Quarantined // A.I (completed)

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< Wednesday >

It's 9 am and I've already cried three times. My accounting final is at 11 am and I have until 4 pm to take it. But I'm mentally breaking down about it.

I think it scared Ashton when he woke up and I was bawling my eyes out as I tried studying in bed. I had woken up early and turned the lamp on and spreaded my book, notebook, and old tests out while he slept next to me.

Ashton has stayed with me since he's woken up. Now he was scrolling through his phone as I continued to study,

"I'm going to Doordash coffee. Do you want your usual?" Ashton's voice took me from my study trance.

"Uh yeah sure" I smiled. He nodded and put our order in.

When the doorbell rang, Ashton got out of bed and went to get it. When he came back in the room, I noticed he still only had his boxers on.

"Did you just answer the door like that?" I laughed.

"Yes I did" he nodded matter of factly and handed me my iced coffee then got back in bed with me.

****

Ashton was letting me use his office and computer again so around 10:30 I went downstairs and set up, calling Madeline and two other classmates, Alison and Will.

"I am not ready to take this 5-hour test" Madeline groaned as soon as we all connected.

"Does he not understand that I need to eat" Will exclaimed.

"My sisters going to bring me food" Madeline laughed.

"Ashton will probably bring me something" I smiled.

"Okay, whatever. Let's just start" Alison said.

About an hour and a half in, Ashton came down with a plate of chicken nuggets, with ranch, and two glasses of water.

"Can I stay?" He whispered, setting the plate down and nudging me to stand. I nodded and stood and he took a seat then pulled me on his lap.

Ashton kept quiet as we worked, both of us eating off the plate he brought down. When the plate was empty, Ashton got up,

"When you're done, I'll be ready to cuddle," he told me then headed back upstairs.

****

We had 20 minutes left and still had most of the test blank. I could feel the anxiety building in me and my eyes were threatening for tears to fall.

"Okay, let's just start putting answers" Will announced. We all agreed and scribbled a bunch of answers down.

"Okay, we need to turn them in at different times so it's not suspicious," Alison told us.

"I'll go first, then Hannah, then Alison, then Will" Madeline discussed our order. With that we each turned our test in a few minutes apart.

When I ended the zoom, I went upstairs and searched for Ashton. I checked everywhere in the house and couldn't find him. Then I noticed the back door was slightly open.

I walked outside and found Ashton sitting on one of the chairs on his phone. I quietly climbed into his lap and laid on him. He put his phone to the side and wrapped his arms around me.

"How do you think you did?" Ashton asked and I just started to cry, "Okay so I'm assuming it was bad"

I nodded against his chest and he held me a little tighter,

"How about this" Ashton started and sat up a little, pulling me with him, "I'm going to order in dinner then me and you are going to go do a little stress-relieving activity so then you'll be nice and prepared and relaxed for your math final"

****

Ashton ended up doing Uber Eats for Chipotle, my favorite. When it got here, we set up on the couch. Ashton insisted because 'eating on the couch is more relaxing'.

When it got dark, Ashton dragged me out of the house and down the street. He was walking quickly and had two towels in his hand. I really did not know where we were going. Ashton knows he's got all my trust so he kept pulling me along.

Suddenly he pulled me down the side of a house and we hopped the fence into the backyard. Next thing I knew, Ashton was butt ass naked and walking over to the pool in the stranger's yard,

"What the fuck are you doing!?" I whisper-yelled. I knew someone was home. The cars were in the driveway and their porch lights were on. But the backyard was pretty dark.

Ashton turned back around and walked over to me,

"Relax. Loosen up. Take your clothes off and come get in the pool with me" Ashton laughed,

"Ashton, what if they walk outside!?" I questioned but took my clothes off,

"They won't; hopefully. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen the people who live here" he laughed, taking my hand and leading us into the pool.

Once I loosened up, I was having a blast. We chased each other around for a while. Suddenly he grabbed my sides and spun me around. My arms went around his neck and my legs around his waist.

I leaned in to kiss him when lights came on. Ashton moved me behind him to cover myself as he stayed glued to his spot.

The back door of the house opened and my mouth dropped when I saw the person walk out, half naked themselves.

"Pr-professor Leslie" I gasped. Ashton tucked my body closer behind him. He knows Leslie is on the sex offenders list and everything.

"Miss Oakley. Not the girl I'd expect naked in my pool" Leslie smirked,

"Look I'm sorry. We're going to go, so if you could just hand me those towels that'd be great" Ashton said and pointed to the towels on the ground next to our clothes.

"I don't know. I'm sure Hannah can get out and get them" Leslie continued with his smirk. Ashton muttered something and started walking towards the pool steps, keeping me tucked behind him.

We got out and quickly grabbed towels and wrapped them around ourselves as Leslie stared at us with googly eyes.

"I'm sorry" Ashton muttered and grabbed our clothes and we headed out the gate instead of climbing the fence.

"Well it was really, really nice to see you" Leslie laughed as Ashton pulled me with him faster.

When we got home, both Ashton and I busted out laughing,

"Okay that was super awkward but I had fun before we got caught" I told him.

"I swear I didn't know he lived there" Ashton told me and pulled me to our bathroom.

After a shower, laughing and talking about my awkward experience with my teacher, we climbed in bed, hoping to get some sleep before we had to wake up in the morning to pack to go to Florida.