I turn from the mirror as my phone starts ringing lying on my bed beside my bag. I look at the clock on the wall and I couldn't help but smile on seeing the minute hand just tick 12. It was sharp 9 Am. 'He is too punctual' I say to myself as I go to pick up the call. "I'm here near your gates," Asher says as soon as I answer the call. "Okay, I'm coming," I reply and end the call. Then I grab my bag and look in the mirror once again, checking my face and hair are alright before walking out of my room and heading downstairs. Okay wait, it's not like what you all think. I haven't ended up deciding to make the bad boy mine or anything. I thought for a long time yesterday about what to do. I just want to know why Asher is now trying to get close to me. I think he purposefully came to the lab last day with his laptop after knowing there was a football players' meeting and so Aaron won't be with me. So, has he got some interest in me or is he just looking for a friend in me? He
"Wait, can we take a break for five minutes?" I ask as Asher finish explaining Exponential rule and start to jump to Logarithm rule. He places the pen down and nods at me, although it's only less than half an hour since we started. "What are you gonna do now?" He asks closing the textbook. "Let's talk?" I say. "About what?" his straight long eyebrows narrow the slightest bit. I smile imagining what he'd have looked like if he had blonde eyebrows like his hair. It'd have looked funny on his extremely pale face. But thankfully he got dark eyebrows and eyelashes. "You are unique. Where did you get this look from?" I ask looking at his charcoal grey eyes. He stares back at me causing my heart to pound the slightest bit more. But I feel a lot less nervous now after spending some time with him. Guess this feeling would slowly fade away."Unique?" He repeats. "Yeah..your blonde hair, pale skin, and grey eyes. That's a unique combination." "Not really. It's just everything lacks m
"So, what are you ordering?" I ask looking up at Asher from the menu in my hands. We were now inside the Blue Plate restaurant, three minutes away from the supermarket. He frowns at me. "I told you I'm only accompanying you," he says. "How can I eat when you are sitting here in front of me without eating?" I ask. "Then I'll go and sit in the car," he proceeds to get up but I quickly grab his hands. "Let me see what'll happen if you have lunch with me, today," I say and take my hands away. He sighs. "Why do you want me to have lunch so much?" "Why are you insisting on not having lunch, so much?" He leaves yet another sigh and shakes his head before snatching the menu from my hands. "I'd order salsa then," he replies, placing the menu aside, making me roll my eyes "Sure, you can order salsa along with a Hamburger," I say and wave to the waiter who soon comes to us. Asher tries to protest as I order two hamburgers, a plate of French fries and salsa. "Only bring one
I drop my bag on my bedroom floor and throw my phone on the table before slumping down on my bed feeling mad. What the fuck is wrong with him? I was pretending, huh? So, what was I supposed to do? Should I have gone and told him, "Hey Asher, I know your little secret. Weren't you the one placing Rose Milk in Aaron's locker for half a year? And oh, I also know that your Dad is dead and Mom is crazy and you live alone." Hell! I can't handle him! He just drains me out. I sigh and lie back, looking at the white ceiling above. Looking at his face is like looking at this plain ceiling. How am I supposed to know how he's feeling if he doesn't give me a hint? Okay, maybe he gave me some hints. But how can I possibly think he likes me when he was crazily loving a guy for so long? It's only two weeks since he wrote that goodbye letter to Aaron. And why the hell does he like me now? Do I apparently look like his mother or something? Oh wait, he didn't tell, he likes me. He indire
It starts raining by about half past ten. As I look out of the windows, I feel a weird sensation in my stomach, something like fear or worry or anxiety. I hope Asher isn't out again in the rain. He caught a cold last time and had red eyes and nose even after four days. I don't know why I'm feeling like he'd be out in the rain now. It's not like I broke his heart or anything. Last time, it was the end of his 111 days+ old unrequited love. It isn't even two weeks since any positive interaction happened between me and him. Okay, I don't need to worry about him. I'll better go sleep now and wake up early tomorrow to work on our video game. I crawl up on my bed and turn out the lights before shifting to my side and pulling up the covers. I flinch open my eyes to the sound of thunder. It's raining heavily outside now. I can hear the tinkling sound of rain drops hitting the roof and my windows. I turn on the lights and look at the clock. It's five minutes past 12 Am. I grab my
"Yes, Miss Turner. We've found your friends' car here at the cliff. His phone was also inside the car. It has just been sent to the forensics department for fingerprint collection. Our team is currently searching the nearby areas," The police sergeant says in a rush. We've just got his number from the station. He's the one currently leading the investigation. "There's no use searching for him there. We know where he is. And, we want your help immediately," I say. "Listen, Miss Turner, we're doing everything we can to find your boyfriend. But you can't order the police what to do," he says in an annoyed tone. "Please hear us out, sergeant. We've tracked down his watch's location," Aaron says leaning forward from the back seat. "He had the watch with him and the watch has traveled from Merganzel cliff area towards Hondbill between 4:45 Pm and 6:05 Pm. We are most sure Asher is there in Hondbill. So, we want your force to search around the specific area." "Who is this speaking,"
I grab the handle of the back door, only to find it also locked. Then I hear a small thudding noise from the inside. I could see a dim light coming from the windows on the sides. I slowly step down from the porch and turn around the corner, walking towards the windows, Ty and Aaron closely following me, Ty grabbing the end of my t-shit. We peak in through the windows but we could see nothing as the inside view was blinded by dark curtains. But we could hear someone speaking in a very low voice. I and Aaron press our ears to the window to listen to the conversation while Ty stands behind us clutching both of our t-shirts. "How much more time, Andrew?" I hear a lady's voice. "Just half an hour. Relax," the guy sounds really young. "I think I'm going to die of fear. What if they get some doubts? We shouldn't have done this." "Think about all the money and property we're going to own once this brat is gone." "Shit! They are going to kill him! Why aren't the police coming?" Aaron whi
"I don't want that." Asher says, eying the sandwich in my hands with his signature blank expression, his hands crossed over his chest as he sits leaning back on a pillow on the hospital bed with his legs stretched forward and crossed at the ankles. "Then what do you want?" I ask. "Pizza," he replies. "Go buy me Pizza," he says looking at Ty, nonchalantly. "You said you don't want the burger from the hospital canteen. So, we went and bought you sandwich from outside. Why don't you want this sandwich now?" Ty asks him frowning, leaning forward from the chair he was sitting on, put beside Asher's bed. Asher irritably pulls back the neck of the loose pale blue hospital shirt he was wearing. "I'm not having it. If you want me to eat, then buy me Pizza," he says in his deep voice. Aaron leaves a sigh and brushes his hands through his hair, turning around from the window of the room. "Okay, let's go buy pizza then," he says looking at Ty who also leaves a sigh and gets up from the
4 years later I lean back on my chair and let out a yawn after deleting the account 'prettylul._' from Featurefolio. Now, I can freely delete any account from FF at any time. Because I'm now a Cyber security consultant at Featurefolio. This particular account I deleted now has been reported a lot of times in the last few days. Today I did a thorough investigation of the account before finally deciding to delete it. I shut down my laptop and avert my eyes to Asher's alarm clock sitting on the bedside table beside our photograph that was taken last month during Asher's graduation. The clock is five minutes fast and it shows 11:40 Pm. That means there are still 25 minutes left for me to turn 22. Yeah, it's my birthday tomorrow. And it's my first birthday that Asher is going to miss after we started dating four years ago. I still vividly remember my 18th birthday. Asher had just gone to the university. My birthday was on a Wednesday. So, I told him not to come home to wish me b
Rubbing my eyes and letting out a yawn, I sheepishly stroll down the Corridors and walk towards the students' parking lot, feeling exhausted as hell. The last two hours were History and Geography. Both I share with Ty and he didn't even let me blink an eye during both classes which were as boring as beans. Mr. Cooper still teaches us History. And instead of Mr. William, we now have Mrs. Garcia for Geography. She is so old and we can't even understand properly what she is saying if we don't keep looking at her mouth. But Ty still can be attentive in her class and he expects me to do the same. Before leaving, Asher told him to keep an eye on me and make sure I'm studying properly. Ty took his words too seriously. I've now notebooks for every subject to take down lecture notes. If this goes on like this, I think I'll score more marks than him in the semester exams. I fish my phone from my pocket and switch it on, only for it to start vibrating continuously in my hands as notificatio
"Is it actually real?" With a wide open mouth, I lean forward on my chair and scrunch my eyebrows, reading through the content of the mail again. It's a mail from Galaxy, one of the most famous shopping apps in the world. Their company had recently offered a bug bounty program and I had just participated in it. I was able to find a critical bug in their site. Now I've received a mail from the company, saying I won price money of $50,000. I look at the mail address again. It's Galaxy's official mail itself. This can't be fake. But why would they pay me this huge amount? I really didn't expect anything more than $5000. I keep on looking at the screen in disbelief. Wait! Let me check my account. I quickly grab my phone and tap on my banking app. Soon I find that fifty thousand dollars was credited to my account two hours ago. Wow! I lean back on my chair, laughing in surprise and excitement. Then I proceed to video call Asher to tell him the news. It's past 9 Pm, so he might be bac
"Oh c'mon Ann, how many times should I beg you to help me out with this?" Aaron groans averting his gaze from his laptop screen and looking at me. "Wait for some time. Can't you see she is busy here?" Asher says whilst swallowing down the food in his mouth. Aaron leaves a sigh. "Why are you feeding him like he is a baby? He still has a perfectly functioning left hand." Asher ignores him and opens his mouth again, tilting his face to me. I lift the fork to his mouth and he leans in and takes the Fried rice before starting to chew again. So, apparently, Asher wanted to have fried rice and ham before he go to university. So we got all the ingredients from the store and he made us (me, Ty and Aaron) cook for him under his supervision. We all ate it for lunch and it was delicious. Now it's evening and I'm sitting on the couch in Asher's living room, feeding him the leftover fried rice from noon as he wanted to have it again. And he wanted me to feed it to him. The wound in his right ha
I press the enter key on my keyboard and tap my feet impatiently on the floor, waiting for the rank list of the selected candidates to Amistdale University to load on my laptop screen. I bite my lips as finally, the list of selected students in Business management and marketing major appears in front of my eyes. I take a breath before I start running my eyes down the list. I get anxious as I don't see Asher's name on the first page. Praying his name is on the next page, I scroll down and I see his name lying on the top itself. Letting out a sigh, I lean back on my chair. So, he is selected. Now the task is to convince him to join the university. I get up from the chair and walk to my cupboard. I open it and fish out a jeans and a top from it before quickly changing into them. Then I grab my phone from my table and walk out of my room toward Ty's room. "Guys, I'm going to Asher's house," I say, opening Ty's room door, only to witness the sight of Aaron hovering over Ty on his
"Ty, are you asleep?" I whisper turning on my side. "No.." he says. "Why aren't you sleeping?" "I can't sleep." "Why?" "I don't know," I leave a sigh. "Why can't you sleep?" "Aaron and Asher are in one room." "Yeah.." "Don't know when they'll both start fighting." "I'm also a little worried. Aaron has a really stupid mouth sometimes." "It's just he doesn't know to hide things. He says everything that comes to his mind," Ty defends. "Yeah, that's the problem," I sigh and close my eyes. We all are in my home right now and it is night. We arrived here evening and I showed Asher and Aaron around my home. Then we had dinner with my parents and we watched a movie and played a lot of games in my room. When it got past midnight, my Dad came to my room and announced that I and Ty are sleeping in one room and Aaron and Asher will share another room. And he made them both move to the other bedroom, saying it was late. Now it's more than an hour after that, but I still can
4 months later. "Oh C'mon, is that how you pose? Smile!" Ty sighs, looking up from the camera in his hands. It's a Canon EOS 60D camera Aaron bought for him with his second salary. "And move that hat a little to the left." Asher fixes the graduation hat properly on his head and raises the diploma certificate in his hands a little before spreading his lips wide. "Wow! What a weird smile!" Aaron laughs beside Ty. "Hey Snow, look at me," I smile at Asher. "I love you." His lips immediately bunch into a natural beautiful smile. At that very moment, Ty snaps a picture. "That was good," he laughs looking up from the camera. "Now you both stand together." I giggle and rush to Asher, wrapping my hands around his arms, and pulling him close to me. He smiles, tilting his face and looking at my eyes. "Now do a different pose," Ty says after clicking a few shots. I lean in and press my lips on his cheeks causing Aaron and Ty to laugh whilst snapping a lot of pics. After we both do a lot
I wake up from my sleep, hearing some familiar tunes. Soon I realize it's my and Asher's phone ringing on the bedside table. Wait! why are both of our phones ringing together? "Hey, Wake up!" I shake Asher, lifting my hands from where it was pressed up against his chest. His arms were still wrapped tightly around my body and we both were still in our underwear with the duvet covering us. We had cuddled to sleep after what happened earlier. Asher groans, taking his hands away from my body and rolling onto his back. Soon I hear the sound of the doorbell. Our phones are also still ringing on the bedside table. Shit! It's probably Ty and Aaron. I quickly remove the duvet piece from over my body and crawl towards the table. And like I guessed, my phone shows 'Ty' on caller Id while Asher's shows 'Idiot.' And the doorbell is now going off like crazy. It's definitely Aaron who is ringing it. "WAKE UP ASHER AND GET DRESSED!" I shout, grabbing my frock from the table before hastily
"Hop in," Asher says smiling wide at me. I laugh looking at his white t-shirt with 'Mostly sweet. Sometimes savage' written on it. Underneath it, he was wearing a short beige colored shorts that freely exposed his milky thighs. I wanted to keep staring at those muscular thighs but I quickly look away and hop into the passenger seat. I had to fight with myself to not look at his legs as he drove. I didn't know he had such short shorts. It was like he purposefully wore it today to seduce me. Within two minutes, we reach his home. His house is only a little away from us. I had told him I'd walk there. But he insisted he'd come and pick me up. "What all books did you bring with you?" He asks as we hop out. "Geography and Biology," I reply. "Let's study Biology first. I like Biology more than Geography," he says walking to the front doors. I nod and follow him. He jams the key into the hole and pushes the door open. We go to his room upstairs and sit down on his bed. I fish m