Secrets ~ Lashton + Malum AU

Twelve

Oh my god this is probably the worst chapter I've ever written

I'm so bad at writing drama. Apologies. 

unedited. 

Chapter 12

It had been over a week and Luke hadn't talked to Ashton once. Luke hadn't even been at school

It was Friday night and Ashton just got home from work. He asked Calum to come down to the beach with him and now they were walking down to the water.

Ashton let out a long sigh as he took off his shirt and thongs. ]Flip flops not the g-string just to clarify xD]

He smiled and ran into the water, diving under when he was deep enough and his golden tail was forming. "Cal, c'mon." Ashton whined when his head came up from the water.

"Calum?" He shouted, looking around when not seeing the boy.

"Yeah?" Calum called back and Ashton turned his head to see Calum sitting on the rocks with Michael. "Oh..."

Michael waved at Ashton and smiled. "Hey."

"How long have you been there?" Ashton asked, eyes wide.

"Enough to know our assumptions are in fact correct." Michael chuckled.

"Our assumptions?" Ashton asked, only to let out a totally manly scream as someone grabbed his shoulders and shouted boo.

He ducked under water and swam over to the rocks only to have the other person follow him. He popped his head back up from the water and almost choked as he saw Luke directly in front of him.

"L-Luke you're..."

"Hello fellow merman friend." Luke chuckled. Ashton looked down in the water to only just see the blue, shiny tail that was connected to Luke's torso.

"Oh my god." Ashton muttered before his vision went black.

"Did he just pass out?" Luke asked frantically, swimming the boy to the shore.

Calum and Michael went to stand up at the same time but Calum tripped, causing Michael to trip and fall in the water from off of the rocks.

"Aw, damn it." Michael grumbled as he resurfaced and Calum ran down to where Luke was trying to wake Ashton.

Michael made his way to the shore and Calum had to stop and just stare at the beautiful shiny green tail of Michael's. Michael blushed at the boy's stare as he awkwardly dragged himself in the shallow water over to Luke and Ashton.

"We should call Jamie." Luke said as Michael approached them. He nodded, scooting closer.

"Let me touch him." Michael mumbled, reaching over and placing the hand that had his ring on it on Ashton's cheek. "Ash, wake up buddy."

Ashton's eyes slowly fluttered open and Calum watched carefully as Michael woke the boy up. Ashton looked up into Michael's green eyes, smiling widely. "Mikey, Mikey I missed you." He whispered, reaching out to touch Michael's face.

Michael furrowed his eyebrows, looking at Ashton. "What?"

Calum was using his towel to dry the boy off as Ashton looked from Michael to Luke. "Missed you too Lukey-poo-head."

Luke's breath hitched, only his childhood friends know that name. Michael hadn't called him that since he was five and for some reason it made his heart flutter.

"Excuse me?" he locked eyes with Ashton and Ashton smiled widely at the vision of the two little merboys paying with the fish and the golden tailed one scolding the blue tailed one for trying to eat a fish.