The Struggle

Ashton's POV.

"He..he kissed you?" I ask Sydney. How and why would he kiss her when he knows that she broke up with him.
"Yeah, for like five seconds. Despite my struggles to get away." She informs me. God that pisses me off! I knew that he was a low son of a bitch but I never knew he was that low! I get up and start pacing around the room.
"Ashton, what's wrong?" she asks me as she gets up and walks to the middle of the room to meet me.
"Sorry." I say to her as we collide into each other. I stare into her ocean blue eyes as I wrap my arms around her back and she puts her hands on my shoulders. I really want to kiss her. So, fucking bad do I want to kiss her!
"Did you kiss him back?" I question her.
"No." she says as she shakes her head.
"If I kissed you, would you kiss me back?" I have to ask her this! I've been wondering this ever since I saw her perfectly pink lips attached to Luke's.
She nods her head and whispers a, "Yes."
This seems like it could be one of my only chances to ever kiss her. Before I know what I'm doing, I'm dipping my head down so that my lips are just about level with hers and I'm gently pressing mine up against hers.
Sparks of electricity. Thats all that I'm capable of feeling at this moment. Sydney's hands wrap around my neck as she intertwines one of her hands into my hair as she deepens the kiss. Her hands gently pull my hair which I can't not admit I've been always dreaming of. I'm starting to run out of air but I desperately don't want to pull away and I know that if I breath through my nose I'll end up panting out of control on her face.
"Sorry," she says, "I was running out of breath." She admits as she inhales deeply.
"It's okay, I was too." I reply back with a chuckle as she stands up on her tipi-toes and pecks my lips with a smile.
"You're cute." She says as she rubs her nose against mine.
"I'm the cute one? You're the one who just gave me an Eskimo Kiss!" I say to her with a laugh.
"I know." she says with a giggle as she sheepishly gives me another peck. "Do you think you can maybe show me how to play the drums now?" She sheepishly asks.
"Hell yeah!!" I say with much excitement.
"Yay!!" she says as she grabs my checks and gives me a full on open mouth kiss. Oh my gosh she's perfect!
Once we're done kissing, yet again, I grab her hand and lead her into the room where my drums are.
"Oh my God!!" she gasps with awe. "These are huge!" she says as she walks over to my drum set. She taps on of the drums, lightly with her finger. "Can you show me?" she asks curiously.
"Yeah!" I say excitedly. I walk over to my drum set, sit down, and pull out my drum sticks. "Can you hand me that tape over there please?" I ask as I point to the role of tape on the table in the corner.
"Yep," she says as she hands it to me. "What's it for?" she asks.
"I wrap it around the base of the stick so it doesn't slip out of my hand and I'll have a better grip on it.
"Ohhh okay." She says back.
I stretch my arms, twirl the sticks, and proceed with starting to play my drums.

Sydney's POV.
Watching Ashton play the drums is mesmerizing. He starts out with a simple beat, but then proceeds to play them as if no one is watching. The muscles on his arms beautifully contract as he reaches from drum to drum. He reaches into the bucket that he keeps the sticks in and pulls out a black bandana that he puts around his head. His bangs hang up in the air a bit because of the bandana.
"Here." I say as I walk over to him once he stops playing. I stand in between his legs and pull his bandana down around his neck while I push his bangs back and fix the bandana so that it's keeping his bangs back. "Your hair was in the air so I fixed it."I say with a giggle.
"Thanks." he says back to me, "Do you want to try?" he asks me.
"Yeah!" I say excitedly as he pulls me onto his lap.
"Okay so put this stick in this hand and this one in the other." He gestures as he helps me. "Okay, good. Now put this foot on the peddle for the symbols and then this foot for the bass drum" he directs as he taps my foot towards the bass drum. Ashton then wraps his arms around mine and puts his hands on top of mine.

Ashton's POV.
I love the feeling of having Sydney this close to me and I'd do anything to stay like this with her forever. "Ready?" I ask her as she turns around and smiles at me .
"Yeah!" She says with a smile.
I then proceed to play a simple beat, making sure to be extra gentle.
"You don't have to be gentle. I saw how hard you played them earlier!" She accuses me.
I say back with a giggle, "I don't want to hurt you."
"Ashton Irwin," she says as she stands up and proceeds to stratal my hips. "are you calling me weak?"
"No. I'm not calling you weak, I just don't want your arms to break off." I say with a smirk. She then grabs the sticks from my hands and starts pounding on the drums, not even being close to an actual beat.
"STOP!!!!!STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP!!!!" I yell at her. I try to grab the sticks out of her hands but she holds them above her head. Like that's going to stop me from getting the sticks back considering I'm a hole head taller than her.
"Nice try babe but I'm a smidgen taller than you are." I say with a smirk. I grab the sticks out of her hands, sit back down, and pull her back on to my lap. "If you want to try the drums, you have to do it like this." I say in her ear. I then proceed with moving my arms along with hers to create a simple beat. She turns around with a big grin on her face.
"This is fun!!" she says happily.
"I know!" I say as I wiggle my eyebrows which causes her to burst out in laughter. She falls back into my chest as her body quakes with heavenly noises exiting her.
"What?" I say amusingly.
"You wiggling your eyebrows like that!!!!" she hardly gets out. "That's so corny!!"
"I don't think so." I say back as I wiggle them again.
"Stop!!" she says as she playfully swats at my arm. As she lowers her hand to bring it back to her side I catch it. Instantly, all of her playful giggles stop and a serious look appears on her face as she stairs at our intertwined hands.
"Sorry.." I mutter as I let go of her hand.
"No, I like it." she says as she grabs my hand again. She's leaning in to kiss me when I hear the front door suddenly open and shut and I hear my name being yelled.
"Ashton!!" I hear my mum yell.
"Shit." I say to myself under my breath.
"Who's that?" Sydney quietly questions.
"My mum." I say to her as I stand up, making Sydney fall off my lap. ''Sorry" I quickly say to her as I head for the kitchen.
''Yeah?" I ask her as I enter the kitchen.
"What's your reason for not picking me up from work?" She angrily asks me.
"I-"
"You know what Ashton? I trusted you with the car at your work to not loose track of time but what do you do? You completely forget to pick me up. What were you doing that was so important that was the cause of you not picking me up?"
"I-"
"Hi, Mrs. Irwin. I'm sorry Ashton didn't pick you up it's my fault. I came over because I needed to talk to him and he taught me how to play the drums and we just lost track of time." She stands up for me while she puts my hand in hers. "I'm Sydney by the way." She introduces herself as she reaches out her hand for my mum to shake.
"Hi, Sydney. I'm Ann. I'm sorry that you had to witness that." My mum apologizes as she shakes Sydney's hand.
"No worries!" she says back without missing a beat. "Well I should probably get going now, my mom will want me home soon. I'll see you soon Ashton."She says with a smile. "It was nice meeting you, Mrs.Irwin!" She says, smiling at my mum.
I wish she wasn't leaving because I feel like half of my body is being ripped in half and then sent through a meat grinder.

Sydney's POV.
I wish that I didn't have to leave. I felt pain before. Physical pain, emotional pain, even pain caused by someone I love. But this pain, this pain is unbearable. I feel like my heart is literally being ripped out of my chest. I feel like someone reached down my throat with a hack saw and is slowly cutting away at my bones, grabbing my heart, and pulling it out of my throat while it is still attached to all my veins.
*can you come out here?* I text Ashton.
Moments later, Ashton appears outside with me.
"I just wanted to say a proper goodnight." I say to him as I stand up on the tips of my toes, put my right hand around the back of his neck, slightly tangled in his hair, and my left on his right check, just near his ear, and softly press my lips up against his. Ashton slowly wraps one of his arms around my back and the other runs through my hair. Kissing him feels like my heart is being mended back together. Like it's functioning properly again.
"Goodnight then." he says as we pull away and he kisses my nose.
"Goodnight." I say as I softly peck his lips and head towards my car.

{Okay, so first, sorry for taking so long. I have been so busy with school stuff lately and then I wrote this chapter and was about to publish it but wattpad deleted like half of it so it took me a while to remember what I wrote. Also, just to clarify because I found this a little confusing but Ashton drove his mum to her work and then he drove himself to his work and he then went out with Sydney and forgot to pick up his mum. His mum either rode home in a taxi, walked, or got a ride with someone she works with, I don't know that can be up to you guys :) Also, I want to start finding songs that I think will fit the story well and one is "Not the Only One" by Sam Smith and the line in it "but I know that I still need you here" that line is just for when Sydney first finds out that Luke is cheating on her. At this stage in the story she doesn't want him anymore.}