BEYOND THAT FENCE

September 2016

"Mom, I can't make it today, I got a lot to do after school." I reasoned with my mom as she gave me more reasons on why I should go for the check up.

"Baby You have to, that's the only way my mind can be put at ease." She exclaimed shakingly as her eyes got glossy.

"Ok Fine, I'll go, just don't cry." I sighed as I took my bag, trudging out the door.

"Love you honey." My mom screamed from inside.

"I know." I mumbled, rolling my eyes as I got into my Bentley.

I arrived at school quite late as I rushed down the hallway to my locker. I quickly opened the locker dumping my bag and other unnecessary things inside not forgetting to take out the needed things. I practically ran to class as I burst open the door to my class.

"Here comes Kim Kardashian." My best friend hollered.

Ashton Hart.

He was a troublemaker, a loud and wild one at that. He partied like he was gonna die tomorrow, went from one chick to another, was sweet when he wanted to, but lacked seriousness in everything he did.

We did be friends for as long as I can remember,met him at a house party his family organised, we were known as the richest kids in class, and we stuck like thieves.

"Shut up ash." I mumbled as I apologised to my teacher, reaching an empty space and flopping down on it.

"You look beautiful Kim." Ryan, A shy kid who sat close to me said with a smile.

"Thanks Ryan." I smiled back.

Ryan was quite cute, but he had a girlfriend. I don't blame him though, he's had a crush on me since 6th grade, but my so called best friend decided to scare him away, leaving him with no other option but to look for someone who has the same personality as him.

Shy.

Without a crazy bestie.

"We are using the periodic table." He whispered as the teacher wrote somethings on the board.

"Oh, thanks." I mumbled as I quickly brought out a jotter where I drew my periodic table.

My chemistry teacher, miss Lillian was the youngest female teacher in my school, and she seems to be Ashton's newest chase at the moment.

"Is this some classes of food or what?" Ashton exclaimed from my back making the class rumble in laughter.

"I still think of scenarios of how you got to this stage." The teacher fired back, sending the student into funny expressions.

"Oh miss Lillian, how I love that fiesty look." He smirked.

"Disgusting." I hear her mumble as she turns back to the board.

"Hey... hey, I'm talking to You." He said as he used his pencil to nudge my back.

"What is it Ashton?" I whispered as I turned back slightly.

"I don't have a table." He smiled.

"You obviously have one." I responded confused as to what he was saying.

"I mean the one you guys are using, how y'all call it? Period table? I dunno." He said loudly causing Miss Lillian to glare at him.

"It's called periodic table and I think I've got my old one with me." I answered searching through my notes. "Its quite blurry now because I drew it with pencil but do you have a choice?" I snickered throwing the note at him.

"Bitch." I hear him whisper but I refuse to get distracted by someone whose parents doesn't give a damn about his school report.

My parents were strict and would kill me if I got anything different from distinction. They were rich but they wanted me to get everything on merit.

After me trudging from a class to another for more than three times, I got my school bag from my locker as I walked sluggishly to the cafeteria.

"Hey Kim." One of my friends, Alicia, a red head hollered.

"Heyyy." I dragged as I sat down between a blonde named Naomi and Ashton.

"Hey, I was talking to her." Ashton exclaimed.

"Well, looks like I could care less." I shot back as the blonde glared at me.

Suck it blonde, you came to school to learn.

"See you later ash." She said in a sickly sweet voice as she shaked her non-existent backside to her seat, where the cheerleaders dwell.

I've always disliked the cheerleaders, they were preppy, fake and annoying, they acted like babies and that stupid voice they use is so annoying, like the type Barbie uses.

They made my love for Barbie diminish over the years, same with my love for cat in Sam and cat.

I just came to hate that voice so much that I didn't even wanna hear it.

But my best friend, destiny, was the cheer captain, and even if I don't like them, I have to like her, because she's quite different from them even if she acts like them at times.

"Where is destiny?" I asked looking around.

"She said they had some cheergroup meeting, so she's gonna be sitting with them." Alicia replied with her mouth full.

"Then what was that thing doing here?" I questioned referring to that little shit, Naomi.

"Ask Ashton." Alicia replied as she reached for her soda.

"Well don't ask me, what am I going to say?" He scoffed.

"You brought her here." I shot back.

"It's not my fault you don't like cheerleaders, I like them, especially in..." he paused with an evil smile.

"Gosh Ashton, ewww." I said as I got him across his head.

"I forgot that was PG-18, I'm sorry baby, close your ears." He laughed trying to touch my face as I backed away.

"I'll be eighteen next year." I sighed.

"You are not even seventeen yet." He sighed in a pity way.

"F**k You." I yelled.

"Well, I don't do underage." He smiled as he muffled his laugh.

I was quite young, I was going to be seventeen, next three months, I started school earlier than a normal toddler and because I was sound in school, I managed to reach 12th grade at sixteen.

"You are so annoying, you completed eighteen last week." I said as I tried to contain my anger.

"Doesn't matter, as long as I'm eighteen." He smirked as I turned to see our other friends staring at us.

"You guys are a perfect match." Fiona, the sleeping beauty among us squealed.

She loves to sleep a lot and she was pretty. Her parents treated her like a princess.

I turned to look at Ashton to see him turn red.

"What are you blushing for?" I asked.

"Uhm." He laughed breathingly.

Idiot.

September 2016

We closed from school and I made my way to the basketball court. Ashton had practise and he was carpooling with me so I had to wait, also with destiny.

I sat on the bench as I watch destiny perform before the other girls joined her. I saw Naomi get thrown up and I wished for nothing but for her to miss a step and break her waist. That way she won't be able to move her legs again.

I'm not wicked, everyone has a wish and that wish either benefits everyone or benefits just the wisher and the latter fits my situation at the moment.

Their practise took few minutes before Ashton and the other players started theirs.

A message pooped up in my phone as I pressed my thumb to the home button to verify my finger print. The phone popped open as my home screen came to view.

It was a picture of I and Ashton, when we went to Disneyland, which drew a smile on my face. We had Mickey mouse hair bands on our heads with the widest smiles on.

"Hey, what you staring at?" I heard Ashton say from behind me.

"When did you guys finish?" I asked as I went to my messages to check.

"Not long ago." He replied sitting next to me as he drank from his water bottle.

Didn't even notice when they rounded off. It was my mom who messaged me.

Queen mother👑💎💖

: Hey baby, have you closed from school? Make sure to go for the check up.

My lady💐☄💞

: mom, it was just cramps.

Queen mother👑💎💖

: don't care if it's headache, make sure you go, oh and we have a new neighbour, so finish early and come home.

There was no need arguing with her, I had no choice but to go to the hospital.

"Aunty told me to make sure you go to the hospital." Ashton sighed as he shifted his weight on me.

"Ashton stop, you are sweaty." I tried to push him off.

"We all know you want this body secretly." He smiled wiggling his eyebrows.

"F**k off." I said as we burst out into laughter.

"We move." He whispered as He got up and stretched a hand out at me.

"My mom told me we got a new neighbour." I said as I used his outstretched hand as leverage to get up.

"Hope it's not another Mrs grave digger." He said muffling his laugh.

I couldn't help laughing, we gave that nickname to my previous neighbour.

It was this weird old lady you see in horror movies who is later found to be the villain.

She worked in the cemetery, was surprisingly rich and was always found with a shovel, so because of That, my parents restricted me from going past the house or going close to the fence because it was rumoured that she killed her husband and her children had to flee for their life.

She always had this red scarf around her neck with her grey hair in a perm and her crooked glasses, it was really frightening.

But one day, a delivery man found her dead in her courtyard and since then, I always feared going past the house, it was quite mysterious to everyone as to why none of her children came to claim her corpse or even check on the house.

"You gonna be Mr grave digger then." I laughed as Ashton scowled.

"I just hope the new person fortified that house before going in." I grimaced.

"Hope so too." He replied taking my car key as we saw destiny standing beside my car.

"What took you guys so long?" She whined as she got into the passenger seat, leaving me no other option but the back seat.

"Kim's got a new neighbour." Ashton hollered in a sing-song tone.

"No way." Destiny exclaimed as she turned to look at me. "I hope it's a hot guy." She squealed.

"What hot guy? Stop telling her those, she's too young for that kind of talk." Ashton said turning destiny's head to the front.

"Can you be less overprotective for once? She's a woman." Destiny sighed rolling her eyes.

"Why do you feel it's a hot guy? It could be some old weirdo who drinks beer through his ass." Ashton laughed.

"Eww, can never be." Destiny and I yelled as we made gagging sounds.

"Never say never." He said as he checked his visage in the side mirror.

"Haven't you heard of those book, where the girl falls in love with her next door neighbour?" Destiny scoffed pushing his head.

"Dream on baby, you are gonna fall in love with a grave digger, trust me." He laughed as destiny continuously hit his arm.

I would say they were a perfect match, they argued a lot, played a lot and did I forget to say hooked up sometime.

*We were drunk* was their usual phrase whenever you ask them about it, so I will advise you never to bring it up, or else you wanna see the red side of destiny.

*wiggles eyebrow* wink*

We got to the hospital quite faster due to Mr Ashton fast driving trying to make the tyre make friction with the ground and bring out fire sparks.

Who did ever I offend to give me such a stupid best friend?

I went straight to my doctor's office, destiny said she'll wait in the car while Ashton followed me.

"Aunty."

"Hey darling and Ashton." She smiled.

"Hey mom." He smiled back as he gave her a peck on her cheek.

"Your mom told me you had stomach ache all through out yesterday." She said as she took a seat, taking some few papers from her drawer.

"Uhhmmm...." I glanced at Ashton as I shuffled in my seat uncomfortably.

"Ashton, go out." She ordered suddenly.

"What, why?"

Just go out already Ashton, there's no way I'm talking about mother nature in front of you.

"I said leave, bye bye." She ordered again as she stood up to open the door.

"Fine whatever." He mumbled as he made his way out and Mrs Hart closed the door.

"So you were saying honey."

September 2016

"Tell your mom I need to see her." Mrs Hart sighed.

"What does the test result say?" I asked as my heart suddenly ran a mile.

"Nothing serious, just your normal cramp." She said making me sigh.

"I'll see you some time then." I smiled.

"Sometime?"

"Later." I corrected as she laughed as we came out of her office.

"Drop her home safely son, don't think I've forgotten that reckless driving of yours." His mom narrowed her eyes, pointing her index at him.

"It's fine, aunty, at least we won't die." I said jokingly as Ashton face squeezed into a scowl.

"Whatever." He scoffed as he made his way down the hall. "One day you all will need my driving skills." He yelled before turning the corner as we burst in laughter.

"Need that nonsense, my foot." She rolled her eyes as she walked me to the door.

"Make sure to tell your mom."

"I will aunty, bye." I smiled as I made my way to the car.

"What happened to him?" Destiny asked as soon as I got to the car.

"Got spanked by his momma." I teased making destiny laugh and Ashton narrow his eyes at me.

"I heard what you guys talked about." He smirked as I went red.

"You so didn't." I yelled as used my bag to hit him.

"What's with you and destiny and all this hitting today?" He pouted innocently as he turned to face me. "It's called sexual harassment?....no, domestic violence?....sexual violence?....domestic harassment?...teenage vio-"

"Shut up and drive." Destiny sighed cutting him off as I shook my head and laid it on the head rest to take a little nap before we got home.

"Idiot."

"Skinny denny."

"Womanizer."

"Cheer-rider"

"Mommy's handbag."

What the hell are they arguing about now, and waking up to this kind of quarrels is suffocating.

Applying brake to the car at once. "What did you just call me?" He whispered.

"Ashton Hart." I yelled at once as fear overtook me "I don't wanna die young." I screamed as I held my chest.

"Did you hear what she called me?"

"At least move from the road, there are other car users waiting for you." I exclaimed as he started the car and moved to the side of the road.

"Y'all teenagers are so reckless and you decide to disturb others with your useless lives?" A man who seem to be in his early 40's with this beards looking like forest said with his head out of his truck.

"I bet you wear mama's pants with you so fat as a pig." Destiny yelled making him give the middle finger and drive off.

"Disgusting jerk." She sighed as she turned to Ashton who seems to be trying to cool down.

Hope she's not trying to fuel his anger again.

"What do you mean by cheer-rider?" She asked with a frown.

"Because you've probably slept with almost all the guys in school." He said and I saw the hurt flash in her eyes.

"F**k You." She yelled as she opened the door, got out and closed it with a loud bang.

My car, poor baby Adrianna.

"Why did you say that?" I was tired of their fights and this one was enough for the day.

"She called me a manwhore." He sighed. "I didn't mean to hurt her, I was just angry."

"Better go after her and make sure she's okay." I said as I got out from the back seat and opened the driver's door.

"Sure." He said as he got out and ran to the direction she ran to.

Ashton actually hated it when they called him mommy's handbag, the name seems to infuriate him because it made him feel like, according to him and I quote "a sissy" .

Even though he's reckless and does not take anything serious, he loves his mom a lot and does anything she asks of him. His dad rarely comes home, just sends money for their daily upkeep.

Since his mom's already rich, she refused to take the money partly because she was richer than her husband and mainly because he had a new wife, who's probably Ashton's age or maybe if it's too much, a year or two years older.

I sighed, getting into my car as I made my way home. Many thought flew past my mind.

Why does Mrs Hart want to see my mom?"

Is it that it came back?

I hope not, I can't take the pain for another time again.

I arrived home sooner than I thought as I made my way inside. I saw my dad in the bar, pouring himself some wine.

"Hey dad." I smiled as made my way to his drink, taking it from him unaware and gulping all down as I dropped the glass with a sigh.

"School was great." I laughed as I saw him watch me with surprise.

"You haven't stopped this habit of yours? Sneaking up on me and drinking up my wine." He exclaimed as I ran up the stairs. " You are too young, I've told you several times." I hear him yell as I laughed my way to my room.

"Home sweet home." I screamed as I fell to my bed.

All my muscles were sore, I need a break from studying, dancing and modelling. Being a ballerina and a model wasn't the easiest job out there.

I had to mind what I eat and keep my weight on watch. I had to eat less causing an unbalanced diet and my period to be unusual.

Just then I heard a bang close to my window, as I stood up to check it.

I learnt some ninja skills back then in middle school and i think this is the best time to put it to use.

I did a double forward dive as I made it to my window successfully without breaking any bone. I quietly and carefully opened my curtain to checked where the noise was coming from,which was obviously from the next house.

But what I saw probably made me a curious cat for the rest of my stressful life.