Ceceilia's POV

"The usual." I told Ash. I just got out of school and was sitting in Ash's car, in the Dunkin' Donut's parking lot while he was making a coffee run. I started out the window and ran my fingers through my straightend hair. I wonder why Andy wasn't in school today. I hope he's okay. I rubbed my cheek gently and slowly where Andy had kissed it. I've been thinking about him and him only, all last night and all today. I really wanted to see him in school. Ash got back into the car and grinned. "One iced latte for Ce." I thanked him and took it from him. I stared down at it as I took a sip. "Whats wrong Ceceilia?" I stared up into his eyes. I knew that Ash liked me.

How am I gonna tell him that I'm in love with someone else when Ash really likes me.

"I've just got something on my mind." I mumbled, avoiding eye contact. "Oh yeah," he leaned in closer to me and smiled, "What did you want to tell me?" Ash was cute and I did love him, but more as a brother, not like that.

I'm just gonna be straight out and tell him.

"Uhm.." I started, "You know how I told you that I spent the night at this guy's house?"

"Oh yeah, I'm sorry but that was damn stupid,Ce, I'm gonna find that guy and rearange his-"

"It was Andy."

"What?"

I broke my gaze from him and ran my fingers around the coffee cup's edge.

"What did he do to you?" Ash was very serious. His face was red and he was pissed off.

"Oh, no Ash nothing like that I swear!"

"Ceceilia!"

"I didn't sleep with him or anything! I didn't even fucking kiss him and he didn't fucking kiss me. Well..he kissed me on the cheek, but we did nothing sexual!"

I started to cry a little and I noticed that Ash calmed down with relief. Just a little bit. He took my hands and looked into my eyes, just as Andy did, and said seriously,"Tell me everything. Now."

And so I did. I told him everything from when Andy and Chance woke me up in the woods to being dropped off yesterday morning. I told him our whole conversation over texts and even Andy's secret and what he pledged to me Sunday morning. I only left out one small detail.

That I was in love with him.

Ash got all furious again and got out of the car. He paced back and forth with his hands on his head and I got out of the car too. "Ashley," I ran toward him, "Ashley im sor-"

He punched his fist through the driver's-seat side window and yelled "SHIT!". There was glass on the floor around him now and his hand was bleeding like crazy. People were staring at us, too. But I was more worried about his hand then the other people. Ash now had his fists and his head leaning on the back door of his car. I took my scarf off and attempted to wrap it around his hand, I could barely see through my tears. When I finally got it tied, he opened his eyes and faced me.

"I'm gonna fucking kill him. I'm gonna kill him for what he did to you."

"You are not going to touch him!"

"WHY NOT, CECEILIA? GIVE ME ONE GODDAMN GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULDN'T KILL HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO YOU?"

"BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE WITH HIM, ASHLEY!"

As soon as I shouted that I regretted it. I was crying madly now.

"Wh-what?"

"I said," I sniffed, "That I am in love with Andy."

He grabbed my shoulders and stared me in the eye. "You know that I love you, Ceceilia, Not like a brother. Not like a friend. I love you like a lover. And you know it. I never had to say it, I knew that you knew. I loved the way we were, how our brotherly-sisterly relationship was. I can't see you love another guy. How could you do this to me?" He was right. I knew that he loved me. I didn't want to accept it, though.

"Ashley. You're right, I know that you love me like that. And I love how our relationship right now is. And I know as much as you knew that I knew how you felt about me, I know that you know how I feel about you. I love you. Not like a lover, but like a bestfriend and a brother. I have a life to live, I'm gonna be dating other people. Andy doesn't like me that anyway. I told you about The Pledge to Friendship, didn't I?" Ash stared into my eyes. He was in shock. He was crying, too.

He let go of my shoulders, turned around and punched his car again. This time he screamed "FUCK" and left a big-ass dent. I couldn't stop crying. I had nothing else to say.

So I turned around and ran.

And ran. But this time, I did care where I was going. I had a certain place in mind.

I arrived at Andy's house and stared at the door. I'm gonna have to tell him why Ash wants to hurt him. I gotta tell him that I love him to protect him. I didn't want to. It was too soon. I wanted us to have this amazing friendship for just a little while longer. He's probably going to reject me anyway. I think I'm okay with that. If I don't tell him, he's not gonna understand why Ash is coming after him. It's better that I tell him than having Ash tell him.

I knocked on the door and almost immediatly Andy's mom answered. "M-mrs. Biersack, I need to see An-" "Oh, Ceceilia! I'm so glad you're here! You could certainly cheer Andy up! He asked me to have the day off from school to think about things. He had been laying up in his bed all day untill about ten minuets ago. He's in his garden, why don't you go talk to him?" "G-garden?" "Oh, he didn't tell you about his garden? It's beautiful! It means alot to him, well, why don't you just go take a look? You can use the side gate over there." She pointed in the direction of the gate and I thanked her.

I opened the gate and took deep breaths. I was exhausted from running here, makeup was running down my face and I was still wearing his hoodie. I can't believe I have to tell him like this. I walked further in to their backyard and hid myself at the back corner of the house. I moved my head a little and I could see Andy. He was wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants, his hair was messed up and he had a pair of small sewing scissors balancing on his ear. He was watering plants and seemed deep in thought.

I walked toward him. "A-Andy?" I stuttered. He turned around and grinned at me. He can't be that happy to see me...

I loveee this sorry. Is it bad for me to fall in love with my own story? WEll anyway, yous are all lucky.! lets count: chapters 3&4 were given to yous yesterday, and im putting up 5-8 . Cause I promised myself that I'll update on the weekends, then I remembered that everyother weekend im at my computer-less dad's house. You should have enough chapters to keep yous happy :P

~JulieSix