Disclaimer: I don't own SON… but I would trade my lunch for Spashley… guess that's no happening, right? Well, anyways I much rather not to starve!!
Chapter 3. Shiny armor.
I'm sitting in my bed, staring at the present she had brought for me. I don't even want to unwrapped it because the wrapping looks way too pretty, but after finally convincing myself that is's stupid to not open it I start taking the ribbon it has and slowly torn the paper. I start to wonder what book she might bought me cause it looks like one, but when I finally take of all the covering paper I can't help but to let my eyes shed a couple of tears. "Oh! Ash!" I silently whisper while shifting my eyes to the front of my bed where she was standing, carefully expecting my reaction at her heart warming present.
"So I'll take that you like it, right?"She responds to me, wearing the smile that makes me melt every time. "How can I not like it? It's the most amazing gift someone has ever given m… in fact you're the only one who always gives me the perfect present each and every one of my birthdays…"I quietly say to her, her eyes never living mine.
I look down at the photo album I still hold between my hands. It's not a regular album you buy and just fill it whit pictures; no. it's a home made album, I can tell because all the pages are black and they seem to be cardboard and also by all the notes written with white pen below every picture as if telling a story in every picture. I can see pictures of me from when I was six, seven, eight, nine ten years and so it goes. Pictures of me, her, Aiden and my family, but in almost every photo there's she. She has been there with me through all my life; she has been the biggest part of my life so it really isn't strange that she appears in almost all of the pictures. In fact is very weird to see us one without the other, we are a package deal that's for sure, and it seems everyone is aware of that.
"Today is our first day of kinder garden and despite all the crying and fight we put out to our mothers to not let us in here… well they did it anyway. So now we're here completely terrified of the big and fat kid who is picking at his nose and even more terrified of the mean looking lady who told us to be good and that she would be the one who took care of us after our mommies left… I don't know why but I don't trust her and I can tell Ashley doesn't either by the way she's holding my hand tighter. As the mean looking lady tells us to find a spot in the classroom to take the nap Ashley takes me by the hand and leads me to a good and comfy corner wich I like pretty much except for a little detail, the only bad thing in that location is the boy near there. Yeah, the kid who has been sending kisses to Ashley with his hand and winking his eyes to her… even at our tender age and she already had pretenders and I can already feel how I don't like him… I think he's ugly and stupid and…and… I don't know why but I kind of feel I hate him… besides he's all dirty and just ewww!! He shouldn't be sending kisses with his dity hands, EW! I decided to call him ew-boy.
We're about to lay down when the ew-boy comes walking in a very slow pace and his eyes shine with something that makes him look dumb… not as if I thought he was smart anyways.
Muah!
Oh NOO!! He just put his sloppy, ugly and stupid lips on Ashley cheek and I'm feeling dizzy.''You wanna merry me when we grow up?''The ew-boy asks her expectantly and ugh, now I think I might piuck the Pb&J sandwich and the apple I ate earlier in our snack hour. ''No'' the word forms in her lips loud and clear and I start gaining some composure back. ''But why not? '' he looks at her as if she just had crushed his little and pathetic heart along with his biggest dream ever, and in some way I think she really did both. ''because when I'm big I'm gonna marry Spenchy'' she then turns around with a graceful smile on her face, nose wrinkling ''would you marry me when we are big?'' the smile doesn't take a second to form in my lips when I shout a loud YES full of confidence to her, because I know that if I live with Ashley for the rest of my life nothing will ever scare me, because I'm so positive that she will fight against the bogeyman and the monsters under my bed and the ones hidden inside the closet and the rest of ugly things out there. She makes me feel so secure and protected, that's why I want to keep her with me, if not then who's gonna keep the monsters away??!!''
With this positive thought in my 6 year old mind I go and lay down on the floor next to Ashley, next to the little girl in shiny armor.
''hey, Spence''
''hu?''
''you really have to stop spacing out on me…''
''oh yeah! I'm sorry, just walking down memory lane'' I quietly confess to her, hoping she doesn't figure out what I was really thinking. ''don't worry. Sooo… I remember that day'' she returns just as quietly as my confession ''what day?'' I play dumb… not knowing even why I'm doing it. ''first day of kinder garden with ew-boy and that old lady who looked ready to feed us until we were fat enough for her to eat us'' I can't help to laugh at that comment cause really that was exactly what I thought of that so bad called teacher. When I stop laughing my ass out she continues '' you know? I was really scared that day, but you were there so it was easier… and the sandbox was so cool that I just couldn't feel scared anymore'' she slightly jokes. '' wait… are you seriously saying the sandbox was cooler than me?'' I ask now playing my roll of offended. She mockingly smiles at me and her eyes open wide ''how could you not know the answer? Of course the sandbox was and STILL is way cooler than you!''.
She so likes to mess with me. ''ha ha ha, such a funny girl you are'' I say sarcastically. ''c'mon now Spenchy… don't be like that!'' she gets closer to me and her chocolate eyes find mine and that's definetly not helping my breathing, in fact I think I just stopped breathing and I'm aware of my heart beating faster and harder, I just hope she doesn't get to hear its frantic and erratic beating.
And then, somehow in a moment I didn't catch, her face is against mine, cheek against each other cheek and her hot breath is on my ear and I still can't breathe and I can't think and I can't speak, all I can possibly do is let myself loose in the moment. ''you know you always make me feel better… even if I feel like jumping off of a bridge or hang myself you always make me feel protected and happy'' she so deliciously whispers right into my ear ''cause you Spenchy, you are my saving grace'' I shiver at every single word she's delivering me. And I just think is a little ironic how not even five minutes ago I was thinking of her in a white horse and shiny armor.
We stay up late watching the photos untill tirednees wins us and we go to bed, she sleeping peacefully and me still hearing those warm words echo on my mind.