Chapter 22- Super-duper hard to control hormones
Well I finally got out of the hospital and despite still being a little bit scratched up; I have healed because I was stuck in the hell hole for another 3 bloody days and have to back after Valentine’s Day. I don’t understand why I don’t just stay in because it’s not like I have anyone to celebrate it with but Kolton talked to them and managed to get me out so I get to finish moving my stuff into dads place and move out of my house which has already been sold. You can trust the doctors to overreact and want me to be back after Valentine’s Day but it’s not like I haven’t done anything like that before. I have so many scars that under my clothes that you can’t even tell which colour is my normal skin tone, it’s that bad but that’s what I get for being who I am and I’m fine with it.
Dad insisted that he would pick me up and take me over to the house to collect the boxes and last little things that they didn’t already move and me being me agreed which I soon learnt to regret.
“Dad, for the last time can you please turn off that horrible music.” I said calmly trying not to lose my patience.
“Nope” He grinned cheekily. Well he won’t be laughing when I punch him and he bleeds so hard that not even Satan will want him.
“Dad, I swear on my pair of boots, that if you do not turn this music off right now, I will not hesitate to punch you.” I grit out through my teeth in anger. I was trying to hold it in but being around an angry Kolton has me feeling angry and stressed which is pissing me off. In fact, everything is pissing me off right now. Normally I’m ok with him playing his music but today I’m angry at the world.
“Naw, is little Ash mad at me?” He teased with a little grin and shook his head a little bit. Well he sure has missed out on a lot since he left because I was certainly not joking when I swore on my boots; those shoes are my babies and apart from my knife that Mike-the little asshole- has, it’s one of my favourite things that I own and treasure.
“Dad, I’m not kidding.” I said breathing in and out, trying to calm myself down. Want to know what he did in return?
He just laughed.
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you.” I warned and before he could question my statement, I had threw my fist into his arm; hard. The car slightly swerved as he recovered from the force and shock of the punch and then he gripped his arm with a sickening look of pain on his face.
“F*ck Asha, I didn’t know you could hit that hard!” Dad exclaimed and I grinned at him like the Cheshire cat on pot.
“Next time you underestimate me like that it shall turn out a lot worse.” I smirked.
“Oh really, Because last time I checked, I was the golden dragon who was the best until the Black Dragon came along which was right after I left and he started off around where we lived but moved a lot.” He said almost in thought towards the end then snapped back to reality when we were about to turn onto a busy road.
Well let’s just say that the rest of the mini ‘road trip’ was full of dad humming to no music and me looking out the window, so all in all, it was pretty boring.
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As soon as I walked in I was greeted with the smell of, well guys. You could smell the new leather couches and furniture which made it seem very new even though it looked as though a hurricane has hit it, along with the gaming systems – if that even is a real smell- guy deodorant and food; pizza to be exact. I knew I wouldn’t fit in super well because I knew for a fact that I wasn’t a thirty six year old guy like my dad but instead a fifteen year old girl.
My eyes scanned the small but comfortable house which had a basic creamy brown wall colour to it along with a white leather couch and TV placed nicely besides the front door. There was an open plan kitchen and dining room which held a nice looking dining table that fit 8 people behind the lounge room. To the right of me there was a staircase that leads to upstairs and opposite from me was a backdoor that leads onto a patio.
“Follow me to your room” Dad smiled and made his way up the stairs with a box of mine in his arms. His smile showed me that he had either forgotten the bickering in the car or that he no longer cared; I was going to pick the later one because I doubt he has short term memory loss from anything yet.
I trudged up the stairs and followed dad to a room that was just past the open spaced lounge room for upstairs. I walked into my new room and it was completely and utterly plain and to be honest, a little boring. All that was in there was a single bed along with a wardrobe. There was also a few boxes in the corner but besides from that, nothing more, nothing less. I was defiantly going to have to do some work on it.
“Well this is your room. Sorry it doesn’t have much to it.” Dad chuckled then put my bag down and left the room. I went and sat on the bed, getting lost in my thoughts of Kolton, Scar, Damien, and even Mike. I had to face the cold hard truth which is that I got lucky when I beat him at the alley. I was prepared, we didn’t have weapons- even though I could do great things with my knife- and it was only one on one. It seems amusing that I even won against him.
As I was consumed in my thoughts I hadn’t heard the knock that came against me door so it came as a shock to me when 2 large hands came over my shoulders. I instantly reacted in a defensive manor and grabbed their wrists so that it wouldn’t hurt but they couldn’t get out, even if they tried.
“Ash, it’s just me!” I heard Kolton say loudly through a slightly panicked voice because he knew I could break his wrists if I tried. I looked up at him with a little bit of alarmed but then realised it was him and let go of his wrists.
“Don’t scare me like that.” I said sternly and looked up at him with a blank and slightly disapproving face. It doesn’t really surprise me that he did do that and I should have probably been prepared knowing Kolton.
“Awe but that ruins the fun in scaring you.” He teased and looked down at me amused.
“So what did you want?” I said casually sitting down on my bed. Looking up to him I realised he looked sightly uncomfortable and I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
“Awe, you look like a little kid that just got caught raiding the cookie jar.” I tease him and then pat the bed next to me to silently tell him to come and sit down.
“You sure your dads ok with me, in here?” Kolton asks a little shocked and taken back.
“Why wouldn’t he? He likes you and it’s not like I haven’t had a boyfriend before.” I shrugged and lay down on the bed with my hands behind my head. I looked over at Kolton and just how caught he looked made me giggle, yes, I said giggle. I know you’re thinking what the hell is wrong with me and to be honest, I am asking myself the same thing. One minute I don’t give a shit about anyone or anything then boom, Kolton Scomparsa makes me giggle like a little twelve year old girl meeting her favourite boy band member.
“Well if you’re going to laugh at me then I should make a reason for you to laugh.” He grinned evilly at me and my smile dropped instantly. What the hell was he going to do, because knowing Kolton is wasn’t going to be something innocent like giving me candy and braiding my hair.
He slowly started walking to me and each step he took, my eyes grew wider with anticipation of what evil thing he was going to do. When he finally reached the bed I was frozen in place, wide eyed and slightly on edge. I’ll admit now that the close contact did make me feel giddy and overly excited but I could easily brush it off and it would be replaced with nerves which annoyed me even more because he kept getting closer and closer, setting my nerves into a huge bundle of stampeding rhinos.
“Kolton what the f*ck are you doing?” I asked him in astonishment when he smirked and leant down to come face to face with me. He was so close that if I moved five centimetres, I would be kissing him which would not work out very well seeing as he is one of my only friends besides Scar and Damien.
“This” He whispered then quick as a fox, he had his hands on my stomach and was tickling me so hard that it caused me to almost fall off the bed with laughter. I tried my very best to hold it in but I just couldn’t so I let my loud laughter fill the room as he kept wriggling his fingers and tickling me. Soon we were both laughing like maniacs and throwing the pillows at each other to try not to get caught by the other. Of course I only had 3 pillows so it came down to a match of who could get the pillow first. Kolton smirked at me then let his gaze go from the pillow to me and back to the pillow. Quick as lightning Kolton had the pillow in hand and was grinning like a madman which suggested to me that I should run before I die.
I ran out of the room in a fit of laughter and I wasn’t paying much attention to where I was going so I was surprised when I managed to corner myself in a corner.
“That wasn’t so smart now, was it?” Kolton laughed as he trapped me between the wall and his sexy, ripped body. I could practically see the abs and amazing muscles he had under his shirt and it wasn’t doing me much good because we are supposed to be strictly friends and nothing more but I can’t help but feel more for him.
“I wouldn’t know if it hit me on the head.” I replied trying to stay calm but my freaking hormones were making it super-duper hard to control.
“Well I have a question for you Ash.” He dropped the amused expression and it was replaced by one that was unknown to me. I hadn’t seen it on him before. He smiled at me and then reached up to tuck a strand of hair behind my ear then left it to linger for a little more than expected.
“Kolton you’re not high are you?” I asked slightly worried. I didn’t want my friend- who I now admit to having slight attractions to- to be high as a mother fudging brownie because that wouldn’t be so great with the guys who live here.
“No I’m not high Ash.” He deadpanned and looked at me with an unamused face.
“Well I was just saying because you’re acting all weird.” I shrugged and looked up at him so innocently that it was probably suss. I was going to try and get out of the awkward hold he had me in so that things wouldn’t be awkward between us tomorrow. Although he may be displeased, at least it won’t be awkward tomorrow. I was only thinking about ahead.
“What’s your evil little plan missy?” He smirked down at me and I couldn’t help but smirk in response.
“Well if I told you it wouldn’t be a secretive plan would it now?” I teased him and then when he least expected it, I switched us around so he was now in the corner and I had in in a hold that with enough strength, would let me stay in place and not get caught between him and the wall.
“Well ain’t this kinky.” He winked with a smirk and I just scowled.
“Kolton, can you not see that if something happens then it would completely ruin the friendship we have?” I asked in all seriousness with creased eyebrows and a disapproving look on my face. I knew he would take this a lot less seriously than I would because, after all, we are just joking around as friend’s right?
“I would be ok with that” He shrugged and I felt my heart rip up into tiny little pieces. It was worse than when Nate died, it was worse when I had to leave Scarlet and Damien. It felt as though he had ripped part of my heart out then walked away with it leaving the other half in agony. I looked down to my feet and started to realise that the floor was wooden and there were little bits in it that made it change colour through each wooden panel of timber.
“Ash, look at me” he said in almost a whisper and put his finger under my chin to lift my face to look into his beautiful brown eyes of his. “Now don’t you ever think for a second that I would leave you, ok?” his voice was harsh yet was laced with worry and it made the little fragments that were left melt in joy.
“Ok” I mumbled and he pulled me in for a hug where I could smell his amazing Kolton smell. There really was no way to describe it, think of your favourite sent and times it by about a million.
“Ash” He said and broke apart the hug but still had his hands on my shoulders. “Will you be the Asha to my Kasha?”
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UPDATE!!!!! WOOP WOOP!!!!!!
so sorry it took so long but ugh so many assignments, i just want to live in denial for the rest of my life yet the world seems to think otherwise.
On a brighter note, i should hope to update soon guys becuase I was a meanie poop and took so long to update.
Kay bye :)