My Musical Romance // l.h. ❌

Chapter 16

Chrissy's P.O.V.

I had successfully been shown the entirety of the building, including every single corner. Aleisha also guided me to the rooms where we could have a little more silence - simply because not everybody knew about them. By far her favorite part was the tiny recording studio that used to be where the choir practised. Since then it was sort of abandoned, but still had everything a musician's heart desired.

While I was busy looking through the variety of acoustic guitars, Aleisha had grabbed one of them and sung one of my favorite songs in the most delicate voice I had ever heard. About in the middle of the song I joined in and it turned out that our voices harmonized perfectly - a fact we would keep in mind for boredom times.

During our litte 'tour' I had also learned a ton about Aleisha, who certainly was the most innocent and generous human being. You could already tell we we're getting along perfectly - maybe because she reminded me of Beth a lot.

"Alright, I have to leave you now, I'm going on a date!" she fluttered.

"What a lucky guy" I chuckled "Okay hope you'll have fun and I want details afterwards!"

"Totally! You'd love him, he's the sweetest guy I've ever met and ugh I just like him a lot.." she enthused about said person. Soon we said goodbye and I went to see Ashton, who introduced me to his siblings, Lauren and Harry and to his mum.

I immediately fell in love with his puppy, Indie, who seemed to prefer my lap to her bed. Towards the late afternoon, we decided to visit the beach, where we spent a couple hours as well, just catching up on our lives. I told him about my great friends back in America, about my classes, about my job at the coffee shop, et cetera... Ashton also spilled about their tour, how he met some cool people (girls I assume), the concerts he had been to and so on.

The time we spent just sitting there, laughing, telling stories, made me realize how much I had missed him, which is crazy, as we had only known each other for about a week but he was a truly great friend. At some points (mostly when he told me about their band) my thoughts slided to some certain other bandmember, but I tried to push that away, as I didn't want to break out in a puddle of tears.

"Hey, have you already heard about that beach party planned on the weekend? It's a mile from here and I'll be there as well, you might wanna go?" Ashton blurted out.

"Uhh, sure! Text me the details and I'll be there I guess.."

"Cool! Okay it's getting late already. You wanna catch a ride home?"

I agreed purely because a) I wouldn't have to pay the bus fair and b) Ashton's playlist would be played and his music taste was bomb.

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A couple days later Stella was brought to me and she was overly excited to see me which resulted in hours of cuddling and she eventually fell asleep on top of me while watching TV. Keeping up with the Kardashians wasn't her thing, I guess.

The time passed by until I got out of Uni the next day, being greeted by a great tempered girl who had grown to be one of my best friends.

"Aleiiishaa!" I chirped as walked towards the car park together. "Hey Chrissie! So will I see you later?" she questioned, alluding to the beach party that would take place at 7pm. "For sure, by the way you don't have to pick me up, i'll get there with a friend." I replied.

"Ohhhh.. someone special?" she wiggled her eyebrows, making me laugh loudly. "Naah he's just a friend."

"Don't friendzone that poor guy!" Aleisha laughed, while she got in the driver's seat of her black chevy.

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I kissed Stella's furry head before standing up straight in front of the mirror, flattening my flowy top, that had flowers on them, and my white shorts. Somehow I managed to decently do my make-up in time. My hair on the contrary was a big something of waves. The sound of Ashton's vehicle hooting caused me to hurry up until I sat beneath him in the car.

As soon as he pulled into the parking lot, his car already boomed due to the bass of the music echoing from amplifiers. I was pretty overwhelmed by the amout of people that showed up - which seemed to be a daily thing for Ash.

I felt like he was going to greet every second person, which in the end didn't surprise me at all, however we made it through the crowd and as Ashton was gone fetching some punch for us, I spotted a familiar girl whose blonde hair fell down her back perfectly straightened. Aleisha reacted to my calls by rushing towards me and pulled me into a tight hug.

"Okay, how about I finally introduce you to my boyfriend? He's over there with some friends. Come on!" she linked our arms - not even giving me a second to answer and dragged me to somewhere near the bar. On the way we were joined by Ash who gave me a white cup filled with delicious looking red liquid and I sipped on it until Aleisha stopped walking.

"Chrissy, I want to introduce you to..."

I looked up from my cup and my eyes immediately grew wide.

"...Luke?"