Home Wrecker {A.F.I}

Chapter 16

Ashton

"Mate you're fucked," Luke told me, sitting on the chair next to the couch in the hotel
"Do you not think I know that?" I asked, I knew I was royally fucked, I never meant for this to get so out of hand
"Well what are you gonna do?"
"I honestly don't know," I told him.
Luke and I were having a day in the hotel, while Bryana was out with Elle for the day, "you love her don't you?" He asked
"Who, Bryana?" I questioned, "well yeah, she is my girlfriend," I added in a duh tone
"No Ash, I'm talking about Lex,"
"No," I said, "I don't," that was a lie, a massive fucking lie
"Ash," he warned, "I might be two years younger than you, but I'm not stupid,"
"Well clearly you are, if you think I love her," I said defensively, "Lex and I have been over for ages,
"Mate,"
"What Luke? What do you want me to say?"
"Why can't you admit that you are still in love with Lex? Even a fucking blind person could see it?" He asked
"I don't need to admit anything because I don't love her," I lied
"Well then you need to stop what ever it is you and her have going on," he told me, he was right; I did need to put a stop to this; I was only going to end up hurt at the end
"But why? We're having fun, and it's not like it's actually hurting anyone,"
"That's where you're wrong," he told me
"What do you mean?"
"This thing you and Lex have going on, is hurting her, can't you fucking tell?"
"How is it hurting her?"
"She's in love with you, for fucks sakes,"
"No she's not," that couldn't even be possible, not in the slightest
"Yeah, she is," he told me, "and you love her,"
"She's not and I'm not,"
"For fucks sake! I saw the way you looked at her last Friday when we went to her gig, and I saw the way she looked at you when we were on stage with her,"
"She can't be," I said quietly, more to myself than to Luke
"Besides, you're not the only two people affected by this," he told me, "you're hurting Bryana by lying to her,"
"Since when do you care about her?"
"I don't, I just don't think that this is fair to her, it's not fair to anyone involved,"
"Well apart from you, Lex and Bryana, who else is involved?" I asked
"Me and Elle," he told me
"How the fuck are you and Elle involved?" I asked
"You got me to fucking lie to her about all of this, and do you know how much its actually hurting our relationship?" Fuck, the last thing I wanted was to drag my best mate in to this, and potentially ruin his relationship
"Mate, I'm sorry,"
"You fucking should be," he told me, "why do you think I'm here and not with her on her day off? She knows somethings up, and I'm fucking sick of lying to her,"
"Tell her,"
"What?" He asked, he was shocked at what I'd said
"Tell her, tell her Lex and I have been sneaking around," I said, "the last thing I wanted was to put your relationship in danger,"
"But what if she tells Bryana?"
"Then she tells Bryana," I shrugged, "then maybe Lex and I could give it another shot," I added, I thought I said it in my head, but clearly I didn't
"So you are in love with her?"
"What?" I asked, "I said that out loud didn't I?"
"Yeah you did,"
"Fuck," I groaned, "what am I gonna do?"
"Who else knows?" He asked
"Who else knows what?" I asked back
"That you're in love with Lex,"
"You and mum," I told him
"And that usually means, my mum, Calum's mum, Michael's mum and then Cal and Mikey too,"
"Yeah," I sighed, not realising it
"So are you sure I can tell Elle?" I nodded, "but what if it's too late?"
"It won't be mate," I told him, "look with me and Lex we don't always just have sex," and he gave me a questioning look, "we talk, and she loves you mate, Lex told me she hasn't seen her this happy in a long time, they've been neighbours for like two years, and Elle's her hairdresser,"
"So?"
"It's not too late to fix this crap, and look if it helps, you can blame it all on me,"
"Are you sure?"
"Well it is mine and Lex's fault you're in this position," I shrugged
"But what if she tells Bryana? They are friends you know, and so are her and Lex that could ruin their friendship too,"
"Let's be real here Luke," I began, "this thing I have with Bryana, is going to end one way or another, like I was actually going to end it when she came down," I took a breathe, "so I don't think her and Briella are gonna be friends for much longer anyways, I mean they only met the once, before today; did they even talk after Bryana left Vegas?"
"I don't think so, no," he told me
"Exactly, Bryana is using her so she's not the only girl around, because she's not stupid, she knows you girls don't like her and that Cal's only nice to her because she's hot,"