Liberation [completed]

Feelings- Mia

See, Asher doesn't love you or even like you that way. Stop thinking that way. I tell myself as I hear his words loudly and clearly echoing on replay in my head. 

Mason had asked if we love each other and Asher practically shut him up and told him the answer to the question. I wasn't saying I loved Asher. But I might, possibly, on some level have a huge crush on him. I mean he was good looking and he was super nice and hasn't in any way made me feel threatened. Yet, it was so simple to mistake his actions of kindness for something more.

He was always so nice to me and he gave me everything I wanted even if he may not necessarily agree with the way I do them. He took care of me and stood by me these past few weeks. I mean in the first few weeks I was here, he came home from work every day for lunch just to make sure I ate. Who does that? And then just earlier he tried to comfort me and lessen the blow of my failed baking attempt. He even offered to eat my cake! It was bland and not sweet at all, I tried it before we went back to find Mason, it wasn't something you'd eat on your free will. 

Then there was the way I felt every time he touched me. Gosh, his fingers were magic. They had to be, I loved the way he made me feel. I felt so safe and protected with him. I no longer saw him as a scary big man. I knew he could get angry and he has gotten mad at me a couple of times. We both have, but I never got scared of him. I also knew that I could trust him, he had shown me in his actions that I could. He made me happy, something I had forgotten how to be. I did have small bouts of unhappy moments and phases where I felt like the other shoe was going to drop but Asher always worked hard to make me forget about it and cheer me up. 

As much as I wanted to think that he didn't like me more than just a human or a friend, the way he behaved didn't seem to add up. I mean I have been watching a couple of romantic movies and reading a lot of romance novels and the guys usually seem super nice to the girls they like, Asher was really nice to me. They held their girlfriends and comforted them when they were upset and they found every excuse they could to hold them. I wanted Asher to touch me cause I loved his touch but it also felt like he loved holding me just as much. But I was probably playing it up in my head.

Though, earlier when he was hugging me, I thought I felt his lips on my hair as though it were a kiss. I couldn't tell cause it was so quick. I was probably overthinking this. Why would he kiss me? I was poor and uneducated, stupid, incapable of doing anything and weak, nothing like the girls he would like.

"ASHER? MIA? MASON?" I hear our names being called from downstairs and look up at the two guys in the room.

"They're back!" Mason cheers and runs out of the room to his parents.

"Finally" Asher sighs and looks at me happily.

I force a smile and stand up to follow him out of the room.

I walk down the stairs to see, Leah hugging Mason and smiling at him. Hunter watched the two of them happily.

"Took you two long enough" Asher grumbles and stands at the bottom of the steps.

"We are early," Hunter tells him smiling.

"Could have been earlier" Asher snaps at him.

"Anyway, thanks for taking care of him." Hunter says ignoring the cold behaviour from Asher, "Thank you, Mia. We really appreciate it." He says looking at me.

"It was no problem," I say smiling at him and looking at Leah and Mason.

"Thank you both, have a great evening!" Leah says smiling at me, "I'll come over later this week" She tells me and I smile back at her. I loved having Leah over. She was fast becoming my very first proper girl friend.