Let it Be

7

October 3 ,7:08 ; Ashley

"So how long have you been living in Virginia Matt?" My dad asks politely.

"I've been here ever since I was born." Matthew smiles.

"I see." My dad smiles.

"How old are you?" My mom asks.

"I'm 16 and a sophomore." Matthew says casually.

A lot of things can happen in 2 days you know?

The guy who infuriated me on my first day, is now talking with my two parents in my home at our dinner table, eating with us. And my parents are approving of him so quickly!

I mean, I just met him and he's already having such a swell time talking to my parents over dinner.

The last guy friend I brought home, my dad was throwing him death glares and threats not to hurt me.

Matthew might even be an Axe murder for all I care!

"How was school, Ashley?" My mom asks.

"It was okay." I shrug.

"Did you learn anything new?" My dad asks and takes a bite of his chicken.

"Not really." I say then play with my food.

I don't understand my family.

"Are you full?" My mom asks.

"Yeah." I say then look up at her.

"Here, give me your plate and I'll clean up. Matthew, you're allowed to hang out with Ashley in her room if you want." My mom says.

This is a miracle. for the first time, my mom approves of a guy that I just met, and she already trusts him.

"okay. thanks for dinner." I say then stand up from the dining table.

"Thanks for dinner Jennifer." Matthew says then wipes his mouth.

"Follow." I say with a monotone voice.

He nods and follows me to my room.

Once we're out of sight of my parents, I aggressively gripped his wrist and dragged him to my room and locked the door.

"Well I didn't know you wanted me that much." He smirks.

I swat his arm as hard as I can and yell whisper, "What the hell!"

"Dude!" he says then rubs his arm.

"I specifically told you not to stay. And stop doing that!" I yell whisper.

"Doing what?!" He says whispering also.

"What you just did when I got into my room!" I yell whisper then swat his arm again.

"Stop swatting my arm!"

"Then stop doing what you just did!"

"You mean flirting? Am I not allowed to flirt with you?" He laughs quietly.

flirting? The last person who did that to me was- oh no no no no no.

"No! you're not!" I yell whisper

"Why not?" He says then raises his eyebrows.

"Because I hate it when people flirt with me." I say dryly.

"We're not whispering anymore?" He asked confused.

"I literally just met you yesterday and you're already in my house!" I say nearly screaming with frustration

"Dude! calm down stop overreacting!"

"Don't you dude me! You should never. And I mean nevertell a girl to calm down." I glare at him.

"I seriously don't get what the problem is!" He says then throws his arms up in defeat.

"The problem is, is that I met you 2 days ago and your already prancing around insisting to meet my parents and agreeing to stay with us for dinner!"

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"No!" I snapped.

"You're like a complete stranger! I barely even know 15 facts about you!" I say with a heavy drip of frustration in my voice.

"One, My full name is Matthew Lee Espinosa. Two, I play football. Three, I can play the piano. Four, I take hip hop class at a studio not far from here. Five, my favorite color is blue. Six, I'm 5'11. Seven, I don't have light brown hair, its dirty blonde. Eight, I'm 16. Nine, Im scared of needles. Ten, I like to be weird. Eleven, I have a younger sister named charolette. Twelve, I like wearing hats. Thirteen, my favorite food is pizza. Fourteen, my favorite shoe brand is vans. Fifteen, I like to lipsinc songs." He said without any hesitation.

I just groan and walk to the edge of my bed and sit down. I propped my right arm on my knee and rubbed my temples with my right hand while my left hand is on my hip.

Matthew walks over to me and plops himself next to me.

"Your room looks nice." He says a bit softer.

"Thanks." I mumble then look up at him.

"so..." Matthew says then looks around the room looking for something to say.

"You have a lot of instruments." He says then nods his head.

"Yeah."

"You have a camera?" He asks then walks over to my desk and picks up my camcorder.

"Mhmm."

"What do you record on here?" He asks then turns on the camera.

Oh my god he turned it on. Then he's going to listen to all of my personal life stories.

Ashley, snap out of it and grab the camera!

I laugh nervously and snatch the camcorder out of his hands as quick as possible.

"Nothing." I lied.

"Is there videos of you playing your instruments."

"No." I lied again.

"Then why was your electric piano in front of you in the video I just saw?"

"I don't know."

He let's out a laugh and says,

"Liar."

"Call me a liar. I don't care. Those videos are kind of personal." I shrug then turn off the camcorder.

"Fine I won't touch them then." He says then rolls his eyes.

"What time is it?" I ask

"time for me to go. See ya kiddo" He says then ruffles my hair.

"I'm 15. Don't call me a kid." I snap

"When's your birthday?"

"The 19th."

"Of this month?" He asks pretty surprised.

"Yeah." I say in a 'duh' tone.

"Be prepared for your present." He smirks mischievously.

"Bye Matthew!" I say rather fast and push him to the door.

Matthew unlocks my door and exits. A couple seconds later I hear Matthews mumbled voice downstairs along with my parents. They ended up talking for about like 10 minutes then I heard my front door close.

I let out a sigh of relief and I take a shower and get ready for bed.

I crawl into my bed and watch the ceiling above me.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day.