Reality At It's Finest

Chapter One

Hey guys! Here's the first chapter to Reality At It's Finest! I hope you enjoy it because this is my favorite story I've ever written. This is my first attempt at a fiction story, so please leave feedback for me! It would mean the world to me if you did! Remember to check out my other stories, How To Be Stylish and Just For The Girls! 

 

Shelby

Chapter One

 

There could be no way that they would even think they would meet again after that. They went to different colleges, each around three miles from each other. There would be no way they would ever see each other again. So, they went off on their own separate ways. Ashley Chase finished up her year at the Alabama State University with a degree in Architecture. Daniel Robbins finished up his year at Athens State University with a degree in Engineering. They were never suppose to meet again.

 

“Ashley, when do you think you’ll actually find someone to settle down with?” Miranda Chase asks her daughter over the phone on their weekly three hour long conversation.

Ashley sighs loudly. “I don’t know mom.”

 

“So, Daniel, how are you an Abbey?” his friend Tyler asks as they sip beers together, watching the latest NBA game on the flat screen.

Daniel shrugs his shoulders. “Good, I guess.”

“You guess? Man, give me the details! Hey, have you gotten in her pants yet?”

“Come on man, seriously? No, I haven’t.”

Tyler sighs and takes a large gulp of his Bud Light. He doesn’t know what got into Daniel, but ever since him and Ashley broke up, he hasn’t been the same. Tyler thought Daniel and Abby were perfect for each other; in fact, he was hoping Daniel would ask her to marry him. Guess his thoughts were wrong.

“Sorry Daniel, I was only teasing.”

Daniel gives him a smile. “It’s alright.”

 

Ashley has had no notions of getting with any other men. Throughout the rest of her college life, she tried to start up some relationships to fill some void in her life. Maybe it has to do with the fact her parents got divorced when she was thirteen, and her father turned into an abusive man in his drug-induced stupors. With that in mind, she choose all the wrong guys. In the end, she was used and dumped the very next day after a night of drunken and sloppy hook-ups. After all those heartbreaking moments, she simply gave up on the notion of every being or finding love. A poor girl, never wanting to find love.

Her mother, well, being the typical mother, wants her daughter to find love. She wants her daughter to find something better than what she had. It’s a silly notion, wanting to live through your own children; But Miranda is the prime example of this. She wants to find a love like they talk about on the tv screen, or in the many romance novels she began to obsess over after the divorce. She didn’t get that with Jim - no, she got something she had to put up with to support her three children. It was all for the sake of the children, until it got to be too much of a burden to pretend.

Ashley can’t seem to make her mother happy, a fact she knew from the beginning. She was conceived unwillingly; her father had forced himself on her mother, resulting in her creation. Her mother couldn’t refuse her life, it seemed too cruel. It didn’t help that she was the last of her mother’s children. Ashley’s eldest sister ran away with a boy, one who she eloped with after some time and has started raising a family of their own somewhere down south. Her older brother, James, well, no one really knows where he went. The last letter they received had an address from somewhere over in Germany. None of them keep in touch, except the occasional letter that Karissa sends Ashley to send her pictures of her niece and nephew.