5SOS CAKE AND MASHTON ONE SHOTS

Mashton:// The Zen Study Buddies

Mashton are 18 year old school leavers in this. This is more of a cute one 🥺
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"Oh stop turning the page so quickly! Wait till I've finished reading!" Michael playfully poked his friend in the shoulder with the rubber tip of his pencil. "Hey you need to catch up! I'm gonna get a higher grade than you and tease you for it if you don't... you don't want to risk that do you?" Ash smiled, letting his ever so precious dimples show. Michael attempted not to stare for too long, they did in fact have a lot to study today. They were laying on their stomachs with the music channel on in the background as they flipped through the pages of the textbook and wrote down in their notes. This was the last day they had to revise before their big test tomorrow. They were the only ones that hadn't caught up, let's just say that Calum and Luke were good boys and were the only two in the friendship group that had caught up with everything. They were all best friends, but they all knew that Michael and Ashton had romantic chemistry. They never really talked about it, because they never wanted to ruin their friendship. They didn't often spend a lot of time alone with each other, but this time they realised that they had to just suck it up and accept that they were going to be in some deep shit if they didn't take in some of this knowledge. They worked so well together. Wether it was in science class, wether they were playing sports together, or even just playing video games. They clicked, and had a connection stronger than they realised. And of course, Calum and Luke knew this. They were so excited about them studying together today, because they knew that it would mean alone time for them. Will they even get any work done though?

"Jesus this is some bullshit, look how long this sentence is! It all sounds like gibberish to me" Ashton scoffed. "It's long, but we have to memorise it. Not that it will be in the test anyway, you know they like to do that. Make you revise a bunch of knowledgeable shit and then only have around 15% of that knowledgeable shit on the actual paper" Michael began to sharpen his pencil, trying not to get too distracted. But it was too hard. He couldn't take his eyes off Ashton, who began to sit up and stressfully run his hands through his hair. "I can't do this Michael.." he looked down. Michael sat up beside him and looked at him. "Do what?" "I can't study anymore, we've been working for hours! Can we at least take a break? I'm getting stressed" he began to fumble with the carpet. "Um...sure we can.. yeah we deserve one I guess..." Michael shrugged. Now what? They weren't studying anymore so they no longer had a distraction, to keep them away from showing their feelings. It's insane to think that they both tried their best to dance around this, and have been doing for years. "Well... do you want a drink?" Michael asked out of panic. "My mum has recently been buying a lot of herbal tea. If I get you some tea and light an incense in my bedroom, maybe you can calm down?" He asked. Ashton shrugged. "Um... it's okay... I like tea but... I actually wanted to talk to you..it's all too much on my mind. This stupid test coming up, I am starting to have a feeling that i know why we haven't been studying. It's because we haven't been focused. We've been... too busy stressing over...other things." Ashton looked deeply into his friend's eyes. "What do you mean?" Michael pretended that he didn't know what Ashton was talking about, but oh god, he knew. He knew very well, because he felt the same.

After a few seconds of silence, Michael turned the music down on the TV. This meant that he was serious about wanting to listen to what Ashton had to say. "Mike...how long are we going to ignore this? I hate to sound like I'm being paranoid, but if we go into this exam with a lot of shit on our chest... it will most likely negatively effect our grade too." He looked down at the pages of his scruffy writing, he usually had beautiful handwriting but he has been so distracted, it became impossible to even pursue just a little bit of that energy onto paper. "Well... yeah.. it's good to get stuff off your chest. Can I please just get us the relaxing essentials? Please.. if I do, we can relax and also have a talk, okay?" Michael smiled. He knew what he was doing, he wanted to talk to Ashton but also set the mood. It'll do them good to talk things through, but also it will surely help them to have the mood set to a very calm environment. "Yeah.. yeah okay.." Ashton nodded and bit his lip. He knew that Michael wasn't trying to avoid the chat, he just wanted to make sure it was going to be comfortable. "Be back in a minute" Michael gently squeezed Ashtons shoulder before he stood up and out of the room and down to the kitchen. Ashton stood up and picked a vanilla scented incense stick and pushed it firmly in the holder, lighting it seconds later. He blew out the flame and watched the incense smoke rise and curl into the air like a smoky waterfall as he waited for Michael to come back upstairs with the tea.