The Drummer and The Guard Member •Lashton•

Chapter 2

The picture above is how Luke looks in this story^^^^^^^^^

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The sun was brutal and at the moment Ashton was making the 8th graders and/or freshman who wanted PE credits run laps as the band was doing fundamentals.

Ashton chuckled quietly to himself when he saw Michael almost trip over his own feet.

His eyes then scanned the large fundamental block of the band and guard kids before landing on the very end of the block where the guard was located.

His eyes landed on Luke immediately with his bright blond hair and skinny figure gracefully marching with a wooden rifle in hand, never making one single mistake.

Ashton was in awe, the boy really was like a guard member should be, graceful and controlled. Never once faltering. He even controlled his equipment the whole time, whilst even the other skilled guard members like Sierra dropped maybe once or twice.

"You should just marry him already" a random voice said to Ashton, scaring him slightly and bringing him back to reality.

He turned around to see one of the Juniors, Niall Horan smirking at him teasingly.

"Ohh what would you know Horan" Ashton said trying to sound tough when in reality he was slightly embarrassed because Niall caught him.

"That you wanna get in Luke Hemmings' pants" he said matter-a-factly.

"Niall gross, yeah he's attractive, but I was just admiring his insane control and technique" Ashton said almost convincingly because it was slightly true.

"I know mate, just messin" Niall said laughing and walked back to the others.

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"Ok so uhh who's playing what instrument?" Ashton said to the large group of Pit members. He knew who was assigned to what, but he wanted to make them be responsible and tell him.

"The gong and bass drum are mine" a short 8th grade boy said to him.

"Uhh what's your name again?" Ashton said quirking his brow. He wasn't good with new names at first, but he'd get there with time. The first practice is always the hardest.

"Alex, Alex Swan" the boy said almost cockingly like Ashton should know him or something.

"Yep, I got you down. Who else??" Ashton said.

"I'm obviously vibes" Niall said proudly.

"Well duhh Horan, that's like a given" Ashton said laughing a little because it was true, Niall was the best vibraphone player they had.

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"Ok so we all know what we're playing?" Ashton asked the group at their respective instruments and they all nodded back.

"Ok good, now we have to evaluate what we're all gonna play during parade and football games" Ashton said. They didn't have a drum line in there band, so it was improvised. For performances of their show they had a pit and in parade the pit members would use drum line instruments.

"Since I'm section leader I will pick my instrument of choice first and then I will assign each of you an instrument, cool?" Ashton looked expectantly at the pit members, they all nodded.

"Alright I pick Quad cause I'm cool like that" Ashton said proudly.

"In your dreams Irwin" a Junior girl named Kaitlyn said teasingly. Ashton didn't know her all that well, but they talk sometimes.

"Fine then, you get crash symbols" Ashton said quirking his brow playfully, knowing that Kaitlyn always likes to play the drums, even though she's really good at both.

"Sometimes I really don't like you Ash" she said laughing, but accepting the challenge.

"Now then, joining Kaitlyn on the symbols will be Alex, Niall, Shawn, and I gotta evaluate some of you freshies and 8th graders more to fit you to an instrument" Ashton said, whilst everyone addressed just nodded along.

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"Before y'all leave to go home, I just wanna say good work today and I'm super stoked to be your section leader this season" Ashton said as his farewell speech at the end of practice that day.

Whilst everyone headed inside with their instruments, Ashton decided to stay outside a little longer playing some on his bells and xylophone.

Out of the corner of his eye he spotted someone who appears to have had the same idea as him.

Luke was running through some choreography that he recognized as the choreography that goes along with their school song.

It looked rather simple and straightforward, but Luke still performed it full out, no matter it's simplicity.

Ashton decided in that moment to just be spontaneous and walk up to the shy blonde boy.

"Now I see what Sierra meant, you are really good at guard" Ashton says really confidently, knowing he caught the other boy off guard who thought he was alone.

Luke turned around after hearing a strangers voice speaking to him and was met with the beautiful hazel eyes of the pit's section leader. Ashton Irwin.

"Thank you, uhh, Ashton right?" Luke asked, trying to not come off as creepy to the boy whom he'd never talked to before but still knew the name of.

"You are in fact correct" the boy said with a dimpled smile.

"Well you probably already know my name because we have gone to school together forever" Luke said.

"How could I not know the name of the shy boy with pretty blue eyes, Hemmings?" Ashton asked Luke whilst smirking slightly.

Luke instantly got flustered because Ashton was a very attractive guy who was in fact talking to him of all people.

"Thank you, I get them from my genes" Luke said, which sounded pretty lame but he was severely flustered because of Ashton.

"So uhh what are you doing out here? Practice ended like 10 minutes ago," Luke said.

"I don't know honestly, just running through some music," Ashton said looking away, pretending that he was looking at something else.

"What about you?" Ashton asked, looking back at Luke.

"Ohh there was some choreography that I wanted to perfect," Luke said looking up shyly and meeting Ashton's gaze.

"Sounds fun," Ashton started "Wow, how come we don't talk more often, I feel like we would have a lot in common," Ashton finished looking straight at the boy in front of him.

"Probably because I'm a major loser who would rather just be alone," Luke said laughing awkwardly.

"I don't know, you seem alright to me, but yeah I hear ya" Ashton said laughing as well slightly.

"Well I should probably go, my mum's probably stressing about me not being home yet," Luke said laughing slightly.

"Hmm, you're a mommas boy eh Hemmings?" Ashton said smirking and laughing slightly.

"Shut up," Luke said whilst glaring straight at Ashton.

"I'm just messing, chill out blondie," Ashton said to a now flustered Luke.

"Alright, bye," Luke said turning around almost immediately and running away from Ashton straight towards the school building, flag and rifle in hand.

"Bye, Cutie," Ashton said to himself when Luke got to the front door to the school.

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Second Chapter done ;)

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