Changed / ashton irwin

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Mackzenie's POV.

*Last year *

I walk to Ashton's house and let myself inside, his mom doesn't really care if I walk in or not, I immediately walk in the kitchen, and go to the fridge and grab a drink, I spot banana cream pie, I dip my fingers in it and lick it.

"My germs." I close the fridge and run upstairs into his room, I slam the door wide open and spot Ashton laying on his bed, staring at the ceiling, I run and jump on him.

"Hey Ash." I pull him into a hug, but he pushes me off him, I furrow my eyebrows.

"What wrong?" I ask him, He looks at me full of disgust, "What?" My eyes search his face, He stands up and walks towards the door.

"Get out" He shakes his head, I stand on beside his bed.

"What? Why?" I try to walk towards him, but he backs away.

"Don't talk to me, ever. Leave." My heart shatters to a million pieces, a lump forms in my throat.

"Ashton.." I bit my lip, my face heats up, He's joking right?

"I SAID GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE MACKENZIE!" He shouts, I jump at his words, he never called me by my full name before, I watch as he clenches his fists.

"Can we at least talk about it?" I whisper, looking down at my fingers, I didn't notice how much they were shaking.

"No." He says sternly, "Now, can you please get the fuck out of my house, and leave me alone, don't talk to me, don't even look at me. Ever." Tears flood my vision, until they finally come streaming down my face.

"Okay." I manage to choke out, "But If you start to miss me, remember, I didn't walk away, you let me go." I put the leather bracelet that he gave me down on his bed, and walk out of his bedroom door, He slams it.

"Fuck!" I hear him shout, I walk down the stairs, wiping my cheeks, I make my way toward the door,

"Mackenzie?" I hear my name being spoken, I freeze in my tracks, I slowly turn around, I spot Ashton at the top of the stairs, He throws my bracelet, down on the floor, sliding beside my feet, I look back up at him, then down at the bracelet, I let out a shaky breath, I slowly kneel down and grab the bracelet, and continue walking out the door.

I just lost my bestfriend.

"And we didn't talk after that." I fiddle with my zipper, I watch as Ms.Davidson nods and writes it down on a paper, and tucks it in my file,

"Alright, that's end of the session for today." She takes off her glasses, and folds over her blouse.

I sling my bag over my shoulder, picking up my books, I run a hand through my hair, I mumble a quick 'bye' to Ms. Davidson and walk out the door.

"Wait!" Ms. Davidson calls my name, "You forgot your bracelet." I suck in a breath.

"Thanks." I faked a smile, to be honest, I wanted to leave it behind on purpose, and closed the door behind me.

I tuck the bracelet in my pocket, I turn around and see Calum, Luke and Ashton. I'm surprised Michael's not with them.

Ashton does a double-take, He nudges Calum, and they all turn their attention towards me, I turn the other way, power-walking.

"Mackenzie!" Ashton calls out. I run my fastest, until someone tugs my hair, making me fall on the floor, I shoot my eyes open, seeing Luke smirking, with Ashton and Calum behind him. Calum grabs my arm, while Luke grabs the other, they drag me to the boys bathroom, Ashton soon locks the door.

"Hello Mackenzie." Ashton spits out, He cracks his knuckles and throws a punch at my stomach, making me double over, curling up in a ball, I look back up and soon a pain in my back emerges, Calum and Luke start kicking me repeatedly.

"Okay guys, stop." Ashton pulls out something from behind him.

My journal.

"Look what I found, Mack" He says sarcastically. "You left it behind the other day."

"I also forgot to pay you back for that punch." He hands my book to Luke, who begins to read it, Ashton lifts up my chin, then punches me straight in the jaw.

"One day, in the middle of class while everyone was working, my eyes, filled with tears, because I knew they were thinking about their work or friends, or whats happening after school, but all I could think of was how I'd much rather be at the top of a building about to jump." Luke read from my journal, they all turn their attention to me.

Calum scoffs, "Freak." Then kicks my side, He and Luke leave the bathroom, but Ashton stood at his spot, I looked at him straight in the eyes, His eyes went from soft, to cold.

"I'm keeping your book, Mack." He spits in my hair. then leaves the boys bathroom.

I stay curled in a ball, my back is aching with pain, I hear the door of the bathroom creak open, I immediatley sit up, pain shoots up from my sudden movements, I groan, I glance up, seeing the red haired boy, Michael. I scoot away, until I hit the bathroom wall.

"Mack?" He puts his phone in his back pocket, he immediatley rushes to my side, "What happened?" He tries to help me up.

I shove him away, "Stay away from me." I slowly stand up, and dust off my sweater.

Michael takes one step towards me, "Who did this to you? fuck it was them wasn't it?" I shake my head, and limp towards the sink.

"Don't pretend to care, Michael." I whisper, washing my face with the cold water.

"I'm not." He states, I scoff, he was probably trying to get to me again, "Let me help you."

Without my response, he begins to wipe my cheeks with his flannel, his eyes wander over my forehead, looking for any cuts or blood,

I whimper as he ran his hand over a now forming bruise, "Did I hurt you?" He asks in a soft voice, I didn't reply,

I look away, a gasp escaping from Michael's lips, "We're taking you to the nurse." he lifts my hand up, revealing bruised knuckles, I bite my lip,

Michael wraps my arm around his neck, he put his arm around my waist to support me, we begin walking to the nurse's office, I trip over my own shoe, making me stumble, "Woah." Michael chuckles, lifting me up once again,

We got weird looks from some kids that were in the hallway.

Once we got to the nurses office, she cleaned my hand and wrapped it up.

As she was wrapping my wrist up I read her name tag, 'Nurse Jackie' I studied her face, slightly bushy eyebrows, some wrinkles were here and there, she had dull brown looking eyes, slight bags were visble, her thinning hair was in a small ponytail,

"I'll give you two excuse notes." Nurse Jackie wrote down on two pink slips, then handed them over, I grabbed the ice pack Nurse Jackie gave me and put it on my bruised knuckles, my back ached with every step I took,

I'm tired.