The Beginning (Sequel)

Chapter 4: Rudely Interupted

~~~~~~~~~~~~Ashley’s Pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The gleaming sun shined brightly over my closed eyelids. I felt so comfortable in my cozy bed. I flittered my droopy eyes open to see the time. It was only 8:30 a.m. Strange? Usually I hear the tv on, but I only heard the sound of the rolling waves outside my French doors. The smell of baked French toast and bacon filled the room. French toast? Bacon? We never cook food in the kitchen. Who could be in our kitchen?

Just as I was lifting my lazy body out of bed I heard a heavy sigh. Then I felt a strong hand around my waist. I looked to my right to find Thomas snuggled next to me. He looks so cute asleep. Is he smiling? There was a hint of a smile on his sleepy face.  Instantly his eyes flew open, looking up at me.

“Good Morning.” He said as he stretched his arm around my side.

“Good Morning back to you.”  I felt his hand rest by my rib cage. Were those butterflies in my stomach?

“Did you sleep well?”

“Yeah, I didn’t wake in the middle of the night. How about you?”

“Amazing, never slept better.”

The smile on his face became bigger.

“Haha, then you can have my bed.”

“Can that be my friendaversary present?” I laughed.

“if you want.”

“Such a giver”

“I try.” I flipped my hair and batted my eyes dramatically. Thomas playfully squeezed my sides. I flipped on my side and let out a squeal.

“Don’t Thomas, you know I’m very ticklish!

“I know.” He moved his hand by my neck and started to tickle me again. I let out a quiet scream.

“Thomas!” But he wouldn’t stop. He knew every one of my tickle spots. I was laughing like a crazy person. My eyes were getting wet because I was laughing so much.

“Okay……Okay…….Stop……I can’t breathe.” He stopped for a minute and that was my chance. I poked his sides when I saw he relaxed.

“Payback time Thomas.” He went into a fetal position.

“STOP! Not Ashley!” I laughed mischievously.

“NEVER!!!” He grabbed me and I smashed on top of him. Now we were both trying to tickle each other. We were both out of breath by 5 minutes. I was still on top of him. He didn’t take his eyes off me. I smiled not realizing how close our faces were. I have no idea what I was thinking, but before I my heart and brain could catch up I was closing my eyes and leaned into him almost touching his lips, he didn’t pull away as we were so close I could feel is warm breath.

“GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDD MMMMMMOOOORRRRNNNIIINNNNGGG!!!!” I immediately shot away from Thomas and turned to whoever rudely barged through my door.

“Hello love!”

“Louis?” I couldn’t believe my eyes.

“The one and only.” Even though I was completely embarrassed of the predicament he caught me in I still couldn’t help myself to run into his arms. I almost knocked him over.

“Nice to see you too.” I could feel his smile as he hugged me tightly back. Thomas got up from bed and stuck walked up to greet Louis.

“I’m Thomas. Nice to meet you.”

“Ah. So this is him. Good job Ash, but I would cover your face lad if you want to keep it that handsome.” I stepped up to Louis.

“What do you mean?”

“Personally I’m pleased you found yourself a good looking lad, but all I’m going to say is not all of us are happy.” He didn’t have to explain himself. I knew what he was referring too.

“Please tell me he’s not….”

“Sorry love, but we can’t just leave him there.”

“Wait, what’s going on?” Lou and I both ignored Thomas.

“Louis, tell me he’s not.” Louis pointed his hand toward the door.

“Go and find out for yourself.” I ran to the living room to find that Lou was right. There was Zayn sitting on a stool by the kitchen bar. I didn’t realize how much noise I made as I raced to the room.

“Ashley!” said Harry as he dropped what looked like a spatula and scurried over to wrap his inviting arms around me. Everyone else joined in except for Zayn.

“What are you guys doing here? I thought you wouldn’t be coming back for another like 5 months.”

“We couldn’t wait any longer to see your beautiful face.”

“Awe shucks Harry. Your making me blush.” I joked, but Sara still came and in twined their fingers.

*Cough Cough* We all turned to the door frame of the dining room. Thomas was standing there looking uncomfortable.

“Oh sorry Tom Tom.” I walked over to Thomas.

“Boys, this is Thomas. Thomas this is One Direction.”

“Welcome to the family Thomas.” Niall said as he grabbed him into one of his famous Horan hugs.

“Better treat our Ashley well or you will never be able to sleep again.” Joked Liam.

“No Liam, he’s not my boyfriend. We’re just friends.”

“Yeah. When they took pictures of us we were only celebrating our friendaversary.”

“Ha! There’s nothing going on between you two?” asked Louis eying me.

“Not a thing.” But from Louis’s expression he didn’t believe me. I guess I see where he gets that idea. I was in a bad position when he so rudely exploded into my room.

“So we stopped our tour for a misunderstanding?” bellowed Zayn as he angrily walked up to me.

“Nice to see you too.”

“This isn’t funny Ashley. So many fans were heart broken when we had to cancel 2 weeks’ worth of concerts so could help you out.”

“Oh and were they heart broken when they saw you and Ms. Fake Barbie bitch on tv proclaiming love for each other?”

“Don’t try to turn this on me. I’m not the one all over the news creating chaos.” The Thomas steps in.

“Hey dude, calm down. It wasn’t her fault.”

“Your right. It’s YOURS! If it wasn’t for you none of this would have happened.” I could feel my whole body heat up with angry.

“Actually Zayn this…” I flung my arms around. “This is all your fault. Maybe if you talked to me and kept in touch we wouldn’t be in this god damn situation. We promised, WE PROMISED each other that when you came back we would get back together. What happened to that plan? Got lonely? Was I not good enough for you anymore? Did the words I LOVE YOU not mean anything anymore to you?” The room fell silent as my comment hung in the cold air. I knew I hit Zayn hard and just the thought of me hurting him hurts me. The knot in my stomach reached my throat and the tears began to fall on my face.

“Ashley…..” Zayn stopped, his gaze fell to the floor. He was thinking about trying to comfort me, but Harry stopped him.

“You’ll just make it worse.” He then backed off and disappeared behind the bathroom door.

“Come here Ash.” Thomas opened his arms to comfort me. I didn’t hesitate; he was the only one that could make this better. I let everyone else try to cheer me up, but I just couldn’t get Zayn’s face when he looked truly hurt.

“Why don’t we got for a drive.” Liam took my hand before anyone could object. I tried to protest, but Liam just ignored me.

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A/N: HAVE TO SAY SORRY I HAVEN’T UPDATED…..I GOT DISTRACTED BY WATCHING THE NEW MOVIE CHRONICLES AND IT WASN’T HALF BAD!!!