Chasing Ashton -Lashton Hirwin-

Chapter Twenty Two: Exposed.

Chapter Twenty Two: Exposed.

"Well? Someone better start talking and soon" Mr.Carwin said sternly, five minutes had passed and Ashton and Luke were frozen, staring at the screen, breathing deeply, and dreading everything. "C'mon boys, one of you speak!" he shouted startling them, Ashton's head dropped into his hands and he was mumbling 'No no no', Luke felt so guilty, if he had just been careful, or gone home, or even paid attention in class they wouldn't be in this situation.

"I, uh, I didn't, real-" Ashton was cut off by Luke blurting,

"It was me, I kissed him first!" he automatically regretted the words, but they slipped out before he even thought about what he was saying,

"Excuse me?" his headteacher said wide-eyed,

"I-I kissed, him" Luke repeated, Ashton was looking at him as though he was crazy,

"What are you doing?" Ashton asked him, Mr.Carwin looked across at Ashton,

"Mr.Irwin? do you have something to add to what Mr.Hemmings has said?"

"No, no he doesn't" Luke replied before Ashton could say anything,

"So, Mr.Hemmings, why did you kiss your teacher?"  Mr.Carwin asked,

"Well, I uh.."

"I need more than stammers, Mr.Hemmings"

"Yeah, sorry, I, well he was talking to me, because he tutors me and, he was talking about that, because I haven't been paying attention in class, and, we were just talking"

"You two were stood awfully close, and, you put your hands on his hips, Mr.Hemmings."

"I know, I was trying to, uh, seduce him I guess, and then, I kissed him and.."

"Why did you run off?"

"Well, because I'd realised what I'd done"

"Why did you do it?"

"I wanted, him to pass me on my exams" Mr.Carwin raised an eyebrow at him and looked across to Ashton, whom throughout the whole conversation hand't taken his surprised eyes off of Luke's face,

"Mr.Irwin, I hope you're not going to succumb to Mr.Hemmings' feeble attempts to pass his exams?" Ashton shook himself out of his dazed state and looked at the headteacher,

"Huh?" he managed to get out,

"You're not going to pass him based on his seduction techniques?"

"Oh, no, no of course not, I uh, no" Ashton said, Mr.Carwin nodded and then lent back in his chair,

"I hope you both realise, how serious a situation this is?" he said slowly, Ashton's gaze had drifted back to Luke, but instead of surprise he was just confused, Luke could feel Ashton's eyes on him but he refused to look, he knew if he did he'd get completely lost in his beautiful gaze,

"I understand, what I did was wrong. And whatever punishment you throw at me, I'll accept" Luke said quietly as he looked down into his lap,

"Punishment wise" Mr.Carwin started, "I should expel you, and fire you" Ashton and Luke both stared at him, they both wanted to defend themselves but they couldn't,

"You can't fire him" Luke said,

"And why not?"

"Because he didn't do anything wrong, he was only talking to me, I kissed him, I pushed him against the lockers, I made sure he couldn't move or push me away, it was just me, he didn't do anything wrong at all" Luke responded quickly, Mr.Carwin nodded and then smiled,

"Mr.Irwin you may go back to your class now" for a moment he couldn't move, he was confused, frozen, he felt as though if he got up he'd just collapse, "Mr.Irwin?"

"Uh, thank you" he finally managed to say, he slowly got up and adjusted his tie, he waked slowly out of the room and collapsed into a chair outside when the door was shut, he couldn't get his breathing straight, and the only thing he could do was go back to class, and wait.

He paced the length of the room chewing on his finger nails and waiting for some sort of news, even if the headteacher walked in and fired him, he'd rather that than being kept in the dark, his heart was pounding way too fast, and he felt as though he couldn't breathe. He jumped when the door swung open and spun around fast, "Lu- Oh, Mrs.Hemmings, hi" he said trying to keep himself calm, 

"Hello." she said sternly shutting the door behind her, "What the hell is going on?" Ashton looked at her confused,

"Uh, what, what do you mean?"

"I got a call, from the head, saying there was an incident with you and my son, what the hell is going on?!" she shouted,

"It, it was nothing bad.." Ashton stammered, she didn't know, he couldn't tell her.

"So what was it then?!" her demand to know was worrying him, he watched her storm to the back of the classroom and turn to face him, he was stood behind his desk as though he were hiding, "Well?!" Ashton jumped slightly, his eyes wide and his breathing staggered,

"Uh, he, well, uh.."

"Spit it out Ashton!"

"He kissed me! Okay? He kissed, me.." Liz's face dropped,

"He, what?"

"He kissed me" The words felt wrong as he said them, because Luke didn't kiss him, he kissed Luke, "Well, he, he kissed me, after.."

"After? After what?" Liz said slumping down in the nearest seat to her,

"After, I...K-kissed him" Ashton's voice cracked as he said the words, he looked towards the floor and shut his eyes tight,

"Are you kidding me?!" she yelled again,

"I'm, I'm sorry, Liz, I'm sorry.." he stammered,

"No! No. Sorry doesn't fucking cut it Ashton! You kissed my son!"

"He's, he's not that much younger than me, and, he didn't mind, I'm sorry" Ashton still had his eyes closed,

"I'm telling the head to sack you, it's disgusting!" she stormed to the door when she was stopped,

"No!" Ashton yelled running in front of her, "No, I'm not letting you do that."

"Why not?" she asked,

"I'm not losing my job over this bullshit, I'm a respected teacher here, now get out of my classroom." he said sternly staring into her eyes, he watched as her gaze drifted behind him, he breathed out knowing exactly who was stood there and automatically regretted his words,

"I, I defended you, and, you don't even care about me.." Luke said with water filled eyes,

"No, Luke, come back! It's not like that!" Ashton called, Liz walked out the classroom and closed the door quietly. He'd really screwed up and he knew it, all he could do was hope Luke would call, so he could explain.