for the better. | grayson dolan ✔

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"ashley?" a voice called

i turned around and came face to face with brent.

now you see, brent and i have quite the past. he was my first love, the first person i had ever given my heart to and what did he do? break it.

when i confronted him about the rumours that i heard, he denied. after i kept nagging him about it, desperately wanting him to spill the truth. he did.

he had cheated on me with someone i had thought was my friend. someone who i thought would never do such a thing to me.

i used to feel butterflies in my stomach when i was with him, now all i felt was disgust.

i turned my back to him, continuing to do what i was doing pretending as if i hadn't seen him. although i knew he had seen me see him.

"ashley? is that you?"

i felt his breath on the back of my neck. after all he had done, he had the audacity to even stand this close to me?

i turned around "how may i help you sir?" i replied confidently.

"ash, its me. brent."

just looking at his face made me want to throw up but i was going to keep pretending as if i had no clue who he was because to be truthful, he wasn't the person i had once fallen in love with.

"sorry sir, i work here so please refer to me as ma'am or miss" i replied, not even wanting to hear my name come out of his mouth.

"ashley, what the hell? you know me, what are you playing at?" he said, slowly raising his voice.

before i could even speak, he grabbed me and started to drag me to the washroom. i tried to escape his grip, kicking and punching but he covered my mouth with his hand.

how could no one see?

i looked around and everyone was too busy in their own thing to notice, i called for help but nothing came out except a muffled voice.

"excuse me, what's going on here?" my co-worker ellie said, tilting her head slightly as she approached.

"she was just helping me" brent replied, letting go of me quickly. after a few seconds he backed up and ran.

he couldn't get away this time.

"ellie, call security, he tried to kill me" i yelled to her, out of breath.

she nodded before running off, disappearing behind the staff room door.

soon security around the area had chased brent away from the building but were unable to apprehend him.

however, they alerted the police.

ellie sat with me and tried to calm me down, brent was dangerous and i knew it.

*

my boss had let me leave work early and ellie had been kind enough to drive me home.

i was still very shaken up but decided to keep r from my mom. she tended to over stress and for all i knew, the police had probably caught him by now.

i decided to get the very little homework i had receive done because i didn't want to be behind in the first month of school.

i sadly pulled out my chemistry notebook and settled down for 3 hours of homework and review, because i sucked at chem.