Home Wrecker {A.F.I}

Prologue

Alexandria

We were sixteen. We were happy. We were in love, and then just before I turned eighteen, I moved. We were each other's firsts, he was my first kiss, and the first person I slept with, and I was his.
He went on to be a rockstar. He travelled the world and I stayed in Melbourne; working a dead end retail job. We lost contact. I never really paid attention to what he was up to. I couldn't. It hurt too much; but all that changed one night three years later. One drunken night changed everything.

We're now twenty one. I still have that same dead end job that I had when I finished high school. But now I was writing songs and performing them at gigs and on my YouTube channel as well. I still missed him and I was still in love with him. I knew he was in Melbourne for a bit. Something about his band mates girlfriend living here.

"Oh my god! Oh my God!" I heard my housemate entering our apartment, she was most likely freaking out over something to do with that band she was obsessed with, his band, "they're in Melbourne,"
"What?" I asked, looking up from the song I was writing
"Five Seconds of Summer are in Melbourne," she squealed, "how are you okay? How are you not freaking out about this?"
"I just don't care," I told her. She didn't know about my past with the drummer. I knew that if I told her, she'd freak out even more than she already does. And believe me, she freaks out a lot
"Lex, they're in the same fucking city as us, this never happens, unless it's for tour,"
"I don't care Cailin," I told her, "it's not like they'd even give us the time of day,"
"They're the sweetest guys ever, and their music is amazing!" She said, "of course they would," she told me, leaving the lounge room, walking to her room, where she'd probably start blasting their music. And as if on cue it started

"With in a minute I was all packed up, I got a ticket to another world, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go," I hear coming from her room. The song tugging at my heart strings. There was a small part of me hoping that he would think of trying to contact me. I hadn't changed my number over the years, so it was possible that he still had my number, that's if he even remembered who I was. I doubt it though. I mean who would remember the girl they were in love with when they were sixteen. I don't think you could even classify what we had was love. We were children, but there was definitely something there, it was more than just puppy love. It was more than just two teenagers saying I love you for the sake of it.

"She sleeps alone, my heart wants to come home, I wish I was, I wish I was, beside you," that was the first and one of the only songs of their's I'd listened to. I couldn't listen to their music, it hurt. It hurt way too much. The same small part that was hoping he'd contact me was also hoping that he had deleted my number and that he wouldn't try. Too much time has gone by. But maybe, just maybe I needed to see him, maybe I needed to see him to get closure on us. Because that closure never happened. I moved to Melbourne at the beginning of year twelve, just after he joined the band. Gone were the days of us singing together and mucking around. We spoke for a while after I moved, but it just got too hard towards the end of the year. And then, they were asked to go on tour with One Direction. That was when we stopped talking. We swore we'd always be apart of each other's lives. That promise was broken. I still to this day can't say if it was his or my fault, but I remember only hearing from him once or twice after Louis Tomlinson tweeted about the band.

"Can you listen to that through your headphones please Cailin?" I yelled out to my housemate, "I have a gig tomorrow night, and I really want to finish this song," that was half true. I did in fact have a gig tonight, but at the same time, I couldn't bare to hear their music being played in my presence. I usually didn't have to. Cailin was usually respectful enough to listen to it through headphones, but I guess the excitement of her favourite band being in our city was too much for her to listen to them through headphones
"Why can't you just perform your older stuff?" She whined
"Because, I've played that same set so many times," I complained, "are you coming tonight by the way?"
"Yeah. I always come don't I?" She asked walking back into the lounge room, "what covers are you playing tonight?"
"I don't know, I haven't decided yet," I said truthfully. My set for gigs were half an hour long, I played a few covers and some originals
"Can you, please, please, please play a 5SOS song?" She asked
"I don't know any of their stuff though,"
"How can you not know anything of theirs?" She asked in shock
"Because I don't actually know any of their music, except that song Beside You," I shouldn't have told her that I knew the title of that song, well I knew the songs from the Somewhere New EP. I think him gifting me that through iTunes was one of the last time I heard from him
"I thought you said you didn't know any of their music not even the names, yet you know that?"
"You play it all the time," I shrugged
"True," she sighed, "it's my favourite, but I really, really like She's Kinda Hot and Long Way Home," she told me, I didn't know these songs, "I still find it really, really hard to believe that his girlfriend helped inspire that song and the entire album," she added, more to her self then me. I assumed she was talking about Luke. He was the only one I knew anything about. And only because on a trip to Sydney last month, I bumped into his mum, Liz.

I was broken out of my thoughts by my phone ringing. I looked at the caller I.D and saw that my mum was calling, "hey mum," I answered
"Hi sweetie," she said, "how's that song coming along?"
"It's going well, but Cailin keeps blasting music, so I can't concentrate properly,"
"She's still obsessed with his band?" Mum asked, obviously she knew about Ashton and I. She knew everything. About how heartbroken I was when we just stopped talking
"Yeah," I sighed
"You know if you told her about you two, she'd probably stop,"
"I've thought of that," I told her, it was true I had thought about it, "but then she'd beg me to introduce her to them,"
"I know what you mean love," she said, "now that we're on the topic of him, I have something to tell you,"
"Oh God, is it about them being in Melbourne? Because Cailin told me,"
"Yes it is, but Anne Marie called earlier," she mentioned his mum, they were close. Both of them were devastated when Ashton and I broke up, "I told her about your gig tonight,"
"And?" I asked, urging her to go on, hoping she wouldn't say what I think she's about to
"And she mentioned that Ashton was wanting to go check out the live music scene,"
"Mum," I groaned, "why did you do that?"
"Because, wouldn't it be amazing to see Ashton again?"
"Mum, we haven't spoken in almost three years, he's probably forgotten about me already,"
"I doubt that, I mean you haven't forgotten about him,"
"Look at who he is?" I asked, "there was no way I'd be able to forget him, it's impossible,"
"You have a point," she said, "well I thought I'd give you a call to give you a heads up, in case they do show up,"
"Okay mum, thanks for warning me, now I'm going to completely bomb this gig,"
"You won't sweetie," she reassured me, "I have to get back to work, have a great show! I'm sorry I can't make it, but I'll talk to you later, love you bye,"
"Love you too," I told her hanging up
"Who was that?" Cailin asked, once I hung up. I hoped that she didn't eavesdrop on our conversation and overhear mum and I talking about Ashton Irwin
"Just mum," I told her, "an old friend from Sydney's in Melbourne, and she told me that they might be coming to the gig tonight,"
"Oh cool," she said, she went to go back to her room before she added, "you know, i'd hate you forever if you lied to me about knowing them, but I'd totally forgive you,"
"What do you mean?" I asked
"Like what if Ashton was the old friend that might be coming to your gig?"
"Why would he? You know I don't know them,"
"I still can't believe you grew up in Sydney and are the same age as Ashton, and went to the same school and didn't know him,"
"Well it was a big school," I shrugged her off. If only she knew. If only she knew the truth about our past.

And now begins the night hat changes everything

A/N: here's the prologue, this will probably have slow updates, as I still have to finish my other two. This is set just after 5Sos come back from ROWYSO, so it won't contain any spoilers for Is Age Really Just A Number, at least not yet. I feel like I need to inform you all that in this, Ashton is a bit of a fûckboy. And I also don't condone cheating of any kind. But this is the story loves. So sit back, relax and enjoy Home Wrecker.
Photo up the top of Cher Lloyd, who plays Alexandria. Cher's music will be the songs that she has as originals.
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