I'll Always Be Here

* Aileen's P. O. V *.
I stared at my food while thinking to myself :

"You'll gain weight.... Don't eat!!"
but I knew that if I didn't eat my mom wouldn't let me leave from the table.

"Sweetie... What's wrong?? You've been picking on your food and haven't eaten a thing. Are you okay? " my mom asked worried. "Do you want to be dismissed by the table up to your room or are you gonna try and eat some of it?"

"I'll try and eat some of it, no worries mom. After all, this looks and is delicious" I said getting up from the seat and giving her a kiss on the cheek while sounding as happy as I can ever be. While in the inside... I felt like a total disaster and fat.

My mom smiled and I began putting the salad inside my mouth. I mean yes, salad is healthy and all but everything I eat makes me feel fat and disgusted. Then I grabbed , ugh, asparagus. The whole time it stayed quiet while I was eating the rest of my food.

"Mom..... I'm gonna head up to my room now. Goodnight" I said slowly getting up from the table while looking down at the floor and not raising up my gaze. What scared me was that I could feel her staring in a suspicious way and whenever she did that she'd always kept on asking until she found the true answer, but not this time.

"Okay, you may leave and goodnight" mom replied while heading to her room as well.

As soon as I was at my room I plopped to my bed and didn't even bothered to change to my pjs. As soon as I was gonna start crying I hear a knock on my window. I looked up with red and watery eyes to realize that my new neighbor, Ashton, was looking at me with a sad look upon his face. I nodded my head to signal that he could come in as I got up and unlocked the window. I sited on my bed while he jumped in and made his way next to me.

"Hey Aileen, sorry for coming around this way but why are you crying? Beautiful girls like you should always stay happy" Ashton said with the Australian accent of his while looking at me. "Don't waste your tears love"

I smiled looking at the floor and said " Beautiful girl?! Haha..... Not me. And my tears are worth shedding".

Ashton has moved in a week ago but we've become really close friends. We go to the same school, have ALL periods together, eat lunch together, walk home together in other words ... EVERYTHING!!! We have some similarities which I found absolutely weird and strange while he thinks it's super cool for a girl like me to have some of the same things or like the same things he does.

"They are but only for good reasons and yes you are. Any guy would be lucky to have a beautiful girl as you are" Ashton reassured me. "Forreal"
He stand up and walked towards the window to get back to his house. As soon as he was gonna jump down I wanted to say what's been my problem but instead I said,
"Ashton!!!"

"Yeah Aileen??? What's up?!"

"I - I"

"Yes.... You what?"

"I love you"

He looked at me and saw that I didn't have any Idea of what I said until I covered up my whole face and he started to laugh. I looked up at him slowly to see that he was staring at me with a big smile on his face.

"No worries Aileen, I love you too" Ashton replied with a wink and jumped down my window to his house.

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