The Locker Room •• Ashton Irwin ••

32.

So I assumed wrong. She isn't totally raped. He never put his thing in her, luckily. I'd kill him with my bare hands if he had done that and it had looked like Ash was already planning on it. That was all three weeks ago and today Christmas break was starting. Noah was in trial, they weren't sending him to jail but he does have to go to some psychiatrist. I don't know what would be better with both he's locked up.
We also now know the real reason he is like this. Not that there's a real excuse why he'd try to rape so many. Turns out Lauren and I weren't the only girls he assaulted. I wish we were though. His sentence has gotten worse with the two extra girls we now have against him but it's sad that they had to go through that all.
I wish I had been the only one with Noah Schwartz trouble.

"Are you okay, Eliza?" My mom asked as she stepped into my room.
"Knocking isn't a suggestion you know." I sassed and her expression went sad.
"Why are you doing this to me?" She asked. "Why are you acting cold and distant all of a sudden? Is it because of anything I said?" I narrowed my eyes at her before beginning my rant.
"You're never home to see me, you never ask how I'm doing, you're not even trying to be like a mother to me and yet you expect me to treat you like mine. Than you just go and say I can't date a guy I'm madly in love with while you don't even know him. That's what's wrong." I could practically feel the steam coming out of my nose, that was how angry I was.
"Well you can be angry at me," she said as she sat down beside me. "But we're are going to California for the holidays." She looked extraordinary exited about the news. My eyes widened in shock and I almost fell of my bed. My mom made sure I sat secure before she sat down besides me. "It's the perfect opportunity for us to become close again." She tried to push a loose strand of hair behind my ear but I flinched away from her hand.
"I love you mom, but why? We're almost strangers with the amount of time we spent together and now you're forcing me to go on a trip to California." I felt the tears burning behind my eyes but I didn't want to give her the satisfaction of crying. She stood up and walked to the door before turning around one last time.
"Because I'm your mother and I said so. Now go pack your bags. We're leaving tonight." She shut the door behind her and I went face first down on my bed. I groaned and grabbed my phone searching in my contacts for that one name. I pressed the green phone and waited for an answer.

"Hi." I heard Izzy say. I sat up and threw some pillows against the headboard to sit against.
"Hey Izz, how are you?"
"Good. What's wrong with you?" Sixth sense for trouble maybe?
"My mom is making me spend the break in California all because I'm dating Ashton. Why can't she just except him like he is and let me alone."
"Maybe because she's your mom." she stated mater of factly. "She just wants what's the best for you and he isn't a clean boy, Eliza, you know that."
"But I like him." I sighed. "I want her to at least give him a chance. So she can get to know him."
"I can smell that lie from miles away, Lizz. You don't like him you love him. And your mom will give him a chance someday." I felt the corners of my mouth turn up.
"Thanks. But how did you know I love him?" I asked.
"I've known since the beginning. It's the way he makes you smile, how every joke he tells you is hilarious. How he can annoy the hell out of you, and make you feel like someone special the next. The way he says your name makes you weak in the knees, we all caught you swooning against your locker at least once. I started catching you looking his way more often, hoping he's also looking at you. Than you started getting nervous whenever he would stand near you or say a word to you even though it was not always nice. His instant messages, directed to you, became more important to you, even if you can't remember what he was talking about, because you were lost in his eyes... and that's what let us know you love him." I could hear her give a dreamy sight. "The look in your eyes, the way you stand, how you never seem to listen because you're always thinking about him. I'm jealous that you get to experience that feeling and I don't even know it." My smile turned into a frown of confusion.
"But you've had boyfriends," I said. "You've been in love."
"I've never been in love that were mere crushes of a little girl. But the love between you and Ashton is so perfectly normal that I can only hope to experience it."
"You're just not meant for normal, Izzy." I laughed. She really wasn't, she was different from all the others in school and that made her my friend.
"I know but it doesn't matters." She said. "And don't worry it will all work out with your mom. For now just try to have fun in California."
"Bye Izz."
"Bye."
I never knew about all of that. It's like she showed me a new side of herself, one not meant for exposure. Now I just have to concentrate on what she said. Having fun in California.

I got a suitcase and started putting stuff inside. A couple of skinnies, a hoodie, two t-shirts, a few shorts, flip flops, a beanie, singlets, pajamas, the Eliton 14 shirt.
In the end I had to sit on my trunk to close it and I almost threw it off the stairs in an attempt to get it downstairs. "Are you ready Eliza?" My mom asked as she stood in front of the door with our passports.
"Yes I am mom. I'm ready."