Ok, I'm sorry if this chapter is boring (some of you know this story already) and this chapter is totally true. It's all a true story except for when John calls, and M's and Ash living together...And most of it is just told, not a whole whack of talking. Once again: SORRY IF IT BORES YOU!
Chapter 5: Life Officially SUCKS!
Ashleigh and Mercedes had been living together for week now, and everything was running smoothly, until now.
Ashleigh and her friend Sienna were going to the beach for the weekend because it was Sienna's last weekend before she had to go back to Mexico. They didn't quite know what they were going to do yet out there; party, or go to a social. So when they got to the beach and unpacked everything in the camper, they decided to walk over to Jase's camper to find Mercedes. Jase was a year older than all three girls, was M's ex-boyfriend, and very good friend as of the moment. (A/N: important info right there in italics!) Ashleigh secretly liked him a little bit, but no one knew. So as I was saying…
Ashleigh and Sienna were walking along to Jase's camper to ask Mercedes something. But along the way, they bumped into Jase, with a drink in his hand.
"Hey guys! I never even seen you behind me! Come on, don't be shy! You can walk with me, you know!"
"Sorry." Ashleigh and Sienna answered.
"So where are you guys going? My lot?"
"Ya," Ashleigh replied.
"We have to talk to Mercedes about tonight." Sienna piped up.
"Aren't you guys coming to the social?"
"Well…that's the thing," Sienna explained with her thick Mexican accent. "All my friends from out here want to have a party instead of going to the social."
"Si Si, it's your party, not there's. You do whatever you want, screw them if you make the decision they don't want." Jase advised.
"Ya Sienna, he's right."
By this time, they had arrived at his camper and found Mercedes and began to explain the whole thing over again. She said the same thing as Jase. So Ashleigh and Sienna went back to their camper to change, and do their hair and makeup to go to the social. When they were finished, they hopped into Ashleigh's Tiburon and sped off to the social.
Just as they entered the parking lot, Sienna's friends saw them and pulled up beside them.
"Why the fuck are you here? I thought we were partying at the beach."
"Ya, but we changed our minds. We're partying here - at the social."
"But we're not dressed for a social. Plus we don't have money to get in." The friends replied.
"I have money, I'll pay for you all to get in. Just quit your whining and get your asses in there!" One of the friends said.
They walked in and immediately, the friends that didn't want to be there took off in the other direction. But they didn't care, and just continued in the same direction as they had planned. Jase walked up to them and said "You made it!" While being immediately dragged away by M's. Neither of them knew what that was all about, but they just thought 'whatever'.
All night, Jase bought Ashleigh bottomless drinks. No, seriously. They never seemed to end! Everytime she finished, Jase gave her his drink. He also asked her to dance with him every two seconds, whether it was a slow song or a hot beat, he'd ask.
At one point, she told him she loved him and all but she couldn't dance the best and she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of a whole bunch of people she didn't know. He just simply replied "I love you too, Ashleigh!" But thankfully, her cell rang, so she had a reason to get out of the building so she could talk to the person on the phone.
"Hey cutie."
"Hiya Johnny."
"So what's up, sweets?" John asked.
"Not much, at a social, and thank god you called at the right time."
"Oh?" he asked.
"Ya, my friend Jase is being a little bit of a pain in the ass that's all. He's just pissing all of us off, but whatever we'll deal I guess."
"Ok. Well if he does something really bad, just kick his ass." he laughed.
"Ok, will do. I'll talk to ya later."
"You know it." John hung up. And Ashleigh walked back inside feeling a little better now that John had called to check up on her.
A little while later, a guy was trying to get with M's, but she didn't like him and wanted him to go away. So when he pushed up a chair between Ash and M's, Jase quickly whipped around the table and sat there. The other guy got mad and walked away, finally taking the hint.
Around 11:30, Sienna was a little drunk. Ok, so a little was an understatement. Try a lot. So anyways, she got a hold of Ashleigh's camera.
"It's cool when drunk people take your camera and take pictures." she said.
"Um, but I'm kinda out of it too. Besides, your gonna break it, I know you."
"No, no I won't." she said.
"Whatever."
Sienna pointed the camera at Ashleigh and she made a sweet and innocent face, and then the next pose she covered her face to signal to take pictures of other people. Jase saw this and wrapped his arms around Ashleigh. They took a cute picture before Si Si said "that's it! Work it for the camera!" and they started taking millions of funny pictures.
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Jase kissed her cheek.
"Jase, what are you doing?" Ashleigh whispered in his ear.
"Why are being such a tease?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Well," Jase started. "You flirt with me all night, your sweet, lookin' hot, and not to mention your so close to me that when you whisper in my ear, I can feel your warm breath on my skin…"
Ash giggled and blushed, and then looked away. So he decided to start softly caressing her leg. And she, of course, was wearing a mid-thigh length skirt, so she told him "fuck off." He looked at her with sadness in his eyes before turning the other way. He kept doing it after a while and she decided to just let him do it and sit back and kind of ignore it, but enjoy the feeling of his skin on hers.
At around 12:00, he passed out so his sister took him to the van. Ashleigh felt kind of lonely after that because it was now just her, Sienna, and Mercedes. But Mercedes was pissed off at her and totally jealous. She wouldn't let anyone see it, but everyone there, I'm sure of it - knew it. So M's got up and found a cute guy to dance with. For the rest of the night, Mercedes and Ashleigh never talked to each other, even though M's was forced to now stay at Ash and Si Si's camper.
The next day…
Sienna, Ashleigh and Mercedes woke up around 10:00, all craving pancakes for breakfast. Too bad they never had pancake mix, though. So they looked in the fridge and found cinnamon buns, bread, and Cheese Whiz: that was breakfast! Propane toasted cinnamon buns, and toast and Cheese Whiz.
Right after they finished eating, Jase appeared with his black lab, obviously pretending to take the dog for a walk, having some sort of excuse to come see the girls.
"Oh! Look who's awake!" Ashleigh teased.
Jase just smiled at her and said "hi" to all of them.
"Too bad you ladies already ate." Getting to the point of why he was 'secretly' there. They all knew he was there for other reasons as well.
"Oh really? Why is that?" M's asked.
"Well, we made pancakes, so I came over to ask you guys if you wanted some, but I see I'm already too late."
All three girls looked at each other before saying "DAMN IT!"
Jase laughed, "I take it you all were craving pancakes for breakfast?"
"Wow, you're like psychic or something!" the tiny Mexican replied, still really hung-over from the night before.
They all cracked up at that.
A little later on, they dropped the dog off back at Jase's camp site and then they all decided to go swimming at 'the dock' (boat dock but it's fun to swim at cuz you can dive and jump off it). But before doing that, Mercedes and Sienna wanted to go kayaking, which meant that Jase and Ashleigh were going to be left alone awaiting their return.
"So…when did they do the Texas Mickey draw? Cuz I don't remember much after that." Jase asked Ashleigh, while sitting down in the sand beside her.
"Um…probably around 11, 11:30. And it's probably for the better that you don't remember."
"Oh? I don't know about that…"
"Yea…" And they sat in silence not really doing anything except sneaking a look or two every now and then at each other, until M's and Si Si got back.
Once they got back, they all got up and started walking back to Jase's camp site so that they could just all go in his truck because Ashleigh's car was still at the hall from the social the night before.
Mercedes started talking about the night before with Jase, and Ashleigh and Sienna kinda dropped back and walked behind them while they were talking.
"Jase, you were being a whore last night." M's started.
"Oh really? I'm sorry. I don't really remember much after 11, 11:30. What was I doing?"
"Ask Ash, she seems to remember it quite clearly. You don't remember what you were doing with her last night, do you?" she questioned, and ending the sentence with a glare at Ashleigh.
"Um…what the hell?" Jase was definitely confused about what M's was accusing him of doing.
"Ya, she even has pictures thanks to Sienna."
"Can I please see your camera, Ash?"
"No, Jase."
"M's just tell me what the fuck I did."
"K, you wrapped your arms around Ashleigh and then you kissed her."
Jase looked back at Ashleigh but she just looked down and he asked, "did I really do that?"
"No comment," she was still looking at the ground.
Now they all kinda had tension towards each other. But thankfully, they got to Jase's truck and all jammed into it.
When they got to the dock, the water was to say the least: FREEZING. Ah well, that's what you get when it's only the middle of June. But they all had to go in, whether it meant pushing, shoving, or pulling in, they were all going in the icy cold water. So they all just kinda sat there for a while with their feet in the water before actually taking off their sweatpants and sweatshirts. (Yep! It was THAT cold!) But still, it was too cold. Mercedes went back to sitting on the edge of the dock while the rest of them were all huddled together trying to keep warm. Of course, when someone's sitting there, you gotta push them in.
"Jase! Go push Olivia in, cuz none of us wanna be the first to jump in." Ashleigh whispered.
"Ok." And off he tip-toed over to Olivia and pushed her in.
"Jase you asshole! Oh my god, this water is freezing!" she screamed, while the other 3 laughed.
"It's not funny, guys."
"Yep, sure it's not" Ash replied sarcastically.
"K, if I got pushed in, then it's time for you guys to at least jump in."
Sienna and Ashleigh looked at each other, told Jase to take a picture of them before freezing into ice cubes and jumping into the water.
"On three." Sienna held on tightly to Ashleigh.
"1-2-3!" and neither of them jumped.
"No! It's too cold. Si Si your just gonna push me in, I know it."
"Ash, I won't I promise."
"1-2-3" and this time they actually went in.
"Holy shit! It's freezing!" they both jumped out.
"Jase, your turn." they all said.
"Is it really that cold?" he asked.
"Uh…no we were just kidding, see?" Ashleigh stated as she dove back into the water.
"It's just cold when it first hits you, then it's warm."
30 minutes later…
Ashleigh was still in the water (the only I might add), and trying to convince Jase that the water was warm.
"Jase, get your ass in here! It's actually warmer than out there, I swear." and by this time it was, because she was used to it and was swimming around to keep her body warm.
"Ya, Jase, why don't you go swim with Ashleigh?" Mercedes scolded.
Then the two had a whispered conversation that Ashleigh couldn't hear. Although by the looks of it, Sienna overheard a tad bit, because her eyes went wide and she jumped back in the water with Ashleigh.
Once Mercedes and Jase had finished their little conversation, the two girls in the water jumped out because they had had enough with the coldness of the water and the other two whispering about Ashleigh.
Sienna instantly wrapped herself in her towel and threw on her warm clothes again. Ashleigh asked Mercedes to get her towel for her so when she got out, she could have it right away. Once Mercedes saw how cold and shivery Ash was though, she grabbed Jase's towel and wrapped it around her as well.
"Thanks." she coughed out.
"Your welcome."
"Ash, what the hell? Why's she acting all nice now?" Sienna asked.
"I dunno, but I'm glad she's not being a bitch anymore!" she exclaimed.
Then they all turned their attention back to Jase. "Jase, just get your ass in the water already." they all shouted.
"But I went in last weekend, that should count."
"Ya, but Sienna never saw it, and it's her last weekend and we all promised to go swimming with her…..pleeeeeaaaaaassssse Jase?" Ashleigh asked with puppy dog face.
You could tell it was working on him, but just to make sure, M's threw his shoes in the lake.
"Ah!" and in the water Jase jumped.
"Finally!" they all laughed.
"Not funny, guys" he said after he got out of the water.
One problem: Jase's towel was now wrapped around a shivering Ashleigh. So he looked at Ash and she just smiled at him and he went to go retrieve it off her. Turns out he had to wrap his arms around her to get his towel off her.
"Thanks for the warm towel."
"No problem" she laughed.
But yet again, M's was jealous, but it wasn't like she planned it. The poor girl was shivering and her teeth were chattering. What else was there to do? Find an oven to shove her in?
So once again, they all piled back into Jase's truck and drove back to his camp site, and then he gave them a lift back to their site. After that, the 3 girls went to eat at the restaurant. And once they got back, they all huddled into one bed to try to stay warm, cuz, well, it was still quite cold outside.
About 30 minutes later, they called Jase to come get them so that they could go get Ashleigh's car and go home.
"Oh, you guys are leaving already?" Jase asked quite sadly.
"Ya…" Mercedes replied. "You got a problem with that or do you wanna just make-out with Ashleigh again?"
"M's, stop it." Ashleigh scolded.
"Well I guess I'll see you girls around, then."
"Bye" Sienna and Mercedes quickly said.
"Ya. See ya around. It's been a slice." Ash winked at him.
He laughed "ya, it has been."
"Look, do you want me to apologize or something for last night? Or, what?"
"I only want you to apologize if you take back what you did."
"Well, do you want me to take it back?"
"No" Ashleigh replied quite shyly.
"Well I don't take it back either. I'm glad we talked that out."
"Me too."
Jase started to walk back to his truck, but before he opened the door, he ran back to Ashleigh and kissed her on the lips this time. Then he ran back into his truck, waved, and took off the other way. So Ashleigh followed his lead - got in her car, and instantly Mercedes said "You're not staying at our house." So Ashleigh just turned up the tunes, and drove home with an awkward silence thanks to M's. On the outside, she was sad. But on the inside, she couldn't have been happier.
What if I wanted to fight
Beg for the rest of my life
What would you do?
You say you wanted more
What are you waiting for
I'm not running from you
KILL Break me down
Bury me, bury me
I am finished with you
Look in my eyes
You're killing me, killing me
All I wanted was you...
So was it boring? Tell me! I likes feedback lol. Song: The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars. NOTE: There will always be a song in every chapter. Yes, it does mean something, even if it doesn't QUITE make sense now, it totally will later cuz everything I do, I do it for a reason! And: Might not be a chapter to post for another 2 weeks cuz I'm gone to BC till then, but I'll update after I get back I promise!
pce, love, n bubblegum, I'm outties
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