The Love Diary

Chapter 5: Blushing

I read her eyes like paragraphs and her tears like chapters because she didn't have much to say with words, but rather, silence. And never let them tell you that silence, isn't beautiful. Silence is what happens when words fall asleep and you must carry the belief that one day, they will wake up inside you.

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Ashton's Diary:

Almost time. Hurry up bell. Gotta run gotta run. Gotta get to the library fast! I never thought I would say that in my life. I don't even think I've ever been in the library. I guess I never really had an important reason to go there.

*RRRRIIIINNNNGGGG*

FINALLY. Ok stay cool. No one knows where you're going.

"Ash! Where ya going? Cafeteria is this way!" Matt called out to me.

"I just need to go..." Shit! What do I say? Ok don't delay too long or he'll know you're lying. "... Meet someone. It's really important." I have many skills, but lying wasn't one of them.

"Who do you have to meet?" He just has to ask question. Ugh.

"Just someone I met from basketball. He's going to give me a few pointers to improve my game." I'm not a good liar but I have to admit that was a pretty good lie.

"Alright. Don't train too hard. Save some skills for Saturday."

"Will do." I told him. And without another word I walked as fast as I could - without looking like a complete weirdo - to the library.

When I got there, there was only one other person. But that person wasn't Peyton. I wonder why she was always late? Maybe her class was on the other side of the school or something?

Once she appeared in the doorway all I could do was stare. She looked different but I couldn't see from this far away.

"Hey Ashton." She said as she limped over to me.

Why was she limping? Did she trip and hurt her ankle or something? Does she have a black eye too? Maybe when she tripped her face hit the ground too.

"Hey. Why are you limping and why do you have a black eye?" I asked her.

"Oh. Umm. I fell down the stairs and into a door handle. Haha. Clumsy me." She sounded nervous. Was she lying?

"Ok. I hope you feel better soon."

"Thanks. Anyway we need to get this project done for chemistry."

*One hour later*

"Finished! Finally. Jeez that was boring. Stupid chemistry." I exclaimed.

"I know. To whoever created chemistry, I hate you." She said while laughing. Peyton is too perfect.

"Well at least we got our project done on time. So we didn't fail completely."

"That's an awesome sign!" We both broke into laughter.

"SSSHHHHH!" The librarian exclaimed.

"Sorry." We whispered in sync.

As soon as we said that we looked at each other, almost as if we were having a silent conversation. And in that moment, as she looked down at her book and blushed, I knew...

I was in love with her.

*RRRRIIIINNNNGGGG*

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Peyton's Diary:

"SSSHHHHH!" The librarian exclaimed.

"Sorry." Ashton and I said in sync.