Dorms (Krashlyn)

Chapter 8

I'm not standing between Ashlyn's legs while she sits on the bathroom counter. I'm icing her face. She was hit really hard and her cheek is already swelling. I feel so bad, she didn't have to do that for me. I would barely even consider us friends. Why is she so nice to me lately?

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Ashlyn and I are laying on her bed, staring up at the ceiling.  It's getting pretty late but I don't want to leave yet. 

"I'm bored Ash, what can we do?"

"What if we invite one of the girls from our team and ask if they wanna come spend the night with us? We can all do something fun together when they get here."

"Okay, sounds good."

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We invited Sydney over. Ash and her have hung out a few times but I have barely talked to Syd. I talk to her during games but other than that, I don't really pay attention to the girl. Turns out I really like her, she's really fun and it seems like happiness just reflects off her. When she's happy it seems to make you happy too. We all just talked for a while so that Syd and I could get to know each other. Then we painted our nails. By the time our nails were done, it was already 1:42.

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It's 3:00 in the morning and I still can't sleep. After our nails dried, Syd said she was tired and that she wanted to go to bed since we have a game tomorrow. Ash has a king size bed so we decided that we could all probably sleep on it. Syd is laying on the right side of the bed, laying on her side with her back against the wall. I still can't sleep but I don't want to wake up the other girls so I try to lay still. I decide to face the other way. I move very carefully. I sigh a breath of relief once I have successfully turned without waking the others. "Are you awake?"

Crap, I woke up Ashlyn.

"Yeah."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"I know you're lying. Tell me what's wrong Ali, I'll try to make it better." Ashlyn moves closer to me and wraps her arms around me.

I sigh, I know she won't give up until she knows what's wrong. "I don't really know what's wrong. I had a really fun time with you and Syd today but at the end of the day, when all the fun is over, I am still stuck with myself. And it sucks. I can forget about everything for a while when I'm doing stuff because I'm distracted, but at night the thoughts and memories come back and it's just rough sometimes. But I'm fine. Can you just sing me a song? Pleeeease?" I try to change the subject since I can't believe I just told Ashlyn all that considering I just met her. Everyone thinks I'm perfectly happy because I'm too scared to open up, yet here I am, talking to a girl I just met.

Ashlyn kissed my cheek. "Fine, only for you. What should I sing?"

"Anything."

I rest my head on her chest while she begins to sing.

They'll be days, heart don't wanna beat. Pray more than you breathe. 

And you just wanna fall to pieces. And nights, with 2 AM calls.

Your dreams become walls and you just need a break.

Break on me. Shatter like glass. Come apart in my hands. Take as long as it takes, girl, break on me. 

Put your head on my chest, let me help you forget. When your heart needs to break just break on me.

They'll be times, someone you know becomes someone you new. But you'd do anything  to change it. And words you wanna take back, but you know you can't. When the pages can't won't turn and it still hurts, break on me. 

Shatter like glass, come apart in my hands. Take as long as it takes, girl, break on me.

Put your head on my chest, let me help you forget. When your heart needs a break, just break on me.

When you need somebody, when you need somebody right now, you're where I'll be.

Break on me. Shatter like glass. Come apart in my hands. Take as long as it takes, girl break on me. 

Put your head on my chest, let me help you forget. When your heart needs a break just break on me.

Break on me. Break on me baby.

I smile towards the end of the song. I liked the song she picked after what I had just told her. I cuddle up to her and begin to fall asleep, with Ashlyn's arms around me. Right before I fall asleep, I feel her gently kiss my forehead again.