LOVE ME FOREVER - ARCH LANCASTER

CHAPTER 1

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Ashely Faye Whitlock

This was my senior year. My last 12 months in this shit hole called Lancaster Prep. To be honest it wasn't that bad, I guess I was popular, I had lots of friends but I knew I could never trust them, I knew deep down that I always had a facade up in front of everyone, never letting a single soul in, well except one.

Arch Lancaster. my best friend, first kiss, First love, First Heart everything. Well except for sex. he had a girlfriend sophomore year, a bitch called Cadence and I don't say that word a lot and close to never with girls. They were the power couple who ruled the school you know how it goes, except they broke up because he fell madly in love with  Daisy Albright the ground keeper's daughter. She's wonderful and overly nice to everyone making her somewhat of a pushover if you ask me but I still talk to her even after the huge massive breakup that went down with Arch and her during the last few weeks of the semester. She's still my friend but knows I'll choose Arch over her any second of any day. Well everyone at Lancaster Prep knows that.

 Arch and I have a different relationship. The Whitlock family and the Lancaster's were best friends for generations, making Arch and I joined at the hip since birth. We spent almost every weekend together every holiday in each others beach houses. his little sister Edith a year younger than us Soon joined us when she grew older making us a group of three. From then onward we were never able to be separated. So when we joined Lancaster Prep in freshmen year it was a given that we would rule the school together however we took it in a more different approach. Mine was friendlier to students and staff which made them automatically love me. They liked me and came to me for advice. On the other hand, Arch's approach was to make everyone fear him. Everyone still seemed to worship us as if we were gods and we ruled the school.

It was my last first day of Highschool bittersweet feelings were vibrating through my body. My uniform was perfect, the skirt resting a little bit higher than the knee breaking the rules but not having it almost slutty where you can see my underwear. The loafers on my feet shined to the crisp, my hair pulled back in a sleek high ponytail with my straight brown hair spilling out. I looked perfect, I wanted to be perfect I grabbed my blue blazer as the last thing and walked out of my dorm. 

I walked through the entry garden saying hello to a few people. walking in I spotted a familiar group of people and I saw one of my best friends JJ. He became our friend in freshman year at the first assembly by being moved to sit with us at the back of the auditorium for pissing off the teachers by talking at them and not shutting up while Mathews was presenting. To be honest he can be a little shit when you first meet him but he's got your best interest at heart when he begins to like you. JJ spots me and starts to sequel like a girl making me giggle I jump into his arms as he picks me up off the ground twirling me in a circle causing me to laugh and smack him signalling to put me back down.

" hey princess I missed you" I said as my feet slowly touched the ground

" yea missed you too, you didn't bother calling me from Europe did you" he snapped back clearly pissed off and acting like a 9-year-old girl 

" I'm sorry I had really bad service there and I just wanted to live in the moment" I replied quickly giving him another side hug.

A voice next to me slowly called out "Hey what about me" causing me to slowly turn to my right side. I saw a beautiful smart blonde grinning down at me making my hurt throb. He put his arms at me for a hug making me jump into them. I smelled his breath his strong cologne mixed with my vanilla beach scent. My hands grasped around his neck and he reached my waist pulling me into a hug. He let out a small groan as I pulled back from him slowly coming off my tippy toes

" hey Archie," I said as I had a large grin plastered on my face. His response was to roll his eyes at the nickname but he couldn't control a smile coming out. he hated when anyone called him his full name of Archie well except for me.

" hey Ash" he replied his voice sending me a throbbing pulse below my belly. He put his arm around my shoulder giving me a forehead kiss. I looked around to see if anyone had noticed that but they were too busy talking about the extravagant holidays they went on during the summer.

" I missed you while you were in Europe" he said interrupting my thoughts. I smiled I liked the feeling of being missed by Arch.

" yea can't say the same about you" I replied exactly when Daisy Albright and arch's sister walked down the corridor. this was surely going to be awkward I knew that the siblings had a massive fight during summer when I was in Europe about Daisy. I felt Arch's gaze shift from me to the two girls. Edith's same blue icy gaze was burning holes into her brother and the blonde next to her was looking straight at me and Arch, noticing that his arm was wrapped around me. However, we were always like this so I hope she didn't take it differently. I gave her a small smile which she returned back to me. Edith's gaze slowly came to mine, her icy gaze melting at the sight of me. I grinned running up to her and engulfing her in a massive hug which she returned.

" ASH I missed you so much Jesus it's been so long I thought you were coming back a week before school started that's what Clifford told Father"

" yea we ended up staying longer because Mother wanted to meet up with her French friends and sail on a yacht you know how she is" I replied.

My parents were nice and severely nice compared to the Lancaster's and other families. They loved each other their romance started in Lancaster Prep high school sweethearts. 

"Oh, how I would love to be Lillian" Edith called out dreamily. She had an insane love for my mother. Since she and her mother weren't as close, she reached out to my mum for guidance and support when needed. I think that also somehow made us closer.

She quickly looked over to her side where Daisy was awkwardly waiting for Edith to finish so they could go somewhere far away from her ex-boyfriend's glare.

" so I think me and Daze should go but come to my room after class so we can talk about everything god I missed you so much" Edith said before waving goodbye and walking outside with Daisy.

I returned to my group of friends and noticed that Arch still had a scowl on his face which caused me to laugh

" you know you could try and be a bit nicer to her rather than giving her dirty stares every time she walks past you," I said which caused him to look down and me to soften his beautiful face

" Who are you talking about Daisy or My sister"
He asked

I shrugged before answering " both"

At the same time, the bell rang for the start of the school year.

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AUTHORS NOTE 👣

hey guys this is the first of many hopefully ( praying). i love the Lancaster prep novels and love Arch Lancaster and his personality so I wanted to change some parts and add my own character. This is how I would imagine Arch and Ash so pls love them as much as I do. 

thank you sm for taking your time to read I appreciate it so much and I'm so grateful 🥹❤️‍🩹