Forgetting Ashley

Chapter Three

I woke up in Ashley's bed, well my bed now. I went to the bathroom with my towels and had a shower. I probably took an hour because I was tired and a bit depressed. I jumped on my bed and pulled out my laptop. I logged in and looked at the screen, the slide show background of pictures of Ashley and I was on. I teared up as I saw a picture from the day of the accident came up. We were both smiling and laughing.

I miss her.

I walked down stairs trying not to make noise so my parents wouldn't notice me. I crept into the kitchen to find something to eat.

Ashley and I would play a game where we would each sneak downstairs while out parents were watching TV, one of us would keep watch and warn the other when either of the rents were coming. We would try and sneak food up to our room with out making a sound.

I always won but Ashley was pretty good at it.

"Ashley, come in here please." My mom said and I dragged myself into the family room, "Honey, are you ok? We know that you are sad about your friends and sister, but-"

"We want you to know that you can talk to us. We love you, Ashley, and we want you to be happy." My dad said and held my mom's hand.

"Yah I know/ I am sad about Talia and my friends but because of this, I am a new person. I mean, I held my sister's dead body. I know you guys love me and all but I just was to try and get through this myself. I'm going to go to the hospital, ok?"

"You should get something to eat. I'll make you some pancakes." Dad said.

"I'll grab something on the way." I grabbed my shoes and coat and walked out.

------------------------------------------------------A few minutes later_______________________________

I sat on the ground outside Nils' house throwing rocks and dirt at his window "Nils! Come out and play!" I screamed at his window.

I threw a final fist full of dirt at his window when I heard it open. It hit him full in the face. He stood there motionless with his eyes closed and his un-impressed face on "You know what, you can be really juvenile sometimes."

I smiled widely "Are you gonna come out and play? If not I'm going to go to Subway and grabe some food."

"Subway you say... Ok wait up. I'll be down in a sec." He closed his window and I saw him run down the stairs. When he passed the window by the stairs he gave me a funny face.

"HURRY UP, SLOW POKE! Or I'LL LEAVE WITHOUT YOU!" I heard him scurry around like my dogs so when my mom is vacuuming.

"Ok, I'm here. Let us go." We started walking down the gravel path to his other car. "I finally got my keys back."

"Did your step mom take them away because of the accident? Is she afraid you'll cause another one?"

"Yah, but I got my engine and stuff all checked for any faults in this one, and, nothing showed up, so she gave me back my keys."

We headed to Subway. I got a foot long because I was starving. "Nils," I said with a mouth full of food "do you know what? I am feeling better. It's been three days since the accident and I am feeling better."

"You sound kind of morbid." I gave him a confused look "Well your sister died and so did Kay and Arrow. And now you sound like nothing ever happened."

"I told my parents this morning that I wanted to deal with it on my own and so far I have. I mean, sure I miss them, and I am truly sad that they are dead, but they are in a better place where no pain or sadness can hit them. They are safe from everything."

"You're right. *sigh* But I want them back." we both sat in silence until we finished eating.

Once we finished we headed to the car and climbed in. "So..." I said trying to break the awkward silence.

"So... what?" I looked at him and burst out laughing "Are you high? Or are you just Ashley?" He loked at me and started laughing too.

We got to the hospital and tried to calm down. We asked the receptionist if we could see Damien and Jess. She said yes, so we walked... well skipped into the ICU. We got weird looks that just made us laugh.

*Knock knock knocaddy knock knock knock*

I heard a snort and someone scurrying to get to the door. Is he up and walking? "Hello? Oh, hey guys, come in." He looked like he just woke up. He went back to his bed and sat on the edge.. "How are you guys?" He asked yawning afterwards. I think we woke him up.

"I'm good and happy. We just came back from Subway." Nils said.

"Dude, NO WAY. Not fair. All I get to eat is icky hospital food. Did you go along with him Ashley?"

I was zoned out and Nils slapped my arm "What, I'm here." I was looking around lke crazy. "What I miss?"

"Oh nothing, Ashley. Just Damien's anger and hatred towards you." Evil-Nils-smile activate.

"You hate me?" I did teary-puppy-eyes.

"NO! I never said that I hated you. Please stop doing the teary-puppy-eyes. They make me feel threatened." He said opening his arms to invite me into a hug.

I walked over to him and accepted the hug. "You know I was only joking right?" I whispered in his ear.

"Yah I know. But I'm happy you told me and reassured my thoughts." He they went and kissed my neck.

My eyes opened and I blushed a bit. "I'm going to go and see Jess, ok? You guys can now talk about guy stuff." I smiled and walked out.

I walked down the hall and rubbed my neck where he had kissed it. I m never going to wash this side of my neck. Just joking around, I'd die if I did that. Wow, I can't believe I thought that, my mind is weird :P

I walked down to Jess's room and knocked on the door. Ashley always went to her whenver anything happened, so, since I am now Ashley I should do the same to seem like I am Ashley. I can't deny the fact that Jess didn't really like me because I was always with Ashley. We were twin sisters for heaven's sake. We got along like we were two halves of the same person... we were. "Yo, come in!" I heard Jess say, I walked in and sat on the edge of her bed "Wow, dude, whats up, you look like some one did something. Who did it and do I have permission to beat the person up? No one hurts Ashley and gets away with it." So she and Ashley were really close, wow.

"No one did anything to hurt me, its just that... Damien kissed my neck when we were hugging." She looked at me with her jaw wide open.

"What did you just say? Damien kissed your neck. I thought he liked Talia. Well at least that's what he told me. He did say that he had a melon sized liking on you, but his main focus was on Talia. Oops. You didn't hear that."

"Hear what?" I said trying to make her feel less insecure. "You know what. I only just noticed that I like him a bit, well more than a bit, a fair bit."

"You never told me that."

"Well, I did only just realize it. I felt like you should know."

"You did always tell me this kind of stuff. I'm happy that the accident didn't change you. What classes are you taking next year?"

"Well, Talia and I were going to take all the same classes so, bio, chem, physics, tech, english, double math, and that's it. What are you taking?"

"The same as always, bio, chem, human sciences, english, math, world religions, and a spare. I think that you and Damien have the same schedule." She wiggled her eye brows at me suggestively. "You and he can be lab partners, and tech buddies, and mathies, and english buds. I think that the both of you would like that." She gave a smile and lightly hit my shoulder.

"Yah, that would be nice." I blushed and sighed "Do you know what Nils is taking? He and I have grown close since the accident, he relies on me like he did Talia."

"Yah. Hey I have some great news!"

"Yah, what is it? Tell meeeeee!"

"Ok, come here."

We were alone in the room so I didn't know why she wanted to whisper it to me.