Listen ➶ m.c & a.i

0.5

Ashton vaguely remembered waking up sometime during the night with someone pulling a blanket up to his chin. When he tried to open his eyes, he winced because the sunlight was too bright and everything felt too loud, especially the noises coming from the kitchen. Ashton groaned and tried to sit up, but immediately regretted his decision resting on the couch for a few minutes.

He heard someone's footfalls getting closer and the sound of a something dropping next to him. Trying to adjust to the brightness he narrowed his eyes to see who it was. Josh stared at him, his blue eyes sparkling with amusement as he gently prodded Ashton's forehead, which had the boy groaning and batting his hand away. Josh chuckled and with him being so close Ashton whimpered and clasped his hands over his ears.

"C'mon sleepy head, I know you feel pretty shitty, but I made you some breakfast, believe me it wasn't an easy task" Josh said, poking Ashton's side which also had the curly haired boy giggling since he was ticklish.

"Fuck.." Ashton said between giggles,"off."

"Your drooling all over my sheets get up you ass" and with that said Josh stood up and left saying he was going to take a shower and Ashton had better get up before Josh dumped a bucket of cold water on him.

Slowly propping himself up with his arm, he winced as his head pounded but saw that Josh had left a cup of tea and an aspirin accompanied with a plate of eggs and toast. Ashton was hungry, so he scarfed down the eggs breaking off the toast in pieces and downing down the tea and aspirin.

Josh came out of the shower a towel around his waist dark hair, dripping on the hardwood "I left you some clothes and a towel in the bathroom, no offense but you kind of stink" he said wrinkling his nose before leaving to change. Ashton sighed but agreed because he was sure he smelled of booze and sweat. Getting up, he began to make his way to the bathroom occasionally stumbling and knocking into the wall.

When he reached the small bathroom,he sighed, rubbing his temples a bit before going to turn on the water. Once the temperature wasn't scalding hot or ice cold, he jumped in shivering slightly as he adjusted to the water. For the moment the water helped soothe him and his headache was a slight thrum which made him relax. Using Josh's shampoo and body wash he quickly washed himself clean.

"Hey, I was going to go out I could take you home?" Josh yelled on the other side of the door, which startled the boy in the shower.

"Yeah, I'm almost done hold on!" he replied.

Finishing off his shower he climbed out and wrapped himself in a towel drying himself off as best he could. He spotted the clothes that Josh had left for him and he quickly threw on the boxers pulled on a dark blue t shirt that hung loosely considering Josh was a size bigger than him and some sweatpants were also too big and hung low on his hips

After leaving the bathroom, he saw Josh standing by the door scrolling through his iPhone.

"What happened last night?" Ashton asked, looking at his friend curiously.

Josh snorted and paused his scrolling to look up at him "You may have embarrassed yourself in front of Michael."

Ashton looked mortified "I what?!"

Josh laughed before responding "You went up to him and said 'Thank you for the beer you are very nice and your hair looks like a tomato has anybody ever told you that' and like a good friend I am I pulled you away before you said anything else."

Ashton groaned face flushing "Let's go, yeah?"

Josh nodded in agreement. Josh's apartment was above the shop so when Ashton stumbled, quite gracefully, he might add down the stairs he saw that the shop was closed.