Challenged

Chapter Eighteen

Ashton's P.O.V.
Last night was a hard night. Seeing her walking out of this room in tears made my heart ache. I don't think she knows I heard her cry for a while, which hurt more. I can't hurt this girl, not more then I already have.

I get out of bed slowly and walk to the kitchen. Standing in the kitchen I turn to look at the living, then I spot her sleeping on the couch. I smile lightly. Seeing her here, knowing she's still here, it feels right in some weird way that I don't understand. 

I open the fridge searching for eggs to make us breakfast, when I spot them I pull them out and begin. I decide to make eggs with toast, simple, but satisfying.  As I continue to cook I see her stir on the couch through the corner of my eye. I can't help but let out a little chuckle as I see her fighting to stay asleep. 

I but the bread in the toaster and look back in fridge for orange juice as I hear a gentle voice speaking to me.

"You cook? You wake up early?" Adeline groans as she sits up and turns to look at me. 

"I do indeed cook and it happens to be 10:30." I smirk as I serve her juice in a glass cup and walk over to her to hand it to her. 

I walk back and serve the eggs on two separate plates along with pieces of toast on each plate. I set the plates down on the table and walk back into the kitchen to grab myself some juice as well as she walks to the table and sits waiting for me to eat. When I do go back to the table and take a seat, we begin to eat in silence. 

I look at her who avoids my eye contact. Her eyes sparkle, looking exhausted, exhausted from crying, because of me, because I can't give her more then I already have, I can't give her the relationship she wants from me, no matter how much I wanted to. We just don't work, we don't go. I'm the typical bad boy, player, frat guy, who sleeps with different girls each night, drinks too much, smokes too much, and doesn't give a fuck about anyone. She was the sweet girl who saw hope in everyone, who saw the good in everything, who deserved better then me. We don't make sense on paper, or reality, we just don't go. I can't give her what she wants, but I don't want anyone else to give her anything I can't, I don't want her with anyone else but me. 

"We should do something today." I clear my throat and move the eggs around my plate. 

"What?" She questions as she turns to look at me. 

"Yeah. Let's do something" I look down, slightly embarrassed. "Not the movies though, we can do anything else if you'd like." I look up at her, waiting for her to answer. 

She looked at me, confusion written all over her face. The more we stayed silent the more confused she got, the more embarrassed I got. I think she noticed and she looks at me and nods. I nod back at her. 

We both finish eating and get up, we both reach for our plate then just stand awkwardly looking at each other. 

"You made breakfast, I'll pick up." I don't fight her. I just nod. 

I decide to take a shower and process what the fuck I just did. 

Adeline's P.O.V. 
I've never been so confused. What was that? Did he mean do something as a date? Or just a friendly thing? Who am I kidding he meant it as a friend thing. If I get my hopes up all he'll do it throw it at my face saying he doesn't want a relationship. 

When I finish washing the dishes I walk into Ashton's room and look through my bag that I've been so busy to unpack. I sigh as I get all my clothes out of the bag and look through them in search of something to wear for the day. As I look I refold my clothes and set them to the side on his bed. I didn't know how long I'd be staying to help him, but he was getting stronger and better quickly.