Forgetting Us

Flashback 2

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Walking out of the house and locking the door behind me, I felt like I was back to my high school years. I turned around and saw that everything was exactly the same as it was back then. The Sycamore tree at the end of road showing sparkles of sunlight through its leaves. The crack off the sidewalk opposite from our house. The overgrown hedges on the garden of the house next to ours.

My feet seemed to have a mind of its own and I started walking down the street, the road that I used to walk down every day. Until the day I met him.

I pushed my way through the crowd carefully, trying not to spill the drink I was holding onto the expensive floor. How on earth did Regina Brian managed to convince her parents to let her have crazy teenage parties in her house is beyond me.

Oh well, I really shouldn't complain. I got invited to the largest back to school party for the first time in my four years of high school. I had never been particularly friendly with the popular group in my school, so I was pleasantly surprised to be invited this year, along with my best friend Hilary; Who was busily flirting with some guy over the other side.

Typical of Hilary to forget all about me when there are hot guys around to flirt with. I hovered around, wasn't sure of what to do. Finally  I decided it's safest to just stand in a corner and sip my coke slowly.

“Hey, aren't you the girl in the school paper team?” a deep, muscular voice asked, his voice standing out from the noises from the party.

“Um yeah.” I said, looking up from my toes to whoever talked to me, and almost had an heart attack.

Leo Hartmann was talking to me.

My mind went completely blank for the next few seconds. Leo Hartmann was talking to me. He knows who I am. Not my name, granted, but he knows who I am. Normally I am pretty sane, but this isn't a normal circumstances, something was wrong with the universe.

“So, it’s Amelia, right?” He asked, sounding a little uncertain

“Close enough; it's Ashley.” I said, my nervousness dissipated a little as I couldn't help but smile brightly at him. His face coloured slightly when I corrected him and he looked embarrassed. My brain was screaming at me about how cute he is. I couldn't believe this myself.  Leo Hartmann blushed because he couldn't remember my name! Hilary was never going to belie this.

“I thought so.” he said, scratching his head and looking extremely adorable. We made small chat for a while and I couldn't help but marvel at how down to earth he is. Being a part time model and actor, hottest and most popular guy in our school, you will expect this guy to be extremely snotty; but no. He was here, talking to me, of all people, in a party full of much more interesting girls.

“So what are you doing here alone?” Leo asked, I felt my face heat up. I was going to sound like a total dork for this.

“I came with my friend Hilary, but she is, erm, preoccupied over there”' I said, and unnecessarily pointed at Hilary, who just happened to be in a corner extremely close to the guy she was flirting with. God I need to stop doing inappropriate stuff. This was so embarrassing.

“What about your boyfriend?” Leo asked, taking a swig from the beer bottle he was holding and actually looked around the house as if looking for my non-existence boyfriend.