I laid down next to her and she curled up next to me resting her head in the crook of my neck

I woke up about 2 hours later but Spencer was still asleep, so I got up and walked out into the main part of the bus and only Aiden was awake

“morning” he said “I thought you’d sleep for the next 5 hours…” he said then I sat next to him

“I cant sleep on tour busses…” I told him stretching out my legs resting them on his

“good thing your feet don’t smell” he said laughing

“uh my feet never smelled…yours smelled like shit” I said laughing

“they weren’t that bad!”

“they were when you shoved them in my face!” I said making him laugh

“you uh…you remember that night we rented out that hotel room, and you woke up in the middle of the night and thought a skunk was in our room or something?” he said

“yeah but it was your shoes! Ugh that killed the moment!” I said laughing

“we had some funny times when we were together huh?”

“yeah we did…but we’ve had funny times as friends…” I told him rubbing his arm to make him feel a little better

“don’t do that…” he said

“what?”

“look ash, the way I feel hasn’t changed…don’t act all sympathetic towards me ok?”

“Aiden I…” I started

“…you have a phone interview with Kiss FM in an hour…” he said getting up and getting into his bed

FLASHBACK:

Aiden and I were always really close, and it was sophomore year in high school when we got really close…everything seemed so perfect, we were young and in love.

Until I got distant…because something was going he needed to know about, but I was afraid once he knew he’d leave me…which wouldn’t have been good because I needed him the most…

“ash just talk to me” he said as we stood on my back porch

“Aiden you may want to sit down…”

“no I can handle it…”

“Aiden you’re gonna freak out…”

“no I wont ash…just tell me ok? I’m there for you…I love you…” he told me