Train - A.Irwin

dirty laundry

→Elaina

"Do we need to pick up your stuff from anywhere?" Ashton asks Elaina as he pulls into the lot. He must have forgotten to ask earlier, not that she had stuff to be picked up anyway.

"Um, no. I have it all in here." she gestured to her stuffed backpack and Ashton flashed her a confused look before getting out of the car. Elaina grabbed the handle just in time for Ashton to pull open the door for her. She blushed and watched her feet as the made their way to the lift, riding it to Ashton's floor.

The flat seemed small from the outside, and Elaina couldn't help but feel embarrassed that she had taken up Ashton's offer. I'm so stupid she kept telling herself as he pulled out a key and unlocked the door, revealing a messy apartment. Two teenage (?) boys definitely live here.

Ashton gave Elaina a quick tour of the house, showing her around the kitchen and to the toilets, or as he called them, "the important places." Elaina took note of all of this.

The pair stopped at a wooden door and Ashton twisted the knob and pushed it open, revealing a surprisingly neat room.

"This is my room." he explained. Somehow, Elaina knew from the band posters and the drum set in the corner that this was definitely Ashton's room.

"You can sleep in here if you want, and I'll sleep on the couch. Do you have a pair of clothes? I have some if you need some." Elaina chose to ignore the first part, deciding to fight with him later. "A pair of clothes would be lovely."

Ashton pulled a pair of boxers from the drawer and an old Ramones shirt from the closet. "I don't know what you usually wear to bed, is this ok?" he asked and she nodded, taking the clothes from him.

"Is there any place I could do some laundry? Obviously I don't have much to wear and all of my outfits are either dirty or wet." she mused and Ashton laughed. He had in intoxicating laugh and a smile with dimples, and Elaina could've melted right then and there.

"Of course. Down on the first floor there's a laundry room,"

Ashton was silent for a moment, trying to remember anything that he had forgotten, and snapped his fingers suddenly, causing Elaina to jump slightly.

"My roommate Luke is out grocery shopping right now. He should be back in about in hour. You don't have to talk to him if you don't want to, but he is friendly and likes giving hugs. And if you don't feel comfortable telling him that you're my friend, just tell him you're my cousin; he's really gullible."

Elaina internally scoffed at the thought of someone being so friendly to a stranger. She also wanted to scoff at the thought of telling this "Luke" character that she was Ashton's cousin, but decided it might be good idea since she would probably have to leave town after this.

"Thank you. I really appreciate this. I think I'll do some laundry, yeah?" Elaina thanked Ashton and pulled the few clothes she had out of her backpack.

"Ok. I'll try to have dinner ready by the time you get up here, but if Luke isn't back you might have to wait a little bit. We're out of everything." Ashton said and Elaina figured it was true.

About thirty minutes later, while washing laundry, Elaina saw a very hot, very tall blonde with a tall quiff and all black on carrying grocery bags walk through the lobby and to the elevator. She assumed this might be Luke, because who else would be buying groceries at dinner time on a Thursday night?

She tried to finish her laundry as fast as possible. Every time her stomach grumbled it encouraged her to take the drying laundry out early.

Elaina decided her laundry was dry enough for liking and folded it before gettting in the elevator. She hadn't been this nervice since leaving Canada to come to Australia, and riding the train from the suburb to Sydney was pretty intense.

The elevator dinged and Elaina picked up her laundry before walking down the hallway and stopping in front of Ashton's door.

gois another long chapter

so i couldn't wait until tomorrow to update bc my updates usually work best on mondays but i just can't wait bc i wrote a fluffy Elashton (ship name, yes, no, ideas?) chapter and i just asdfghjkl ashton is adorable af

go check out the story titled "The 5sos Series!" on my page. it has a few of my story ideas for the series in it. tell me which you would like me to write next :-)

comment the first thing that pops into your head if you read my author's note ;p

FROTC: Marlene by @nirvananarry she's doing a spinn-off of fluffy things in a seperate book titled "Lukey" and kill me #Canielle for LYFE

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