Broken Heart and Home•~•lrh

Something There

Waring
Mentions of panic attacks

Alyssa POV

After looking at Ashton for a little bit more, I smiled and remembered that he asked me to come to school a little bit earlier for a reason.

"Hey, Ash. Didn't you say you had to show me something? I mean it's kind of the reason why I dragged my butt out of bed."

I tried to make a joke about it to ease the tension he had, also to get him to stop looking at my face.  Which worked since I saw his shoulders relax and heard his little giggle that I love so much.

"Yea. I called you up so you could listen to the little lyrics I wrote last night," he said as he turned to look into his backpack, "I couldn't sleep so I decided to write instead, which didn't turn out to be that bad."

He hands me the paper as I start to read the lyrics. He blushes and tries to look around the room as I know he's nervous showing me this work.

"Ashton! This is incredible! I never knew you had feelings inside that jet black heart." I said as I laughed a little.

He smiled and went to the other side of the room to get his guitar and started to strum a little melody I didn't quite recognize.

"Last summer we met, We started as friends, I can't tell you how it all happened, then autumn it came, we were never the same, those nights everything felt like magic." he finished singing softly and then looked at me.

"Ash.. that was beautiful. Are you going to present that in class?"

"Umm, I don't know. Do you think it's good enough?" he said nervously as he rubbed his neck shy at the idea. 

I smiled at him and walked closer to where he was, "I think it should be shown to the world."

As soon and he was putting his guitar away, the first warning bell went off and soon the hallway started getting filled with depressed teenagers and even more depressed teachers. Ashton and I walked out of the classroom and started walking to our first class.

"Well, I have to go from here, remember if anything happens, call me right away."

"I know, don't worry. I'll try to not be someone's punching bag today." I said trying to crack a joke but after seeing Ashton's face, I just shrugged and walked away.

I walked into my first class which happens to be English. I went to my desk in the middle of the classroom and sat down trying to hide the bruise on my face with my hair. I was kind of surprised Ashton didn't notice it at first or maybe he did but decided to ignore it. He knows I don't really like talking about my life at home.

The last bell rings and the class settles down as soon as the teacher comes in. I usually love English but lately, I don't really enjoy it.

The truth is, I miss how my life used to be. How it was when the people who were my family cared about me but now they don't really care about anything except drugs...

It hurts to think that the people who were supposed to care and protect you, end up hurting you and damaging you the most.

"Today class we are going to pair up with the music class so you guys can work on writing lyrics and the melody as it also covers on what we're working on in this class. So we're going to head over there right now."

Everyone gets up and I'm excited because Ashton is in music class since he changed his schedule which means he might go to my music class as well.

We walk into the classroom and I automatically see Ashton and smile at him. He smiles back, his dimples showing and waves at me.  I hear some girls giggling in front of me; I look up and I see two girls smiling and waving back at Ashton. I don't know why but that made feel annoyed.

I look back at Ashton as he looks confused at the two girls. Out of nowhere, I see a paper ball going towards me and it hits me straight in the face. I look at the direction where it came from and sure enough, I see Luke laughing with his little group. Ashton looks at them and glares.

"Okay class go pick a partner and we can get started with the assignment. Remember if you guys have any questions you can come up to me or Mr. Fell."

Ashton comes down from his seat and walks towards me but the girls start giggling and smiling. As Ashton came up the girls start to smile and wave at Ashton.

"Hey, Ash. Want to be partners?" one of the girls asked him as she grabbed a strand of her hair and starts twirling it around her finger. Honestly if you asked me, she looked pretty stupid.

"Umm sorry but I actually already have my partner picked out." Ashton said as he looks over the girls and smiles at me.

"Really her? She can't even get a good grade on her Essays." When Ashton heard this he turned to look at me with an eyebrow raised. He reached his hand out towards me and nodded his head towards his desk.

"Hey guys look! I didn't know whales could walk now"

When I heard that, I turned to look at who said that and of course it was Luke. Out of nowhere everyone started laughing and looking at me. I started to feel trapped to the point where I couldn't breath.

'I need to get out of here, NOW' I thought as I ran out of the classroom into the hallway, their laughter still ringing in my head.

I start to walk down the hall trying not to cry until I reach my locker. As much as I tried not to, the tears start to run down my face. My legs start to give out and I slide down until in sitting on the ground. I put my head in my arms trying to hid my face.

'Why....why can't my life go back to how it was? What did I do to deserve this?"

"Alyssa! Aly! Where are you?" I heard someone yell down the hall but I decided to ignore it.

"Aly there you are.." I looked up from my arms only to see Ashton kneeled down in front of me. His eye filled of concerned. I hated when people looked at me cry. It was always my biggest insecurity.

"Leave me alone Ash...please just leave alone.." I tried to hid my face knowing that the makeup I had on this morning probably already came off.

"Hey, remember the promise I made freshman year? We're better together." He said as he put his fingers under my chin lifting it up so I could see him. I saw his eyes flicker to my eye but he didn't say anything. He just smiled softly at me. " I'm never leaving you, no matter how hard you try to push me away."

I looked at him and smiled. He's been the only good thing that has stayed in my life. I stared at his eyes and he kept looking at me. His eyes then looked at my lips for the slightest second.

'Wait is he going to...'

My thoughts got interrupted as he started to lean in slowly. I started to close my eyes, waiting to see if we made contact. Maybe just maybe there is something there......

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