Three: Pawlette

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Meanwhile back at he house, Calum was helping dye Michael's hair a red color. "-and then the package came with Luke inside. But I can totally see them as a couple."

"That's crazy! At least now Ashton will leave us alone every once in awhile now." Calum laughs, wishing Michael meant that as a hint, but he didn't mean it like that, Michael just wanted Ashton out of his hair.

"Yeah, alright all done, go and shower." Calum says, getting up. Michael grabs his hand.

"Thanks Cal." He says, smiling while letting go of Calum hand. Calum leaves the bathroom, and he goes into his room, taking a deep breath. He was preparing himself to see Michael with red hair. He knew it was look amazing on him, that's why he suggested it.

Calum hears the front door open, and footsteps walking into the kitchen. He walks out of his room to see Ashton and Luke, there noses and cheeks bright pink, both laughing. "It's snowing, Cal!" Calum chuckles, not seeing Ashton this happy in a while.

Ashton was the leader of the little clan. He was constantly making sure everyone go tot their lessons on time, anxious, and never really fun to hang around because he was always uptight. What changed him so quickly? Was it Luke? He seemed so familiar to Calum, or maybe he just had that kind of face, that just makes you comfortable with him instantly. Ether way, Luke had been there just a few hours, yet was already taking Ashton out of his comfort zone, and Calum liked this Ashton, it reminded him of the Ashton he met in freshman year. Fun-loving, happy, not stressed out, Ashton.

Luke places a kiss on Ashton's cheek, and decides to find Michael, because he seemed like a cool guy to hang around. He finds Michael standing in his room shirtless, "Hey." Michael jumps back startled. "No worries, I only have eyes for Ashton." Michael throws on a shirt, Luke takes a glance of his hair, the bright red would take some time to get used to.

"What do yah think? I really like this color." Luke smiles, nodding.

"You can definitely pull it off." Luke says, sitting down on Michael's unmade bed.

"So, you like Ashton?" Michael asks, sitting next to the blonde boy.

"Of course, he is my boyfriend after all." Michael nods, still not understanding the whole thing.

"A-And you know everything 'bout him." Luke looks up at the ceiling.

"Not everything. Just what he answered in the questions." The words roll off his tongue, he was supposed to tell Ashton this, and only Ashton.

"Do you know anything that happened before the whole box thing?" Luke nods.

"Of course, I have a life y'know." Luke says, getting up brushing himself off. "I'll be right back."

In the living room, Ashton and Calum were talking about the small date they just went on. "He is so sweet, and we kissed in the ice and tripped. Luke is clumsy as fuck. I-I think I already have feelings for him... it just seems so natural for us to be together."

"How are you already so whipped?"

"How have you not asked Mikey out yet? It's obvious he likes you too." Calum polls his eyes.

"Don't change the subject!"

Luke goes into Ashton's room to get the phone he spotted at the bottom of the box. He grabs it, unlocking it. The home screen was the generic iPhone background. The phone seemed brand new, but was cracked at the bottom, meaning it wasn't that new, and the memory was wiped. He goes on the photos to see a couple photos of him and Ashton that he didn't remember taking. He scrolls through them, Ashton's hair was shorter, and it says the photos were months ago. Calum comes into the room seeing Luke on the phone, he walks in, "Whatcha looking at?"

"T-This p-photo. Everything else on the phone is practically new, and then there is this photo, from months ago. I don't even remember taking it." Calum takes the phone from Luke, the photo was definitely taken by a third party, because it was a selfie. The weird thing, is that Calum had a photo of Ashton, Michael, and himself on his phone that he doesn't remember taking, and that wasn't a selfie ether.

"I have a photo like that too." Luke looks at him. "It's from the same day..." Calum says, looking at his own phone with the photo. In both photos Ashton was wearing the same outfit, and it looked like the photos were taken in the same place as well. It was probably some weird thing. Ashton didn't know Luke until this morning, so the photo thing was a bit wacky.

"Weird. Where's Ashton?" Luke says.

"Probably talking to Michael." Luke nods, playing with his hands awkwardly. He did;t know what to say. That was just Luke half the time. "Even in these few hours, you've already made Ashton... more happy. I don't know how you have changed him so quickly, but don't stop doing what you're doing." Luke takes that in. Ashton was already happy, Luke thought. Maybe not, ut Luke would like to think his boyfriend- does Ashton even classify Luke as that. It felt as Luke has known him forever, but maybe not. Maybe the whole thing was just a delusion of something in Luke's mind.

"Well, I will, if it's anything." Calum smiles, watching the snow fall from the window. Luke looks over as well. The snow always made Luke feel new, as the snow fell, he felt the snow falling today, show that he was now with Ashton, his beautiful boyfriend that he really just met this morning. And to Calum the snow showed that maybe this day would be the start of a relationship with Michael.

So, that night, Ashton was cuddled in his bed with Luke, leg intertwined, and a thousand blankets to cover there shirtless torsos. Luke's head was resting in the crook of Ashton's neck. Ashton was lightly humming a Fall Out Boy song. Luke recognized it as Alone Together. Luke listened quietly, listening to the soft humming. All the sudden, Luke grabs a piece of Ashton's golden hair, twirling it around his finger.

"I love your hair." Luke blurts out. He almost says, I love you, but doesn't.

"I love your eyes." Ashton says, pressing a sweet, lingering kiss to Luke's lips.


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