high school ☾5sos

four.

four.

☾r i l e y

it was three hours into the party, and ashton was nowhere to be seen. riley sighed and stood up from her place on the white leather couch and traced the rim of her cup and mouthed the lyrics to little white lies, which had just begun to play. as she continue to walk around the crowd, which happened to be half of the senior population at parkwood high, she was rammed into causing her drink to fall from her hands and onto her black crop top. her body nearly fell to the floor but someone had grasped onto her forearm, bringing her to her feet. she looked up only to role her eyes and groan at the boy.

"watch where you're fucking going, hood." she glared and looked down at her soaked t-shirt.

"such language, clifford. the last time i heard that drop from your mouth was when you were screaming my name in your bedroom." he winked. riley immediately felt like gagging.

"that night was a fucking mistake, calum and you know good and well that it was." calum just shrugged and smirked at riley who flipped him off before running up the stairs of the pent house in search of jessica irwin's room for a new shirt.

as she was about to go into jessica's room, she saw familiar blonde curls peeking through the crack of the door next to jessica's room. she saw his head fall back and his eyes close and his mouth fall into agape. her hand tightly gripped onto the jessica's door nob and her eyes were squeezed shut. she slowly let go of the knob and walked towards the crack, only to see the truth before she was prepared for it. ashton thrusted into another girl with light brown hair and blonde highlights, the white sheets covered their body's. riley felt like vomiting from the sight in front of her and as if one que, a slow song began playing in the back. riley slowly backed away from the door and ran down the stairs to see her brother flirting with some random girl.

tears fell from her eyes as she approached michael who was know about to lead the girl up the stairs. she wipes a tear from her eye.

"michael, i need you to take me home." she shouted over the music.

"riley, what's wrong?" he asked in a concerned tone. she shook her head. "i'll explain later i just -"

"rileyyyyyyyyy!" jay slurred, walking over to riley with mason's arm over her shoulders. "how ya doin'?" she giggled. riley looked back at michael with hopeful eyes.

"sorry, ollie." michael sighed towards the girl who just rolled her eyes and walked away. "c'mon riley -"

"babe!" ashton sang when he reached riley and threw his arm around her, "the balls about to drop, c'mon!" before riley could scream back at him, she was already being pulled toward the crowd and was pulled into the corner where she had sat with luke before and realized he was still there. she gave him a small smile and wave.

the tv was right on the wall next to them. people began counting down from ten and the song anything could happen was being blasted on que in the background. the frown on riley's face disappeared and she knew exactly what she would do.

"5!" the crowd cheered. riley stepped closer towards luke.

"4!" even closer.

"3!" almost there.

"2!" one more step.

"1!" as ashton reached out for riley, riley pulled luke down to her height and attached their lips together. her small hands found the back of luke's neck and pulled him closer. luke hesitantly grabbed onto riley's waist and pulled her close and began kissing back. she smirked into the kiss.

when she pulled away, she wiped her mouth and felt multiple eyes on her. she looked over at ashton was had an innocent face and watering eyes. waiting for superman by daughtry came on.

"riley...." he whispered, stepping closer to her. michael's mouth was dropped into agape, jay and mason had stopped kissing, and luke stood behind riley, trying to process the events that had just occurred. "why - why would you do that?" he croaked. riley grew stiff and curled her fingers into a fist and she could feel her finger nails leaving marks on her palm.

"don't play innocent with me, not now ashton." his face grew confused.

"what are you talking about -"

"i saw you, ashton. maybe next time you should close the door all the way if you are going to fuck someone behind your girlfriends back." ashton's eyes immediately were filled with regret and guilt, but riley didn't buy it.

"i didn't mean to riley, it was a mistake and i had a couple of drinks -"

"oh that's new. " riley rolled her eyes "we're done, ashton." she shoved past ashton who stood still. michael threw a glare at ashton and followed a crying riley out of the party.

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ashton ashton ashton you naughty boy!

stay lovely. xx - m.