A Beautiful Struggle (Beautiful, #4)

Jokingly, Ash pushed me away. “Ha-ha, very funny!” Shaking her head, she muttered, “Smartass,” under her breath and started to walk in the direction of the exit.

Watching Ash shake her ass as she marched away, I started to giggle. I wondered when Ash would find a guy, because damn, that girl needed to get laid. I knew she was a virgin. She didn’t have to tell me. But I knew when she did have sex it would be with one guy. She was just that type of girl. The one guy forever type. Not the kind who would spread her legs for just about anything that moved. And I was damn proud of Ash for being that type of girl. I had seen too many girls throughout high school and even now doing the latter and then getting their hearts broken.

Letting out a huff, I started to jog to catch up to my sexy librarian best friend. Just as I caught up to her, I squeezed her ass and heard her yelp.

Turning around, Ash smacked me in the chest and laughed. “You jerk!”

I shrugged my shoulders. “I couldn’t help it. You have a nice ass.”

Rolling her eyes, she started to turn around, and being the ass I was, I pulled my hand back and everyone heard a loud smack! when I hit my hand against her nice little plump ass.

Spinning around, Ash took fistfuls of my shirt, and with her other hand, she smacked my ass repeatedly. I just laughed because we were having a good time.

Waving my hands in the air, I said, “All right, enough, Ash.” She slowed down to walk beside me when I lowered myself and said, “Hop on.”

Placing her hands on my shoulders, Ash jumped up and wrapped her legs around my waist. Putting my hands underneath her thighs, I held on tight and stood up. Hearing Ash giggle, I started to run towards my car.

I couldn’t help but laugh because Ash started screaming. “Oh my god, Derrick, slow down! You’re going to get us killed!”

Ash was freaking out, so I started to slow down, laughing the whole time. Coming to walk, I bent down and let go of Ash’s thighs.

Releasing her hands from around my neck, Ash hopped off my back. Slapping me on the ass, she said, “Thanks, that was fun.”

Giggling, I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and we continued our walk to my car. I could see my car in view when I felt Ash stiffen next to me. “What’s the matter?” I asked. She didn’t answer me, just kept her eyes forward. Turning my head in the direction Ash was staring, I saw this pretty hot guy with short, dirty-blond hair and some scruff on his face flirting with this girl. She wasn’t pretty. I guess you could call her a slut. Her top was way too low and her skirt was way too high.

I was just about to ask Ash who he was when he must have sensed we were staring at him because his eyes flickered up and met Ash’s. Quickly looking away, I looked at Ash and saw she had this huge blush on her face. Looking back over at surfer boy, I saw he was glaring at me. He was staring at my arm wrapped around Ash.

Slut girl was put on the back burner as I watched him stride over to Ash and I. His eyes would flicker between glaring at me and smiling sincerely at Ash.

Unwrapping my arm from around Ash, I watched as she perked up. She stood up straight and I saw this beautiful smile appear on her face. Looking back over at Mr. Handsome, I saw his pearly whites appear and these adorable dimples. God, even I’m starting to get just a tad hard from how gorgeous he looks.

Hot guy picked Ash up by the waist and spun her around, yelling, “Ashlynn!”

Hearing her shriek and scream and giggle, I just stared at the two of them. I couldn’t believe how different Ash was around him and I knew without a doubt in my body she had a super huge enormous crush on this hot guy.

Ash looked up into his eyes after he set her down. Smiling, she said, “What’s up, Jason?”

Ah, so hot guy has a name.

They just stared at each other for a few seconds and I could’ve sworn they were literally eye-fucking one another. I started to get uncomfortable, so I cleared my throat.

Shaking her head, Ash looked over at me and then back at Jason. “Oh, I’m sorry. This is Derrick. Derrick, this is Jason. His twin sister Jade and I were roommates our freshman year.”

Extending my hand, I said, “Nice to meet you, Jason.”

Grabbing my hand, Jason squeezed just a little too hard. I knew he was trying to let me know that he was marking his territory. His jaw set and it’s almost as if it killed him to say, “Hey, Derrick.”

Scrunching my eyes together because he was seriously squeezing the shit out of my hand, I broke free of his death grip. Looking over at Ash, I nudged her side and asked, “You still want to get that bite to eat?”

Switching to stare at Jason, I smirked. I could’ve sworn he growled, but it was put on the backburner because Ash said, “Yeah, I’m starving.”

Looking over at Ash, Jason wrapped his arms around her waist. “Well, I guess I’ll talk to you later then.”

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