Chapter 2:
I'm Sorry for Everything I've done
Asher looked like he had just seen a ghost. He thought he wouldn't see this girl ever again, but there she stood in the flesh, just as he had remembered her. The innocent smile, the rebellious tattoos, her unruly curls. He rolled down his window, his eyes still bloodshot from crying.
"Echo...? Wha-What are you doing here?" Asher stammered out finally. The girl leaned down to the open window.
"I...I just heard." She said before Asher opened up the door and stepped outside and grabbed her. He pulled her close and wrapped his arms around her waist. He began to cry into her shoulder and finally she embraced him. "Shh, It's okay Ash. I'm here." She said as he sobbed. She ran her fingers through his hair and shushed him.
"He's gone. I can't believe this. Mom is blaming me. She threw me out. I don't know what to do." He cried. He could smell her perfume. She still smelled of the same scent when she was around. When she was still his. He looked up at her and without thinking about Bonnie or anything else, he placed his lips on hers like the time hadn't gone by at all.
3 years earlier...
"Welcome to my house. My parents are your typical white bread american suburbanites. Welcome to my hell." Chloe Millstone turned and said to her curly haired companion. They were freshmen at USC and were visiting The Millstone's for Thanksgiving. All of a sudden there was a loud thud and you an angry teenager coming through the door.
"Fuck you guys, I'm the most adult teenager out of all of us!" The boy screamed slamming the door. Chloe smiled big and laughed.
"And this is my nerdy little brother Asher. Ash you ass! Come here and give your older sister some love you preppy bastard!" Chloe walked up to the boy and hugged him before handing him a blunt. "That's primo shit from Cali. Medical grade. Oh this is my friend Echo, she and I are in the same liberal arts class. Her family grow this shit and they are righteous. I'm going to fuck with mom and dad and say she's my girlfriend and I'm a lesbian. I can't wait to see mom's face." Chloe laughed loudly motioning to Echo to join her. Echo walked up to join Chloe and Asher.
"It's really nice to meet you. Chloe has told me so much about you." Echo smiled sweetly beneath her mess of curls. She was wearing a pair of skinny jeans and a crop top. Her body was covered in different tattoos. She was wearing a pair of knee high flat boots with fringe. Asher smiled back and shook her hand. She was one of the prettiest girls he had ever met and of course he would never tell her. She was his sister's friend. His sister would kill him for even thinking it.
"You as well. Thanks for the present." Asher gave a boyish smile before running upstairs to put his things up from school and laying down on his bed. The only thing he could think of Echo.
Present time...
Echo Roberts was shocked at what was happening. Asher was kissing her. She didn't know what to do; the last time she had seen him, she was telling him that she was dropping out of school to join a band and he was telling her that something had happened at Trotter Lake. She was confused and hurt.
Echo returned the kiss to Asher and when Echo broke the kiss it looked like Asher was in a trance.
"Ash...you're just upset about your dad. I know you don't want this." She spoke up finally. Asher looked at Echo and shook his head. When she had broken up with him after the incident at Trotter Lake, Asher had really felt what heartbreak was. She was his first love and he didn't think he'd ever see her again after that and now she was right in front of him, his Echo, his everything, and she was here to console him.
"Echo you came back. You left and I never thought you'd come back. That's gotta count for something right?" He said in a hopeful voice. Echo shook her head and sighed.
"No Ash, it's not like that; well it is like that but not like how you're thinking. I came to make sure you were okay since I had heard about your dad." Echo said before backing up a little. If she kept close to Asher it'd only be a matter of time before she wound up back in his arms and in his bed.
Asher tensed up and shook his head. He was an idiot. Of course she hadn't come back for him, but at least she had come. He got back into his car and started it up.
"Of course, sorry I disappointed you." He said speeding off. He was now on a mission. To get to the bottom of everything that had to do with his father's death.
