Lake house // a.i.

Orphan

"Did you eat yet?" Ashton asked me as we left for the fair.

"Yup." To be honest, I hadn't eaten but I wasn't all that hungry. Today marks the sixth month anniversary of my parents car crash. I had completely forgotten about this when we made the plans and I didn't want to be a party pooper or whatever so I decided that maybe this will take my mind off of it.

"Cool, so we can go straight to the rides." He smiled and turned up the music a little bit. He drove with one hand draped over the steering wheel and the other hanging out the window. It was really quiet as well since it was just the two of us.

"So, what are your brother and sister doing today?" I asked him. I sort of missed them being around, they were both so happy.

"Mom has them doing some school stuff today, thats sort of why I took advantage and asked you to join me. I havn't been around a friend without my siblings for a while." Friend.

"Well, i'm glad you chose me." I chuckled.

"Yeah, well your pretty cool. I also don't have any other friends here so..." I jokingly slapped his shoulder and laughed along with him.

The rest of the ride was spent listening to music and telling jokes or stories. It was nice. He had a way of making me forget bad things, even if it was just temporary.

---

"You want to eat something?" Ashton asked and I nodded. I was so hungry since I hadn't eaten anything all day.

"Just get me a hotdog please." I said and he nodded. I looked around while he gave the cashier our order. Everyone looked tired, probably because it was time for dinner and most people have been here since this morning.

"Janelle?" I heard a girls voice say and froze. "Shouldn't you be at an orphanage." She scoffed. I bit my lip and Ashton put his arm around my waist.

"Excuse me?" He said.

"Just drop it, ashton." I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him out but he wouldn't move.

"No, why would she say that?"

"Oh, so you havn't told your your boyfriend." She laughed. "Woops..."

"He isn't my boyfriend and i'm not an orphan." I said through my teeth. She was being so ridiculous. I can't believe I would ever have befriended such and arrogant bitch.

"Whatever." My childhood friend walked away leaving a lot of questions floating around between me and ashton.

"What the hell was that about?" Ashton asked and I started to walk to the restroom.

I can't believe she would say that. I don't even understand what I did to make her stop being my friend and start acting like a bitch. "Janelle, wait." He grabbed my arm but I was able to get into the bathroom leaving him outside.

I ran to the stall and shut it as I grabbed some toilet paper to dry the tears I have finally let come out. "Uh, Janelle?" I heard Ashton's voice from outside. He probably stuck his head in through the door.

"Give me a minute, Ashton." I sighed. I don't want to explain everything to him but I finished crying, went to splash water on my face, and met Ashton outside the restrooms.

"You okay?" I broke down again. Worse then earlier. My shoulders started shaking and I couldn't breath right. He opened his arms and I buried my head in his chest. I look like and idiot so I told him to take me to the car. He didn't let go of me though. Keeping his arm wrapped around my waist and the other pushing people out of the way so I wouldn't bump into them.

I hate doing this. He is probably really confused and I just want the ground to swallow me up.

When we finally get to the car he opens the back seat and I get in, he sits next to me and waits for me to stop crying. Why is this hurting so much? I know she was just being a jerk. I shouldn't let this bother me. "Do you want to talk about it." Ashton had his elbows resting on his legs with his hands clamped together.

"Not really." I played with my hands. "It's stupid."

"Not if it affected you this much." He wiped a tear from my cheek and smiled. We got out and went to the front seats. Ashton started driving me home. The drive was about forty minutes but it felt longer. We were halfway there when I started to speak.

"My parents died in a car accident six months ago today." He looked over at me shocked.

"Is that why you were crying?" I nodded.

"We we're on our way back home, to New York, from here when a car hit us and killed them."

"Six months ago?" He asked quickly and I nodded. "Do you know who it was?" He hesitated.

"No, I was unconscious..."

"Oh."

He was silent the rest of the way there and when I got out of the car all he said was, "Bye."

I shrugged it off and walked inside. He probably doesn't want to be around me much anymore. Most people don't.

----------------------------------------------

Hello! Sorry I havnt updated in a while! I'll try to update again tomorrow!

Please vote and leave comments! 💕

Ilysm!