Chasing Ashton -Lashton Hirwin-

Chapter Eleven: My Place? Your Place.

Chapter Eleven: My Place? Your Place.

He knew everyone was looking at him, he could feel their eyes burning into him. He kept his head low and walked to class, he was pretty sure he spent his entire life in English now. He twisted the door handle and pushed the door, but it was locked, this wasn't right, Ashton was never late. He looked down the hall at the people, they were staring at him, whispering about him, pointing at him. He knew what they were looking at on their phones, he knew they were looking at the picture. The picture that was all over the internet, all over the walls of the college. He started to panic, panic attacks were something he'd always suffered from but he hadn't had one in a while, he looked down the hall again and was about to make a run for it when he saw a reassuring sight; Ashton. He was struggling with books and bags, a coffee cup and some papers. "Luke, morning, sorry I'm late" he said as he reached the door, "Uhh, would you? The door" he said as he jingled the keys in his fingers,

"Yeah sure" Luke said as he carefully took the keys from Ashton's fingers, Luke's finger tips grazed Ashton's knuckles slightly and little butterflies formed in Ashton's stomach, he smiled at Luke after the door was unlocked and walked in dumping everything down on his desk, "What are we doing today? Seeing as college ends for a week tomorrow?"

"Going over the next report"

"I'm really confused, why are we doing so many reports?"

"Well, it works differently here, you do the initial reading at the beginning of the school year, and then throughout the rest of term you do individual reports based on each of the stories you read"

"Oh right, yeah, I get it now, but I haven't done all the initial reading, I wasn't here, I'm not caught up or anythi-"

"Calm down" Ashton said cutting him off, he walked over to Luke who was perched on the edge of a desk at the front of the class, he placed his right hand on Luke's shoulder and smiled, "I promised I'd tutor you? If you played me that song, remember?" Luke nodded at him, his gaze drifted to Ashton's hand still on his shoulder, "So I'll tutor you, over the week off, like I promised" Luke looked up at him, he smiled brightly and Ashton smiled back.

"Thank you" Luke said quietly,

"No problem, right, take this and go write the date up on the board for me" Ashton said pulling a black whiteboard pen out of his pocket, Luke took the pen and brushed his hand over Ashton's. Ashton's breathing hitched slightly and he pulled his hand away, "I, uhh, I'll, the book, yeah" Ashton stumbled over his words, what was happening to him? He'd yelled at Luke for having a 'schoolboy' crush on him, all Luke was trying to do was get a good education and Ashton couldn't shake his feelings enough to help him.

The rest of the class stumbled into the room and Calum pulled his hand down Luke's back as he walked past, Luke shuddered and all the fear came rushing back. "Take your seats for me then guys" Ashton clapped, Luke went and sat in his seat, Liam looked at him and raised his eyebrow in a questionable manor, Luke just nodded and Liam looked away, "The college year is almost up, well I say almost, there's still about three months left, however, you still have 2 more reports to complete, one 2000 word report and one 3500 word report." groans filled the classroom. "Oh stop moaning, you'll get it done in time" he smirked, everyone noticed he was in a better mood today.

"Sir, you're leaving, aren't you?" A girl asked, she never spoke, no one really noticed her but she knew and noticed everyone, Ashton frowned at her,

"No? Who told you I was leaving?" she turned and looked at Zayn who was trying hard not to laugh, "Zayn" he said sternly,

"Sorry, Sir" the girl said again,

"It's fine, Lucy, let's move on. The report due in next is the shorter one, 2000 words. You'll be writing it on The Lady of the House of Love. That story is one adverse to everyday life, containing a clear role shift between male and female. Who can tell me how?" everyone looked a little lost, "C'mon guys, give me something to work with here?" Luke knew the answer, he'd fallen in love with that story and he knew it, but he didn't want to draw anymore attention to himself, "Right, I'll pick on someone if someone doesn't say something?" he said perching on the edge of his desk and slipping his hands in his jeans pockets, "Right, I'm ch-"

"The male becomes the victim" Luke said, he hoped he was quiet but Ashton heard,

"Say that again?"

"The male, in the story, he becomes the victim. And he's, her prey" he said louder this time, Ashton looked impressed, he stood up and began writing on the board,

"Correct, well done, Luke. Now, who can tell me what she'd be called then? Harry?"

"Umm, well technically she'd be the matriarch, but she lives alone, so, technically she's not?" Harry said flicking through pages in his work book, "Wait, no that's wrong" he said quickly,

"Don't doubt yourself, Harry. You were right" Harry had a smug smile on his face as he looked at Louis, Louis rolled his eyes and laughed a little. "Right guys, off you go." Ashton said,

"There's 10 minutes of the lesson left?" Michael said,

"Fine, you can stay until the bell goes then, Mr.Clifford, the rest of you may leave"

"Whoa, that's so not fair!" Michael protested,

"Just leave" Ashton huffed, the class all rushed out before he could change his mind, as usual Luke was the last one out of the classroom, just in case Ashton had anything he wanted to say to him. "Luke, Wednesday morning okay?" Luke nodded and was about to step out of class, when he realised Ashton meant the tutoring,

"Umm Sir, where? Shall I come here?" Ashton shook his head,

"No no, College Campus will be locked over the week off, Library, perhaps?"

"Well, why not my place? I have everything we'll need already and I'm sure mum would appreciate me getting some extra help where she can be nosy, she wants me to do well"

"Yeah okay, your place."

"Here's the address, Luke said scribbling on a piece of paper, he handed it to Ashton and left for science with a smile.

Luke spent Science and both his music lessons with a smile on his face, Ashton was going to his house, it was perfect! But he had to keep it strictly professional. He knew he couldn't do anything to mess it up and he wasn't going to either, what made it even better was that he had English all day tomorrow and he'd be able to see Ashton every single day for the next week and a half.