Dangerous [Lashton AU]

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Ashton’s POV.

I walked into my house after school. I threw my jacket onto the hook, kicked off my boots, and dropped my backpack onto the floor.

“Mom?” I warily called. I didn’t know how she was lately. She could have completely stepped off the deep end with her drinking again or it could have been a one time thing. I have been avoiding her, not wanting to face anything.

“Oh hi sweetie, how was school?” My mom walked to where I was standing in the mud porch. I furrowed my brows. She seemed completely normal. This was really weird.

“Don’t act like nothing happened.” I folded my arms.

“What are you talking about?” My mom smiled and tilted her head to the side as if she was confused.

“Mom.” I sighed.

“What?” Oh she still wanted to play this game. Well I was done.

“I know about dad.” I said.

My mothers perfect show changed. She unfolded her arms and furrowed her brows.

“How do you know about your father?” She asked.

“Because I’m not two anymore mum! You can’t hide things from me anymore.”

“I know. I’m sorry.” She whispered.

“How dare he come back like that? Making you go back to old habits! He has no right.” I raged and threw my hands up. I expected my mum to agree but she didn’t.

“Honey it’s not all his fault.” My mother said calmly.

“How could you say that?” I gaped.

“You don’t understand. There are things that you don’t know. Things that you won’t understand. Things I have spent seventeen years trying to hide you from.”

“Well make me understand. Tell me.” I pleaded.

“I can’t do that Ashton. I made a promise to myself.”

“Promises were meant to be broken.” I said.

“Not this one.” My mother weakly smiled.

“Can you tell me what dad was like?” I asked. My mother sighed and motioned towards the living room for us to sit.

“Well I gotta say, your father is a much different man now than he was then. The man he was 17 years ago is the man I love. But then he changed…” My mother looked down. “Back when we were in high school, we were lovers. We were high school sweethearts.” My mother smiled at the memories.

I soaked up everything she was saying, she never talked about dad. Ever. So this was the first. I also had a feeling that this might be the last so I listened to every word she said.

“He was so kind. He had this bad boy vibe thing going for him but for me he was sweet. He was kind of popular at school too. He had this gorgeous dirty blonde hair and these amazing eyes. It’s like some days they looked brown and some days they were this gorgeous green, then they were a lovely shade of hazel. You got that from him you know. You look just like him, Ashton,” My mom smiled. I liked hearing my mom talk about him. “He would always steal flowers for me. I know it sounds cheesy but he didn’t have a lot of money, so he would sneak into the flower shop at least once a week and steal me a daisy.” My mother laughed. “We were in love.”

“What happened then?” I asked. I was practically leaning forward in my seat.

“Well it wasn’t anything specific… we just didn’t agree on a lot of things. But it happened so slowly that we didn’t even see it happening. After we had Harry, that was when we finally realized that we weren’t the same people that we were in high school. He got colder. I didn’t have that same glow that I used to. We fought all the time… Look I gotta go make supper… You should get going on your homework.” And it was over. I walked upstairs, knowing that begging her to tell me more would do nothing. For the rest of the night, I listened to music and did my homework.

I tried not to think about Luke but I failed. Why the sudden disinterest? I thought he liked me. It really hurt me, and he didn’t even say why. Was it because of me? We were getting closer, maybe he just didn’t like me any more. I was probably just not good enough for Luke. I went to sleep that night, my brain coming up with different ways why Luke might not like me.

Hiii, really short chapter I know :( but it's only beause what I had written was really long so I had to split it up into two chapters. I'll have chapter 16 up tomorrow and it's really good and almost 2,000 words so yay! I really want to do a character ask but I feel like I won't get enough questions lol. Please vote and comment! Love yah. ~ Riley