Arrows|Lashton| (BoyxBoy)

Chapter 24

Luke's POV

I fluttered my eyes open and I looked at the time it was 10. I looked at Ashton and he was still sleeping, soft snores escaping his slightly parted lips. I smiled at him. I carefully got up, put my clothes back on and went to the restroom making sure he didn't wake up. Once I was done I looked at Ash, and he was barley waking up. "Luke." He called I went to him.

"Yeah." "Can you get my clothes?" He asked. "Sure." I laughed. I brought him his clothes and he got dressed but he made me turn around. "You know I saw you last night you don't have to be insecure." I say. "I know." He says. "You can turn around now." He says. I turn around and I put him on my lap. "You don't have to be insecure you know I still love you know matter what you look like." I smile.

"It's just I don't like my body I think it's ugly." He says. "You're body is beautiful Ashy, okay, even though you hate I love it." I smile and peck his lips. "How's your bruise?" I asked again, touching his bruise. He winced a little. "Still hurts a little bit." He says. "Sorry. Let me see your stomach." I say. He lays on the bed and pulls up his shirt.

There were about 3 bruises. "Ash, I'm really sorry I couldn't be there before they hit you." I apologize. "It's not your fault, you didn't know." He says. "I know I'm sorry." I say. "I'm kinda used to it, my dad he used hit me a lot." He says and that reminds me of something he said the other day. "Ash the other day you said something like you've gotten your heart broken before." I say and he sits up and winced a little. "Oh um, before I moved to this school, I was in a relationship with this guy, turns out he was just using me to get popular, it was some dare." He says.

"Oh, Ash, I'm so sorry, but I would never do that." I say. "It's okay I'm over it." He smiles. "Wanna go swimming?" I asked. "You have a pool?" He asked. I nod. "I don't have any trunks." He says. "I'll lend you a pair." I say. "O-okay." He says. I give him a pair and he goes in the bathroom to change. So I change in the room. When he walks out he looks at me with wide eyes. "Take a picture it'll last longer." I say, putting my swim trunks on.

"Sorry." He says, blushing. "You seen it before." I smirk he blushes even harder. I give him a towel and I get one too. Once we head out to the pool I jump in. Ashton's still not in the pool. "What are you waiting for?" I said. "The water is cold." He shrugs. I come out of the water and come towards him. "No Luke don't you dare!" He screams. I go up to him and give him a hug. "Luke that's cold." He says stepping in the shallow end.

Once he gets in I jump in. I take his hand and bring him to the deep end. "No Luke!" He exclaimed. "What's the matter?" I asked. "I can't swim." He mumbles holding onto the wall and making his way to the shallow end. "What did you say." I said. "I can't swim." He says louder. "Oh, if I would have know I wouldn't bring you to the deep end, why didn't you tell me?" I asked him. "Well for one I didn't want you to laugh at me and two I didn't want to ruin our day." He says.

"I would never laugh at you, the only time I would be laughing would be at someone else probably because they fell or something but I wouldn't laugh at you." I say he laughs a bit. "How come you didn't learn?" I asked again. "Well my dad never cared for me we never had a pool and he would never take me to the beach or a public pool." He says and that gives me an idea.

"Ok well today is your lucky day because I'm going to teach you to swim and tomorrow we are going to the beach." I say and he instantly smiles. "Really I've always wanted to go to the beach!" He shouts and hugs me. "No problem babe." I say.

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"Luke, look I'm doing it!" Ashton shouts. "Good job Ash, you're a fast learner." I smile. "Okay now try it in the deep end." I say. "What if I drown." He says. "You won't drown, if you do I'm right here but you won't drown." I say. He goes to the deep end and he swims across. "Luke I did it!" He shouts like a little kid. "Amazing babe I'm proud of you." I said. "It never occurred to me that we are swimming when it's winter." He says. "And we are going to the beach tomorrow." I say. "Who's going to the beach?" My mum asked. "We are." I say. "No you're not it's winter and what are you even doing in the pool you are going to get sick." She said. "It's not that cold." Ashton cuts in.

"Okay but if you get sick I'm going to say I told you so." She said and left. "Guess we aren't going to the beach tomorrow." I sigh. "Sorry Ash." I say. "It's okay." He says. "But on the bright side it is almost Christmas and I'm pretty sure we have winter break for the next two weeks I believe." I say. "Oh good I can use a break off of school." He says. "Look over there." I point. He looks and when he looks back I splash him a little. "Hey!" He pouts and splashes me back.

I come up to him and hug him from behind. "Let's jump in." He says I nod. We get out of the pool and when I jump in he didn't jump in. "Hey, that wasn't nice, now can you help me out." I say. He holds my hand and I pull him in. "That wasn't fair." He says. "You started it." I say. "Fair enough." He says. "Do you want hot chocolate?" I ask he nods.

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Once we got dressed we sat down by the fire drinking our hot chocolate watching some Christmas film with a blanket wrapped around us. "I love you Ash." I say. "I love you too Lukey." He says. I smile and the nickname and kiss him.

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You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt

You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes

You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure