Aleeshas pov
I hadn’t ever been to budgewoi so the day after short stacks tour had finished while we were there we went exploring. It was after lunch, we had attempted cooking lunch but neither of us were very good cooks so we decided to eat later and enjoy ourselves now. nobody else was awake so we snuck out and left them sleeping. Nax was wearing my shoes, I was wearing his. It seemed stupid but it was our thing, ever since nax borrowed my shoes for the concert. Holding nax’s hand we walked around, I couldn’t see why he liked me at all. My hair was a mess, tied up in some messy knot with the roots growing back, I was wearing a hoodie and skinnies. No makeup with blood shot eyes. Ew. But he obviously didn’t care because he was still holding my hand and had just pulled me closer to him. We had coffee in some random cafe, still trying to get over our hangovers. He talked, I listened. I talked he listened.
Well that’s what it should have been like but no. We weren’t perfect. I talked, he argued, he talked I argued. But to me, that was perfect. We walked for ages, ignoring the beach and instead going to the park. Well everyone knows no matter how old you are you’ll still run to get a swing at the park. We kind of just stared at each other with shifty eyes before taking of at top speed trying to push each other out of the way. I beat him by a second to the normal swing, leaving him to use the baby swing. Trying to get higher than him was almost impossible so i settled for tying to swing into him. This wasn’t the smartest idea seeing as it resulted in us both getting tangled and falling off, laughing and pushing each other. We mooched around the park for a while until I noticed someone familiar. It was Shaun, staring at the ground. A petite blond ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck and started sucking the face off him. Ouch. Shaun was the first guy ash had been able to trust since the rape so this was really going to cut her deep, not to mention me. I just wished everything would go right for once. But I couldn’t ignore this. Nax was quiet, obviously as shocked as me. I marched over to Shaun tapping his shoulder and pulling him around to face me. His face was red and he wouldn’t look me in the eye, but the stupid bitch he was with was still hugging him from behind. He tried to make excuses saying the this girl was just a teenie but I wasn’t believing a word of it.
The blonde kissed him again, and with it came a gasp. Ash was behind us, tears threatening to spill down her pale cheeks, her mouth was a thin line and she looked pissed. With a capital P. Shaun broke free from the blonde’s grip and full on bolted at ash, but she wouldn’t talk to him. ‘ash its not what it looks like, I swear she’s just a teenie!!’ even I was feeling sorry for him now, you could hear how much he didn’t want to lose her just by his tone. He tried to hug her but she avoided him, the silence was absolute murder but when she could finally talk all she said was “I trusted you, you were the only one I’ve ever trusted that much. And you’ve let me down. This fame is turning you into a complete ass, stay the fuck away from me shaun. I don’t care if you were here to meet me I never ever want to see your face again’ she spat out before turning and walking away. Shaun couldn’t argue, but by the look in his eyes you could see he was shattered inside. Yeah this was my cue to fufil my “best friend” duties so I gave nax a quick apologetic smile and ran after ash. She was sitting down by the edge of the lake, all scrunched up like a baby. She was crying, running her fingers over her wrists, across the necklace Shaun had given her. I sat down next to her, trying my best to hug her but trying to avoid the mixture of snot and tears running down her face. We sat there for hours, until it was dark. Ash didn’t want to go back to shauns, I didn’t want to leave her.
