Reflections on Love part 2 : Ashley/Zhane : Fleeing love

Disclaimer: unfortunately not mine…Zhane including.. :( too bad!

Authors's note: Sorry that it took so long for me to update, college is fun but very busy…not only studying of course, but the students life is addicting! grins Well here my update and at the same time a Christmas gift for all of you! Merry Christmas!

Review responses:

Ashley Hammond Astro Yellow: Glad you liked it, Well here, finally my update and christmas gift!! You see, billboards are addicting!

Phantom Rogue: Thanks! yeah, you definetely got the point of the last chapter. Oh my, I hate myself for doing this to Andros and Carlos, but they will have to take it for at least another 6 chapters! Poor them!

Alexandra Khayman: Thank you so much for your sweet review. So glad you like it! I can't wait till you update your story!

Tal: I'm sorry matey, they are going to suck faces for another 6 or more chapter! Sorry, I can't help it, shoot me but I love this pairing! But in the end it will be A/A, but I think I'm going to write many more A/Z stories in the future. I think you will love the customs!

Star Fata: Thanks for your sweet review. Yeah, Andros is an idiot..but a handsome one!

Pureangel86: Thanks a lot! Here's more

Jainasolo18: Thanks for your sweet review. I'm very glad you like it. Are you going to write A/A or another PRIS story soon? Merry Christmas! I love college..see my authors note :P

Chapter 5: Halloween part 1

Days went be, Carlos and Andros feeling miserable but acting normal. Both guys ware doing it for their best friends, which they didn't want to loose.

Zhane was walking on pink clouds, totally in love. Ashley wasn't in a much better state.

She couldn't think of anything else besides her blond haired boyfriend and was even send out of her math's class because she was daydreaming and not paying attention to anything the teacher said.

Zhane walked around with a wicked smile on his face, that wouldn't disappear.

The young couple really wasn't aware of the emotions their relationship had caused.

Of course, Ashley knew Carlos had a hard time seeing her with someone else, but she could never guess Andros was having a hard time as well.

Even Zhane didn't noticed it, Andros didn't acted different as usually, he was still very reluctant towards Ashley, but that wasn't something new.

Zhane did noticed that Andros' attitude towards Ashley was becoming a little problem in their friendship.

Zhane still hung out with Andros and the striped hair boy was still his best friend, but he just couldn't understand why Andros was so harsh to his girlfriend.

In his eyes, Ashley was everything. Sweet, loving, pretty, nice, cheerful, funny, easy to talk with. He couldn't get it that Andros didn't saw that.

He couldn't know that was the problem. Andros DID saw how perfect Ashley was. Too perfect for someone like him, he thought.

Now it was the day of 31 October, the day of Halloween.

The boys were playing poker with cards and chocolate bars were their 'stakes'.

"Andros, if I see you looking at my cards, You're a dead man during our next sparring session mate" Zhane warned with an evil glare to his best friend.

"Don't be afraid Zhane, I don't need to see your cards to know if you are bluffing dear friend" Andros returned, throwing a large amount of chocolate in the middle of the table.

TJ and Carlos laughed.

"Yeah you really need to work on your poker face Zhane" TJ laughed.

"I pass, I can't win anymore anyways" he continued, putting down his cards and eating the little peace of chocolate that was his.

"I'll teach you my famous poker face Zhane" Carlos said with a half smile. "Only Ashley sees right trough it. I play"

Andros cought, suddenly there was a loud silence in the holding bay.

Zhane, who didn't felt attacked at all, said dreamily:

"Yeah, I bet she will. She can read people so easily. I play, it's everything or nothing"

And he threw all of this remained chocolate in the middle.

"oeoeooeo!" TJ laughed, clapping in his hands.

"Now gentlemen..reveal your cards please!" he announced.

Zhane had obviously bluffed, Carlos had three of a kind, but Andros, Andros revealed his full house with a satisfied grin on his handsome face.

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Zhane yelled

"Told you" Andros grinned. He loved this game.

At that very moment, a giggling Ashley and Cassie entered the room, dragging a heavy box with them.

"Hey guys! Who has won?" Ashley asked.

TJ, Carlos and Zhane pointed as one man to Andros.

"Congrats Andros!" Ashley said, putting her hand briefly on Andros' shoulder to steal some chocolate of the table.

Andros almost shuddered at her gentle touch. This short, casual touches drove him crazy.

It made him mad at himself, made for thinking like that about his best friend's girl. Sad as he thought about it that she would never be his.

He felt his heart aching when he saw Ashley hopping on Zhane's lap.

"Ahwww come one Zhane…don't pout!" Ashley said, giving her boyfriend a short kiss before putting a little piece of white chocolate in his mouth.

Andros looked away, he just couldn't see it.

"What's in that box?" TJ asked, pointing to it.

"Honey, don't you know what day today is?" Cassie asked her boyfriend in a stern voice.

"Uh…31st October? Saturday?" TJ guessed. Then the truth hit him.

He looked to Carlos, both guys jumped on their feed, eyes wide open.

"HALLOWEEN!" they shrieked like 10 year olds.

"Man, how could we forget that!?" Carlos asked, slamming his hand against his forehead.

"I can't wait to see this whole Halloween feast" Zhane said enthusiastically to Ashley, while putting his arm around her waist, holding her to him.

"Thrust me, you will love it!" Ashley reassured him.

"In the box are all the male Halloween outfits we've collected during all those years" Cassie said with glistering eyes and a wink to Ashley.

"Well; the tradition is that we can't see each others outfits till tonight, so you have to pick an outfit in private" Ashley explained

Andros rolled his eyes. Stupid Earth customs and holidays….he thought

"So…when you're alone, go to the box and pick a sac with a costume in it and put it in your quarters or somewhere the others can't see it" Cassie continued.

Zhane put Ashley on her feet again, bounced to the box, picked sac number 2 and disappeared with a flashy smile to Ashley in the direction of the quarters.

Andros was of course the last one who sighting picked a sac and disappeared to his room.

That night, after dinner, they all went to their rooms to prepare themselves for the Halloween Party at the Surfspot.

Andros took a quick cold shower and sat on his bed, glaring at the sac in front of him.

He really wasn't used to all the weird Earth party's.

He didn't feel like going, but he knew he couldn't stay at the Megaship.

Ashley and Cassie would make him so crazy that eventually, he always gave up and went with them anyway.

He opened the sac. There was a black knee length pants, a white blouse, long boots, a black hat and even a plastic sword.

Andros frowned. What was this?

A picture fell out of the sac.

Andros picked it up and stared at it.

He remembered the man on the picture, he was an actor or something in a movie Ashley dragged all of them along to a month ago, Pirates of the Caribbean.

The man with the long brown hair on the picture was called Jack..Jack Sparrow he remembered.

He chuckled. He was supposed to dress up as a…pirate?

He shook his head and with a little grin, he started to put on his clothes.

In the room next to Andros, Zhane was dancing through the room, singing along with his radio.

"Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb
You can give it to me, when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on."

The blond haired guy took a shower and put on his clothes. He looked at his reflection in the mirror.

"Damn Zhane..you look…hot!" he muttered to himself, flashing his famous smile.

In the room next to Zhane, Ashley's room, Ashley and Cassie were busy getting showered, dressed and make-upped.

Cassie was dressed as Tinkerbell, the fairy in the Peter Pan fairytales.

She even wore a blond wig, which was tied up in a bun on the top of her head.

Ashley helped her in the little green dress with tights that Tinkerbell always wore.

Cassie and Ashley were laughing hysterically when Cassie discovered a magic wand.

"Almost Harry Potter" Ashley managed to say between laughter.

Cassie was putting her make-up on when Ashley came out of the bathroom only dressed in a grey bra and thong with yellow stripes.

"Come on Ash, get that but of yours in your outfit!" Cassie hurried her friend.

"Cas…we've got plenty of time…It's only eight o'clock and the party starts at ten!" Ashley said to her friend, while putting her clothes on.

When she was finished dressing, she looked in the mirror.

"Uhh…Cassie? Don't you think this is a little too…sexy?" she asked uncertainly

Ashley's costume was a devil costume.

She was dressed in skin-colored tights, a blood red miniskirt, red long boots with high heels, a little red tank top that showed cleavage and her silver belly button and over it, a red silky cape.

Cassie busted out in giggles.

"Yeah, definitely too sexy. But who cares? It's only once a year Halloween!" Cassie put her friend on a chair and started doing her make-up and hair.

"Oh, I almost forgot this!" Ashley said, putting the red tiara with devil horns in her hair, and the girls made their way to the holding bay.

The guys were already there, laughing and making fun of each others outfits.

Andros looked like Jack Sparrow's twin brother, wearing his hair down, a hat on top of his head, and in his belt there was the plastic sword.

Andros was surprised about it, but actually he felt comfortable in these clothes.

Carlos was the perfect Zorro, wearing all black, including a black hat and mask.

TJ was walking around, making strange noises. The girls couldn't see his face, he was dressed as a giant, hairy gorilla!

The guys needed to help him in his costume.

And then..Zhane…was wearing the perfect outfit for him..

He was dressed like Prince Charming, all in silver and blue, he even had a silver crown on his head!

The girls shrieked with laughter when they entered the holding bay.

"Oh my god!" Ashley laughed, looking at the boys in front of her. "You look great!"

When Andros saw Ashley, his heart skipped a beat. There she was, all in his color, blood red, from head to toe.

He gulped and stared at her.

"Wow, you look great Cas!" TJ mumbled out of his costume, and then took the gorilla head of, giving his girlfriend a kiss.

"Well Zhane, I think you'll be getting some competition tonight with your girl looking as stunning as this!" he continued.

TJ couldn't possibly know how awkward his choice of words was, Zhane had already competition from his best friend and a teammate.

"Nah, I only go for my prince on a white horse" Ashley joked, walking towards Zhane who put his arms around her and drew her into a short kiss.

"Well, I haven't got a white horse, but I do have a famous, silver galaxy glider!" Zhane grinned.

"Well Andros, you look just like Jack Sparrow!" Ashley exclaimed with a smile.

"Uh…thanks..I guess" Andros said, trying not to look at her cleavage.

"Yeah, Ash has got a poster of that guy in here room at home!" Cassie said grinning.

Andros stared at the ground.

"Well…let's go!!" Carlos said impatiently.

"DECA, six to teleport to Angel Grove"

And in a flash of colored light, they disappeared.

A/N: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!! But special thanks to my reviewers, I love you guys and appreciate your kind comments very much. More special thanks to Ashley Hammond Astro Yellow and Darkhonda for their help with the costumes! Love you guys!