|Misunderstood| Ashton Irwin

Chapter twenty-two

Bella Waters pov

I wake up just as I feel myself slip under the now cold, bubble-less water. I sit up so fast, I slip back down the side of the bath and land on my wrist. I whine in pain but then roll my eyes at myself.
How is it even possible for someone to fall asleep in a bath for over four hours?
I quickly jump out and wrap a towel around my freezing cold body then run down the hallway to my bedroom.
It's already 10:30pm so I decide not to dry my hair and I just put it up into a messy bun and put on my fluffiest pyjamas.
I get into bed and roll on to my side and pick up my phone.
19 missed calls.
10 messages.
All from Ashton.
I hope he's okay and that nothing has happened to him! I should call him back.
He picks up on the first ring.
"Bella? Hi oh my god, are you okay I've been so worried please don't do that to me again okay, please" he rushes his words.
"What?"
"I've tried calling you like one hundred times! Where have you been?" He asks.
"Um" I start to laugh at how stupid I am.
"What is it?"
"I kinda fell asleep in the bath and I only just woke up and my phone was in my bedroom and yeah" I lean over and turn the lamp off at the side of my bed then lay down again.
"Well please don't fall asleep in the bath again because I literally haven't sat still thinking about you"
A silence fills the air.
"Thinking about me? In what way?"
"Um you know, thinking about you being okay and stuff, I suppose I'm just a protective best friend, I thought maybe Blake-" he quickly saves himself.
I roll my eyes though.
Blake isn't that bad, yes he's annoying, rude and selfish but when we were closer back in 'them days' or whatever he calls them, he was actually quite nice.
"Hello?" Ashton's says.
"Huh?"
"Were you listening to what I just said?" I hear him chuckle slightly.
"Err, no, sorry"
He sighs, "okay so basically, for the party on Saturday Jess doesn't want me to get in the way in the morning and she wants me to go to Luke's while her and Amber get everything ready to take to Amber's house and I don't really want to go to Luke's because I want to see you instead so is it okay if I come round yours before and we can get ready together and stuff? I know this sounds really rude just inviting myself round but-"
"I'm not going" I say.
"What? Why?"
"I don't want to, I've told you all the reasons before and no offence but I don't really like Jess" I say.
The line is quiet for a while.
"None taken but please come! I want to introduce you to the rest of my friends and it will be really fun! Look I'm sorry about Jess today, she's can be like that sometimes"
I roll into my back and look up to the ceiling and sigh.
"But I-"
"No buts!" Ashton says.
"Ashton I-"
"Come on, just stay a little while, if you hate it, I'll take you home yeah?"
"Fine" I say, exaggerating how annoyed I am, but in reality I'm smiling like a small child on christmas. It's so cute that he wants me to come, he's so sweet.
"Yes! So is it okay if I can come to yours on Saturday morning then?"
"Yeah thats fine" I smile.
"Thank you so much"
"It's okay, anyways, what are you up to? Is Jess home with you?" I ask.
"She's still food shopping for the party, I told her to get lemonade for you as well"
"What? I could of bought my own! You didn't have to do that just for me!" I sit up in bed again and switch on the light.
"Well it's not just for you, one of Jess' friends from college is drinking it too"
"How come?" I rest my head against the headboard.
"She's pregnant I think"
"Oh god! It must be horrible being pregnant at this age!" I gasp.
"I know! And she doesn't even know who the dad is!" He replies.
"She must be scared, think about it, having to carry the baby around and then going through the pain of giving birth, all by herself! I wouldn't be able to do it at this age!"
"But imagine how the dad will be feeling! As she doesn't know who it is the poor guy doesn't know he got some girl pregnant and in a few months he will be a father! Thats pretty scary!"
"It's worse for the mum" I argue.
"Well, you got to admit, the woman get all the attention and credit! The men still help out and feed it and make coffees when the woman's friends come over to coo over the baby, yet no one appreciates the mans effort!"
"What? No way! The woman have to do most of it! Men are lazy and hardly do anything!" I say.
"Thats because woman know how to do it! You girls had dollies and stuff when you were kids, us men, we don't even know which way a nappy goes on!"
I being to laugh and so does Ashton.
"I'm not really sure the point in this conversation" I giggle.
"No, it's kinda weird talking about this with my best girl friend"
"Yeah, just a bit" I agree.
"Anyways..." He laughs again.
"Your going to have to learn how to do a nappy one day you know, especially with Jess wanting a big family with her 'Ashy'" I tease.
"Hmm" is all he manages to say.
"What, do you not want kids or something?" I ask, raising an eyebrow even thought he cant see me.
"Well yeah, of course, but I don't know, Jess wants like loads and she wants them at a young age and I don't think I'm ready for them"
"I get what you mean, I don't want kids for at least another ten years or so" I nod, "but anyways, let's just get off this subject"
"Yeah good idea"

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A/n:
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