Chapter 10
"A Shot At Prison?"
Once the clock hit 2:20, since school ended at 2:30, they headed home.
John dropped Ashley off at her house at 2:35. Making perfect time.
Ashley walked in, and saw her terribly mad parents waiting there. They stood there with terribly mad faces on.
"Ashley Ann Massaro. What in the world were you thinking, skipping school, and going out with that John Cena?!" Her mother yelled at her.
Ashley's jaw dropped.
"How did you know all of this?" Ashley asked.
"First of all; Your math teacher was the only one that checked you as there, for class. Also; The school has hidden cameras for the main entrance-" Her mother began
"So they saw you and John sneaking out" Her father finished.
"There fore; you are not allowed to see that boy again."
"Mom! Dad! Please- it was my fault, my idea! Don't take it out on John!" Ashley pleaded.
"Ashley! He encouraged you to miss school, he drove you out of there! You are not allowed to argue about this. You may not see that boy any more- period" Her mother added.
"Mom, I'm going there the most terrible time in my life. You don't understand, please- just give me a chance. Give John one more chance! Please!" Ashley begged.
"If you get in trouble when your with John, if it was John's idea to do some thing and you get in trouble- then it's over. I swear this is your last chance!" Her father stated.
Her mother nodded in agreement, but inside you could tell she was boiling of frustration.
Ashley smiled, and hugged her mother and father.
"You won't regret this!" She then ran up to her room.
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That night,
Ashley was in her room, finishing up a report on her laptop. Her mother came in to her room.
"Ashley, I need you to put on some thing nice for dinner"
"Why?"
"Remember Kyle? The boy from two years ago, he came to your aunt Mary's house? Where you, Kyle, and Monica hung out a lot? Well; he's coming to dinner tonight." Her mother explained.
Ashley froze, and her eyes bugged out.
"I'm going to Mickie's for dinner." Ashley responded.
"Oh no your not. Your father and I gave you a break earlier, this dinner is the least you can do. I thought you and this boy got along finely." Her mother stated.
Before Ashley could argue, her mother had already left the room.
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Ashley walked down the stairs wearing jeans, and a maroon dress-up t-shirt.
She saw that Kyle had already arrived.
She sucked in a deep breath, and then let it out before entering the dining room.
"Ashley! Come sit at the head of the table" Her mother called out with a smile on her face
Kyle was on the other head of the table.
"So Kyle, how is your last year of college?" Mrs. Massaro asked.
"It's amazing. I'm doing very well in classes. I have mostly A's. I learned to concentrate on school from Ashley. While we were at her Aunt's, she told me about how her school was amazing. And I guess it inspired me." He smirked at Ashley.
Ashley rolled her eyes, and looked down at her lap.
Every thing he just said was a lie, she never told him any thing about her school.
He was trying to interrogate her.
"Wow, finally some one gets Ashley to say some thing nice about school!" Her mother joked.
Every one laughed, besides Ashley.
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They finished they're dinner.
"I'm gonna head out now. Thank you so much for the wonderfully delicious dinners. It mean a lot to me." Kyle 'complimented' the family.
He was quite a show, he knew how to act, and how to have every one fooled. But Ashley wasn't buying it.
"Here, Kyle, let me walk you out." She and Kyle arrived outside.
"What's up?" He asked, acting as if every thing was okay.
"Why are you here?! Why are trying to harass me!"
"That's where your wrong, your family called me up, and asked me to come over. You were just icing on the cake." He stated with a smirk.
"Why are you back?! Huh?! Why? Why did you decide my life needed you back in it!?" She yelled.
"Aunt Mary called me and accused me of some thing I didn't do!"
"You raped Monica, and you tried to rape me! How could she wrongly accuse you!"
"She accused me of raping you. She said she'll talk to you, once I denied it. I decided I'd come down here, and make sure you keep your pretty little mouth shut!" He yelled at her.
He then stormed to his car.
Ashley began breathing harder and harder, and she felt like her throat was closing.
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Ashley arrived at school, and was forced to apologize to all the teacher's about missing they're classes yesterday.
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Last Period,
History.
"Listen up class. I will be assigning partners for a project that is due, on next Friday! When I call your name, and your partners name, I will tell you which of the three topics you will receive. If your paired with some one you don't like, don't groan and moan, then beg for me to change your partner, it won't work." She then continued "There are three topics on the board, each of them is numbered one two or three. If I say one, then you have number one topic, if I say two; you have number two topic. This isn't NASA, it shouldn't be difficult to understand!"
Ashley looked at John.
"Hope it's me and you" She whispered to him, he nodded and smiled.
"Mickie- Ashley." The teacher told them "Assignment One"
"Yes!" Mickie and Ashley said in unison.
"Randy- John; Assignment Three"
"Yeah man!" Randy and John then high-fived.
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Mickie went over to Ashley's after school to work on the project.
They had a big poster board, and Mickie was on the Internet printing pictures, and important facts.
While Ashley wrote the report on her laptop.
"Do you have glue? I need to paste a picture of the army on the poster-board?" Mickie asked.
"Yeah, it's in my backpack, in the front room."
"Alright; I'll go get it. I'll be back in a minute" Mickie got up, and went downstairs to the living room.
She was going through Ashley's backpack, trying to find her glue, when she came upon a crumbled up piece of paper.
Mickie read through the note, and her eyes widened and her jaw dropped once she read the sentences: "Or maybe .. they're cousin, Monica, was raped by Kyle, the sickest guy alive. And maybe that Kyle person tried to rape me too. But luckily I got out before he did"
Mickie rushed up the stairs as fast as she could, with the note in her hand.
Once she reached upstairs-
"What is this?!" Mickie yelled to Ashley.
Ashley looked up from her laptop, and noticed it was the note she had written in Algebra class.
She knew that Mickie now knew what had happened between Monica, Kyle, and her.
Ashley wasn't ready to admit what had happened, so she ignored it.
"Don't know, doesn't look familiar to me .." She lied
"Ashley! Seriously, what the hell is this?!" Mickie repeated.
Ashley remained silent as she typed the report.
"Ashley!" Mickie screamed.
She then unplugged the plug that was charging Ashley's, almost dead, laptop.
The laptop instantly died, because of low battery.
"Mickie!" Ashley yelled, she stood up and became face-to-face with Mickie. "That was our two page report! The same report that I didn't save!"
"Ashley! Why did you write this stuff about Kyle! Is it true?!" She yelled.
"No it's not freakin' true!" Ashley lied.
"Ashley!"
"Fine!" She then began crying hysterically. "It is real! Okay? Happy." Ashley then fell to the ground crying.
Mickie sat down and hugged her friend tightly.
"It's not your fault. Honey, you didn't do anything. It's okay." Mickie comforted her.