Her Absolution

Chapter 10

“What the f**k is going on here Kenneth? Why is she angry at you?”

The guy name Kenneth known by me as dipshit and asshole doesn't answer. Not good. Not good at all. 

“Answer me!”

    All I see is his back, his square and incredible back. Ashton is in front of me and the asshole named Kenneth. Ashton is yelling at him, demanding why we were fighting. If he wants to know he can ask me. But he doesn’t ask me or turn to me. He is giving his full attention to the asshole. Not even bother by me. When did he get here? How much did he see?

“You won’t f*****g answer me, Kenneth? Tell me, now!!”

    Oh, my goddess if Kenneth doesn’t answer him soon, I think we will have an exploding Ashton. This is getting out of hand. I get close to him and put my left hand on his back, touching his black shirt.

“Ashton calm down.” I whisper to him, not wanting anyone to hear us.

“He f*****g make you angry.” He whisper yell back.

“Yes, but you do not have to get this angry, I can. Please clam down. A lot of people are watching.”

“Kenneth for the last time what did you do?”

Kenneth looks pissed and annoyed now. Like he was bother that Ashton was ruining his morning. Well dipshit you ruined mine. 

“I took her parking spot even though I saw that she was already parking in it. Dude what’s your deal with her? Are you f*****g her?”

    Oh, s**t. I was so right. He knew I was going to park there. And what the actual hell did he just ask? Ashton and I having s*x? That made me angrier than I was. I feel Ashton stiff at the question directed at him. He steps away from me going to Kenneth and punches him in the face. You can hear everyone gasping from Ashton’s reaction.

“What the f**k Ashton? You just punch me!” Kenneth tells him this while holding the right side of his face, where Ashton punch him.

“You don’t get to talk to someone like that, especially a girl, have some f*****g manners. And how many times have you been told not to do that, someone can get hurt. Move your car, now!”

“Ok. Ok. Jesus, all of this for a parking spot.”

“All of this because you’re an asshole, dimwit.” This time it was me who talk to him.

    The jerk Kenneth goes to move his car and I go to move mine too and park it. Sarah and I get out of the car with our bag over our shoulders. Ashton is there looking at me. He seems relax now, a few minutes ago he look like he wanted to rip Kenneth's head off. Sarah stays beside me linking our arms.

“Thank you for that Ashton, it was nice of you.”

“She’s right Ashton, thanks for helping us.”

“It was my pleasure. Your name is Sarah, right?”

“Yes. How do you know it?”

“Asher talk to me about you one time. Call me crazy but his eyes were almost shining from his love for you.”

“Really?”

    You can see in her face surprised, love, sadness, happiness and affection. She must be missing him a lot right now. I never knew Asher talk to Ashton about her. Never thought they were that close. What else did they talk about? 

“Yes, he was happy and smiling from talking about you and how much he loves you. He also told me that he was lucky to have find his love at such an age.”

    Is this true or is Ashton making this up? But then again it would be something that Asher would have said. He said something similar to me once before he and Sarah got together. I know it’s hard to lose a brother, your twin, a friend but it must be harder for her she lost a lover, her other half. It sometimes pain me to see her sad. Marcus appears in front of us, he looks at Sarah and sees her sadness. He thinks someone did something to her.

“Sarah? What happened? Why the long face?”

“It’s nothing Marcus just remembering something. Let’s go we are going to be late.”

    Sarah let’s go of my arm and moves next to Marcus walking ahead of me and Ashton. Ashton is on my left side a few inches from me. I look up at him and ask him:

“Why did you do that? I had it handle.”

“I know you did; I also know you can do it without anyone’s help. But I wanted to help, and he should not have treated you that way. He'll get over it, were friends.”

Ashton and Kenneth were friends? Oh goddess that explains a lot and why Ashton punch him. And why Kenneth didn't punch him back.

“Oh, well. Once again thank you.”

“No worries. You sure, you’re fine?” He stops walking and looks at me. I stop a few feet away from him.

“I’m fine Ashton. Don’t worry. How are the triplets and Mason?”

“Everyone’s fine. Mason kept asking the triplets about Ruby. But the girls didn't tell him much about her since they meet her yesterday.”

“That boy is crazy in love. We are doom. How can Mason like Ruby already? I know she is beautiful but how? How can someone feel in love like that?” We resume walking to the entrance of the school.

“What do you mean? Wait. You never fallen in love with someone? I mean I get the falling in love at first sight from you. But I have been in love, I like to think it was love. You haven’t?”

    When he ask that I was dumb found. No I have never been in love because know whenever I think of it Ryan was just using me, I was blind. I don’t know what to tell him, I do not want him to know this. The Ryan topic it's particularly nasty stuff, even I don't talk about it. 

    We enter the school and go to our lockers. We are silent, he is waiting for me to answer, and I don’t really know what to tell him. When we get to our lockers he leans on his, looking at me. I open mine to have something to block his vision. From him seeing my face.

“Forget I even ask. I can tell your answer with your silence.” What?

“Anyway, I wanted to ask you something.”

    I don’t see Sarah on her locker, she must have gone to the classroom already. I take out my phone and see a text from her. 

Sarah: Went to the bathroom see you at class.

“And that question is?”

“There is this game on Friday. Are you coming to see us play?” 

I can't go and even if I could I don't think I want to. 

“I can’t. Sorry I have plans.”

“Are you faking plans, or you really have them?”

“I’m not lying, I do have plans.”

“And what are they?”

“None of your business Ashton. Don’t you have to take your books?”

“Ah yes, right.” 

    He goes to open his locker and I start going towards the class when I start laughing at him. It was a small one. I didn’t even realize it until I heard it. Why would Ashton ask me to come to the game? This guy is hard to read. 

    I enter the classroom and sit in the same chair as yesterday and once again the girls are glaring at me. But I don’t mind them let them do it, they are the ones who would ruin their faces from all the glaring. Sarah isn’t back from the bathroom. I feel my phone vibrating, speaking of the queen.

Sarah: I forgot to tell you I’m going to the administration office to deal about that class that I talked to you yesterday. So, probably I won’t take first period, I have to talk to the principal about it and she is busy.

Autumn: It’s okay. I’ll give you my notes. Good luck.

Sarah: Thanks, babe.

    Ashton walks in, in all his glory, oh goddess his so hot. His wearing dark fit jeans, a black shirt and black tennis. You can see a little of his tattoo on his right arm from were the sleeve ends. His shirt is hugging his upper body, with this one you can see a little bit more than yesterday. He definitely has abs, tone ones, and his shoulders and arms have muscle. The part of the tattoo that you can see some lines in black, like it’s holding some balloons or is it a bouquet of flowers, I don’t know. I have to see completely the tattoo to know what it is. Ashton goes and sits in the chair next to mine.

 “They’re going to keep glaring at you. Now more than ever since I came to your rescue.”

Does he change personalities or something? He is now the playful Ashton, great. I look at him and put my right index finger up against my lips signaling him to shut up. He chuckles at this.

“By the way you have a beautiful laugh, gorgeous. You should do it more often.”