Quiet | afi

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It had been just short of 3 weeks since Ashton's incident. His mom got him in a teen group therapy thing. He's been getting better, still not great though. The boys were going to the Green day concert tonight.

"Are you excited?" I ask him as we drove to Luke's. They were only taking one car so I was dropping him off here, I was going to hang out at Tegans after

"Baby I'm so excited" he smiled. It made me happy to see ash this happy "and we're still going out tomorrow right?"

"Yeah"

"I'll pick you up at 7?" I nod. We pulled into Luke's driveway "I'll see you tomorrow, bye Tash" he kissed my cheek before hopping out. I drove to Tegans house then

"Hey girly" she opened the door

"Hi Tegan" we went up to her room and sat on the bed "I believe there's a certain Luke Hemmings you need to tell me about" she blushed

"No" I glare at her "okay I like him" she smiled

"I can put in a good word for you" I softly laugh

"So how was the concert?" I ask ash when he picked me up the next day for our date

"So fucking good, thanks again for the tickets babe"

"No problem, I'm glad you had fun. Where are we going?"

"You'll see" he smiled

We had dinner at a nice restaurant at the edge of Sydney. As usual, we ended up sitting on the bench at the beach. We sat there talking for about an hour. He told me lots about the concert and showed my videos of it

"You're so beautiful" he said out of nowhere

"Shut up" I blush an he laughs. I look up and him and he looks in my eyes. His mouth opens as he's going to say something but he quickly closes it and looks down "what were you going to say ash?" I ask. He muttered something but I couldn't make out what he said "hmm?"

"I love you" he looked up into my eyes. I froze for a moment. Did I love Ashton? I think I did, but I'd never really thought about it. His eyes were full of hurt and he went to stand up

"I love you too" he faced me again "I love you" I nod. he immediately connected our lips and passionately kissed me "let's go back to my place" he nodded and we went to his car.

I woke up feeling quite happy. I pulled the sheet up to cover my bare chest. I rolled over to see ash on his phone

"Morning" I say quietly. He put his phone on the bedside table and smiled

"How'd you sleep?"

"Good" I smirked. I wiggled over and layed my head on his chest, he wrapped one arm around me and ran his fingers through my hair with the other. We layed for a moment until a knock on my door interrupted us "who is it?" I call. Instead of answering, they walked in

"It's Michael" he said "oh my god" he said when he looked at us. I buried my head in Ashton's chest to hide the blush on my cheeks

"We didn't say you could come in" I heard the smirk on Ashton's face

"I'll meet you outside in 10 minutes" the door closed again. I looked up at Ashton "let's get ready I guess" he sighed. I have his lips a soft kiss before I turned to get out of bed

"I was just trying see if you guys wanted to go for breakfast" Michael said when we joined him outside

"Should of texted first" I say "where are we going for breakfast?" We drove to a diner, not to far from my place, and met up with the others

"Took you long enough to get here" Calum said when the 3 of us sat down

"Well I got to Natashias and some people were still in bed" Michael spoke "and not dressed" I put my head in my hands, I watched as Luke gave ash a high five

"Anyways" I said, making the others laughed. I was very uncomfortable in this situation

"Right" Michael said "so my families moving to Perth for my dads work. I don't want to so I'm going to rent an apartment, Luke's going to move in with me as well so anyone that would like to, can"

"I don't know" cal hesitates "I don't want to leave my mom alone" they look at Ashton next

"I'll think about it"

"Let's have a decision by next week" Michael said