Broken

11

♡ Ashley♡

Addy and I spent hours cooking dinner for aunt Laura and I. Everytime we made the the chocolate moose it tasted funny.

"It finally doesn't taste like shit!" I said said proudly. "Language!" Addy hit my shoulder. "How do you know what poo tastes like anyway?"

"And here I thought you were smart" I rolled my eyes at her. "Whatever dumb bum." She punched me really hard on my arm. "Ouch! Why do you keep hitting me?"

"Because you deserve it." She rolled her eyes. "Whatever lets just clean up this mess." We started cleaning and Taisha walked through the front door. "Bryce said we could come to dinner, he seemed kinda sad when I told him you weren't coming."

We stayed quite after that. Taisha sitting on the kitchen counter while Addy and I cleaned up the mess we made.

After I set the table for aunt Laura and I, I walked into the living room where Taisha and Addy were. "What do y'all want to do while we wait." No one answered my question so I went up to my room and layed down on my bed.

I was kinda tired so I decided to take a nap. I woke up to the sound of the front door closing. I stood up and stretched my muscles.

How should I let aunt Laura know I'm back?
Just walk downstairs like nothing happened last night.
So it's back to acting.

I opened the door to my room and walked downstairs to the living room. Aunt Laura was on the couch staring into space. "Hey aunt Laura, you should go take a shower so we can have dinner." I said and walked into the kitchen.

"Ashley you're here. When did you get here? Where did you sleep last night?" I rolled my eyes at her. "Go take a shower and we can talk while we have dinner okay." I gave her a small smile ignoring her question.

She stood there staring at me before she walked up the stairs. I waited until I heard the water running in the bathroom before I let go of the air I was holding. I walked to the fridge and took out a bottle of water. While I drank the water I realised Addy and Taisha weren't here. I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion.

They probably left already.
Why didn't Addy say bye?
That doesn't matter.

When aunt Laura finished her shower we went to the dinning room with our salads in front of us. No one had touched their food yet.

Say something.
What should I say? Oh about yesterday I'm not really sorry for leaving.
Don't be stupid.
Okay sorry.

"Why don't you try the..."

"Where did you sleep last night?" She interrupted. I chuckled bitterly. "Straight to the point huh?"

"I'm serious Ashley!" She raised her voice. "No need to shout, I was at a friend's house." I rolled my eyes and started to eat.

Oh my gosh this is amazing!
Stop being dramatic.
I'm I great cook don't you think?
This is not the time!

I had totally zoned out of the conversation aunt Laura and I were having unintentionally. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" I looked up at her. She was fuming. She crossed her arms and glared at me.

Fuck, is she trying to kill my with her eyes!?

I looked at her innocently. "I don't know what's going on with you Ashley. Ever since you're mom passed away, you've been acting up. You ditch classes and sometimes school. Your principal called me today to tell me if you missed one more day of schoold they'd fail you for the year. I don't know wh..."

I started laughing at her statement interrupting her. She looked at me like I was crazy. "Why are you laughing? Nothing I just said to you seems funny." I didn't answer her question and carried on eating the dinner I took ages to make. "Ashley I know you're not okay mentally. You're almost always depressed and you get anxiety from things that shouldn't really be giving you that emotion. But you always act like everything is fine and push everyone away. Whenever I ask if your okay, you always lie and say you're fine but i can see you're not. You're eyes tell me everything. Ashley just let me in so I can help you."

I stared at her for a while losing my appetite. "Why are you always trying to find something wrong with me? Nothing is fucking wrong with me mentally..."

"Ashley please stop lying to me I'm trying to help you." She interrupted. I laughed bitterly.

"You know how long it took me to make this stupid salad?" I shoved the plate in front of me. "And you still haven't eaten anything. You know what, I tried having a decent conversation with you. I really did." I laughed again and looked at her a little annoyed. "I'm going to bed, I made chocolate moose you can eat it if you want."

I stood up and walked to my room and banged the door closed behind me. I threw myself on my bed and screeched into my pillow. I lump formed in my throat and tears threaten to fall out like a waterfall.

No you're not allowed to cry!

I stood up and paced around my room for a while.

I need something to distract myself.

I looked around the room and my eyes landed on the book shelf Addy and I filled with books. I walked up to it and contemplated on what book I wanted to read.

Before I came to answer the door opened and an angry Addilyn stood in front of me. I looked at her confused.

"You won't believe what Taisha did! I don't think I can go back to Parklynn's house after what she did!"

She walked to her bed and threw herself on it. "What happened?" I walked to her bed and sat next to her.

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Heyy y'all!!
Sorry for the late update, was kinda busy.
Anyway what do you think about what Ashley just did?
What do you think Taisha did this time?
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