"You look beautiful!" Jeremy exclaimed,

"Thankyou Jer, and now stop flirting," I said rolling my eyes. "You'll do great on your date man, just chill out a bit, alright?"

"No no no no, its not that, okay maybe it is, but, argh!" He whined. "Why am I being such a girl about this? I've gone on a lot of dates before, I mean come on, look at me. Who wouldn't date me? I would totally date me, just saying.." He said, gesturing himself.

"Woah woah, slow down there, I can't hear you because of all the ego in the middle."

"Hey, I do need a confidence boost, okay?" He smirked.

"Yes Jer, you do, but you don't need a confidence boost." I pointed out.

"Hello, the best way to boost a guys confidence is to boost his ego" he said in a duh tone.

"You do have a point." I admitted.

"I always have a point," he stated proudly.

I slapped him on his chest.

"Hey!"

"Oh shush, it didn't hurt that bad."

"You want me to hit you?"

"Where did your manners go? Don't ya know, you shouldn't hit a girl?" I asked.

"Who said I'm hitting a girl?" He chuckled.

I glared at him. He simply did the silent motion of sealing his lips and tossing the key over to me, which, I gladly put in my pocket.

"So, you seem..cheery?" Jeremy observed.

"Well.." I said in a high pitched fake voice, which I knew wouldn't work with Jer, but hey? I had to try..right?

"Uh huh, don't well me bro, spill?"

"And what if I don't?" I smirked.

"You and I both know you can't keep that inside you for too long. Either ways I'm gonna know, if not sooner then later." He smirked back.

Damn that annoying bitch had a point.

"Oh, its not that big of a news.." I mumbled.

"I-uh, well, Ashton and I uh, we-we kissed.."

"YOU DID WHAT!?" Someone yelled.

"Yeah that, but I don't think those words left my mouth.." Jeremy looked at me confused.

"Here you idiots!" I heard a really familiar voice.

Jer and I both turned around to face an extremely shocked Mason.

"Great. Now that goof knows too!" I whined, rolling my eyes.

"HOW IS THAT NOT A BIG DEAL?" Mason exclaimed?

"Well.."

"Oh no girl, don't you well us! DETAILS NOW!" Jeremy demanded.

"I'm with you on that one, bro!" Mason demanded too.

They both looked at me with wide eyes, ready to pop outta their sockets. Well that would be funny, you know those spring kinda things..? Okay Diana, stop.

"I-uh! You're like nosey girls now!" I whined, again.

"Okay wait." Mason paused me.

Then he suddenly ran into the kitchen.

I glanced at the direction he went, then back at Jeremy. We both were clueless.

"Damn you, Mason. If you've gone to get food i'll personally kill you."

He never replied.

Jer and I sat in silence for 3 whole minutes! I know it seems pretty less when you put it in words but when you're the one waiting, its a lot. Trust me.

"I'm back," Mason spoke, holding a bowl full of popcorn..

"Woah, man, I love you." Jeremy stated.

They both positioned themselves on the couch and looked at me, waiting for me to narrate my 'story' all this while popping popcorns into their mouths.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" I dead panned.

They both looked at each other and then at me, "no" they said in union.

"Fuck you."

"Aww, love you too, now continue."

I was about to start when suddenly I noticed something. My face turned from explaining to shocked. "MASON, HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET INTO MY HOUSE?"

"Oh that? Remember, I know where your keys are? So I just walked in.." He said as if it was the most normal thing to do on this planet.

"I-uh, I gotta change my key-hiding places" I huffed.

"Nah, then you'd forget, and you would have to break into your own house, again." Mason said.

"Woah, shes broken into her own house?" Jer asked.

"Yeah man, that was really funny. She sprained her ankle in the process. She tried climbing the tree or some shit, and asked Ashton to be alert if she lost balance or something. She almost reached her window, and when she did, she found it locked. She normally leaves it open, but that one fine day, she locked it. She got frustrated and groaned, and lost her balance on whatever she was balancing on. And she fell straight down. When she looked around for the dumbfuck- Ashton, she found hi, fascinated by some new flower growing in the lawn and forgot all about her." Mason narrated the story and started laughing.

Jeremy couldn't control his laughter anymore and fell to the ground.

I rolled my eyes.

That jerk was more interested in a flower then paying attention to me, and I ended up with a serious sprain. All thanks to him because there was a wild flower in my yard. After that, I haven't planted even one flower, ever.

"Why is everyone laughing so much?" Ashton asked, walking into my living room.

Wait? Now even he is here? Oh gods. How?

"How are you here?" I asked, shocked, all over again, for the exact same reason.

"Know where your keys are, dumbass."

I shook my head, I really need to change my hiding places.

"So, why is everyone laughing again?" Ashton asked.

"Just told Jeremy how Anna tried to break into her own house and fell down because you were-" he was cut off by Ashton bursting out laughing.

"Fascinated by the flower. Yeah I remember." He said chuckling.

I face palmed myself.

Wow.

"So did she manage to get in?" Jeremy finally asked, cutting out on his laughter.

"Haha, thats even more interesting. We called Mason up and then one by one the whole gang was there, everyone searched every corner outside to see if anything was unlocked or look for any way to enter, this happened because dear Anna forgot where she left her keys. Luckily Mason found the kitchen window open and Anna managed to get through since she was hardly even 4ft, that time." Ashton chuckled, "when she got inside she opened the door for all of us and made us search the entire house for the keys, we were everywhere looking for her god dammed keys. The funny thing was that we found the keys in her fucking jeans pocket!"

"OH MY. ARE YOU SERIOUS?" Jeremy commented and fell down laughing again.

Along with the two jerks- Mason and Ashton.

"Oh come on, I didn't realise okay!" I protested.

"Yeah and you busted your ankle for that," Mason teased.

Everyone fell in step laughing, even me.

"Hello babe!" Maddison greeted, before jumping on my back and catching me off guard so we both crashed into the ground.

"Ugh" she groaned, "remind me to not do that to you, ever again." She mumbled.

"Woah, even you know where my keys are?" I asked.

"Obviously. You told all of us so that you wouldn't repeat what happened with you 2 years ago," yeah she was talking about the same time I fell down trying to break in.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean you all get to enter whenever ya'll wish too!" I scolded.

"Of course it does." A new voice spoke. It was Andrew. Oh just great.

"Hii, Anns." Andrew grinned, engulfing me into a warm brotherish hug. If brotherish is even a word..but you know what I mean.

"See, thats how you greet someone." I directed Maddison, "learn from your boyfriend."

She simply smiled at me.

Then she went and planted a small kiss on Andrews lips.

"Why is everyone here..again?" I asked, raising my brow.

"Oh, we forgot to tell you, we're having a bonfire here," Maddison said.

"Uh, you forgot to tell me that you're all having a bonfire at my house?" I questioned.

"Yep" Mason pipped in.

Talk about weird.

"What about your date, Jer?" I asked, confused.

"Nah, thats canned, I asked my date to bring marshmallows." He smiled.

... He Asked his girlfriend to get food after cancelling the date? Why am I not surprised.

After a few 10-15 more minutes, Andy and Lisa walked in.

"Does anyone know how to ring the bell out here?" I groaned.

"No!" All of them replied.

Whatever, I don't think I should expect any better from them either.

Ashton and I were normal, I guess. So what happened between us didn't really matter to him? Yes, it hurts. It'd be weird if it wouldn't, but still, I think I have come to accept it. I mean, nothing in this world ever is fair or right, expectations aren't always met, infect they hardly are. Thats why they say, expectations hurt fuck badly.

For some reason, I'm not hurting as much as I should. Its not me being strong though, its just me pushing back my feelings, and I know that, because I know sooner or later ill break and there will be nothing to stop that out break.

"Hey, I'll go set up the bonfire, anyone's helping?" Ashton asked.

"I'm gonna order some pizza," Lisa said.

"I'm going and looking for some sticks to put the marshmallows on" Mason said.

"Ill come with," Andy said.

"Well, I'll go arrange for some soda's, you coming babe?" Andrew said, asking Maddison.

She nodded and they left.

"Don't look at me, I'm not doing anything, I'm too lazy at this moment. And I love this couch." Jeremy said.

"Well, then I guess Ill go help Ashton."

Jeremy just winked and laid back on the couch, closing his eyes.

I sighed, as I went out through the back door, to help Ashton set up the bonfire.

"Hey." I smiled.

"Hey!" He flashed back a heart melting smile.

I blushed, gladly he had turned around.

"So, what do I do?" I asked, closing in the huge space between us.

"Help me look for wooden logs sticks..anything that can be burned. But nothing alive" Ashton replied.

"Alright, you've got a flashlight?" I asked.

"Yep. Took one on my way here, there was only one so I guess you'll have to tag along with me, unless you wanna wander in the darkness by yourself."

"No no, I'm coming with" I said quickly.

"But, where will we find logs and wood?" I asked, its not easy to find stuff like this at night..especially in a back yard.

"You have trees in your back yard, genius"

"Oh"

We found a few logs and sticks carrying how many ever we could fit in our hands. We did this for like 20 minutes and collected enough wood to light up an amazing bonfire since it was pretty cold outside too.

Just as I was about to dump the last stash of logs, I stumbled into one of them, crashing into the ground. Since Ashton was behind me, he fell too, me landing on him.

My hands hit his chest, while he landed on his back.

"Woah, be careful, klutz!"

"Woah, you should have caught me you know? Instead of falling too!" I retorted.

Thats when I realised he did catch me, his hands were locked on my waist holding me in place, on top of him.

"Oh, I did, but you're just so damn heavy!" He teased.

I glared at him and slapped him, not hard, playfully.

In that process, I lost the little distance that I had created by placing my hands on his chest. And while slapping him, I lost that distance too.

My head was now placed right where his heart was.

His hands tightened around me.

And we looked into each others eyes for a brief moment.

"Don't. Call. Me. Fat." I finally broke the ice.

He just chuckled, loosing his grip. Thank the gods. The awkward moment was broken.

I rolled of him and landed beside him, staring at the stars.

This was the start of a long night..

I mentally smiled.

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