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fifty five

"you're just stressed." ashton tried to convince luke as he gave the younger boy a massage, rubbing his hands about the small boy's back, giving the tender muscles attention. "sierra needs to fuck off. once and for all. calum won't even answer my texts now." ashton sighed.

luke felt a mess and a failure.

he'd single-handedly managed to ruin his boyfriend's relationships with other people, his own fake girlfriends life entirely, 'apparently, and calum's too since he was the one having to clear the mess up and try and talk some sense into mali-koa.

"are you mad at me?" luke asked softly. "it's okay if you are. everyone else is."

ashton's heart broke at the question.

he stopped rubbing luke's back and laid beside him, turning luke's limp body so that they could look at each other. ashton found peace in the angelic blue eyes that laid before him, and his home was hidden somewhere inbetween luke's plump, pink lips. "i could never hate you, lukey, never in a million years." he found luke's hand and wrapped his pinky around his smaller one. "i swear on my life."

luke's eyes shined, his lashes wet with tears, and he sniffed a little. he readjusted their fingers so they were holding hands, smiling up at ashton. "it feels like the whole world is against us, ash." he mumbled, leaning forward and snuggling closer, crying into his boyfriend's bare chest.

"hasn't it always been like that?" ashton laughed lightly. he let his free hand play with luke's hair, letting the boy use him as a tissue.

he hated that this was their reality.

he'd planned it out so much different.

once him and luke got back together, he imagined that they'd both be happy. sure, ashton was just happy he was back with luke, but he didn't find it fair everyone else had ditched him becauee they were back together.

it'd caused more problems getting together this time than it had the first time around.

"i love you, and i'll never leave you." ashton whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to his boyfriend's hair, lifting his head to look him in the eye. "you hear that? i promise you."

and he pressed a kiss to the blond's lips, drowning himself in a world of love and desire, where sierra, calum and mali ( and whoever else had some sort of problem with them ) couldn't get to them anymore.