Build-A-Boy Workshop - Lashton

Chapter 8: Real Life (LAST CHAPTER)

Luke walks into the kitchen, his moves fasted paced, and he quickly grabs a bowl of cereal,trying to ignore the annoying stares. He sits down, this reminded him of his first day, only a few days ago. "Could you please fuck off?" Luke says annoyingly, he really wasn't in a very good mood.

"Lu-" Ashton starts.

"Did you know about this?" Ashton quickly shakes his head. "About me being an orphan? About your dad running this whole thing?" He shakes his head again, making Luke slam his fist on the table, making cereal bits go everywhere. "Bullshit! Don't play dumb with me, Ash! You must've known something."

"I really didn't! I would've told you if I did." Luke nods, taking a bite of his cereal. Calum look sat Michael.

"So, guys-" Michael starts.

"What did we actually do for my sixteenth birthday?" The snow was almost all melted.

"We took you out of the orphanage that night and you came over my house, watched movies, talked, figured out that both you and Ash both never had your first kiss, and we made you guys kiss. And you admitted that you wished for a boyfriend for your birthday." Luke sadly nods, remembering it correctly now, it made Luke sad that his life was picture perfect.

"How do you even remember this? I don't, and I kissed Luke that night." Ashton admits.

"I guess you re still brainwashed or whatever, I remember it." Calum says. "I remember it all now." Calum looks sadly at the young boy who was sadly eating his soggy cereal.

It was Luke's sixteenth birthday. Two of the three boys walk into the birthday boy's room, he was looking at the other empty bed in his room. His roommate, Dan, was always hanging with his best friend, Phil in the room next door, he could hear their laughter. Even though Dan and Luke were the same age, they weren't really close, they would occasionally talk about their liked interests in Fall Out Boy, but nothing much else.

Luke sees the boys and smiles, thinking they forgot all about his birthday. Calum sits on one side of him, and Michael on the other. Luke gives each a big hug. "I thought you would've forgotten..." The three boys have visited Luke since they were 13, why would they forget now?

"We could never forget you're birthday, Lukey boy." Calum says.

"Especially your big sweet sixteen." Michael says, throwing an arm around the scrawny boy's shoulders.

"Where's Ashton?" A few giggles came from next door, and Luke hits the wall, making an angry Dan walk in and sit on his bed, he wanted to tell Luke to leave him alone, but Dan decides not to, and starts to read Harry Potter for the fourth time.

"You see Ashton is our head bitch, so we are making him get all the presents from the car." Luke's eyes widen as Ashton walks through the door with three big presents and a card. Ashton sets them down at Luke's feet, and Luke gives Ashton a hug before opening the smallest present. It was a Nirvana shirt, and Luke filled shit.

"OMG! WHO GOT ME THIS!" Calum raises his hand.

"I know it's not much-"

"IT'S AMAZING!" Luke screams, he then opens another present. It was filled with DVD and Cds of all sorts, Luke's eyes spot the newest Fall Out Boy CD and screams, and at the bottom of the box was a portable DVD player to play the things on. Luke already knew it was from Ashton, because he worked at a video store. Luke gives Ashton a hug saying a big thank you.

The last box was significantly smaller, but Luke doesn't hesitate to open it. Inside was the newest iPhone, and he couldn't believe Michael got him a phone, because they were expensive.

"Mike, I can't take this. iPhones are expensive and I don't want you spending your money on me." Luke says, handing michael the iPhone box. Luke looked up to Michael as his father figure, he didn't know why, but he made Luke feel comfortable. Michael kisses Luke's forehead.

"No problem, Luke. Just enjoy it, now open the envelope." Luke opens the envelope confused when he finds a 'Get out of jail free' card inside.

"Are you guys adopting me or something?" Luke asks.

"Sadly no, but we talked to the mangers and they said we could take you out for the night since it's your sixteenth birthday." Luke smiles at them all after Calum explains.

"O-Okay, let me just get ready." Even though Luke was already ready he shoos the boys away, looking over at Dan, who looked engaged in his book. Luke looks down at the DVDs and CDS that Ashton gave him and he brings the big box over to Dan. Dan furrows his eyebrows.

"I k-know you don't like me, but I think you would like this better then me. There is a FOB CD and the Harry Potter movies, and a DVD player, maybe you can go and watch some movies with Phil." Dan smiles.

"Thanks Lucas." He mumbles out, grabbing the box, and going next door.

"IT'S LUKE!" He says right before the door closes.

"How did I even become an orphan, I don't remember... Did my parents give me up? Or was I taken away from them..." Luke asks, a lot of things were coming back to him, well everything.

"Uh, your parents weren't fit to be parents." Ashton was remember bits and pieces too.

"Cal, can I see your phone?" Luke asks, and Calum hands over his phone. Luke goes to the camera roll to see the camera roll was missing that one photo but it was replaced with a bunch of other photos of the four of them. Luke shows Calum who laughs at a couple of the photos.

Suddenly, everything came back to Luke, the kidnapping and what happened. He lets the memories over take him, and suddenly he wakes up in a bunch of sweat.

"Ugh, Luke you have to stop falling asleep on the job!" His manger, Michael, hits Luke with a rolled up catalogue. Luke's eyes adjust to see he was sitting behind the counter in a crowded Build-A-Bear. "I swear you are one of those dolls." Luke sees a sign advertising the dolls for a singer named Ashton Irwin, Luke's eyes widen. A little girl and her mother come up to the counter, the girl puts the same 'Ashton' bear on the counter. The little girl giggles as Luke's asks the girl what the bear's name is. He could feel Calum, the guy would worked at the stuffing station, eyes on him, giving him a death glare.

"H-His name is Ashton!" The little girl giggles out. Luke puts the bear in the little house box as the mother pays.

Sure in Luke's weird dream thing he called Ashton his Build-A-Bear but he didn't mean it literally. But maybe that's the only way Luke knows Ashton, because even if Ashton is perfect, all he really is, is one stuffed Build-A-Bear, because no one in his world is perfect, and you can't just build you're perfect guy, if that's how it worked, guys would be stuffed, fake. They wouldn't be real, so maybe Ashton is the perfect PopPunk star, but everyone knows he is just as stuffed as everyone else.