Pictures (l.h. + a.i.)

deux

(unedited)

Ashton was rudely awakened on a Saturday morning by his best friend's nonstopping phone calls. The wavy haired brunet opened his eyes to see that his room was still dark. The sun wasn't even out yet. He grabbed his ringing phone from under his pillow and squinted at the bright light before pressing the 'answer' button and lazily holding the phone up to his ear.

"Good morning Ash!" Calum's voice boomed excitedly from the phone. Ashton flinched from his best friend's loud greeting and wondered how someone could have so much energy so early in the morning on a Saturday.

"What time is it?" Ashton asked, his voice a bit husky from just waking up. He sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes with his hands, holding the phone between his cheek and shoulder. He heard Calum moan through the phone.

"Oh baby, your morning voice is so sexy." Calum joked. Ashton rolled his eyes. It was too early to be dealing with his best friend's bullshit. "Anyways, it's 5:30. I usually meet Luke at the field at 6. I'll be over soon to pick you up."

Ashton hummed in agreement, too tired to say anything else before Calum hung up on him. Ashton laid his head back on his pillow and closed his eyes for a few more moments before he finally decided to get up. He went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and then walked back into his room to change from his sweats to his usual black skinny jeans and slipped a grey jumper over his head. After he gave up on trying to calm down his wavy hair, he grabbed his glasses from his nightstand and perched it on the bridge of his nose, just on time to hear Calum's obnoxious honking from outside his house.

Ashton grabbed his camera and slung it over his shoulder by its neck strap before he quickly walked down the stairs and out the door so that his best friend's honking would cease. He didn't want his whole neighborhood to be woken up. When Ashton climbed into the passenger's seat, he was met with a wide awake Calum. The raven haired teen had on black joggers along with their school's gym shirt and black trainers on his feet.

Once the two had gotten to the soccer field, Calum made Ashton go ahead of him because he had to get his things from the trunk of the car. Ashton walked to the over to the small hill that had the wooden bleachers on the side of it that overlooked the field but stopped in his tracks when he saw that there was a person running around the perimeter of the field. Ashton paused. It was Luke. He watched how the blond was completely focused on running and Ashton slowly reached for his camera that was slung around his neck and turned it on, bringing it up to his eyes. He took multiple pictures of the field and the running blond with the beautiful sunrise coming up in the background before zooming into the concentrated man taking more burst photos of him than he would like to admit. He jumped slightly and his camera slipped from his hands only to hang back down from his neck when he felt someone grab his shoulder. He turned to look at the culprit. Calum looked back at him with an amused expression.

"This is one of the rare times you're up to take pictures of the sunrise, yeah? I know you're never up early enough to do it." Calum teased, poking Ashton's side before continuing down the bleachers and onto the field.

"Yeah, the sunrise." Ashton murmured, taking another glance at the running man before quickly following right behind Calum onto the field. Luke noticed them and began to run towards the two teens.

"Good morning Cal!" Luke greeted before turning to Ashton and widening his eyes in surprise "Ashton! What are you doing here? I didn't know that you and Calum were friends." Ashton stared up at the blonde man whose blond hair was dripping in sweat from all his running. The brunet was too much in awe to respond, his mind too distracted by the way the blond's grey long sleeve hugged his muscular arms and broad shoulders so well and how his black shorts showed off his long legs.