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Chapter 7: Freak The Freak Out
Ashley lay on her bed, wide awake, and it's 2 am in the morning. She got home about an hour ago, and she simply couldn't fall asleep. She had changed into her boy shorts and wife beater and flopped her tired body on her comfortable bed. She had a few more hours to herself, before Aurora was due to be back home at about 9 later in the morning. A million thoughts was running through her head, she had no answers to questions she was asking herself, and she most definitely couldn't put those million thoughts on pause. Ashley let out a defeated sigh.
"Two 'o clock and I wish that I was sleeping
You're in my head like a song on the radio
All I know is that I got to get next to you
Yeah I got to get next to you
Sitting here turning minutes into hours
To find the nerve just to call you on the telephone
You don't know that I got to get next to you"
-Ashley's POV-
I cover my face with the palms of my hands and let out a frustrated groan. I had the best night of my life, dancing with a gorgeous stranger. A gorgeous stranger whose name was Spencer. I saw her from the top of the spiral staircase when she was intently looking at Carlson and I was mesmerized. In that sea of people, she stood out, it was only her that I actually saw.
-flashback at the masquerade-
When I got to the foot of the stairs, I was trying so hard to look for that blonde beauty. And just like magic, we found each other in that sea of people. Like there was a magnetic force that helped us locate each other. In-built GPS maybe? Oh gosh, she was breathtaking up close. The dress did wonders to show off her body, her complexion was perfect and her golden blonde hair framed her face perfectly. She wore a half mask that was a metallic green color, with a few pearls on the side and then came to the most enthralling feature of hers. Her blue eyes, those never ending waves of blue, just blew me away. I was a goner just looking into those eyes. A part of me was thankful that she looked almost just as blown away as I was, almost.
My favorite song started to play, So Close by Jon Mclaughlin, and so I took the opportunity to dance with this gorgeous stranger. The lights were dim, I framed us up, and the atmosphere felt perfect. In that moment, it felt like nothing mattered, except for that dance between the two of us. Two strangers hidden behind a mask, both literal and metaphorical, yet so at ease with each other. The dance was so intimate for me and we fit together perfectly. There was absolutely nothing in my head except for the fact that, this stranger made me feel things I've never felt before. Made me think things and say things I have never said before.
"I don't know who you are, but you are absolutely gorgeous..." I told her in the middle of the dance. See, things i've never thought of or said before! And I sang to her, I sang! I have never sung to anyone but Kyla and Aurora. Not even my parents! It's not that I sound horrible, I think, I hope? My sister told me I sound amazing and I believe her.
"Ashley, Ashley Davies..." I said again, telling her my name.
Then I heard the most angelic voice, "Spencer, Spencer Carlin..." She talked! She spoke! Even that was enough to make me melt.
It was the perfect moment, the perfect ambience, we were oblivious to everyone else in the room, it was just us. So I did something, I did something absolutely incomprehensible to even myself, I leaned in and kissed the beautiful stranger i've come to know as Spencer Carlin. And she kissed me back ever so softly! And I was in heaven, literally! Then I had a mental freak out, was I too forward! Oh god! I barely know the girl! So I pulled away gently, not wanting to show that I was freaking out, but also more because I didn't want to make her think I regretted it, that amazing kiss. That amazing kiss that made me see fireworks, that made me feel like a little girl who just got a huge dose of chocolate, that made me feel like like... WOW. I was that speechless. I saw a little hesitation, and shyness in those blue eyes. So I guided her out of the makeshift ballroom to the garden at the premises. Oh yeah, Carlson is like a millionaire or something, not her parents, Carlson herself! A huge feat for a 27 year old really!
So anyway, I led her out to the garden and we sat at a bence by one of the rose bushes. So I plucked a rose, and of course I pricked myself on a thorn, and of course it stung like a bitch. But I felt like a pre-schooler who was shy and trying to charm a very very beautiful teacher. Spencer didn't try to comfort me at my mini failure to obtain the single rose, instead she smiled and simply said, "I don't really like roses anyway, I prefer lilies. They have character..."
My heart swelled at those words. This girl knew how to protect my ego by admitting my mistake but being able to brush it off. And she wasn't even trying, I could tell by the sheer sincerity and honesty in her voice and her blue eyes. She was simply being herself. I was wondering what she meant though, by the fact that lilies had character. It seemed that she could read my mind, since she said, "You know how there are different meanings behind every flower?" I nod my head lightly. "Well yeah, lilies mean I dare you to love me..." She finishes with conviction.
I dare, I think hard in my head.
"What was that?" She asked, blue eyes questioning. Oh crap did I say that out loud? "I'm sorry..." I start. She looks at me with disappointment, and I quickly add,"No no, I am not sorry about kissing you, well I am because it might have been too forward, but i'm also not because it was amazing, but oh gosh, you probably think i'm a kissing whore, but i'm not really i'm not... i'm, god... I'm.. ugh..." I end of frustrated.
"You have a way with words..." She teases and all I did was smile. "I get it, it just felt right, I felt it too. But it doesn't mean that it's okay to kiss right now. I think we should get to know each other in the more traditional way..." I nod my head eagerly, a little too eagerly making her giggle. So we exchanged numbers and made plans to meet the next weekend. We kept our masks on throughout the night to maintain the novelty of mystery, and promised to contact each other. She left slightly before the clock struck 12. That sounded almost cliche...
-end flashback-
I let out another frustrated sigh. It all feels so right, but right now, it feels like it's happening at the wrong time. Just what do I do in this Spencer situation!
"Oh god Kyla, if only you were here, you'd know what to do. You'd probably be kicking my ass for freaking out..." I laugh softly to myself remembering my little sister. After that lapse, I find myself back to being frustrated and at a loss, and I started rolling on my bed into my blanket and wrapped myself up in a cocoon. That was when I felt a light poking at my side and I heard Carlson's voice.
It was easy getting in this self made cocoon, but how the hell do I get out? I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I roll and roll and roll and roll, I don't even know if i'm rolling the right way! Just another thing to get frustrated over. After like a year of rolling I was starting to see the light, the light!
"Umpf!" I groan out as I fall butt first on the floor beside my bed, hair messed up from the rolling and my wife beater creased. I must have been one heck of a sight since Carlson was laughing uncontrollably. Pfft. I'd like to try and see her escape a cocoon looking perfect. Bitch. I sat on the floor doing only one thing I could do at that time, I pout.
"Oh come on Ash, you got to admit that was hi-la-rious!" Carlson managed out in between laughter that was slowly dying out... and I was still pouting petulantly.
After the laughter died down... I suddenly felt a heavy tension in the room. So thick that it was slightly unnerving. I don't think i'm gonna like this.
"I saw that kiss Ash, almost everyone did. We need to talk..." Carlson said solemnly, almost guilty...
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