Until The End

"Lighten up!"

>>Ashley's POV<<

Waking up in his arms felt like the old days. I hugged my stuffed bear, Ben tightly. I had gotten him for my fifth birthday. In just three weeks time he will turn 11 years old. They just grow up in the blink of an eye, don't they?

---->4HOURS LATER<----

"D'you want to keep the hangers?" Asked the woman behind the counter who was bagging my newly bought clothing.

"No thank you."

"That's $189.70 then." She gave me a smile and wiggled her fingers in desperation for my money. Yes, i repeat, my money.

I fished through my purse and just about grabbed $200 or something - all I bought was two pairs of jeans - one denim and one a slightly lighter denim, a shirt, shoes, hair ties, makeup (foundation. concealer, mascara, lipgloss, lipstick, one eyeliner pencil) and a bag. Now how did I manage this? Seriously, all my money, just pissed away.

She sassily shoved my change out of the safe thing stores have to store their money. I took it out of her hand and gave a brief smile. What was her problem? Someone woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning.

"Recipt?" She lazily offered.
I rejected and picked up a nearby gift certificate.

"Could I buy this $10 gift card for my boyfriend?"

"Oh, men." She groaned. "running away it to screw some chick and forcing you to get a job in a, by the way, crap store."

"Uh, could I just have the gift certificate?"

"If you say sorry."

My eyes widened. "What?" I spoke in a high pitch. "What for?"

"Reminding me of that stupid asshole I shouldn't have dated. Aaron White."

"Uh, um, I-"

"Say you're sorry."

"But-"

"No buts, no ands, just apologize."

"Look," I spoke softly. "I don't need to apologize. I don't need to here your life story."

"Ugh," She moaned.

I looked at her, "I don't know him."

"He was just basically this sleeze-blob I used to date. Nothing exciting." She handed me the brown paper bag.

"But, what did he do?"

"Like I said, fled to screw some blonde bitch." She spoke, "How am I supposed to know?" She had her hands on the counter. "Just a bitch."

I giggled. "Yeah."

"Anyway, I'm not allowed to hold up the lines."

"Oh, um, sorry." I said awkwardly."Oh, can I just buy this gift certificate?"

She rolled her eyes, scanned it and I paid and left.

The hell just happened?

--->7 HOURS LATER (9:00pm)<---

Me, Troian, Shay and Lucy had agreed to meet up tonight, so we were just basically fooling around on the street in the dark night. The only lights were the bright ones from late night stores and clubs.

"Hey, you wanna hear a joke?" Lucy asked.

Everyone nodded but I was the one who spoke. "Okay."

"So," She cleared her throat, "Is Google female or male?"

"Uh, I don't know." Alison replied.

"Female." She smiled. "Because it never lets you finish talking without giving a suggestion!" She burst out laughing, slapping her thigh. Everyone else's mouths stayed straight.

"I'm laughing so hard." Shay said sarcastically.

"I'm hungry." I winced, rubbing my stomach.

"Well," Ashley pulled out a big chocolate bar from her purse. "Lucky for you, I have chocolate."

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HOLY SHIT I AM SO SORRY

i didnt update in a while because of school and my other story - i know this is SHORT BUT TRUST ME I HAVE  PLANS I JUST WANTED TO GET THIS CHAPTER OVER WITH OK? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

—amyxoxo