Disconnected (Amnesia Sequel)

4 - Not such a Fairytale

'Get up Ash.'

I hear someone shouting at my room door.

'Stop shouting God Damn.' I yell.

'Well hello there.' Hayes smiles at my bedside.

'Why are you shouting?'

'I'm talking normally Ashleigh, you're just hungover.' He laughs.

'Who the fuck is shouting!' Ashton yells.

'Oh my God, Ashton what are you doing in my bed?' I gasp.

'The floor was uncomfortable and I didn't want to leave you alone.'

I sigh.

'I didn't touch you, I stayed on my side of the bed.' He scoffed

'Nathan's side of the bed.' I said. 'Oh my God Nathan. Where is Nathan?' I shout as I hop up out of bed.

'Come down Ash, he is still with his friends.' Hayes said.

'Oh.' Was all I could manage to say.

'As much as I love seeing you guys be delusional and attempt to control your hangover. I have better things to do.' Hayes said while walking out the room.

'How much did we drink?' I questioned.

'Ashleigh I love you and all but shut the fuck up, I need to sleep.'

'At least go sleep in the guest bedroom please. Nathan is going to come home any minute now and I don't think he'll like the fact that someone strange is in his bed.' I say as I get up.

'Wow. I'm a stranger now.'

'You know what I mean.' I say as I push him out the room.

My head is pounding. I feel like absolute crap. Nathan can't see me like this. I shower and clean myself up, and eventually got the energy to clean my room. I walk down the hallway past Caitlins room, she's still not there. Hayes isn't in his room either. I walk past the guest bedroom and Ashton is passed out, I wish I could sleep like that, but like I said Nathan can't see me like this. I walk down stairs to see breakfast spread over the table.

'Wow. Who did this?' I ask in surprise.

'Good morning to you too baby.' Nathan says as he appears around the corner.

'Hey baby. When did you gey home?' I smile and hug him.

'About 40 minutes ago. I see Ashton is passed out.' He smirks. 'Looks like you guys had a fun night.'

'Well..'

'I hope for your sake you didn't get drunk.' He scoffed.

'You know me. I don't do that.' I laugh it off.

I fetch Kayla and we sit down and start eating the food. We were soon joined by Hayes and Caitlin. We were eating when all of a sudden a hungover Ashton comes down the stairs. He greets all of us and sits down. I look at Nathan and his glaring at me. I give him a reassuring look, I hope he doesn't cause a scene.

'That was lovely hun.' I smile at him.

'Yeah thank you so much. That greasy food made me feel a lot better.' Ashton laugh and I agree with him.

Nathan glares at me and gets up.

'Honey where are you going?' I ask.

'I have some work waiting for me at the office.'

'It's a Saturday. Why Don't you take a break for once and we can hang out like old times. Maybe go to the restaurant along the harbour.' I smirk at him.

He proposed to me at that restaurant. It was beautiful. It was right before sunset, he got down on one knee and told me he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. One of the happiest moments of my life.

'Maybe another time.' He smiles.

'Baby..' I plead

'I need to work. So that we can afford this house and pay for those grand meals we have everyday.' He grunts.

'Nathan. That was really uncalled for.' I say as I get up and walk towards him. Everyone is looking at us now.

'I'm just being honest. That first check you wrote got us here. But now it's my job to kept us here.' He smiles.

'What the hell! You act like I don't work at all!' I scream.

'Well your income isn't helping a lot around here.'

'I work my ass off!' I yell, I'm starting to tear up.

'And clearly that's not enough.' He scoffed

'Fuck you.' I scoffed.

'Don't you ever talk to me like that.' He sternly replied while grabbing my arm. He stared at me.

Normally his eyes were filled with love and happiness. But the eyes I was looking at now, was hatred and anger. His grip got tighter and the tears started falling down.

'You're hurting me.' I whisper, trying to not get the attention of everyone else.

'Let go.' Hayes scoffed as he stood up out of his chair.

Nathan obliged and let go.

'No need for a scene. I'll be off. I'll see you later baby.' He kisses my forehead, I flinched at the gesture. He walks out the door and gently closes it behind him.

I walk past the table and into the kitchen. My arm was throbbing. I wiped my tears, took a moment and then went back into the dinning room.

'Cait, will yoh help with the dishes.' I sniff.

'It's fine. You sit. Hayes will help me.' She replies and Hayes nods. They walk off into the kitchen, leaving Ashton and I, sitting in silence, at the table.

I couldn't look him in the eyes. I knew what he was going to say. That I shouldn't let someone talk to me like that, I shouldn't let someone have that much control over me. Not like I've heard it before.

Ashton disrupts me from my thoughts and gets up from the table. He walks right past me and upstairs. Not a word from him.

20 minutes later. I'm now sat on the couch, working on my book. Ashton comes down stairs and sits next to me. We sit in silence.

'No man should ever treat a woman like that.' He crys.

'Ashto..'

'Let me finish.' He cut me off.

'How long has is been going on?'

That's a good question. How long has it been going on? The back chatting, the verbal abuse. Then turned, physical abuse. It started off small, with comments made about my weaknesses. Then escalated to my work and appearance. And then my family and friends. But it's all love.. right?

'Not long.' I smile.

'Ashleigh.' He sternly replied.

'Since the beginning.' I smile.

'Ashleigh, you can't possibly think this is okay?' He questions.

'I don't know what you expect me to do Ash? He has been so good to us.' I cry.

'But he hasn't been good to you.'

I cry.

'Fuck Ash. Why didn't you tell me?' He crys. I didn't realise he was crying too.

'I'm sorry.'

Ashton eventually left the house. After getting me to agree to break up with Nathan on my own terms, but if I don't, he will come here and physically pick me up and take me away from him. I know he is right. But this is the first time in a long time I've felt loved. I knew rushing into a relationship about I left Calum was a stupid thing to do. But I did it. And I fell in love. I can't help that he isnt right for me.

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