I speed walk the whole way home. I'm smiling and excited but those 'what ifs' are flooding my head along with doubt. This is what I always wanted, right? Traveling with Liam Payne, for free. Seeing the world and enjoying my life for the next year?
As soon as I open the front door I'm greeted by Sarah, crossing her arms.
"Mom-"
"Ash, I'm so so sorry about what I said. I didn't mean a single thing I said to you, I was just heated up and in the moment."
"Mom, It's fine. I just.. I have good and at the same time bad news."
"What?" Alexis says, walking down the stairs with her Ipod in her small hands.
"Liam?"
"Yeah?" Sarah says.
"He invited me to go on his touring around America with him."
Alexis gasps and Sarah stares at me.
"What?"
"Yeah.."
"Oh my gosh! Ashleigh! You need to take pictures and-" Alexis starts but is cut off by Sarah.
"Ash, you aren't serious.. Right?"
"I am Mom,"
"Ash, I get that you guys were together and best friends as a child, but now's famous and he might have changed."
"Mom, I know what I'm doing."
"Do you really? You just got in contact with him three days ago!"
"I'm leaving in a little bit." I ignore her and go upstairs, Alexis follows me.
As i go into my room, I find my suitcase and began to fill it with clothes.
"Ash?" Alexis sits on my bed.
"Yeah, babe?"
"You're lucky."
"Why?"
"Because you're traveling the world and living the life I always wanted,"
"Lexi.." I look back at her.
"I just wish I could be you."
"Lexi, I know that my life looks great right now from your eyes, and that it looks perfect to you. But it isn't. You need to wait for your fairytale okay? Don't wish for someone else."
Lexi looks down and nods, "You're right."
"Of course I am." I put in a couple pairs of Lacey underwear and two of my bras.
"But you're sending me pictures and postcards.. Right?"
"Duh, dork." I say, smiling at the fourteen year old on my bed.
"When is Liam coming?"
"Couple minutes by now."
"Do you need any help?"
"Yeah, could you go into the bathroom and get my meds?"
Lexi shakes her head before rubbing off to the bathroom.
"Ash, Liam is here!"
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"Hurt my daughter and I'll hurt you."
"What?"
"You heard me, I don't like my daughter running away with some guy."
"I've know your daughter longer then you have known her."
"I'll repeat myself- hurt her and I will hurt you."
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Turning Tables l.p (COMPLETED)
FanfictionWhen Ashleigh Adams turned five, her life fell apart and she was sent into foster care. She's been in multiple foster homes, each one rejecting her for her PTSD. But when she is fourteen years old, a single mother in America wants to adopt her. When...
