4 Chapter 4

Ashley's POV

I was clearly overwhelmed with happiness over Daniel's gesture of love to me. Sorry,kindness.

Let's not get cocky.

I opened to the door to my house and found mum sitting on the couch staring patiently at the door and smiling like she was expecting me orrrrr...did she see me and Daniel?

Oh God!

"Hey mum" I said going over to give her a hug.

"How was your day honey?" She asked still smiling

"It wasn't bad" I replied casually

She looked and me making sure I saw her and then she smiled again!

I'm so sure she saw something now.

"Is it just me or does this house smell of weirdness?" I asked making my way to my room.

"C'mon Ashley,you don't really have anything to share with me?" She asked completely ignoring my question.

"Fineeee! His name is Daniel and he's a really nice guy and he's helped me a lot really. I'm beginning to wonder if we've known ourselves before now because things with him seem so cool" I said smiling sheepishly.

"Is lending his jacket to you one of the good things he's done?" Mom asked pointing at the jacket around my waist.

That was when I remembered I still had his jacket on. He dropped me home and didn't even ask for it when he knew I could have just given it to him and it wasn't like it skipped his mind because we had few conversations where his jacket was a part of.

"Yeah, had a little cloth problem and he offered his jacket". I said plainly.

"Well that was nice of him, maybe sometime you can invite him over for lunch or dinner, as it suits in his schedule" she said smiling casually.

I knew from her facial expression she wasn't trying to tease me or anything so I agreed and made my way to my room.

I took a warm refreshing bath and put something comfy. I was about going down to help mum make dinner when my phone rang.

*Scott😎❤️☺️*

Yeah, it was Scott and I saved his name with those emojis because that was how he really was and made me feel. He was cool and loving and me smile, even though I had no brother he filled the gap perfectly.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Hi Ash, how are you?"

"I'm good, just got home some minutes ago though"

"Minutes ago? Detention ended earlier than that so why did you get home late, did you have to walk home? Were you injured? Did Kylie pull any stunts?" He asked worriedly.

"Calm down Scott, I'm still in one piece my dearest sir" I said laughing

"Oh! That's a relief,I thought something serious happened. So how did you get home?"

To be honest I didn't really want to go into details right then because Scott wasn't always pleased with Daniel's presence in our lives but I just had to anyways.

"Danny gave me a ride home and offered to take me for lunch, he really was a life savior.At some point I forgot I had nothing during lunch and then I had to stay extra hours on empty stomach,I was famished" I said happily.

Scott didn't respond immediately

"I remember asking  if you needed me to wait behind for you but you turned me down. If you had already planned to have a ride with me you should have told me instead"

"C'mon Scott, I'll always choose a ride with you over him but the thing here is that I didn't even ask him to wait behind and he did. I'm sorry if you feel bad"

"It's fine, the most important thing is you're home and safe and your stomach is filled with food" he said chuckling.

"Yeah,like that's the most important thing here" I said laughing

"To you it is" he retorted

We spoke about a rendezvous but we agreed on letting the others come up with something.

I texted Natalie and Jowie asking for their opinion of the nicest place we should meet and they said the same place so I guess that's sorted.

I reported back to Scott.

"Alright, 1pm it is then. Bye Ash"

"Bye Scott".

I was so lost in the fun and conversations I was having with my best buddies that I lost track of time.

I was about checking my time when mum called me down for dinner.

I was shocked but not really surprised,well you understand what I mean lol.

"Coming mum!" I shouted

I put on my slip-ons and made my way to the dining table.

It was pasta and Crispy chicken and my favorite home made pineapple juice.

Mum made all these without me,I shouldn't be shocked because she was a chef anyways.

I told her about our hangout later and sleepover at Jowie's.

She'd known them since forever so it wasn't difficult convincing her.

We had dinner peacefully and talked about random things.

I did the dishes after and went back to my room for a beauty sleep.

Daniel's POV

I was awoken by a call.

"Ughhhh!" I groaned as I turned around on my bed. I picked up my phone and saw a notification, it was Jake who called.

"What does he want so early from me?!" I said out loud.

I took my phone and checked the time only to realize it was almost noon, how on Earth could I have overslept till this time.

I was about calling him when his call came in.

"You sleepyhead! Do you really have to be lazy everyday?! We already had a today planned out to go buy the movie tickets by 11am and now it's almost 12. We're going to have to wait in that long queue!" Jake shouted

"I'm really sorry Bro but chill out,we can still make it

short queue today".

"Whatever Daniel,just get here in 15mins and please don't forget to have a bath" Jake said laughing.

I got up from my bed and headed to the bathroom and since the weather was chilly I had a hot bath and got dressed in a milk coloured Hoodie,a pair of denim trouser and a casual sneaker.

I grabbed my keys and went downstairs, I told mum where I was going and bid her goodbye.

I got to Jake's and he was glad to see I made it before 15mins elapsed.

We drove off in my car and metup with the rest at the ticket office and that is Charlie and Fred.

Okay I was wrong, the queue was quite long so we just had to use the illegal but sweet route.

We walked up to pretty girls and had conversations with them,we got them to think we were in some kind of emergency after this and they let swap positions.