Darkness and Everything in Between

Ashton?

A/N: The format is messing up on mobile and some of the sentences are fucked up so sorry if it doesn't make much sense, but it's wattpad -.- I'm Trying to fix it, but not sure there's anything I can do.

November 19, 2009

I just don't get why it had to be my family. Destroyed by the sharp knife of loss and pain. I miss him so much, and I just wish he would come back. That he could come back.

I sat in the pews huddled in the arms of my loving aunt. It seemed as if that day would never come to an end, and God how I wanted it to be over. I prayed that I would just wake up from this horrible nightmare and run to my parents' bedroom, and I would see them there lying in bed, in each other's arms and know everything was going to be okay. Except I didn't. I didn't wake up, and I knew that everything was going to be the opposite of okay. I was never going to wake up to my dad cooking us breakfast. I was never going to be able to experience what having an overprotective dad felt like, or if I was going to be frustrated because of it, knowing that my friends were going to go through all of that. I wanted more time. I needed more than anything for him to hold me just one last time. I couldn't even remember the last words we spoke to each other.

"Come on Kat, what are you doing?" my friend called back to me. I hadn't even noticed I had stopped walking.

"Right, um, yeah I just need to go to the restroom. I'll meet you in the library," I said while heading toward the restroom. I daydreamed quite often it had become almost second nature to get lost in thought. It seemed my friends never got used it, constantly having to snap me out of my haze.

I was about to go in when I heard strange noises coming from the boys' restroom, almost like someone was choking. I was about to ask if everything was okay when someone walked out, and noticed it was Ashton.

He stopped abruptly when he noticed me standing there. "Hey Kat. You lost?"

"What?"

"It looked like you were about to walk into the guys' restroom."

"Oh, uh, right. No I just thought I heard someone choking and I wanted to make sure everything was okay." Something flashed in his eyes, but it was gone before I could see what it was. Maybe he was just worried like me.

"Don't you think I would've noticed and called for help, since you know, I was just in there," he said with light humor sparkling in his eyes.

"Well I didn't know you were in there," I said defensively. "For all I knew you could have been strangling someone in there." He chuckled and shook his head, making his curls bounce and fall over his eyes.

"Right, well next time you might want to go grab a teacher." He took a step forward and whispered in my ear, "You could've been next and we wouldn't want that, now would we?" I blushed and looked away before he could see.

I let out a breathy laugh and shook my head. "No we wouldn't. Well my friends are waiting for me so I better go," I said turning around and walking back down the hall in the direction of the library.

"See you around Kat," he called.

A/N: Hey guys, so originally I was going to write this story for a school project, but then realized people would notice or think it was about me and I didn't want that, but I still really wanted to write this story, so here I am! Hope you guys like it, and sorry this chapter is kinda short, but I promise it'll get better! I'll try to update twice a week because I know how frustrating it is when updates come like once in a blue moon, so yeah vote and comment and thanks for reading!