The Best Is Yet To Come.

Chapter 22: Jealousy Kills

Ashley's POV

"I need to talk to you Ashley!" Nash says tugging me along by my arm until we were in alone in a less crowded room which I assumed was the kitchen.

"You need to leave me alone Nash!" I yanked my arm away from his grip

"But Ashley I can't.."

"No you can and you will walk away, that's what you're best at anyways right?" I stated.

"But Ashley.."

"Enough Buts! I saw you today Nash, at the courtyard" I said waiting for his reaction

"I can explain, I.." he tried to justify but I wasn't in for another lame explanation so I interrupted

"I don't want any explanation or excuses for your personal actions Nash, I only want you to leave me out of this maze of yours! You risked our friendship when you kissed me and left, then ruined it completely when you kissed Claire again! I say enough of this pain, we had good memories together, let's not replace them with bad ones yeah?" and with that I walked away from Nash, I went straight to the door and found Leo standing there

"I knew I should wait for you by the door, are you okay?"

"Yes I am! Can we go please?"

"Yes of course, I'll go call Melissa so we can go, here's the car key wait in the car safer okay?" Leo went back inside and I walked to the car and helped myself inside.

Minutes later Leo and Melissa came back, and we went on our way home. I got into the house, checked on my siblings since my dad was staying up late at work, and then went into my bedroom.

I didn't know what to think or how to act.. I didn't know if this was the end of my friendship with Nash.. But I knew that the past few months were too much for me, breaking up with Toby, meeting Nash then losing him over some mixed signals and the stupid acts of his, having a car accident and meeting Leo.. What was happening to me?

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Couple weeks later

Nash and I haven't been on talking terms lately, but we weren't fighting either, I had my leg out of the cast and was going through some therapy to be able to use it naturally again, and I started driving myself to school again, I mean Leo was nice and everything but feels good to be able to drive myself and play my own music..

I went into my chemistry class and took my seat beside Nash, avoiding any interaction as always, then came in Mr. Christopher

"Goodmorning class, today I'll assign your first project that will be due to weeks from now, and the project is.." and as Mr Christopher began to explain the project but I was already dozed off thinking of what the next two weeks will be like..

I was in for two awkward weeks with no one other than Nash my chemistry class partner..

"So, we should start working on this project if we want to get the highest grade out of all groups" Nash said

"Oh, okay. Let's divide tasks and work on this separately" I tried to snake my way out of this

"I know you don't want to be around me Ashley, but we need to do this at least for the grades, so please can we make this easy on each other?" Nash tried to reason with me

"Fine, we meet at my place at five"

"Actually, can it be my place? My aunt has a shipment coming and she won't be home to receive it, and it's right beside your house so it will be easy to check on your siblings whenever"

"Okay, sure" I agreed and packed my stuff and went to my next class.

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Couple hours later

Here I was standing in front of Nash's door waiting for him to answer the doorbell I just rang, and then he did and I almost dropped my jaw to the ground, he looked drop dead gorgeous with his hair all messed up, he was standing there shirtless staring at my eyes waiting for me to stop checking him out, which I noticed I was doing so I looked away hastily.

"Come in" He said with what seemed like a smirk on his face, my face turned red so I tried to hide it and walked inside quickly.

We went upstairs to his room and we started working on the project.

"I'll go get us something for us to eat from the kitchen downstairs, need something?"

"Yeah a cup of water please?" I asked and be nodded back before he left the room, and here I was alone in his room, I started to check out his room and there was it, a picture of Nash's parents and what seemed like a younger version of him! I wonder where did they go? But that wasn't what caught my eyes, what caught my eyes was a picture of me and Nash from the Pool day back then..

I grabbed our picture and stared at it for what seemed like whatever until

"That was a good day we had" Nash said from behind me,

I turned around and stared at him and then he approached me and my heart started racing, he gently wiped a tear I didn't notice was on my cheek with his thumbs..

"I'm sorry Ashley, I really am" and then I threw my arms around Nash.

I missed him, I missed the fun we had together and how supportive he was and for a second there I didn't think of anything but of how much I missed Nash.

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