Not a simple love story || Muke

Chapter 20 part 2

Luke's pov~

"Ashton I love him and I hate myself for it." I said it. Out loud. There's no going back from this. Someone else knows. I look at Ashton waiting, hoping, praying he'd say something so I don't feel like an idiot but he just looks at me. I don't know if he's looking at me in hatred or of confusion. "Ash please just say something, please!"

What feel like a million years later Ashton finally blinks and starts to shake his head and turns back around to face the door to his room but stops. "Luke you should go wait in the car with cal, me and Michael will be out in a minute." With that he opened the door just a crack so he could slip in, leaving me in the hallway alone. I run my hands through my hair, it's getting so long, kinda reminds me of Ashton old hair, maybe I'll keep it, maybe Mikey will thinks it's hot. Michael. He seems to be taking up all the room in my mind lately and I don't hate it. I look at the bedroom door one last time before I turn around and grab my bag from the living room and go to the front door. I get outside to see Calum leaning on the car with a cigarette hanging from his lips.

When we make eye contact I give him a little smirk "you know cal-pal smoking kills." I walk up to him and take the cigarette.

Calum starts to laugh "ya says the guy who got me addicted." We both laugh at that cause it's true. I got him and Ashton addicted but luckily Ashton quit.

I take a long drag "you know you can quit we'd support you."

Once again Calum laughs "ya I know but it's harder then that. Ashton has the discipline that's how he quit and for some reason you could smoke a whole pack of these buggers and still not be craving them the next day. I'm just a guy with no real motivation to quit."

It was true no matter how much I smoked I've never got the craving for more. I could be a heavy smoker one week and the next not touching one once. I drop the cigarette on the ground and crush it with my boot. "Maybe you just need someone to motivate you to stop, someone to make you want to get up in the morning. Someone who makes you want to be the best you. You know someone to be your end game."

Calum looks at me a little confused. We both jump when we hear the front door shut. I look at the door to see Ashton fixing a beanie on Michaels head. "Luke i know what I want my end game to be." I look at Calum to see him starting at Ashton with a smile on his lips. I look over at Michael, his face is scrunched up as he focusses on walking down the stairs without tripping. Maybe I found my end game too.

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"Okay so lets go over the rules. Don't talk to strangers. Don't wonder off somewhere. Make sure you can always see one of us at all times and if you get lost go to the front desk and wait for us, understand?" We parked the car and were headed to the front gate of the amusement park and Ashton keeps going over rules with Mikey, I can't tell If he's actually listening or if his head is in the clouds. We walk past the front gates and head towards the first bench we see. "Okay so I say we do the petting zoo first, then the hunted house, then we do all the rides. After that play a couple games, then when it's the end of the night we ride the Ferris wheel. Any objections?" We all shack our heads no. Ashton smiles and grabs Mikey's hand and starts to walk to the petting zoo.

The whole time we were at the petting zoo all Mikey wanted to play with are the cats. It kind of made sense he did remind me of a kitten. Next was the hunted house the whole time Michael had his eyes closed cuddled into Ashton. After we finish all the rides we made our way to the game. Michael and Ashton walk ahead of us and me and Calum follow behind. "Hey" I turn to look at Calum, he was still looking straight ahead following Michael and ash with his eyes. "I'm gonna confess my feelings to ash today. I'm thinking on the Ferris wheel, so can you and Michael go on a different cart then us?"

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"Two people per cart" we are standing in line waiting for the guy working the Ferris wheel to let the couple in front of us be seated.

"Okay, so me and Mikey will share then you guys can share one." Ashton pulled Michael close to him, as a way to show there going together. I look over at Calum, he looked calm like it didn't bother him but his right hand was shaking a little.

Calum puts his hands in pockets when he sees I've noticed his hand. "I ummm. I'm gonna go have a smoke I should be back before we get on." He didn't give any time for any of us to protest against what he said. He turned around and walk to the "smoking" bench and sat down.

"Hey Michael can you do me a favour and make sure that cal's okay?" Michael looked at Ashton and back at me and nodded his head. He let go of Ashton's hand and walked over to Calum and sat down right beside him. After Mikey sat down I look back to Ashton "can me and Mikey ride together?"

Ashton's eyebrows rise a little and he looked at me. "Seriously Luke, what are you playing at here, a few days ago you were calling him names and now you want to be his friend."

I look back over to where Michael and Calum are sitting, they still haven't moved but I could see that Michael was holding Calum hand. "I'm not sure but I think he's my end game."

From the corner of my eye ash looked at me funny "your end game?"

I turn my head a little and give him a smile. "It's a thing between me and cal, he really wants to ride the Ferris wheel with you by the way."

Ash let out a little chuckle and nodded his head. "Okay you can ride together but those two have to get here now if we even want to go on this death trap."
Ashton yells Cal's name and motions him over with his hands. Cal and mike look over, cal lets out one more puff of smoke before he drops it one the floor and crushes it with his boot. He gets up and pulls Michael up with him and walks with him back over to us. "Change of plans me and cal are riding together and Mikey you and Luke are riding together, okay?" Michael nods his yes and Ashton smiles. "Great!"

We wait a couple more minutes before the guy is calling us up. "The next two couples please" we walk up and the guy buckles us in.

We make our way to the top, I see ash and cal in front of us talking. They stop talking for a second then Ashton says something and they both smile and kiss each other. "Cal got his end game." Michael looks over at me, he looks as confused as Ashton was. "It's not a big deal but I'm glad that there together cal needs someone like him to keep him balanced and ash needs someone like cal to keep him alive." I look back at Michael to see him nodding my head. Maybe I need him? "Michael I know I haven't been the best guy to you but please can we start over?" Michael looks straight forward for a couple of seconds before he nods his head again. "Okay well then there's one more thing I need to do." Michael tilts his head in confusion. I move forward and connects my lips with his, they were soft and taste like strawberries. I don't deepen the kiss I pull away.

I look at Michael "Michael I want you to be my end game, go on a date with me?"

I wait for him to shake his head but he doesn't. I look straight forward. I was rejected. As we approach the bottom of the ride we get off and walk with ash and cal to the car. They were walking ahead of us holding hands. As we're driving back to Ashton's place with ash driving, Calum in the passenger seat, Michael in the seat behind Ashton's and me behind cal's. I look out the window. Am I not good enough for him? Does he hate me for all the shitty things I've done to him? Who knows I just need to get over it and move on. After a while of silence the car come to a complete stop when we all hear a small voice "y-yes Luke, I r-really w-want to g-go out w-with y-you."