Childhood Flames (Ashlyn/You)

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After practice, Y/N drove home in front of me and headed into her house like she had something important on her mind, and I knew she did. Considering the call she made during practice. After a while, as I was stretched out on the couch, just unwinding, there's a knock on the front door, so I get up and go open it to see Y/N standing there looking pretty bummed out.

"Oh shit. What happened? What'd Emily do to you? Where is she so I can rip her head off?" I say, but stop when Y/N puts her hands on my chest to keep me in front of her.

"Don't worry, Ash. She didn't hurt me. We just had a serious discussion."

"About?" I ask as we go sit on the couch, and I let Y/N cuddle up with me.

"The relationship." She says, playing with the 24 on my shorts.

"And?" I ask, rubbing her arm to relax her.

"I told her that we both should focus on our careers as athletes. Take time to be individuals."

"What'd she say?"

"She agreed and we agreed to stay in touch." Y/N says and I can't help but celebrate the tiniest bit on the inside.

"So it sounds like everything went well, what's with the sad Y/N?"

"I didn't expect it to actually hurt."

"You were with her for a while, Y/N/N, it's gonna sting a little." I say and she sighs, relaxing into me and resting her hand on the opposite hip to the side she was cuddled into.

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A few weeks later, the whole team was going to go out for the night, so we all dressed up, and when I saw Y/N getting into her car, I shed a tear. She was so damn beautiful it made me feel like a fucking idiot for doing what I did to her. When we all gathered at the restaurant, we all went in and I looked over after I felt a hand grab mine and our fingers intertwining almost immediately to see Y/N giving me a small smile before resting her head against my arm and closing her eyes as we walk to the table. Once we're seated, I press a kiss to the top of my best friend's head as I rub my thumb over her knuckles.

"You alright?" I ask her and she shakes her head.

"My head's been hurting since practice." She says and I sigh, my mind immediately jumping to the thought that she's got a concussion. It wouldn't matter anyway, we were just knocked out of the Championships, we're currently giving our Thorns the silent treatment, just to be childish.

"Did you hit it?"

"No."

"Maybe it's sinuses." I say and she nods before sneezing into her shirt.

The team planned on going to the club after dinner, but Y/N wasn't having it, so I told the team I'd take her home and take care of her and Alex smiled at me. One of those 'get your girl' smiles. I took Y/N home, and since Alex drove Ali to the little outing, Ali volunteered to drive Y/N's Jeep home and spend the night at my house because I was going to stay with Y/N to make sure she's alright. So when I got home with Y/N, I gave her some sinus medication and sent her off to get ready for bed, which didn't take long, so as I sat on her bed waiting for her to come back out of the bathroom, I look over when I hear her speak.

"You know where my pajamas are, you can borrow some." She says and I nod, watching as she crawls into bed before getting myself ready for bed, and crawling in next to her, letting her cuddle up to me because that's how she gets when she's sick. After a while of her playing with my stomach, and humming a song to herself, she fell fast asleep and I let myself fall asleep, and when I wake up, Y/N is sitting up, surrounded by tissues that were no doubt filled with mucus as she watched some kind of show on the TV.