Loving Secrets: An Ashton Irwin Fanfiction

Chapter 5

"What's wrong babe? You look flustered." He asks, glancing in my direction. "Babe?"

"Hmmm? What?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I umm..." I look down at my phone. I am going to kill Luke when I get home. "I'm great. I'm fine." I reply, trying to conceal my lie. Ashton just nods and focuses back on his driving.

After a couple of silent minutes, he takes one of his hands off of the steering wheel and places it on my leg. "Sooo... I know you're still new to this but umm, instead of playing cards maybe we could do something else." He winks at me.

"Seriously?" I ask, a little in shock that he's so eager to go at it again.

"No, I'm just messing around." He giggles. I don't, I'm not really in the mood. "I'm sorry." He says guiltily, letting go of my leg.

"No it's fine. I'm just tired is all. And I was really looking forward to cards." I laugh half-heartedly, since I'm still a little distracted.

He just smiles and nods. "Cards it is then." After 20 minutes or so, we pull up to the house. He drops me off in the front so that he can go park the car in the back. I get out of the car and grab my purse as I watch him drive towards the garage. Once I'm sure he can't see me, I barge in through the front door and see Luke sitting on the couch.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" I shout.

Startled, he turns around to look at me. "What?" he says surprised.

"Are you fucking nuts!? Why the hell do you think it would be okay to go dress shopping with me!" I shout. I admit I wasn't making much sense but I was pretty confused at the moment.

"What? You said you were bored and I was bored too. I wanted to get out of the house!" He yells.

"Don't give me that bullshit Luke."

He pauses for a moment. "I'm assuming the date didn't go well?"

"No. You'll be unhappy to hear that it actually went just fine." Except for that whole slip up half way through but he doesn't have to know about that. "In fact it was amazing. He's amazing and I love him. Do you understand what that means Luke?!" All of these things were coming out of my mouth so fast, I wasn't even thinking about what I was saying.

"I don't even know what the hell you're talking about!" He defends himself.

"Yes you do! He's your best friend. What's the matter with you!" Before I can say anything else Ashton walks into the house, totally unaware of the yelling and the shouting that had been going on seconds before. Luke's face goes white. "Hey Luke. What are you doing up?" Ashton asks.

"I was just watching TV. I couldn't sleep. But Dani said you guys had an amazing night." Luke says.

"She just said amazing? I would say perfect." Ash says, giving me a peck on the cheek. I blush and smile. He always finds a way to make me happy, even when I'm down, even when he doesn't realize it.

"Well I'm gonna head to bed then." Luke says staring at me, his face sunken in and his eyes glazed with confused sadness. He walks upstairs as I wait for the sound of his bedroom door closing. Ashton turns to me and smiles. "Sooo...cards!?!" He walks to the dresser in the living room and pulls out a deck. "Cards." I smile as he guides me to the couch.

We sit down across from one another as he shuffles the cards. I'm still furious at Luke and I keep getting distracted. "So what are we playing my love?" I snap out of my dazed anger and focus back on my boyfriend.

"Anything's fine."

"How about strip poker?" He raises one eyebrow and gives me a teasing look as he pretends to slowly unbutton his shirt. I glare at him and he laughs "I'm just kidding babe, go fish?" I smile a little. God this boy.