The four of us were still sitting around the table in the diner and we were eating our meals. Or the other ones were eating, I had finished my food in seconds which made Sarah shake her head and Ashton to look at me amused.

"What? I didn't get to eat breakfast before we left" I said and looked at my girlfriend.

"And whose fault is that?" she said back while eating some salad with pasta and a lot of vegetables I had never seen in my life.

"Well, to my offense it's summer break and if I wasn't here right now I'd still be sleeping" I shot back, feeling that my morning grumpiness came a little later today.

"Luke, take care of the day, it's summer and it's on daytime you should live" Kelly said and laughed lightly. "Exactly" Sarah put in and I started to feel annoyed how girls always would stick together even if their opinions were totally wrong.

"Nah, I don't know. I like the night time. It's not too hot and it's dark which is much more exciting and, like, it's a more creative time" Ashton then said. I looked up to look at him eat his food like he hadn't said anything. As he lifted his eyes they locked with mine and he swallowed his food. "Right, Luke?"

I nodded and smiled, feeling that my annoyance slipped away for a bit because at least I had someone on my side. "Exactly" I repeated my girlfriend's words. She gave me a look but kept eating her food.

Before it started to get too quiet, Ashton broke the silence; "So how long have you dated?" I could tell the topic was forced, but i didn't blame him. This is what you should be talking about on these double dates, right? It's just that guys don't care, girls love these kind of topics. Or at least I think they do because when the question was asked, Kelly smiled big at us and Sarah looked content as she started answering the question.

"We've known each other for one and a half month?" she said and turned to me, I just nodded but I had no idea, it'd not like I set the time after I met her the first time. I knew she knew the answer though because it looked like she was happy I nodded at her right answer. She continued; "We met through friends and after knowing each other for a while we started dating, which was three weeks ago now"

Three weeks? Wow it feels like a lifetime ago, but I bet three weeks is right.

"Three weeks? Brand new then" Ashton said and looked at Sarah who was smiling and nodding, then over to me who just gave him a crooked smiled. He looked at me amused like he knew how I felt. He chuckled to himself, which I think was directed to me and how I looked totally lost in this conversation.

"How about you then?" Sarah mentions you've been dating for years" I dragged out the word years to tell them it was a hell of a long time.

"Three years this year, we met when I was sixteen and he was seventeen" Kelly answered. Oh yeah, Kelly is one year older than me and Sarah.

We've been together three weeks and you three years. We have a lot of work to do to get on their lever Luke" Sarah said and she and Kelly laughed.

Three years with Sarah? I don't know.. We don't really want the same thing. I don't know what I want but Sarah won't put out the things I do want in this relationship. I had thoughts about breaking up with her but I'm not that heartless, especially not when her and my mother suddenly started to become best friends.

I must have blanked out because I was dragged out of my thoughts when Sarah kissed me on my cheek. I turned to look at her confused. "Are you done with food and everything? We thought we should head out" she said quietly but I could hear her clearly as she was so close so my face still.

I nodded and stood up from my chair. I reached down my pocket to get my wallet. I looked up and saw Ashton do the same. "Hey wait, who won the jinx about dinner?" I said and grinned lightly as he looked up at me. He smirked back.

"I can take this one Blondie, but you owe me next time, the jinx was a tie" he winked and placed the money on the table, quite a lot more than what the actual cost of the lunch. I slowly placed my walled back in my pocket when the waiter, probably around my age -if not younger, picked up the money and counted. Before he could reach and give Ashton the big amount of change back, Ashton stopped him.

"Oh no, keep the change" he said and smiled at the quite short guy.

"Oh thank you sir!" he said and smiled back with happiness shining out of his eyes. I mean, I would be that happy too, if not happier, if I got that much tip. "Have a great day!" the waiter said before he made his way back to the kitchen area.

"Are you always this generous?" I asked as Ashton placed his wallet back in his back pocket. He lifted his eyes and smiled big at me.

"I guess I'm just a nice guy. Get to know me and you'll see" he said and winked.

"Yeah, if it will give me that kind of money I will" I joked but instantly regretted it. I know it was personal to joke and talk about money, but when Ashton laughed I relaxed, because it didn't seem like he mind at all.

He placed his hand over his heart and faked a hurt expression. "Is that all I am for you Luke, money?" I laughed and shook my head. He joined and walked over to me to put his arm over my shoulders. "Let's head out to the girls before they flip shit on us" he said and steered me out of the diner. I hadn't even realized the girls had gone out. When we had gotten out, Ashton released me from him before the girls turned to look at us.

"Okay, so we talked and Kelly really needs to go shopping and I realized that I really need that too so we thought we'd go to the mall-" Sarah said before both Ashton and I cut her off by groaning loud.

"But," Sarah started again and gave both of us a glare. "Kelly and I both knew that you would feel that way so we thought we could split up. You guys do whatever you guys think is fun, and we girls go to the mall because it's urgent"

I looked up at Sarah and Kelly, then Ashton. He looked back at me and smiled satisfied. I gave the same smile back. No mall, no more "girl talk", no more stuff that I wouldn't do. Or at least I think Ashton would want to do the same think as I wanted. At least more than the girls.

"I'm down" Ashton said, still having that satisfied smile on his face.

"Yeah me too" I said back.

"Okay great! So we have two cars and I thought-" Sarah said but I cut her off. "I'm not borrowing out my car"

"Luke, you act like I'd crash it by just sitting in it" she said and I swear I could hear Ashton chuckle quietly behind me.

"You can take my car, it's cool" Ashton said and fished out his car keys from his pocket and handed them to his girlfriend. He then reached down to his other pocket and took out his wallet again. He opened it and gave Kelly, what I could see, around 100 dollars. "Buy something nice" he said as he bent down a bit to peck her quickly on her lips. "Thanks baby" She replied.

What's with this dude and money. If I had 100 dollars the last person I'd spend it on would be Sarah, I'm sorry but I have better things to put my money on.

Sarah broke me out of my thought again when she grabbed my chin lightly and placed her lips on mine. She is a really good kisser. Before I could deepen the kiss, she pulled away and smiled. "I'll text or call later, have a nice day with Ashton"

"Yeah you too" I smiled a crooked smile and then she and Kelly waved happily and made their way to a black Cadillac CTS, probably the newest one out. I know cars from 1000 meters a far.

"Dude, why could you possibly want my car when you have, like, the sickest car?" I asked as I watched the girls drive away from the parking lot smoothly.

He laughed loudly and noted how I should make him laugh loud like this more often, his laugh was amazing.

"Says the dude with a Mercedes CLA, how'd you afford this?" he said as we got close to my white Mercedes.

"I didn't. My grandpa bought me this kind of lottery ticket when I turned 18, where you could win stuff from a house to a pair of socks and I happened to get out of my unluckiness and win a this car" I smiled big as i run my hand over my car. This car was my baby, like for real.

"That's almost unbelievable. Best birthday present ever" Ashton said and chuckled.

"Yeah, it would have been the worst birthday present if I had won a pair of socks tough" Ashton laughed that laugh again and I couldn't do anything but laugh along with him. I unlocked the car and took a seat, Ashton did the same. He ran his hands over the leather seats and nodded his head like he approved.

"Damn, I might steal this one from you" he said while still looking around in the car.

"Yeah, that's never going to happen" I said as I started the car. He laughed at that too. "So um, where are we going?" I asked as i backed out from the parking lot.

"I don't know, just drive. I want to feel if this car actually reaches its standards" he said and smirked.

"Oh, you're so on-" I said but stopped as I remembered that I hadn't gotten to know his last name. He seemed to pick this up because he answered my question without me needing to ask. "Irwin, Ashton Irwin"

"Hemmings, Luke Hemmings" I said back, smirking because it felt like I was in those Bond films right now with the name presentation and a nice car. The only thing missing was a hot chick but Ashton would have to do. I mean he was hot, just not a girl.

"Okay Hemmings, show me what you got" he said before I started driving down the empty road, showing him just what I got.

**

We had been driving around for a while, just fun and games but we were now on our way home to my place because I mentioned I had a basement like a man cave, filled with TV-games and all such stuff. My brothers and I fixed it up so we could all have it but they don't live home anymore so that's only mine now. And Michael and Calum because they basically live there. Much to my mother's dismay.

"So, what's up with you Luke Hemmings?" Ashton suddenly said after a while of comfortable silence.

"What do you mean?"

"How's your life, how does it look like?" he said and turned to look at me.

"You want to know how my life looks like?" I said and lifted one eyebrow up. I turned to look at him as it was a red-light, I saw him nod with a grin on his face, but quickly turned back when the light turned green.

"Oh well, I live home now with my mom before I'm off to uni. I have two brothers, who are somewhere in Sydney. I basically just live like a normal 18 year old, I sit home and play my X-box and I drive my car. I like playing guitar and sing a bit but that's not important"

"Where are you going to university?" he asked.

"Just here in Sydney, don't really wanna leave and I got in to a great school so, yeah"

"That's nice," he said and nodded his head. "What are you gonna study?"

"Economics and real estate"

"Really? You don't really strike me as an economics and real estate guy" he said and I could feel his looking at me.

"Yeah I get that a lot. I'm making my mom proud though"

"Oh so that's what it's about" he said and nodded his head while smirking knowingly.

"What do you mean?" I asked him for the second time.

"I know how it is to let down your own dreams to make your parents proud, been there done that. But it can turn out great anyway" he said and smiled. "How come you go after your mom's wishes?"

This guy could easily read me like a book. It was nice to have someone that's similar to yourself though, it feels easier to talk.

"Well, my mom is christian, just like dad. Like hard core christians where they didn't have sex until marriage and went to church every Sunday and all that. Me and my brother where too because well, we had too. But when dad left us when I was around 11, my brothers and I stopped being religious because we never liked that lifestyle and never really fitted in. But mom couldn't just leave God and all other things she said so she got a little disappointed in us and our relationship went down the gutter. But a few years ago mom and I has worked it out again without me being christian and I just feel like I can't disappoint her anymore, you know?"

He probably didn't know but he looked at me and nodded understandingly.

"I'm sorry to hear about your dad, that was a shit move" he said

"Yeah well, it's been 7 years so I'm in some way over it" I said and let out a fake laugh.

He sincerely looked like he cared and wanted to know about my life as he kept on asking me questions. "Are your brothers still off with your mom?"

"No, they worked it out around a year ago, Jack more than Ben but they are still working on it" I said and gave him a quick glance before setting it back on the road ahead of me.

"I can't understand people who actually can hold themselves away from sex until marriage. I could never do that" Ashton said as he tried to cheer up the conversation. It worked because I laughed.

"It probably depends when you get married. Mom and dad got married at 22" I said.

"That's early, but still two years away from my age" he laughed. "I mean, we are two hormonal guys in late teenage years and early twenties. Could you do that?"

"No, but I am"

"What?! You're a virgin?" he said and turned his whole body towards me. I started laughing at his outburst.

"Yeah well.. After I stopped being religious I was like 11-12 so at that age I didn't really think of sex. When I grew up around 14, 15 and 16 I was really chubby and kind of bullied, or not bullied but people teased me, so I wasn't really a catch for most girls. And then when late puberty hit me right I started working out to get in shape, and then I met this girl when I was 17 but she wasn't ready to have sex and then she moved so we broke up and then-" I stopped to take a breath, "I went single for a while but I was way too awkward to even talk to girls, so that never happened and then this year I met Sarah through my friends.

"When we started dating I had taken her out, like being all romantic and shit and thought that we had the house to ourselves to, you know.." I said and turned my head to Ashton to see him looking at me intensely while smirking but nodding understandingly.

"But then we didn't have the house to ourselves because mom was home and mom and Sarah started talking and I as too bored so I went down to play X-box while they were chatting and then suddenly she came down and had become best friends with my mom so when I tried to make a move she was all like 'I don't know Luke, I like your mother very much and she is religious so it feels like we should go by her rules. If you really like me we can wait'" I said the last part in an annoyingly high pitch voice.

It was quiet for a few seconds before Ashton started to laugh. "Oh my god, you are the most sexually unlucky 18 years old I have ever met" he kept on laughing and even though this was a big ass problem in my life, I still laughed with him.

"Why don't you just break up with her? Or do you like her that much? I mean it's only been three weeks" he then said after the laughter went down.

"Yeah I know, I've thought about it, like I'm not even that attracted to her, maybe because she won't have sex with me," I sighed "but my mom loves her so much, like they really are best friends and I can't break up with Sarah because of that reason. Mom would be so disappointed and there's the dilemma" I said and chuckled dryly.

"Wow, yeah you've got a problem. I guess you'll just have to enjoy porn and your own hand for the next 5 years" he said and chuckled while I groaned loud.

"That's the only way out I guess" I sighed.

"Well not really, you could find someone to have on the side, but I don't know" he said and shrugged.

"You mean I should cheat on my girlfriend?" I said as I pulled up on my driveway and turned off the engine. I could finally face him.

"Well yeah, but you look like too much of a good guy for that. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing that you are that good of a guy to wait until marriage for sex with a girl your mom likes more than yourself" he said and looked at me. His eyes glistened with amusement when I groaned loud again.

"No I can't do that. There isn't a girl I know that i think is attractive enough to cheat with, plus Sarah knows everyone and words would spread directly if I slept with a girl around our age"

"You could-"

"And I'm not gonna lose my virginity to a cougar" I cut him off.

He laughed as both of us got out of my car. He looked around at the surroundings, then my house, then back at me. "Looks like you have to stick to porn then if you don't find some way around all this"

"Yeah well, I'll let you know how it goes" I said grumpily.

"Great, can't wait to hear from you in my fifties when you finally lost your virginity" he said happily as he threw his arm around my shoulders like he did before.

"You know what, I really regret telling you all this" I said but couldn't stop the smile from creeping up on my face. He laughed that laugh again, the one that I liked and I looked at his face. We where close so I could really see him now and his dimples were showing so much and his cheeks were round as he was smiling to hard. All I wanted to do was to poke his dimples and pinch his cheeks but that would be inappropriate.

He released me from his grip, again, as I opened the front door. I heard noise from the house and I froze in the hallway making Ashton bump into me. "Wha-" he started but I cut him off.

"Shh! My mom isn't home because her car isn't in the driveway and there's someone in the basement" I whispered with eyes wide.

"You think it's thief's?" Ashton whispered back.

"I don't know!" I whispered as I felt the panic rise.

"Luke relax" Ashton said as he put both hands on my cheeks to make me look at him. Looking into his hazel green eyes instantly made me relax. "Let's just go downstairs quiet and see what's going on"

"Are you crazy?! What if they have guns? What if they shoot? What if we die?" I panicked again.

"Luke!" Ashton whisper shouted, "just go after me, or stay here that's your choice" Ashton said as he let go of my cheeks and reached behind me to get a crooked baseball bat Ben made in 3rd grade. It looked horrible. Ashton turned away from me and went to the open door that let down to the basement.

"Is this the basement?" he whispered and I nodded horrified. "Are you coming or not?"

I stood still, arguing in my head if I should go or not when Ashton started talking again. "I mean they can take me and like try to hurt me or maybe rape me and then I will have no help. Or maybe they will get scared at me and run up to see you and bring out a gun and-"

"Okay okay! I'm coming with you" I whispered as I reluctantly made my way downstairs after Ashton. Ashton held up the crooked bat as we came close to the corner of the stairs that later opened up the whole basement. I could hear whispering voices and some of the things in the basement being shuffled around.

Ashton turned around to look at me and then he started counting down from three really quietly. When he hit one I took deep breath and then jumped into the basement after Ashton.