You Can't Save Me..

Chapter 28

Ashton's POV

It's been a couple days since Evan stopped by. We're finally on winter break and Christmas is only 4 days away.

We're having a big Christmas thing and Luke and his family are coming. I'm going to meet his brothers! Evan is coming. Megan, Ashton, Calum, and Mikey are all coming, but later on because they have to have Christmas with their families as well. We're all going to have a great time. I can't wait.

I have presents for everybody. They're all wrapped up and in my closet.

Today we're having that dinner for Luke and Evan though. Luke is nervous, even though Evan already said he likes him.

Right now it's about 2 and I'm sitting on the couch with Sky in my lap. Addi is taking a nap. She had some nightmares last night and didn't sleep well. Court is with Evan and Jake is in his room.

"Do you wanna watch a movie?" I ask Sky as she maneuvers on my lap so she's laying down a little with her head resting on my chest.

She nods her head and picks out The Lion King. I smile, loving the movie as well.

After the movie, I send her to wake Addi and put on some nicer clothes for dinner. I text Jake, telling him to shower and at least put on jeans instead of his regular basketball shorts.

After I throw on my black skinnies and another loose sweater, I walk into the kitchen to start dinner.

After a while, Luke shows up and starts helping me with dinner. We're making chicken and dumplings.

As I'm rolling out one batch of the dough, he's making another, measuring salt, flour, and milk into a bowl. I turn around and suddenly, there's a handful of flour in my face.

"Luuukkkee!!" I scream, laughing a bit. He's doubled over in laughter. So I take a handful of flour and blow it into his face. Then I turn around to get a cup of water and dumb it over his head, making the flour sticky. "Oh, it's on!" He says.

Moments later we are both sitting on the floor, covered in flour and soaked in water, laughing. Then, the door opens and in walks Evan.

He walks into the house, calling out to me. I don't answer, but instead look at Luke with wide eyes. We both burst out laughing and Evan must have heard us because he walks into he kitchen.

"So I guess I'll order pizza then?" He says with a smile, shaking his head a bit.

We both nod, realizing we aren't even almost done making the food. "You guys are so good together." Evan says as he pulls his phone out. "Go get cleaned up. We'll deal with this mess later." He says laughing again.

We both get up off the floor and walk upstairs, leaving a trail of flour behind us. I hand Luke some clothes he has left here and a towel and send him to the bathroom in the hall while I go to mine.

Twenty minutes later we are both downstairs, cleaning up the mess we made, with Evan's help.

"I ordered pizza. It'll be here by the time we finish. I left Court at daycare and the kids are in the living room watching Spongebob." Evan says.

"Thanks Evan. Sorry you missed out on my cooking. I blame Luke." I say jokingly, looking at him and winking.

"Heeeeyy!!" He says. "Wait, no. I did throw the first handful. But you started the water!!" He says defensively.

"Yeah so you started it!! I just won!" I say, laughing.

"You guys are the cutest." Evan says. We both look at him with smiles. "Oh. Did I say that out loud? Sorry." He says.

We all laugh a bit. Minutes later, everything is cleaned up and the doorbell rings. "Pizza!!" Luke screams, running to the door.

I roll my eyes and chuckle, following behind him before Evan stops me. "Never let that boy go. Chances are, one day, he'll do something stupid, but everybody makes mistakes. Don't forget this, that boy loves you." He says, before walking into the living room to get everyone.

I smile, getting plates and setting everything down at the table.