Catching Me (Being Edited) ✔

Complicated (10)

I open the front door to the house, and Tyler, Jace and Nate are sitting on the sofa. I give them a faint smile before falling down on the arm of the sofa. I don’t say anything, and Jace is giving me a weird expression. I gather that Nate and Tyler filled him in about my past, I was planning to tell him at some point, but I just didn’t want anyone else to know. Nate was being nice, something which I’d not seen in forever, he was like this when we were first dating, but slowly got worst as each week went by.

“Scarlett, are you alright?” Tyler asks me, and I give him a weak smile before replying with the words.

“I think so, I talk to Kyle when I got up and well he said he will try and find out who it was. Jace I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, I mean you’ve been so nice to me this week, it’s just that well I didn’t really want to think about it.”

“Scarlett, it is fine. I mean hey you clearly not the same person, one question why?” there’s a long pause before I reply, biting down on my lower lip.

“It’s Tyler’s fault.” I say flashing Tyler a smile, Nate chuckles and rest his arm behind me and I look at Jace and say. “Tyler told you about the car crash right?” Jace nods his head, and I look at Tyler whose eyes are a little out of focus. “Well I thought it was god’s fault, so somehow I thought by burning down the church and killing the priest I would have somehow brought my uncle and cousin back. Clearly didn’t work.”

“I gather, but you’re okay right?”

“Um, Carter knows, Ashton knows, Nate knows, Jordan knows, Kyle knows, and well Ashley knows some of it, due to Tyler and Emily knew the whole thing, but as you know she’s no longer with us. I’ll be fine. I better just go and call Ashton.” I say getting to my feet and walking up to my room. I dilated his number, and it he picks it up on the second ring.

“Hello.” He says in a sharp tone, and I’m a little surprised by this, but know that my voice should make him seem a little bit happier.

“Ashton it’s me.” I say and I feel a smile come across my face, I may not be dating him for real but I did love talking to Ashton. It could be rubbished I just loved hearing his accent coming through the phone, it made me happy, and that’s what I needed at the moment.

“Hey babe,” With that I know the phone is on speaker, I didn’t really like being called babe and Nathan was the only person who got away with it because I was a little scarred of him. Ashton said babe to whine me up, and I knew he was just saying the word to prove a point with whoever he was with at that very moment.

“And I thought she’d vanished off the face of the earth.” I hear a voice in the background. I guess it was one of Ashton’s friends, Ashton was one of these people that everyone likes, and well everyone other than my brother likes him. He was a people person and well I struggled to get along with anyone there, he seem to have a stream of friends and most of this year I have been known as Ashton’s girl which is fine but I mean I was also known as the girl who messed up Jordan and Nathan’s ex which wasn’t exactly the most pleasant thing in the world so I guess I just had to move on a little bit.

“Shut up.” This was muffled a little bit, and I knew that it wasn’t aimed at me because I could hear a chuckle through the phone line which is certainly not Ashton’s laugh. “Scarlett what’s up? Sorry I’m just playing a game of poker.” I end up rolling my eyes and maybe there is more than one guy in the room, but this doesn’t surprise any me and I know that as soon as this call ends his friends will start to questioning him about me. As much as people didn’t really like me, I was still the most wanted girl at my boarding school. There was a poll, which Ashton told me about so therefore I knew. Guys would want me, but I didn’t exactly want them and most the time pretend that hadn’t even tried to get me.