The Best Days - c.h

Chapter 15

"His expression said it all."

Ava's P.O.V

(back to the night of the party)

"Whatever it is I can do to help, let me know." Ashton told me as I was crying in the sand. I honestly had no idea how after a few hours, I was still crying.

But then I remembered that my best friend just told my other best friend that I liked him & then I found the tears I needed.

"I want to go home."

"Like fly home? You want to leave here?"

"Yea, like tomorrow, as soon as I can. I want to go."

"You want to run away from everything here? I'm not saying no, I'm just asking if that's what you really want to do."

"Yea. I'm not happy here, Ashton. I can't even stand to look at Michael right now & there is no way I'm having this awkward 'it's okay you don't feel the same, I don't care, it was nothing' talk with Calum right now."

"But it's not nothing, you really like him & I know you care."

"I know but he doesn't like me back & I want to spare him having to reject me. I just, I can't. I need to focus on me. I need to focus on Italy. I need my family. I can't stay here."

"Alright, we can go back to the house & look at flights then."

"Thank you. But do you think everyone is asleep? I can't deal with seeing anyone right now."

"Let's walk back & you can wait back a bit. I'll go make sure first & then I'll come get you if it's all clear."

"Okay, thank you."

"It's almost 4:00 in the morning so I bet the party is over."

"Whew, what a fun party that was."

"I'm sorry, Aves."

The walk back was quiet & I waited for Ashton to make sure everyone was asleep before he came to get me.

"Everyone is out."

"Okay."

"Everyone is sort of just passed out anywhere though so I put my laptop in the kitchen & we can go look up flights in there."

"Sounds good." I followed Ashton inside as he looked up flights for me. "Thanks for doing this for me."

"It's nothing, Ava. Don't worry about it. So there's one at 10:15 in the morning."

"For tomorrow?"

"Yea, for like in six hours."

"Can I get a ticket?"

"Yea, it's available."

"Can you drive me to the airport?"

"Of course. We'd have to leave fairly soon though, you won't be able to sleep & pack, is that okay?"

"I don't need sleep. I'll pack whatever I can & Marcy can bring home the rest."

"Alright, then let's get you a ticket. Do you need to tell your parents?"

"Oh shit, right. Yea. I'll try calling them now but if they don't answer, I'll call on our way to the airport. They'll understand."

"Do they know about Calum?"

"No but if they know I want to come home, they won't mind. Let me go get my credit card."

I snuck up to my room, purposely trying not to wake anyone along the way. Michael was asleep & Ben was in our room as well but neither of them heard me luckily.