"Is that a problem?" she asks nervously
"No. I have nothing against the rainbow." I say joking
She giggles softy and grabs the picture. She looks at it with a small smile.
"What’s her name?" I question
"Jamie."
I take the picture out her hand and take a good look at it. The Amy chick has short black hair that’s kinda spiky. She has a cute face and the jealousy grows. I then look at Ashley in the picture. She has a genuine smile on her face.
‘I wish I could make her smile like that.’
She takes the picture and places’ it back on the dresser.
"So what happened?" I ask looking at her
"She broke up with me for someone else." She answers with a sigh
"You still love her?" I ask
"Actually I don’t. I like someone else." A small blush rises on her face. "What about you?"
"I think I like someone but I don’t know." I answer with a blush of my own.
"If you don’t mind me asking….. boy or girl?" she’s looking at the floor when she asks this.
"Um girl. But i’m not gay at least I don’t think I am." I state quickly
"Oh well I understand if you don’t want to talk about it. What got you into skating?"
I’m glad for the change of subject. We talk for a while until I say that I need to go home.
"I’ll drive you."

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Over the next couple of days I notice my small crush on Ashley has grown. I even starting to get nervous and shaky around her. We have gotten closer. We talk on the phone everyday and she talks to me in public. Her friends have finally gotten over the shock of her talking and I even got her to talk to them. I notice that she’s in all of my classes besides the first two and we always sit together.That Maddison chick doesn’t mess with us even though I see her watching us like a hawk. I think I ruined her reputation cause she sits alone.

I decide to talk to her randomly. I walk over to her table and sit down. I guess she doesn’t notice me next to her cause her head is still in the book she’s reading. I clear my throat to get her attention. It works. She looks up at me. "What do you want fag?"
"Just wanted to say hi no reason to jump  down my throat." I say harshly. I get up and walk over to my friends. I take my normal seat between Ashley and Lucie.
"Why were you talking to Maddison?" Amy asks
"Yeah" Tyler says
"I wanted to say hi you know. Try to clear the air between us." I say looking over at Maddison.
"Well what happened?" Lucie says
"Nothing. She bitched I left."
After I said this the group started talking about something else.
I look at Ashley silently asking if she wanted to skip the rest of the day.
She nods and we get up and leave. No one asks where we’re going cause they’re used to us leaving
We get into her mustang and I put in an Atreyu cd.
"Want to go to a party?" Ashley asks
"right now?"
"No later on. Your parrents are out for this weekend right?"
"Yes" I say wondering where she’s getting at.
"We’ll go to a party and then you can stay over at my place for the weekend." she says parking the car in her driveway.
"Okay."
We walk into her house and up to her room quickly.
"Lets watch a movie." I say heading toward her bed.
"Okay" she yells still at the front of her room.
‘wonder what she’s doing.’ I think as I lay on her bed. I go thru her movies and decide on One Missed Call. I don’t like scary movies but I have seen the rest of then.
Ashley sits next to me in a tank top and shorts. I then see a simular outfit on the bed infront of me.
"get changed. What movie did you choose."
"One Missed Call." I say to her going to the bathroom. I change quickly and re-enter the room. I see her in the bed and walk slowly to her. She sees me and makes room for me in the large bed. I lay close to her because I know that I’ll be scared before the scary part. Ashley doesn’t seem to mind because she takes my hand and lays there trying not to laugh at me when I jump or scream. About halfway thru the movie I’m too scared to look at the screen. I grab Ashley and put my face in the crook of her neck. I can feel her laughing but she stroking my hair and I start to calm down.
"hey it’s okay. It’s just a movie nothing’s real." she whispers softly in my ear.
I sigh contently and kiss her neck. I feel myself dozing off. She is still stroking my hair when I fall asleep.