My Drummer Boy (Ashton Irwin)

Chapter 30

I attempt to roll across the bed and get my glass of water but smack into a body instead. My eyes snap open in a panic but I immediately squint them, trying to avoid the sunlight. Once my eyes have adjusted, I focus on the bare back in front of me, I can't identify it from my position so I sit up to capture a glance of their face and instantly jump off the bed with a thump, gasping. 

"Shit!" I exclaim, horrified.

"Be quiet." Calum groans and places the pillow over his face in attempt to muffle the noises. I don't say anything, instead I remain standing at the edge of the bed in shock. I begin pacing back and forth across the room, gripping onto my forehead and trying to control the pounding headache that was the cause of me waking up this morning. I grab my phone off the floor to double check that it is morning but it's flat. I hurriedly walk into the bathroom, recognising it as my own, and take in my appearance. My hair is ruffled and knotty, my make up from last night is smudged all over my face - even on my chin! I promptly grab a towel and hold it under the cool faucet and begin wiping my face and neck. Once I've cooled down a bit, I brush my teeth and take two aspirins that were under the sink (emergency's only) with a glass of water. The only thing that reassures me, is that I'm wearing the dress from the night before, confirming I did not sleep with Calum. 

"What's wrong?" Calum walks in, still shirtless, yawning and scratching his toned stomach. I remove my hands from gripping onto the edges of the sink and stand up, struggling to look him in the eye.

"Please tell me we didn't." I whisper to him, still not looking him in the eye.

"You think that we,,?" He trails off and chuckles quietly to himself, shaking his head.

"You wish! We were both absolutely gone last night so they put us in the same bed. You were clearly worse than me, seeing as you can't remember anything." He laughed at the confused expression on my face.

"Ok, do you wanna see a video to refresh your memory?" My eyebrows raise in surprise and I bury my face in my hands, already embarrassed. He grabs his phone off the bedside table and we sit down on the bed next to each other, Cal holding the phone an arms distance away from us. He presses play and at first all the video displays is blackness and all that is audible is Michael shouting swear words. After about twenty seconds of that, Michael and Jess' face pops up on the screen and they look really excited about something, Michael begins swearing again and cheering, he then continues to flip the camera which shows a video of two guys fighting and a girl standing...oh my god.

"YEAH GO ASHTON! SHOW HIM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF!" Jess' voice yells from behind the camera.

"WOAH DID YOU SEE THAT PUNCH!? THEY SHOULD CALL YOU SMASHTON!" Then the video zooms in on me standing next to them with my eyes squeezed shut, crying, swaying and struggling to remain on my feet. Then the video ends.

"Holy shit." I whisper, appalled with what I've just seen.

"Yeah, you got pretty fucked last night. Why?" Cal used his serious voice, which worries me.

"I think I was trying to get back at Ash, but I don't know why?" I turn it into a question, hoping Cal will know the answer to my thoughts.

"Do you know why he was late to the club?" He asks, unsure if he should say anything about it or not.

"Not really, don't care either."

"Yeah, ok." Cal scoffed, I whacked the back of his head and we walked out into the kitchen. When we got past the hallway there was finally a window where the blind wasn't drawn down and we saw that the sun was getting pretty low.

"Well shit, it's later than we thought." I laughed and continued walking to the kitchen. On the bench was a piece of paper with Mary's neat handwriting printed across it.

Afternoon Cal and Kath, we have gone out for a late lunch/early dinner! If you want food text one of us (except Ash, he's busy)! There's aspirin on the bench for you both and some powerade on the inside door of the fridge. Feel better! Xx :)

I smiled at the cute note, disregarding the comment about Ashton and grabbed two blue powerade bottles out of the fridge for us both. I chucked one to Cal and text Mary to get us some McDonald's or KFC on their way home. Mary text back instantly and said they'd be home in two hours or so.

"Movie?" I nod my head eagerly and walk over to the DVD cabinet while Cal grabbed some blankets for us.

"Can we watch American Pie please!" 

"No thank you."

"You're boring."

"Magic Mike." I hold up the movie, hopeful. Cal just shakes his head with a look of disgust on his face as he taps away on his phone.

"Let's watch Like Mike!" I say excitedly, Like Mike was my favourite basketball movie as a kid.

"Yes! I can agree on that!" We curl up next to each other on the sofa in the dark and watch the movie while sipping happily on our powerades. Somewhere during the movie, by miracle, Cal falls asleep on my shoulder. Even though we had just woken up after a 13+ hour sleep. I hear the front door of the apartment creak open and sit up slowly, trying not to knock Cal.

"Did you get us McDonald's or KFC?" I whisper and wonder over to the door while retying my hair into a pony on top of my head.

"Uh, neither?" I look up and realise I was talking to Ashton.

"Oh, hey." I mumble, the video continues replaying itself in my head and I cringe just imagining about what he would've thought of me.

"So, last night..." Ash awkwardly brings up, avoiding eye contact.

"Yeah, I don't think theres anything I can say to save myself any embarrassment." I awkwardly mutter, looking over at Calum who has sprawled across the sofa.

"Coffee?" I nod eagerly and write a note underneath Mary's and put it on the coffee table in front of Cal's head. I nod at Ash and I lock the door after we're both on the other side.

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I APOLOGISE SEEING AS IT HAS BEEN 5 MONTHS SINCE IVE UPDATED HAHAHA :/