The Reject

Walks and Talks

The day I shared my lunch with him and after a long afternoon of classes I met up with him to walk home from school. It was about a twenty minute walk home which I didn't dread for once. We talked about the homework in a class we had together and got to know each other better. We walked side by side, his head focused on the sidewalk most of the way home. I watched his head slowly rise from my peripherals and look towards me. "Mia?" he questioned. "Hmm?" I responded. He was silent for a moment too long. "What is it?" I giggled, nudging him in the side making him stumble onto to boulevard. "..do you like music?" he asked nervously. I looked at him if he were insane. "Do you like breathing? Of course, I love music!" I found out we had the same taste in music and mentally high-fived myself and tried to hide my over the moon excitement.  He handed me his phone when we reached my house and asked for my phone number. I typed it into his phone and told him I would see him tomorrow. He waved goodbye as he made his way to his street. 

After dinner I was up in my room doing a combination of completing some homework, scrolling through social media and dancing around to an old Sum 41 album. My phone lit up and buzzed on my bed. The number didn't show any caller ID but I picked up anyways. 

"Hello?" I asked cautious of who was on the other line. I heard an inhale on the other end before I heard a familiar chipper voice. "Hey Mia! It's me Ashton." My heart fluttered a little bit knowing he was thinking about me. I thought to myself 'Am I really feeling this way about a guy who I barely know? The most he probably needs and the most you probably need right now is a friend.' I tried to swallow my nerves and excitement. "Oh, hey Ash!" I basically shouted. Way to play it cool. He giggled on the other end of the line because it came out sounding more sassy then excited. "I was wondering if you wanted to hang out this Saturday?" he asked nervously. "I would love to! I just have to work until two and then I'll be free the rest of the day." I told him. "Sounds good, i'll come over at three if that's okay?" he asked sounding a little hesitant. "Yea, three's good!" I told him. The line went silent for a minute. "I'm sorry, I'm not too good with taking on the phone.." he apologized. "What do you mean sorry? I should be the one apologizing for my awkwardness!" I giggled. "Can I just text you instead?" he inquired. "Yea, for sure! Bye Ash!" I replied quickly hanging up. My phone buzzed immediately.

518 246 8012 : HEY! Way to hang up on me! :(

Mia :) : Woops, sorry Ash! :$ 

Ash :D : S'all good :)

We texted for the rest of the night and I didn't bother finishing my homework. 

I woke up to my phone buzzing. It was Ashton. He sent me a text asking if I wanted to walk to school with him. I don't remember falling asleep at all. I hope I didn't send him texts while I was half asleep. I scrolled up through my phone convo from last night. Shit, I did. After getting ready, sending him an apology text, I ran downstairs to see Annabelle twirling in her piglet onsie, singing about it being Friday. I decided to join in on her dance and giggled and sang along. 

I made my way out the door sitting on the steps and waited for Ashton when I realized the time. I saw him walking up to my house with a big grin plastered on his face. My face started to turn shades of pink and I hid my face in my sweater. "Don't worry Mia, most of those texts were incapable of deciphering with all of those typos." he snickered. I poked my head out of my sweater so I could see of he was being genuine. He looked beautiful today, his hair was a curly mess covered with a bandanna, he wore black skinny jeans, vans and a worn burgundy sweater. His hazel eyes met mine and I saw that he had genuine (and majorly hot dude) written all over him. I let out a small gasp realizing that I was accidentally staring at him and quickly looked away. "Common, were going to be late!" I said jumping up of the steps, grabbing his arm, and dragged him down the sidewalk as he whined about how early it was.

Although I had to work tonight after school, it went by faster then I had hoped. Mainly because I couldn't keep my mind off of Ashton. I keep trying to convince myself that the only thing I should want right now is a really good friend, but a voice in the back of my head keeps trying to convincing me that I should strive for more. I mean he is a really good looking guy, after all I did bump into Bianca because I was secretly staring at him. I probably wouldn't have a chance with him anyway. He's way out of my league. He's like five leagues ahead of me. 

When I got home from work I went straight to bed hoping I could get some sleep before my early shift tomorrow morning. About two hours later I woke up to a crash of thunder and started to panic. I looked over at my clock and it read 2:27am. Great I had to be up in a couple hours. I probably wouldn't get much sleep tonight. An hour later of panicking and trying to sleep, I decided to text to see if he was awake.

Mia :) : Hey. Are you awake? I can't sleep during storms, they give me anxiety. :(

I didn't receive a message and thankfully fell asleep while waiting for one. I woke up at 6:30 to my alarm clock, dragging myself out of bed. Hopefully today will be a great day with Ashton.