little love

47

calum slept peacefully. when he woke up, he felt better and not as stressed. but, his back and neck did hurt from the position he slept it but it was all alright since he got to stay with ashton.

"well good afternoon, sleepy head," ashton says softly, starting to work his hand through calums messy curls. calum wasn't in headspace, but with ashton talking that way and playing with his hair...calum didnt put up much of a fight.

"hi daddy," calum says, then yawns.

"how're you feeling, sweet pea?"

"sweepy," calum mumbles, pushing his head up into ashton's hand since ashton was starting to stop. it has ashton giggling, and continuing.

"you're still sleepy?" ashton asks, "but you just woke up, silly."

"mmm...daddy silly!" calum says, giggling a bit. ashton just chuckles, and shakes his head.

"are you hungry, baby? you haven't eaten all day."

"no hungwy," calum says softly, shaking his head. ashton wasnt going to argue - he knew calum was hungry. calum wasnt gonna eat without ashton, though. even if it meant starving calum wouldn't eat.

"well, daddy was gonna call uncle mikey and see if he would bring some dinner," ashton says, laying his hand on calums cheek, "so all three of us will have food. are you sure you aren't hungry?"

"um...yeah, i hungwy dada," calum mumbles, and grabs ashtons hand that way he could start playing with his fingers.

"okay sweet pea. could you grab daddys phone for him, pretty please?"

calum nods, quickly grabs ashtons phone, and then hands it to him, "here daddy!"

"good boy," ashton says, opening his phone. calum sits back down, and lays his head on ashtons stomach while ashton pulls up michaels contact. since it was about six thirty in the evening, he knew they'd be up.

"hello?"

"hey mikey," ashton says softly, starting to massage the back of calums neck, "are you busy?"

"of course not. whats up?"

"could you bring some dinner? i'll have mine here soon cause i can't, you know, have anything...to good. but for calum, and you guys, please?"

ashton could handle watching them eat good food. it sucked cause he wanted it, but he knew his diet would be changing - ashton found that to be funny. his diet wasnt even bad in the first place. yet his heart still attacked him like that.

the hospital usually gives out menus to the patients, so ashton only got a small list to look through before choosing. he had already looked and ordered before calum got up, so he's glad that he got calum to say he was hungry and would eat.

"sure. we were actually getting ready to go, so we'll see you soon."

"thank you so much," ashton says, smiling. he absolutely loved his friends, and it made him happy since they were always there to help. the phone call ends shortly after that, so ashton tosses his phone on his little side table and turns back to calum.

"hey bubba."

calum giggles, "hi daddy!"

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"food is here!" michael declares as he walks into the room, holding the two bags from veggie grill.

"yay!" calum cheers happily, turning to ashton, "daddy, we eaty!"

michael and luke both felt bad, and decided it was not worth it to get fast food so they wanted to get something else healthier to eat with ashton.

"yeah, we eat now baby," ashton says, sitting up a bit. his food was already delivered - it was just a salad with a side bowl of fruit and milk to drink.

michael passes out their food to everyone, and then they all start to eat.

calum finishes first - which surprises no one since they all knew he was hungry. ashton looked at calum as he took a bite of his salad, and he could just tell that calum was still hungry.

ashton knew he'd have to give it more time to settle in his tummy, but calum also hadnt eaten at all, so ashton wanted to make sure he got a little more then usual.

"here, bub, want a piece of fruit?" ashton asks, holding over his barley touched bowl of fruit. calum looks, and he knows calum really wants to take a piece, but then he shuts down and shakes his head.

"please? daddy can't eat all this fruit," ashton says, "it would be nice if you help eat some. help daddy out, love."

calum bites his lip, but then reaches for a piece of cantaloupe.

"thanks, sweet pea," ashton says softly, looking over to his other two friends, "how long are you staying?"

"not too much longer," michael says softly, "we got some errands to run, but we'll be back around noon tomorrow with lunch. cool?"

"yes, you guys don't know how much i appreciate you."

"you don't need to say anything," luke says softly with a smile, "we know."

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