Alexandria
A few hours after, our conversation, I realised Anne was right. Bryana's opinion of me didn't matter, what mattered was that Ashton and I were happy.
I was currently in the kitchen, looking for something to eat, when someone came up from behind and wrapped their arms around my waist, I turned my head and saw Ashton, "hey," I smiled
"Hey," he replied and gave me a quick kiss
"Did you just get back?"
"Yeah, ran into Calum and had coffee with him,"
"Oh cool," I smiled, "so what are you doing tonight?"
"Well I was hoping to just chill with you since mum's going out, but you're looking after Lauren and her friends,"
"Yeah, you can join if you want," I suggested
"Thanks but no, I don't think I'll enjoy myself around so many teenage girls,"
"Fair enough," I said, "though chilling with you sounds fun,"
"Well mum's left and Lauren's listening to music before her friends get here and Harry's already at his friends," he said, turning me around, and lifting me up so I was sitting on the kitchen bench
"So what are you suggesting?" I asked, a smirk etched on my face
"Oh I think you know," he told me, he moved my legs apart, so he could stand in between them. He moved his face to my neck and began to kiss and suck
"Mmm, Ash," I moaned out, "maybe we should take this to the bedroom,"
"Good idea," he left one last kiss on my neck, and then lifted me off the bench.
We had just closed the door to his bedroom, when the doorbell rang, "fuck," he groaned, pulling away from me
"Later?" I asked, straightening out my clothing. I knew it would near impossible for us to have time like this, when everyone was out. To be honest I was craving him, we'd respected his mum's wishes and not had sex the entire time we'd been in Sydney and I knew Ashton felt the same, his actions in the kitchen proved it
"Later," he confirmed nodding, placing a quick kiss to my lips, "we better get going,"
We opened the door, and a teenage girl around was standing there. I didn't recognise her, meaning she was a new friend of Lauren's or at least one she'd are in the last couple of years, "Hey," she said awkwardly, when she realised Ashton answered the door, "I'm Lauren's friend Ellie,"
"She's in her room," Ash told her and then she went on her way
"Do you know her?" I asked, once she was out of ear shot
"Nope," he said, "never heard of her,"
"She must be a new friend,"
"I didn't think they were getting here this early," he told me, "I honestly thought we had a couple of hours,"
"Yeah, your mum told me they were coming around seven,"
It was a couple of hours later, that all of Lauren's friends arrived; some of them I remembered, others I didn't, "do you know all of the girls?" I asked Ash, he was in the living room, with Calum, who decided to show up, probably to entertain Ash; because I was more than likely going to be preoccupied with the girls
"No, Lauren and I haven't been that close over the last couple of years," he said. I was shocked, he'd always loved his younger siblings
"Really?" I asked, a little confused
"She blamed me for you leaving and not being around after the band took off, and when we were here for a few days between legs of the tour, Bryana came down, and Lauren hated her,"
"I'm sorry," I said, I really was, I probably could have tried harder to stay in contact with his family after everything happened. They were after all like a second family to me, for as long as I could remember
"It's not your fault," he said, standing up and kissing my forehead
"Why are you out here anyways?" Calum asked, "aren't you supposed to be doing girl stuff, like makeup and talking about boys?"
"Yeah, don't really feel like discussing boys with Ashton's sister," I laughed, "her brother is my boyfriend after all," I smiled, when I said that word. It was the first time I said it out loud, since we finally put a label on us, a few hours earlier
"So you guys are together now?" Calum asked, "well back together, I mean,"
"Yeah, we are," Ash confirmed
"About fucking time," he laughed, "Michael owes me fifty now,"
Seriously, Cal? You placed bets one us?l "anyways, why are you out here again?" I laughed
"Well, it was really only a matter of time before it happened," he shrugged, "but again, what are you doing out here?"
"I'm gonna order pizza for the girls and wanted to know if you wanted me to order anything for you guys,"
"Just the usual," Ash shrugged. I ordered the pizza, and went back to the girls.
"I ordered the pizza," I said to them
"Thanks Lex," Lauren smiled, "so did I hear you correctly earlier?"
"What?" I asked
"You and my brother talking before the girls came,"
"Were you listening to our conversation?" I asked
"Yup," she smiled, "so you're back together?"
"Yeah we are,"
"Wait," the girl who arrived first; Ellie I think her name is, spoke up, "you're dating Ashton?"
"Uh, yeah. I am,"
"I thought he was dating that model,"
"They broke up," Lauren said, "thank god,"
I made the girls come into the kitchen to eat, once the pizzas arrived. There was small talk among the group. Ellie had a weird look on her face the entire time. She was up to something. I knew the look all too well. Once dinner was done I loaded the dishes into the dishwasher, while the girls went back in to Lauren's room
"Hey, you gonna be right with the girls?" Ash asked, "Cal and I are gonna go and get a drink,"
"Yeah. That's fine, a few teenage girls won't be hard to handle," I smiled
"Well only be an hour or so," he said, "I'll see you when I get back,"
"No worries," I smiled. He gave me a quick kiss and followed me upstairs, so he could get some shoes on
"Alright, I'm off, I'll see you when I get back, text me if you need me, and I'll be right back,"
"Go have fun," I smiled
"I love you,"
"You too,"
I walked back into Lauren's room, and heard her practically yelling, "Ellie, what the fuck put it away,"
"Come on Lauren!" I heard someone say, "have some fun," what the fuck is going on? I asked myself
"Lauren," I called to her, "can you come out here for a second?" She walked out a second later, "what's going on?" I asked
"Ellie, just pulled out a bottle of vodka,"
"Are you fucking kidding me? Where did she even get it from?"
"I'm pretty sure her brother brought it for her or she stole it from her parents,"
"Alright," I sighed. I didn't know what I was going to do, I'd never been in this situation before. Sure I drank underage, but not at fourteen.
I walked in to the bedroom and saw the girl taunting the others pressuring them to drink, "what's going on?" I asked, Ellie saw me, and tried to hide the bottle
"Nothing," she lied
"What's that behind your back?" I asked, "I saw you try and hide something,"
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said with a smirk. I decided to walk over to where she was sitting, and grabbed the bottle of cheap vodka from behind her back
"Care to explain?" I asked
"Come on, girl," she said, "chill,"
"No! You're fourteen years old and you brought vodka to a sleepover!"
"Like you never did that!" She countered
"Regardless of what I did when I was fourteen is none of your business," I said firmly, "why did you think it was okay to bring this?"
"These girls are boring, thought it might make them have some fun, there's only so many makeovers you can sit through, ya know?"
"Then why are you here?" Lauren asked, "you asked for an invite, why?"
"Why do you think?" Ellie said, I grabbed the bottle and walked out of the room. I knew exactly what she was going to say. She would have wanted to meet Ashton. Anne was right when she asked me to keep an eye on the girls, she said she normally just would have left them while she went out for a few hours, but, now? I'm glad she asked me
"Lauren, can you come with me?" She nodded and followed me
"Where's Ash?"
"Out with Calum," I told her, "want me to call him?" She just nodded
"And mum too,"
"Sure sweetie," I picked up my phone, "do you have her mum's number?" I asked, knowing I didn't want this girl here any longer
"No, we're not even friends, like she just pointed out. She probably only wanted to come to meet Ash,"
"Alright, well I'll call your mum and Ash and we'll sort this shit out,"
I dialled Ashton's number and he answered straight away, "everything okay babe? We just turned out of the street,"
"No, we actually have a problem," I told him, not really knowing how to go about this
"What's up?"
"One of Lauren's friends brought over a bottle of vodka,"
"Calum, turn the car around," he said to Calum, who must have been driving, "are you kidding me? Who? Did they drink any?"
"That girl that rocked up first," I told him, "and I there's like a mouthful taken out of the bottle, but I think she drank it,"
"Alright I'm coming back, I'll be home in a few,"
"Okay," I said and hung up, "Ash is coming home,"
"Thank God," she sighed, "I'm so sorry, Lex,"
"It's not your fault, she shouldn't have brought the alcohol," I told her honestly, with shrug. I sent Anne a text rather than calling her.
To Anne Marie Irwin: we have an issue with one of the girls, Ellie. I'm not sure what to do, because Lauren doesn't have her mums number
She replied quickly, and I sighed in relief.
From Anne Marie Irwin: what's happened? Do I need to come home?
"Do you want your mum to come home?" I turned to Lauren, and asked
"Only if you and Ash can't figure out what to do," she told me and I began to reply
To Anne Marie Irwin: Ash and I are gonna try and handle it. I'll call you if I can't, do you have her mum's number?
A couple of minutes later, Ash and Cal walked back in, "where are you guys?" He asked, calling out to us
"Kitchen," I called out, they walked in a second later
"Alright so where's this bitch?" Calum asked
"Lauren's room," I told him, "can you stay out here with Lauren?" I asked him
"Sure," he shrugged, and Ash and I walked back up stairs, leaving the bottle of vodka on the bench
"What made you think It was okay to bring alcohol into my house?" He asked the girl, "you're fourteen years old,"
"So?" She asked, she didn't see the big deal, with what she'd done, "I thought it would be fun, seeing as your mum wouldn't be home,"
"That's where you're wrong," I told her firmly, "I'm responsible for you girls tonight,"
"I honestly thought it would just be us until Lauren's mum came home,"
"Really?" I asked
"Well yeah. And besides it basically is, you and Ash aren't that much older,"
"We're twenty one year olds, and we'd be held responsible if something happened," he told her, "what's your mum's number?" He asked, "we need to call her to come and get you, you're not welcome here,"
"I'm not giving you her number," she told us firmly
"Well then I'll just call my mum," he said, "so you have two choices, you give me your mum's number. Or I get my mum home and then you'll have to give it to her,"
"And why would I listen to you two?" She scoffed, "you're nothing but a cheater," and then she turned to me, "and you're a whore,"
"Excuse me?" I spat, "you don't even know me,"
"Well from what I read..." She trailed off
"Lex call mum," Ashton cut her off. I nodded and walked out of the room.
I called Anne and she told me she was on her way home, and walked back to Lauren's room, "she said she's on her way," I told him
"Alright you," he said to Ellie, "come with me,"
"No,"
"You really want to say that?" I asked
"Fine, whatever, this is boring as fuck anyways," she stood up and slowly got her belongings together, and followed us down stairs, "you know this is just going to end badly for you slut,"
"And how's that?" I asked
"You'll see," she said evilly
"I'm looking forward to it," I honestly wasn't. I had no idea what she was going to do, but at the same time, what could a fourteen year old girl actually do?
Anne arrived back at the house around ten minutes later. Ashton, Calum and I were in the living room with Ellie; as we'd let Lauren return to her friends, "what's going on?" She asked as soon as she walked in, I stood up and lead her in to the hall
"I was just cleaning up after dinner, and walked in to check on the girls, and Ellie had a bottle of vodka with her,"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Unfortunately no, I'm not," I sighed, "I'm sorry to drag you away from your night out, but we honestly didn't know what to do,"
"It's fine, honestly, I completely understand, thank you for calling me Lex,"
"It's no trouble," I said softly
"You and Ash can go chill out or something, I'll deal with this, I'm sorry she was so much trouble,"
"It's not your fault," I told her
Anne and I walked back in to the room, and Ash came up to me and pulled me aside, "what's up?" I asked
"What did the girl say to you, as we left Lauren's room?" He asked
"Something about how all this will end bad for me," I told him, "I'm not worried, we didn't do anything wrong,"
"Lex, I know she called you something," he said, leaning his forehead against mine, and wrapping his around my waist
"It's fine, it's not like I haven't been called those names before,"
"Lex,"
"Ash, really it's fine," I sighed, it really wasn't. Being called a slut and a whore, really hurt. They didn't know our situation, or our story; they only know what was portrayed in the media
"Lex," he said again, and I could tell by the tone in his voice that he knew I was trying to hide the fact that a fourteen year old's words actually hurt
"You heard what she called me," I sighed, moving my head, so I was facing the ground, I didn't want him to see the tears, forming in my eyes, "she called me a slut and a whore,"
"Hey, hey, hey," he said, "look at me," he left a small kiss on the hair; but I still didn't move to look at him, "look at me," he said again, and I just shook my head. I didn't want him to see how much that girls words actually affected me. This whole day had turned to complete shit. First Amelia, then the text from Bryana, and now this girl; I really just needed a break. I was honestly starting to miss just staying indoors, and just hanging out with Ash; just living in our own little world. He moved his hands from my waist to my chin, and lifted it up so I was looking at him again, "babe, why are you crying?" He asked
"It just hurts," I told him, "and today has just been horrible,"
"I know baby, I know," he said, kissing my forehead, "it'll get better, you know it will,"
"I don't know," I sighed, "it didn't get better for Bryana,"
"It will get better, I promise you," he said, "I'll make sure it gets better,"
"You can't force people to change their minds about me Ash,"
"I can't, but their opinion doesn't matter," he kissed my hair again, "you know I love you, I have for as long as I can remember, the guys love you, mum loves you, Harry and Lauren sure as hell do, and you have Elle and Erin, and you're family!"
"But what about everyone else?"
"The fans? The media?" He questioned, and I just nodded, "who cares about them?" He was right, what happened to the girl I used to be? The girl who did what she wanted when she wanted, the girl who didn't give a fuck about what anyone thought of her, "last time I checked, the Lex Johnson I fell in love with didn't give a fuck about what anyone thought of her,"
"I still don't, it's just that they don't know the story, and they're just
Making assumptions, and it hurts,"
"So fuck 'em?" He shrugged, "what happens between us, is none of their business, it's ours," I just nodded and gave a small smile, "I love you, and I want to be with you, and I sure as hell want to show you off to the world,"
"Maybe, not just yet, with the last one," I laughed
"There's that smile I love so much," I blushed and smiled again, he had always known how to cheer me up, "come here," he said, wrapping his arms around me, "don't let what they say bother you okay?" I nodded, "I love you, and that's all that should matter okay?"
"Okay," I nodded, and smiled at him, "I love you too," he then placed his lips on mine and kissed me.
I tilted my head to the side to deepen the kiss, not really caring about who else was in the house, his tongue ran across my bottom lip, asking for entrance, which I granted. His hands made their way to my waist and mine made their way around his neck. We stood there like that in the hallway, just kissing. There was nothing heated about this, it was just love; pure love, "for fucks sake you two, get a room!" We heard, and pulled apart instantly, laughing our asses off. We looked up and saw Calum, "you do realise there are young teenage girls in the house, that probably don't want to see this?"
"Go find yourself a girl Hood," I laughed, "you're just jealous,"
I'm so sorry about the long ass wait! I've been so busy over Xmas and New Years! I'm also really really sorry that this book is going to be coming to an end soon! I don't want to drag it out too much! Please vote and comment and as always much love xxx
But OMF seriously. I finally got the courage to go and get my septum pierced! And my parents are gonna get back to Melbourne and murder me, just like they did when they saw my tattoo! 😂