Waste the night || Lashton

Chapter 15

Luke's POV
I was sat in Maths again, tapping my pencil on the desk in boredom. Calum was sat to the right of me, scribbling down notes as the teacher talked. I was twiddling the pencil between my fingers when I felt my phone vibrate in my back pocket. I pulled it out and held it under the desk, being careful not to get caught using it in class. I quickly unlocked it and checked the message.

Michael: Meet me at the hospital    ASAP. It's Ashton.

I stood up quickly with such force that my table nearly tipped. Everyone was now watching me but I didn't care.

"Sit down Hemmings" the teacher shouted at me but I ignored him and grabbed my bag and guitar, running out of the class. I could hear the teacher and Calum calling after me but I kept running till I burst through the front doors and out into the school grounds.

I sprinted out the gates and ran through the streets in the direction of the hospital. It took me 15 minutes to run to the local hospital and by this point my heart was thumping loudly against my rib cage and my legs were weak. I dashed through the automatic doors and up to the front desk where a short, curvy women with a blonde bob sat, her eyes fixed to a computer screen.

"Excuse me" I said, trying to catch my breath.

She looked up from her computer and her eyes met mine, a fake smile forming on her lips.

"Yes?" She asked in a formal voice.

"I'm looking for an Ashton Irwin?" I told her and she looked back to her computer screen, clicking the mouse every few seconds.

"Room 136" she said, not removing her eyes from the screen.

I muttered a 'thank you' before I rushed down the corridors in search of room 136. I found it at the end of a corridor and I pushed open the door. A sense of relief washed over me as I saw Ashton sitting up in the hospital bed taking to Michael. They both stopped talking when they saw me and Ashton opened his arms out, asking for a hug. I immediately engulfed him a hug, careful not to catch any of the wires and drips attached to him and the hospital bed.

"What happened?" I asked as I pulled away, worry eating away at me.

Ashton was silent so Michael answered for him instead.

"He got really weak and was in a lot of pain so I took him into hospital. The doctors are keeping him in here and they are going to try and operate on him next week to remove the tumour." Michael explained to me and I nodded.

"Luke can you play me a song?" Ashton asks, pointing towards my guitar in its case swung over my shoulder.

"Yeh sure" I say, unzipping the case and taking my guitar out.

"One of your own songs" he says and I nod, strumming the guitar to make sure it's in tune.

I need your love to light up this house
I wanna know what you're all about
I wanna feel you, feel you, tonight
I wanna tell you that it's alright

I need your love to guide me back home
When I'm with you, I'm never alone
I need to feel you, feel you, tonight
I need to tell you that it's alright

We'll never be as young as we are now
It's time to leave this old black and white town
Let's seize the day
Let's run away
Don't let the colors fade to grey
We'll never be as young as we are now
As young as we are now

Oh whoa whoa oh, oh oh oh
Oh whoa whoa oh

I see myself here in your eyes
Stay awake 'till the sunrise
I want to hold you, hold you, all night
I want to tell you that you're all mine

I feel our hands intertwined
Hear our hearts beating in time
I need to hold you, hold you, all night
I need to tell you that you're all mine

"That's all I got" I say as I place my guitar down. I look over to Ashton whose grinning widely, his dimples showing. I smile and feel warm inside because I haven't seen Ashton smile like that in a while.

"Wow dude, that was amazing!" Michael exclaims.

"Thanks" I say looking down at my feet, blushing.

We sit in a comfortable silence for a while before Michael announces he's going to get a drink of water and leaves the room.

"Luke" Ashton speaks up.

"Yeh?"

"You are going to stay the night with me, aren't you?" He asked nervously.

"Of course. Who else would I waste the night with." I tell him smiling.

This is a pretty short chapter but thanks for reading it anyway. I love all of use who vote & comment, thank you :) ~Hannah