The Truth

Chapter 11

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Luke and I were walking back to the hotel, hand in hand.

"Luke, is us holding hands a good idea? What if people see us?" I asked him.

"Oh." He sighed, dropping my hand. "I forgot about that."

"It's not that I care about people seeing us, I just know how fast rumors spread." I told him, reaching to reclaim his hand.

"Well it's not a rumor if it's true." He smiled, putting his arm around my shoulders.

"But we aren't dating." I laughed, putting my arm around his waist.

"Not yet but we can mess with the fans a little bit." He laughed, taking out his iPhone and taking our picture.

"Awe this is cute. But wait, I should pull my hood down so they can't see my face." I laughed, pulling my hood down and my scarf up over my face. The only thing visible was my eyes. Luke laughed and retook the selfie.

"The fans are going to go mad." He laughed, opening Twitter to tweet the selfie to his millions of fans.

@Luke5SOS : "Just chilling with this beautiful girl today" And attached was our photo with my face covered.

"I can just imagine the comments, 'How do we know shes beautiful? We can't even see her face!'" I laughed.

"They're going to go insane trying to figure out who you are." He smirked, pulling me closer to him.

"What if management gets mad?" I asked. I'd completely forgotten about management and their rules.

"Ryleigh they know you're on tour with us, so of course we're gonna take pictures." He smiled.

"Well true but still. It makes me nervous.." I sighed. The last thing I wanted to do would be jeopardize my trip with the boys.

"I don't blame you. My career is a lot to handle." Luke sighed, clearly troubled by my worry.

"Yeah, it's overwhelming. Ashton kept me out of this for so long because he didn't want me to live the way you guys do. Stuck in the shadows. Never sure who you can trust and who you can't. Always having people asking you questions. So this is just going to take some time getting used to." I replied, hoping to ease his troubles.

"I'm glad Ashton kept you out of this for so long. Kept you safe from what we deal with." He smiled, pulling me closer in his arms.

"Yes but this career also took Ashton away from me. Yeah I still got to see him occasionally, and we talked every day. But still. It was hard for him to leave his family. He was pretty much the man, since his dad left." I told Luke.

"Ashton doesn't talk much about his dad and what happened." Luke said.

"I know. The only reason I know what happened was because Ashton and I have literally known each other our entire lives. Since birth pretty much." I told him. "Ashton's pretty private."

"Yeah, he is."

"You're not used to having someone who knows your best friend better than you, are you." I smiled, nudging Luke in the stomach.

"No, and honestly it's weird." He laughed, nudging me back.

"You'll be okay. I'll never forget when Ashton came to my school to see me cheer for the last football game of the season. He came with a hoodie on and sunglasses, trying to hide. Thankfully my football team helped me hide him. They all didn't want their girlfriends fawning over a band member so they agreed to help." I laughed.