Fan Cover by @jialithakkar

It was a beautiful Saturday morning, the sun was barely out, and in the Riders house laid a sleeping Julie on the couch.

The house was quiet, and she was able to catch up on much needed sleep.

Then..

Along came the big bad wolf to RUIN her precious sleep.

Ashton!!!!!

Julie's pov:

*drip

*splat

*drip

*splat

It's probably nothing Julie, just go back to sleep.

*drip

*splat

Woah it's raining, pretty.. pretty rain..

Wait a second.

Rain?

It can't be raining in a house!

I open my eyes to see something, or someone, looking down at me.

What the-..

"Wake up" A deep voice says.

It's to early for this.

Maybe if I turn around they will go away.

Nope.

Next thing I know I am being grabbed by FOOT and PULLED off the couch.

"OW!!!" I look up to see Ashton looking down at me. He lifts up the now half empty water bottle in his hand and shakes it smirking right at me.

"Time to get up princess!"

I put my hand on my hair to see it is basically soaked.

"Ashton!!" I glare at him.

He lets out a laugh and shakes his head. His messy hair sticking up in all directions.

Did it look cute?

...

Anyways...

"Hey, it's not my fault you wouldn't wake up."

Excuse me? Please don't tell me he is serious right now.

"Well you could have been a nice human being and gave me a warning!!!"

I am so not a morning person.

I can feel the water soaking through the top of my shirt. Thank god I'm wearing a navy blue t-shirt.

That would have been super embarrassing.

"Oops." He grins and walks into the kitchen.

Oh no you don't!!

I stand up and follow right after him.

"Clingy now are we?"

I ignored him.

"You couldn't just let me sleep on the couch?" I glare at him again. He could have just minded his own business and moved on with his life.

Oh wait I forgot, this is Ashton Rider we are talking about.

But him, being totally unaffected by the glare I am giving him, doesn't even spare a glance, and he pulls out a box of lucky charms.

He just picks out the marshmallows and eats them.

What a disgrace.

"But what gentleman would I be if I didn't wake up sleeping beauty huh?"

Says the person shoving his hand in the cereal box.

Cereal Killer.

"If I remember correctly the prince did NOT splash water on the princess!"

Trust me, I read that book twenty three times I think I would remember what the prince did.

"Oh so you wanted me to kiss you?" He lifts his eyebrows. His blue eyes filled with amusement.

"Yes!!"

...

"Wait, No!!!!!"

Please just, punch me in the face.

"All you had to do was ask princess"

I can feel my cheeks turning red under his stare. His eyes burning holes into me.

"That was not what I was going to say." My voice cracks at the end.

"Okay nerd." He grins.

"Says the one in advanced classes also."  His grin is immediately turned into a frown.

I do a little happy dance in my head.

"You're just jealous princess."

Seriously, is he never going to call me by my actual name?

I'm sorry.

I'm allergic to mornings.

My allergic reactions are the need to strangle and murder.

"Jealous of what?"

"That I can maintain these good looks and not fail every single class I take."

"Like the football players?"

"Exactly" he smirks.

"Wait, why do you hate them so much?" I mean, I know that you can dislike people from time to time, but this just looked like true hatred.

"They're just jealous" He pulls out yet another handful of marshmallows and shoves them in his mouth.

Does he assume that anyone that is not him is just jealous of him?

"Of what?"

"Ouch, you just love hurting my feelings huh?" I give him a confused look.

He then points at himself.

"They're just upset I can get girls without having to fu... flirt with each and everyone one of them." He changed what he was going to say last minute.

But it was too late.

I cringe at the horrible images that start to form in my head.

Bad Julie, bad!!

But now that I think of it, Gianna did mention that he never had a girlfriend before.

Does that mean that he doesn't want one, or that he just didn't find the right person yet?

"So what are we doing today." He says and jumps up onto the counter top.

Hold on...

"We?" I ask.

"Yeah, as in plural, more than one person." Smart Apple.

"Don't you have like friends to go to or something?"

Doesn't he have like his bad boy squad to go to or something?

And did I seriously say squad?

"Wow I guess you really don't want to hangout with me." He wipes his eyes pretending like he is crying.

Before I can say something else, Ashton's mother walks down into the kitchen rubbing her puffy eyes. She looks at Ashton and freezes.

Ashton also freezes and drops the cereal box and some spill out all over the counter.

Both of them look like they are trying to find words to say but nothing is coming out.

It's like someone clicked their fingers and Ashton's playboy attitude just immediately turned off.

...

Someone give me that power.

"Ashton." Alissa says quietly. She takes a step closer to him but all Ashton does is clench his fists.

"I have to go" He takes long strides past her and walks up the stairs.

Alissa just looks down at the ground and doesn't say anything.

I walk up to Alissa and hug her. She seems confused for a second but she hugs back. I can feel her breathing become heavier.

"I'm so sorry Alissa." I whisper to her.

She backs up and puts her hands on my shoulders.

"It's okay Julie, this isn't your fault." She says and attempts to smile.

She looks at the counter to see the Lucky Charms cereal spilled all over the counter.

"I better clean this up." She mutters and grabs a paper towel. I'm about to grab one too but she stops me.

"It's okay Julie I got it." She sighs sadly and walks up to the counter.

"I can go talk to him if you want?"
I ask and give her a little smile. I feel so bad for Alissa, it's the best I can do.

She just nods her head and smiles.

"That would help a lot, thank you so much."

I turn around and make my way up the stairs.

Just another Saturday morning.

I just glance into Jake's room to see he is peacefully sleeping in the bed.

Thank goodness.

I get to Ashton's bedroom door and get ready to knock.

Heh, it was just last night I snuck into his room.

Crap, I hope he didn't find out about that.

Instead of knocking, I just slowly open the door to see him laying on his bed facing the wall.

"Mom, please go away."

"I don't know, last time I checked I don't think it was me who gave birth to you." I try to hide my laugh as he whips his head around and looks at me. His blue eyes darker from just this morning.

Does he have like some magical power that his eyes change color from his mood or something like that?

Before he looked so, I don't know, happy, now he just looks like he just went through war or something.

He looks sad yet angry? Or stressed? But what ever it is it got worse when he looked at me.

I knew it was from what happened in the kitchen, but this is like ten times worse than what I suspected.

"What do you want." He says angrily.

What do I want? To be asleep on the couch but that didn't happen!

"Ashton you can't just ignore your mom forever." I say in a serious tone.

Well, I tried to say it in a serious tone.

I'm not very good at this.

But what do you expect? I watch Netflix for a living.

"This is none of your business Julie." He says and turns around to face the wall again.

I don't know what the heck is going through my head, but I take small steps into his room.

Next thing I know, I am sitting down in his bed right beside him.

He looks at me shocked but he doesn't say anything.

He is right, it is none of my business.

But someone has to be the adult here.

"Ashton, I'm not here to tell you how to live your life. I'm not here to force you to make amends with your mom. And I'm certainly not here because I like to see drama. But I'm telling you that Alissa is trying her best. You might not agree with what she is saying, but that gives you no right to treat her like this. I know we barely know each other, and you probably might hate my guts right now, but I don't like seeing Alissa this miserable, and I don't think you do either." He looks at me in the eyes but doesn't saying anything. He looks shocked and somewhat sorrowful? Understanding?

I give him one last glance before I stand up from my spot and leave his room.

And to think, Saturday was suppose to be my day off.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

What will Ashton do?

Will he stay grumpy, or will he take Julie's word of advice?

Find out in the next chapter!!

~juls