Drama Geek {LASHTON AU}

[10.]

this is weird hi.
so i just logged on bc im bored and nostalgic, but i found this draft and imma just post it. nobody reads this anymore and for those who did actually read the thing i last posted, know that i don't write anymore, but like, here i guess

It was no longer Ralf and Julien when they were rehearsing, it was Luke and Ashton.

The kiss in the play was now between them, not the characters, more kisses had been added with no explanation to the other members of the group. It was 'added because it was added'.

It had been three days since the initial kiss, and neither of them had really talked about it, and had definitely not told anybody else about it. They made out and hugged, pretty much every opportunity that they were alone. But that was about it, the 'talk' hadn't occurred yet. The 'where is this going?' and 'do you want more than just this?' was something which hadn't been discussed.

Luke didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing.

As far as he knew Ashton wasn't out. After the whole Michael fiasco it appeared that the brown haired boy stayed on the down low.

Ashton was bi. Ashton told Luke he was bi during their second ever interaction. But it appeared he hadn't told anybody else. Why that was, was still a mystery.

"Mr Hemmings would you join us please instead of staring outside?"

Luke blinked and rubbed his eyes, slowly turning back to the front. God he hates maths. He wished it was like the English system where you could choose your options for the last two years of secondary school, but noooo, you have to do core subjects with your three options. This school even had an extra year. Most in Australia only had up to year twelve, while this had up to year 13. Not that Luke was complaining to be honest, anything to put off uni, or lack of it. To be honest he didn't even know if he wanted to go. He wanted to be an actor, that's it. A profession that was unlikely to go anywhere, but that's what he wanted, how many people become actors, like, successful ones, what is the percentage of that, like 30%, no that's far too high, 20% seems too high, but then 10% too low, how about 15%, okay think like this there are like a lot of actors on earth, there's A-list ones in Hollywood, Luke didn't want that... but that's a very small amount and then B or C grade actors are also relevant kinda, but it's not about fame it's about success and happiness, well to Luke it is, so according to his guess 10% (ish) make it, so what's 10% of how many actors there are, how do you do percentages again, maybe paying attention in maths was a good ide-

"Mr Hemmings!" The teacher scolded once more, interrupting his internal ramble, "Will you do as I say and face the front! And take off your jacket, it's almost 35 degrees."

Being the amazing actor that he is, Luke managed to conceal the dramatic eye roll which was building up inside him, and shrugged off his jacket.

Alex looked at him curiously, "She's right about that yanno." He said quietly, "It's summer, everyone's in tank tops and there you are in a fucking hoodie."

Luke chucked and stared at the blank worksheet in front of him, before turning towards his friend, "Listen it's hot here but try growing up in Darwin. We don't even have seasons. We have wet, and we have dry. This," he gestured around "is nothing."

Alex shrugged before going back to the sheet of trigonometry that Luke hadn't even attempted.

It was only in science when someone noticed, it had even passed Luke himself, maybe the maths classroom was too dim for people to see it, his jacket covered it most of the lesson.

"Cal, pass me a pencil please." Charlotte piped up from her seat, they were doing results tables.

Luke looked up as Calum tried to reach the box on the other side of the table but failed miserably.

Luke grinned smugly, "I'll do it."

Using his mile long limbs, he reached over with ease and grabbed the box, okay he had to stretch a little, and handed the pack to Charlotte, leaning over so his neck was right in his tawny haired friends face he had put his jacket back on, it must have moved just enough so that he could have seen it. As he pulled back, Luke saw Calum's eyes had narrowed.

"My Busen burner isn't working." Calum said bluntly, "Luke come get one with me."

The blonde cocked his head to one side, "Calum the gas hasn't been turned on yet, obviously it's not gonna go alight yet."

"It's broken," Calum persisted "I can just tell."

"How can you tell-"

"Because I can!-"

"Besides, it's like a five meters walk can't you just get one yourself?"

Clearly he couldn't because Calum pulled him up and dragged him towards the supply cabinet.

"Dude!" Luke dragged out the groan, "I know I'm great but surely you can spend one minute without me-"

"What's that on your neck?" Calum smirked.

Luke blinked, "What?"

"Your neck." Calum said again "What happened?"

Luke scrunched his face up in confusion, "What do you mean what happened, nothing happened!"

Calum snorted loudly, causing the people working near the cabinet to turn around, "Oh, so you just fell on your neck then?"

Luke pulled out his phone and flushed bright red, Calum was right there was something on his neck, quite a sizeable something.

It was a hickey, him and Ashton had quite a 'practice session' during break and in hindsight, it wasn't the best idea.

"Oh," Luke coughed, "that. I, um, I uh-"

"So who was it." Calum smiled smugly "Was be hot?"

Luke smiled a little to himself, "Yeah he is."

"Someone I know?"

"No." Luke replied a little too quickly l,