Chapter 9: ice cream

A/N: this chapter is dedicated to GOLDandBOLD [go check her out:)] because she's my new editor for this book!! so the previous chapters are going to be edited soon:) have fun reading!

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His lips were on mine. My mind was blank, all that surrounded us was a blur, and it was like a focused lens, only focused on us. I couldn't process. His warm hands softly caressed my cheeks, and I suppressed a moan. I realised we were kissing in front of my dad's grave, which was pretty awkward, even if he was six feet under. I believed that he was watching.

I pulled apart and Ash might have taken the wrong idea.

"sorry, u-uh I didn't mean to.." he rambled.

"no, not that. we're, um kissing, in front of uh my dad's uh grave,"

"oh, yeah, right."

We sat there in silence, but this time it wasn't peaceful. It was awkward. It could have been a stupid, lame kiss to him. Yet, to me, it was the most amazing thing ever. How my stomach tingled and tickled when his lips touched mine. How my hands and legs were jelly when he kissed me. How I was thankful for the fact that I was on the ground, cause if I was standing, I would have fell to the ground. How I wish we could stay with our lips locked together forever. But to him, it was probably just a simple other kiss.

"Cassie?" Ash snapped me out of my thoughts.

"hmm?"

"will you, uh, be my girlfriend?" he asked sheepishly.

Did I hear him correctly? I was still so caught up with the kiss, I was probably hallucinating. He would never ask me to be his girlfriend. I mean, I'm Cassie Flizz. I'm the outcast, the nobody. How and why would he want me to be his girlfriend? Could this be a sick little joke he was playing? As much as I wanted to believe it was true, it seemed so hard to. It was like the words he said was a joke.

"pardon?" I asked.

"will you, Cassie, be my girlfriend?"

OKay, two times in a row and I hear the same thing. This can't be true.

"is this some sick joke? because it's not funny," I deapanned.

"no, I'm serious"

"no way,"

"yes way," he smiled.

My heart raced. It beat faster than it ever had. And it was all because Ash wanted me to be his girlfriend. His girlfriend!

"yes!" I exclaimed.

"yes?"

"yes,"

"yes!" he exclaimed, hugging me tightly.

This was a little weird though. Because he asked me out in front of dad, in front of someone who was suppose to warn guys not to touch me, not to hurt me and not to bring me home late. But somewhere in my heart, I knew he was happy for me, because I was happy.

Dad had always been a caring person. He had the biggest, kindest heart of all. He always put people before himself, which always made him look like the hero. Dad never wanted people to think he was all high and mighty, he was just who he was. He was my dad, my hero, my friend, my father. He was the one who read me bed time stories when mom was exhausted from work, because he loved her so much he couldn't bare to let her stay up any later, even when he was tired too. He always tried making me happy, as well as mom, and he would always succeed. Dad had a super power, and that was to put a smile on my face.

"this can't be our first dad, not at a cemetery," he states, shaking his head.

"yeah, true." I agreed.

"that doesn't mean we can't make the day any less special," he smiled.

"what's your plan?"

"can't tell you, c'mon, you ready to go?" he asked warmly.

"yeah, I guess"

"c'mon," he stood up and pulled me up, hugging me by the side kissing me temple.

We've been official for less than five minutes, and I'm already dying. He's literally killing me. Without his hold, I would have been on the floor because my legs were jelly, my heart couldn't function properly, and it's all because of him. All because of Ash.

"um, I have a car," I said, pointing to my Ford.

Even though the Ford was my dad's, and it was in an accident, and got overturned, it was in a pretty darn good condition. After a little bit of a paint job and some refurbishing, it was as good as new. Besides, it reminded me of my dad, other than the accident.

"I don't have my motorcycle anyways." he shrugged.

"I'm driving," Ash said, once we reached the Ford.

"you can drive cars?" I raised an eyebrow.

"yes," he said in a 'duh' tone.

"okay..." I mumbled.

We got into the car and I pestered Ash time and time again to make him tell me where we were going. I hated having surprises. Okay, not really, because they can be pretty romantic and sweet in times, but I didn't like them. So maybe hate is too much of a strong word to say about surprises. I just disliked them.

After an annoying ten minutes, The Sweet Tooth appeared in front of me. He brought me to an ice cream parlor! It wasn't any ice cream parlor though, it was the bomb! This place had smore ice cream, boba tea ice cream, Harry Potter potion themed ice cream flavors, any flavour you think of, tthey have it. We entered the parlor and immediately I recognised the song that was playing.

Cecelia, you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily~

I recognised this song, these lyrics, these voices. They were the new Vamps' song! That wasn't it though, it was the youtuber star version! I smiled as I sand along softly.

"what do you want?" Ash asked me.

"mermaid tears" I said, pointing to the flavour and smiled at the worker.

She handed me the ice cream cone and I licked the deliciousness. Mermaid Tears was definitely my all time favourite flavour. It was amazing. Imagine blue rasberry bubblegum flavour, mashed up with pop rocks and mixed all up into an ice cream flavour. That's pure genius! Ash got anice cream flavoured caled Wolfsbane. This is the thing I love about The Sweet Tooth, all the ice cream names are really cool and unique, you don't find them anywhere else. The Wolfsbane was a purple coloured ice cream, flavoured grape blackberry. I've tried it before, but I still preferred Mermaid Tears.

"I turn my tv on, it's the same old song, why are you following me? it's like a missing you sign, is written on my face, why-y-y-y-y-y-ya" I sang along to the song, bobbing my head to the tune as we found a seat and sat down.

"you've got a great voice, y' know?" Ash said.

I blushed and mumbled a 'thank you'

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After this long day today, I finally sat in my bed, grabbed a pen and wrote in my diary.

Dear diary,

I though today would've been hard for me, but it wasn't. The start of it was, but not the end. I met Ash today, surprisingly at the cemetery, but I didn't ask why he was there, it must have slippped out my mind. That's not important though, because what I'm about to write next is going to be unbelievable.

I'm Ash's new girlfriend! Writing that just gives me the tingles already! can yu even believe that? I'm Ash's girlfriend! I never ever ever [que Taylor Swift's song] [no don't] thought, in a million years, that I would be Ash Anderson's girlfirend. That's insane!

And, and, hold your horses diary, because this gets better. He kissed me! Yes, HE KISSED ME!! boy, it was so good! I want to keep this PG, but heck, it was better than cookie dough ice cream, and yu should know how much I love cookie dough ice cream, even though Mermaid Tear ice cream is amazing as well.

That brings me to my next point! We went to The Sweet Tooth today! And I bought Mermaid Tear ice cream, Ash bout Wolfsbane, and Cecelia was playing on the radio in the parlor, so I sang along and guess what! Ash said I had a ncie voice!! Oh my gawd, this boy is driving me to Nutty Town.

-Cassie

I made a mnetal note to ask Ash soon about why he was at the cemetery, because if he was suppose to be visiting another friend or relative then I must apologise to him. I took away his time to talk to his relative for god's ssake. Then I realised, when we left, he didn't have the flowers in his hands. Where did he put it? I'll ask him soon. I don't remember stopping by any other grave where he had stopped and put the flowers, he was with me all along.

Unless...

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A/N: I'd like to say that The Sweet Tooth is something I made up, along with the flavours. If there's an ice cream parlor called The Sweet Tooth, then I promise I didn't know okay:) The song is what was played in the parlor. Hope you guys enjoyed reading!!:)