Manual of The Forbidden ➡ Irwin

Chapter 20.

When we got there we heard Tay fighting with the copy machine, again.

"Wait a minute Dawnie!" she yelled from the back of the door while I was laughing non-stop.

That photocopy machine always got the best of her.

Michael, was staring at the photos and stuff all around the store.

"Hi Dawn!" she greeted me happily as always, but then her eyes positioned on the other person in this room, Michael, and he was completely lost in her eyes, I noticed it.

"Oh," I muttered realising I haven't introduced them. "Tay this is my friend Michael, Michael this is my friend Tay." they both shook hands.

In Michael's eyes I saw a glow, that minutes before wasn't there, a mixture of fascination and wonder.

"Hi," he muttered shyly.

"Hi," she answered in the same way.

They both smiling, but then she turned her attention to me.

"Do you have new photos?" she asked, her smile showing.

"You know it!" I cheered.

We did what we always did, but this time it was a little different, because we had Michael's company.

I let Tay and Mike get to know each other, but after a couple of hours we decided to leave since the sun was already set, and we wanted to go back to the apartment early.

"Tay is really pretty," Michael said, with a slight shade of pink on his cheeks, "and also really nice."

I laughed.

"I think I could've guessed that," I admitted and his pale skin turned red.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, the way you looked at her and the spark in your eyes, I think that gave you away." I pointed out, he was even redder now, and I thought it was impossible.

"Was I that obvious?"

"Just a little." I shrugged nonchalantly.

We both laughed.

"Michael!" I yelled out of nowhere, startling him. "you know how to speak Italian, right?"

"Umm... Yeah?" he muttered completely lost from whatever that was happening in my mind.

"Can you tell me what does..." I started making memory of what the guy in the ice cream shop had told us, if Ashton thought I was going to forget that he was nothing but wrong. "che bella coppia che fatte." I tried to pronounce everything correctly.

"You make a cute couple,"

"Pardon me?"

"That means 'you make a cute couple', but, why you wanted to know that?"

"Nothing, I saw it in a movie and I wanted to know what it meant, that's all!" I shrugged.

"Yeah sure." he muttered.

We went upstairs to the third floor.

"See you tomorrow Mikey," I faked a yawn.

"See you tomorrow Dawnie."

The truth is that after spending my evening with Michael and Tay I wasn't tired; I was just trying to run away from the love scenes starred by Ashton and Sharon in the living room; the sound of their lips smashing together, their whispers, their sighs, etcetera, it was unbearable.

"Going to bed so early?" he asked with that soft accent of his.

"Yeah, I'm really tired," I was wondering if yawning again would give me away, but I decided

not to.

"Oh, alright, see you tomorrow, and have sweet dreams," I gave him a weak smile.

"Tell Sharon I said hello, I don't know why she always takes too long in the bathroom." he giggled but agreed with me.

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The next day felt like the perfect day to watch a movie, at least that's what I wanted to do.

I went to the nearest video club and rented a horror movie, I didn't understand what the title said but the cover was horrendous.

I had breakfast outside and I made myself a sandwich for lunch, but at 6pm with nothing else to do I put the movie, I made a bowl of microwave popcorn, and a glass of Coca-Cola, I turned off the lights and took a seat on the couch, wrapping myself with a purple blanket.

An hour had passed and I was holding so tight onto the blanket that my knuckles were white, I was terribly scared, my heart running a thousand miles per hour.

I heard knocks, I jumped on the couch completely startled, but after a couple of seconds I realised that it was just the door.

I paused the movie, jumping off the couch as fast as I could, running to the door completely sure of who was going to be standing at the other side.

"Ashton!!!" I screamed relieved.

"Dawn, are you alright?!" It seemed that I worried him.

"I'm alright, it's just that I'm watching this horror movie and it's horrible."

"Well, that's the point, isn't it?, and which horror movie is scaring you so much?"

"I don't know, one with this serial killer, but is awful."

"That's not scary!" he laughed, "but are you going to finish it, aren't you?"

"I... Well... Maybe, but that's not the point" I dragged him inside with me. "are you going to watch it with me?"

"Off course, then, who will protect you?" he smiled at me, his dimples showing.

We took our seats on the couch, he sat dangerously close to me, but I didn't mind, I hit play, making the scenes move.

A scene forced me to close my eyes and turn my face, but my face didn't hit the couch, it hit this hard abdomen covered by this soft white fabric and it's manly smell.

I realised then that my face has turned to be in Ashton's abdomen, I was going to turn into my previous position and apologise; but his strong arms wrapped around my body, making my heart drop.

My fears were now evaporated.

My nostrils were delighted by his perfect smell, he ran his fingers through my messy hair, causing goosebumps all over my body, I was so close to his body I could hear his heartbeat, it was this rhythmic, bur accelerated "pum pum pum" and I was in his arms protected.

I dare to look up, facing his perfect features: his nose, his eyes, his dimples, his lips; but then he looked down, and I blushed completely, he caught me staring at him, he just showed me a kind smile, I saw myself reflected in his hazel-green eyes and I had to held back a sigh.

In that moment I wished I had telepathy so I would have known what he was thinking about, or if he was in the same situation as I was: I wasn't able to think.

"I'm home!"

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[A/N]

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Love, Ellie.