A/N- Hey dudes and dudettes. Here is my second story that you guys said you wanted to read. Check it out and tell me what you think. It's a different twist on the Spashley romance! :) And this story also has chapter titles which are right under this in quotes. ENJOY! -Mel
A/N (dec2009) - EDITTING CHAPTERS, PLEASE BARE WITH ME. =)
"ABUNDANT SURPRISES"
Spencer's POV
It's been such a long day. I cannot believe they made me stay at the studio all day. It was such a waste of time. Ugh! I'm definitely gonna curl up in some pj's, with a cup of hot tea and watch One Tree Hill.
I walk into my unusually dark apartment and head towards the kitchen to get the water set up for my tea. I flip on the light switch and all of a sudden I hear "SURPRISE!!" ring throughout the apartment.
"Oh my gosh! What's going on?" I ask, as my hand covers my chest.
"Well duh, it's your birthday silly." My best friend since middle school, and roommate, Madison Duarte, says as she steps up to hug me.
"Birthday??" I think aloud, confused. "Today's my birthday??" I ask tilting my head.
"What did the studio do to you today?" She asks, looking at me funny. "You really forgot your own birthday??" She asks, chuckling at me, as well as a few others standing behind her.
I chuckle lightly also. "Yea I guess I did. Its been a hectic month." Everyone smiles and starts approaching me.
"Tell me about it. Last month you were obsessing over turning 21!" She exaggerates, laughing.
"Well that was before the studio signed me to a new line for winter. And this company always has me either busy or sitting there wishing I was!" I laugh as some people begin to give me birthday hugs.
"Well not tonight. Tonight we party and dance till we drop!" She says in her feisty latina way.
"Let's do it!!" I say as a smile spreads across my face.
"Hey, wait right there! There will be no partying until you first open your gifts and get them out of the way." My dad says stepping up and holding out a box to me.
It's wrapped in simple blue wrapping paper with a red bow around it. When I open it, I gasp. In the box is this necklace that I've wanted since I was about six years old. My grandmother had given it to my dad and told him to hold on to it till I was old enough to take care of it. It's been in our family for decades.
"I completely forgot about this necklace. Thank you so much dad." I tell him gratefully, wrapping him in a tight hug.
"Any time baby. I thought this would be the perfect year to give it to you." He says smiling at me and then kissing my forehead in his warm, fatherly way.
"It is perfect."
"Let me put it on you." He offers, that proud glint in his eye.
"Please?" I ask sweetly and he proceeds in fastening it around my neck as 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' float around the room.
After he fastens the necklace around my neck, Madi steps up and holds out a similar shaped box to me with just a simple bow tied around it.
"Well whatever it is, it's light as ever." I joke and chuckles emerge from the small crowd.
I open it up and stare at what appears to be tickets to a show or something. I take them out of the box and read the name written across the tickets.
"No you didn't!!" I exclaim excitedly.
"Yes I did." She simply states, with a smile.
"No way!!" I continue disbelievingly.
"Yes way." She replies, laughing at my freak out.
"But these have been sold out for months, and they're front row!!!" I say, ecstatic.
"I know. I was one of the first people in line opening morning so I could get them for your birthday."
"Now I know why you're my best friend." I tell her goofily and pull her into a big hug.
"Cause I'm hot and score all the hot dudes so you can score all the hot ladies that are with them??" She jokingly asks as she laughs.
"No that's just a bonus." The room fills with laughs again. "You're going with me right?"
"Duh! Why do you think there's two tickets?"
"Because you think I'm fat and my ass takes up two seats?" I ask in all seriousness, barely being able to keep a smile off of my face. She just gives me a hard glare and I crack with laughter after that. "Kidding, you better be the one going!" I playfully demand with a smile; which she returns, with a head-nod as well. "Thank you so much Madi, you're the best!" I say and hug her again
"Ok, enough love, can we please cut the cake now?!" My brother Glen blurts out and the whole room laughs.
For those of you who don't know, he's got blonde hair, blue eyes, kind of toned from being involved in sports back when we were in high school. He's an ass most of the time, but he can be fun, and he's always supported me no matter what.
"Hey you little punk, where's my gift from you??" I ask, glaring at him playfully.
"Oh, I helped Madi pay for the tickets." He says nodding toward Madi and I look at her to verify he's telling the truth.
"He's telling the truth, he put up half the money."
"Ok, well, thank you then." I say and hug him lightly.
"No prob sis. Now can we please cut the cake??" He asks, resembling a little kid, as he holds up a knife.
"Wait, where's Clay??" I ask, looking around for him.
"He asked us to tell you he's sorry they couldn't make it. Chelsea had an art showing in Brooklyn so they couldn't fly out. But he, Chelsea, and De'vaughn send their love and Happy Birthdays. They said De'vaughn misses his Aunt Spencer." My dad answers with a smile on his face.
"Aww, I miss him too. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow when I get up. Ok, well let's get this party started everyone!" I exclaim happily.
Cheers move throughout the crowd and everyone starts walking around and most go to the living room to dance.
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"How is Julia and Peyton dad?" I ask after being bombarded by guests giving out birthday wishes.
"They're doing great. I actually have to leave here soon to get home to them. Julia said she would have come, but she didn't want to expose Peyton to so many new people just yet and risk her picking something up." He tells me with a gentle smile.
"Aww, well tell her I miss her and that I said we need to do lunch some time soon."
"I will." He checks his watch. "Well I guess I should get going, it's already pretty late."
"Ok dad. Thanks again for coming. And thanks for the necklace, it means a lot to me." I genuinely tell him, grabbing the dangling necklace between my fingers.
"Only the best for my baby girl." He says and kisses the top of my head as he hugs me, before letting me go. "Bye Spence."
"Bye." I reply and he leaves.
For those of you who are wondering, Julia is my step-mom. And Peyton is her and my dad's beautiful, eight week old daughter. My biological mother, Paula, freaked out when she found out I was gay. Yep it's true, I'm gay, I like girls, okay get over it. Anyways, she freaked out when she found out and she didn't approve. She also couldn't stand that the rest of my family did. We found out a month later, that she had been having an affair with her boss Ben. So my dad divorced her and won custody of us kids, thank god! That was almost five years ago. My dad met Julia two years ago and they fell in love very quickly, much to my dad's surprise. He told her everything that happened, including about me, and she completely accepted me and the rest of the family. We love her like she's always been around and Peyton is such a joy to have in our lives. Finally another girl!
Anywho, where's Madison?
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"Hey girl, where you been at??" She asks as I walk up to her in the living room, where she's gettin down with some guy.
"I was talking to dad. He had to leave and get back to Julia and Peyton."
"Aww, the little cutie! We should do lunch with them soon." She says and I smile fondly. I love my best friend.
"I just told dad the same thing." We share a laugh and then I join in on the dancing.
Madison invited some girls I recognized from the local gay club, so I had a lot of fun for my birthday. We drank and partied most of the night and then finally kicked everybody out around four a.m..
Glen stayed and helped us clean up a majority of the mess before leaving.
"Hey Glen, thanks for helping us clean up."
"No prob lil sis." He replies as I walk him to the door. "Oh yea, by the way, I got you this." He says pulling a small velvet box from his jeans pocket.
"Aww, thanks Jerk Face!" I reply, using my and Madi's nickname for him. We both just laugh.
I open the box up to find a simple, three-stud diamond ring that matches the necklace from my dad.
"Aww, Glen, it's beautiful! Thanks so much." I tell him with a smile.
"Hey, just don't say I never gave you anything." He says pointing at me with mock attitude.
"Yea, yea, yea. I'm sure you spent a whole fifty cents on this." We laugh again and then we hug briefly.
"Happy Birthday Spence. Night."
"Night." I reply as I open the door for him.
"Night Madi!!" He calls through the apartment.
"Night Jerk Face!" She calls back. He rolls his eyes, with a smirk and then walks out.
I walk into the living room and plop down next to Madison on the couch. "Thanks for the party Madi, it was awesome." I tell her as I get comfortable.
"Anything for my best girl." She says and we both smile. "By the way, when are we supposed to be moving into our new place? You talked to the real-estate agent last."
"Uh, this weekend I believe she said we could."
"That's what I thought but I wasn't sure if you had told me or not."
"Yea, it's this weekend, cause I remember I don't have class this Saturday for once, so it all worked out good."
"Why not?" She asks, laying her head in my lap, a usual position you'll find one of us in.
"Something about a funeral my Professor has to go to." I reply as I mindlessly begin running my fingers through her hair.
"Ah yes, I remember you telling me about that."
"Yep, that's the one."
We fall quiet for a minute and we're both just kinda looking around our apartment.
"I'm going to miss this place, we've been here for what? Three and a half years?" She asks with sadness lacing her voice.
"Just about. Although I'm going to miss it, I can't wait to get into a bigger place!" I tell her with an exasperated tone.
"Definitely!! The parties will be so much better then!!" She says and we both laugh joyfully.
"Ok, well I guess I'm gonna head to bed. We have the concert tomorrow and I want to go shopping for a new outfit before we go. You up for it?" I ask, looking down at her sleep drawn face.
"You know it!!!" She agrees, sitting up and yawning.
We walk down the hall together, to our separate rooms. "Thanks again for everything Madi."
"Anytime Spence." We smile and hug before walking into our individual rooms.
A/N2- Some of these chapters are shorter than my other story's chapter lengths. Some are long while others are short. But not too short.. anywho... I'll stop rambling. Tell me what you think. I know some stuff you might be lost on and are like "What..??" But it'll all be explained soon enough. ENJOY! -Mel
