The Girl Next Door

Chapter 8

Dove's pov:

Asher came back and seemed so happy and worried at the same time. I wanted to make a move on him but he's taken. Ugh his beautiful black eyes are just so hard to resist. He asked if we could all sleepover so I called my mom and told her I was staying over at his house. River has no clue though so I would have to update her on all this but I'll do that tomorrow. Right now I need to focus on time with Asher.

The whole time we were there we watched movies and talked till it was 8 pm and Asher's mom was finally home.

"Asher honey why don't you invite Brody?" She told Asher. I'm not going to lie that kinda hurt me but it's fine

"Oh um...we broke up." I heard Asher whisper. WHAT THEY BROKE UP

"Aw sweety alright, if you need to talk to me about it I'm here." Asher's mom was so sweet

"Yeah I will."

"Asher, can we talk?'' I asked him, I wasn't thinking. I mean I wanted to talk but I didn't mean to say it out loud.

"Yeah, sure." And with that we walked outside. Lucas kept looking at us, it was weird.

When we made it outside we just kinda looked out at the stars. It was really quiet for about 5 minutes until Asher broke the silence.

"So, um what did you want to talk about?" Asher was so shy and quiet

"Oh right, I wanted to ask how you were doing. I know we haven't exactly had a conversation together and we don't really talk but I wanted you to know if you want to talk to me about anything I'm here."

"Oh thank you I will, also can I ask you something" Asher wanted to ask me something?

"Uh yeah sure."

"Why did you call me Asher?" He looked so sad

"I mean that is your name so..." What? I was so confused, what did he want me to call him?

"Did I do something wrong?" He said as he started to pout, then it hit me I didn't call him curly.

"Oh no love you didnt do anything." LOVE DID I REALLY JUST SAY LOVE.

"Then why didn't you call me curly, I thought you hated me or something." He said

"I- I don't know, I felt like you didn't like it and I didn't want to make you uncomfortable. If you want I could start calling you curly again."

"Yeah I really would like that"

"Also," I added "I could never hate you curly, would I have stayed for the sleepover if I hated you? No, so don't you ever think I hate you, okay?" Was that a bit much? Oh well.

"Okay thank you so much Dove." And with that we went back inside to Lucas and Ivy staring at us. The fuck were they looking at. Then I looked down. Shit Asher and I were holding hands.

"Oh um sorry." Asher apologized as he moved his hand

"No, keep it there." I smiled and grabbed his had again

Asher's pov:

I was so confused on why Dove wanted to talk to me when she found out that Brody and I broke up. Why did it matter to her? Did she like me and wanted to shoot her shot? I thought so but no she just wanted to tell me that I could talk to her. I was stupid to think she would like me, how pathetic was I to think Dove would like me. But when we came inside Lucas and Ivy were staring at us. I was so confused, like why were they staring until I realized I had grabbed Dove's hand while we were talking. I didn't even notice at the time, it felt so natural. I tried pulling away because I was embarrassed but Dove told me to keep my hand there.

Lucas asked me where the bathroom was and told me to help him look for it. When I showed him to the bathroom he asked me what happened outside. I told him everything that happened. He kept saying how cute we were and I mean he wasn't wrong.