Without You

Chapter 53

Blakes pov

~~4 days after the dance~~

"Are you ready to go love?" I ask Ashton with a smile

"love?" he questions me with a puzzled look on his face

"yeah, you ready to go?"

"yes" he says grabbing his bags and mine grab we head down to his car to load our bags in the trunk

"God how I've missed this car" I say eyeing up Ashtons Black mustang I look over to him seeing he's giving me a strange look "what you know I'm a sucker for sports cars"

"just get in beautiful" he says loading my bags I get in turning up the radio a few seconds later Ashtons gets in

"ugh what are we listening to" he says changing the station

"music" I say

"clearly smartass" I chuckle softly under my breath turning the music back up to music that he demes as better. we drive to the airport Ashtons hand on my thigh and my hand on top of his halfway there I turn down the music Ashton looks over to me to see what's wrong

"what are you gonna say to Josh" I ask Ashton and see him tense up a bit

"Blake there's something I have to tell you" he says getting real serious so I turn all the way to him "Josh somewhat already knows"

"Ashton Baylor he what!"

"knows"

"When did you tell him and why"

"I didn't tell him Disher did the day we kissed in the quad"

"how did Disher tell him"

"When I got back to my dorm he was there to surprise me and everyone had just gotten the notifications I turned mine on after the girlfriend incident but Cole Bret Trevor were looking at it and Josh asked Bret told him he saw and exploded we had an argument and I haven't talked to him since"

"so that's why you get so on edge when I mention home"

"yeah im scared what he's gonna say when I see him"

"I just can't believe you didn't tell me"

"I'm sorry baby"

"it's fine" I say turning to face the window the rest of the way even though I said that it was fine I am slightly annoyed at the fact that he didn't think to tell me in three days about the fact that my brother knows and I was going to talk to him like an idiot I don't talk to Ashton the rest of the way silent even in the air the whole 3-hour flight spent in my head worrying overthinking every possible scenario that could happen I don't think Ashton minded much though because he spent the whole 3 hours fast asleep not that I blame him that much he's been working hard that's one of the things I love about him his determination and will power to achieve anything he puts his mind to that's why I have no doubt in mind that he will win worlds the only thing that could stop him from that is something so detrimental that he wouldn't be able to race again when we land I gently wake Ashton

"Hey we're here sleepy head" he raises his head up and kisses my forehead I smile at him and stand up

"you ready to do this love" I ask

"as ready as every" he says grabbing my hand

we make our way through the airport grabbing our bags at baggage claim we head outside to wait for our ride "who's picking us up"

"Caroline relax deep breath I'm here"

"okay" he says giving my hand a squeeze as my phone starts ringing I pick it up and its caroline

"Hey where you guys"

"standing outside"

"then how come I don't see you"

"are you at the right place"

"gate A right"

"no B" I say looking to Ashton and rolling my eyes "okay I'll talk to you in a second" I say hanging up the phone as Caroline pulls up in front of us Ashton drops my hand when he sees her taking my bags he puts them up while I get in the car

"How are you" caroline asks me when I get in next to her

"I'm good" I say hugging her over the consol Ashton gets in the back sitting behind me and caroline takes off starting the half-hour drive home a few minutes into the ride I feel something touch my thigh making me jump a little bit

"Are you okay?" caroline asks me

"what's wrong" Ashton asks from behind me I look down to see what it was and Ashton's hand is between the seat and door making the hold my hand motion slipping my hand down casually to hold his trying not to draw any attention

"it was just a hair scared me" caroline shrugs it off and we continue our drive making small talk here and there

"Ash we all watched your race on tv you did good" I look in the rearview mirror seeing him lean his head back close his eyes and sigh

"thanks" he says

"I just have one question who's the mystery girl"

"mystery girl" I say engaging protective girlfriend mode squeezing his hand hard

"ow that's over now no more mystery girl didn't Josh tell you" he says

"no, he didn't tell me anything about a girl"

"yeah that mystery is history" he says making me relax

"okay" she says dropping the topic a little while later Ashtons asleep in the back and caroline turns to me

"now that he's out we can start talking" I laugh a little "so who do you think the mystery girl is"

"he told you it was no one"

"that's not what he said on the interview it seemed pretty serious"

"well it's not now just drop it" I say getting agitated

"Blake" she says looking at me "is it you"

"what no"

"come on don't lie"

"I'm telling you no" I say defensively caroline leans over and looks at me

"Okay girl's night?"

"girls night" I say agreeing I know exactly what's going to happen at girl's night because what happens there stays there.