lockdown ☣ lashton au

viii. the day before

HI SORRY IVE BEEN REALLY BUSY AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO UPDATE BUT PANIC! AT THE DISCO AND PHOEBE TOMLINSON FOLLOWED ME ON TWITTER YESTERDAY AND IM STILL SHAKING IF YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO PANIC'S NEW SINGLE HALLELUJAH DO IT NOW

The first block of the day was literal torture for Ashton.

He enjoyed Humanities, he really did, but what he didn't enjoy was having the attention on him, which it was. Unless it was Luke's. Wait, what?!

He shook his head, mad at his own mind. Then he sighed, knowing perfect people don't hate their own mind. They're perfect, and Ashton isn't. Their parents love them, and Ashton's don't.

Ashton sighed, hearing the bell go off. It was a shrill sound, not very kind on the ears. He noticed a few of his fellow classmates startling awake at the sound of it. He scooped up his books, making sure to stack them up from largest to smallest then placed them neatly in his backpack before swinging the strap over his shoulder. He kept his head down as he walked, arms crossed over his body because he felt awfully self conscious dressed so scandalously and he especially didn't want the teachers to see that his shirt had the word 'Sex' on it. That might not go so well, and getting in trouble would definitely now make his mom like him anymore than she did. Which wasn't much at all.

As he walked, he wasn't surprised to hear conversations going on around him, but he was surprised to hear hat they were about him. About what? Ashton didn't know. But he heard his name more than once and he didn't know any other Ashtons in all of Sydney, let alone his school so he took the guess that it was in fact he who they were talking about.

He didn't like attention then, he doesn't like it now. He slumped into himself a bit, pressing his folded arms into his chest a bit tighter and bowing his head a bit more. But people still stared. They still talked. They still noticed, and he was still in the spotlight.

"Ash! Ashtoooon! Ashton, my kangaroo child!" Ashton ran a frustrated hand over his blushing cheeks, hearing Michael call his name and draw yet more attention to him. He turned around, seeing the boy shove people over as he desperately tried to make his way to Ashton.

"You're never going to believe this!" Michael announced when he made it to Ashton. By then, the rest of the student body had returned to whatever they were originally doing. Ashton looked up at his blond friend, who now had a splash of blue in the center of his hair. "So Kelsey and I had Chemistry together and we got our new lab partners today because Mrs. Morris had a baby or some shit and now we have a long-term sub who wanted to change things up but that's not the point--" At this point Ashton stopped listening. He tuned Michael out as they continued to walk, until they stopped in front of Ashton's classroom and Ashton decided to hear some more of what his friend had to say.

"--she said yes! We have a date on Friday! I can't wait, I'm living the life! Nothing can stop me! Woohoo!" Michael cheered, fist bumping the air. Ashton gave his fucked up friend a wide-eyed look and slowly nodded. He reached out and softly patted Michael's shoulder. "Run along now, Snowcone. You don't want to miss your next class," Ashton said. Michael furrowed his brow. "Uh, yeah I do-- wait did you just call me Snowcone?" Michael scrunched his face up in confusion. Ashton just gave him a pitiful look and stole a glance at the taller lad's hair.

Michael frowned, patting the soft tuft of hair atop his head. His hair was like one of those trufflula trees from The Lorax. A.K.A. cool as fuck. He smiled, because yeah, he was cool as fuck, and yeah, he did have a date with the girl of his dreams. He sighed dreamily and skipped off to class. He felt so alive.

Meanwhile, it was Day 4 and Ashton happened to have Biology second period. He liked science but he didn't really like Biology, he preferred Physics or maybe even Chemistry. He unfortunately had a weak stomach and all that inner body and bloody stuff he had to deal with in Biology didn't do him justice. And on top of it all, guess who he had Biology with? Lucifer himself.