#ineffableashton

okay so you and ashton both go to college in the city, but he’s a little older and lives off campus in his own apartment while you’re stuck in a dorm with three other girls that drive you nuts so he gives you a key so you can get away which basically means you go there every few days and flop face first onto his bed and just scream into his pillow before you even say hello which of course makes him laugh every time but he also feels bad for you and one day he tries to make you feel better and says “at least you only have to deal with it for a year” and you argue and say “what if i get roommates just as bad next year though” and he kind of just looks really confused and says, “so you’re not moving in with me? i mean you come here enough already you might as well just stay”

you’re completely swamped with homework, trying your best to just not fall behind. your grades aren’t too great which just makes you push yourself harder which only makes you do even worse. it’s a viscious cycle so every night you stay awake until 4am, wake up at 7, go to classes, get home, and do more work. the only breaks you have are bathroom breaks and snack breaks, and even those are minimal. it takes its toll on you and apparently it’s visible because one night ashton invites himself over and just watched you work and cooks for you which you appreciate until it reaches midnight and he slams your laptop shut and carries you to your bed. and you yell at him like “what the hell, ashton?!” but he just shakes his head and holds you against him and says “i’m going to stay here and you’re going to sleep and i’m not letting you wake up until at least 10 because you don’t have class tomorrow and no class means sleep, got it?” but by the time he finishes talking you’re already passed out. he chuckles and says, “i have to take care of you sometimes”

youtuber!ashton doing a live video for the fans while you lie on the couch since you’d been feeling down lately and ashton was using your shared bedroom to film. you heard him filming for about twenty minutes out of the hour he had planned before hearing the bedroom door open and his heavy feet padding across the floor towards you. “you all know–” and just as he was about to introduce you to all his viewers when he saw that you were clearly sad and promptly muttered, “fuck,” before slamming his laptop shut and crawling onto the couch with you. he made you vent to him for nearly an hour before posting a picture of his arm wrapped securely around you with the caption, “she’s okay, she just needed a cuddle. sorry for the abrupt ending!” on his Twitter to apologize and even though he got some hate for it for it there were still fans tweeting, “stop being all butt hurt about it guys. the livestream was in no way as important as his girlfriend’s happiness to him which is how it should be. ash is the sweetest”

protective!ashton would be kind of adorable because he wouldn’t be the angry kind of protective. instead, you would be out with a group of your friends and ash one night and all your girl friends would be calling you “slut” as a nickname and all your guy friends would be making subtle sexual comments just because that’s what they’ve always done and none of them have seemed to grow up at all since high school and out of no where ashton would just pull you aside and beg to go home and when you would ask why he’d just start venting like, “i don’t like it when they call you that or talk about you like that and i can see it in your eyes that you don’t like it either but i know you won’t say anything so can’t we just go and have our own fun? we can just sit at home and watch marvel movies while they go be assholes by themselves.” and just looking in his eyes you’d be able to tell how much he was really getting angry at your “friends” and all you’d be able to do is nod and just hug the shit out of him because god damn that boy cared about you

can you imagine awkward ashton walking through the school halls, always completely silent, just wanting to get from class to class and nothing more? everyone would probably make fun of the little dork but little would they know that he’s the one who would be slipping the adorable but still smooth af notes into your locker every morning just to make you smile.

roommate!ashton always acting like more than just a roommate by coming into your room every night to cuddle with you and wake up up next to you every morning and kissing you on the cheek when he comes home and sees you cooking and he’s always making fun of your height when you can’t reach something on the taller shelves but he doesn’t forget to tell you that it’s what makes you even more adorable