Beyond Her Beauty

Chapter Seven- Ashley's POV

Chapter 7

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Ashley's POV

I continued to cry but this time I didn't feel so alone, I felt safe. Conner's hug was warm and familia it reminded me of the old days.

When we were young we lived in another town, I used to get bullied because I was nerdy and couldn't fight back...but Conner would always come to my rescue. Conner was not strong nor big yet always instead of me getting hurt by words he would fight back, it would always end with him getting beat up but he always did it even though he got hurt more than me. From that day on I made it my responsibility to be the most popular and pretty girl at school.

"Conner..." I whispered in to Conners ear."Thank you."

Conner pulled away from me and I'm pretty sure he was smiling but without my contact lenses I couldn't see properly. Stupid eye sight.

"Your welcome. Now... are you honing to tell me why your crying?" I could hear the uncertainty in his voice but I also herd him wince slightly. Why was he wincing? Maybe I'm just hearing things, he has no reason to wince.

"Well..." I took a deep breath before continuing. "You know James right?"

I could hear him make a sound of disgust as I said James. I didn't know Conner didn't like James- well he didn't really like any of the popular's but never had he mad a noise when he heard there names, except Alexis but that was my fault.

Before I could ask anything about James, Conner quickly spat. "This was James' falt? He was the one who made you cry?" He spoke through grinding teeth.

I was surprised by his sudden change in attitude- just a minute ago he was smiling (I guess) and confuting me and now he was all angry and disgusted. What was with him?

"What's with your attitude? I didn't know you didn't like James." I was suddenly curious- why did my brother act like that when he knew this was about James?

I heard him chuckle, unconvincingly. "Ashley, I don't like anyone who makes my sister cry- no matter who they are." His voice had a trace of anger in it but Conner was trying to hide it.

"Ashley... what did he- what did he do to make you c-cry?" Conner asked stuttering slightly, concern was in his voice.

"He dumped me..." tears started to well up again and my breathing started to quicken. "...for Alexis."

Conner pulled me back in to a big, warm hug, his arms wrapped around me and I placed my head on his shoulder- I could feel hid breath on the back of my neck. He told me that everything is going to be okay and we just sat there hugging for a while.

I decided that I had cried enough now so I got up and walked over to the bathroom mirror.

I looked in to the mirror- squinting- I could barely see my face but I knew I looked a mess. I knew that my thick black mascara would be smeared all over my face, I knew that my bright red lipstick would have spread across my face, I knew that my eyes would be puffy and red from all that crying.

I splashed my face with some cold water. Refreshing. I tried my best to get all the make up off but i knew I had ultimately failed.

"You okay now?" asked Conner chucking me a towel to wipe my face with. I caught the towel and started to pat my face dry.

I just simply nodded.

"I'm fine. Now, why are you hear?" I asked realising that I had told him not to come till 11.

"Umm... I left something at home- I came back to get it." Conner lied- I could always tell when he was lying as his voice go higher than normal.

"Really?" I asked sarcastically, a little hurt that he was lying to me.

"Okay... I wanted to check out the party." He admitted. I burst out laughing. Conner had never told me he wanted to come to a party- he was never cool enough but he had been invited to a few party's. I mean Conner was a geek but he certainly wasn't ugly- without his glasses he is pretty good looking with his clear green eyes and eyelashes any girl would die for, quite a few girls were disappointed when he never showed to any of the party's.

"If you wanted to come to a party you should have just said I mean you have been invited to party's before but you never go." I laughed- I guess he's come out of his shell.

When we left the bathroom I put some more make up on and went back to the party where as Conner went strait to his room.

The party ended shortly after; Conner stayed in his room while I cleaned the house up, by the time I had finished it was 4:30am- I fell asleep shortly after.

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Hi,

So this chapter is from Ashley's point of view- Ashely is Conner's twin sister. In this chapter you learn a bit about Conner's past. Alexis will be in the next chapter.

Thanks to every one who reads, comments and votes. 😘😘😘

-Amani