✔️Beauty and the Beast -L.H. + A.I. ✔️

Chapter 16

Luke's P.O.V

After the conversation with my mum about me missing graduation that day, I finally head back upstairs to my bedroom. I get to the top of the stairs and peer into my room to find Ashton sleeping on my bed.

I let out a small laugh along with a gentle smile. No matter how weird it may sound, but Ashton was beautiful. The way his sandy curls lay across his forehead and the way his mouth hung slightly open; emitting a slight snore.

I quietly enter my room and close the door behind me before standing next to the bed beside him. I didn't want to disturb him because I know how little sleep he's gotten in the past week, but I couldn't help gently brushing the hair from his forehead. He was either a heavy sleeper or was so exhausted, that he didn't stir in his sleep at all.

I could slowly feel my feelings for the wolf boy grow every day and I hoped with all my heart that whoever it was that he was falling for, returned the feelings. Ashton didn't deserve to be alone for the rest of eternity; he deserved to be loved and cared for. Hopefully, he was in love with a kind boy he met at the mall or even at the homeless shelter and not some snob who thinks he's better than everyone else. Ashton deserves to be treated the absolute best.

So, even if it's not me he's falling for, maybe, just maybe, with the time he has left, I can make him feel loved.

I quickly strip myself of my pants, leaving me in just my boxers and t-shirt, before turning the light off and sliding in next to Ashton; falling asleep quickly.

***Time Skip***

It was early morning when I awoke to hear the water running in my bathroom. I yawn and stretch before turning to look if it was Ashton in my shower, but I have to do a double take to see that Ashton was still sleeping beside me.

I sit up immediately before thinking about who could be in my bathroom. It wouldn't be my parents because they have their own bathroom, Jack was still staying at his girlfriend's house, and Ben was supposed to be at college to study for finals.

It was the bathroom door opening and a head popping out that startled me from my thoughts.

"Hey, look, you're up; I hope you don't mind me using your controlled rain thingy because if you did, then sorry because I'm already done. Also, do you have some clothes I can borrow? I had to steal some from the humans down the street to get here," the guy says.

I blink in shock as I take in what little I could see of the dude. He had bright orange hair and what looked to be an eyebrow piercing. I think there was even a tattoo on the guy's arm.

He must've seen the confusion on my face because he begins apologizing. "Oh! Sorry, this must look really strange, I'm Michael; Mikey to your kind mum."

Michael? Do I know a Michael? I mean, there was Ashton's kind of brother, but he's a w-AIT A MOMENT!

"Michael?! As in Ashton's Michael?" I ask, sounding bewildered.

Michael smiles brightly and nods. "Yeah, I guess so."

"How are you human right now? And if you're human... where is Calum?"

"Long story short, we bribed our old Alpha with some information he didn't know we had and made him change us and Calvin, that's what your mum thinks his name is anyway, is outside, still not 100% okay with the whole we're-human-now-so-we-can-go-where-we-want thing," he explains. "Oh, can I have those clothes now?" Mikey asks with a laugh.

I untangle myself from my bed sheets and go through my closet looking for a shirt. I find an old Metallica t-shirt I cut up into a muscle shirt and decide it was good enough. I toss him the shirt before heading over to my dresser and throwing him a pair of boxers and basketball shorts.