Bestfriends Shouldn’t Know How You Taste novel Chapter 24

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.

Dad’s eyes widen. “When did I agree to that? I  don’t think Ace would even let me have the chance  to anyway. The brute is too proud to let me do it  alone. I think he’ll either agree to split it in half.  He’ll definitely want to contribute-“

“Are you guys seriously planning my wedding right  now? Blake and I aren’t even together! Like I said  it was just a dare and I don’t think it’ll lead up to  anything serious.” My voice grew soft at the end of  my sentence.

“Wait what, y’all aren’t together yet?” Mom  whispers sadly. I shake my head and stared at the  floor. I couldn’t believe how this conversation

turned from bickering about the fight to my  relationship with Blake. Relationship?

“No we aren’t.” I breathed out on a shaky voice. “I  told him we should not pursue anything-” My voice  cracked at the end, not being able to finish from  the emotion logged up in my throat, preventing me  to.

“But isn’t this what you wanted baby? You’ve loved  him for years. And I’ve seen the way that boy  looks at you Ashley and he definitely loves you. ”  Mom says softly, running her fingers through my  loose inky black tresses.

Love me? Yeah right. If that were true he would’ve  been with me a long time ago, instead he slept  around with different girls until Stacy. The only  reason he’s now interested was because we kissed.  What would’ve happened if we hadn’t?

“It’s just that I’m scared.” I told her. It was partly  true. I was scared but not what they think. I was  scared that I’d lose him. What if we failed to make  it work? What if it ruins our friendship? I rather  have Blake as a friend and not have him at all.

“If it’s about those rumors, I’ve already planned to  come to your school tomorrow to put an end to it.  I’ll talk to the principal-” Dad says.

My eyes widen as I cut him off. “Please no dad,  leave it be. They are just words, I can handle it. ” I  rushed out.

“There’s no going around this Ashley, I’m speaking  to that principal one way or the other.” He stated.