||Secrets||

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

•Fleur's POV•

We pull up at a rundown old building next to a dark alleyway, filled with empty beer cans and stubbed out joints.

"This is a gym?" I ask Ashton in disbelief.

"Not just any gym" he answers, getting out of the car "The gym"

"Great" I roll my eyes and follow him down the alley "that explains it all"

Ashton knocks on a door halfway down the alley and it opens, revealing a smiling Michael who's smile quickly turns to a frown.

"Why is she here?!"

Ashton scratches the back of his neck sheepishly.

"I.. uh might have told her everything"

Michael's jaw drops.

"....Everything?"

"Everything"

"Jesus Christ!"

"Yeah..."

Michael storms inside, angrily. We follow him in.

I look around in amazement. From outside, the place looks like an amateur drug dealers hideout but from the inside it's heaven. Ashton leads me down a corridor with glass walls either side. Behind the glass walls, high tech gym equipment is being used by some guys who stare at us as we walk past. I grin and wave at them.

Ashton leads me past a pool *A POOL* a shower room and a locker room until we finally reach a metallic silver door. Ashton barges in without knocking to reveal an amazing modern office which I could only DREAM of owning. A 20 something year old man dressed smartly in an expensive looking suit sits at the glass desk talking on the phone. When he see's Ashton, he immediately ends the call and stands up.

"Irwin! What you doing up here? Don't you have training?" He asks doing that bro hug thing with Ashton.

"Yeah, I do but I wanted to introduce you to someone"

Ashton gestures to me.

"Who is this lovely lady?" The man says winking at me and raising his eyebrows suggestively at Ashton.

"Jackson I'd like you to meet Fleur, my stepsister" Ashton growls, rolling his eyes.

"Fleur, this is Jackson, Jacob's younger brother and manager/ head trainer of this gym"

We shake hands.

"So, Fleur what brings you here to our gym?" Jackson asks.

""I don't know, I guess I just wanted to see where Ashton 'trains'"

"Well that's just as well because Ashton" He stares pointedly at Ashton "is an hour late"

I laugh at Ashton's ashamed face.

We follow Jackson down a series of hallways until we reach a room labeled 'Private', inside, Calum, Michael, Luke and some other guys are beating the living hell out of punching bags.

"Boys!" Jackson calls, grabbing their attention "We have a visitor"

Michael glares at me, he's probably told the others about me knowing everything, Luke looks shocked, angry and sad but Calum, being the adorable puppy he is, screams like a little girl, runs over and gives me a huge sweaty hug.

"Gross! Calum, you're all sweaty!" I laugh, pushing him away from me.

He grins sheepishly and continues punching the punching bag. It's amazing how he can go from an adorable puppy to the hulk in three seconds.