I sigh, pulling out of the driveway. How do I answer her question when I don’t know the answer myself? But, being the good mother I am, I act as if nothing is wrong, I put on that fake motherly smile that every mother puts on when something is really going wrong, but you can’t tell the kids about it. This is something I can’t tell the kids about, I can’t tell them how aggressive Ashton is, I can’t tell them the problems we’ve been having, I can’t tell them any of that, because that would worry them, and they’re kids. They don’t need to worry about it.
“No, Honey, he’s not going to leave,” I look at her in the rearview mirror and see her smiling
“Good, cause I like Asshhton,” she says trying to make the ‘sh’ sound. I smile at her and turn on the radio, trying to drown my thoughts with the sound of some modern pop music that I don’t know the name of.
The drive home is silent, mostly because the kids gave up on their screaming fit once they got in the car, and because they fell asleep. I unbuckle the car seat to Bentley’s car seat and pull him out. Then doing the same to Brynlee, I walk in the house setting them in their beds, and walking out quietly.
“Aria?” Ella asks from her room, I walk to her room, leaning up against the door frame
“Yeah?” I ask, she walks out of her closet putting on a sweatshirt.
“Why did you lie to them? About Ashton?” She asks
“El, sometimes you have to lie to protect them from the truth,” I say walking to my room knowing it’s fully true.
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A loud ringing noise from my beside table awakes me, I glance at my clock, 2:48 AM. Ugh, I answer the phone, it’s Luke
“What the hell do you want?” I ask him through the phone, covering my mouth as I yawn
“It’s Ashton, he’s throwing shit around saying your name, and I know it’s late but please Aria. He’s on a drunk rage and keeps saying something about screwing things up with you, and that it’s over, just get over here,” he says hanging up, I climb out of bed, slipping on some jeans and Uggs that I conveniently had randomly laying around my room. Then a sweatshirt, fixing my hair as I run out of the room, down to Ella’s room, I run in shaking her shoulder.
“Aria?” She mumbles groggily
“Ella, Ash is on a drunken rage, I need you to stay here with the kids, and I just had to tell you. I’ll be back soon I’ll text you when I get there and when I’m on the way back, I got to go,” she nods, probably not even paying attention to what I was saying. I run down the stairs trying to skip them, and not fall. Quickly grabbing the keys from the table and running out the door to my car.
I don’t even know what I’m going to do when I get there, talk to him? He’s drunk, from what I’ve heard he’s not a happy drunk either. Before I can fully assess my methods; I’m pulling into their driveway. I take a deep breath, opening the door and running up to their flat.
“Aria, I screwed it up with her!!” I hear Ashton yell from the living room. I walk in, glass and pieces of miscellaneous broken objects. I step into the living room, Ashton pics up a vase throwing it to the ground, blue and green pieces shatter everywhere.
“Ashton…” I say, his attention shifts from looking for another thing to break, to meeting my eyes
“Heeyy, Aria,” he slurs I scoff at his appearance. His normal perfect hair, messy, stuck to his sweaty forehead. His green eyes, darker than normal, he’s slurring the words mumbled under his breath.
“Ashton, you need to stop,” I say. I don’t know what to do in this position. I was always the drunken one, not the one taking care of the drunk.
“Why should I? You hate me; the kids hate me, what’s the point anymore? My mates hate me, I’m better off this way, when I don’t give two shits,” he slurs I shake my head, stepping towards him
“I don’t hate you,” I say grabbing his hands, intertwining our fingers. I get on my tiptoes, leaning my forehead against his, looking into his eyes, “in fact, I’m quite fond of you, Ashton Irwin, I like you more when you aren’t like this, though, I like it better when you aren’t drunk, when you aren’t yelling at me, grabbing me, when you aren’t rough, baby, I don’t like that,” I try sweet talking him, trying to calm him down.
“I know you do babyy, I know,” he whispers closing the space between our lips, his lips and mine mold perfectly together, sparks flying like fireworks and I know he feels it too. I taste the alcohol fresh on his lips, it takes me back.
“What’s your name, babe?” Mr. Mysterious asks me.
“Why do you want to know?” I ask him shrugging, as I keep grinding on him. His lips attach to my neck and I feel him smirk as I lean my head back into his shoulder
“So I know what to moan when I take you tonight,” he whispers into my ear.
“Mm, really now?” I say turning around, facing him, my arms wrap around his neck and I continue swaying to the music. My lips lock to his, alcohol fresh on his lips, his tongue pushes his way into my mouth, vodka and rum noticeable in both of our mouths, we’re young, drunk, and we don’t care.
“Take me home, baby,” he says, pulling back from the kiss, I take his hand in mine and we walk out the house together, hand in hand. I don’t know how long this will last, this phase we’re in. I don’t know how much longer he’ll drink. I don’t know how many more drunken rages he’ll be on, but in this moment, I don’t care, because in this moment I know that no matter what, I love this man and despite the argument we’re in, I know we’ll get over it, because this is how our relationship works, even from the beginning. We’ve had obstacles, and we’ve overcome them, and this one? Just a bump in the road.
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