The Pie Club (A 5SOS fanfic)

Addicted

I wake up to the sound of breathing and a smell I recognize as Ashton.

My mind tells me that I should be shocked, and that I should stand up, but I don't. I just register how extremely satisfied with where I am.

I lay there for a couple of minutes, and then Ashton wakes up.

He seems confused but then he smiles.

"Hi, Elaina."

"Hi." I say.

I feel my phone buzz in my bra, where I stashed it. I pull it out, and realize that it's the last person I wanted to find out that I stayed here.

Dad- WHERE ARE YOU!

"Oh no." I say, panicking.

"What?" Calum asks, walking into the room.

"It's my dad." I say, all the good feelings draining out of me, anxiety and panic replacing them.

"You can't go there." Luke says, urgently, "but luckily I know a friend of ours that can help. Someone your dad never met, since he made sure to leave whenever your dad was home."

"It can't be." I say.

"Hi, El." Michael says, walking down the stairs.

I immediately run and hug him. I didn't realize how much I missed him.

"Mikey!" I yell.

"I'm sorry for being an idiot. I shouldn't have." Michael says, "Friends don't do that."

"It's fine. I understand. I'd probably do the same. I've put you through a lot of crap for someone who hasn't even known me for a year." I say, stopping the hug.

"We gotta go, now." Calum says.

So we climb into Michael's car, which is parked outside. I sit in the back, next to the window. Michael drives, Calum sits in the passager seat, Luke sits next to me, and Ashton sits at the other window.

For some reason, it makes my heart ache that he's not next to me.

I want him to be more than next to me.

My eyes widen at my thought. What the heck, El?

I pull my water bottle filled with grape koolaid out of my bag.

"You are addicted." Luke laughs. There, that feels right.

"Yeah, I know." I laugh, and then I add, "Wanna hear a joke?"

Everyone says yes.

"Okay, say addicted after everything I say. What do you call a drug user?"

"Addicted." Ashton says.

"What do you call an alcoholic?"

"Addicted." Calum says.

"What do you think I am to koolaid?"

"Addicted." They all say.

"Okay, what hit you in the face last night?"

"Addicted." Michael says, before he realizes the joke. No one else said anything, realizing before they spoke, but Michael fell into the trap.

Ashton laughs.

My heart flutters.

Everyone else does too, and Michael flushes red.

"I-I didn't think you were into that type of thing, Mikey." Calum says, in between laughs.

My phone buzzes.

El's Puppy- I'm addicted to something, as well.

Me- What is it?

El's Puppy- You.

My heart feels like it's going to beat out of my chest. I have to read the message multiple times.

I need to talk to him alone.

Happily, we are now at Michael's house.

I hop out of the car, and run in the house, into the bathroom,sitting against the wall.

WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?

I hear a knock on the door.

"Come in.".I say, and Ashton walks in and sits on the floor, next to me.

We sit in silence for a moment.

"I meant it, you know." Ashton says, staring at his feet.

I lean my head on his shoulder. His arm wraps around me.

"I really, really want you to date me. Seriously." He says.

"Okay." I say, simply.

"Really?"

"Uh huh."

In that moment I realize that I don't like Luke like that, I can't. He feels too much like my brother. I don't have the same feeling around him.

And I feel awful and wonderful all at the same time.