Ashton is lonely and listens to his friend and joins a chat site but using his friend photo. He meets Emily and they get along, both wanting the same thing a modern day penpal to help kill the loneliness and boredom. Than Ashton realises I like this girl but she thinks am someone else. Will it ever be?*
*Note: Lets be honest its a story the odds of it not having a happy ending as unlikely :P.
<b>Ashton POV</b>
I rolled over to my left side hoping that maybe it would be the magical thing to help me sleep. Not that it made a difference the mattress was still paper thin and there was no room in this little bunk. I heard Michael laughing. Why was he up so late? it's 4am and we needed to be up in a few hours for press and than get ready for the show tonight in New York.
“Mikey” I whispered as loud as I could as I stuck my head out from behind the little red curtains we had for privacy, if you could call it that seeing as you could hear everything and at any moment any of the guys could pull it open to say hi or throw something at you, depending on their mood “Mikey” I whispered a little louder till it was close to not being a whisper
“Yeah” Mikey popped his head out
“Why are you up? “ I asked, realising I sounded just like a parent
“Chatting with Katie” Mikey showed me his phone screen and there was a smiling Katie on Skype. “It's only 6pm back home and I missed her”
I waved and left them to it. Great now my head was thinking again, over thinking about how much I missed having someone to call and talk to when I couldn't sleep. It was the right thing to end the relationship with Belinda but that didn't mean I didn't want someone but it's so hard to meet someone these days.
Everyone one sees me as Ashton Irwin of 5 Seconds of Summer not Ashton normal lad....well I guess I wasn't a normal lad anymore, maybe I never would be but that shouldn't mean that I can't met a nice girl and have that part of my life.
After a little while longer I gave up, maybe a tea would be the cure. I checked my phone as I sat here listening to the sound of the bus along the silent dark road. There was a message from Ben. I'll see if he is still up. I scrolled though all the names in my phone, I couldn't even remember who half theses people were now. I meet so many people in this job and at the time getting their number seems like a great idea. Thankfully “B” is pretty close to the top. I pressed call and waited.
“DUDE” Ben yelled into the phone “WHAT IS UP?”
“Hey not much. Can't sleep. What's happening?” One thing I loved about Ben was that what I did never seemed to enter into this mind. He always just acted like I was normal Ashton and when I told him about the places I had been he always asked what the girls where like but he was a great listener to.
“Ash, you alright?” Cal sat down next to me his hair was all over the place. he must of just woken up. It was then I realised I was laying on the couch and my phone was laying on the fall. It was then I remembered I had crashed after talking to Ben. Sometimes all it takes is talking to someone.
“Yeah. Couldn't sleep” I looked at the time and realised we needed to get ready. I got the rest of the guys up and we got ready, well as ready as you can get to facing the hordes of girls that will be waiting to see us. I love it but sometimes I wish I didn't have to do my hair before leaving the bus. As the day went on we were kept pretty busy. While eating dinner Ben sent me a message with a photo of himself saying “Dude use this as your picture” and I remembered his idea. Join a chat site, and use his photo as my picture and make some friends that way with people then if I hit it off with some girl tell her who I really am, I couldn't lie to someone though but I couldn't use my photo. I ignored the text and listened to Cal talk excitingly about some new song he heard, I admit I wasn't really listening I keep thinking about Ben's idea.
After the show and back on the bus all the guys where either talking to girlfriend or someone special. Luke and Cal where like me and single but they both had that one girl “Friend” who in some ways filled that hole left by being single. I checked my phone and there were the usual messages from mum and the odd friend. There was a bunch from Ben with app suggestions. I looked over at Mikey would was making kissy faces at his laptop and that was the last straw. I downloaded the app, texted Ben and let him know I’m going to join it and that I am going to use his photo but use my first name. I had no idea what I was doing when I joined. There was a bunch of messages in the chat saying “Kik me my name is “____” so I looked up what Kik was and it's a free messaging app so I figured what the hell am half way as it was. I downloaded it and made a username and went back to the site and there was a few messages on there but there was one that caught my eye is was “Clean chat only guys, just bored and looking for someone to chat with about whatever. Kik name is LollipopRainbow” I was wondering what she meant by 'Clean chat' for one and her name was one of the less scary ones. I took a deep breathe and went for it. Found her on kik and looked at the screen thinking what do I say. I typed away at my phone and pressed the send button. I read it over and thought I sound like a idiot.
<b><i>Ash</b> - Hey. My name is Ashton on saw you on ChatSingles and was wondering what clean chat is?</i>
Well that won't get a reply. Just as I put my phone down I got a notification
<b><i>Emily </b> - Hey Ashton. My name is Emily. Haha clean chat means not sex talk, no asking for nude photos etc. New at this? :)</i>
I did sound like an idiot.
<b><i>Ash</b> - Umm yeah I’m new. Do people really ask for that stuff?
Of course they did. Why was I acting like I didn’t know that. Another notification
<b><i>Emily </b> - Hahaha yeah they do actually. I get a feeling you won't which is good. So what brought you to that site?
I told Emily about being bored and that a friend suggested it and we chatted for a a while. I found out that she lives in Melbourne, is Australian, 18 years old but she turns 19 soon. She lives at home, is working in a clothes store. She has a kitten that she adores. Just the usual stuff. I clicked on her profile picture and she looks cute, with what I assume is dark hair. The photo being black and white made it hard for me to tell the hair colour or her eye colour but that didn’t matter to me. I mean we were just talking. Nothing will come of it.
