Broken

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♡Ashley♡

"Ashley can I please have a hug?" Asked my mom with the most immaculate smile I've ever seen. "Why?" I walked towards her. "Is it wrong to want a hug from my sweetheart now?" She stretched her arms out foray hug." I guess not." I said giggling.

I woke up half expecting to see my mom sleeping next to me. I sat up and grabbed my phone off my nightstand. Six messages from Brandon.

00:00 Hey you awake? 😞

00:10 Something bad happened and I need to talk to someone.

00:20 Wake up dude!

00:25 Plz wake up 😫

00:31 Ashley I need you.

00:33 You know what, call me when you wake up.

I sat on my bed for what seemed like forever wondering why Brandon would want to talk to me about his problems. I stood up and changed into sweatpants and a very baggy shirt. After some time of thinking I decided to jump out of the window. I slowly walked to the window and looked out.

Okay time to go!

I jumped out the window and called him. After two rings he answered the phone. "Hey Brandon I got your messages. I was sleeping. I'm on my way to your house okay." I said. "Yeah... okay. See you soon then." He said sounding glum.

Whatever happened must have been bad.

I ended the call and walked to his house. When I got there I knocked on the door. After some time a very sad Brandon stood in front of me. His hair looked a mess and his hazel eyes were blood red. Before I could say anything he pulled me into a very tight hug. "Ahh... Brandon?" I said awkwardly not wanting this hug to last long. "Oh yeah I'm sorry." He let go of me and whipped his tears. "What's up man?" I let myself in and stood in the middle of the livingroom. "My dad passed away yesterday." He threw himself on the couch. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. What happend?" I was on the verge of tears. "Heart attack." He looked down at his feet and cried. I walked to the coach and sat on the coffee table and held his hand.

I'm not really good in these type of situations.
Thank goodness he knows otherwise that would have been weird.
You still should have given him a hug, he probably really needs one.
Whatever, I'm doing the best I can

After some time of holding Brandon's hands as he cried he stood up and whipped his tears. "I'm so sorry for inconveniencing you. I know your not really good at this kind of stuff but your the first person I thought about when I heard the news." He looked at me with a small smile. "Come on man, it's cool. But I have to go now before my aunt realizes I'm not at home." I said with a consolatory smile. I stood up gave him a tap on the back that made both of us laugh at how bad I was at consoling people.

When I finally got home it was four in the morning. I ran to my room window and climbed into my room.

I can't believe I successfully sneaked out of the house without getting caught!
Don't jinx it.

I closed the window and was about to turn around. "What the hell Ashley where have you been?" Said a voice from behind me. I turned around to see my very angry aunt Laura. Her beautiful pitch black hair was tied up in a messy bun and her dark brown eyes were starring right at me.

"Oh... well I went for a walk because I couldn't sleep." I turned around and hoped she believed me."I know you are going through a rough time with school, your dad, getting used to a new environment and your moms passing. You know you can talk to me right? Keeping all your feelings in is not going to help you, all your doing is hurting yourself. And I don't want to see you go through what your mom did." She walked closer to me.

Why won't she just leave me alone. I don't need her reminding me about how shity my life is!
Calm down, she's just really worried about you.

"Nothing's wrong, I promise. I just couldn't sleep that's all." I said with a fake smile. "Okay I believe you. But if you want to talk please come to me." She gave me an awkward hug. "You should go to sleep. You need energy for tomorrow." She let go of me and left the room.

What's up with people and hugs?

I walked to my bed and went into the blankets. I still couldn't sleep so I turned around and watched Addy sleep on the bed next to me.

I eventually realized that wasn't working so I played candy crush on my phone until it was time for me to get ready for school.