*Hazel's Pov*
"Hazel?!?!" A voice called from the door of Asher's bedroom.
My eyes widened along with Asher's when we turned our heads to see who was at the door....
I saw my two little brothers, Jason and Finn standing at the door with their jaws on the floor. Their eyes were as wide as marbles. If I were to guess, they had just seen an alien.
"Jason?! Finn?! What are you guys doing here?!" I yelled from my place under a shirtless Asher.
"We were all looking around for you! You didn't come back from your date yesterday so everyone was worried!" Jason explained.
Finn tilted his head in confusion. "Wait, I thought you went on a date with some dude named Caleb. Why are you under our neighbor the day after??" My brothers must've thought I was working at a brothel or something!
I pushed Asher off of me and shot out of bed. "Guys! Caleb left with Asher's date last night so I just stayed here. Where did everyone else go to look for me?" I asked. I was really scared of getting in trouble with my family. I usually never gained so much attention that they'd have to make a little search party for me!
Finn scratched his head. "Umm...Oh yeah! They called your friends. You know like Ivy and Honey and the other girls." That makes sense. I'm just glad they didn't get any authorities involved.
"Well, now that you found me, let's go!" I grabbed my bag from Asher's night stand and my clothes from the previous night.
"Wait, Hazel. You're only wearing socks. They'll get ruined." Jason said as I grabbed him and Finn's wrists to follow behind me.
"Hazel! Hold u-" Asher tried calling back for me but I interrupted. This had gotten super awkward super quickly and I wanted to leave as soon as possible.
"Listen, I should go! My family's looking for me! Bye, thanks for letting me crash!" I said quickly and pulled my brothers out of the house.
I stopped my brothers outside of our front door to give them a brief talk. "What exactly do you guys think happened?"
"Did you guys hook up??" Jason asked bluntly. I gasped and slapped his arm.
"No we did not hook up!! We didn't do anything! My date abandoned me and I was already at Asher's so I just stayed there! Nothing happened!" I was standing in the driveway yelling at my two younger teenage brothers about how I didn't hook up with our neighbor. I never thought I'd have to have this conversation with them.
"Okayyyy.... What do you want us to tell everyone else, then?" Finn asked, raising his eyebrow.
I thought for a moment. "Tell everyone that my date left me so I stayed at Asher's house. But if they ask, we didn't do anything. So basically, tell them the truth."
The two boys nodded and we walked over to our house and inside. Jason yelled out to our mom to tell her that they found me and they'd explain once everyone came down.
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"He thinks he's so macho!! I'm gonna beat that little twerp to a pulp! Who does he think he is?!" My oldest brother Cameron was ranting.
"I'm mostly just disappointed in you for using the word 'macho'. But why are you guys all so mad?" I pulled my knees to my chest in my place on the couch. We were all in the living room where my brothers and I explained what happened.
"What if he did something to you??"
"We can't trust him!"
"We don't know much about him!"
"Just think about what he could've done!"
"Yeah, he could've tickled your buns!" Alan said.
We all turned to him and looked at him with confused yet disgusted faces.
"Tickle your buns??" Daniel punched Alan's shoulder and snorted. "Who says that??"
"Only Alan." We all say in unison at our weirdo of a brother that always said things like that.
Alan playfully punched Daniel back and the living room turned into a war zone. Everyone was tackling and throwing pillows and wrestling. I took off my glasses in hopes of not breaking them and blindly jumped into the war.
I kinda got used to doing that without glasses just because of how often we did it. I knew them by their shapes and colors and stuff. Besides, it was only kinda blurry.
I hit Cameron with a pillow and in return, he lifted me over his shoulder and threw me onto the couch. Daniel came up and started tickling me until I lifted his leg out from under him and he fell. The war ended with the best power move ever. Jason judo flipped Finn. The war ended.
My mom was on the side with a look of horror on her face as she shielded Leo from the madness. I couldn't help but laugh when I remembered how protective Leo got earlier. He kept saying he was going to beat up Asher if he ever hurt me. He also said he would use his Nerf gun on him. Darn, sometimes I could actually tolerate him just because of his adorableness.
I was happy to see that my family had forgotten the incident. Though, I didn't know how it would be with Asher and me. Probably awkward.
We all dispersed and went on to our own business. I sighed as I entered my room. By then, it was noon. For a few hours, I just went around my room doing random stuff. I did homework, read, talked to the girls over the phone, I even rolled on the floor repeatedly in boredom.
Once the evening came around, I opened my window and looked out to see the sky. It was a gradient of yellow, pink, purple, and a bit of blue. It was so beautiful. I could see the crescent moon and a few stars out already.
I was in such a trance looking at the sky that I was horribly startled when something hit my windowsill. I fell on my butt but quickly got up to see what the disturbance was.
Something quickly flew towards me but just missed, falling into the tree next to my roof. Then, again. Except this time, it flew past me into my room. I crept closer to see what the object was.
A pebble.
That gave me the answer. I looked outside at the window across from mine. Asher was leaning his head against his arms and watching me. Not in the weird Edward Cullen type of way, though.
"Hey, Princess." Asher said sleepily into his arms.
I smiled cheekily. "Hey, Muffin. Why do you sound so sleepy?"
"I don't know. The sky is so calming and I'm kinda bored so I guess that makes me kinda dazey." He smiled and lazily brushed his hair out of his eyes. That. Killed. Me.
"Why did I wake up in your bed and not like a guest bed or anything?" I blurted out curiously.
Asher scrunched his face in thought for a moment as if remembering what happened. "I was going to sleep in the guest bedroom so you could be more comfortable in my soft bed, but you wanted me to stay with you."
I raised my eyebrows and I could feel the heat in my cheeks. "W-what did I say, exactly??" I croaked out in barely a whisper.
"Asher,can you stay here with me? Asher, please I'm scared!" He mocked in a high-pitched voice with his hands clasped together.
Gosh this is so embarrassing! I thought to myself. I put my hands over my face to try to hide myself.
I heard Asher stop laughing. I peeked out from hands to find Asher looking at me with a sympathetic smile.
"It's really okay." He tossed another pebble and it landed beside me on the windowsill.
I smiled and looked out at the sky. "This sunset is so beautiful. I can't wait to see what tomorrow's will bring us."
Tomorrow was a special day for me. It was my birthday.
"Yep. But tomorrow, there's gonna be one thing prettier than the sunset." Asher was giving me this weird look that made my face heat up.
I didn't think he knew about my birthday. I didn't expect him to, though. If anything, I might just do something with my family.
I stuck my head out of the window really quickly. "Hey, Muffin! I'm kinda tired so I'm gonna go to bed."
"Right now? It's still so early, though!" Asher whined.
I laughed and put my head back into my room. "Goodnight, Muffin."
Asher sighed. "Night, Princess."
In reality, I just couldn't wait for tomorrow, so I went to sleep as early as I could...
A/N: Hey guys!! I'm finally back from that unexpected break. If you're following me, you got the notification kinda explaining what happened. I'm fine now, though. I'm super duper sorry I took so long. I'm also sorry you all were left on a cliffhanger. I seriously didn't know I would be gone. Also thanks for 15k!! I love you guys so much thank y'all!! My readers have grown so much and I really appreciate you!! Man, Jason and Finn are such an iconic duo. They always walk in on Asher and Hazel in the worst moments! What was your favorite part about this chapter? Follow me if you want!! I hope you liked this chapter! Please keep reading and vote! Bye my lovelies!!!❤❤❤
---Your Smøl Bean, Gen