Outcast (Ashton Irwin) ON HOLD

Chapter 9

Ashton's POV

It's days later and she's still not at school. She hasn't texted,called and her friends just say that she's refusing to come out of her room.

Abbie arranged me to pick her up now but instead I was driving to Tori's to see if she's okay. I hope she is. I don't want her to feel isolated.

I knocked on the door and her mum answered with a sad look.

"She won't come out of her room" She groaned and looked up the stairs.

I ran straight up the flight of stairs and tried to walk in but her door was locked.

"Tori...Can I come in?" I called.

"Erm...No...I'm naked" Her voice shook.

"Are you lying?" I raised my eyebrow even though she couldn't see me.

"Yes..." She admitted then I heard the door open.

When I fully walked in she was facing the wall the had full of posters and photos. She wasn't saying anything or barely even moving.

"Tori? What's wrong?" I asked walking closer.

I just heard her sniffle so once I walked to her I put my arm around her then she looked up at me. She was wearing an oxygen mask, it had two pieces up her nose with the tubes running down her back and attached to an oxygen tank.

"Look at me..." She said looking down at the floor.

"I am" I said lifting her chin so she would look at me.

"This is the only thing really keeping me alive...I still have to take my pills but this is what i'll be attached to from now on" She sighed "Its a stupid piece of boring metal that I have to keep with me...It's just so plain...People at school are going to laugh when they see me...It will give them more to laugh at" She continued.

"How about we decorate it? Get a few stickers? Some paint? Because you're right...Its a little boring" I laughed slightly and she smiled.

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Tori's POV

After spending hours walking around some shops with Ashton to get things to decorate the tank I now have to carry around we finally got back to me.

We bought stickers with band logo's on and Ashton kept drawing black X's all over it. It was fun and now it looks less boring than it did before.

"So...How about we get to know each other a little more?" Ashton suggested as he stood looking at me as I sat on the edge of the bed.

"Sure...How about a game of 'is it true'?" I asked.

"What's that?" He asked.

"Well...The title kind of gives it away...But basically we say things we've heard about each other and we have to say whether its true or not" I explained.

"Okay i'll start..." He started "Is it true you were sick on one of the old popular year 11 boys?" He asked.

"Sadly yes..." I laughed slightly.

It was a charity football game at school so obviously everyone turned up. Majority being girls who want to swoon over all the players but I was just there to support the cause. I remember he asked me to hold his jacket and when he came back I was sick all over him because of all the cotton candy me and my friends had ate that day.

"Is it true you have a daddy kink?" I asked.

"What? Who said that?" He rushed.

"That's not an answer..." I shook my head "Yes or no?" I added.