julianna

five !

asher

the bell rang and i let go of annie's hand. but she refused to let go of my hand.

"noooo ash" she said. wow, she had never called me ash. but i think it's cute. she's cute. she's literally the most precious thing ever.

"c'mon annie, we have to go to lunch. we have to get you to the ASB or you'll get points taken off." i said, to hopefully get her up. by this time lilia and jack had left the class with the rest of the crowd. and we were the only ones here, except for the teacher.
"fine" she said. she got up and grabbed my hand. we walked to the ASB together.

"annie!" anna said. she walked over to us and pulled annie away from me.

annie

"what anna?" i said.
"did asher kiss you? you know, when they dared him to kiss the most attractive person in the room?" she asked. i turned the other way to try and hide my red cheeks and my small smile. i tried to keep a serious face but my smile only got bigger. she laughed. "wait does that mean you like asher?" she asked. "no i don't like him." i said, obviously lying. i walked back to the counter near all of my friends. i stood next to asher. "hey" he said, looking down at me. i smiled, "hey." i replied. there was an awkward silence, yet not awkward silence after i said that.

after my work time was over, asher, lilia, will, anna, jack, and i went outside. we sat down, forming a circle on the grass, i sat down besides jack. he put his arm around my shoulder and i leaned my body on his. i looked at him and smiled.

i looked at asher but he seemed mad. i couldn't tell what was wrong. i let go of it. for now, at least. we started talking and i noticed asher laughing, so that was good.

a few minutes before the bell rang, jack tapped me on the shoulder.

"j, since we have math can we go right now because i need to stop by the library." he said. i smiled and nodded. we both gathered our things. i stood up and dusted off my skirt. "we're going to the library. do any of you want to come?" jack said. they all stayed quiet and we walked away.

while we were walking jack grabbed my hand. i blushed. but it just didn't feel the same as asher holding my hand.

i really wish that asher had said that he wanted to come. i wish that instead of jack holding my hand it was asher holding my hand. i hope that asher likes me. but he doesn't. he probably likes a different girl, a prettier girl, a funnier girl, a smarter girl.

and she wasn't completely wrong. asher has developed a crush on peyton elizabeth lee. he thought she was the most amazing girl that he had ever met. she was pretty, skinny, smart, and she was really funny. they had a lot of their classes together, and they talked in almost all of them. they shared many interests. they had become really close, and talked everyday after school, and they walked home together. whenever asher wasn't with annie, he was with peyton. but annie had no idea, she had never even seen them together once. 

and they were going to be hanging out later that day.

authors note !

sorry about that last part of this chapter. also, if sorry about not being very active, but this story is in #99 in ashannie !!! yayy!