Secluded (Ashton Irwin)

Chapter 28

"Come to dinner with me and the guys one night! You'll get to meet Michael's girlfriend Sam too," Ashton smiled as Caitlyn pulled up in front of his house.

"Send me a date, place, and time. I'll be there," Caitlyn smiled before waving goodbye to Ashton.

"See ya later," Ashton said shutting the door of Caitlyn's car and walking up his driveway.

He pulled open the door to his house, "I'm home!"

"How was your hike?" his mom asked turning around when she heard Ashton enter the living room.

"It was fun. Really pretty," Ashton said as he showed his mom the pictures he took.

"How's Caitlyn doing? I wish you would have brought her in to say hi."

"She's doing a lot better. Her and Brandon just got a house not too far from here," Ashton said before going into the details Caitlyn told him about. How she moved around, but finally was able to save up some money with Brandon to move back here. He told her that they were doing much better and got themselves to a better place.

"That's good to hear," his mom smiled before telling Ashton what time dinner would be ready, and what they would be having.

Ashton decided to go take a shower and hang out in his room. He was pretty sweaty and tired. He could use some laying around watching netflix and being lazy for the time being.

After Ashton showered and changed into some fresh clothes, he laid in bed and played on his phone. He couldn't get what Caitlyn said out of his head.

If you really care about this girl and want to be with her, you have to show her. You have to put up a fight. You have to make her listen to your side of the story. You have to explain and you can't give up until you get it all off your chest. Otherwise she'll just make assumptions and she won't ever think about a second chance. She'll make herself move on.

Ashton opened a text message to send to Reagan, Can we please just talk. I've tried to come by, but you don't answer. Just hear me out, please Reagan.

Ashton thought it would be a loss cause, but he sent the message anyways and tossed his phone aside before opening his computer and absentmindedly watched netflix.

It was Reagan's last day in New York. She didn't want to go back home. Not at all. She didn't even want to sleep because she was too excited. She just wanted to take in the city.

It was an early 6:30am and Liam was still asleep so Reagan decided to get up and grab some coffee. She figured why not take a short walk around the city, starbucks was just a couple of blocks from the hotel.

Reagan tip toed out of the room, quietly shutting the door behind her. She was careful not to wake up Liam. He was really grumpy when he was woken up really early.

Reagan took the elevator down before smiling as she walked past the lady at the front desk, she was super sweet to Reagan and Liam as they checked in.

The city sounded as she expected it to as she walked out of the hotel and made her way towards starbucks. It was bright outside, there were many people crowding the sidewalks, and you heard the racing cars along with them honking their horns in the rush of the traffic.

Reagan took the long way to starbucks, and she passed some apartments for rent. There was a couple already open for an open house and she couldn't help but wander inside.

When the realtor, Laura, made her way over to Reagan they had a short conversation. Reagan said she was out of town visiting from LA, but couldn't help but admire how cute the apartments were. She could envision herself moving in and making it all cute, she would be right in the city like she's use to.