Chapter 2
Usually when Ash walked in the house she would announced she was home and see what everyone was up to, but she was a little bit rattled with what happened with Jared so she went straight upstairs. She walked right past all of her brothers who were hanging out in the kitchen and went right upstairs. “What’s wrong with her?” Joe said. “I don’t know but I’m going to check and make sure she is alright.” Kevin said. With that Kevin made his way to Ash’s room and knocked. “Can I come in Ash?” Ash looked to the sky in disbelief. Why couldn’t they leave her alone for a second!? She didn’t really mean that though. She loved her brothers. But sometimes she just needed some alone time to think about things. “Yeah Kev. It’s unlocked.” Kevin walked in the room and saw Ash straightening her hair. “Well usually you come home from soccer and go to sleep for a little while. Judging by the straight hair I’d say you have plans?” He sort of hinted that he wanted her to spill who she was going out with. “Yes Kevin. I have plans. I am going to a party with Jared.” Kevin immediately spoke up “Woah woah woah! What kind of party is this? Remember you may be 18 but you need to be careful. But then again Jared is going. He will watch you I guess. Oh! I almost forgot the reason I came up.” Ash knew this was coming “What’s wrong Ash? You just seemed a little off since you got home from soccer.” She hated lying but she didn’t want to worry her brother. They all had enough to worry about being famous. “Nothing Kev. It was just such a hard practice. But I promised I’d go to this party. I just have to hurry up and get ready. It’s nothing. I promise.” Kevin looked skeptically at her but finally gave in “Alright. I believe you Ash. Your not one for lying anyways. I’ll see you downstairs in a little.” He then left the room and left Ash to get ready. She looked at her wrist, which started to bruise and put some cover-up on it to make it look a little better. She slipped into a nice turquoise colored dress with polka dots, that wasn’t too revealing and put on some cute shoes and got ready to go. She owned a lot of dresses because of all of the events she went to with her brothers. You had to dress nice for CD launch parties, and movie premieres, and award shows. Dresses weren’t really her thing, but she knew Jared would like it and she just wanted to make him happy now. And she had to admit, she did look very pretty in it. Heels weren’t really her thing either so she chose a small heel. [pictures of dress if u want to see it- http://www.simplydresses.com/dresses-by-event/detail.cfm?key=352997&v=PD&cat=family_celebration]
She put some finishing touches on her hair and headed downstairs to wait for Jared. When she walked down the stairs her brothers were all sitting in the living room and her mom and dad were in the kitchen. She arrived at the kitchen first “Hey mom. Hey dad. I’ll be back by midnight okay?” Her mom smiled “Oh honey you look gorgeous and that’s fine.” She was 18, so she didn’t technically have a curfew but because of the media attention she got because of her brothers she didn’t risk anything. She stayed close to her family and she liked to tour with them so she had no reason to move out or anything. As she made her way to the front door her brothers stopped her “WOW! Ash you look like a girl!” Joe said without thinking. “I mean…not that I never thought you were a girl, but man if we weren’t related I’d sooo date you.. I MEAN! That’s not what I meant. You look very nice Ash.” She was laughing hysterically at Joe. “It’s okay Joe I knew what you meant. And thank you.” Kev and Nick both told her how beautiful she looked and Jared arrived to take her to the party. “I have to be home by midnight Jared, alright.” “Ya babe I got ya covered. We will be home in time don’t worry.”
At the party
Ash had to talk to a lot of people she didn’t know. Jared had the worst friends including her enemy Carlie. What a shock, Carlie was walking over to start something. Ash really wasn’t in the mood. “Jared can we go now? I don’t want to deal with Carlie. I just want a nice comfy bed to sleep in.” He got mad “Oh so your not having fun and you just want to go home. Did you ever think that I might be having fun? God Ash your so selfish. It’s only 10:30. We will leave when I say we can leave. Got it?” She was scared to death but she didn’t show it. “Yeah Jared” With that Carlie walked up “Hey Jared. Ashley.” She gestured to Ash. “So Jared are you seeing anyone?” Jared really didn’t like Carlie that much either but he humored her. “Yeah Carlie, the girl sitting next to me. I’m sure even you could figure that out. We were actually about to leave. See you in school.” With that he grabbed my hand and we left the party. While he was driving me home he decided to start with me “You know Ash, my friends are important to me. It wouldn’t hurt you to mingle with some of them and make friends.” She spoke up “I have friends Jared. I don’t need new ones. Especially not some of them. They all dress like sluts and act like it too. I’m just not comfortable with it.” They arrived at her house. “I’ll text you tomorrow alright?” She got ready to leave and he yanked her back by her hair. “Ash, you don’t leave this care until I say you can leave. You got that?” She weakly nodded with tears in her eyes. “I will call you tomorrow. Answer your phone. And would it kill you to wear a shorter dress and a little more make-up. I mean come on, no one uses their natural look anymore Ash.” She looked devastated “I thought you said I was beautiful no matter what?” He scoffed “Yeah well, that’s before you started being disrespectful to me.” He slapped her across the face then grabbed her face. “Goodnight Ash.” With that he pulled her into a deep aggressive kiss. She got out of the car and shut the door. He rolled down the window. “Oh and Ash. Don’t tell your brothers about any of this. Unless you want it to get a lot worse.” She nodded and walked into her house. Jared then pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number “Hey babe, what are you doing?” a girl’s voice picked up on the other line. “Hey Alana. You want to come over to my place maybe have a little fun?” She giggled “You know I do Jared. Pick me up in 5?” He smiled “You got it babe” He hung up, took one last look at the Jonas house and pulled away on his way to Alana’s.
End chapter 2