only one person I want, only one person I love." He bent his head to look her in the eyes, and was so hurt to see doubt looking back at him.
"I know you love me, but look at some of those girls in there, Ashton! Why would you want me when you could have them? They're beautiful! Half of them are probably models for God's sake!" The tears rolled from her eyes. "I'm nothing compared to them."
Ashton grabbed her chin and forced her to look into his eyes. "You're everything compared to them!" he told her, the anger and frustration evident in his voice. "Sure, there are some hot women in there, but they've got nothing on you."
"You can't tell me if we weren't together you wouldn't hook up with some of them," she countered.
"Maybe, but that's irrelevant. We are together, and that's not going to change any time soon, if I have anything to do with it." He looked at her and saw that she wasn't giving up.
He sighed. "Do you know that most of the women I was with before we got together, I was only with to get a rise out of you? And I hate to break it to you, but I didn't have sex with all of them. As you know, there are other ways to please someone. And I'm not saying it was only because of you, because yes, I have needs too, but you were a big reason for it. I was trying to make you jealous, trying to make you see that you had feelings for me."
He knew that line of reasoning wasn't working well with her. "I know you think I can't control my urges, but the thing is, I can. How many times did I stop us from having sex because the time wasn't right?"
"Just proves my point that you'd rather be with one of those supermodels in there. I guess I just don't excite you enough," Kaylee spat.
Ashton growled back at her "God! You're so frustrating! I love you and I think you're beautiful! You need to get over your 'poor me' act and get on with it. Do you think I liked watching all those guys all over you tonight? No, but I love you and I know you love me, and would never do anything with them. I knew that it was my bed you'd be in at the end of the night, not theirs, so I didn't let it get to me." She rolled her eyes, and that was it. His patience snapped. "If you can't trust me, then we don't have what I thought we did."
"I guess we don't. But at least we know that now, before it is too late," she said, as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Have fun with your groupies." She ran back into the building.
"Kaylee, wait!" he yelled after her. Kaylee ran down the hall and into the dressing room.
"Ashton and I just broke up," she sobbed into Colton's shoulder, nearly collapsing in his arms.
Colton looked at the girl he had been making out with on the couch. "Go get Noah for me." The girl nodded and left the room, while Colton led Kaylee to the couch to sit down, then went and got her a bottle of water. If this was true, and something they couldn't fix, then the band was really in for it.
Chapter 25
Noah ran into the room to find his sister sitting with Colton, her shoulders shaking as she sobbed. Once Noah took over and pulled his sister into a hug, Colton went in search of Ashton.
Ashton was sitting on a picnic table behind the concert venue, near where the tour buses were parked. His head hung low, and as Colton got closer, he noticed a glowing ember of something in Ashton's hand.
"Hey man, what's going on?" Colton asked, not sure if Ashton would follow the 'man code' and not want to talk about what happened, or if he needed to get it off his chest.
"Want some?" Ashton held the joint out for Colton.
"Where'd you get that?" Colton asked as he took it.
"I don't know, the security guard or something," he said, taking another hit once Colton passed it back to him. "Is she alright?" he asked, without looking at Colton.
"Not really. She's crying. What happened?"
"She saw some groupie trying to kiss me, which led to a huge fight about trust issues. I basically told her that if she can't trust me, then we