Haley POV
the car ride to the tattoo parlour was short and sweet.
I was about to shit my pants.
'Ashton I'm about to get a tattoo. I'm going to die.' He was laughing at me as I talked.
'I'm a veteran! I can tell you everything is going to be okay!'
'A Veteran? Ashton, you have one tattoo on your wrist. Maybe I should have got Calum to come with me,' I joked at him, knowing he would get upset.
'Calum? Why would you want Calum? I'm right here!' I laughed at his angst and grabbed his free hand, rubbing my thumb over his tattoo gently.
'I think I want mine here, too.' I murmured, ignoring the last minute of our conversation. He looked over at me for a split second before turning his eyes back to the road, his eyes crinkled in a smile, both of us going silent.
I zoned out completely, and before I knew it, Ashton was snapping his fingers in front of my face.
'huh?' I replied as the he giggled at me. he ran around to my side of the car and opened the door. He spread his arms and yelled,
'We're hereeeeee!'
'Alright,' I said, adrenaline coursing though my veins, 'let's do this shit.'
Ashton held my hand the whole time and I would be lying if I said I didn't shed a few tears. I got it in the same place he did, a tiny little thing, and I couldn't have been happier with it. We ran out of the building skipping and jumping and dancing to the songs stuck in each of our heads. There was never a day in my life that I thought that I would be happy. I never thought I had the capacity to be happy. But this boy, this bubbly, curly haired idiot made me happier than had ever been in my entire life. I had known him for less than 3 weeks and my world revolved around him and it scared me so god dammed much.
As we got in the car and sat for a second and smiled, I began to worry, as I always do. Erin and I were starting school and two months, and right after we did, they were leaving.
'What are we gonna do, Ashton?' he turned to me.
'What do you mean?'
'What are we gonna do?' In that moment I lost it all. I lost the last two weeks. I lost the kisses and the fun and the happiness. Ashton was hopelessly confused and I couldn't do anything because I was myself and I didn't know who that was.
'Haley?' he asked, voice soft, his hands running over my hair soothingly.
'I just don't know what's gonna happen. We have two months,' I whispered and he sucked in a breath, understanding filtering into his mind.
'Haley...' he breathed, 'We're here for 4 months.'
'Because that's so much better!' I spat, my autopilot bitch turning on.
'Calm down, love, I'
'Four months! What happens after that! You leave! What are we even doing? I just got a tattoo, Ashton! What the hell does that say about me! I've known you for two weeks!'
'Haley!' he yelled silencing me as he leaned forward. I stared at him with panicked eyes.
'We are going to figure it out! I like you. I do. You are daring and strong and quick to fall, but you fall for the right things. You've never steered yourself wrong. And it's been 17 days by the way.'
'Yeah. But what are we gonna do.'
'We will love this out day by day, Hal. That's all we can do. And right now, we're gonna go get some ice cream.
We did go get ice cream. Then Ashton called Luke and told him we weren't going to meet them at the mall.
And we didn't.
Ashton drove me nowhere. Actually, I told him where to go, you know, since this was my home. I made him take me to Gaswork Park and we watched the sun go down and we didn't even leave when it started to rain. We may only have four months but today I realised that if I could live the way that I lived today every day for that time I would live forever in it.
I had strawberry ice cream today for the first time in 5 years because he convinced me too.
After that I didn't care care if it was dangerous for me to fall this fast for the drummer boy I just met. That night we watched Mean Girls and ate and entire gallon of strawberry ice cream and fell asleep in the middle of Parks and Recreation.
It only took me 17 days to fall in love.
