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AN: A second update. I don't know if my first update eas emailed, because I didn't get one. So hopefully this one will work.
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Chapter 4
"Okay everybody pick a partner," Ms. Riley our sixth grade teacher said. The class was frantic as they looked around trying to make sure they could find a friend to be partnered with. I felt someone quickly grab my hand and the squeezed it. I turned to the right and smiled at Ashley.
I don't know why I was scared about finding a partner; I always end up working with her anyway. I'm just glad we're in the same class; I don't know what I'd do without her. I'd probably end up working with Chris, the dorky kid in glasses and braces who always stared at Madison. She claimed it was because he had a fetish with her Latina butt. I didn't even know what the word fetish meant. But I agreed because he was weirdly smart and always made everyone feel bad because he knew all the answers, every single time.
Ashley beamed back at me, her nose crinkling grin and I couldn't help but chuckle at the cuteness of her expression. I felt the tug in my chest that I always felt when I thought about spending time with Ash. I had noticed it had been happening a lot more recently but I didn't question it, because I'm sure she felt the same way.
We set up our desks facing opposite one another so we could work together and draw up our poster about the rising and falling action of the book we had just finished, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
"So I guess the rising action starts when she goes into the wardrobe for the first time right?" I asked trying to be a studious student and starting the work. The thing is I knew that every time I partnered with Ashley we would end up completely off topic and end up talking about something random and only pretend to work when Ms. Riley made her rounds.
"Yeah, and then her brother, Edmund comes and meets the witch," Ashley said contributing. She glanced around the room looking to see if Ms. Riley was occupied before turning her attention back to me, "You're still coming over tonight right? Maddie is coming around six so we can hang right after school until she comes," Ashley said. It was a ritual for us that every Friday we would hang after school. Sometimes we invited Madison, Stacey or Carmen but usually it was just us watching movies and goofing off.
"Of course, but I get to pick the movie this time because I will not watch another scary movie," I said thinking of our last sleepover when I couldn't sleep for at least two hours until Ashley came and slept next to me on the floor. I used to have to do the same thing when Glen watched a scary movie and I was in the room, I always ended up going into his room and sleeping next to him just to be safe.
"Fine," she huffed, "I won't make you watch anything scary." She stuck her tongue out at me and I giggled and returned the gesture.
"But if I did, I wouldn't let anything happen to my best friend," she said seriously as she grabbed my hand.
I looked up and made eye contact with her and felt something shift. She wasn't joking, I knew when Ashley was being dead serious and it wasn't that often, but right now as her eyes searched mine I knew she would never let anything happen to me. Then just like that it was over, "Ok so what do you want to watch?" she asked. I thought about it then grinned. Ashley looked like she wanted to take back her offer of letting me choose the movie.
"The Sound of Music," I said. It was my favorite musical ever and I usually made Ashley watch it at least once a month.
"Spence, we watched it like two weeks ago," she said whining but I knew she would give in because she secretly liked watching it as much as I did, "And you know Kyla's gonna complain," she added. It's true, the only movies Kyla, Ashley's sister, liked were high school romances. Or Disney. She loved theater but would rather not watch musicals. Go figure.
Aiden Dennison walked up to us and waved, "Hey Spencer, Ash," he said in acknowledgement grinning widely at Ashley. Aiden was friends with my brother Glen, they played on the same basketball team on the weekends and Ashley and I usually ended up going to the games together.
"Can I borrow your black marker?" he asked looking at Ash.
"Sure," she said handing him the marker. He grinned and stood there a moment longer before walking off. Ashley didn't look back at me right away and instead picked up another marker and attempted to draw the poster.
"He likes you," I said grinning emphasizing the word 'likes', and she shook her head. I grinned and she rolled her eyes.
"Girls, are you working?" Ms. Riley said coming over noticing our poster that wasn't even half done.
"Of course," Ashley said, and Ms. Riley nodded and walked off. We made eye contact again and burst into a fit of giggles.