Baby take a chance on me- Aston Merrygold fanfic (completed)

#52

I waited for Aston to open the door before I walked straight in grabbing my bag and going straight into the bathroom to get changed. I’d already had a shower back in the venue’s changing rooms. I slipped out of my joggers and hoodie before putting on a pair of black shorts and one of Astons old shirts he gave me this morning travelling. I washed my face and teeth before going back out to see Aston sat on the edge of the bed sipping a beer.

“Thought we weren’t going to drink tonight?”

He just shook his head before muttering “Yeah well I need it right now”

“Why who is she?” I asked sitting down on the bed next to him.

“It doesn’t matter”

“It obviously does Ast, look at you, you can’t even look at me, soon as you saw her in that lift it was like I wasn’t even alive”

“(yourname) just leave it, If I wanted to tell you I would”

“What a good relationship this is! One day in and your already keeping secrets from me” I spat.

“I can’t be done with this right now” He sighed.

“Why can’t you just tell me I don’t understand?”

“You don’t need to understand, this has nothing to do with you” he whispered. Usually by now he would have raised his tone just as much as I had to make his point. But he wasn’t. He just stayed in the same spot and barely spoke his response.

“No your right it doesn’t, but it does you Ast. And you and me are meant to be trying to have a go at this relationship, make it work, it’s never going to work if you make plans to go for coffee with some woman, then make plans to go round some Daniels with her when we get home”

“She isn’t some woman (yourname)”

“To you maybe, but to me she is”

“(yourname) I can’t be done with this, I’m going for a walk” He muttered before grabbing the door key and walking out of the room. Leaving me sat on the bed trying to work out what had just happened.

It was 2 in the morning when I hear the door open and Aston came walking in. I decided to pretend I was a sleep seeing as I didn’t want to cause any more arguments for one night. I heard him shuffling round the room until the other half of the bed dipped and he crawled over to me wrapping his arms around my waste.

“I’m sorry” He whispered kissing my shoulder. “I hate arguing”

“Me too” I mumbled twisting round in his grip so I could see him.

“I thought you were a sleep”

I shook my head “I couldn’t sleep till you were back”

“Oh”

“Where did you go?” I asked. I already knew the answer, I just wanted to see if he would lie to me.

“I went to see Claire” He mumbled avoiding my eye contact.

“Why?” I asked trying to hide the anger from my voice.

“I just needed to ask her something okay”

“No it’s not okay, why won’t you tell me how you know her”

“Okay, I’ll tell you” He sighed. I sat up propping the pillows behind me for comfort and turned on the bed side lamp... this is going to be interesting.

“I met her in 2009. At rays of sunshine it was the first time me and the boys were meeting some of the children. She was there with her son Daniel. I got talking to her and I took a real liking to her son. He was 6 at the time and had just overcome a serious brain tumour. His wish was to meet numerous celebrities including me and the boys. His mum being Claire told me how surprised she was at how much he looked up to us as he tended to distance himself from people other than family. Then a week later I bumped into her and asked how he was getting on and she explained that he still had minor treatment but should be off it soon. We got talking and went out for a coffee and she ended up opening up to me about a lot of stuff” He paused.

I nodded letting him know that I was following and understanding what he was saying.

“When they found out Daniel had the tumour she went onto drugs as a way to handle the situation. It got to the point where she wasn’t in a suitable state to look after herself never mind her child. I offered her money to get advice and help to get over the addiction. Eventually she took it and I ended up looking after Daniel now and then seeing as his father was no longer around and her only close relative was Kim her sister who lives here in Birmingham” He explained. “Then I continued to help her with problems with Daniel, she soon got a job and to be honest I grew a real close connection with the kid, he was practically 100% better and then she just ditched me”

“What do you mean ditched you?”

“She moved house, changed numbers, move Daniel schools, she did everything so that I wouldn’t see him again and I haven’t seen them again since well then” He sighed suddenly looking relieved that he had opened up to me.

“Why?”

“Well when I went to find her and ask her and she said it was because she had feelings for me. She hated the fact that I loved her son so much yet didn’t love her. Yes okay I cared for her but there were never feelings there and she said she got jealous of her 6 year old boy and to stop that she had to cut me out of his life”

“That’s so cruel” I whispered stroking my thumb across his cheek looking into his deep brown eyes. By just talking about this little boy I could see the huge impact he had on Aston’s life and how desperate he was to see him again.

“I never expected her to have actually fell for me, we were just good friends. But now that I think about it she used to ask me if I was ever interested in a relationship and I just explained that I hadn’t long been out of a serious one and I wasn’t ready to move on”

“With me?”

He nodded. “Then when I was up at her room and she found out you were the girl I was with before I met her and now we’re back together, well she just changed her attitude. She said I couldn’t go see Daniel and that she wants to pay back all the money I ever gave her to completely get rid of me out of her life”

“Do you think she still has feeling for you?”

“I don’t know” He shrugged. “I can’t seem to get my head around it all right now”

“Come on, it’s been a long day and it’s getting late, we’ll get some sleep then talk in the morning”

Ast just nodded his head before pulling his pillows down and lying down again. I switched off the lamp before doing the same and cuddling up against his chest.

“(yourname)?”

“Yeah?”

“Whatever happens, promise you won’t leave me” He asked suddenly sounding scared at the thought of us ending already.

“I promise”

“Good” He whispered before capturing my lips in a light kiss before we settled down and went to sleep for the night.