That night, we went to a bar. Calum and Ashton were drunk within an hour of being there. I didn't get drunk at all. Drunk Ashton came up to me and said, "Heyy Mikeey... This is grreaat birrthdayy."

"Yeah. I bet," I said, "but lay off on drinking for a bit, okay?" I tried to grab the drink from his hand.

"No," he said, pulling the drink away from me, spilling some.

"Okay.." I said. I didn't know what else to do.

He walked away, and I sat down. I wasn't having much fun. Luke wasn't drunk either. He really wasn't allowed to drink, but neither was Ashton since we were in America. You had to be twenty-one to drink in America. Calum was drinking too. He was seventeen and four years underage in America, but he didn't care.

I decided I would drink just a little. I grabbed a drink, and took a swig. It helped me to start to forget about Sydney and Natalie for a little. I kept drinking, and it felt nice to just let go and let my mind go blank for a while.

Luke walked over to me and said, "Mikey.. Did you start to drink?"

"Just a little.. My mind is finally blank," I told him.

"Okay.. Just don't do anything stupid," he warned me.

"I won't.." I promised.

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Within the next hour, I didn't drink anymore. One thing I did do was look for Ashton. Now thinking about it, that was a terrible idea. I looked all over for him. I finally found him, but not where I wanted to find him. I found him in a bedroom with a random girl. They were having sex, and I was not expecting to find Ashton like that. But he was pretty drunk.

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The next morning, I woke up from sleeping on a small couch they had. I didn't pass out, I just fell asleep. Ashton came out of one of the bedrooms they had with the random girl I saw him with the night before.

"Hey Mikey. This is Sophia," he introduced me.

"Hi Sophia. It's nice to meet you," I told her.

"Same here, Michael," she said.

She walked away for a minute, and Ashton whispered to me, "I really like her."

"All you did was fuck her last night," I shrugged.

"No.. We talked a lot this morning," he defended.

"Oh.."

"She's really nice. And just because she was at a bar and we had sex doesn't make her a slut, okay Mikey?"

"Okay. She doesn't seem like a slut."

"She's nothing close to that," I could tell Ashton had a crush. "She's amazing"