Flights(5sos Ashton Irwin fan-fiction)

Ch.21

--Hailey's POV--

"Lexi, I'm sorry." I said.

"No, it's fine. He likes you, like everybody else. I don't care." She snapped at me.

"Lexi! I didn't know. I'm with Ashton anyways. Nothing will ever happen!" At the moment we were in the tour bus as 5SOS played the Forum.

"Hailey. It doesn't, matter."

"I don't understand why you're getting so mad about this! I didn't do anything wrong."

"No you didn't. I'm pissed off at Luke. He played me." Lexi was about to cry, her voice cracked.

"He thought you didn't like him either. That's why he was flirting with you."

"He's an ass." She started to cry and I pulled her into a hug.

"It'll be okay. I knew coming on tour wasn't a good idea."

"No it wasn't. I want to go home. We're in the U.S. why not leave?" She sniffled.

"I can't. I promised Ashton I would stay on tour with him." I pulled out of the hug.

"Dammit." She whispered.

"Sorry. You can go though. If you really want to."

"No, I'll stay with you. I don't want to leave my best friend." She tried to laugh, but failed miserably.

"Okay then." I laughed.

"Since they're not around, I wanted to ask you something. And I need you to be completely honest with me. Do not lie to me Hailey." Lexi said sitting down on the couch. I sat next to her.

"Okay, what is it?" I was actually scared of what's going to come out of her mouth.

"The hate, with being Ashton's girlfriend. How are you handling it?"

"Um, I don't really know. Like, before I was used to seeing all this happy stuff on my twitter. Now, all I see is hate. There isn't one nice thing about me on there."

"Like what?" I pulled out my phone and logged onto twitter.

"Like this." I handed her my phone and let her scroll through the tweets. Her jaw just dropped.

"Hailey, you're none of this. Why would they say that?" She shut my phone off, handing it back.

"I'm Ashton's girlfriend. Why wouldn't they?" At this point all I could do was smile. Ignore everything on there. "Ashton doesn't know about it. Please don't say anything to him. I can handle it myself."

"What happens when he asks about it though?"

"I tell him I'm fine. That you, Ari, and Zeno are helping me through, it doesn't bother me. Stuff like that."

"Does it? Bother you?"

"Uh, yeah. Little bit, but I can handle it." I lied. I can't handle it at all. When I get time alone I'll just cry. "I never go on twitter anymore. I avoid it as much as possible."

"Why not delete it?"

"Then Ashton will start questioning me, and I don't want him to be paranoid." I sighed and laid back.

"Oh, that's true."

"The guys should be back anytime now." I got up to go change before they got back.

"Speaking of them. They're walking up now. Hurry, get to bed act like you're sleeping!!" We both ran to our beds and started 'sleeping'.

"Hey-" Michael yelled then realized. "shit. Shh guys, they're sleeping." Everyone walked in quietly and set their stuff down. They made small talk for awhile.