venture • lrh

thirty-three

TEARS FOR NO REASON

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Luke is pacing in the room with Ashton while Alexis looks at them. She doesn't know how to help or calm them down. However, their pacing doesn't stop, and it's working on her nerves. 

"Could you guys not move?" Alex asks quietly. Both of them stand still to give her a deadly glare before pacing again. Today they get a call about whether they actually made the new team. Of course, they've had many conversations, and many of those scouts wanted them both, but there has been one team they've been looking up to. 

They had a training day a few days ago. On this day, the pair and other scouted guys had to show what they got. They had to show what they had mastered and what they could do. The scouts could judge them better this way. If you ask them, they were amazing. Alexis sadly couldn't make it, but if they are this confident, there's no need to stress about it, right?

A loud, ringing phone fills the silence with their footsteps. Both of them grab their phone, and then they look at Alexis, who is clumsily silencing her phone. Luke rolls his eyes. At that moment, his phone rings. He immediately picks up and walks out of the living room. Ashton sighs, devastated. If they wanted Ashton, they would've called him first, right? 

"They'll call you," Alexis assures her roommate. "I mean, the H comes before the I, so they'll call you right after!" Alexis says happily. Ashton is not stupid, though. He knows damn well it doesn't work like that. Luke walks back into the room and hands his phone to Ashton. His face is neutral, and neither one of them know whether he made the team. Ashton takes the phone and answers it. 

"Did you get in?" Alex asks Luke. He hears her but doesn't answer her question. "Did you get in?" Alex then asks Ashton. 

"Fuck yes!" He says. A smile forms on Luke's face. Alexis cheers for the guy in front of her, but both their faces fall once they see Luke. "Shit, did you not get in?" 

"I did," he says. "They even mentioned I could become a team captain there." Alexis' jaw drops, and within seconds she's jumping on the guy. 

"I knew you could do this!" She says, kissing him right after. He can't help but smile. 

"As much as I'd like some good victory sex right now, we really should be thinking about him," Luke says, nodding toward Ashton. She quickly gets off her boyfriend and tries to ignore her reddened cheeks. "Oh my god," Luke says, a smirk forming on his face. "You'd like him to join," Luke says. Ashton looks up with a frown, while Alex has turned into a human strawberry. 

"You'd like who to join what?" Ashton asks, confused. Alex punches her elbow in Luke's stomach, but it doesn't hurt as much as she'd like it to. 

"Our Alex here has told me her desire with her eyes," Luke says. Alexis doesn't even know how to react to any of it. She can't even defend herself at the moment. She feels frozen. Yes, she has been thinking about it a lot. Ever since Ashton told her about the little story, she couldn't get the idea out of her head. Maybe she has to be under the influence of alcohol. 

"Are you sure you should share that?" Ashton asks him. 

"It involves you," he says. Ashton's confusion grows, but within seconds his eyes widen. "Yes, exactly," Luke smirks. 

"Can we euh... Not now?" Alexis finally speaks, her face boiling. Of course, she has had the thought for a long time now, but she wants to enjoy her alone time with Luke more than anything.  

Ashton clears his throat. "Yeah, of course," he says. "Just say the word." It seems so casual to the guys. Alexis starts to feel like such a prude. She has never done such a thing, and to enjoy sex was something she thought she wouldn't experience. Let alone two men?