The Only Reason (Ashton Irwin)

Chapter 11

Calum and I were talking while on our way to the coffee shop. We're sharing stories about us to each other, what is our best moments, most embarrassing moment.. of course I will tell him anything except my past with my parents and him.

I would slap his shoulder whenever he's making a lame joke, whenever he's being flirty or too much proud of himself. He always boasts about his butt, how girls love it and envies him because he has a nice butt. I told him that I didn't ever noticed his butt -which is true-, and he faked hurt at me.

Wow. I feel like it's my first time to talk to a guy. Honestly, I missed this feeling.

"What the heck? You guys came into a chinese restaurant?" I laughed.

Calum groaned and ruffled his hair. "Yeah we did and the chinese people started to talk to me with an alien language."

I chuckled then fakely glared. I commented, "Rude."

"Wait.. are you chinese?" his eyes widen while pointing at me.

"If you were listening to our conversation yesterday, you wouldn't ask me that."

"Um.." he thought, "Yeah you're a Filipino."

"And not chinese" he quickly added.

I nodded slowly. He pouted and licked his lips.

"And back to our topic.." he talked and I just smiled at him.

I'm still new to their accent even though I'm friends with Alyssa for a long time.

We talked and talked, which it felt like we've been talking for hours. But even though I'm listening to Calum, my mind can't stop thinking about Ashton.. which is weird. I mean.. he's so freaking different a while ago. He's not rude, offensive, asshole.. he didn't even tried to play with me, he didn't tried to piss me off. He's just silent and different.

Calum coughed which made me jump a little. I looked at him and raised my eyebrows and he stared into my eyes suspeciously. "What?"

"I've been telling you that we're already here but you're not listening" he narrowed his eyes at me.

I scratched my neck awkwardly, "Just thinking about something."

"About what?" He raised his eyebrow.

"About something not important, let's go" I tugged on his arm but he didn't budge.

"Calum" I whined while trying my best to make him walk away from his place.

Calum shook his head and looked at me puzzled, "You're confusing me."

I stopped tugging on his arm, "What?"

"I said you're confusing me."

"Yeah I heard it but I mean.. how?" I asked, cluelessly.

"Are you really kind of this person? A person who always thinks?" Calum noticed.

"Let's say.. yeah?" my voice trailed. "Look, Alyssa is waiting for us."

Calum sighed before mumbling, "Okay."

He walked and I trailed behind him. He opened the glass door of the coffee shop widely for me. I smiled at him and entered, he copied my actions and closed the glass door. I looked around to find Alyssa but I'm not great in this.

"She's here" I heard Calum mumbled behind me. I looked at him then he lead the way, I trailed behind him. After a few steps, I spotted Alyssa. She was wearing a Forever 21 white cropped top, black high waisted shorts and galaxy Vans shoes. Her black-brown hair is messy in a beautiful way. I furrowed my eyebrows. Her facial expression is making me perplexed. Her facial expression is mixed, nervous and angry. She didn't noticed us because she was busy glaring at the window so she startled when Calum sat beside her. Then I slid on the sit infront of her, so we're seating across each other.