Drowned

chapter 3

ASH P.O.V

   I drive to school. The sky a gray. It's raining I love it. There are police at the school and when they see me they come to my car. “Ash romzie?” one asks. I nod. “Where were you last night?” the same one asks. “I was out and hiding from my abusive father I'm now living with my boyfriend.” I say to them. They look at each other. “Any proof that he was abusive?” a different one asks.  I show them bruises and the video of my dad throwing me into my room pulling me by my hair because I decided why not set up a camera and catch it now that i'm different. They all look at each other then nod then the one that hasn’t spoken yet says “okay your free to go...well your father is going to go to jail for abusing you for ...how long?” he asks me. “Since my mom died 7 years ago.” I say. “For abusing you 7 years he’s going to jail for 8 years.” the officer says and they leave. I sigh a sigh of relief I don't like the cops but right now I love the cops because I'm getting a burden off my chest. No more dad no more dad no more dad. I am so so so so so happy I have to tell Luka.

Other than that, my day is normal instead of going home though I go to the lake. When I get back to the house I go to my room turn on my music and I sleep. The neighbors were up partying last night so the music they played…. Which was rock …..helped me sleep. I wake up to Luka shaking me “Hey, I have a party to go to tonight will you go with me as my date?”  I get up shower then I do my makeup, flat iron my hair, then I get dressed in fishnets a black dress a bit above my knees with a v neck and high heeled boots that go an inch above my ankle with little chains and locks on them. Then I put on a choker and a couple bracelets and grab one of my leather jackets. I go to luka which is in a suit He looks at me and smiles. “You look hot as hell baby” he says “ come on let's go.” 

The place we go to is a palace, it has chandeliers and big tables with lots of food, potted plants everywhere, waiters coming around giving dancers champaign. When I walk into the room everyone stops and stares at the out of place girl with the boy who’s father is from the court. They’re all whispering. He squeezes my hand and leads me through the crowd where his father is sitting he bows slightly squeezing my hand to tell me to do the same so I do. “You must be Ash...Welcome to the world of the jautz.” everyone staring starts whispering again. I manage to catch, “the king accepts her!?!?!?”  and “She’s not right for the prince.” Prince? King? The king grabs my hand. “We need to talk but not here” he nods to one of the other court members and then stands up and leads the way to a room. 

Once inside he closes the door behind him and me and luka sit on the couch across from him. “As you just found out I'm the king and my son is the prince. I also know you know I adopted him. But listen to whatever anyone says you’re fit for my son and I hope you get married” my heart stops for a second. Married… I think about that and that sounds great. I nod a little. “Come on, let's go eat ash.” says luka. I nod and follow him out to the tables with all the food. 
I fill my plate with a steak, and mashed potatoes, and green beans, it was the best food. The steak was perfect and the potatoes were creamy and the green beans were perfect. Everyone there watched me eat. They whispered and they gossiped, I went home that night ready to marry luka, to prove them all wrong. 

I want to marry her to prove them all wrong I can tell she's not okay because of what

LUKA P.O.V

  happened last night. She left for school this morning I know she’s going to her friends house after school to study which she does every wednesday. I enter her room to get her laundry and wash her blanket. I feel something grab my arm. “I can treat you so much better than that thing that you love prince.” I hear a girls voice say. I jump and turn around to see my ex girlfriend tori. I back up. She's a psycho. I back away. “G…. get out of my girlfriends room tori” I tell her “get out of my house.” she just walks closer to me. One of the maids walks in just in time to see tori grab me. “Hey go get the guards.” I tell her. She leaves and tori tries to follow but I hold her down and when the guards get there they take her and put her in jail. I sit on Ash’s bed and think about Tori.

    I figure it's time to start moving again so I force myself up and go to the store since it's my night to make dinner. I’ll make her spaghetti and meatballs because that's always good. I buy everything I need then I get some root beer because we don’t drink alcohol yet. Once home I start on the veggies that i'm gonna put in the sauce then once the sauce is done I make the spaghetti and meatballs. Once all that is done I make the bread and then she's there. She looks at me then she sits at the table. “Happy birthday.” I tell her. “You remembered!” she says happily “my friend was the only one at school that actually remembered.” I left her present on her bed. I got her a necklace with a diamond surrounded by tiny ones. It goes great with the ring I got her.

    I plan to propose to her after dinner. The ring is in my pocket it looks like the necklace but the littler diamonds were red. I know she just wants to be done with all the drama going on. Im done to and this will get Tori out of my life I am so done with her. We eat and talk and then after dinner I get down on one knee in front of her. “Ash will you marry me?” I ask. She stares at me and all she does is nod. I place the ring on her finger. “When do you wanna get married?” I ask while poking her forehead. “Any time you want to.” she says to me. I smile. “Go to bed.” I tell her as I leave for my room. She yawns and nods then goes to bed I hear a gasp from her room which I expected when she gets to her bed which makes me smile. I fall asleep to the sound of the water at the surface brushing against the rocks. 

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