Our Daughter. (Ashton Irwin)

Chapter 1.

~present day~

I walked through the kitchen of the London apartment I shared with my best friend, I did miss living in Australia but ever since I'd split with Ashton and had the baby there's been no time, no money or nothing. My parents have offered me money to go back home but I'd rather be living here on my own than try to rebuild my relationship with them. They were one of the reasons why I moved out here anyway, they hated Ashton so I will do anything to not have to go back and face the 'I told you so'.

I've not heard from Ashton since the day we split, I hated him but I also loved him to death. That's the thing about love, it will never go away. I've attempted dating a few guys but between looking after Darcey and work I've had no spare time, just to think that Ashton is out there living his dream kills me. Darcey has every right to know who her father is but if he can't make the effort is it really worth going through the trouble?

I sighed as I made my way through the living room, picking up the long trail of Darcey's toys. I am very lucky that I did well in school, otherwise I'd have nowhere to live. I had saved since I was 14 to go to university, with my parents help I'd managed to get the money to go before I moved to England without Ashton, after everyone turned against me. I had a few words with some of the teachers so I'd managed to get a decent degree and a very good job. I'd also taken a gap year out to look after Darcey before starting uni in September.

I sat on the sofa and watched Darcey play with her baby dolls, she looked so much like Ashton, her light brown curls bounced around as she giggled uncontrollably, which made her dimples even more visible than usual, the only thing that didn't make her look like Ashton was her blue eyes which she got from me, she was abnormally tall for a 2 year old though.

I turned on the TV and started flicking through the channels. Today was just another day, I only worked for 3 days a week so I had 2 days and the weekend to spend time with my daughter. I stopped on an entertainment channel because something caught my eye. 5 Seconds of Summer were in London. I was interrupted by Darcey jumping on the sofa and onto me. "Mummy!!!"

"Yes sweetheart?"

"Can wee go to da park?" I huffed.

"Go and wake Ashley up and we can take her too."

"Ok!" She ran off and up the stairs to Ashley's room. I switched off the TV and began packing up Darcey's toys and placing the nappy bag into the pram. "Aaaaarrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!" I heard Darcey scream. I ran upstairs and into Ashley's room to see Ashley chasing my daughter round the room under her sheets. Ashley was my best friend. She'd moved to England with me because no matter what happened, she was always right beside me, not judging me and I knew I could always count on her for everything. Also, she was absolutely amazing with my daughter.

After taking my daughter out of Ashley's room, I left her to get dressed whilst I put Darcey's coat and boots on.

"Why do you want to go to the park?" I began buttoning up her coat after placing a scarf round her neck.

"Because I want to play. It's borin here." I rolled my eyes at her.

"You've only been awake for 2 hours." I couldn't help but smile. "But alright then!" Soon enough, Ashley came stomping down the steps and we were ready to go to the park. I popped Darcey into her pram and we headed off downstairs after Ashley had her breakfast. "I'm sorry about waking you this early."

"It's fine." She shook her head. "I was awake anyway. How could you not with her running around?"

"I told you before Ashley, I could move out and find my own space." She shook her head again and took the pram from me.

"It's fine. I honestly don't have a problem with it. It's better to be out doing things than being sat in my bed under the covers. I don't want you to go." She gave me a reassuring smile before we turned into the park, going through the gate. We lived in the centre of London so we were quite near all the necessities which was helpful with a constantly energised child.

We took Darcey over to the playground and took her out of the pram.

"Be careful ok?" She nodded before running off. We both sat down on a seat, watching her play, making sure she didn't go too high without one of us.

"She's getting really big now." I smiled.

"Yeah she is."

"Do you maybe think that-" I put my hand up to her.

"No. He hasn't made the effort and to be honest, he's too famous now, if I went back to him with my child, it'll ruin the band. As he said 2 years ago."

"But Sam, you don't know, he may have tried, he doesn't know that you've moved. And Darcey is his child as well."

"No she isn't. I raised her, I am the only one in her life; aside from you; therefore she is my child. Maybe one day I will finally be able to forgive him and let him see her but it will be a LONG time before he can be her father." I paused before apologizing. "I'm sorry Ashley, I didn't mean to go off on one."

"It's fine." She pulled me into a hug and we stayed like that until we heard some screams. I immediately looked over to the climbing frame but Darcey was still playing. Then, two girls ran straight past us and over to a group of other girls crowding round something. Or someone. "I'm gonna go check that out." She said before running off. I decided to go and check on Darcey.

"Where is Ashley goin?"

"She's just gone to check something out. Shall we try these monkey bars?" She nodded, forgetting the whole conversation about Ashley. I grabbed onto her legs as she leaned forward and held onto the first bar. I lifted her up a little so she didn't have to use all her strength and soon enough she was swinging on them, all the way till the end. "Well done!!" I pulled her into a hug and attacked her with kisses; she couldn't stop laughing; before walking over to the swing with her. I sat down and put her on my lap as I started swinging slowly. Then Ashley ran over from the group of people, jumped over the gate and ran to me, bending over and puffing, clearly out of breath. "Darc, could you just got and play over there for a second?" She nodded and hopped off, oblivious to what was going.

"We have...A situation." My eyes widened.

"WHAT." I demanded.

"Ash...Ashton is over there. With...his band." I felt numb. The tears began to build behind my eyes as I saw the group parting slightly, I saw him, sat on a box, like nothing was bothering him. He'd forgotten about me. My words were stuck in my mouth, I couldn't speak. I stared at Ashley who saw my pain and ran to grab the pram. I was stuck on the spot, I couldn't move. I couldn't believe it. I built up the courage to look over again and most of the fans had gone and the boys were now packing up. I needed to get out of here.

"Darcey sweetheat, we're going now."

"But mummy!! I wanna play!"

"You've done enough playing now come on." I replied sternly.

"No!" This was not the time for fighting. I grabbed my daughter from the climbing frame; just as she started screaming; and took her over to the pram.

"Darling please we have to go, Mummy and Ashley have things to do! We can come back later!" That calmed her down slightly. Thank god.

~Ashton's P.O.V~

The acoustic performance in the park was amazing! Even though it was cold in London, so many fans turned out to see the boys and I playing some songs. We met some fans first and took some pictures with them because we want to make them all happy. I wish I was completely happy. Whilst we were packing up, I heard some screaming and looked up to see a mother putting her crying baby into the pram in the play area not far from where we did our performance. My smile disappeared as I watched them ;and a friend; rush out of the park because I caught the mother's eye before she turned and walked off. It was her.

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