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Chapter 15 - Chapter

As Asher was looking for KC he saw Katelyn approaching.

'No! Why is she here again!?'

*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*

Asher's phone rang and he answered.

"Hi, Ash. Where are you?" Katelyn asked talking on the phone while looking around.

"!" Asher heard her voice through his phone and check the name of who called. Sure enough, it said KC.

"K-Katelyn?" Asher asked both confused and shocked.

"!!!" Hearing Asher's voice from her phone and in front of her Katelyn was extremely shocked and checked if she dialed the right number.

"Asher? I'd really like to talk to you right now but I'm looking for someone."

"Is this s-someone the p-person you like?"

"...Yeah..." She said her expression immediately softened and she was happy.

"I see. So you're m-madly in love?" Asher smiled the emotion in his eyes unreadable.

"I am." She said smiling nothing but admiration in her eyes. "I mean-" She then remembered how in love Asher was with her and tried to fix the mess she was creating.

"It's okay. I t-totally ship it." He smiled happily slightly blushing.

"What? but-" She was visibly confused.

"You w-want to make up for w-what you did to me b-before right?" Asher smirked mischievously.

"I do."

"Let's say I p-p-personally know A-Ash... And I w-were to say he l-likes you b-back and w-wanted to kiss you... W-would you... let him?" Asher smiled teasingly.

"If you're okay with it... Sure." Katelyn replied nervously.

"G-good. C-close your eyes."

She did as she was told.

Asher stared at her full pink lips and his face turned bright red. He moved closer until he was only one centimetre apart.

Katelyn could feel his warm breath on her lips. Asher's face began to heat up intensely and in the end, he decided to just kiss her on her cheek.

She opened her eyes and saw no one there except for her and Asher. Asher's face was bright red and looked nervous and almost like he was about to faint.

Katelyn was confused and slightly angry that Asher had lied to her, "Gasp! Did you-"

"Hi there K-KC. I'm A-Ash." Asher smiled nervously as he waved.

"W-what...?" Katelyn anger quickly dissipated into confusion.

"I knew you'd be p-pretty in p-person. In fact, you're g-gorgeous." Asher said looking her in her eyes.

"Wait... No...?"

"You were r-right she was a t-total idiot for r-r-rejecting me."

"I- You K-k" Katelyn stuttered.

"Mmm? I t-thought you w-wanted me to k-kiss you? A-according to you I had c-consent." Asher tilted his trying his best to stick to the plan of teasing her.

"Yes but no... There's no way...you're not actually...him...I told him everything..." A light shade of pink began to appear on her cheeks.

Asher smirked, "A-about how your b-bastard of a father m-mistreated you? About your c-c-childhood? About what you w-went through for h-helping me? A-about how dumb you were for r-rejecting me?"

"Please stop. I don't want to think about all the embarrassing things I've said and done."

"But it's so fun t-teasing you b-because of how c-c-cute you are w-when you b-blush."

"...Are you really Ash?"

Asher handed her his phone, "I can't p-prove it a-anymore than I a-already have."

"Does that mean that all those days you weren't at school you were crying because you thought I liked someone else?"

"...N-no c-comment."

"That's so cute~"

"N-no..."

"And why didn't you kiss my lips. I know you wanted to~"

"I-I-I"

"Payback! See it's not so fun when you're the one getting teased, isn't it?"

"I only did it b-b-because you always t-tease me!"

"Fair point." She suddenly started laughing.

"W-why are you l-laughing?"

"Because I was so madly in love with both Ash and Asher. I just loved Ash a bit more cause he comforted me when I didn't know what to do but now I know I was just dumb and you were the same person."

"L-love?"

"What you didn't think I was serious when I said I was madly in love?"

"I m-mean how c-can you be s-sure it's l-l-love?"

"I just do." She said smiling and adjusting her hair.

"Ummm... Are you s-still g-going to spend the day c-c-cheering me up?" He asked.

"Changing the topic I see." Katelyn winked causing Asher to blush again, "I don't really see the need. You seem pretty happy to me but... Do you maybe want to go on a date instead?"

"...yes."

"Let's go Cutie pie."

"C-cutie pie?"

"Want something more unique? It'll take some time to think of one but who cares? We have a date to go on."

"Ummm... You h-have my w-w-wheelchair..."

"Oh yeah. When did you learn to walk again?"

"A w-while ago. It still h-hurts a bit though but r-r-running hurts a lot m-more."

"Then why'd you run from me?" Katelyn asked, worried.

"... You k-know why."

"Oh right." She sighed, "Anyway so for the date I have planned we will spend some time here then go to the movies, then we go to the mall and we'll just wing it from there."

"S-sounds fun."

"Yay let's go!"

Katelyn pushed Asher around the park. Both were admiring the park's natural beauty. Then Katelyn spotted an ice cream truck.

"Can I get two chocolate ice creams please?"

"Thank you."

"Here you go." She said handing one to Asher.

"Thanks."

A bird swooshed down hit Katelyn in the head then tried to fly away, "Ahh!"

"Are you okay?" Asher asked, worried.

"Stupid bird. Take this!" Katelyn said wound up her arm and threw her ice-cream at it. She hit it perfectly causing it to fall although it was 25ft away by then.

"... N-nice aim."

"Thank you. But now I don't have an ice cream..." Katelyn said sadness lingering in her voice.

"We can share." Asher offered.

"But that'd be an indirect kiss."

Asher started to blush as he froze holding out the Ice-cream.

"So you do care about that?" Katelyn smiled mischievously.

'That means we would have kissed. And it would be my first-time k-kissing, someone.' Asher thought still frozen.

"Asher."

"Yes?"

"Will you be my boyfriend?"

"T-that should be o-obvious."

"Now it should be fine right?" Katelyn smiled innocently.

"But-"

So they shared an ice cream while Asher blushed madly, looking like a tomato the entire time. Then continued admiring the park.

"Look a photo booth!" Katelyn yelled excited.

And so they took pictures.

"Look Cotton Candy-" Katelyn yelled excitedly looking over before replying to Asher's stare, "Don't look at me like that! This is the last thing before we leave the park. Promise."

"Now let's go to the movie theatre. We're watching a horror movie~"

"A what?" Asher asked shocked.

~An Hour Later~

"We got kicked out for causing a commotion..." Katelyn stated shocked.

"I t-told you I d-didn't like h-horror movies," Asher mumbled.

"I didn't think you'd be that scared!" Katelyn replied.

"Plus I'm not the o-only reason we got k-kicked out," Asher mumbled again.

"Yeah. But how could those people not be upset when Alison didn't die. She was so annoying throughout the entire thing. I was just too excited to see her go I accidentally yelled all that out loud." Katelyn pouted.

"What now?" Asher asked.

"Next up we have the perfect thing to cheer you up a fashion show!"

"F-fashion show?" Asher asked, confused.

"We're going shopping!"

"I'm so e-excited," Asher said sarcastically.

"I know you are I can't wait to see what clothes they have on sale for you!" Katelyn didn't quite pick up on that.

"Yay." Asher now had to pretend to be excited not to hurt her feelings.

"Come on. It won't be that bad... Plus you get to see me in another dress... Maybe." She finally realized that he wasn't excited.

Asher tried only tried on a suit then sat and watch Katelyn change into different outfits and model for him since the walk from the changing room to the main room wasn't wheelchair friendly.

"Fine."

"Yay! Let's go."

"Now what?" Asher asked.

"Now we go back to my place and-" Katelyn's face changed from happy to a mixture of anger, sadness and fear as she finally remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Asher asked confused and worried.

"I forgot... HE comes home today..."

"Oh... Then let's just get your things and you can stay at my place like we planned."

"But he might already be there." She began to tremble from the fear of seeing him again.

"Then you do what you've always wanted to do. You're probably stronger than him and now there's nothing to fear. You'll never have to see him again."

"You're right. If he's there I'll speak my mind and if he gets physical I'll beat him down so much so he'll be scared to try and get me back legally. Breaking a few bones should be fine right?" Katelyn laughed nervously.

"Maybe that's pushing it."

"You're right. I'll try not to break anything."

"Ummmm..."

"Don't worry I'm fine." She gave another nervous laughter.

~Thirty Minutes Later~

"Here goes nothing." Katelyn took a deep breath then opened the door.

As the door opened a drunk middle-aged man sat on the floor staring up at the door. His eyes lit up as he knew exactly who it was and what was about to happen.

A grin was glued onto his face until he realized there was someone he didn't know... A boy he didn't know next to her, "Who the hell are you?"

"A f-friend?" Asher replied slightly intimidated by the large muscular man.

"Friend my ass! You're the crippled bastard that's been sleeping with my daughter!!! I bet she brought you back here to do it forgetting she promised to do it with me."

Asher was both disgusted and scared. He was a lot larger than Asher expected.

"Shut up," Katelyn commanded angrily.

"What did you just say to me and why the hell is there another man in my house!?!??!?"

"I said shut the hell up Martin. I'm leaving for good."

"How dare you ungrateful brat!?" He tried to slap her but she caught his hand.

"You really thought you could make me do as you please by scaring me!? Newsflash that only works with little kids I won't listen to you anymore."

"Hahaha." He laughed maniacally pushing against a wall.

"Was that supposed to hurt? Your glass bottles hurt more." Katelyn spat at him.

"Oh yeah. I'm a grown-ass man you can't overpower me no matter how freakishly strong you are! Cause you're still just a scared little girl." He said throwing her to the ground and pinning her down.

"N-no." Katelyn began to cry.

"Now I'm going to have my way and that cripple can do nothing but watch." He said laughing like a person from a psychiatric ward.

*Smash*

Asher couldn't just sit still and watch IT happen. He got up grabbed a large glass vase and smashed it as hard as he could over Martin, Katelyn's adoptive father's head. He went unconscious almost immediately.

"Gasp!" Katelyn was shocked.

"Are you o-okay?" Asher asked.

"Y-yeah."

~One Hour Later~

"I left a note for him upstairs threatening to report him to the cops for abuse and harassment so he probably won't bother us for now. Let's go. I don't want to be near this monster anymore." She said stepping on his body on her way out.

"O-okay."

"You want to play Fantasia Online when we get there?" Katelyn asked excitedly.

"Sure."