Ashley Purdy Is My Saviour. (COMPLETED)

Chapter Fourteen:Lover or Daughter?

Ashley's perspective

"Jake. He's clearly not hurting me. So shut up and go away." She rests her head back on my chest. He just looks at me wierd and walks back into his 'office'. I had a arm wrapped around her and the other behind my neck. I use that one to to check my phone. It's 10:00pm. I've been nocked out for 2 hours. Am I upset? Hell no. I'm with my daughter for once. I'm totally happy for once. I fall back asleep in no time.

I wake up to someone shaking the hell out of me. "Ash time to get up." I feel Joey on top of me still. I push whoever's shaking me away. "Come on Ash. Time to get up." It's Jake. Go fucking figure. "Go away." I moaned. Joey stirrs. She moves up enough where head is under my chin. "Hey Ash. There's a stripper waitin' for ya." I ignored him again. I hear him leave. Finally. "Hey. I need your help." Will he not shut up? I'm trying not to disdurb my sleeping daughter that is on top of me.

"He's still not up? It's ten in the morning."

"I even tried the stripper pun. Nothing."

"Wow. He's really out cold. That and Joey is right on top of him. How long have they been like that?" I can't make out his voice. I think it's Jinxx but I can't be sure.

"Since last night."

"Damn. He really wants to be with her. After that episode I assume he'd be there."

"Yeah he was. 'Please. I can't live without her' were his exact words."

Okay. I've had it. "Oh my god. Do you guys ever shut up?"

"Hey he's awake."

"Mornin' sunshine." Jake cockily said.

"She's trying to sleep. Leave us alone. You'll wake her."

"When she does wake up, come to the studio. We're recording today."

"Yeah yeah." I wave them off.

A hour later Joey wakes up. She looks up at me with those big blue eyes of hers. I smiled at her and she smiled back. She still had her arms wrapped my chest. "I want this to last forever." She says. "Me too. But it can't. I have to record today." She looked down. "Can I come?" A retorical question. "Of coarse."

Jake's perspective

"Where the hell are they?" I asked outloud that was supposed to be a thought.

"They'll show. He hasn't missed a single recording." Jinxx said. Just as he said it they come walking in hand in hand. Laughing as if nothing happened. "It's about time you two showed." I said frustrated. "I was waiting on Joesters to wake up." he said. "Whatever. Just grab a bass and lets get started." He kissed her forhead and grabbed his warpaint bass. "Joey, you will be our audience. Tell us if we suck okay?" Andy said. "Okay." Was all she said. It started with a guitar solo by me of coarse. It had several guitar solos and a bass solo. When the song was over she said, "Oh my god that was awesome! What's the name of it!?" Clearly happy with it. "We haven't decided yet." Ash dips her for quick kiss. Okay did I miss something here!? I thought she was his kid not his girlfriend. "Uh, Ash can we talk?" I asked. "Sure." We are alone in the sound booth. I shut the door.

"Why did you kiss your own daughter?"

"Because I can. That's why."

"Come on Ash. You know better. Is she your girlfriend now?"

"She's been trying to get me to unadopt her. I have no fucking clue has to how."

"Unadopt? Can't she take her maiden name when she's eighteen? Is that unadoption?"

"We can try. She keeps telling me that she wants us to date. I just don't have the balls to say we can't because of this situation." Wow. That's what this whole lovey dovey thing has been about. She wants to date Ash be he's torn between having her as a daughter and a lover. "Maybe you two should be apart for a while. So you can figure out this whole unadoption thing. How old is she now?" I just realized I never knew how old Joey is. Wow.... "She's seventeen but she'll be eighteen a month." The light bulb went off my head. "That's plenty of time! We're done here. Go home and start making calls. A month is plenty of time to figure this whole thing out. Go. Go." I make him move by pushing his shoulders. "Okay okay. I don't think I've ever seen you this excited." As if. Then we hear screaming again. "ASHLEY!!" Joey screams his name. "ASHLEY!" We don't have any needles here. Fuck! "ASHLEY!" He bolts after the third time.

Joey's perspective

I grab my sides again. Why does this keep happening? "ASHLEY!!" I scream his name out in pain. He doesn't come. I fall to my knees. "ASHLEY!" Jinxx is right by my side just in case I fall. "ASHLEY!!" After I scream his name again I see him bolting in.

"Joey! What's wrong!?"

"NEEDLE! Someone get the damn needle!" I screamed at someone. Jake bolted for his car. Hoping he has another one. CC starts terring the place apart and Jake comes running back in. "Ashley you hold her. Roll up a section of her shirt so I put it in." Jake told him. He rolls up a section of my shirt on my left hip and Jake jammed it in. I screamed again then the pain slowly stopped. The screams became tears of joy. Ashley was still holding me and I was crying but he knew why. Then I got really sleepy. "I'm... Really... Tired..." I could hear the tiredness in my own voice. Ashley picks me up and carries me to his car and I hear Jake following.

Ash puts me in the passangers seat and buckles me in, kissing my forhead on way out. He's back to his old, loving self again.

"What do you want Jake?" He asked a little frustated. I would be too.

"I was making sure she got in okay."

"I promise, I will never hurt her again."

"Good. She's your daughter. You should be treating her like it."

"Jake. Please, let me figure it out on my own. I'm still new to this."

Then he got back into the car. I prenteded to be asleep but I could hear everything but I couldn't see everything. "Joey... I know you're awake." Damn. He cought me.

"But I am really tired..."

"It's not about that. I.. I think we should be apart for awhile."

"But... Why?"

"Because I said so. I need time to figure out this unadpotion thing. Which is why I'm taking you to Jake's place for a while."

"But I want to be with you." Despite the tiredness taking over me I'm able to keep up the conversation.

"I know. I know. I need time to figure out this unadoption thing." He repeats.

I sigh. "Okay.." Then the drive to Jake's place was quite because I fell asleep on the way over. Ash carried me in and handed me over to Jake. He then carried me to his bed. He has been sleeping on the couch lately. I miss Ash. I would moan his name at night when I'm asleep. The only reason I know that is because Jake told me one morning. I hear talking. "She's asleep. Leave her alone." I rconize Jake's voice first. "I just want to be with her. Why are you being so protective of her anyway?" Oh no it's Ash. I don't want to wake up to a fight again. "She's like a sister to me. I love her just as much as you do. I don't want her getting hurt again." I woke up and got out of bed. Jake's bed actually. I use the wall as a guide so I didn't fall. I rub my eyes. "Ashleyy" I said tiredely. "Oh I didn't mean to wake you up Joesters. I was on my way out anyway. You can go back to bed if you want." He kissed my forhead and I fell on him trying to keep him here.

"Joey? What are you doing?" He asked. I grabbed a chunk of his hair and balled it up into a fist. "I think she wants you to stay." Jake said. "She's nocked out again. And she has a handful of my hair." "Yep. She wants you stay." Jake confirmed. Ash picks me up. "Where does she sleep?" He asks. "On my bed. Down the hall to the left." "Thanks man." "No problem." He carries me to bed. I realsed my hand from his hair when he picked me up.