Shattered

Never Too Early

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"Joshua?" Ashley snaps me out of my short daydream.

"Ohh hey! Sorry, i was spacing out for a moment there."

"Yeah, obviously." Ashley giggles.

What just happened felt weird, i don't even know why that happened. I know that feeling but i refuse to believe it, it's way too early to start having feelings for her, it's only been a few weeks.

"Let me guess who's picking you up today, your mom?" I say.

"Nope, my dad..."

"Dammit, i got it wrong... wait, your dad? Oh crap, i better get going then, don't want to let your dad see me talking to you."

Ashley's dad is known to be highly over protective and also very scary when he gets angry, which means the only thing that Ashley can say to boys is hello or goodbye... but obviously she's going to break her father's rules and talk to boys, unless her father is there with her.

*

THUMP

The sound the door makes when i close it echoes through out the house. Damn... i didn't put any effort trying to shut the door but it seems as if it just got slammed shut by a person with anger issues, it's fine, my dad's goning to get it fixed by tomorrow anyway.

Making my way to the couch, i put my beg down and i hear a faint jingling sound in the background growing louder and louder. A ball of fluff comes at me with it's tongue out and tail wagging, Ruffles. I bend down to pet him, i should enjoy my time alone at home while i can, because once my family gets home... well, it's back to the usual thing.

I turn on the TV to watch my favourite television series, The Walking Dead. I always wondered what would it be like if a zombie apocalypse did happen. Ruffles jumps on to the couch and sits on top of my lap, accompanying me. It feels great to be alone with Ruffles at home, without my family, but at the same time it feels lonely. I love Ruffles really much, but even he can't remove the feeling of loneliness that i feel. I've never been much of a "Social Media Freak" who spends most of his time online chatting with other people while posting stuff on the news feed. Instead, i've always been the one who stares at his phone hoping that someone would start a conversation with him, to make him feel like he's real, like he's actually there and remember that he is a person who actually exist... but receives nothing and is too afraid to start a conversation thinking that other people don't want to talk to him and finds him annoying.

But that's not happening currently, i have daily chats with people at school now, mostly Ashley, Laura and Zack... atleast for now.

Ruffles licks my hand, waking me up from my thinking session.

Dog or not, Ruffles is still the only one i can count on to fix me when i'm at home.

*

It's 11:00p.m at night and i'm in my bedroom texting Ashley.

"Sorry about making you walk away just now." Ashley says in her text message.

"Nah, it's fine, wouldn't want your father scolding you for talking to me :)" i reply.

"Thanks for caring :)"

"Btw there's something i really think i have to tell you." She sends to me after a short pause from her other text.

"Yeah? What is it?"

"...Ashley is typing..."

"Is this going to be really long? Cause you're taking quite some time to send this."

"Nevermind, i'll just tell you tomorrow." Ashley says, causing curiosity to build up inside of me.

What does she want to say to me? Did something bad happened? Is she hurt? Should i call her? Should i ask her to tell me now even after she said she'll tell me tomorrow?

"Okay, you going to sleep now?" I text back instead of asking about it.

"Yeah, kinda tired today." She answers back.

"Well then, good night. :)"

"Night Josh. :)"

The conversation comes to an end with her good night message to me.

Still can't help but think and worry if it's something bad. Then my thoughts shift to what happened this afternoon, when my heart skipped a beat infront of Ashley. I been feeling this for a few days now but never has the skip a beat thing ever happen until today. Is it really too early? I think it is... but is it really?