Ashton helped me carry our clothes back to our room. I unlocked the door and there were four boys sitting on the couch playing an Xbox.
"Bull shit Mikey, you can't play video games for your life!" one of them shouted.
"I can play better than you!" someone else answered.
I stepped in and slammed the door. Jake can't just invite random people into our room?!
When the door shut all four of their heads whipped in our direction. I thought I was gonna scream. It was the baby, the hot one, and the mysterious one from the concert earlier.
"Hey you!" Calum said coming to hug me.
"Hey Calum! What are you guys doing here?!"
"Oh hey Sam," Jake said chipping in. "I saw these guys down by the ice machine and invited them up to play aa couple rounds of mortal kombat. I hope you don't mind." Not like it mattered now.
"Yea whatever it's fine." I answered.
"Hey, have you seen Ash?" Luke asked me. I turned around to point him there was no one there. Just as soon as Ashton was back in my life he was gone.
I went into my room and grabbed my speaker. I took it out on the balcony and decided to look up their band. The music they played at the concert wasn't that bad so I know they're not horrible.
I leaned on the railing and listened to all the sounds outside to try to take my mind off things. But the only thing that stayed on my mind was Ashton. I hadn't really had a real conversation with him and I was dying to know what he was like. I had to find out his name from a concert its probably too much trouble to find his age. I kept in my thoughts and continued to listen to the song. When what I assume was the chorus came on I tapped my fingers to the beat. "Hey everybody..." my speaker blasted.
"That's one of my favorites." A familiar voice said. I whipped my head around and saw Ashton staring at me.
"It's pretty good," I answered and turned around going back to my thoughts.
"Hey, I know you're not this super tough, easily annoyed girl you're trying to make it seem like."
"And how do you know that?"
"Jake told me." Thanks Jake.
Ashton walked over to where I was on the balcony and leaned on it next to me. We stood in silence for a while and that bothered me. I was still unsure about my feelings and I needed something to confirm them.
"So what are you like? I don't even know your name." Ashton spoke up, breaking the annoying silence.
"It's Sam."
"That's cool, what's it short for?"
"No one calls me by my real name."
"I want to." Why was this boy so interested?! He doesn't even know me and he expects me to just tell him something that only my closest friends and family knows? I continued to watch the people below us. Hugging and talking. Walking and running. The occasional biker. But I still ached for answers.
"Did you really say all that stuff about me?" I finally decided to ask. Ashton turned away but I could tell his face was red.
"Yea," he mumbled. Now I was red, I don't know why he made me feel this way but he did. It was something in my stomach that I felt in my chest, too. I felt it in my heart and my hands and in my eyes.
He turned back to me. "It sounds weird but, I just thought you were really cool. There was something about you that made me want to pay for your drink and act as cool as I could. I don't know what it was but I know you felt it, too!" I looked at him as his eyes fluttered with happiness. I did feel it too but I don't know what it was. I'm not going to just jump at it.
"You're a dork," I said with a laugh. He smiled at me with that perfect smile I saw in Starbucks. The song changed and we continued to look down at the people.
"You're a dork." He teases and lightly pushing me. His sudden playfulness catches me off guard but is much appreciated. I nudged him back and it moved him a bit causing me to giggle. He grabs my waist and turns me around. I'm now in a laughing fit triggered from him tickling me. I squirm in his grasp but I can't escape his grip. My shirt comes up a little bit and his cold fingers touch my stomach. It sends a chill through my body. I run away and make it as far as my room but Ashton catches up to me and I fall on my bed. He falls next to me and finally stops tickling me allowing me to catch my breath.
We lay looking at each other for a couple moments. "Your hair is a mess." he says to me.
"So is yours." I say as my lips turn into a smile. It was a feeling I couldn't fight. The fact that we were together just looking at each other made it impossible not to be happy. As we both calmed down our breathing began to move in sync. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by Luke. "Oh, am I interrupting something?" I could feel his smirk.
"What do you want?" Ashton said.
"We were gonna head back to the room but I see that you're busy so we'll just leave without you."
Ashton rolled his eyes. "I'll be right there."
We both slid off the bed and headed towards the door. Before we reached it he turned and gave me a hug. "See you tomorrow." he whispered. Before I could answer him Jake was shutting the door.
