The girl beneath the bruises

Mommy

"Jason? Who is this?" The woman asked.

She was in a crisp suit, with a briefcase. She was beautiful, and Katie looked exactly like her.

"This is my girlfriend, Ashley." I looked at him.

"You never asked me to be your girlfriend. You just asked me to be your Spring Formal date." I whispered to him.

He gave me a we'll talk about this later look.

I just nodded.

"What happened to that Lindsey girl?" She asked.

I froze and looked at Jason accusingly.

"She never was my girlfriend." He said through gritted teeth.

"She was over a lot like 6 months ago, then about 3 months ago I stopped seeing her." She said tapping her chin as if she was thinking.

He said he never dated Lindsey, but why was she over here so much?

I was so consumed in my own thoughts I didn't hear Jason's mom ask me a question.

"Well do you?" She asked.

"Do I what?" I said confused.

"Do you know Lindsey." She asked.

"Yeah."

"I never liked her, she had this sense of...what you guys would call a...b!tch." I giggled at her choice of words and nodded.

Jason looked at me and smiled.

**1 hour later**

We had been joking around and talking with Jason's mom for about a hour. 15 minutes ago Katie came down and started talking and laughing with us.

I yawned and realized I was tired.

"Oh yeah! Well time to go to bed. See you guys in the morning." Jason's mom, who told me to call her Lacy, said.

"But mom." Katie and Jason whined at the same time.

"I don't care what you do as long as your in bed." She said tiredly.

Then she looked between me and Jason and added, "Scratch that you can only watch TV in bed and you have to go lay there now."

We all nodded and went upstairs.

I headed to the guest room, when Jason grabbed my arm.

"Where do you think you're going?" He asked smirking.

"The guest room." I said in a 'duh' tone.

"Nope you're sleeping in my room." He stated, then began dragging me to his room.

"Jason, I don't want to- oh! A panda bear! It's so cute." I walked into Jason's room and saw a panda bear.

I lunged myself at the bed.

Then I laughed, I laughed so hard.

"Jason, you have a stuffed animal!" I wheezed.

"Give me Mr.Fluffykins!" He screamed.

I laughed harder.

He snatched the panda away from me.

I pouted.

"Get in the bed." He said tiredly.

"Not until you give me the panda." I argued.

"Ashley-" He started.

"I will list the digits of pie!" I warned.

"You wouldn't." He said narrowing his eyes.

"Try me." I retorted with a smirk.

"Not giving you the panda."

"3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510-" I started.

"Fine!" Jason yelled tossing me the panda.

"Yay!" I cheered crawling into his bed.

"Man I'm falling hard." He mumbled.

"What was that?" I asked.

"Nothing." He said.

I shrugged.

"Ashley?" He said.

I flipped over on the bed to face him.

"Yes?" I asked.

"Will you be my girlfriend?"

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Hey guys!!!!

So I've decided I'm not changing the cover till I complete the book, which I will.

Thanks!

PS this book is gonna be about 15-30 chapters.

I already have a ending in mind and if you hate me for it I'll write one of the cliche endings for you also.

-Gabby