Ashlee looked down at her shoes in the headmaster's office. She already knew she was in big trouble and really didn't want her headmaster to dial up her cousin and she didn't want her cousin to pick up the phone. She sank lower in the chair, hung her head to make her hair fall in her eyes. When the door opened, it wasn't her cousin as she suspected it was Paul, her cousin's and four other's body guard.
"Suspended, really? You are so lucky that I picked up the phone and not your cousin." Paul said to her, walking to the car.
"Why does he care so much about me? I'm just another screw-up like my mother. I'll drop out of high school and be forced to work in a greasy fast food place for the rest of my life." Ashlee answered grumbled. Ashlee is telling the truth. Her dad left a long time ago, so she never met him, but her mom wasn't the best mom. The court got in this mess somehow and declared her mother a bad mother and well, long story short she is living with her cousin, Liam Payne.
"Now you know that isn't true. You're smarter than that." Paul said and got in the driver's seat. She liked Paul; he got her out of trouble a few times. He never made a big deal of it really, but she knew it was more than that. She didn't try to get in trouble, but learning doesn't come easily to her and she gets distracted and well, she gets in trouble without really trying.
"Yeah, yeah. Just how am I going to tell The Payne?" Ashlee asked, using her nickname for her cousin. He knows about the nickname and isn't really fond of it, but he leaves it alone.
"The truth?" Paul suggested. Turning into the recording studio.
"Yeah." Ashlee snorted, getting out of the car and going into the studio.
"Hey, why are you back to early?' Liam asked spying his little cousin.
"Long story short, I got suspended for one day." She told her cousin, swearing under her breath for not using the back door.
"What did you do this time?" Liam sighed, rubbing his forhead.
"Got in a fight, but it wasn't my fault." Ashlee said.
"Ashlee, how many times have I told you, please don't fight every fight you see." Liam said to her.
"And how many times have I told you, you can ship me home! You can be free of this burden! I didn't ask for this,The court did this. All I want is to be home with her!" She screamed, and ran off outside to sit in the parking lot. Everyone at school called her names, they hated her, the pushed her, but of course Liam won't take her side. No one but her mom ever took her side. She was tired of being pushed around, for being called names. She didn't mean for the fight to happen, but it kind of did.
In the recording studio, Liam stood where he was, shocked that Ashlee would ever say something like that.
"I'm going to go and find her." Liam said, running off.
"Wait, what did I miss?" Louis asked, seeing Liam run off.
"Family drama." Harry answered.
"You miss everything when you are in the bathroom." Louis said, then added, "What happened this time?"