Morning Sunshine.

It was late morning and Carly was still asleep, Ashton was listening to her gentle breathing and playing with the wristband he gave her which was still on her wrist. She start to move around and Ashton smiled. "Morning sunshine."

She groaned softly. "Morning."

Ashton chuckled and stroked her hair. "Nice sleep?"

She nodded into his chest and sighed. "I'm still sleepy though."

"I can see that, it is eleven o'clock though."

"Really? I slept that long?" Ashton nodded and kissed her head. "So what's on the agenda today, Mr. Dawson."

He sat up in the bed and pulled Carly up so she was leaning on his chest. "Well, first we shall have breakfast by the wonderful Ashton Dawson... because his mother and sister are out shopping then to the doctors so he has to cook himself."

"Can you cook?"

He shrugged. "Kinda, ish. Anyway, after breakfast, I'm going to take you driving."

"Like to teach me?"

He nodded. "It's time for you to finally get your license."

Carly stretched out and he kissed her forehead before climbing out the bed. "Where are you going?"

"You stay here!"

She sat up, "Why?"

"I'm making breakfast in bed, duh!" He turned the TV on and passed Carly the remote, "Keep yourself occupied, watch something." Carly rolled her eyes and flicked through the channels as Ashton went downstairs. She decided to watch Hot Tunes as nothing else was on, there was the usual reports about huge celebrities and updates on new movies and music. She checked her phone to see Jez had sent her a message, 'You need to tell me all about your little trip tonight, sleep-over? :D' she smiled and told him he could come round, he always did, he was like family.

A few minutes later Ashton returned with two bowls of cereal, he grinned mischievously. "Seriously?"

"Told you I could cook." He chuckled, passing Carly a bowl.

She took it and nudged him gently. "This doesn't count as cooking."

He ignored her and munched at his cereal as he watching Hot Tunes. Before they knew it, their faces appeared on screen and Carly nearly choked on her cereal.

'Carly Torres has been spotted with her mystery man again. However, we can now put a name to the face. He is Ashton Dawson, who is the lead singer of a upcoming band, R Town.' On the screen were pictures of Carly and Ashton by the lake which they had gone to yesterday. The photos included a picture of them kissing and holding hands. ''It is said that Carly was visiting Ashton's home town and meeting his parents. Looks like things are getting pretty serious!" As the news report finished Carly slowly faced Ashton, who had a nervous grin on his face.

"Fishers, ey?" Carly said as he took another bite. "Fishers? Who goes fishing at 8pm?"

He sighed. "Look, I'm sorry! I'm not used to the whole being stalked and having to watch where I go and what I do. You may be, but I'm not."

Carly bit her lip. "You're right, it just takes some getting used it."

Ashton put his arm around Carly and bought her closer to him. "Well, I think they defiantly know about us, so what do you want to do?"

"I don't like lying to my fans."

"Then tell them."

Carly sighed, "But then the media, as you have seen can be so vicious and start rumours... I don't know..."

He bought her head up so his lips met her and as he pulled away, he smiled at her gently. "Do whatever you think is best."

Carly bit her lip, "I'll have a think about it." Ashton nodded against her head before picking up the remote and changing the channel onto a programme that wasn't digging into their personal lives.

-0-

Around one in the afternoon Carly and Ashton were washed and dressed, which was really late but they just enjoying spending time in each others arms, just talking but they only had a few hours left before Carly had to go back home. He took her out driving in his sister's car, which Carly was nervous about, she didn't want to crash her car. She drove around town and Ashton was there giving her directions and telling her what she should do and around two hours later, they heading back home. "See, you are a good driver!"

Carly rolled her eyes and parked outside his house. "I can't, I suck at it."

"No you don't! Keep practising and you'll pass in no time!" Carly chuckled and undid her seatbelt. "I'll keep helping you."

"Thanks," She smiled. They got out the car and walked towards his house. "If that's your sisters car, where's your car?"

He grinned and grabbed her hand, unlocking the garage. As they waited for it to open, Ashton told Carly to close her eyes. She did so and was led into the garage by Ashton, who left her for a moment and then told her to open her eyes. In front of her was old grey mustang with white stripes. "That is so awesome!"

Ashton grinned and opened the bonnet. "Hell yeah! I've been fixing it up for like nearly a year, I saved it from being scraped."

Carly went over and looked at the car. "Looks sweet! When do you think it'll be done?"

"Give me a few more months, It's only me working on it and Jamie helps sometimes."

Carly looked up at him. "Who's Jamie?"

"Oh, he's my best friend."

Carly raised her eyebrows. "He's your best friend? Then how come I've never heard you talk about him?"

"You never asked." He laughed and shut the bonnet of his car, wiping it softly.

"Well, I want to meet him! He is your best friend and all, does he know about us?"

Ashton nodded and shut the garage door, they exited through a door which led them to the hallway. "Yeah, I told him. Do you really want to meet him?" She nodded. "OK, I'll ring him now, he'll be over soon."

Ashton got out his phone and started dialling. "Remember we have to leave soon!" He nodded and left the room for a few minutes. When he returned, he said that Jamie would be here soon. While they were waiting Carly packed all her things up and set her bags by the front door. She sat on the sofa watching a bit of TV while Ashton was on the phone to people from the label.

Just then Brooke came through the front door, followed by Karen. Brooke came into the living room and smiled at Carly. "Good, you haven't left yet! I wanted to say goodbye!"

"Nope, not yet. Jamie is coming over. Who is this Jamie anyway?"

Brooke rolled her eyes. "Ashton's known him since they were like 10 and they claim to be best friends but they don't speak as much as best friends should in my opinion but hey, I'm a girl."

Carly laughed. "Is he nice?"

"He can be, but he is mostly a right dick."

"Language Brooke." Karen warned placing some shopping bags by the stairs.

"What?" She said standing up and crossing her arms. "It's true, we all know it."

Carly followed Brooke out the room. "Did you need any help with the bags?"

"No, it's fine Carly. This was the last one."

"Oh, OK. What did you buy?" She asked and Brooke pulled out a blue baby onesie, it was adorable.

"Baby stuff, just some more clothes and a few bottles. We've basically got everything." She put it back in the bag. "Oh and we went to the doctors before and they gave me my final scan." She held up the picture to Carly and she looked at it, smiling. It reminded her of when Caitlyn was pregnant with Grace.

"When are you due again?"

"Next month." She grinned.

Carly smiled back, "I guess I'll have to come back a visit you!"

Ashton came down the stairs. "I have a radio interview on Tuesday and photo shoot and Wednesday, another interview on Friday and I'm recording all week when R Town has nowhere to be."

"Busy then, ey?"

He nodded and wrapped his arm around Carly. "Jamie should be here in about 10 minutes."

"We have to leave soon remember, I told my dad."

He kissed her cheek. "We'll back in no time, I promise."

30 minutes later and there was no sign of Jamie, Carly was worried about getting home in time because she knew Shane had somewhere to be tonight and she wanted to see him before he left. She got up off the sofa and when to the kitchen where Ashton was. "Ashton, I really need to go ho-" The doorbell cut her off and Ashton smirked walking towards the door, Carly rolled her eyes and followed.

Ashton opened the door and man-hugged a guy with jet black hair, he was about the same height as Ashton but he had a cocky smirk on his face. Carly smiled at him but he looked her up and down and winked. She rolled her eyes, she hated guys like these. Why was sweet adorable Ashton friends with jerk stuck up Jamie? "Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, how did you ever get a girl like this?" He laughed.

Ashton chuckled and shrugged. "My superstar charm."

Carly wished she never said she wanted to meet Jamie. He approached her. "I'm Jamie." He stuck out his hand and Carly went to shake it but he grabbed her hand and kissed it. She sarcastically smiled at him and shoved her hands back in her pockets. "So, how's the car coming along?" Jamie asked and Ashton showed him to the garage leaving Carly alone. She growled under her breath and went back to the living room and sat next to Brooke, crossing her arms angrily. Brooke chuckled and held out a bowl of popcorn for her. "I told you, he's a dick."

-0-

Jamie left around half a hour later. Carly was quite annoyed because Ashton didn't speak to her almost at all while Jamie was over, she got that he was his best friend and all but he could at least try and include her in the conversation. "Ready to go?" Ashton asked as Jamie drove off down the road.

Carly nodded and quickly said goodbye to Brooke and Karen before heading out to the car, Carly put her bag in the back-seat and sat down next to Ashton. "Sorry I didn't speak to you much when Jamie was over." He said as he pulled away from his house.

"It's alright." Carly said facing the window.

"I mean, I haven't seen him in like 4 months."

She faced him. "If he's your best friend, why haven't you seen him in 4 months?"

He shrugged and turned on to the motorway. "I'm busy, he's busy."

Carly understood, they drove in silence for a while. Carly's thoughts were eating her up again, she would have to think of a way to tell her fans that Ashton and her were dating. She wondered what people were going to say about it all, whether they would be happier for her or not. "You think too much."

"Thanks?" She questioned.

"What are you thinking about?"

She looked over to see Ashton smiling. "Just thinking of what I'm going to say to the fans, how they are going to react."

He laughed. "Just remember, whatever happens we'll make it through."

She couldn't help but smile to herself. "You sure?"

"Positive."

It was around 6:30 when they pulled up outside Carly's house, Ashton turned off the engine and faced Carly. "Only half a hour late, not too bad."

She nodded and looked down. "I don't want to say goodbye."

"Me neither..." He sighed and looked over at her front door, Shane was standing there, waiting. "But hey, I'll see you in 3 days at work and it's your birthday next week." She looked over at him and smiled, "I'm coming down for that." He stroked her arm, "Come on, your dad's waiting."

Carly picked up her bag by her feet and opened the car door, as did Ashton. They walked over to the front door.

"Hi, sorry we're a bit late." Ashton said to her dad.

He shrugged and smiled at them. "It's fine, did you have a nice time?"

Carly nodded. "Yeah, we did."

"And you're still coming down for Carly's birthday next week right?"

"Yes sir." He said.

Shane smiled, "I guess I'll see you there then."

He nodded before giving Carly a long hug and kissing her on the cheek. "Bye." He waved.

Carly waved goodbye and watched as he got in the car and drove away. She sighed and shut the door behind her.

"Right, I have to leave in like 20 minutes." Shane said giving her a hug and kiss on the head. "But I'll be back tomorrow evening." He was sorting out his bag by the front door. "Natasha should be home around 8 and Caitlyn has some dinner ready for you, if you want to go over there."

Carly sat down on the stairs and watched him. "Do you ever miss being normal?"

He looked up at her from his bag and then chuckled, zipping it up. "I've forgotten how that feels."

"You know like sitting down for dinner as a family or going on holiday together..."

"We still do all those things!" He said, walking towards the kitchen.

Carly followed. "That's a lie, we haven't been on holiday once. Whenever we go anywhere it's something to do with work."

He thought about it for a while, "You're right, we'll go on vacation soon. I promise."

"Whatever." She laughed and sat on a stool. "Did you watch Hot Tunes this morning?"

"No, but Natasha did, she told me that you and Ashton were on there. What are you going to do?"

She shrugged. "I'm thinking about just telling everyone, I'm getting sick of tip-toeing around."

He nodded. "Do whatever you think is best." He looked at his watch and kissed Carly's head. "I'm off now, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye Dad."

He grabbed a bottle of water and headed towards the door, "Bye!"

Carly sighed and heard her phone beep. "I MISS YOU! XD" the text read, she laughed.

"ME TOO BUT DON'T TEXT WHILE DRIVING."

OK, I know y'all hate me but I promise it'll get better,

this is a filler :)

much love.x