chapter 10

After I talked to Jill for a little while, we went our separate ways. I went home and sucked up to my mom because I wanted her extend my curfew. Ashley wants me to pick her up from work tonight and she doesn’t get of till 11:30pm. On school nights my parent wants me home before 12am. So I need more time so I can talk to Ashley about what’s going on with us. After sucking up to my mom telling her I would consider some program she wants me to get involved in over the weekend, she gave me an extra thirty minutes. I know not that much, but I’ll take what I can get.

Ashley got off of work ten minutes ago and we’ve been sitting in my car making out ever since. She said she wants to go home yet but she didn’t know where else to go. So we sat in silence for a few minutes, in the parking lot of the diner before she started playing with my hands and then the kissing began. I know it seems like she’s aggressive but she’s not. Her kisses or soft and sometimes slow, like she doesn’t know if will be another one after it.

“What time do you have to be home?” She asks and I set back in my seat.

“12:30 and know later or my mom will kill me.” She leans back into her passenger seat and looks at me but doesn’t say anything. I take this my opportunity to voice my thoughts. “So um… I was wondering.”I stop and look at her. “What are we?”

“What do you mean?” Damn I hate this ‘I ask a question, you ask a question’ shit she does.

“You know what I mean, Ashley. I mean or we together or what?” I take a breath. She keeps silently staring at me. “Please tell me what this is,” I say motioning between us, “The kissing, touching. What does it mean?” She smile, leans over and kisses the side of my mouth, like the first time she kissed me.

“You’re so cute, you know that?” I push her back in her seat.

“Don’t. Just talk for once.” I say seriously and I think she got that because she turns and her seat and takes me hands into hers.