Ashton and Luke are more than enthusiastic to meet Michael's brother. Ashton giggles, looking over to Michael, and pointing at Todd's hair – more specifically his hair colour, and says, "Hey, he has your hair!"
"Got your eye-shape, too." Luke adds.
"Can we fucking shut up?" Michael snaps. "It's weird when you say that."
Todd rolls his eyes, straightening out his school uniform as he gets into Ashton's car. "Hey, I'm just as happy to be related to you as you are to me." He says, looking at his half-brother. "I hate that we have the same Mum, but at least neither of us are complete assholes."
"I don't know," Luke says unsurely, a grin on his face. "Michael's a bit of a dick sometimes."
"I am not, Lucas, I cleaned your vomit off the carpet once." The bleached blond reminds him. "It smelt like whiskey and broken dreams."
Ashton giggles, stopping at the light. He looks in the rear-vision mirror, and sees something in the backseat he wasn't prepared for. Just to check, he squinted in the mirror again.
And that's when they got hit.
It was only a bump, but all of them jolted forward. Ashton furrowed his eyebrows, unbuckling his seatbelt before getting out of the car. Luke turned around from the passenger's seat, listening to the yelling going on outside.
"Daddy's getting angry." He says to the three in the back, a smirk on his face as Todd looks slightly creeped out.
"Holy fuck," Calum laughs. "That's Mr Beaverman."
Mr Beaverman was a teacher who was intimidated by ninety-percent of the school population – Ashton included. So, seeing that Ashton was pretty much ripping him to shreds, Mr Beaverman started to shake.
Ashton gets back in the car, sighing. "He's paying for my car to get fixed, now. Fuckin' beaver."
They start to drive again, and it all suddenly dawns on them that Ashton won't be able to drive them for a couple of days.
"Fuck." Ashton whines. "I've got work, too."
"We'll figure it out, man." Calum says, reaching over and putting a hand on the older guy's shoulder. "Ask for a rental car."
"Anyway," the dimpled one says, "let's focus on something else. Like, Michael, you still haven't told us who you've been kissing."
Michael blushes. "No one."
"Is she good at making-out?" Calum asks, winking at him.
"I'll punch you in the dick."
Ashton briefly explains the situation to Todd, who's smirking by the end of it because he knows just who his brother's been kissing. Todd looks over at his brother, who's already mouthing the word 'no' over and over.
"She was at the house last night." Todd teases, and the Maori sitting next to him nearly loses his shit.
"What does she look like?"
"Big tits, long hair," Todd shrugs, looking out the window because his brother's boy-toy is fucking intimidating.
"Our little Mikey's got a girlfriend!" Luke coos.
"Shut up, Luke." The pale boy snaps, a blush still on his cheeks. "Can we talk about something else now?"
Ashton rolls his eyes. "Okay," he groans, "Calum, how's Grace going?"
