5SOS Imagines

All You Had To Do Was Stay// Ashton

I walked into the familiar school building that I hadn't seen in six years.
I was 18 the last time I was here, graduating, and giving birth to my daughter a few days later... Now I am 24, she is 5...in a half, and her father, nowhere in my sight since the night he left me.
It was a high school reunion. A lot of familiar faces were here. Savannah wasn't. She was babysitting my little girl, Colbie, tonight. Everyone sure must have been happy. All crowded together in a circle, until I got closer seeing 3 boys and him. Ashton.
💭"Come on, it'll be alright." I was very afraid of getting caught. Skipping class wasn't like me, or him. "Our parents will kill us Ash!" He just giggled. "I know, but we are in love so... They can't do anything."
I hesitated to tell him. I hesitated to ask him. I hesitated to kiss him as we managed to escape the hell we had known as school. We finally get to the top of the hill where we first met.
It was windy, but warm. I loved the view of the small city that seemed to worship us, our love, and ever stupid little thing we did.
His arms snake around me. And he kissed the crook of my neck before kissing my cheek, then head on my shoulder. Here goes nothing. "Hey...Ash."
"Yeah?"
"Remember the night we-"
"Got soooo physically involved with love?"
"Haha, yeah.... that night."
"Yeah, why?"💭

"Hello???"
I snapped out of my thought. It was Ashton.
"Oh, uh... Hi...Ashton ."
"Long time, no see, eh?"
I shook my head. I was about to speak, when a very attractive girl appeared by his side.
"Hey babe...uh who is she?"
"Oh this is Y/N, an old friend."
She gave me a super dirty look. if she didn't stop, shit was about go down.
She scoffed, "well she certainly looks like one of those things...and a friend isn't it..."
I grabbed her by the ear and dragged her out of the school, Ashton followed. I heard him giggle, which gave me a good kick. Still holding her by the ear, I threw her away from me.
"Ow, bitch! That hurt."
"I don't give a fuck, but you listen to me. Don't you ever....EVER, think that someone as low and trashy like you will disrespect me. Especially if they look like low lifes, who are going nowhere, and look totally shitfaced. I have life, unlike you. And a kid, also like you, you ungrateful little bitch."
"You have a kid?!?! Wow, I guess you are just as much of a whore that Ash said you were."
"What?!? Brit, I NEVER said that. And I didn't know she even had a kid." Ashton joined.
One punch was all it took to knock her out...
"Come on," he said yanking my hand gently...the last place we spoke. "You're still as tough as I remembered you..." he giggled.
"I have to get home, it's Colbie's bed time and she won't sleep without me there.
"Wait! Te-tell me about her-wait no...show me a picture THEN tell me about her."
He ought to know now...i pulled up a picture... he was stunned...
"Wow...she looks just like-"
"You..." I said.
"That's what you couldn't tell me?"
The tears began falling. That day, was the day I didn't tell him, he thought of it in a negative way... And as I searched for words and and explanation, he walked away ignoring me until....
💭"No, Ashton! It isn't what you think!" I called his name repeatedly. I started running after him, but made the mistake. The mistake to put my hand on him. as I touched his shoulder a strong wind blew at me, from him, as it felt that thunder had struck my face.
"Don't speak to me...EVER AGAIN!!!!"
I cannot believe it. My boyfriend, the one I loved, had just hit me. " Do you honestly think there is someone else?!?! There isn't!!!!"
"Then what?!?! What is there??? A YOU AND ME?!? Well.. I thought that too..i guess we are BOTH wrong."
He got in his car and drove away.
"But I'm pregnant." I whispered out. Falling to the ground.💭
"Oh Y/N I am so sorry. I am such and idiot! I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions..."
"I was scared. I was scared of what you would do, or say. Remember that day when we had that baby project in health? You said you couldn't do it. And that you didn't want to be a dad."
He was speechless. After 2-5 minutes, he spoke soft, "So, THIS is what I have missed out on for six years of my life..." he was referring to the photograph of me and Colbie that he'd found looking through pictures.
"You know, she's asked about you. I have had to tell her that you just always so busy. And sometimes, in the night, she comes into my room and cries because she doesn't know who you are, where you've been, and she thinks you left because you hate her. I have just been saying you're away on business. Ashton.....all you had to do was stay."
He grasps my hand tightly. As I sit down on the park bench and he gets down on one knee. He clears his throat,
"Y/F/N (Your full name), I, Ashton Fletcher Irwin, and kneeling down on this, rather...soaking wet and muddy ground, ruining my best pair of ripped skinny jeans, today, because...I love you. And if you exchange the same feelings that I felt, still felt, and feel for you now and back then...AND IN BETWEEN, will you be my one and only again?"
I laughed at how he was trying to play etiquette. I nodded repeatedly. then we enjoyed the silence of our love that was bound to be rejoined.
"Uhm...Y/N?"
A female voice called your name. you turned to see Savannah...and little Colbie. "What? The kid wanted her mum!" I laughed.
Colbie and I exchanged loving looks. "Colbie," she looked up at me, "daddy's home...."
She looked to Ashton, who was standing there astonished......
He finally saw her, he finally held her for the first time, cried with her for the first time, rid of the monsters for her her, met her first boyfriend, saw her graduate, chaperoned her at prom, walked her down the aisle, met her children, but thank goodness that neither he nor I had to sit and painfully watch the makeup run down her face when he and I lived another life after we both grew old.

And all he did....was stay......