Chasing Ashton -Lashton Hirwin-

Chapter Thirty Four; 'Please? I'm begging you..'

Chapter Thirty Four: 'Please? I'm begging you..'

The next few weeks were preparation for the dance, prom, the one thing Luke knew he'd end up going alone to. He couldn't take Ashton, he'd already be there, but he couldn't dance with him, no, he was there as a teacher, to make sure the students behaved themselves. College seemed a lot easier now, now that lessons were over anyway, it was easier for Luke and Ashton to date, they had more time for it all, more time to spend at Ashton's country house, more time to have weird picnics, although it was doing nothing but raining at the moment. "Guys, don't forget to fill out your forms for tomorrow night okay? And no Alcohol, I'm not in the mood to be stopping you lot from drinking under age." Ashton huffed, Calum and Zayn nudged each other with grins on their faces, "I need you all to sign this, just as a check list so I know who's coming, if you're going with someone, like a date, then write that please" he threw a clipboard at Liam's desk and followed it by a pen,
"Soooo, who're you guys going with?" Liam grinned as he turned to face his group of friends, "I'll write us all down"
'Liam and Victoria, Louis and Harry, Michael and Geordie, Niall, Luke.'
"You really not gonna ask Ash?" Harry said not so quietly, Luke glared at him and then shook his head,
"Can't, he's gonna be there as a teacher" there was an awkward silence as the clipboard was passed along, "Oh well, I don't think I'll go, it'll be weird"
"You have to go." Ashton said abruptly from behind him, the boys looked up and noticed the small wink that Luke couldn't see, Ashton put his hand on Luke's shoulder and squeezed lightly, he bent down  "I have a surprise for you, for when you're there I mean" he whispered, his warm breath sent tingles down Luke's back, he nodded and Ashton walked away.
"You've gone bright red mate" Harry laughed looking at Luke.

Luke spent the next two days wondering what the hell Ashton was talking about, along with debating long and hard about whether or not to go to the dance. "Lucas, door!" Liz called, Luke ran down the stairs to see Liam stood in the doorway,
"You brush up well" Luke laughed, Liam nodded with a grin and the two of them headed out, after a number of bright red kisses from his mother of course. "Did Ash tell you what he's planning?" Luke asked as the boys met up outside the college, they all shook their head but Luke didn't believe them. The soft thuds of music echoed through the hall and laughter mixed into it, Liam and Harry walked in pushing and shoving each other like children, Luke laughed and Louis smiled at his pathetically immature boyfriend. "I wanna know what he's planning, I'm stressing out Lou" Luke whispered as they stepped into the dimly lit hall,
"You'll find out soon, I mean it can't be anything big, that'd draw too much attention to you both, so it has to be something subtle, which means it's not worth stressing about, right?" Louis' logic was impeccable really and Luke knew it, he went and sat in the corner table and saved the seats for the others, he watched as the people filled the hall, girls in dresses carrying from over the top, to elegant, to down right slutty, he watched the boys turn up in suits and the odd fer in jeans that inevitably got thrown out for not being dressed smart enough. 

He sat there.

For hours.

By himself.

He watched his friends have fun, he went and got food occasionally, and the odd drink here and there, he briefly dance on his way back to the food table but only because Liam wouldn't let him by if he didn't. Four hours had passed and he was bored of sitting by himself, he wasn't enjoying himself, Ashton was doing his best to avoid him, it was bullshit and he was fed up. He signalled Liam to come over, "What's up Lukey?"
"I'm going home, had my fair share of people for today" Luke laughed, Liam shook his head and then looked across the hall to Ashton, who's attention had suddenly flicked to them both,
"You're not leaving, c'mon, you're staying here." Liam dragged Luke onto the dance floor and waved his hand in the air, Ashton noticed and marched over to the DJ, after a few minutes the song was cut in the middle and changed, but not played.
"Hi, everyone, can I have your attention" Ashton spoke, the feedback from the microphone made everyone glare but their attention was granted to him, "I just wanna say, you all deserved this, you've worked really hard this year and you should be proud of yourselves, it's gone quick right? I know you were all dancing but I wanted to put a specific song on, it was written by a student this year and many people loved it, it even caught the headteacher's eye, it's been fully produced without their knowledge so it'll be a little surprising. If anyone, I repeat anyone, says anything bad about it they can expect to fail the year entirely, if it happens to be one of my students, not only will you fail, but I think I'll drag your parents in and tell them exactly what you've been up to this year in regards of bullying." his gaze was transfixed on Calum and Zayn, Luke was curious about the song, he had a gut feeling it was his, but he didn't think Ashton would to that to him.

His optimistic hope was shattered in seconds when the music to the beginning of his song started playing, he froze in place as Ashton's eyes locked on his, a small smile on Ashton's lips made him furious and before he had a chance to storm out Harry shouted,
"Luke, isn't this your song?!" everyone looked at him, his face went bright red but before the embarrassment really set in he noticed people dancing, he noticed Harry dragging Louis to the dance floor, he noticed people smiling and laughing; people loved it, they loved his song. Ashton ran down to him but Luke could only back away,
"Why did you do this?" Luke growled slightly, he was angry, he couldn't believe Ashton would humiliate him like this,
"I, I thought you'd like it. You worked so hard on this song, it's amazing, and you came up with all the music, you did the recordings, I didn't really do anything except put it all together and record the guitar bit" Ashton explained, he couldn't stop smiling,
"You played the music?" Ashton just nodded, he was proud of himself for what he'd done, Luke didn't share the feelings. He turned on his heel and started for the door,
"Luke?" Ashton called, "Hey! Hey where are you going?" he asked Luke as he caught up with him, Ashton's hands clasped around Luke's wrist, "Where are you going?" he was confused, he was so beautiful when he was confused, his slight frown, his cute little pout, and the glint in his eyes under the spotlights. By this point a few people had turned to stare, but neither of the boys noticed,
"This was private!" Luke shouted after a while, "Why would you do this?! I didn't even want you to hear it let alone anyone else!" Ashton's eyes widened, he wasn't expecting this reaction,
"I thought you'd like it.." he looked at the floor, "I'm sorry Luke, it's just an amazing song and I thought eve-"
"No Ashton you didn't think. You never fucking think!" Luke yelled again, he snatched his arm away and stormed off,
"Luke?! Luke c'mon!"
"What?!"
"Please stay?" Luke just glared gritting his teeth to stop himself yelling, "Please, I'm begging you.."

A/N: I'm sorry for how late this is, I know not many people read this any more and that is my fault. I recently got a part time job and all my free time has been eaten away. Only six more chapters though. I'm so sorry. All my love, Liberty.xxx