•LOVE ME MORE• Book 1

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Ashton pov

{Monday}

While walking in the halls by myself, I kept thinking why was Devin looking at me like that at the mall the other day. Did I look strange? What was it?

"Hey, Ashton!" I hear Zach call my name at the end of the hallway. He runs to me with a smile on his face. He might have good news about something... Or maybe he's just in a good mood.

He approaches me out of breath but still has a smile on his face.

"Hey," I say watching him struggle. He quickly recovers just drinking water from his water bottle. "You are in a good mood."

"Yeah, you don't look so good."

"Huh? Oh..."

"Are you sick?"

"No, I don't feel sick," I told him. He looks around at the parshley empty hallway then builds the conference to put the back of his hand on my head to see if it was warm. "What's the diagnosis doctor Zach?" I joked around. He laughs and quickly moves his hand. My heart was racing like a cheetah in the wild.

"You aren't not sick, but..."

"But?"

"You do look sad. Why are you sad?"

"Ha, I'm not sad, just a lot on my mind I guess."

"Oh I see, will maybe I can help with that." He smiles eagerly.

"How?"

"Let's go to the movies. Just us."

"Sure. I would like that."

"Great, we can go Friday."

"Friday?"

"Hey Zachary the coach wants to see you!" A friend of his said before he could speak. He looks at me with a smile. Then runs away with his friend, making my morning a little better.

"we will talk later!" He yells running backward. I laughed as I watched him trip over a person as he runs while watching me. He turns forward and continues to run.

"Hey Ash," hear a voice from behind me. I turn around and see my friends walking toward me.

"Hey, where have you been? We sat in the library waiting for you," Chloe said. With Ricky's arm around her shoulder.

"I've been just walking around trying to make sense of things."

"Like Devin..." Tamara points at him with Becky again making out in the middle of the hall. I notice his eye open, meeting my gaze. I wanted to rip the girl off of him but I just acted as though I didn't see them. I took Tamara by the arm and we  walked in the opposite direction of Devin, Rebecca and their friends.

"Why do you like him?" Ricky asked trying to comfort me. I couldn't give him a real answer because I didn't have one. Why do people like anybody?

"Yeah, obviously he doesn't care about you. Plus he sleeps with anything that has a pulse."

"I know Chloe but just because he doesn't like me, doesn't mean I can't like him."

"But why do you like him?"

"I don't know, I just do... I like how he smells when he comes over. I like how his eyes light up when he smiles. The way he doesn't care what people think about him. I like-"

"Ok stop! I'm going to be sick." Ricky said.

"Ok, aside from that trash, who were you talking to just a moment ago?" Tamara nudged me. At the thought of Zach, I just smile. "Wow, that's a big smile. Spill it Ash."