Together | A.F.I

⁂ 9 :: come together ⁂

Joelle woke with a headache the size of everest and alarms sounding at a noise that didn't seem possible. She carefully moved from Ashton and turned off their alarms, the past night coming back to her, hitting her like a train. They had kissed, and she so didn't regret it. Gently shaking his arm, she remembered their master plan. "Oi, Ashton!" She whispered, trying to wake him up. God, he really did sleep like a log, didn't he?

"Ashton!" She repeated, taking his hand and giving it a gentle squeeze "Ashton Irwin! Fucks sake"

"Hm, what? I'm awake" He muttered, slowly coming to "Morning"

"It's 5am. We need to get the fuck out of this house. Come on. You need to be a lot more awake than this at the minute" Joelle told him, stretching and looking at her phone "Cal can drive, right? He's shitposting on twitter so he's awake"

"Yeah, Cal can drive" Ashton told her "...Do you remember anything that happened last night?"

"Yeah, everything. Why?"

"Do you regret it?"

"No. I regret how much tongue I probably used, but I don't regret kissing you at all. I've wanted to do it for a while. Right, let's go, I've told Cal to pick us up from the end of the street" She admitted quickly, unlocking the door.

"Okay. Same." Ashton nodded, walking out the bedroom door with his phone, a puzzled expression on his face "So..."

"Ashton, I really do want to have this conversation, and we will have this conversation, but right now we're sneaking through a stranger's house, so could you save the questions until we're outside?" She asked in a whisper, taking his hand and leading him down the stairs.

"Oh, yeah. Totally. Sorry." Ashton nodded, letting him lead her around the house, letting out a breath as they reached the end of the road.

"So, about last night. And us." Joelle hummed, sitting on someone's garden wall as they waited for Calum.

Ashton nodded, sitting down next to her "Yeah"

"I don't regret it, as I said. I've wanted to for a long time, and it's probably why I didn't snog that guy and forced him to chug tequila" She admitted, words falling fast from her mouth, as if if she said them fast enough he wouldn't hear them.

"Yeah. I wouldn't have kissed anyone else. I really like you, Joelle, and not in the way that I like Calum or any of the boys. I want to be with you, and be able to hug you all the time, and yeah. I want to be with you."

"Well that's lucky, isn't it? Because there's no-one else I'd rather get cockblocked with." Joelle told him with a smile, seeing Michael and Calum trying not to make any noise from the car they were in. "You know what? They can close their eyes."

"What?" Ashton asked, tilting his head out of confusion.

"I want to kiss you, you absolute headcase" Joelle laughed, taking his hand and kissing him, wrapping her arms around his neck gently, smiling as she felt his arms on his waist. The boys were hooting from the car, and she subtly flipped them off as she took pride in doing the one thing she had been aiming to do since she woke up on him that first time.

"We should get in the car, huh" Ashton hummed, looking over at the yellow hummer that was literally bouncing with the jumping around that Michael and Calum were doing.

"Yeah, probably, before one of them hits their heads" She nodded, walking over to the car and getting in the back with Ashton. "You're allowed a question each" Joelle told the two boys "Drop us off at my house, by the way"

"Question one - did you get laid?" Michael asked, looking over his shoulder at them.

"No. Calum?"