Ashley's pov.
I woke up to the sound of of lovely birds chirping and the sound of peace, my mother came into my room with pancakes in her hand and a big smile on her face.
Yeah right, only in my wildest dreams.
But no unfortunately I woke up to the sound of plates smashing into the ground, loud thumps and my father screaming my name telling me to 'get my ass down there'.
I pick up my phone to check the time, 6:21 AM. What does he want now? My alarm for work doesn't ring till 9 for fucks sake.
I jog downstairs and see blood dripping from my so called father's hand.
"What happened?" I ask with worry. Yes he is abusive but he is still somehow my father.
"Its none of your fucking business!" He slurs. I slightly jump back, there go all my worries. "Go to the pharmacy and get me some pain killers."
"I dont think they are ope-"
"I don't care if they are open or not, break in, do something, be useful for once!" He shouts.
For once? I am the only person actually trying to keep this family intact and he just acts like it's nothing.
I grab my coat as it is still 6 in the fucking morning and take the money he gave me for the pain killers and rush out not wanting to see him anymore.
I am about to walk to my car before I remember I left my car keys inside, great!
"What are you doing up so early?" A voice suddenly speaks, giving me like a mini heart attack.
I turn around just to see Aaron on the front porch smoking.
"Holy shit Aaron, you really gotta stop almost sending me to death by randomly appearing out of nowhere. I could have sworn you werent here like two seconds ago." I comment.
He chuckles before speaking, "Glad to know you're scared of me." He winks.
"Yeah right. Well I have to get going now, it's a long walk to the pharmacy and I wanna get back soon to get a few minutes of sleep before work."
"Why are you walking? Don't you have a car."
"Well you see I kinda forgot the keys inside and I don't wanna go get them so.." I drag.
"I could give you a lift if you want, I would hate for you to get kidnapped." He teases as he throws the cigarette on the floor and crushes it with his shoe.
God damn.
"You are never going to stop bugging me about that are you?" I chuckle.
"Nope." He smiles and God damn would I be lying if I said I didn't find it attractive.
"I heard some things breaking, everything alright in there?" He says gesturing to my house.
My body tenses up but I try not to show it, "Yeah, you know just me being clumsy as usual."
He nods unsurely but I think he bought it. "Alright then Lee, let's go shall we?"
"Lee? Who is Lee?" I question as we start moving to the car.
"Lee is my nickname for you." He smirks as he gets in the car.
"Lee is a boys name, and as you can see I very much do not have a penis." I smile sarcastically.
"Proof or it's not true." He smirks.
"In your wildest dreams Roni boy." I wink.
"Do not call me that."
"Okay, Roni." I chuckle and he joins in.
"So tell me Lee what did you dream about last night?"
"Well Roni boy, I would love for you explain how it is your fucking business?" Holy shit I'm starting to sound like my father.
"Alright, you can continue dreaming about fucking Tyler, I'll not interfere." He says as he swerves to the right.
"What no! I have never dreamt that before!" I say.
Lie.
"Yeah and you expect me to believe you? You have liked him since you were born."
"Okay no that is a lie, I met him when I was 3 so ha!"
"You say it like it makes a big difference." He rolls his eyes.
"I did not like him when I was 3!"
"Yeah yeah so when did you start liking him?"
"When I was 4.." Shit.
He starts laughing like full on laughing and damn he looks fine.
"Yeah yeah, laugh at me all you want. Like seriously, how do you manage to get every girl you want?" I sigh.
"Well I haven't gotten you yet." My eyes widen at his response.
"I said every girl you want and you don't want me."
"What if I do?" He smirks knowing it will get a reaction out of me.
Nope not falling for it.
I scoff in response and shake my head.
"Okay how about I help you out with him huh?" He says.
"And how could you help me out?"
"What do you say about fake dating me to make Ty jealous? I mean you have had a crush on him your whole life so I'm basically just doing you a favor."
"Oh please.. not my whole life, but anyways what do you get out of it?" I ask innocently.
"My mother wants me to get a real girlfriend and to stop playing around."
"Ah mamas boy aren't ya?" I ask with a smirk.
"Not necessarily a mamas boy. I just love her more then life, I mean she has always been there for us since that so called father of us left us and I know its been hard so the last thing I wanna do it let her down."
Damn that got.. sad really quickly.
I just nod in response.
"So what do you say?" He asks.
"I don't know Aaron, I feel like lying to Ty isn't something I wanna do. But I'll think about it and let you know on Monday."
"It's all good take your time, if you don't wanna do it that's also alright."
"Thank you for understanding.. Roni boy." I wink and we both break down into laughter.
The car pulls to a stop, "We are here, Lee."
"Thank you so much again Roni."
I step out of the car and go inside the pharmacy, I hand the pharmacist the paper which had all the pills written and hand him the money.
I take the pills and head back out and into the car.
"So many damn pills. Who are they for?" Aaron asks.
"Oh they are for my dad." I say unbothered.
He seems abit confused but shrugs it off.
The ride back home is mostly silent but it isnt awkward, instead we are both humming along to The Weeknd.
"Oh I'm so glad you have good music taste." I say with a smile.
"I assumed you to be the type to listen to Camilo Cabella or something." He says.
"You mean Camilla Cabello? And yes as a matter of fact I do, you should listen to her sometimes. She makes good music."
"No thank you."
I roll my eyes in response and continue humming to the song.
We reach our neighbourhood and once again we say our goodbye and I thank him at the same place as yesterday.
As soon as I open the door I am met by my father who has an angry look plastered on his face.
He almost looks like the mind flayer except the mind flayer is hotter. Sorry not sorry.
Yes I watch the stranger things.
"Why are you late?" He says.
"I'm sorry the nearest pharmacy was 20 minutes away." I say looking down at my feet.
He scoffs, snatching the pills away without even a thank you.
Atleast he didn't hurt me.
I go upstairs to my bedroom, take out my phone and check the time, 7:23 AM.
Fuck yes I can go back to sleep.
I do a little victory dance before falling on my bed.
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Well chapter 2 is out! How did yall like it? I hope I didn't annoy yall with the stranger things reference but I found it abit funny, but I enjoyed writing this chapter alot.
Yea yeah the first two chapters both end with her sleeping but hey, you can't judge a girl for loving sleep.
Anyways all matters aside I hope you did like this chapter and please do leave your thoughts.
Have a great rest of your day/night bye!