Aaron's Pov ;)
I have rage.
Pure rage.
I was about to leave for school but I heard a scream coming from Ashley's House, a scream that belonged to Ashley herself.
So without thinking I barged into her house, and while half of me is glad I did so I can help her, the other part of me is traumatised for her.
"Who are you and what makes you think you can just barge into my house like that!" Ashley's father - who doesn't even deserve to be a father of such a sweet girl - shouts.
"Aaron please, go away," Ashley pleads, barely hanging on.
There's blood dripping from her head, arms, everywhere. You could say she is a bloody mess, literally.
At this moment there were only two things in my head, 1. Save Ashley, number 2, kill the son of a bitch who did this to her.
I look over at Ashley and she is so weak, her eyes are barely open.
In one go, I run to her father, grab him by his collar, push him to the wall and start punching him.
"What type of a father.." punch, "...beats his own child!"
I punch him continuously not giving him a chance to fight back.
He tries to anyways and manages to lay a hit on me, causing my nose to bleed.
He is so gonna regret this.
I wipe my nose and look at him dead in his eyes, trying to rile him up.
He starts running to me like a mad man and 1 second before he reached me I step away, letting him fall to the ground.
He hits his head on the front and blood starts flowing out, causing him to pass out.
I check to see if he is breathing and unfortunately, he is. I check the damage, he'll live.
"Aaron, help," Ashley says very softly.
I quickly run to her and pick her up, bridal style. At that same time, a woman, who I'm guessing is her mom pulls up.
I don't care enough to stay, instead I place her in the passenger seat and buckle her up.
I wanna ask her if she is okay, hell I wanna ask her so many different questions but I restrain.
"I'm taking you to a hospital," I say firmly.
"Aaron, please please don't. They will ask questions and if they find out-"
"So what if they find out? You will finally get some peace Ashley. Right now, for your sake I'm not asking you anything," I say.
"Aaron, you don't understand. Everything will be ruined. Please. I can't risk them calling child services. I'll be taken away from anything I've ever known," She cries.
I think about it for a moment before answering.
"Fine. But I'll call my friend. He is a doctor, he can help without the questions." I say, turning back.
"Thank you," She croaks out.
"No, im sorry. Im sorry for everything you have gone through. I wish you had told me," I say.
It is at this moment Eli starts to cry.
I completely forgot he was even there, in the back seat.
I look back at Ashley to see if she noticed but instead her eyes are closed.
My heart aches for her, in more ways than one.
I want her to be mine, I wanna save her from anything bad ever. But I can't.
Unfortunately she doesn't feel the same.
I take the bottle and shove it into Eli's mouth.
"Sorry Eli, but it's you, its not me." I say.
I text Jason, and tell him it's an emergency and if he isn't in my house in 20 minutes, I would personally go and kill him.
Once we are back at my house, I take Ashley in my arms and carry her to my room.
I place her on my bed and start pacing around the room, waiting for Jason.
I noticed Ashley's mom's car gone, I'm guessing she took him to the doctor.
I swear, I'd dare that dick to try reporting me.
After five minutes I hear the doorbell ring.
Thank god.
I run downstairs to open the door, expecting Jason but instead.. it's Kailani?
Damn has she changed.
Kailani was my girl best friend in primary school. We used to be so close, she was the first person who knew about Ashley, about my stupid little crush on her. But than she had to move away and we were young so we lost contact.
She is much taller now, her lips look like they have been put botox, and her body is full on an hourglass. Her natural brown hair, now blonde.
She looks pretty, but pretty as in Barbie.
She looks.. fake. Like you can crunch her up.
"Hi!" Her voice is much squeakier now.
"Hey.. Kailani.." My eyes drift off behind her where Jason is standing.
"Hey Jason! She is upstairs in my bedroom. Please go, ill be right up," I say as he squeezes past her.
"Look, Kailani, right now is not a good time. Its great seeing you, really it is. But I am really busy right now.." I say apologetically.
"It's fine, can I atleast wait inside? And since when do you call me Kailani, what happened to Kie?" She says entering my house without waiting for my response.
Well I was gonna say no but some people are rude.
"Right, Kie. Well I'm going upstairs, as I said, I have some things to do. Just stay down here, watch TV or anything," I say and run upstairs without waiting for her answer either.
Whether she'd except or no? I dont give a flying fuck.
I enter my bedroom and all of a sudden its like an actual hospital in here.
There's wires and all that weird shit.
"Whoa, when did you get all that in here?" I ask.
"Dude! Are you blind? I literally brought these up in front of you! Oh you were probably staring at those cherries huh?" He smirks.
"Cherries- wha- fucks sake Jason! I was not! What is wrong with you? And why are you calling them cherries, dude-" I say.
Jason has always been that kinda guy, the funny one, dirty minded one, the class clown. In other words you could say the one who passes all his classes without having to study much.
He never, and I mean never, fails to have fun.
Except when it came to his job.
Even then, he'd manage to crack a joke.
"Chill.. dude? What got you all pissed?"
I stare at him blankly, then at Ashley.
His eyes dawn in realisation before he mutters a quick 'oh'.
"How is she?" I ask.
"She is barely holding on, but surprisingly this girl has a strong immune system, she can get through it. She got a concussion, and there's scars all over her arms, neck. Basically everywhere, she lost alot of blood, so she will be unconscious for maybe two days or so," He says with sorrow in his eyes.
Those were the scars she apparently said she got from falling off the bed.
"Okay, what meds do you suggest?"
"Here, I'll write you a list. Go to the Pharmacy and buy them." He says handing me a list.
"Thank you man, I owe you one."
"Please, anytime. You are a good man Aaron. Please take care of her. I won't ask any questions, but whatever or rather whoever did this, please keep her away from them."
"I will," I smile.
"Okay, well I'm going now. I'll come back tomorrow just for a light check up," He says and is out the door before I can respond.
Iconic Jason.
After a few minutes, I hear crying coming from downstairs. Ugh.
"Um Aaron! I think a fake baby is crying," Kailani calls over.
I sigh and jog downstairs.
"Thats Eli, mine and Ashley's fake baby." I say.
She looks at me with a confused look.
"It's for a project," I sigh, walking towards Eli.
Oh no.
It shit itself.
And now I have to change it.
Me.
"Oh, okay. Wait! Ashley? Like the Ashley?" She says louder than I expected her to.
"Shh, you don't want her to hear you now do you?"Â I ask, while changing Eli.
God, why does a fake baby have to produce such real smells?
"What? She is upstairs? What's going on?" She says abit annoyed.
I don't tell her the details, just that Ashley got hurt and that I called a friend of mine to treat her.
"So what brings you back here, Kie?" I ask.
"I'm moving back! So I thought i would give you a little surprise visit," She smiles.
"Thats great Kie," I say.
I've missed her, although all the surgeries which you can clearly tell have been done, she is still the same person on the inside.
Plus it's not my body anyways.
We make small talk and after a while, she leaves.
She tells me all about her old school, the messy dramas she had gotten into, shit like that.
I mostly didn't care, my only worry was upstairs, on my bed.
After she left, I took Eli and went to the Pharmacy to buy the pills for Ashley.
He was asleep all the way there and all the way back.
Once we made it back, I did exactly what Jason told me to do. I put the medicine in one of the pipe kinda thing that injected it straight to her body.
After a while it was dinner and once again, Eli was hungry. I fed it than proceeded to feed myself.
I made myself some White Sauce Pasta.
Not gonna lie, I am a pretty good cook. I learnt it when I was young, when my father left us.
I didn't do it because he left. I did it to distract myself from my crying mother, from the empty space left in my heart. One that nothing has ever managed to fill.
Once I was done eating I just went back upstairs to my bedroom.
I thought of watching a movie but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
So instead I just lay on my bed, next to her and scrolled on my phone.
I had plenty of missed calls and texts but I simply couldn't care enough to open them.
It was so silent, it could kill me.
The house feels so empty.
Like the hole in my heart.
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Well... I wrote this chapter and chapter 17 on the same day. And im honestly proud of myself. This is a long ass chapter to feed yall till the weekend.
I told myself I wouldn't publish it but here I am. Anywaysss tell me your favourite part in the comments.
I love you all so much. I hope you have a great rest of your day/night.
Bye!