after you left |ai|

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Ashton: thank you again for last night, it was amazing to meet your family and my mom somehow managed to cry out of happiness when we came home.
Ashton: do you have any plans the next 6 days?
Ashton: and can Amber be alone for 6 days?
Elle: I was so happy to have you there and my whole family is inlove with you.
Elle: I do not have any plans and she could go to my parents or Rick, why?
Ashton: we're going on a trip and you're coming with us. Pack your bags, I'm picking you up in an hour
Elle: wait what
Elle: where are we going
Elle: what do I need to pack
Ashton: bring warm clothes because there's snow but there's also a hot tub so pack a bikini or something too
Elle: where are we going Ash?
Ashton: you have to trust me now and just say 'okay I'll pack my bags'
Elle: Not until you tell me where we are going
Ashton: a 2h road trip to the mountains
Elle: are we going to big bear lake?
Ashton: ......
Elle: I'll see you in an hour :)

— Ashton's POV —

I was so nervous to ask her to join us that I had been ignoring it ever since we decided to come here. I was so nervous just to take her on the trip here, being stuck together for 6 days and having no way away from each other.

But after she had arrived at my place and we had loaded in the cars, we had to decide who would drive. When my mom said she would so Elle and I could drive together, she immediately proposed to drive instead, it's a 2 hour drive on the wrong side of the road and Elle knew the way anyway. Harry and Lauren gladly got in the car with her and it wasn't even slightly better for my nerves not to have her with me. I played every bad scenario in my head and feared for the worst constantly while my mom talked about how things at home were going.

When we arrived at the small house we rented, they got out of the car laughing, joking around and they all had the biggest smiles on their faces. My mom and I watched them from the car, my hands still on the steering wheel and her eyes glued on them.

"I know this is all still terrifying for you and I know it hurts, but don't hold yourself back. It took you two months of dating to make her your girlfriend, don't let it take forever to say it to her." She said and I looked at her with a soft smile before we got out of the car. I wrapped my arms around my own body, being surprised by the cold outside. I took my jacket from the back before letting out the dogs, my mom picked up Olivia who was asleep and I started taking our bags.

"Let me help you" Elle said while she put on her jacket and walked over to me. She took three more bags from the car that were filled with food and necessities. Harry and Lauren followed her example and we got almost all to the door in one time. I followed Elle to the kitchen and we quickly put away all the things that had to be in the fridge.

"I think it would be best if we put everything away later, so we can still go outside for a little before it gets dark." Elle suggested and I looked at my family that was standing behind me.

"That's a good idea, I can stay inside with Olivia?" My mom proposed but I got a smile on my face and shook my head.

"I bought a winter jumpsuit for her so she can just come out with us." I said with a smile before Elle and I walked back to the bags to get everything we needed for outside.

It didn't take us long to get ready to face the cold and everyone seemed happy, smiles covering their faces. I placed Olivia on my hip to hold her before going over to Elle to take her hand in mine. She looked up at me with a smile before kissing my cheek. I couldn't help but smile back at her, unable to look away when she looked at Lauren to say something. I couldn't even look away from her when I knew my mom was watching us.

She had me wrapped around her finger.

— Elle's POV —

I woke up first the next day, Ashton still fast asleep beside me and his arm wrapped around me tightly. I tried my best to escape his grip and replace my body with a pillow. When he stayed still after escaping, I reached for the babyphone on the nightstand so she wouldn't wake him up. I took the first sweater I could find before leaving the room and going downstairs. The house they had rented was a beautiful wooden cottage like the ones you see in christmas movies. Snow covering everything around the house.