WEST COAST 18+

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I should mention that these recent chapters aren't really day by day. I don't want a certain chapter to come up and somebody goes, "did I miss something?' cause I'm saying it now.

W E S T C O A S T

"Daniela," Ashton called out, catching his sister about to pass his bedroom door.

"What shithead?" she asks breathlessly, already annoyed by him.

"What do I wear for a date?"

Her head popped in just before she could get far. "A what now?" This sounded like gibberish coming from him. "I must be high 'cause this ain't normal."

Ashton tries to explain, "Georgie convinced me to ask Raquel out-" but Daniela gasped and cut him off.

"And she said yes?!"

"Yes," Ashton responded, face hotter than hell. Even he couldn't believe it, and the fact that Raquel was happy to go with him. Ashton thought it was a prank at first, looking for the cameras.

Daniela clapped her hands with her bangles clanking, squealing. "I can't believe you really went for it." Plopping down onto the edge of his bed, "Okay, okay. So, when's the date?"

"Tonight-"

She hopped up, "Tonighhht?"

"At seven."

"At sevennn?" Her head whipped to the clock on the wall, "That's in two hours," but Ashton remained calm. "You need to be getting ready, brushing them yellow ass teeth-showering that nasty body so you don't walk out smelling like that."

Ashton smelled his underarm, "Smelling like what?"

"Ass, bounce that to be specific," making her way to where his clothes hung. "I'ma search through ya closet so you can look like something. And while you in that tub, get them feet."

Ashton groaned, grabbing his towel off the dresser. "I gotta get in between my toes, too?"

Daniela grew disgusted. "yes, nasty. Ew," Ashton chuckling and searching for some underwear. "Where are you taking her?"

"Um, I was just going to ask her what she wanted to do." Seeing his sister slowly turn around and never blinking, he sees there was a problem with what he said. Ashton scratches his head, "or maybe I sit and think before leaving the house."

"Yeah, you do that," her mouth twitching. Daniela considers the hour and what teens might like, brainstorming while pushing through graphic tees. "Well, depending on the type of girl Raquel is, she could be down for a movie and arcade or skating. When I was her age, I wanted fun dates. I still do, but every now and then I like something fancy."

Ashton made a decision: "Movie and arcade it is." He'd bust his ass at the skating rink, and the whole point was to not embarrass himself in front of his crush.

"She likes comedy, or she a horror girlie?" Daniela asks, Ashton's face telling that he was just as clueless as her. "What do you know about this girl?" He told her they were speaking more at lunch, so there had to have been something he knew about her.

"I know her name's Raquel and that she's super pretty," he smiles.

"Do you listen to her at all?" Daniela mumbles as Ashton stood there. "Well, tonight gives you the floor to ask a bunch of questions to get to know her and listen. If you need help, try the basics. Did you grow up in LA? What's your favorite thing about it? Do you have a super cute sister like I do?"

"More like ogre," Ashton said while bending his knees and hunching his shoulders.

"Yet this ogre got a boo thing, and what you got?" shutting Ashton up completely. Nodding repeatedly, "Yeah. Yeahhhh." Taking out a black shirt from his closet, she slings it his way, "Let her choose the movie."