Invisible Angel

The First Night

We arrived at Brendon and Ryan's apartment. They led me over to the couch and asked me what brought me to Haven County. I spilt my guts. I told them everything - explaining how every wound appeared and told them of Jonathan and my Mother. They both had a look on their face of complete shock. They both apologetically hugged me. Ryan looked like he was so disturbed by the facts I just poured out. I felt like saying something to him, but I kept my mouth shut. I've done my fair share of talking for the night.

Brendon went to bed, while Ryan bought me a blanket and told me I could sleep on the couch. "Uh, you might want to change into something more comfortable." he said. "I would, but I don't have anything to change into," I explained. I followed him to one of the back bedrooms, obviously his. He gave me a fallout boy tshirt and grey sweatpants that would be a thousand times to big for sure. I knew they'd be comfy. Ryan sent me to the bathroom to change.

I later came back to Ryan's room to show him how stylish I looked. He was wearing clothes similar to the ones I was wearing. "Looking great!" he exclaimed in a ecstatic sarcastic manor. "haha, very funny ryan."

He looked around his room for a little bit. It was a cool place, lots of guitars, a record player... Ryan seemed like such a cool guy. He looked back up at me nervously and scratched the back of his head. "Has anyone ever told you, that, um, well..." he trailed off mid sentence. "Haha what?!" I exclaimed. "You're like, drop dead gorgeous."

I felt so flattered. This cute guy told me I was gorgeous!? I thanked his kind words and told him I was tired, and headed to the couch to sleep. We exchanged goodnights and I walked out to the living room, sitting up on the couch and popping another pill. I looked up to see Ryan standing right before me. Before I could pop my second, he removed it from my hand, ejected it back into the bottle, sealing the cover and putting it in my backpack. He placed his hand under my chin, forcing our eyes to meet. "No," he said very softly. So far hes seen me in the act quite a few times - On the bus, by the streetlight, possibly in the ally and now in his living room. Geez, I wonder what he thinks of me.

I took in a breath of air to say something, but Ryan placed his index finger delicately over my mouth and said "No,'' again, in that familiar voice I heard for the first time on the bus, approximately two hours before. He went to walk out of the room but turned around and said "Um, I don't think I caught your name before..." "Its Ashlyn. Ashlyn Carter." "Oh wow, what a pretty name... Im Ryan. Ryan Ross."

"Goodnight Ashlyn."

"Goodnight Ryan."

He shut the light and left the room.