The boy next door || a.i.

1.2

"Come on let's get up, I'm hungry" Ashton said, as he let go of me and shifted his weight to get up.

I got up as he waited for me to pull on a pair of sweatpants. We walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, and that's when I realised how hungry I was.

"I think we have a thing of pancake mix if you want, and there's blueberries and stuff in the fridge." He said.
"Yeah that's fine. Anything will do."

I watched as Ashton took the pancake mix from the cupboard and started mixing it with milk. I studied the movement of the muscles in his back, unconsciously until he spoke.

"Are you enjoying staring at me?" He smirked.

"Oh.. Um ... I was just-" I choked out, feeling my cheeks heat.

Ashton laughed, walking over to me and wrapping his arms around me, as I buried my face in his chest. At that moment, Calum entered the kitchen.

"I smell panc- oh Emma, I didn't know you were still here."

"Hey Calum. Yeah, I ended up talking to Ashton after I left and yeah, I stayed." I smiled.

"Well Ashton are you done with the pancakes yet? I'm hungry."

"I just cooked enough for us two, but there's mixture left, so you can make some more for you guys." Ashton said, turning to take the pancakes off the heat.

"Fine" Calum grumbled, stepping closer, to make his breakfast.

Ashton stacked pancakes onto two plates, topped with banana, blueberries, syrup and ice cream, and carried both the plates outside, onto their balcony. We ate in mostly silence, but keeping a steady conversation for most of the time, with me continuously reminding Ashton of how good a cook he was, and that these were the best pancakes in the universe.

We headed back inside, and I quickly got changed into my clothes from yesterday.
"Well Ashton, I'd better be going now, thank you for letting me stay." I smiled, walking towards the door.

"Wait, where are you going?" He said, stepping between me and the door, preventing me from leaving. "I thought we could do something today."

"I'd love too, but I'll need to go home and get showered and changed first."

"You can just shower here, and those clothes are fine. Do you really want to go back there?"

"S'pose you're right" I smiled.

Ashton and I went into the laundry, as he got me some new, clean towels to use, and I went into their bathroom to shower.
When I had first got in there, I noticed that there was water EVERYWHERE. It was in on the floor, on the landing and even in the sink... I'll have to clean that when I'm done, I thought to myself.

Once I finished showering, I cleaned the floor, and several other places in the bathroom that were also wet, before changing back into my faded blue jeans, and my black sweater.

"Why is your towel so wet?" Ashton asked, as I handed him my towel.

"There was water all over your floor, I cleaned it up" I shrugged.

"Luke." He muttered, taking my towel, going to put it in the washing machine.

"So what are we doing today?" I asked curiously.
"I don't know, maybe take a drive somewhere?"

"Sounds great" I smiled, quickly pulling out my phone to text my mum, not that she'd care so much.

Ashton grabbed his keys off the table, and we walked out the door, leading to the garage. Once we got in the car, and started driving, I turned the radio on quietly, hearing the usual singles out at the moment. After a few more songs, Ashton pulled into a parking lot, surrounded by trees, and we got out of the car.
We had to walk along a dusty track, through what felt like millions of trees. The trees blocked most of the sunlight that was trying to shine on the path, making it quite cold. Soon after that, we came to a clearing, and I saw where we were.