4 words you just said!" Ashton laughed and said, "I'll slow down if you slow down too!" "Fine" I said, smiling at him. Ashton sat close enough for me to smell the deodorant he was wearing mixed with the smell of sweat for probably helping his mum with the boxes. "Why did you move?" I asked, looking at Lauren and my sister on the swings. "It's a bit of a long story. Maybe some other time.." he said, smiling at me, but it was hardly a smile. "Okay" I said, knowing it wasn't something he wanted to talk about. "Do you go to school?" Ashton asked me. "Come on. Do I look like a 15 year old? I'm in college, Ashton!" I said, laughing softly. "I love the way you say my name" he blurted out. "What?" I asked, looking confused. "Your accent makes my name sound nice" he said, smiling at me, the smile with the crazy dimples. "Do you go to college?" I asked him. "I'm going to. I'm going to become a music teacher" he said. "Music teacher? You sing?" I asked. "Nope. I play the drums but people in my old school were pretty idiotic and I couldn't do the whole band thing anyway because I figured out some time last year that we were most probably moving" he said, looking into his lap. "What about you?" he asked, looking up at me and turning around on the park bench so he was sitting facing me, one leg tucked under the other's knee and the other hanging off the bench.
"I'm a pretty boring person. I start college too and I'm going to study economics and maths" I said, suddenly feeling like what he was doing was way cooler. "You're smart, huh?" he asked me, laughing. "I might be but it's not like I can play the drums or anything" I replied. "Can you play anything?" He asked me, his fingers peeling whatever old paint was left on the park bench. "I play the guitar but there's hardly any time any-" "That is so cool! We should hang out together with our music one day" he said, cutting me off for the second time since we met. "Sounds great" I said, smiling at him. "Y/N?" I heard my sister yelling and running towards me, followed by Lauren and then Harry. "ASHTON THERES ICE CREAM HERE!" Harry yelled. "PLEASE Y/N! PLEASE!!" My sister begged me. "There's ice cream here?" Ashton asked, looking at me. "There's this ice cream truck that comes here every day and looks like he's here now" I said, standing up. "Can we?" My sister asked. "Yes we can, sweetie. Come on" I said. "Ashton! Please!" Harry pleaded. "Let's go then" Ashton said, walking up to me, our siblings walking next to us.
I don't know why but I felt so tempted to slip my hand into Ashton's and lean into his side as we walked towards the ice cream truck but I knew nothing about him. Maybe he had a girlfriend. Maybe he wasn't even into girls. "Hi!" I said to the man selling the ice creams. "The usual?" He asked me. "For us, yes" I said, smiling. "And for you?" he asked Ashton. "Um 2 chocolates for these two and vanilla for me" he said, reaching into his pocket. The man gave us our ice creams and went away. "Vanilla? Really?" I asked Ashton, as we all started eating our ice creams. "Why does no one like it?" he asked me, his voice a little higher than it was before. "Because it's boring" I said, laughing. "Can we go home? I'm tired.." my sister asked from behind me. "Yes we can. Where do you guys live?" I asked, looking at Ashton, even though I knew he was our neighbour.
"That way" he said, pointing in the same direction as our house. "THATS HOW WE GET TO OUR HOUSE TOO!" My sister yelled, getting excited. "Then let's go" I said, stepping back and letting my sister and Ashton siblings walk in front of us. "Give me some of yours" Ashton said, as he walked next to me. "No way" I said, pulling my ice cream away from him. "Come on. You said vanilla is boring. Let me try other things" he said, laughing. "You should've thought of that before, Ashton!" I said, eating my ice cream. "Please" Ashton said, bumping his shoulder gently into mine. "You can have my boring vanilla" he offered. "Fine" I said and handed him my ice cream cone and he gave me his. I took a tiny bit of it and looked over at Ashton. "The vanilla is all yours. I love this" he said, eating my ice cream. "ASHTON" I squealed and bumped my shoulder into his, like he did before and grabbed my ice cream from him, both of us laughing.
"Um guys. If everything is sorted back there, can you tell us where to go next?" Lauren asked us. "Our house is that way" Ashton said, walking faster so he could catch up with our siblings. "So is ours" I said, walking next to him so my sister was to my right and Ashton was to my left, along with Harry and Lauren. The rest of the time we walked in silence until we were very close to our house. "Are you following me home?" Ashton asked. I shrugged and asked, "Are YOU following ME home?" "Wait what?" Harry asked, peeking from the extreme left at us. "I think we're neighbours!" my sister said, looking back at him. I looked up at Ashton and smiled when we walked into our street. "Hi, neighbour" Ashton said, smiling at me. "Oh my god! That's why you sound like that lady we saw before we came here!" My sister yelled. "Who lady?" Ashton asked. "Your mum, I think" I replied, as we stood on the street, finishing up our ice creams. "Go on in, guys" Ashton said to Harry and Lauren. "Bye, Y/N! Bye, <your sister's name>!" They both said, almost collectively and walked towards their house. "I'm going in too" my sister said and hugged Ashton's legs and walked towards our house. "Last bit of chocolate. Want it?" I asked, looking up at Ashton, the street lights making his eyes look even brighter. "Obviously" he said, and handed me his ice cream and took mine. "Looks like I'll be seeing you a lot, Ashton" I said, finishing up the ice cream. "I'm not going to be complaining" he replied, smiling at me. "Where do your dimples end?" I asked, laughing. "They don't" he replied, throwing his head back and laughing. "ASHTON! MUM'S CALLING YOU!" Lauren yelled, opening their door. "Time for me to go. When can I see you again?" Ashton asked me, walking closer to me. "If you peek out through that window" I said, pointing up at one of his house's windows, "You can look at my room's window" "Then I know which room's mine now" Ashton replied, smiling at me. "ASHTON NOW!" Lauren yelled again. "Bye, Y/N" Ashton said, leaning down and kissing my cheek, and I felt his slight stubble tickle my cheek, making me giggle. "What?" he asked. "Your stubble is tickling me" I said, still laughing a little. "You should laugh more. You look prettier" he said, quickly smiling at me and running towards his house, leaving me standing in the middle of an empty street feeling all stupidly warm and gooey inside. "Y/N? WE'RE VISITING THEM IN 30 MINUTES! COME INSIDE!" I heard my mother yell. "I spoke to Anna-Marie, she's our new neighbour, and she told me we can visit them in half an hour and invited us for dinner. She has 3 kids okay? So get ready" my mother said to me. "Dinner?" I asked, getting excited. "Yes. Since when do you get excited about eating with a bunch of new people?" my mother asked me. I shrugged and said, "Since now" and ran up to my room to get dressed.