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Nine

ASHTON

I’ve been rolling my timeline on twitter without paying any attention for almost an hour, I’m a little distracted I guess. I can’t stop thinking about Summer and how things are doing so great for the both of us. It’s almost 10pm and I’m comfortably lying on my bed, it’s nice to have a time on your own once in a while, to put your thoughts in order.

I’m still feeling bad about how things ended up with my father, but what bothers me is not how my relationship with him is gonna be from here on, but my relationship with my mother. I find it hard to believe that he’d just leave this behind and don’t tell her what happened, but I suppose the only thing I still have left is hope, right?

The hard knock on the door gets me out of my thoughts. Who is it at this time? Probably the building’s manager complaining about the drums that I had just played again. Gosh, I hate that guy.

I’m surprised when I find Summer waiting for me.

“Hey, what are yo…”

“Why the fuck didn’t you tell me Logan was cheating on me?!” She says roughly, interrupting me.

I’m almost sure my heart actually stopped for a few seconds before coming back to beating extremely fast. My smile disappears and I suddenly feel exposed.

“I… I didn’t. How did you…?” I can’t express myself, my voice comes out low. I don’t even know what’s going through my mind right now.

“When Logan came to my place he said you were just waiting for the right time. It’s true, you just played the nice friend. You knew the whole time!” She yelled and I realize she’s shaking.

Something clicks inside my mind and I understand what’s happening.

“Geez, what’s wrong with Hannah?” I ask in anger, more to myself than to Summer.

“What’s wrong with you? I can’t believe you lied to me Ashton!”

 “I didn’t lie to you Sum! I just… Kept information” That sounded better in my mind.

She laughs humorless “Yeah, really important information. You are my friend, at least that’s what I thought. You knew Logan cheated on me and you never told me! I made a fool of myself and you didn’t even cared!”

This can’t be happening. I’m starting to feel desperate.

“Hannah didn’t tell either, okay? Don’t blame this all on me!”

“The only reason she didn’t tell me was because you were acting like a fucking idiot and asked her not to!”

“I’d prefer if she just told you right after knowing about it than tell you now” I murmur, though I know that saying that won’t help my situation. But I don’t know what will.

“Hannah was only trying to be a better friend than you Ashton, she was trying to make it up to me!”

“Hannah was just being a bitch!”

I don’t even hesitate in screaming that. Though I’m so scared for what Summer might be thinking of me right now, my anger for Hannah is taking over me.

I sigh deeply, trying to control myself. I can think of Hannah later, I need to explain things to Summer now. She keeps looking at me serious, it hurts me to say that there's repulsion in the way she stares at me.

“Sum, please just let me explain. It’s not like that, okay?” I say in a lower tone, trying to take her hand but she steps back.

“Do you have any idea of how I felt when I saw him with that girl?” She asks, her eyes filled with tears “I felt like I was so insignificant, because he didn't care at all about hurting me. I felt so stupid for dating a guy like that. You didn't even mind about telling me before, so I wouldn't make such a fool of myself Ashton. And the fact is that now I feel even worse cause I found out that my best friends didn’t try to help me!”