Ashton's point of view

"So boys, what's with the sudden secrecy? You all like dropped off the face of the earth," our interviewer, Nate, said with a chuckle at the end.

Luke, Calum, and Michael all looked at me suspectingly and subtly and I bit the inside of my lip. Fuck, I hate lying, but we have to lie. I looked at the camera but Luke was still looking at me, so I tapped his shoulder and tried to get his attention on the camera.

"Well," I said and he looked at me. "We had a few security issues ever since and incident we had. And so for a week or so, we were looking for security and weren't aloud to leave our house at all." I said, not lying. I was gonna lie about the next part but he had cut me off.

"Right, we have pictures," and this is where I was grateful I was sitting next to Calum. "Calum, what happened? Who was that guy who had the gun pointed at you? And he shot you didnt he?" he asked as pictures came up on the screen. He's so heartless for bringing those photos up, jesus christ.

"How did he fucking find out? How did pictures leak? What the fuck?" Calum whispered towards me and I shrugged. "Erm well, I don't know." he said and scratched his nose. He crossed his arms and slumped in his seat and I rubbed his thigh. "It just like happened and uh yeah, it hurt," Calum said awkwardly.

"No details or anything?" Nate asked and he shook his head. Fucking media just want to know everything don't they?

"So Ashton, I apologize for cutting you off." You better be. "Continue,"

"And after that week or so, we decided to take a short break. We know we upset a lot of fans and may have lost millions, possibly all of them, but we missed our families and friends. We're still teenage boys and this whole thing happened so fast. We're not used to it, and we were terribly home sick." I lied.

"Okay, so how was time with the family and friends?" he asked us, he didn't seem like he believed me.

"It was great," Michael lied. "I really missed my mum and dad. it was great being able to talk face to face with them. Talking over the phone and skype just isn't the same."

"Ashton," he said and I hummed. "What happened buddy? You came in in crutches? You didn't get into a fight did ya?"

"Uh no," I said. "I'm not much of a fighter," I said and he laughed. "I was at a relatives house and they had a two story house. I tripped on a rug upstairs near the staircase and it all went down hill from there."

"Don't you mean downstairs?" Luke asked and we all laughed at his remark. I nodded and he smiled triumphantly. He made Michael laugh and he didn't even call Luke an idiot.

"You're in idiot Luke," I spoke too soon.

"Michael, Luke, how was it for you? Did you geys get hurt at all like these two?" Nate asked them and Michael shook his head.

"No it was fine, no one got hurt. Except for the paper cut I got while reading a book a fan got me, but other than that, nothing." Michael said.

"What book?" Nate asked him.

"The Fault In Our Stars by John Green." he answered and I shook my head amused at his lie. Out of every book he could have chosen, he chose this one.

"It's a good book?" Nate asked and Michael nodded.

"It was awesome, I loved it." Michael said and Nate looked at Luke.

"What about you Lukey boy? You didn't get hurt did you?" he asked.

"I had an amazing time with my family. Ben and Jack weren't there for the most part because they have their own lives and what not but it was fun. I was glad I got to see my parents for a bit."

"Now your fans," he said and set the cards in one hand as he leaned forward. "Some were okay with this all and some weren't as understanding, wanna see?" He set his elbows on his knees and I laughed nervously.

"I dunno," I said, pretending to joke. I didn't wanna see how much they hated us, but I knew I'd have to sooner or later, we'd have to sooner or later.

"Look at these," he said and some tweets came up on the screen.

"So much profanity, is this even aloud on live television?" I joked and Michael hit my shoulder.

"This is the part where you yell, 'HEY NO SWEARING!'." he said and we all laughed.

"Look at the diffrences in the tweets," Nate said and I nodded. I read the tweets and physically almost flinched as I read the hate one. Jesus, such language shouldn't even be able to be shown on television.

"Yeah, we've upset a lot of fans, we know there will be a ton of hate. We probably lost a ton of fans because of this desicion but we wanted to see our familes. We wanted to see them after months and months. We wanted to show them we were fine and that they had nothing to worry about." I said.

"We will make it up to you guys. All the concerts we missed will be played on our days off to make up for it and all the iterviews we missed can be, and will be, rescheduled. We'll make this right," I said and Nate nodded.

"We won't do something like this again. This upset millions of fans and I am so sorry. I hate letting you guys down and making you all this upset." I said gesturing to the tweet. "Without you guys. We would be no where. Without your support and love we would still be in a garage playing crappy instruments to post on youtube."

"We don't wanna lose you guys, even though we probably already did. We will make it up to you, all of you, in whatever way we can. You guys are our everything and I'm sorry we upset some of you so much." I said and smiled at the camera.

"That was adorable," Nate said and I chuckled. "Don't zoom in on me, I don't look good crying."

We all laughed and he chuckled. "Well, that's really all you guys were here for wasn't it? To clear up all this?" he asked and I nodded.

"I'd love to talk some more, but unfortunately we don't have the time, and neither do you guys, since you're really busy." he said and I nodded. "I'll see you guys another time." he said and held out his hands.

Calum shook it and Nate when down the line for all of us. We all shook his hand and then stood up. "Thanks for having us." I said and the theme song played as it faded ito commercial.

This sucked haha. But I did a double update in hopes it would make up for the long wait before.

P.S the authors note where I will state if I'm doing a sequel or not will be up in a few chapters. xx

~Allena aka Mrs. Irwin aka Queen Reject ♡