Cinderella my Ass

\"Silly girl!\"

I’m not feeling good. I think I will faint. I will puke. I will shoot myself. Oh my God, help me please. This is so good to be real. He is sitting next to me, for real? He said he threw this party to see me, for real? He told me I am amazing, FOR REAL??? Am I dreaming? Please don’t wake me up.

“Do you want to get out of here?” Aiden asked me and I wanted to kill myself for not being able to stop blushing. It would be great to have a button for turning off the blush mode. In just one second and I would look like I never blushed in the first place. How great that would be?

But this is the real life, and there is not button, so I’m stuck with the blush.

I nodded to Aiden and he smiled at me. “I want to show you something.” He helped me to get up and pulled me inside the house. For a moment I thought he would show me his room or an album or I don’t know, but no. We were in the garage. He grabbed the keys of his car and gestured me to get in.

I hesitated. Why? Because I’m freaking stupid. Instead of getting in, I looked down at the floor shifting my weight from one foot to the other. “What’s wrong?” Aiden asked me frowning.

“I don’t want you to leave your party because of me, I...” I murmured awkwardly, not looking at him. I’m such a hopeless case for the mankind.

“But I want.” Aiden said. I looked up at him. He was smiling at me sweetly and I just wanted to melt. How can someone so good like him exist? It’s so impossible, but yet here he is standing in front of me with the most amazing smile in the world. I looked at his lips. At his smile...

“So... come on. Get in!” His voice sounded happy. I nodded lightly and got in the car at the same time with him.

“Where are we going?” I muttered. Aiden smiled and gave me a fast look, before turning his gaze to the road again. I on the other hand played with the corner of my shirt nervously.

“Somewhere.”

I looked outside of the car. The darkness covered the whole place and the only lights I could see were the blurred ones from the houses and the lampposts. No words came out of my mouth. Hell, I didn’t know even what to think. I wasn’t even sure if this was for real. What if I was dreaming all of this? What if I have dreamed of Aiden noticing me and Midnight? What if I wake up and realize all of this was a dream?

I wouldn’t be able to face with reality.

“We"re here.” Aiden snapped me out of my thoughts. We got out of the car. To my surprise we were in a small empty field with trees around it, isolating the world out of here. The car was parked in the corner of it.

Aiden took my hand in his, and pulled me in the middle of it, laying both of us in the green grass. The sky here looked so amazing. So peaceful... the stars looked like millions of lost souls looking down at us. I was hypnotized.

“It’s beautiful.” I whispered, turning my head to Aiden. He was already looking at me. His green eyes were glued to my blue ones with a smile in his face. I felt so breathless... I forgot how to breath... even how to blush for God’s sake.

“It is.” He whispered back, not glancing away from me.

It looked like I remembered how to blush, because that was what I was doing again. It was something I couldn’t help it when I was around him. Our faces were so close I was about to loose my sanity. Breathing became the most hard thing in the world to do. How is that even possible?

“I come here since I was five years old.” He said glancing away from me and looked up at the sky. I did the same as well, not being able to stop a smile at the wonderful view.

“I haven’t come here for a while. And never brought anyone here...” He turned his eyes at me again, with the same smile which reached his eyes. I could get lost in those eyes. I could melt just looking at that smile. “But you are special...”

“How?” my voice trembled as I said just one word. How pathetic am I!

“You are kind... and have the most white heart I have seen in my life.” My heart was going crazy at his words. If it goes on like this I’ll be dead in a few minutes. My stomach on the other hand had turned into the real life Jurasic Park. “You are special...”

And... I fainted.

***

I opened my eyes slowly not bearing the strong light. My head felt heavy and I had a really bad headache. My whole body felt numb. What the hell happened?

“Ryder?” A voice said my name and I felt like dying. Kill me? “Are you okay?” Aiden asked me with worry in his voice and eyes. He was holding my hand in his as his body was leaned closer to the bed I was lying.

Memories of what happened crossed my mind and I had the argue to jump off the window to end all of this embarrassment. I feel like killing myself. How the hell did I faint just because Aiden was telling me I’m special. I FAINTED!!! Who does that in front of their crush?

Oh my God!

“Ryder!” Aiden called my name again, but this time with a worried voice.

I looked at his face having a massive blush slapped on my face and I just couldn’t take it anymore and covered my face with the blanket letting out a small cry of embarrassment. “I’m so sorry! I’m so stupid. Oh God! This is the most embarrassing thing I have ever done in my life. I want to die.” I cried under the blanket.

“Ryder, what the hell are you talking about?” Aiden asked me uncovering my face to look at my eyes.

Seriously, where is the sadistic maniac when you need him? Come on now. Come already and kill me!!!

“Are you okay? You fainted while I was talking and I freaked out. The doctors said you are okay, but I need to hear it from you. You scared the s**t out of me there.” He is so sweet and cute and adorable... hot... and here I am fainting in the worse moments. Oh come on! Why the hell did I faint?

UGH!!!

“I’m okay.” I muttered feeling the blush heating my cheeks. Oh dear God, I’m such a hopeless case.

“What happened there? Are you sick? Why didn"t you tell me?” He looked so worried that made me feel bad. I messed up everything. Somehow I managed to ruin his birthday. Way to go Ryder, way to go. You are amazing. Always finding the way to mess up everything.

“I’m so sorry. Oh my God, I’m so sorry!” I was seconds away from crying.

“Why are you apologizing?” Aiden asked me confused.

“I messed up everything. I ruined your birthday by fainting like a fool, just because I’m so stupid... I’m such an idiot...” The words stuck in my throat as his hand touched my cheek softly whipping away a few tears, I didn’t feel, escaped my eyes. Great now I was crying in front of him.

“Silly girl!” Aiden laughed at me lightly. I looked at him confused. “You didn"t ruin everything. You are not stupid or idiot... Ryder...” His eyes looked at me so softly I was having strange feelings in me. Feelings I never had experienced before. “Thanks to you I had a wonderful time.”

I managed to calm down and try to don’t look like a complete fool in front of him, since fainting was enough for one day. “Really?”

He nodded, tightening the grip on my hand. And that"s when I remembered he was holding my hand, so since I’m Ryder, blushed badly going back to the blushing mode. I think I have a serious problem.

“Do you want me to take you home?”

I nodded and got up from the bed slowly since I was having a bad headache. “What time is it?”

“Midnight.”

Oh no!

I totally forgot about Midnight. He must be mad at me. I’m so selfish. He comes to visit me every night and I forget about him. That makes me the worst friend ever. I would be mad at me too. I don’t want to loose him. True I don’t know him that well, but I know he is important to me. What if he decides to disappear from my life now that I didn’t meet him, because I was too busy fainting in front of my crush?

“Can we go as fast as we can in my house, please?” I pleaded freaking out. Something inside me was hoping for Midnight to be in my room when I arrive there. If this leads on him leaving me... I would feel like Jass was leaving me. I would feel like losing a very best friend.

Aiden looked at me with no emotions shown on his face, and after a few seconds nodded. We walked out of the hospital and got in the car. The atmosphere was awkward for some reasons and I slowly blushed. “I’m really sorry for today. I scared you so...”

“It’s okay. I had a wonderful time.” He smiled at me and I gave him one of mine. Then it hit me that I didn’t give him my present.

“I...” Back to mumbling mode people!!! “I have a present for you.” I said and took out of my pocket the tickets and handed them to him blushing furiously. He gave them a fast glance, with wide opened eyes, before turning his glance to the road.

“You have to be kidding me. Fall Out Boy concert’s tickets?” His voice sounded so excited I Couldn’t not smile. “I couldn’t find them. They were all over. Thanks Ryder. We will have fun, I promise.”

I raised an eyebrow at him confused. “We?”

“Well there are two tickets and I don’t want to take anyone else besides you.” He smiled at me and if I was blushing before, now I looked like a tomato. Like a blushing tomato.

“Thanks.” I opened the door to get out of the car to enter the house but he grabbed my arm, and pulled me closer to him. His lips touched the skin of my cheek softly as my legs turned to jelly.

Oh dear God!

“Good night Ryder!”

I got out of the car not being able to say anything. But when Midnight crossed my mind again, I practically ran to my room hoping to see him there. To see him sitting on my bed smirking at me. But he wasn’t there.

I was too late.