7• interlude one; merry christmas

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"so, when are you finally gonna ask her out?", ashton asked. "what?", I said shifting my attention from y/n to ashton. "calum, you've been staring at her all night, just go over there and ask her out already.", he chuckled.

we were having a christmas party at his place. and to be honest he was right, I had been paying more attention to y/n than to the party itself. she has been living with me for about two months now. she seems a lot happier than when she first moved in and I'm happy to see her pretty smile back on her face. "what are you waiting for?", ashton said again. "I-uh, I'm, I don't know.", I stuttered. ashton just pushed me into her direction and I was about to say something when michael yelled "SECRET SANTA TIIIIME!!!"

right, I almost forgot. we made a last minute decision to do secret santa, so we all just bought something small for each other. I had to find something for crystal, michael's girlfriend. I bought her a necklace which y/n helped me pick out. I know we weren't supposed to tell anyone who we got, but I really needed some advice. everyone had written the name of the person they had to buy something for on the wrapping paper so that in the end we could guess who picked out our gifts.

luke opened his first, it was a jacket with "that's cool baby" embroided on the back. he thought it was me who bought it, but it was actually crystal. So now it was her turn to open her gift. she said she loved it and guessed it came from y/n. "well she did help me pick it out , but it was me actually.", I laughed. "thank you so much", she said, "your turn now!" "okay, let's see what santa got for me!", I laughed while looking for the one that had my name on it.

I took off the wrapping paper and I found a silver bass strap with a couple stars and my initials on it. "I love this!! thank you y/n, I know you're the one who bought it because you're the only one who knew I tore my other one three days ago.", I said looking at her with the biggest smile on my face. "you're welcome!", she smiled, "okay my turn now!!" ashton had gotten her a sketchbook and by the look on her face I could tell she loved it. It went on like that for a while untill everyone had gotten their present.

"thank you again y/n, I really love it.", I said to her. "I'm glad you do." she smiled. "I-uh, I also wanted to ask you something else, uhm....", I stuttered. "yeeeah, go on.", she giggled. "I wanted to see, what you'd say if I asked you if you wanted to go out?", I spoke softly. she was staring at me with a really confused look on her face, so I rushed to add, "with ashton."

"oh, cal, you're such an idiot, 'with
ashton', why would you say that.", I thought, mentally facepalming myself. "uh, I guess, couldn't he ask for himself though.", she said.. "yeah, he was afraid you'd say no, I'll go tell him now, bye y/n." I don't know if i'm more upset about the way I messed this up or about the fact that she agreed to go out with my best friend.

"did she say no?", ashton asked surprised, studying my face intensly. "not exactly, she said yes, but I asked her if she wanted to go out with you.", I murmured. "why would you ask that, that's ridiculous?!", ashton said as he started to laugh at my stupidity. "I was afraid she'd reject me, okay!" I yelled a bit too loud, stormed outside and sunk down to the floor. tears started rolling down my cheeks out of frustration.

"so..., I'm guessing you didn't actually wanna ask me out?", y/n asked ashton. "no, not really, I'm sorry.", he replied. "please, don't be, I'm glad, I didn't really wanna go out either I just didn't want to reject you like that. not through someone else, you know, that's just lame." she replied. "good!" ashton said relieved. "no offense, but I just like someone else and I thought he would've rejected me if I asked, but since I just heard him yell the same thing, I think I should go talk to him.", she added. "yeah, you should.", ashton laughed and y/n made her way outside.

"so....", y/n started as she sat down next to me, "ashton told me you lied about him wanting to go out with me." "yeah, well, I-uh, I saw the look on your face when I was asking you out, so I was pretty sure you were gonna say no.", I stuttered. "I didn't see my face, but I was just confused, because I didn't think you liked me like that. anyway to answer your question, I would have said yes." y/n laughed. "wait. what?!! you want to go out with me?", I asked , my entire face lighting up only by the thought of it. "yes you silly. I would love to.", she chuckled and we shared a long hug before going back ro the party.

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