The Struggle

Ashton's POV.

After I drop Sydney off, I can't help but worry about her a bit. She seemed so frantic to need to get home. I hope that what ever was awaiting her didn't damage her too much. Once I get home, I'm exhausted from the long day at work and hanging out with Sydney, all though she is very much worth getting exhausted about. Once I get inside, I head straight up to my room so that I can undress and take a shower. Once I get the water to the right temperature, I step in and just stand there for a few moments and let the hot water beat on my body. Something is missing. Ah! That's right! One of my favorite bands, The Red Hot Chile Peppers, isn't playing on full blast. I momentarily step out of the shower and I'm greeted with a cold blast of air. Once I locate my phone in the steamy room, I put on my music, and step back into the shower. "Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner. Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, the city of angels. Lonely as I am, together we cry" I sing to myself.
About eight songs later, while five of them I was just standing there belting out the lyrics to my favorite songs, I'm finally getting out of the shower. I walk into my room with my towel slung loosely around my hips, I find my pajama pants and put them on. As I head down stairs, I hear a knocking at the door. I'm wondering who it could be since I barley have any friends and my mom is picking up and extra shift. When I look through the peep hole in the door, my heart instantly starts beating out of my chest. I reach for the door knob, open the door and prepare my words to say to the most beautiful girl ever.

Sydney's POV.
I'm greeted by a wet haired, shirtless, and surprisingly toned body Ashton.
"Hi" I say as I sniff my nose and wipe away the excess tears from my wet eyes.
"Hi are you okay?" he says as he ushers me inside.
"Not really." I say back to him.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asks me.
"Kind of..yeah."
"Okay..before we start do you want anything? We have tea, coffee, snacks." he offers me.
"Uhmm..Maybe some tea if you have any please?" I ask him.
"Yeah, of course. Do you want a blanket or anything?"
"Sure heh" I say with a bit of a giggle.
"Okay." he says as he puts water in a tea kettle and heads up stairs taking two at a time to go and retrieve me a warm, fuzzy blanket.
"Here 'ya go." he says to me with a smile as he hands me the blanket.
"Thank you." I say back with a smile and go to take a seat on the couch.
Moments later Ashton returns with two cups of tea.
"Thank you." I say to him as he takes a seat on the couch next to me as I pass him some of the blanket. I take a sip of my tea as Ashton asks me,
"So, what happened, babe?" he asks me. "Is it okay if I call you that, babe?" Of course it's okay if he calls me babe, I love it!
"Yeah! Of course!" I say with a smile.
"Okay good hehe. So what happened?" he asks with a giggle.
I tell him about how when I walked through the door how my whole entire family, according Luke, were in my living room. I then proceed to tell him about Luke and my mother's tag team interrogation about where I was and who I was with. I then carry on with how Luke implied about Ashton trying to have sex with me.
"He was saying that I tried to have sex with you!?" Ashton asks me, clearly in shock.
"Yeah..that's when I started screaming even more and when my eyes became Niagara fucking Falls." I say to him as I wipe away newly made tears.
"Awh, come here babe." he says to me as he pulls me into a tight embrace. He smells like vanilla and caramel. He rubs my back as I sob into his chest.
"It's okay babe, it's okay." he says to me as he gives me what I think are kisses on top my head.
"There's more!" I sob into his chest.
"Okay, what else happened?" he questions.
"He was saying that I was still his girlfriend and then when he was leaving he kissed me and after he left my mom and I started screaming at each other and then I came here." I inform him.
"He...he kissed you?"
"Yeah, for like five seconds, despite my struggles to get away." Ashton just kind of stares forward for what feels like an eternity. "Are you okay, Ash?" I ask him as he gets up and starts pacing back and forth around the room.
"Did..did you kiss him back?"
"No..Ashton what's wrong?" I ask him as I get up walk over to him as he collides into me.
"Sorry." he says to me looking directly into my eyes. We hold eye contact for a while. Him looking into my ocean blue eyes as I look into his amber brown ones. A million thoughts are racing through my mind at once. He looks down to my lips and quickly back up to my eyes as he wraps his arms around the small of my back as I put my hands on his bare shoulders.
"If I kissed you, would you kiss me back?" he asks me. I can feel his heart beating a mile and minute, as is mine.
"Yes." I say as I nod my head and then look up into his eyes again. He then dips his head down so that his lips are almost level with mine and presses his against mine.
I've never felt anything this magical in my life. Out of all the times I had kissed Luke, non of them, even all added up, could live up to this kiss with Ashton. His lips send sparks of electricity through mine and I never want him to pull away.

(Okay so I feel like this chapter could have been better but I wanted to get something out for you guys and over all I'm pleased with this chapter. I hope you guys like it too and I hope you guys are enjoying the story. I'm going to try to possibly update again sometime today if possible.)