Never had I ever hated a song more than I did this one at the moment. I'd made the horrible mistake of setting it as my alarm tone, so it was now waking me up at fucking six in the morning.

Groaning and cursing, I managed to roll out of bed.

"Piece of shit!" I yelled at my phone in annoyance.

Safe to say, I wasn't a morning person.Who is, anyway?

I quickly showered to get rid of all the sleepiness and hurried out in a towel, dried my hair and put on some skinny jeans and threw on a random top that I found and put my denim jacket on over it.

I didn't usually bother with makeup but since it was the first day after the holidays, I was slightly motivated.

So, I quickly put on a little makeup until I decided I looked decent and grabbing my things, I headed downstairs for breakfast.

"You look nice," a voice I knew all too well said.

My cheeks heated up as I looked at him. He actually complimented me. Wow. Someone throw me a medal.

"Wish I could say the same for you," I joked.

Obviously, that was a total lie because he looked particularly hot to day. Normally, he hardly ever made any effort to look good and he looked hot, but today he had so it was like ten times the hotness. His hair was slightly tidier than usual, and he was wearing a leather jacket. Yum.

He smirked."You say that after totally checking me out like that?"

Cocky much?

"You call this good, Aaron? Since when is the caveman look in?" I shot him a dirty smile.

"Since you came into existence."

Ouch.

I ignored his comment, poured myself a bowl of cereal and quickly gobbled it down.

"Hey guys!" Amanda's cheerful voice greeted.

I turned to look at her while pulling my jacket on.

"Morning," Aaron and I said simultaneously.

We looked at each other, then back at Amanda.

She laughed. "Hi."

"Grab something to eat real quick, cause we're leaving in five," Aaron told his sister while shoving some eggs in his mouth, followed by a bite of toast and a swig of juice, not even waiting to swallow what was already in his mouth.

Gross. But for some reason it made me crack a small smile. It was such an Aaron thing to do.

"Whatcha giggling at?" Aaron asked with an amused look.

"You have something on your face," I lied.

He rubbed his hand over his face."Okay now?"

"Nope, still there," I lied again just to frustrate him.

He kept moving his hand over his face but since I said no each time, he finally gave up."Ah,fuck it."

"Right, I'm done. Let's go,"Amanda said.

We were all going in the same car, although we went to different schools.

Amanda and I were sitting side by side, Aaron in front of us.

The car sprang to life as we buckled ourselves in. Aaron turned on the music.

As I was sitting, I couldn't help but try to steal a glance at Aaron. To my surprise, he as already looking my way.

"What?"

"What what?" he raised an eyebrow.

"What are you, Macklemore?" I rolled my eyes.

He laughed. "You are a cute little pumpkin,"

"Do you two ever stop flirting?" Amanda looked at me.

Embarrassed, I felt blood rush to my cheeks.

" I didn't flirt with anyone!"

"Whatever helps you sleep at night," Aaron winked, unfazed and turned back to his phone.

I was still blushing, because of both the embarrassment from Amanda's comment and the fact that Aaron had called me cute.

" Hey," Amanda suddenly said. "Do you think you could drop me off here, Simon?"

"Yes ma'am," Simon said, bringing the car to a halt.

"Why?" Aaron asked from his seat.

"I'm meeting Jake here and we're going to school together."

Aaron turned his head towards us, about to say something to her but I shot him a look before he could. "But—Okay. Be careful."

"See you later," she said, getting out of the car.

"I don't get it," Aaron said as the car started moving again.

"What?"

He looked at me."Why she's so obsessed with him. I mean, I get that she likes him but don't you think it's a bit too much?"

"Have you ever had a real, proper girlfriend, Aaron?"

"How is that relevant to what I just said?"

"Just answer the question. "

"Ye-No. No, I haven't," his eyebrows furrowed together, making him look even cuter.

"Exactly, neither have I.So we can't understand. So just let her be.I mean, I get that she's your sister and you feel the need to protect her and all, but she can take care of herself."

He stared at me for a minute, making me blush. Fucking stupid cheeks.Always blushing.

" What?" I finally asked.

" It's just that you-"

The car suddenly stopped.I looked out to see was already outside my school.

Aaron sighed."I'll see you later. Have fun," he gave me a grin as I got out of the car

Wow, was he being nice to me?

"Don't look so surprised. I can be nice too, you know."

I chuckled. "I know," I said and witht that the car sped off.

Facing the school building, I let out a deep breath.

Back to school.

***

"Ashley, oh my gosh.The concert was awesome!" Anna, one of my classmates said to me

" Thank you so much, Anna."

I was in a good mood . People had been congratulating and complimenting me all day for the concert.

Anna gave me a grin and left when a guy I recognized as one of the seniors came over to her.

I on the other hand, made my way towards the cafeteria. I was so, so hungry.

I almost made it to the cafeteria when someone called me.

"Hey!"

It was a guy's voice.

I turned around to see the bad boy of school,Tyler. Tyler was a total hottie.

" Hi Tyler," I smiled at him.

I didn't know him personally, but he was kind of friends with Trent and from what he'd told me about him, he seemed like a nice guy despite his reputation.

"What's up?" he smirked.

" Oh, you know, just going skydiving," I said sarcastically.

He laughed a bit too loudly.

I resisted the urge to raise my eyebrow. Something felt weird about this whole thing.

I was just going to ask him what he wanted in the nicest way I could when I was as hungry as I was then. Luckily, Cole came up to us just then.

"Hey, Tyler!"

"Hey man."

"Ashley,hi!" he grinned at me, giving me a quick hug before he started talking to Tyler.

"So, dude I needed to talk to you about the..."

I was really hungry so I took the opportunity and snuck away.

I wondered what Tyler had wanted to talk to me about.We weren't really good friends or anything, but we'd occasionally have a chat.

Today he seemed kind of strange though.

I went straight to the cafeteria and after getting some food, I sat down at the table where we usually had lunch together.

Trent joined me a few minutes later.

"Hey," he said, setting his tray on the table.

"Hey Trenty."

He shot me an unimpressed look as he bit into his sandwich.

I yawned loudly."I'm so tired."

Trent laughed."Already?"

"Yeah," I shrugged, taking a sip of my Diet Coke.

My eyes landed on someone just then making me literally spit my drink everywhere.

His eyes met mine and they lit up as he made his way towards my table.

"Ashy!" he exclaimed loudly, causing several people to snap their heads towards him.

"Oh my God," I muttered as he sat down next to me.

***