Flatmates

Return

I thought you all would take my joke about ending the story a bit more seriously, and so you'd be happy and relieved  to see this chapter. But i guess now you're gonna hate it.... Enjoy!

          Ashton fell asleep the second his head hit his pillow. It was already late when he came back from Calum and Michael's and he was pretty tired by the long day. He had decided to go to bad right away and went straight to Morpheus arms.

He had no idea for how long he had been sleeping when he got brought back to consciousness. He heard a bit of ruffling downstairs but didn't make him woke up. His bedroom door slowly open, letting a ray of dim yellow light come in. A silhouette was in the frame, black because back-lit. There were a couple of wary footsteps.

"Ashton?" a familiar voice whispered.

He blinked a couple of time, trying to adjust to the absence of light and trying to focus on the dark silhouette getting closer and closer.

"Hey. I'm sorry to wake you up, I know it's late, but... hum... I just wanted to tell you that I'm back. If you okay with it, that is."

Ashton's eyes got wide open. "Luke!" he exclaimed sitting up in a heartbeat. Without thinking he reached for the blond man, wrapped his arms around him and pulled him down on the bed. Luke let a surprised noise slip, landing half on Ashton, half on his side.

"You're back!" Ashton said almost muffled in Luke's hair. He squeezed the younger man extremely tight.

Honestly it was hard to believe. It happened so suddenly. Of course, Ashton was more than happy about Luke's return. But some part of his brain kept wondering if this was not a dream. It felt very real, though, to hold him in his arms.

Luke brought a hand to the back of Ashton shoulder rubbing slow circles with the side of his thumb. The older man sighed and relaxed his muscles, that he didn't even knew where so tensed. He must have been crushing Luke in the hug. But he still maintained a firm hold on him.

They stayed like this for a moment. It was very comfortable. Or well, at least, it was for Ashton, but Luke didn't seem to be protesting neither. The curly-headed man had become more aware of their position and their closeness at some point but he was now gradually falling back to sleep. His eyelids were already close even if he was still a bit conscious.

"Are you gonna let me go?" Luke whisper after a while, as if he was asking a somnolent Ashton that he didn't want to wake up.

"No." He grunted as an answer. And felt a smiled stretched against the skin of his naked chest.

"Am I supposed to sleep here?"

"I'm not letting you go"

"I'm not leaving anymore, Ashton." Luke said in a comforting tone. But after a couple of seconds he added in a sad voice "Until you ask me to."

"I don't want you to go." Ashton rebutted sternly, or as much as his dozing off state allowed him.

"For now. But you might change your mind soon."

"I don't get you" he muttered, confused.

"I have a lot of things to tell you. But this will wait tomorrow. Sleep now."

Ashton wanted to argue, as the words Luke had just said stirred up his curiosity, but he also knew the bond man was right. He was way too tired to have a serious conversation now, which seemed to be what was taking form as horizon.

Luke squeezed him a bit with the only hand he had around him, which was probably his way to tell him to relax. Ashton tightened his hold too

Even he his body was exhausted from the day, his brain was working with the little amount of energy it had left. It refused to let go because of the numerous questions that were crossing his mind. Ashton didn't know how long he stayed somewhat a bit awake, but he knew some time had passed. Luke must have thought he was asleep by now. But he started to hum a melody very lowly.

Ashton felt it vibrating against him more that he heard it as first. Little by little he recognised the song and soon the word that were barely audible, sung by Luke.

"All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary. They can only do harm. Words like violence, break the silence; come crashing in, into my little world. Painful to me, pierce right through me. Can't you understand? All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary. They can only do harm. Enjoy... the silence..."

Ashton sense a feeling of nervousness, if not fear, but also a form of sad resignation in the way the words were sang. It was usual for Luke to interpret the songs in a lazily slow tempo, but this time it seemed like he was really having trouble to get the lyric out, as if it meant to much to him. Yeah, he sounded very emotional, a bit overwhelmed.

Almost unconsciously Ashton brought Luke closer to him, as much as it was possible. Focusing on sweet and low voice the rest of the world and of his thoughts disappeared and soon everything melted into black nothingness.

Are you ready for the revelation of Luke's past? If you've been reading closely (and if you remember well, because some stuff were a while ago now) you would already have a few ideas. But i hope i'll still surprise you a little bit....! Tell me about your speculations! :D

So here is the teasing... You can all hate me for it x) I just really wanted this scene to be a stand-alone. Of course I'll do my best to write as fast as i can, but i can't promise anything.

Lots of Love,
Kassie <3