Why was I jealous of Carol? Why was I laughing so much? Was it because it hurt to see them together, and the laughter just helped. I had laughed before on various occasions when I was hurt. Like the time me and my Aunt Jean went to New York and got lost, we had barely any money on us so our only option was to walk back to the hotel. My feet hurt so much, along the way I started laughing. Maybe I laughed to ease the pain?
But did I really feel pain towards Carol and Ashton dancing? No way! I don't know what I felt. Jealously? I saw Ashton everyday I lived right beside him, I couldn't be jealous.
Chloe came back with a bottle of cold water. She handed it to me. I could only hold it, I didn't bother to open it. I let the cold run through my body. Leaving my hand red red when I let the bottle go. Ashton came towards us, finally getting away from Carols grip.
"Are you ok?" He asked, sitting across from me.
"Of course, what makes you think I'm not?" I managed to reply.
"Well it was strange, you were laughing your ass of back there" he said, barely looking at me.
"It was funny" I said, attempting to open the water bottle.
But it was no use. Ashton took the bottle from my hand and opened it, handing it back to me.
I took a sip, letting the ice cold water run down my throat. Leaving my cheeks cold.
"So you're fine?"
"Yeah, I am" I smiled. But was I?
Carol was now slow dancing with Brock. She looked at me multiple times. Was she trying to get me mad?
Obviously she was. Maybe she thought seeing her with Brock would hurt. I mentally laughed, oh Jesus she was stupid. I tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear. In front of us a couple was making out, almost swallowing each other. Watching them made me wonder if they liked each other. And if they felt happy near she other. Or they were just drunk and desperate.
I haven't been happy with a person in a long time, not counting Ashton, Chloe, and Calum. I wanted to feel really happy with a person, and I wanted them to feel the same. But it was impossible to find someone sweet, and funny. And someone who would be there for me and I could be there for them.
'Jesus I sound desperate', I thought. I did. And it sucked.
We had been here for two hours, and there was two hours left. To be honest I thought prom would be more exciting, but all we had done was dance. I would've actually enjoyed being Prom Queen, if the king wasn't my ex boyfriend.
When we were younger, I remember hearing Chloe and her parents fight about her going to prom. They said that at the end their date would probably want them to do things. Meaning they wanna have sex. I think they have calmed themselves from that thought, unless they actually think she'd fuck Calum.
To make my night more exciting, I guess I would. But with who? Ashton?
That'd be too weird. I shuddered at the idea.
"Zoë did you even hear a word I said?" Ashton laughed waving his hand in front of my face. Pulling me out of my thoughts.
"No, sorry" I laughed, taking a sip from the water bottle.
"I said; we should go if you don't want to be here anymore. Which I'm totally fine if you want to leave"
"I actually want to stay" I said, surprising both of us. My feet ached, the room got hotter each second, and I was so hungry that I could throw up. But I wanted to see what would be the actual excitement in my night.
"We should go take our pictures, now that theres no line" Chloe suggested.
"Yeah, we just gotta find Calum" I slumped down in my seat. My eyes carefully wondered around the room looking for Calum.
"Oh my god is that him?" Chloe pointed to a guy dancing with a group of girls. I squinted, it was. We all burst out into laughter, Ashton went to grabbed him, while me and Chloe headed towards the photographer.
We took the chance to take 2 pictures before the boys came to join us.
The boys soon came back, we took like 2 group picture. One normal and one like cute and weirdish.
Then as "couples" we took one together. Just the two. When the photographer handed us the photo we laughed at them. He went back to siting and texting someone on his phone.
"They're cute" I said, walking back to our table. We all sat down.
"Yeah.." They all agreed.
"I don't know about you guys but this is really boring, they've practically been playing the same songs over and over" Calum slumped in his seat.
"Yeah it is" Chloe agreed.
"I actually expected something more amusing to happen, I don't know what, but I did" I agreed with them.
Ashton just nodded. I groaned, if we ditched the place, everything we probably be closed.
"What shall we do?" I asked, placing my hands on the table, an playing with the little plastic stars they had sprinkled over the tables.
"We could go to to" Chloe stuttered, thinking of a place, "the lake"
"Yeah we could go there." Calum nodded.
"One last dance though" Chloe said, pulling us all towards the dance floor.
We danced to the energetic songs that played. When we had began to sweat a little, we decided to leave. I took my shoes off an carried them on my hands along with my phone.
The drive to the lake was long. I would've almost fallen asleep in the car if it wasn't for Ashton blasting his music the whole ride.
The lake was hidden in the forest, making it open to anyone one any time of the day. But no one really came because they thought it was too dangerous to be out in the middle of the woods late at night. No one except, potheads and stupid drunk kids. And obviously us.
I left my shoes in the car, which was a stupid idea. But I don't think I could've taken another step with them on. The trail was made by everyone who walked to the lake. Which was very easy to follow, except at night. We tried to use the moonlight to shine down on the floor, but being covered by trees and all, only small sections were visible. Ashton used his phones flash, which had little battery left. We safely made it to the lake. I was already sweating for the long walk, and my feet were covered in dirt.
I plopped down on the floor. Ashton sat beside me. While Calum and Chloe sat a bit closer to the lake.
"Its nice being in the fresh air and all" I said to Ashton.
"Better then being in the gym" he nodded.
•ASHTON'S POV•
Her hair was messy, and her makeup was running once again. You could tell she wanted to get out of her dress, by the was she shifted uncomfortably.
When I looked over back a Chloe and Calum, they had both stripped down to their underwear, and were heading into the lake.
"What are you two doing?" Zoë shouted, also noticing.
"We're going in for a swim" Chloe laughed.
They had already made it to the water, and were both happily swimming.
"Fuck it, I'm going too" Zoë said getting up, she tugged the zipper of her dress, which sat in the middle of her back, as far as she could go.
"Let me help you" I offered, getting up. I pushed her hair away, and had the zipper reach down to where her underwear began. She easily slipped off her dress, and thanked me before running back into the water.
"Are you coming?" Calum asked me. I thought about it for a second.
I stripped down to my boxers, messily laying my cloth next to Zoë's dress. I ran into the water joining them. The water was surprisingly warm when I got in.
"Woah Ashton have you been working out?" Zoë pointed out, poking my biceps.
"Yeah a little bit" I shrugged. The moon barely shone light tonight, it surprised me Zoë actually noticed.
"We're all just so badass swimming here" Chloe laughed.
"Very" Zoë agreed, laughing along with her. Now that we were hear we didn't know what to really do. Swimming could get boring.
"Why don't we play that one game where you sit on the other persons shoulder and try and knock the other person off?" Calum suggested. We all agreed, none of us knowing what the game was called, but we knew what he was talking about.
Me and Zoë were one team, and Calum and Chloe were the other.
It took a while for either of the girls to get on our shoulders. Each of them laughing every time they fell trying to sit.
Once we were all good, me and Calum slowly and carefully made our way towards each other. Zoë's legs wrapped around me, her feet lying on my chest as I held on to her calfs. She messed with my hair as she sat.
"Ok ready girls?" Calum asked.
"Yep!" They both said, surprisingly excited that they would practically be beating each other up.