last dance ❁ halsey

♔ | one

All Ashley Frangipane could think of as she walked to school was how she was going to avoid Lauren Jauregui today.

She trudged through the front doors of her school and sighed deeply. She felt eyes on her and heard whispers and a few snickers.

She turned sharply and yelled "what are you looking at?!", making them stop pretty quickly but start again when she was out of earshot.

Running a hand through her freshly dyed blonde hair, she pulled open her locker and took out some books. She looked at the polaroids that adorned the door and felt a longing to see Zach again but then she reminded herself to keep him far away so she slammed her door shut and ran down to the bathrooms instead.

She sat on a toilet seat and pressed the youtube app and smiled at the two comments on her recent video, saying it was good and her voice was pretty. She had put up a cover of her favourite song "sex" by her favourite band The 1975 the night previous and she was ecstatic to have 35 views already.

Then, she scrolled through her other social media for a while, checking her instagram and twitter too but she mostly was on tumblr. Url www.tumblr.com/se7enteenblack had 1,345 followers, that was 1,345 people reading her poetry every day and looking at selfies she constantly put up, showing off her freshly dyed hair.

She was about to start writing another poem when she noticed the time. Uttering a string of curse words, Ashley Frangipane grabbed her school bag and ran out of the bathrooms, rushing down the corridors to her first class, her favourite one of all: english.

She just about made it in time as her teacher soon followed. A few students giggled and she rolled her eyes and took her seat.

Lauren Jauregui sat behind her, twirling a piece of her hair around her index finger and winking at any person who would give her the smallest bit of attention. But she only gave real attention to people who satisfied her and Ashley Frangipane was one if those people.

She kicked the leg of Ashley's seat, causing her to turn and look at her; all her plans of avoiding gone out the window.

"What?" Ashley whispered.

"You never called me back" Lauren said quietly, her raspy voice ringing in Ashley's ears, a voice Ashley knew would haunt her when she sat in her room alone.

"I was busy"

Lauren bit her lip "Were you singing Ashley?" she leaned forward "You know, I love it when you sing"

Ashley fought to look any lower than Lauren's chin "It's on my youtube if you wanna see"

"I think I'd prefer to hear it in person, babygirl"

Ashley's breath caught in her throat, it was like Lauren knew exactly what she liked.

"Okay fine. But I have to come to your house yeah?"

Lauren's lips curled into a wide smile "Perfect"

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(a/n: how's that for an intro ;)
hellooo and welcome to my first halsren fic! i've never written one before and i'm pretty excited ooh
uhh it's gonna be a lil hot because halsREN am i right??
anyway y'all better enjoy this; it started off as a youtuber au and lauren was supposed to be the person ashley was distracting herself from and then she'd stumble across this other girl online but nah i enjoyed the halsren part a lil too much and this happened!!
anyway love u bye! enjoy!)