The Happy One (Ashton Irwin)

Getting Caught?

 "Hey I'm Mali Koa Calum's older sister you must be Ashton, nice to meet you!" An energetic, brunette, and brown eyed girl said. She looked like an exact copy of Calum just with more edginess that intrigued him. "ASHTON YOUR HERE WHAT'S UP?" The three noisy boys asked as they got up from the living room couch. Happy to see the boys Ashton quickly rushed over to the guys and greeted them. " I'm great just really excited about our performance this weekend." Ashton lied on the inside all he could think about was how nervous he was about messing up at the performance and having his band hate him. He didn't think he could handle that and never knew what he would do if it did happened. Also he was worried that someone would see his scars since he took  off his coat and he was more exposed, showing more of his skin off made him feel insecure. Ashton was never one of those guys to show off their body to all of the girls and show off his manly muscles, because he never felt "attractive" enough.

 While Ashton went to his friend's small drum set he realized that Mali was staring at him and she looked upset, suddenly leaving the room to go to her own. '"Hey what's wrong with her?" Luke asked the boys. "I have no idea, but I really need to tune my base, Ashton can you check on her for me?" Calum begged. " Okay sure" As Ashton approached Mali's door he heard beautiful singing. Before entering he knocked " come in" she said. " Hey are you okay you seem upset?" Ashton asked worriedly. " It's....it's you I mean it's nothing" She said stuttering. " Me what about me what's wrong with me?" A very confused Ashton asked. "I saw your wrists.....are you okay....I-I-I-mean Ashton do you cut?" Mali questioned almost in tears. Panic struck Ashton immediately he felt as if he was going to pass out, but lied and told her " Oh this?" Ashton pushing down his bracelets exposing his scars and his bandages. " No this is from my cat, yeah she's an evil little thing. Mum won't take her back because my little sister Lauren and my brother Harry love her so much that she doesn't want to take her away. I only wear these bracelets to avoid people thinking I self harm......but you know I don't obviously I'm perfectly fine promise"  After saying this Ashton was impressed by his own creative lying, but still felt bad. Luckily she believed him especially after giving her one of his famous "I'm happy" smiles.

  As Ashton left her room he quickly changed the subject by saying. " Hey Mali your'e a great singe." 'Thanks Ashton you should go practice your drums now see you later" Mali said while quickly wiping her tears away and replaced it with a cheeky grin.

 " Wow I can't believe that happened hopefully if the guys see anything they'll believe me just like Mali did. I better be more careful" Ashton thought as he walked back over to his friends. "Hey what's wrong with her, is she okay? Michael asked. " Uh yeah, she's fine she just had a headache and didn't want to hear the loud music." Ashton quickly replied as he began to bang on his drums.

 " Will they ever find out the truth? Will they hate me and not want to be friends with me if they found out that I cut? My family and friends if they find out my life is over, I can never let anyone know the truth I can't believe I almost got caught by Calum's sister. She barely even met me and she noticed. Wait, maybe people do know I cut and they're not saying anything, because they don't care. Whatever, all I have to do is be more careful and play some songs and say a few jokes and everything will seem fine and nobody will suspect a thing about me." These were the thoughts that kept running through Ashton's head in between songs that he practiced, just hoping that time would go by faster so he can go home and try to forget everything that happened and pray that everything will be better.