Wildflower | A. IRWIN

Part Sixteen

     It had been a few weeks since Ashton had asked iris to be his girlfriend. They'd gone on multiple dates and spent a fair share of their free time together. He wasn't scared to admit that she had occupied the majority of his thoughts, he just wished he knew how to put the right words in a song. Ashton sat at his drum set in the studio, a pad of paper and pen in his lap. He clicked the pen again and again until one of his band mates had to point out that it was getting annoying.

"Ashton, you good buddy?" Michael said from where he sat on the floor. His guitar was in his hands and he tuned it to the right chords.

"He has his thinking face on," Luke said, "I'm pretty sure he's thinking."

"Yeah, but what's he thinking about?" Calum asked.

Ashton clicked his pen again and started writing. He wrote a few lines and crossed out a couple as well.

"Well his hand is moving so I think it's safe to say that he's alive," Michael pointed out.

Ashton looked up, biting his lip, thinking some more. "Can someone play the Kill My Time demo?"

Calum nodded and went over to the computer. They waited a few seconds before they heard Luke's voice singing out the words. "Wildflower, fingertips on me..."

"He has the thinking face again," Luke said.

"Alright." Ashton put the paper and pen down and looked at his band mates. "I have an idea. A very vague idea but it's an idea." He thought more about it. He could imagine the melody and the beat but the lyrics weren't coming to him just yet. There were a few lines that he was sure about though, some that would best end with the listener to interpret anyway they want.

"Any ideas would be good right now."

Ashton shuffled in his seat and got ready to explain. "Okay, so imagine if it started out with all our vocals in the beginning like in Red Desert. Then maybe Cal starts off with, 'I hear you callin' out my name, I love the sound, I love the taste—' then, 'blah blah blah you're the only one who makes me' synth. 'Every time we' synth again."

"I can kinda picture it. I like it," Luke said, "what's it about?"

"More like who's it about?" Michael chimed in.

Calum shook his head, "I think it's pretty obvious at this point. I'm surprised she's not giggling on his lap right now."

Ashton tried to ignore that his cheeks were definitely starting to feel warm. "She's busy today," he said, "packing for a trip for work."

"What does she do for work?" Luke asked. Everyone looked at him in a moment of silence.

"Oh, he was busy flirting with a girl to actually meet her," Michael said, "Iris was the one that interviewed us a few weeks ago."

Luke let out an "oh" he looked back at Ashton. "Why didn't you say anything while I was actually there?"

Ashton shrugged, "we weren't even dating yet and Calum was the one to point it out."

"I'm very observant, I knew that they were dating even before they knew themselves," Calum said. "So, Luke, when are you going to introduce us to your girlfriend?"

"How do you do that?" Luke asked, "I've barely talked about her around you guys."

"You didn't need to, because I'm observant."