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Chapter 8- One step at a time

*Lukes POV*

Michael looks walks down the stairs and jumps when Ashley slams the door. "What did you guys do to her?" Mike asks us. "We were being stupid. I need to apologize to her." Ash says standing up. "No dude, she'll talk when she wants to." I say. "I am so sorry for the way I acted man. You're my best friend and nothing is coming between that." Ashton says hugging me. I hug him back "You're going to make me cry." I say laughing. We stop hugging, "But I'm sorry too Ash. I just like her so much and I was going to try to make her my girlfriend.." I say knowing that now her being my girlfriend will probably never happen. "You know what man? I respect you. If you feel like you want to date her, I shouldn't get in the way. Our friendships too valuable."

"Um, guys" Michael says pointing up stairs. Ashley was standing at the end of the stairs. "How much of that did you hear?" I ask her embarrassed. She laughs and walks toward me. "Enough to know you are such a great guy." She says kissing my cheek. She hugs me and motions for the other boys to join in. We all stand there hugging and Cal walks in the door. "Hey guys whats u- GROUP HUG." He runs up to us and hugs the back of Ashley. "Okay i don't like what i am feeling." Ashley says breaking the hug laughing.

Ashley hears her phone ring in the room and runs up stairs to answer it. This is a perfect chance to ask the boys whats been bothering me."Okay,I need to ask you guys something." I say sitting down. "What?" Cal says cutting to the chase. "How do you think I should ask Ashley out? I want to do it romantically instead of just asking her right away." I say. "Start it off with you giving her a lot of roses but make one of them a fake rose and tell her 'I will love you until the last flower dies'" Mike says laughing with the other boys. "Basically tell her my love for her is fake? No this has to be perfect. Plus i'm not asking her to marry me, just asking her on a date." I say getting nervous. "I KNOW." Cal says pointing his index finger in the air. "What?" I ask him. Cal usually has pretty decent ideas, I just hope this will work. "Ask her out when we do the performance in a few days. Ask her on stage, she would think it was sweet, and stuff." He says smiling at his brilliance. "I'm not sure if that's all bright."

Ashley runs out of the bathroom happily. "What's so giddy with you?" Mike asks. "My best friends are coming a day earlier, so they'll be here tomorrow!! We are coming to your concert so this will be good." She says jumping up and down. "Are they cute?" Calum asks her. She laughs and pulls her phone out and shows him a picture of them.

"She's pretty. What's her name?" Calum asks. "That's Amber. She just got out of a horrid relationship with a big arse." She says shaking her head. "What about her?" Ashton points at a girl with brown hair. "That's Megan. The one you talked to that day when we were walking." She winks. "Oh, the fan right?" He asks smiling. "That's the one." She says. "What's her Twitter?" He asks on logging on to it on his phone. She grabs his phone and types it in the search box.

"Ashton has a crush" Mike says laughing with us. "Shut up" He says looking down embarrassed.

*Ashleys POV*

Megan and Amber are coming in a bit. I get ready knowing them they'll probably want to go somewhere as soon as they get here. I put my make up on, straighten my hair, and pick out my outfit.

I wait for another hour or so for my mum to drive me to pick them up. We finally leave and wait for the plane to board off. I see them looking for us, when they spot us they run and hug me tightly. I squeeze back as hard as I can. I have missed them so much, I was actually use to having just boys around me. On the way to the house we stop at Starbucks to get some frappes.

"So are the boys at your house?" Megan asks me fangirly. I giggle, "Yes Megan they are." She basically has a spazz attack and goes on her phone typing away. "Megs, what the hell are you doing?" I ask looking at her weird with Amber. "I have a Twitter account full of fans that I need to update." She says pointing to her phone. "No Megan, they don't want you to be up their asses tweeting about what they are doing at every moment." She slips her phone in her pocket. "Thank you." I say getting worried about this week. We get our frappes to go and get back in the car.