Distance // Ashton Irwin

14. Beach

I woke up the next morning to the sound of Ashton on the phone. He was still laying in bed, and I smirked as I saw how messy his hair was. He lifted his head up slightly to see that I was smirking at him. He giggled. "Morning" he mumbled. I gave him a small wave before face planting the pillow. I was tired.

"Hold on Luke" I heard Ashton speak.

"Hey Holl?" I lifted up my head from the pillow. "Yes Ash?"

"Luke wants to know if you want to come to the beach today with us boys" he finished. I smiled. "Yeah sure" I answered.

Ashton mutteted a few things on the phone before he hung up and sighed. "Okay so Luke's picking us up in an hour" he said shortly after getting up from his bed. "Okay cool" I replied.

luckily enough I had packed swimmers. Although it was winter, it almost felt like spring but that was no surprise though seeing how spring wasn't that far away.

After getting changed and putting a dress on over the top of my swimmers, I walked into Ashton's room to see him, once again, shirtless. I decided to say something about it this time. "So um, am I going to be seeing you like this more often?" I playfully joked. He laughed and then winked at me.

Before I walked away, Ash leaned over and grabbed my arm. "Hey about last night" he started. I could see where this one was going. "I'm sorry that I kissed you, I don't know what came over me, and I was too shocked last night to really explain myself." He continued. "But what I said last night is true, you really do interest me Holl." He finished. I nodded. I should of known that the kiss meant nothing. "No it's fine" I lied. I faked a smile and then continued to get ready before Luke picked us up.

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"You boys are gross!" I yelled. I was squished in the middle between Calum and Michael and somehow Ashton had managed to bribe Michael to give him the front seat. Luke was driving. Every now and then I could see him laughing as he continued to drive to the beach.

"Oi dude that one was bad, wind down your window!" I heard Michael yell. As Calum wound down the window, he had a cheeky grin on his face. Both him and Michael had successfully managed to get on my nerves already, but I had to admit I did like their company, I just didn't like it when they stunk me out with their farts.

"Boys will be boys" Luke mumbled. "Not like you can talk!" Yelled Michael. Ashton, Calum and Michael laughed.

"At least I don't try and suffocate Holly!" Luke answered. Well that one was true. Michael and Calum lifted up their hands and gave each other a high-5, it's like they were proud. Eww.

After 10 or so minutes Luke finally came to a stop. "Here!" He said before jumping out. The rest of us jumped out and we all started walking towards the beach.

"Hey Holly" said Luke walking beside me. "Hey Luke" we continued to walk. "So hows it been at Ashton's place?" He asked. "Yeah good" I replied. He started laughing. "What?" I asked. "I know that somethings happened, I can feel the awkwardness between you guys, now come on!" I sighed. "Is it really that obvious?" Luke nodded. "Yep."

The other three boys were now well ahead of us. Michael was running after Ashton with something in his hand and Calum just stood there laughing.

"Come on you can tell me!" Said Luke interupting my thoughts as I closely watched the boys carrying on like idiots, it was actually quite entertaining. "Well.." I started. "Promise me you won't repeat this back to Ashton?" Luke nodded. "Yeah I promise" he answered.

"Okay well, Ashton kissed me last night, but then this morning he told that he didn't know made him do it, but..." I paused. "But what?" Asked Luke. "But I think I like him, I think I have feelings for him and well... I don't think he feels the same way." I finished. Who was I kidding? Of course he didn't feel the same way.

Luke went silent for a few minutes before he finally spoke. "Does he know how you feel?" He asked. I shook my head. "No, and I don't think I'll tell him."

"Why not?" Luke asked. "Theres no point?" Luke sighed. "You don't know that, I mean you heard what happened the other at Michael's? Maybe there is something going on but you just can't see it?" Luke replied.

I guess Luke had a point. "Thanks for listening to me Luke, but if I ever get annoying you can tell me to shut up, okay?" Luke laughed. "No it's fine, there's no point telling you to shut up if I like talking to you."

We had finally caught up to the other boys and sat down on our towls.

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By the end of the day I was soaking wet. The boys had decided to fill up a bucket with water and pour it over peoples head, and I happened to one of their victims. From that second on I saw there being no point sitting on the sand so I decided to join Calum and Luke who were knee deep in the water. Mulitple times I was dunked and thrown in the water, but I had to admit it was fun.

As we all walked back to Luke's car, Luke, who had been walking alongside Calum, jogged up to me. "Hey Holly" he said grinning. "Hey Luke."

"You going back to Ashton's?" He asked. I nodded. I had no actual idea when I was going home, but all of my stuff was at Ashton's so I had a feeling id be staying there one more night.

Luke smiled. "Okay!" He replied and then walked back over to Calum. Why did Luke want to know if I was staying at Ashton's?

"Alright, jump in guys, lets go!" Yelled out Luke as we had finally reached the car.