Ashton's POV:
Today I wanted to hang out with Ella. After thinking a lot after the concert last night I figured I should hangout with her as much as I can before she gets ripped out of my life again. So I walked to her house and knocked on her door at 10:30.
"Hello, Ashton?" Townes answered the door.
"Hi is Ella home?"
"Uh yeah." He looked back in the house before turning back to me. "I think she's asleep but you can wake her up." He opens the door for me and I walk in.
"Thanks Townes." I smile at him before walking up the stairs and opening Ella's door. She was asleep sprawled out on her bed.
"Ella?" I whispered closing the door and walking over to her bed. No answer.
"Ella!" I said a little louder. Still nothing.
"ELLA!" I yell and jump on her bed.
"Huh?" She groaned.
"HI!" I continue yelling. She groaned again and puts a pillow over her face.
"Go away." She mumbled into the pillow.
"Ella." I whine.
"Townes stop!"
"I'm not Townes." I giggle. She stays still for awhile still not looking up.
"Michael?"
"I'm hurt actually Ella." I pout. She thought I was Michael. She finally removes the pillow and sits up.
"Ashton?" She looks at me and rubs her sleepy eyes.
"Good morning." I grin. She just stares at me.
"I said good morning." I laugh. The corners of her mouth curl but she tries to hide it and I know it.
"Morning." I see a small smile on her face. I could tell she was confused with me but I didn't care.
"I want to hangout."
"Oh." She said slowly looking down at her lap.
"Did you have plans or something?"
"Uh no, well yes but they were canceled." She shrugged.
"What were you're plans?"
"I was gonna hang out with Michael but he said he has to hang out with family." She said quietly. I didn't know if she believed him or not but he wasn't hanging out with family that's for sure. He was probably hanging out with Mia or another girl he found. I hated the fact that he was hurting Ella Kate but I couldn't really do anything about it because they all thought I hated her and they don't know I've known her for my whole life.
"Oh, well we can do something fun." I smile. "So you change out of your pjs." I joke.
"Why? I think they're cute." She smiled and hopped out of bed showing off her dumb tshirt with a cat on it and black sleep shorts.
"That's disgusting I think I have to burn it." I roll my eyes.
"But kitty cats are my favorite." She pouts.
"I'm still burning it." I continue to stare at it laughing.
"You're just jealous, I'll get you one for Christmas don't worry." She smirks.
"Change you weirdo." I giggle.
"Get out." She points to the door.
"I'm going." I stick my tongue out opening to door to leave. She sticks her tongue out at me to before I close the door. I waiting in her hallway just looking at the walls. She finally put up the pictures we dug through. They were only of me and Ella or Ella and her mom. Those were the only people she had. Me or her mom. But now she also has Townes and a step dad and I guess that's good.
"Okay I'm ready." She opens the door and stood next to it awkwardly. She looked cute. Her hair was back, it was never back but it looked good, you could see her whole face.
"You're so awkward, you were never awkward." I scoff trying to cover up the fact that I thought my best friend was cute and walk down stairs letting her follow me.
"Well I'm sorry." I could practically feel her roll her eyes.
"Ella Kate." I turn to her when I reach the bottom of the stairs. She raised an eyebrow at me waiting for me to finish. "North Carolina changed you." I shake my head and see her smile before she pushed me out of her way.
"Wait I wanna go for a walk." I whine and grab her arm before she went in the wrong direction.
"But I'm hungry." She stomped her foot.
"I'll get you something don't worry EK." I shrug and pull her out the door before she could say goodbye to anyone.
I ended up leading her to this small playground that was built in our neighborhood after she left. That was a bad idea. I acted quick though, I jumped out in front of her before she could see anything.
"On second thought, I want food." I grab her shoulders and turn her around making her walk back to where we came from.
"But we just got here." She asks confused.
"Well I'm hungry." I look back at me to see Michael and Mia on the tire swing just sitting there. It's like he wanted to get caught. He didn't even live here.
"Where are we going then?"
"Uh." I rub my neck.
"Wherever you wanna go."
"I don't care." Ella shrugged and looked down at her feet.
"Eh well we could go to the pier?"
"If you want."
"God do you agree to everything." I groan. "You used to argue with me all the time we never agreed on anything Ella."
"I'm sorry." She laughed. "I don't care where we go."
"We can go to that burger place you like." I smile. She looked at me with a confused look on her face. "Yes I remember you idiot." I bump my shoulder with hers.
"I can't believe you remembered."
"How could I not."
We walked to the beach and went into the burger place that Ella loved so much.
"What should we do after this?" I took a sip of my drink.
"We could go back to my house." Ella bite her straw.
"Can we make something?" I laugh.
"Make what?" She furrowed her eyebrows.
"I don't know like cake or cookies or something good lord." I yell.
"Geez okay." She giggled. "I have brownie mix."
"Great let's make those."
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blah I'm sorry about this don't worry it will get intense next chapter.
