Guitars and Love

Ashley~
A week of being sick sucked. Tony took good care of me though, he wouldn’t let me do anything or go anywhere. Once in awhile id call him mother just to get him bad, it’s funny. I was feeling a whole lot better; I still had a cough though. I sat on the floor in the living room drawing in my sketch book. This tree I was drawing was coming out so perfect, I just love trees. I darkened the shading in the background and smiled at the result.
“Ill be there right now”
I looked over to see Tony walking into the living room with the phone to his ear. He gave me a small smile and then walked back toward the room. I put my sketchbook on the floor and got up. When I walked in the room, Tony was sitting on the bed putting his vans on.
“Where you going babe?” I leaned against the door frame.
He looked up at me, “I needa go get something done, I’ll be back” He went back to tying his shoe.
“Can I go?” I went over and took a seat next to him.
He sat up and shook his head no before getting up off the bed.
“Why not?”
I watched as he took off his shirt and tossed it on the hamper. “Because its guy stuff” he went over to the closet moving hangers around.
“Come on babe, I’ve been in the house all week I wanna do something”
“Have you seen my tatted turtle shirt?” He looked over at me.
I shook my head no and he shrugged and grabbed some key street shirt and put it on.
“So can I?”
He smiled at me “Babe, no” he went over to the dresser and grabbed his key street snap back.
“why-“
The door bell rang and he walked out of the room not letting me finish my sentence. I rolled my eyes and got up off the bed. I was already ready hoping Tony would take me out of this house for a while, but I guess that’s not happening. You know what, I could go somewhere on my own I have a car and plus I’m not sick no more. Man, he treated me like a child all week. I laughed to myself and slipped my beanie on.
“Ashley!” Mike ran into the room and picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.
Not this again. “Mikey!”
He ran out of the room and into the living room. He stopped right in front of Tony; all I could see is their shoes. Tony came around Mike and looked at me. “Bye babe” He winked at me and walked off toward the room.
“Wait what!?”
“I’m kidnapping you” Mike said and then ran out the house.
He opened the passenger door and threw me in and shut the door. He got in the car and then pulled out of the driveway.
“Hungry?” He looked over at me.
“Yeah, but what is this?”
“What? I can’t hang out with my best friend?”
“No it’s not like that, it’s just... I don’t know” I shrugged and looked out the window.
“Come on Ash, what’s bothering you?”
“Tony” I looked over at him, he had his eyes fixed on the road.
We stopped at a red light and he looked over at me. “What happen?”
“Its nothing bad, its just hes been acting weird lately”
Mike nodded and then we pulled into a parking lot of a small diner. We got off the car and went into the diner and took a seat at a booth. The waitress handed us menus and asked what we’d like to drink, we told her and she smiled and disappeared.
“Okay, what do you mean his acting weird? Hasn’t he been taking care of you all week?” He said looking over his menu.
“Like his been making tons of phone calls and won’t talk with me around, he was talking about something with Roger and Jay and he wouldn’t tell what it was. And then yesterday i went to borrow his laptop but he quickly grabbed it from me and cleared the history.” I put down my menu.
The waitress came back with our drinks and took our order.
“Is that all?” She said.
“Yes, thank you” Mike smiled at her and she left.
He looked at me a let out a laugh.
“What?”
“You and Tony are so alike; I’ve told you this before”
“What do you mean?”
“You guys get worked up over nothing, you don’t have to worry, Tonys just being a guy”
I shook my head. “But I feel like his hiding something”
“Hes not, trust me id know”
I nodded. “Okay, it’s just my mind wonders” I made circles inside my cup with my straw.
“I know, both you guys do the same thing. Both of you are paranoid”
“I’m not paranoid”
He gave me a look, “yeah, keep telling yourself that. Tony won’t admit either”
“But I understand why he is paranoid, his past relationships are why”
“Yeah, what’s your excuse” He threw the paper from the straw at me.
“I’m not paranoid!” I grabbed it and threw it back.
He laughed and nodded. “Okay, okay, don’t go all hulk on me”
I laughed and took a drink of my tea. The waitress came back with our food and placed it in front of us. We both thanked her and started eating. We dropped the Tony subject and talked about his girlfriend and some other things that have been going on.
“Okay so what is your dream place to visit?”
I finished chewing my French fry and swallowed. “I’ve always wanted to visit Puerto Rico”
“Have you talked to Tony about it?”
“Yeah, but I don’t think he remembers, I told him when we first started dating” I pushed my plate to the side and wiped my mouth with the napkin.
“He probably does”
I smiled “One day, I’ll go”
He nodded. “So you ready to go back on tour in two months?”
“Yes! One, were going to one of the places I’ve always wanted to visit, Paris! And two, I love touring it’s been such a long time since we toured” I grinned at the thought.
“I know how you feel” He smiled at me.
We got up from the booth and he paid for our meals and we left the diner. The drive back was fun; me and Mike were having a rap battle. Everything he came up with sounded awesome and mine just sound stupid. He laughed every time and shook his head. I took out my phone and recorded us rapping and posted it on instagram. We finally got to my house and he parked and walked me to the door.
“Ill see you later okay?”
“Okie dokie” I smiled.
He laughed “Your such a dork” He gave me a hug and then headed back to his car.
I waved at him one last time and went into the house. Tonys car wasn’t in the drive way, so I knew he wasn’t home. It was gonna be six soon. I flipped on the light in the living room and sat on the floor next to my sketch book. I grabbed my phone and put on some Avenged seven fold and put my phone next to me. I reached for my sketch book and picked up the pencil and sketched away.

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