California Dream

Chapter 11

*Connor's PV*

I wake up the next morning and reach for my phone. Every part of me tells me to text Annie but I know I can't. I don't deserve her and I never will.

I decide to text Ashley, she's always been a lot of help when I need someone to talk to.

Me: Hey

She replies within a few minutes.

Ashley: hey(: what's up?

Me: I wanted to talk to you about yesterday

Ashley: ok what about it?

Me: well I lied to my girlfriend and told her I was going to a meet up instead of hanging out with you. I thought she was staying home all day but she ended up going to Target and she saw us kiss. She broke up with me and I just really need someone to talk to.

Ashely: oh my god I'm so sorry this is all my fault. I should've never kissed you.

Me: it's not your fault it's mine if I would've just told her the truth none of this would've happened.

Ashely: Can I go talk to her I feel like I need to say something to her.

Me: sure.

I give Ashley her address and we eventually stop talking. I fall asleep again thinking about Annie.

*Ashley's PV*

I drive to the address Connor had given me. I pull up to a nice big house in front of the beach. This is all my fault why was I so dumb. Why couldn't I just keep my hands off Connor? We've been over for a good 9 months and I've never felt the urge to want him back, why now.

I knock on the door. "Just a second!" I hear from inside. The door opens revealing a really pretty tall girl with short brown hair.

"Uh is Annie here?" I ask.

"Yeah come in. I'll go get her." The girl runs upstairs and returns with another pretty girl with long brown hair.

"Are you Annie?" I ask not exactly sure what I'm going to say to her.

"Yup," she answers. I look at her and I can see the effects of the breakup on her. There are heavy bags under her eyes. She looks so frail and delicate like at any moment she could collapse and just shatter to a million pieces.

"Hi I'm Ashely," I say to her.

*Annie's PV*

Erin appears in my doorway,"you have a visitor."

"Ok," I reply back heaving myself up off my bed. I walk downstairs to find a girl standing in the doorway.

"Are you Annie?" she asks.

"Yeah," I say a little confused.

"I'm Ashley," she says looking me in the eyes. The moment I hear her name it almost sickens me. I know none of this is her fault but I want it to be. I want to blame it on every other person but Connor, but I know I can't.

"Hi," I say trying to clear out the thoughts of hating her. "Come sit down," I motion to the living room.

We sit down in separate chairs. "You're probably wondering why I'm hear." she lets out.

"Yeah a little," I say with a little laugh trying to lighten the mood.

"Connor texted me and told me what happened. I just feel like this is my fault too not just Connor's. I just want you to know that he didn't send me here either I wanted to come," she says.

"I understand," I say back.

"Me and Connor broke up about 9 months ago. We just decided to break it off because we got along better as friends than as a couple. I just asked him to hangout yesterday but we somehow just started talking about our relationship and I was stupid and kissed him. He even told me that you two were together, but I lost my mind and ended up kissing him. I'm so sorry."

At that point I honestly don't know what to say. I just start crying. God I'm such a baby I really need to stop crying every time I think about Connor.

"Please don't cry." she pleads. "God I'm such a bitch." She curses to herself.

"You're not a bitch," I say to her.

"If I wasn't I wouldn't have kissed him," she replies.

"We all do things we don't mean to do sometimes."

"I know but I should've controlled myself."

"It's fine please just don't blame yourself," I say to her.

"I should get going," Ashley says as she gets up from the chair.

"Well thanks for coming by and just talking to me about this," I say as I take her to the door.

"I really hope you and Connor eventually work out," she says turning towards me. "The way he talks about you sounds like you really mean a lot to him." She turns to the door and walks to her car. I close the door behind her.

Why did she have to say that? every part of me already wants to run to Connor and be with him forever, but that just made it 10 times worse.

I look in the kitchen and begin to realize I haven't eaten since yesterday morning. It's now 2:00 in the afternoon. I open the fridge door looking for something that appeals to me. I find some goldfish on top of the fridge and take the whole box with me back upstairs.

Erin walks into my room a few minutes later and plops down on my bed. "So what did that Ashley girl want," she asks as she steals some goldfish.

"She just came over to tell me that the kiss was her fault and she feels really bad about what happened."

"Oh. Well you want to know something that might possibly cheer you up a bit?" Erin questions.

"Sure."

"Jc asked me out on a date for tonight," she says as a big grin appears across her face.

"No way! That's awesome!" I say as enthusiastically as I can.

"I know! what should I wear?"

"Where are you going?"

"We're going to go to Disney. You're welcome to come if you want. I think Kian said he'd come if you go," she says.

"Yeah I'll go. I really need to just get up and do something instead of moping around the house," I reply.

"Ok! I'll tell Jc." She whips out her phone and quickly texts Jc. "He said he'll tell Kian and that they'll be over to pick us up around 6," she says reading the text straight off her phone.

"Sounds good." I try to pep myself up as much as possible so I'm not a Debbie downer tonight. I can't ruin Erin's first date with Jc I know how much this means to her.

We take showers and fix our hair. We then apply makeup then choose our outfits. I see a text from Connor on my phone. I fight the urge and delete the message without reading it. I'm going to have fun tonight and thoughts about Connor are not going to ruin that for me.

N/R ok well that's the first chapter for the day! Hope you liked it, if you did vote if you didn't still vote! Comment your thoughts too! thanks for reading guys.