Never the Same

Eighteen

It's been about five months since I hooked Blair and Alison up with Camden and Jaydon. To thank me, all eight of us decided to go on a four-way date. Yes, all eight of us, Trenton and Kate! We all run over to Kate's house one Friday and get ready for our dates, the boys wouldn't tell us where we were going. Kate finally died her hair a brown color with some blonde highlights that showed off her grey, blue eyes so she could enroll at Anderson High. She enrolled today and she'll be there on Monday for her first day of school.

Kate decided to wear a strapless coral dress with white polka dots on it, it reached her mid thigh, she threw her hair into a top knot bun. She put on mascara, eyeliner, some powder, bronzed, and a nude color lip stick. She threw on white vans. Her tan made her dress look a thousand times better. She threw on a cute silver necklace with a heart on it.

Alison decided to wear a red lace dress that reached mid thigh and sleeves went to her forearms, it had a black belt around the waist, she decides to throw on a black leather jacket. She wore black pumps that made her at least 5'7. She straightened her brunette hair and pinned it to the side. She wore a dark red lipstick, powder, mascara, and winged her eyeliner. She wore a black necklace that drew attention to her chest that looked amazing in that dress.

Blair wore a yellow and white dress, the top half was white and strapless with a black belt and the bottom half was yellow and reached her mid thigh. She straightened her hair and braided the front two sections of her hair and tied them around her hair. She put on mascara, eyeliner, and nude lipstick. She wore black high top converse and a long beaded black necklace.

"Aspen, were gonna dye your hair," Kate said and smiled before pushing me down in the chair over her makeup desk.

"What? No," I scream, no way were they dying my hair!

"And were cutting it. I know how to do it. It will go down to your belly button though. Don't worry," Blair said and smiled. Before I could say anything Blair started cutting my hair.

"Blair! Stop!" I struggle against Kate and Alison who were holding me down in the chair.

"I suggest you stay still unless you want your hair being uneven," Alison says and touches up her lipstick.

"Fine," I mumble and let them dye my hair and cut it. They wash it out in the sink, how ghetto are we? Kate covers my eyes and leads me back into the seat that I was in.

"Were gonna do your makeup," Kate squeals and starts putting concealer under my eyes, she puts on mascara, eyeliner, a brown smokey eye effect, and pink blush. She throws me my dress for tonight and shoves me into her gigantic walk in closet. I throw my dress on and walk out.

"Now you may go into the bathroom and look at your final look," Alison squeals and pushes me into the bathroom. My baby blue dress with lace on the top half, reached mid thigh and had slits at the sides and brought out my tan complexion. My hair was cut and was dyed a dirty blonde color, they curled it and layered it. Damn, these girls knew what they were doing! I throw on some white lace toms. For accessories I threw on my charm bracelet my dad gave me when I was 14.

I walk out and all the girls cheer and whistle, "Zayum bae, you look hot," Blair screams and winks at me.

"Y'all are gorgeous," I say and blush right when the door bell rings.

"I'll get it," Alison screams and runs downstairs to greet the boys. We all run after her and she opens the door and yells, "Hey guys!"

"Hey," Kate, Blair, and I say before hugging each one.

"Aspen, your hair," Ryder says and grips onto my hair with his jaw hanging open.

I giggle softly before saying, "It wasn't my idea! I swear!"

"It's not down to your cute little ass anymore!" This time I just give him the cut it out glare.

"They cut it too. I'm sorry if you don't like it." I start looking down and play with my feet. His hand goes under my chin and forces me to look into his emerald eyes.

"I love it." He crashes his lips on mine and a million sparks go off, his lips were slightly chapped but I didn't mind at all. I cup my hands on his cheeks and kiss him back softly. Note to self: reapply lipstick soon.

"Get a room," Jaydon yells, I pull away from Ryder and look at Jaydon who has his arm around Alison and her hand was placed on his chest. They really are a picture perfect couple.

"Later then my princess," Ryder whispers from behind me and wraps his arms around my waist. I nod, my mouth was slightly dry, probably because Ryder's black button up shirt showed off his muscles perfectly.

"Leggo," Alison screams and we all rush outside to find four motorcycles parked in Kate's driveway.

"You know the drill Smith," Ryder says and holds out his helmet and I smile before hopping on the back. With that, were off.

I've grown to love this seat made of leather, I've grown to love the way my head rests on Ryder's back, I've grown to love the way I still hang tightly on his waist, I've grown to love the way the wind feels when it blows my hair all over, I've grown to love Ryder's chuckles, I've grown to love the way his voice tells me it's okay, I've grown to love the way I feel like I'm flying, and lastly I've grown to love my new comfort zone. With all these thoughts in my head, we get to the restaurant in no time.

"Here let me help you off," Ryder says and takes my hand to help me off the bike, I take the helmet off and hand it to him, he smiles and shows off his little dimples that I love.

"Your dimples are so cute," I say and poke his dimples softly.

"You're so cute." He pecks my cheeks and I feel like they were on fire. I was blushing, hardcore.

"Stop it. I'm blushing." I batt my eyelashes cutely at him and he wraps his arms around my waist and leads me inside. I get a few stares from guys with there girlfriends but nothing new, Ryder's jaw tightened when he saw the boys looking at me and his grip on my waist became deadly.

"Hey baby. It's just you and me tonight. No other boys, well besides Jaydon, Camden, and Trenton," I whisper in his ear and peck his lips, hoping he'd understand that I only want him.

"It's hard when all of them are looking at you like you're some cheap slut," he whispers back.

"Look at me. Just us." I catch his emerald eyes for a second before we follow everyone to a table.

"Oh shit," Ryder says to Jaydon who was sitting to the right of him while I was on the left.

"Amanda," Jaydon whispers back and me and Alison look at each other, confused.

"Hey. Can we talk to y'all for a second," Ryder asks me and Alison and we nod at them.

"What's that all about," Alison asks Jaydon when we get outside.

"Well, sophomore year, when I met Ryder. I was dating a girl, Amanda, who was a senior at the time. And she's our waitress," Jaydon says, me and Alison were lost but Jaydon continued, "And when Ryder came along she screwed us both over and was fucking us at the same time." I look at Alison, she was fuming mad at Jaydon.

"You lying son of a bitch! You said you were a virgin when I met you! Leave me alone!" And with that she stormed inside.