Adopted By Luke Bryan

Chapter 3

Then someone woke her up at the concert. It wasn't Luke.

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"Ahhhh," Ashely screamed as she was woken up. Naturally, her first instinct was to slap the person, which is exactly what she did. "Oh my god damn I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scare you. Luke just told me to come wake you up. I'm so sorry." Ashley looked up and realized she was face to face with Cole Swindell, who is naturally who she slapped too. "Oh my god you're Cole Swindell! I'm a huge fan! Ahhh!! Oh, I'm really sorry about smacking you. I didn't realize it was you." "Oh no it's fine. I just wasn't expecting that," Cole said as he rubbed his cheek. "Hehe sorry. I'm not used to someone waking me so that was my first reaction." "Nah don't worry about it. It happens to all of us. So Ashley tell me about yourself." "Well my parents died when I was one and I've been living in the orphanage ever since. I guess Luke liked my spunky personality because he adopted me." "COLE! COLE! COLDEN RAINEY SWINDELL!" We heard someone yelling for Cole, and then Black Mike was running towards Cole. "COLE! You were supposed to be at soundcheck 5 minutes ago. What the hell happened?" And then Black Mike's eyes landed on me. "Well well well. Who is this pretty little thing?" "Ummmm I'm Ashley, Luke's daughter." "Well Luke never said he had a daughter. I wonder what else he's hiding from us." "Well I'm not his actual daughter. You see Luke came to my orphanage today and wanted to adopt. Luke saw me and well frankly I was so damn perfect Luke couldn't resist not adopting me," Ashley said as she smiled. It was hard not to smile when Black Mike calls you a pretty little thing. "I really hate to break up this awesome conversation we're having, but Cole, you really should get to sound check before someone starts to worry. And Ashley, you can come with me. we can meet the band." So Ashley followed Black Mike while Cole went to soundcheck.

"Alrighty then. This is Kent Slucher, Michael Carter, James Cook, Kevin Arrowsmith, and Dave Ristram. Oh and this is the lovely Luke Bryan." "Well thanks Black Mike for that lovely introduction. Hey Ash. Is it okay if I call you that?" "What Ash? Yeah that's fine. Whatever floats your boat down the Flint River." "Haha. Alrighty then Ash. Would you like me to introduce you to my fans tonight?" "Umm yeah sure whatever." "And if you want, I would really like it if you could sing with me tonight. Maybe Do I?" "Dammit Luke. Well I can't promise you that I will sing. I might freeze up there. But yeah I can do that." "Aww don't worry Ash. If you freeze, I'll have Black Mike come up and help you." "Yeah that'll work. Make me do all the hard shit you don't wanna do like comforting you own daughter. Fine I'll take care of her Luke. Just don't call me at 2 in the morning to come help you. That won't happen." "Haha don't worry I won't call you. I'll call my mama. She'll know what to do." "Okay whatever you say Luke." The rest of the afternoon was spent with Black Mike, filming for LBTV. This was the Heinz Field concert, so being Luke's first stadium show, Black Mike and Ashely filmed a lot. It felt like a dream to Ashley. But she always knew that once something starts to feel too real, most of the time it starts to become just a dream.