remember or forget

1.

Mia woke with a start.
She jerked up from her pillow, and opened her curtain. It was thunder storming in New York again. Mia looked at the clock. 4:00 am. Perfect, she thought. I get to wake up at 4:00 in the morning on a Sunday. A Sunday. She tried to fall back asleep, but it was no use. She didn't plan on doing anything today anyways. Mia closed her curtain and walked into the living room of her small, bright apartment. Mia grabbed a blanket and sat down on her couch and turned on Netflix, not sure what to watch. She scrolled through her list and picked Clueless, one of her favorite movies. Deciding to grab her phone, she got off the couch with a groan. She was still sore from her workout at the gym where she saw that cute guy.
Mia grabbed her phone from her bedroom and threw it on the couch and made her way to the kitchen to make something, anything, to eat. Grabbing some cheez-it's from the cupboard, her phone went off with a buzz. Who would want to text her at 4 am? Mia brought the bag of cheez-it's with her to the couch and checked her phone. It was her best guy friend, Calum. The message said:
Hey. Can't sleep cause of thunderstorms. How about you?
Mia replied:
I woke up about ten minutes ago. Want to come over?
Her phone went off almost seconds after:
Sure. I'll be there in ten.
Mia put her phone down next to her and opened the box of cheez-it's. She forgot to tell Calum something. Mia picked up her phone and called Calum.
"Mia, what do you want now? I'm just heading out of my apartment building now."
"Can you bring food? I have nothing at all. Just pick up a frozen pizza or bread and peanut butter and jelly. I don't care what it is as long as I like it."
"Are you on your period?" Calum asked with a sign
"Yeah. Why?"
"Cause if you're on your period that means I have to pick up food. It's gonna be from a gas station you know."
"Do I seem like I care?" Mia said, obviously annoyed.
"Okay, okay. I'll pick up food, then I'll be over. Man, you really suck while you're on your period."
"Watch it. You know how to piss me off."
"See you soon."
And Calum hung up on Mia as usual. She put her phone down on the couch and went back to eating Cheez-it's while watching clueless.

About 20 minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Mia dragged herself off the couch and unlocked it and let Calum in.
"I bought a frozen pizza, bread, peanut butter and jelly. And, a chocolate bar."
"You're the best."
Mia took the chocolate bar from Calum and put it on the table.
"I'll put the sandwich stuff away and I can make the pizza if you want." Calum offered
"No, I got it. It's fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. You can change Netflix to whatever you want to watch."
"Okay."
Calum walked to the couch and grabbed the remote. Mia preheated the oven and and put the pizza in, then sat down on the couch.
Calum's eyes widened as if he remembered something. Then he put on his sweatshirt hood and held it up tight on his neck.
"What the hell are you trying to do with that?" Mia asked
"Huh? Uh.. Nothing."
"No, it's something."
"It's nothing."
Mia yanked off Calum's sweatshirt hood and looked at what he was hiding.
"A hickey?" Mia laughed
"Yeah."
"I don't care about that. Well, at least you and Scar are going somewhere."
"Yeah. I really like her."
"No kidding, judging by what she gave you."
Mia's oven timer went off, and she got up to take the pizza out of the oven. She cut it up and put six slices on a big plate and brought it over to the couch.
"Take as much as you want. I have a six slices left."
Calum took the whole plate. Mia rolled her eyes.

About 3 hours later, Calum's phone went off. It was Scarlet calling.
"Hold on I gotta take this."
"Okay."
"Hey babe, what's up?"
"Do you want to come over?"
Calum paused and look at Mia questionably. Mia shrugged and mouthed go, I don't care.
Calum nodded
"Sure. When?"
"How about in an hour. We could go out to eat or something, or stay home..."
"Okay. See you then."
Mia looked at Calum and raised and eyebrow
"What did she mean about staying home?"
"Um.."
"I don't want to know, do I?"
"Nope."

About an hour later, Calum decided to leave, and Mia had nothing to do.
She turned off the tv and threw away the empty frozen pizza box.
She decided to go to the gym, since it was a rainy day.
She went into her room and grabbed a tank top, sports bra, and tights. She went into the bathroom to change, put on deodorant and I little mascara. While grabbing her phone, she realized she had to find her car keys that were somewhere around her apartment. She checked her bedroom, and while finding her car keys on her dresser, she grabbed her headphones also and threw on a sweatshirt. She stuffed everything into her sweatshirt pocket and took a water bottle from the fridge and made her way out of her apartment to the parking lot.

Meanwhile, Ashton was also getting ready for the gym. He was hoping to see that girl again, who he really wanted to impress. Ashton grabbed and T-shirt and basket ball shorts and changed. He grabbed a water bottle and his keys, then made his way out into the driveway.
All Ashton could think about was that girl he saw. She was flawless and he really, really wanted to see her again. He turned on the radio and switched to the Foo Fighters CD he had in.
He wasn't sure if he wanted to remember or forget her. After about ten minutes, he arrived at the gym. He was rushing to get out of his car to see if that girl was there. As he got out of his car, he hit his head on the door "Dammit."
He heard someone laughing. It was a girl getting out of her car, glancing over and giggling at him. He felt like he recognized that face... it was her! He jumped up and shut the car door. He saw her walking away, so he jogged to catch up with her, locking his car. Ashton jogged up next to her.
"That was a smooth move, hitting your head on your car."
"Yeah. I do that when I see someone ho- er pretty."
"Oh really." She blushed
Wow. Nice going Ashton, you suck at flirting.
"So, what's your name?"
"Mia."
"That's a pretty name."
"Thanks. Whats yours?"
"Ashton."
"Nice."
As they were approaching the door, Mia got to it first.
"I got it." Ashton said
"What?" Mia asked, confused.
"The door."
"Oh, okay."
Ashton took the door from Mia, grazing her hand as he did so. He got goosebumps, just touching her hand.
"Thanks." Mia said
"Yeah. Welcome."
"Well I'm gonna go workout now... I'll catch you after."
"Okay. I'll see you then, I guess."
Ashton watched Mia walk away.
He made his way to the pull-ups bar, just trying to do his usual workout to try to get Mia off his mind. He looked around and saw her stretching. Just get her off your mind, Ashton thought. He went back to pull ups and continued minding his own business. He finished with the pull ups and looked over at Mia. As he was dropping down from the bar to see another guy eyeing her. He had to get him off, cause that's just creepy. As Ashton was about to ask him if he could use the kettle bell he was using when he was done since there were none of that weight left, he placed down the kettle bell and walked over to Mia.
Ashton walked over also, grabbing a mat and pretending to choose and stretching band and foam roller.
"Hey, you look like you're struggling with those squats." the guy said to Mia
"Um, no I'm fine, actually."
"No, you really need some help. Here.."
The guy was about the grab Mia's hips.
"Um" Mia backed away "could you just show me instead?"
"You actually need physical help."
"No thanks. I'd rather ask a trainer here, thank you. I need to go to the bathroom."
Mia left him and walked into the bathroom. Ashton was hoping the guy would leave. The guy sighed and went back to the kettle bells. Ashton eyed him suspiciously and went to the lifts. He chose a 65 pound. Today he was gonna push himself to the limit. He pressed 3 times and sat up for water. He looked over at Mia peeking out of the bathroom door and putting her equipment away. The guy immediately stopped what he was doing and approached her again.
"You sure about that help?"
"Yes, I am. I should get going now. I-"
Ashton quickly walked over and stood next to Mia.
"Her and I are going out to lunch. We better get going now."
"Oh. Sorry." The guy walked away
Mia turned to face me
"Thank you so much Ashton."
"No problem. I saw him eyeing you... I didn't like the look on his face"
"Yeah. So do you really want to go out for lunch?"
"Sure! Why not? I'll pay. I brought my wallet."
"Okay. That's great!" Mia smiled.
Ashton wanted Mia so bad. He wanted late night talks with her, he wanted to feel her gentle touch, help her through her tears. He wanted her body on his, his lips on hers. He wanted her so bad. He couldn't screw this up.

I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE THIS BOOK EVEN THOUGH ITS ONLY THE FIRST CHAPTER!
I'm going to make really long chapters and update as much as I can.
I hope my writing is good. I basically started my whole account over and deleted most of my books but I became a better writer this year so I hope this book will be better. I'm only doing one book at a time.
ILY GUYSS!!
((Goal is 300 reads) it'll obviously take a while to get there(😂)

-Maddie