Cinderella my Ass

My periods looked like that the past month

"Goodbye Ry." Midnight said giving me a sheepish smile.

I blushed lightly and smiled at him. A faint voice told me to take his hood off and see his face, but I was scared that he would be angry with me after that. I could deal with the curiosity, but not with the regretting feeling after what I would do.

Midnight walked down the street. At some point he raised his arm in the air and waved it at me, without even looking back. I laughed at him and closed the window. The smile didn"t disappear and when I remembered what happened today with Aiden it just grew wider.

***

"Ryder!" Jasmine ran after me. I stopped and waited for her. She put her hands on her knees trying to catch her breath. "I"m sleeping at your house tonight."

I wanted to frown. It was strange for me but I wanted to see Midnight again tonight. He promised me he would come again. But Jasmine is my best friend and I couldn"t be disappointed because she was sleeping at my house. I should be happy. We have a wonderful time every time she sleeps... well we don"t actually sleep, we just talk and talk about stupid stuff, we watch a movie, try to prank call people in the middle of the night...

I smiled at her. Of course I was happy to spend time with her. Even if that meant I wasn"t going to meet Midnight.

For some reasons, I felt comfortable around him. Our talk was simple and I felt somehow he had made my life kind of interesting. I found myself looking forward for the night so I could meet him.

On one hand I had Aiden, making my days interesting and on the other hand I had Midnight for the nights. I wanted to be friends with him. It felt right for me. I know it was weird. I didn"t know the guy. I have meet him only twice. But I felt connected to him in some ways.

"We will have fun tonight." I said to Jasmine as she grinned at me showing her perfect white teeth.

She was a little bit shorter than me but she was very pretty. With chocolate brown eyes and dark hair... her skin was a light brown. Her body was slim... did I mention her hair reached her waist?

"Ryder." Aiden placed his hand on my shoulder. I felt goosebumps all over my back and arm. I won"t wash this jacket anymore.

"Aiden." Like always my voice trembled.

"I was thinking..." He looked nervous and just because of that I smiled. The nervous him was so cute. His cheeks would turn red as his hand would scratch the back of his neck and run his hand through his dirty blonde hair making it messy. Only by seeing his hair I had the urge to run my hands through it and mess them even more.

I bit my lower lip at that thought.

"Do you want to go to the cinema with me?" All of these things happening will give me a heart attack.

Normally I would jump up and down while screaming like a lunatic and a total weirdo, but I was so nervous around him I just froze. And Jasmine being Jasmine pinched my arm.

When I remembered she was there I frowned. "I... can"t."

Aiden frowned while Jasmine smacked the back of my head hard. I felt like I almost kissed my boobs. "WHAT?!!"

I turned to Jasmine glaring at her while rubbing the back of my head. "What the hell Jasmine?"

"Are you kidding with me? Why are you answering him no?" She threw her arms in the air furiously.

"You"re coming over at my house. I can"t let you..." I started to say. I wanted to meet Midnight tonight. I wanted to go to that movie with Aiden, but she was my best friend. She always has been there for me and I couldn"t cancel our plans because of a guy.

Sisters before misters. Or such a thing. I don"t know it very well.

"You are an idiot." She cut me off, her voice sounded surrounded. Like she was dealing with a lost cause. "I will wait for you in your room entertaining myself with Magic Mike." I laughed at her words but then I got nervous as I remembered Aiden was there the while time.

I turned to him, to find him with a confused expression all over his face. "So..." Aiden said and I let out a small nervous laugh. It was supposed to be a smile, but I was that messed up I couldn"t make the difference between a smile and a laugh.

"She will come." Jasmine said smacking the back of my head again.

"Stop doing that." I whined at her, but she rolled her eyes and glared at me.

"See you at Math"s then." He said and walked away.

"Pinch me or something. It can"t be real. Why does it look so real?" I said with a dreamy voice and Jasmine laughed at me.

"Because it is real?"

Yeah... It is real.... what a second. It is real. That hit me hard as I finally reacted how I would react if I wasn"t around Aiden. I jumped up and down, clapping my hands like a retarded seal and screaming like a Justin Bieber fan girl would scream if she meet Justin Bieber in flash.

"You need medicine and a psychiatrist." Jasmine laughed at me but I was too busy being happy to glare at her.

***

I was daydreaming during the whole math class. And I had no idea of what exactly. I just got lost on my own thoughts. It was like I forgot the world around me. I forgot everything.

It sounded too good to spend time with Aiden. Maybe I was dreaming it too. But the smacks and the pinches, Jasmine gave me, said otherwise. I knew it was stupid to have a crush over someone I haven"t talked before, someone who probably didn"t know I existed and yet that someone wanted to spend time with me. With me!!! It was like Mr Perfect noticed the clumsiest girl in school. Of course he noticed me. I fell on him. I knocked him down.

Weirdly the lyrics of Miley Cyrus-Wrecking Ball crossed my mind. Don"t laugh. I knocked him down like a wrecking ball.

I felt slightly irritated as that song stuck in my head not having in its plans to leave me alone anytime soon. Now all the daydreams and my thoughts about Aiden vanished away as I focused hard on trying to get that song out of my mind. But it just won"t get out.

At some point I hit with my palm the side of my head like that would work. I probably looked like I was trying to get something out of my ear. To sum up I looked like a crazy girl hitting herself during math class.

"Are you okay?" Aiden asked and I felt myself burning in flames as he was looking at me like I was some kind of a crazy girl who had escaped the asylum. Maybe I was crazy.

Could things get better?

"Yeah... I was.... just... trying to get something out of my mind." I said the last one fast shutting my eyes closed and holding my breath.

After what felt like years, and after my face had turned purple from not breathing Aiden laughed. Like a lot. It wasn"t a small laugh like "ow that"s funny". It was more like "lol I can"t breath".

My face turned from purple to red , to one of those red that you would look and think "Wow the colour of love. Or if you were weird enough, you would actually think "My periods looked like that the past month". Yeah!

It looked like the time had stopped. Everyone was looking at Aiden silently, like he was crazy and the only sound heard in the whole classroom was his laughter. His deep and attractive laughter.

I felt like I could boil an egg with the heat of the embarrassment I was feeling.

"You are amazing Ryder."

Those words sounded so familiar to me. So familiar it made me frown.

"You are amazing Ry." His voice was low and I noticed amusement on it.

How was it possible I always forget about Midnight when I was with Aiden? How was it possible I always forget about Aiden when I was with Midnight? Maybe something was wrong with me. Or I just focused in the present so much I forgot about everything else.

"Mr Caley!" The teacher interrupted Aiden"s laughs. "Can you tell me what was so funny for you to laugh like this?" She asked glaring at Aiden and I felt responsible for him getting in troubles.

"I"m sorry miss. It won"t happen again." Aiden said turning to the teacher. I couldn"t see his face, but I knew for sure he was giving her one of his charming smiles.

The teacher just rolled her eyes and opened her mouth to continue with the lesson but the only sound heard was the bell. Everyone got up, collecting their things and walked out of the class. As for me I just bumped my head against the table and felt like crying. Seriously why always me?

"Ryder?" Do I have to worry about the fact that every time I hear his voice I blush? How"s that even possible?

"I"m sorry it"s my fault..." I mumbled raising my head from the table. Aiden chuckled and the sound of his voice made me feel warm. Maybe I"m getting sick.

"It"s not your fault. I was the one laughing my ass off there. Besides nothing bad happened." He touched my shoulder lightly. It looked like he was doing that gesture a lot lately. Not that I"m complaining. "Can we go to the cinema now?"

I totally forgot about that. The irony... a few minutes earlier I was daydreaming about it and then later I forget I was going to be with Aiden... my crush since the first day of school... in a dark room... sitting next to each other... Oh dear lord I forgot how to breath!

"Ye-yea-yeah." I finally managed to say. Aiden let out a small laugh and before I could move or anything... even though I didn"t have in my plans to move at all, since my brain had stopped working, he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the class.

I won"t wash that hand, that"s for sure.

***

"I knew we should have watched The Angry Birds." I said in a cry tone, while leaning against the wall of the cinema, wrapping my arms around my knees.

Aiden looked at me with sad eyes and hold out his hand to touch my arm. I saw the scratches and the bruises I had caused him in his arm and wrist as I was trying hard to don"t s**t myself in a cinema full of people. "I"m sorry Ryder. I didn"t knew you would be so scared." His soft voice said. I looked up at him and he smiled.

Watching The Conjuring was the worst idea ever. It was Aiden"s idea but that doesn"t make it any better. I almost hugged the life out of him the whole movie as I screamed my lungs out. I never was a big fan of horror movies. But I had seen The Ring, The Conjuring 1, The Woman in Black... But never felt so scared shitless then watching that movie.

"How about I buy you something? What do you want?" He asked.

"Nothing. Thanks." I was to shy to ask him to buy me something. He already paid the tickets for the movie and for the popcorn even though I flew it all over the place from the super jump I made from the fear.

"Ow... then I will take you home."

I was so glad Jasmine was sleeping at my house that night. Or I would be so scared to even breath. My phone vibrated. I unlocked the screen and read the message Jasmine had sent me.

Going out with a hot guy. Sorry for not coming over. See u later.

Shit! s**t! s**t! s**t! s**t! s**t!

When I entered my room, it was already dark outside making my room like a death trap. Never in my life before I hated my room so much. I had a feeling that a demon would appear from behind me any second.

Taking a deep breath, I ran towards the bed and jumped on it covering my head with the blanket praying to God to help me.

***

"Ry." A warm hand touched my shoulder and my eyes widened and my mouth opened to scream in fear.

I knew the demon would come. It knew my name.

But before I could let out any sound, a hand covered my mouth as the other touched two perfect lips gesturing me to don"t make any noise.

And that"s when I noticed the demon was actually Midnight. I glanced at the window to find it open. I must have forgotten it open since I was too scared to even change my clothes let alone to walk to the window and close it.

"Oh my God, Midnight." I breathed as I felt tears forming in the corner of my eyes but swallowed them not wanting Midnight to see me crying.

He sat on my bed and pulled me in a tight hug. I felt warm and safe with his arms wrapped around me. "I"m sorry I scared you." I just nodded as his hand ran through my hair a couple of times.

I pulled back, even though I didn"t want, scared that something bad would happen to me if I did. "You came."

He let out a small laugh removing the hood from his face, but I again couldn"t see his face. But I cared less about it. All it mattered was that he was here.

"I promised didn"t I?" He smiled, before a smirk appeared in his lips. "Besides I knew you would be probably waiting for me. Just look at the window. You left it open for me..." I punched his arm glaring at him but couldn"t help a smile. "Anyway... How are you doing? You look a little jumpy..."

"I watched a horror movie. Never doing it again. Never, ever in my life again." I said and Midnight laughed at me.

"You look like the kind of a girl who is fearless. You helped a stranger who entered your room instead of screaming."

"I would actually scream "rapist" but then you fell on the floor so..." Midnight laughed again at me and I just smiled a little.

"I brought ice cream." He said handing me the chocolate and vanilla ice cream and one of two spoons.

"Why?" I asked him confused but my eyes were glued to the ice cream as my stomach growled for it.

"I felt like eating ice cream tonight." He said and took a spoonful with vanilla ice cream.

We are in silence. Time after time we would have a small talk but fall in a comfortable silence again. I liked this about him. We didn"t have to talk to have a good time together.

After we finished the ice cream, I felt my mouth open in a huge yawn. Midnight looked at me, his lips formed a small smile. "You should sleep. And I have to go."

With that said he got up from my bed and headed to the window, but fear took over me again as he wasn"t by my side anymore. I grabbed his wrist and pulled him back next to me.

"What"s wrong?" His voice was worried and I smiled at him.

"I"m scared." I felt my cheeks heat up from the embarrassment. "Stay longer."

Midnight smiled at me. I slowly lied down on my bed as he sat next to me. One of his hands was on my hair playing with it. I never liked people touching my hair, but I didn"t mind him. Actually it was calming me down.

"Goodnight Ry."