Chapter 24
Dad’s back stiffen before he swiftly turns around to face me. His brows almost to his hairline as he regards me in shock. I couldn’t blame him, I never got into trouble, never caused it either.
But now hearing that his well mannered daughter was the cause of a fight that involved her brother was definitely not something he heard everyday. Mom leaves the boys and walks over to me. Her eyes portray worry as she brings me to her side.
The tears I blinked away a second ago now flowed freely, coating my cheeks with moisture. I sniffled as mom pulled me more into her embrace. “I’m so sorry daddy, I’m so sorry.” I cried as mom
shushed me, brushing her hand down my lengthy tresses.
“It’s all my fault, I did something stupid at the party and I’m now paying for it. It’s not Arden’s fault, it’s mine, he was just protecting me like he usually does.” I said hoarsely. Dad’s eyes soften drastically before walking over to me.
“Mind telling us what you did Ashley?” Dad asked gauging for a reaction from his question.
Arden groans loudly, gaining everyone’s attention. “Dad leave her be, it’s not like she murdered anyone.” He rolled his eyes, crossing his arms and leaned back on the wall.
“Yeah like you almost had done?!” Dad retorts, not at all pleased. He then brings his attention back to me. “What did you do to cause a fight between Arden and his cla*smate?”
Arden snorts, yet again disturbing the conversation with his blunt indifference. “Dad you really need to relax the guy’s not dead.” He says boredly blowing out a fake yawn.
“Arden enough of your nonsense, you need to understand that what you did was wrong, stop
acting like you did a good thing!” Dad hissed turning to glare at him.
“I was protecting my sister, I was protecting Ashley!” Arden roars, his blue eyes glared into Dad’s. “So I think it does count as a good thing.”
“From what? I need to know what you were protecting her from!”He turns to me, his expression a mixture of fear, fear from hearing what Arden was protecting me from. “Did anyone try to do anything to you, babygirl?” He says softly.” Did anyone touch you wrongly-“
My eyes widened in understanding at what he meant. He thought someone tried to sexually a*sault me.I could already see the gears in his head shifting as he planned to murder whoever tried to rape his babygirl.
“Oh God no dad, it’s not that, I swear!” I rushed out to put his mind at ease.
He visibly sags with relief. All the while mom is silent beside me, rubbing my back soothingly. I sighed and got ready to tell him exactly why I was the reason for the fight.
“Blake was dared to kiss me and went through with it.” I said hastily, almost incoherent but the
shocked look on their faces made me know that they heard me perfectly clear.
“You kissed Blake!” Mom gasped pulling away to stare at me more clearly.
I nodded and tear my eyes away from them and stared at the wall. Too afraid to see the judgement in their eyes. “Everyone got to know about it and there are now rumors circulating the entire school that I’m a whore for kissing my best friend that is taken. The boy was saying nasty things to me and Arden went to fight him to shut him up. ” I finished off. Well was taken.
“Well I couldn’t say that I hadn’t seen this coming. We all knew this would happen sooner or later. Though I never bargained for it to be this soon. I would’ve really liked it if you were at least thirty.” Dad says in a surprising calm tone.
“Oh come on Asher, we weren’t thirty when we had Ashley, I say she should’ve done it sooner.” Mom giggles. My brows furrowed in confusion at their calm voices.
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