Abused

Chapter Eighteen

About twenty minutes after pulling out of the school’s parking lot we ended up at a local diner. It was cute and tiny. It’s like one of those diners that you only see in movies about small towns. Well I guess you could say Dillions Beach was a small town, minus the fact that they get a lot of tourists.

“So what’s good here?” I asked as we slid into a booth near a jukebox.

Everyone at the table looked at me but nobody had answered me. I was confused, I’d never been here so I wouldn’t know what was good to eat here.

Asher draped his arm around my shoulders, “Babe, everything here is good.”

That’s when everybody at the table started to laugh, okay if this was some kind of practical joke it wasn’t funny. I was beyond confused at this point.

I decided to look around the diner. It had a pretty off-white color to it and the tiles were black and white. It was pretty, they had a decade’s theme going on and everything on the walls were either from the 50’s to the 80’s. The booths were a faded green color with white trimming. I thought it was cute.

“So what are you gonna get?” Veronica asked leaning in close to me.

“Oh I’ll probably just get pancakes.” I said smiling at her.

“Good choice, get the strawberry ones they’re to die for!” she exclaimed as she rolled her eyes.

I couldn’t help but laugh at her gesture towards and the pancakes and I could tell right off the bat that we were going to end up being really good friends.

Asher’s arm moved away from my shoulders and he got up. I felt a shiver go throughout my entire body. I hadn’t realized how cold it was in here until he left my side. Now all I wanted was him to come back and keep me warm. When I looked up Asher was over by the jukebox putting in some quarters. When he punched in some numbers a slow song came on.

He walked over towards me and extended his hand, “May I have this dance?” he asked wriggling his eyebrows.

“Why of course” I tried to stop the giggles from coming out but it didn’t work.

Asher pulled me to my feet and wrapped his arms around my waist. I wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my head on his hard muscular chest. I had two left feet and I was surprised that I didn’t trip over them. He kept me balanced and kept me from falling flat on my face. Damn he was good at this.

I looked around the diner and everybody was staring at us and then I realized that Veronica and Cameron got up and started dancing as well. Eventually Liam and Brittany got up and started dancing as well.

By the time the song ended our food was already at our table. I pulled away from Asher and went to sit down to eat but before I could he grabbed my wrist and pulled me in close to him again.

He leaned his head down to my ear and whispered, “You’re gorgeous, don’t let anybody discourage you.”

With that he let go of me and lead me back to the table. I was a little confused by his comment. Did he know about Damon? He couldn’t have known about Damon I didn’t tell anyone about him. Shit. What if Asher is Damon’s cousin? Damon was always talking about having a cousin out in California and his name started with an A but I never really paid attention to him.

I pushed away all of those thoughts and downed my pancakes. Damn they were delicious.

“So Kendall got a boyfriend?” Cameron asked wriggling his eyebrows.

I was just about to answer when Asher draped his arm across my shoulder again, “Yeah dude she’s mine.”

I couldn’t help but laugh, “Actually I do not have a boyfriend.” I replied taking sip of my coke.

“Want one?” He asked this time making kissy faces at me.

“Please, keep it in your pants for 10 minutes.” Veronica snickered while elbowing him in the stomach.

“Actually, no. I just want to finish high school and go off to college. No boy on my agenda this year.” Once I made that comment everybody but Liam looked surprised by what I said.

“Are you serious? I can’t go a day without getting laid or having someone hold me. Why don’t you want a boyfriend?” Brittany said.

Obviously she was a slut. If she didn’t have a boyfriend she had to be banging someone, well I’m assuming.

“I can keep it in my pants longer than a day. I don’t want a boyfriend because they’re a distraction. I mean I would love one but I want to focus on myself this year.” Veronica had nodded in approval and everyone else did as well but Brittany.

“Seriously? Are you like a virgin still? Do you not know how amazing sex is?” everyone just glared at her like she lost her mind.

“No I’m not a virgin. Yes, I do know how amazing sex is but I can wait. I lost it to the wrong guy for all the wrong reasons.” I didn’t want to talk about Damon but this conversation was starting to get on my nerves.

“Well I think that we should head back to school.” Liam finally said something.

Everyone nodded and followed him out the Asher’s truck. Well my first day was interesting to say the least. Can’t wait to see how the rest of the school year goes.