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Chapter 10

~A/N~

No one will ever be as happy that I finished this chapter as I am. I promise you that. enjoy! xx

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"Ah, you know, I have a PTA meeting in an hour so-"

"Right, right," I clumsily cut my sister off, "I just made it home anyway. You can go, definitely. Say hi to Calvin from me."

"Alright, love," Vivienne smiled audibly on the other line, "We'll talk soon."

"Definitely, yeah, bye."

With my phone still in my hand, I pulled up in the parking lot just next to my building. I was in a fairly good mood, I got to talk to a member of my family after ages. And I was glad it was my favorite member.

When I stepped outside, I really wished I hadn't; it was freezing, snowing since I woke up and it was only the 25th of November. I could only imagine what the weather would be like on Christmas.

As I took my handbag out of the car and made sure I locked it, I couldn't help but smile at the thought of Christmas; Christmas Eve, to be precise. I did plan to put up a Christmas tree and decorate every room in my apartment, but what was making me super excited was Louis' birthday. It wouldn't even be such a big deal to me if it wasn't his first one that we'd get to spend together.

For the past few days, he was about 70% of all the things I thought about. The other 30% were mostly Ashton and him leaving... but Louis was the majority so I wasn't worried. That much.

I was afraid, that my sudden need for Louis to be by my side nonstop, is because I was practically left at the altar. It couldn't be, I thought to myself as I climbed the stairs up to my apartment, I'm not that desperate. I may be a bit needy, but not desperate.

Besides, as soon as Ashton comes to get his stuff I think I'll have a clearer view on everything. So we'll just wait for that. I smiled at my thoughts as I tried unlocking the door, and then frowned; the key wasn't working. That could only mean one thing.

As I pushed the handle down and pushed the door open, my thoughts were confirmed; it was already unlocked.

I slowly stepped into my apartment, an entire train of thoughts was going through my head, did I leave it unlocked? Did someone break the doorknob? Was I getting robbed? Why did-

I got a mini-heart attack when I heard noise coming from my room, where the door was opened. I quickly grabbed the baseball bat that stood behind the coat hanger, and slowly made my way toward the room. My heart was beating in my ears at the thought of all the things I could see, but it ended up being pointless when I saw who was inside.

"Ashton?" I muttered, staring at his butt as he was bent over, most likely putting something on the ground. He jumped at my voice, causing me to jump as well and drop the bat, and almost fell over as he stood up straight.

"Lorena?" He asked back, moving his hair out of his eyes. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing?" I said, more confused than I'd been all morning.

"You should be at work."

"I only had the first two periods today."

Ashton blinked, and then started nodding all of a sudden. "Ah, that's right, it's Friday," He mumbled to himself, pressing his lips together in a dammit sort of manner.

I nodded too, "Yeah, so... what are you doing?" I asked, slowly walked further inside the room to see the answer myself.

"Packing all of my stuff, I... I have a flight to Los Angeles on Sunday."