My reason to smile.

Chapter 12 Ashtons pov~

A/N I'm so sorry for not posting oh my god. My life's been kind of rough so I haven't had that much time to work on this but I stayed home today because I was sick and only focussed on this so here you go :).

I woke up to the sound of Taylor's alarm. I heard her groan and she shifted. "Why does it have to be Monday?" She said opening her eyes and rubbing them. I shrugged and sat up. "I'm going to take a shower" Taylor said getting up and grabbing her towel. I got up and walked to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and got the Orange juice out pouring a cup. "Morning" Luke said walking into the room,Calum right behind him. I smiled at them and drank the Orange juice. "I'm so tired" Calum said literally jumping on the couch and spreading out his body closing his eyes. "Same" I said getting up and putting my cup in the sink. I walked back to Taylor's room and laid on her bed waiting for her to get out of the shower so I could get one. "Your turn" taylor said walking in her room. I grabbed my towel and walked to the bathroom shutting the door. I undressed and started the water. I washed my hair and my body. I stood there just letting the hot water drench my body. I got out and dried walking to Taylor's room. "Aw shit" I heard taylor mumble from her room. I walked in and saw her looking at her agenda. I gave her that 'What's  wrong' look and she sighed. "We didn't work on that language arts project at all" she said laughing "and we're supposed to turn in parts one and two today" she finished sighing but also laughing. "Why are you laughing?" I asked giving her a confused smile. "I don't really know" she answered getting up "now get dressed it's almost time to leave" she finished walking out of her room. I grabbed my black jeans and white shirt. I pulled my jeans up and threw my shirt over my head. I searched Taylor's closet for my vans and finally found them. I pulled them on after putting on socks and grabbed my bag walking to Taylor's kitchen. I grabbed a water and walked outside. Calum and Luke were already walking ahead with trent and taylor was waiting for me. She smiled and intertwined our fingers. We started walking in comfortable silence. Taylor had on a white long sleeve guy Harvey shirt with black shorts and her converse. Her hair was down and it curled perfectly. She had the most beautiful curls ever. And all she had to do to get them was wake up! Everyone obsessed over her hair. I was snapped out of my thoughts by Calum said yelling something to taylor. "What he say?" I asked escaping my thoughts. "He just said something about the project" she replied laughing. "Oh" I replied. "Carry me" she said jumping on my back. I laughed and continued to walk. We got to the stop and I dropped her letting her fall on her bag. "Fuck you" she said glaring. I just smirked and winked "ok". She got up and ran at me trying to hit my shoulder. I dropped my bag and ran away laughing. She smirked and dropped her bag running after me. Taylor's fast,like faster than me. I ran as fast as I could and felt two arms grab me. "got you!" Taylor yelled pushing me to the ground and lightly punching my shoulder. She stood up proud of herself and smiled "don't mess with me or next time it'll be harder" she said laughing. I shook my head and got up. I ran up to her and launched myself onto her back. She screamed and almost fell but caught herself and continued walking. I wrapped my arms around her neck and kissed her cheek. She smiled and let go of my legs. I gripped her neck tightly and pulled her down to the ground with me. "OW WHAT THE HELL" she yelled laying on top of me. I just laughed "you let me go and I started falling so I pulled you down with me". She just gave me a death glare and got up. I ran infront of her and stopped "get on". She smiled and happily jumped on my back kissing me cheek. I smiled to myself and started walking back towards everyone else. "The bus is almost here come on" trent said rolling his eyes. I ran with taylor on my back and dropped her when we reached our stop. We got on the bus and me and Ashton sat in our usual seats,Calum and Luke took Trent's seat so trent sat towards the front with one of his other friends. "I'm so tired man" Luke said groaning. We all nodded our heads in agreement. It was a pretty quiet ride. Taylor was laying down with her eyes closed and I'm pretty sure she fell asleep. "Taylor get up were at school" I said shaking her. She groaned and pushed my hand away. I pulled her up and forced her eyes open "we're at school tay" I said. She opened her eyes more clearly and frowned "oh". I laughed and got out of the seat taylor following me. "I have to pee so bad omg" Calum said pulling Luke towards the school entrance. "TAYLOR" Julie yelled her and Niall walking towards us. "Yessss" taylor said smiling. Julie just glared at her "I texted you like 5 fucking times yesterday" she said still glaring "and you didn't answer me at all like what the poop". Taylor just continued to smile "yeaaaaaa I know I was going to text back and then I just like totally forgot" she said shrugging. Julie huffed and 'hit' Taylor's shoulder "I really don't like you sometimes" she said walking towards the benches to sit. "Yeah I know" taylor said following her. Niall sat next to Julie and taylor next to Niall and me next to taylor. Harry sat next to me and threw his head on the table. "UHM ok" Niall said laughing. Harry lifted his head and glared. "You ok?" I asked putting a arm around him. "No" he answered head still down "Louis is mad at me because I fucking wouldn't top last night" he said pulling his head up laughing "I told him I hate topping but he just got all mad and left my house". I had to control my laughter,everyone was letting out little laughs. "Oh" I replied covering up a laugh with a cough "that's stupid". "You can laugh" he said lifting his head up "I know it's funny,but he won't even talk to me so I'm pretty sure it's something else I just can't ask him". "ILL ASK HIM" taylor yelled getting up and searching for Louis. I laughed along with everyone else watching her search everywhere. "FOUND HIM" she screeched running off. I followed her untill I saw Louis. They talked and he kept looking this way at Harry. They started walking over here and I poked Harry nodding my head towards them. Louis sat next to Harry and placed his mouth near his ear. He whispered for like 30 seconds then moved his mouth onto Harrys. "And their fine!" Taylor said clapping her hands "all because of my courage". I rolled my eyes and laughed. "yeah ok" Julie said laughing too. Taylor just rolled her eyes and lightly punched Julie. "How come you only punch me Ashton laughed too!" Julie said smiling. "Yeah but you actually said something" taylor replied "everyone else laughed but your the only one I punched because your the only one that talked". "That makes no sense but ok" Niall said with a confused face laughing. Taylor hit him and started laughing too. "Ding ding ding" we all heard the bell ringing and here's to our classes.
(A/N:change in pov)
Taylor's pov~
I heard the bell rang and stopped laughing with Niall. I told everyone bye giving Ashton a kiss and started walking to my class seeing Austin and catching up to him. "Hey" I said smiling at him. "Oh hi tay" he replied smiling back. We talked a little walking towards our class. We entered the classroom and I saw Nicole sitting down with her head on the desk. "You tired or is something wrong?" I asked laughing. "I'm so fucking tired" she replied laughing. I just laughed and nodded in agreement. "This weekend was so much fun I wish I could replay it" I said smiling. "Did you and Ashton get it on???" Austin asked wiggling his eyebrows. I lightly punched him and rolled my eyes "no". "Hi Austin" a girl said walking up to us and sitting in front of Austin. "Oh hey Ashlie" Austin replied facing the girl and talking to him. "Who's your friend" Nicole asked us both smirking. "Oh right this is Ashlie" he said pointing to the girl "ashlie meet taylor and Nicole , Nicole is probably my best friend I've known her since we were like five and I met taylor this year but she's cool". "Hi" Ashlie said waving a little at us with a smile. "Hey" Nicole and I replied smiling back. We talked a bit and got to know Ashlie more,she's a really cool person and it turns out she's really good friends with Niall. The bell rang and I hugged Nicole and Austin waving to Ashlie and began walking to science. I walked in and saw Calum sitting with Louis and Harry. "Hiiiii" I said sitting behind Calums desk. They all answered with hellos and smiles. "So you guys ok now?" I asked Harry and Louis trying not to laugh as I remember the reason they were fighting. They nodded and kissed. "Aw aw" I said smiling. They smiled at me and their cheeks turned a slight pink color. "I'm so tired man oh my fucking God" Calum said laying his head on the desk. "What time did you go to sleep last night?" I asked smirking "or did you even sleep at all?". Calum lifted his head and gave me a confused look "what do you mean?" He asked trying not to smile "I fell asleep at around 12". My smirk grew wider "I call bullshit" I said laughing "me and Ashton heard you and Luke at like 1:30" I finished with a wink. His face turned a very dark red and he let out a weird laugh. "Wait why were you and Ashton up at 1:30?" Harry asked smirking. "Well we both fell asleep at about 11 and then I woke up at like 1 and Ashton woke up a little after and we couldn't sleep so we watched some criminal minds,which I did not expect to be on,and then at around 1:30 we heard Calum and Luke fucking" I said smirking right back. "We weren't fucking taylor" Calum said rolling his eyes "we were just like....you know...uh...". "Giving each other hand jobs?" Harry asked laughing "or blowjobs?". "Uh both" Calum said turning red again and burying his head into his arms. "There's nothing to be ashamed of cal" Louis said laughing "hell me and Harry fuck almost every single night,the only time we don't is if some one is to sore to". I let out a really loud laugh causing people to stare but I ignored it "I love you so much Louis" I said hugging him. "I love you too taylor" he replied hugging me back. The rest of the class went by pretty fast. We had a stupid quiz thing but it was pretty easy. Once we finished that we watched a 15 minute video and then the teacher let us do whatever we want. The bell rang and it was time for gym. I waved bye to Louis Harry and Calum and headed toward the gymnasium. I walked in and saw Ashton talking to Julie. I ran up to him and jumped on his back. He yelled and then laughed noticing who it was. I kissed his cheek and smiled at him. The gym teachers came out and blew their whistles letting us know to sit down for attendance. I hugged Ashton and went to were I have to sit.  The teachers finished attendance and told us to dress out. After changing we went outside and were told that we were running the mile today. "Fuck my life" Julie said groaning "your carrying me for the whole mile" she said to Niall smiling. Niall laughed and shook his head 'no'. "Is it bad that I'm kind of happy were running the mile?" I asked laughing. "Nah" Ashton replied shirting "I kind of am too I mean it's a easy 100 and it's just 4 laps jogging". "Just 4 laps!!" Julie said rolling her eyes "that's so much work". We all laughed and walked up to the starting place. The coach blew the whistle and me and Ashton started jogging slowly Michael next to me and Niall next to Ashton. Julie was behind us basically speed walking. Two laps went by fast and my legs didn't hurt at all. After the third lap however they started to hurt a little. Michael and Ashton had stopped a couple of times to get water but me and Niall hadn't stopped once. "Holy shit my fucking legs man" I said laughing. "Same" Niall replied laughing too "just half a lap and were done". I nodded and continued to slowly jog. There was about a quarter of the lap left and I felt relief. "Ok the rest of the lap give it all you got as fast as you can" Niall said taking off in front of me. I pushed my self as hard as I could and caught up to him crossing the line that indicated we were done. "Holy shit" I breathed leaning against Niall for support. He laughed and high fives me "nice job".  We went up to our coach and he told us that we did great. "I can't believe I actually didn't stop" I said laughing "I feel so accomplished with my self". The coach just smiled and gave me a high five,I could tell he really didn't care. "Where's everyone else?" Niall said searching the track. I found them and pointed "there". Ashton and Micheal were running with Julie walking behind them. We waited for them by the line thing. Ashton and Michael passed and the stopped breathing heavily "finally done" Michael said smiling. Ashton nodded in agreement "how the hell did you guys not stop?" He asked me and Niall laughing. We just shrugged and smiled. Julie passed the line "two laps down two to go" she said laughing. "Your only on your third lap?!?" I asked laughing. "Yup" she replied and started a light jog for about 5 seconds then started walking again. 20 minutes passed and it was time for lunch. All our other friends sat down with us, now including Austin Nicole Josh and the Ashlie girl. "Are you going to eat taylor?" Ashton asked in between chewing. "My stomach hurts actually so I don't think so" I replied giving him a fake smile. "Here have my water and eat some apples" he said smiling back. I nodded and drank the water and are a couple apples. My stomach still didn't feel good. "Better?" Ashton asked smiling. I shook my head and shrugged. "Oh well" I said laughing. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead "what are you doing" I asked laughing. "Hugging you" he replied giving me a 'Duh' look. I'm I just laughed and rolled my eyes "yeah well it's not very comfortable for me". He just shrugged and didn't move. I laughed a little for and then kind of got claustrophobic. He was forcing my face to be pressed into his chest and I didn't like how there wasn't a lot of space. "Ashton im like dying you know I hate small spaces and your chest is a small space" I said trying to get away from his grip. He loosened and I pulled my head up looking at him. He smiled and bent his head down kissing me "love you". "Love you too" I said kissing him back. The bell rang and we stood up him throwing away his trash. We walked to our next class which was language arts and the realization that we didn't do the work due hit me making me groan. "What's wrong?" Ashton asked stopping. I didn't stop though he continued waking "we didn't do the work" I said laughing. He just shrugged "tell her we had important stuff". I nodded my head laughing. We entered the classroom sitting by our friends. "Quiet down" the teacher said standing up at the front "so it has come to my attention that just about no one did what they were supposed to do over the weekend" she said rolling her eyes. Everyone smiled and shrugged. "So" she continued "I made a decision that we will only work on this project at school". All you heard were 'yes' and 'no homework hell yeah'. "So today your going to get with your partner and work on part one" she said handing out a packet. Michael got up and sat in the desk in front of me,Ashton and Zayn staying near us and Julie going over to Josh with Kirstyn because Ed was near Josh. "Basically what your doing now is just writing any facts you know off the top of your head right now" my teacher said going and sitting back down at her desk "if you have any questions just come up and ask me". I grabbed the packet and started flipping through it. "Can we use our phones to look up information?" I asked the teacher. "No your not looking up information right now your just putting down what you know" she replied "in about five minutes were going to the lab and then you will be able to look up information,on the computer though not your phone". "Oh ok" I replied writing down a couple of things I knew. "Who are you guys doing?" I asked Ashton and Zayn. "Suzanne Collins" Zayn said laughing "it was the first person to come to mind". "How about you?" Ashton asked. "John green" I said smiling. "Who the hell is that?" Zayn asked laughing. "Taylor's favorite author" Ashton replied smiling. I smiled at him and nodded my head "yup". My stomach started bothering me again so I laid my head down. "You ok?" Michael asked. I just groaned in a way that meant kind of. "Oh well ok then" he said and I heard him laugh. I kept my head down for the rest of the time and I almost fell asleep but I heard my teachers voice telling us the bell was about to ring. "I'm so tired now oh my gosh" I said yawning. Ashton laughed and hugged me. The bell rang and Ashton intertwined our fingers walking toward my class with me. "Ashton your class is the other way" I said laughing. "Yeah I know" he replied keeping a straight face "the band teacher doesn't care". I just mumbled oh and kept walking to my class. Zayn was walking next to me keeping quiet. "Who do you have with you next class?" Ashton asked trying to break the silence I guess. "Zayn" I said pointing at him "and Louis". Right after the mention of his name Louis popped up from behind us. "you talking shit bro" he said  laughing. "Nah bro nah" zayn replied laughing. Zayn and Louis have a special relationship. They get high together and will probably die together. We got to my class and I hugged Ashton "I love you and I'll see you on the bus" I said smiling. He smiled back and kissed me "I love you too" he said hugging me again and then walking down the hall. He went around the corner when the bell rang and me Zayn and Louis walked inside the classroom and sat down. I laid my head down again and groaned. "What's wrong tay?" Louis asked putting his arm around me. "My stomach hurts like hell" I said not lifting up my head. "Oh is it like cramps or just stomach pain?" He asked all serious. That made me lift my head "I've never seen you be so serious before,but just stomach pain I don't even know why" I replied smiling a bit. He smiled too "I can be serious when I want to or when I need to" he replied laughing. "Oh ok" I said sarcastically laying my head backdown. "Today we will be watching a video and you will have to fill out a worksheet with it" my teacher said putting on a fake smile. I hate it when teachers smile. Like what the fuck do you have in your life to be happy about. Oh let's see nothing! "Taylor do you fucking have paper or not" Zayn said shaking me. "Oh sorry I drifted off" I said lifting my head up "paper yeah I have paper why" I asked. "I feel like drawing" Zayn said smiling. I nodded my head and got out some paper for him. I really didn't feel like paying attention to the video and answering the answers. "Louis want to do this for me?" I asked smiling. "I'm not even doing mine bro" he replied laughing. "Oh Ashton has this class I'll just copy off of him" I said smiling. Zayn ignored me and continued to draw while Louis went on his phone. I just laid my head down and listened to the video. "Taylor" Zayn said causing me to lift my head up. I looked at him "yeah". "Is this good" he lifted up a piece of paper and I had to control my laughter. "Zayn what the hell is that" I said letting my laughter out. I don't even know what he drew. There was like some trees and birds and stick figure people that didn't look like people. "Yeah I did that on purpose" he said laughing too "I didn't feel like drawing something big so I drew something close to what my little cousin gave me once." I continued to laugh for a little and the checked my phone. Only 30 more minutes and then I can go home eat and watch tv. I laid my head back down and my stomach started hurting so bad I swear I was going to throw up. The video ended and I lifted my head up. My teacher turned on the lights and my eyes had to adjust to the brightness. "I'm so tired oh my god" I said groaning. Zayn and Louis nodded in agreement. I looked at the clock and we had like two more minutes. "I'm really hungry now" I said frowning. Zayn started going through his bag and pulled out a bag of chips. "Here" he said giving me them. I grabbed them and opened the bag beginning to eat the chips. I asked him and Louis if they wanted any but they denied it. I ate the chips and waited for the bell to dismiss us. Finally it rang and me Louis and Zayn stood up walking out the door. Louis went off to find Harry and Zayn to find Liam. I headed towards the band room looking for Ashton. I didn't see him so I looked inside the band room and saw him Luke Michael and Calum. Ashton was by the drums and Calum Luke and Michael all had their guitars. They started playing the beat to green days "American idiot" and then the band teacher walked out of his office thing. "It's time to go home boys" he said rolling his eyes "practice when you get home in your garage or something". "I don't have a garage" Calum said laughing. "Same" Michael said laughing too. "I have one" Luke said smiling. Ashton agreed. Ashton then stood up putting the drum sticks on a shelf and grabbing his bag. The other boys then put the guitars in their case and put down by Ashton's drums. "Hey" I said to them when they started waking to the door. "Taylor hey" Ashton said smiling "I'm glad your here were all going to Luke's house to try and think of some new lyrics and I was wondering if you wanted to come?". "Yeah" I said smiling "as long as I can help". They all laughed and we headed towards the front school exit. We went out the doors and started walking to the gate to leave the school. I grabbed my phone and texted my mom letting her know I was going to Luke's so she didn't freak if she saw I wasn't home. I got a text from Julie and it read 'TAYLOR MARIE FUCKING NELSON'. I replied with 'WHAT JULIE MARIE WHITE'. About a minute later she replied with this really long message. It turned out her and Niall got in a fight about who loves each other more and then they actually started getting mad at each other about it. I laughed so loud that the boys stopped walking and asked what's so funny. "So Julie and Niall were arguing about who loves each other more and then they actually started arguing and getting mad about it" I told them laughing through the whole thing. They all laughed too. "Man I wish we had problems like that" Luke said to Calum. "Same here" Ashton said smiling at me. I smiled back and intertwined our fingers. About 20 minutes later we got to Luke's house. Ten minutes before I had gotten to lazy to walk so Michael gave me a piggy back ride for the rest of the way. We walked inside his house and I went in his fridge grabbing a soda. "Luke is that you" Luke's mom said walking into the kitchen. She smiled at me when she saw me "taylor hi". I smiled back and hugged her saying hello. Luke Calum Michael and Ashton walked into the room next saying hi and then we walked to Luke's garage. Michael sat on the couch and I sat next to him. Luke plopped down on one of his bean bags Calum doing the same on his other one. "Be right back" Ashton said walking back into Luke's house. He came back out with a stool and put it down sitting on it. "Alright so let's get started" Luke said smiling. About three hours later we had thought of a ok song. I checked my phone and it was 6:00. I had like ten missed call from my mom. I laughed and called her back ignoring the guys stares about my random laugh. She answered "Taylor Marie why the hell havent you answered?!??" She basically screeched into the phone. "I'm sorry mom my phone was on silent and I was helping the guys write a new song" I answered rolling my eyes. "Well next time turn your volume up" she replied annoyed "and im on my way to Luke's house to get you were going out to eat with Jeremy". Jeremy is my moms 'friend' they've known each other since kids and they dated in high school and now are talking again. "Ok" I replied hanging up. "My moms on her way here to get me" I said standing up. They all nodded and got up too walking inside with me. I walked into Luke's kitchen again taking some chocolate out of his fridge. The doorbell rang and I went to get it. I opened it and my mom was standing there. "Lets go" she said sounding pissed. "Hold on I need a jacket it's freezing" I said walking back to were the guys were. "Luke can I borrow a jacket,it's freezing out there" I said laughing. He nodded and started walking up his stairs to room. A minute later he came down with his purple Nike hoodie. "This good?" He asked throwing it at me. I caught it and pulled it over my head. "Great thanks" I said smiling. I hugged Michael Calum and Luke telling them bye. I gave Ashton a kiss and hugged him waving my goodbye and walked out the door. My mom was in the car already with my brother. I got in and smiled. "What's uppppp" I said smiling. They didn't answer. "Is everyone good?" I asked confused. "Taylor shut up" my brother said hitting the back of my chair. "Bro what the hell" I said annoyed "what's your problem guys". My mom just stayed quiet. "So where we going to eat?" I asked trying to start a conversation. "We aren't going out to eat were going home" my mom said keeping her eyes on the road "we were going but then your brother pissed me off so". I turned and looked at trent "what the hell man! You know I love food why'd you have to screw it up" I said laughed. Everyone just stayed quiet. I gave up on talking and just waited until we got home. I went straight to the kitchen and warmed me up some spaghetti and grabbed a pepsi walking to my room. I put on some criminal minds and started eating. Six hours later it's 12 am and I got up putting my dish in the sink. "I'll shower in the morning" I mumbled to my self changing into some comfy shorts and keeping Luke's jacket on. I crawled into bed and fell asleep watching tv.