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Ashton and Michael had been lounging around the living room of their hotel all afternoon. He'd been watching Michael play fortnite mostly and they'd chatted sporadically, he'd asked Ashton if he'd been talking to Luke much lately and he'd shrugged it off, and said he'd spoken to Calum a fair bit lately though. Which he had, partly because he knew if Luke knew it would piss him off, but mostly because Calum was really funny and a good distraction from the fact that he and Luke still hadn't spoken. Michael unaware they weren't speaking had told him that he had been talking to Luke a lot lately. Ashton had bitterly thought, I didn't ask, and that had been the end of the conversation.

All Ashton had wanted to do after that was go through Michael's phone, but he couldn't, not with him sitting right there. So, he waited, and waited, and waited for Michael to get up and go to the bathroom. He'd plied him beer for over 2 hours before he finally left to pee and Ashton made straight for the phone.

He moved as quickly as he could, unlocking the phone with Michael's dog, Southy's birthday and going straight to the message app. He groaned when he saw the top contact was 'Lucas <3', it only got worse when he opened the message though, the last thing Michael had sent was a dick pic. He almost dropped the phone in horror but quickly put everything back the way it had been and disappeared to his room to retrieve his own phone.

New Message

I cannot fucking believe it

it's been what? Three days?

And you're already sexting fucking Michael.

He'd walked back and sat on the couch, Michael had returned and was playing something else this time, with a white-haired bloke on a horse. Ashton didn't care he couldn't concentrate on anything as his leg bounced waiting Luke's response.

Dickhead

You're the one who cheated

New Message

We aren't even fucking together

Dickhead

Then why do you care at all?

The anger bubbled in Ashton's chest; he was angry because Luke was so fucking right. Ashton knew, fuck he knew why he cared, and it was the stupidest thing he'd done in years, catching feelings for someone you're just fucking. It didn't take long for the anger to simmer into sadness, what was he even supposed to say to Luke now. He had no right to be mad; Luke and he weren't together and fuck at this rate they never would be.

He couldn't help but just stare at Michael, he had no idea, no freaking clue or he'd never do this to Ashton. He was Ashton's brother, but he didn't know, maybe Michael and Luke were close to dating, maybe they were just fucking. It didn't matter because the pooling sadness had turned into a pit of quicksand, the more he thought about it, the more envious he was of Michael and the deeper he sank into this greedy, hateful emotion. Ashton couldn't live with Michael and Luke getting together, not if Luke didn't even know how Ashton felt.

New Message

Because I'm a fucking idiot who has feelings for you even though this is clearly not a feelings kind of relationship