The Man ⇝ Lashton & Malum ✓

chapter twelve

jade I have changed ur role ok

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Ashton had called me a total of eighty seven times after I didn't meet up with him like I had previously said a week earlier.

I hadn't answered him. Obviously.

He was with someone else, and a girl for that matter.

And then I knew her name. Lea was her friend and she had come in to see Lea. The girl was called Jade and by Lea's words, she was a really nice girl.

I was fucked basically.

I had lost Ashton before it had even began and that fucking terrified me because I loved him and he was just slipping through my fingers.

I lay on the sofa, my feet resting on the side because they were so fucking swollen and I needed to make a doctors appointment. Calum was at work, I didn't understand his work. He was high up in an architect company because he was smart, and worked hard at college. So I sat alone in my flat. Waiting for Calum to come home and occasionally ignoring Ashton's calls.

But then there was a knock at my door and I couldn't stand up without my feet hurting so I yelled, "Come in!"

The door opened and there stood Ashton. All cozy in a beanie and coat. "Why are you ignoring me?" He asked, standing across the flat.

He shut the door before he walked further in to the room, "Are you okay?" He questioned.

"Can you leave?" I asked him, looking at the TV. "I'm not in the mood."

"No because my boyfriend won't return my calls or talk to me, or bloody look at me—Luke look at me!" Ashton yelled.

I shook my head, looking up at him. "What do you want?"

"Why are you ignoring me?" He repeated.

"Are you with her?" I asked instead.

"Who?"

"Her, the hot girl who was at the shop the other day." I said sadly, looking back up at the TV.

"Jade?" I nodded. "She's my cousin, you fucking moron." Ashton laughed.

I furrowed my brows and looked at him again, "Excuse me?"

"Jade is my cousin and she came to visit me and I took her out. I wanted her to meet you but Calum was there and I wasn't going to risk anything. But I probably did, are you okay? Like did he hurt you?" Ashton rambled cutely.

I shook my head, "It was our anniversary and I forgot so we fucked instead." I shrugged, watching at Ashton gulped and lick his lips.

"How long was the anniversary?"

"Four years and I forgot, Ash. I fucking forgot." I said, frowning and grabbing a pillow, to cover my face as tears fell. "I'm so terrible and you should just leave me because I'm ugly and stupid and I forget anniversaries and I just want to kill myself so —"

"You fucking stop right there." Ashton hissed.

The older boy kneeled down and took my face in his hands. "You're so beautiful and without you I'd be going fucking crazy. I don't care about anniversaries, they're stupid and irrelevant. And you're not stupid—"

"I work in a music store Ashton." I reminded him.

Ashton rolled his eyes, "Well you're smart enough to sort albums alphabetically." I smacked his arm and he laughed. "And if you killed your self I think I'd have to do the exact same and kill myself too."