Better Than Revenge

Toby's Pov

The Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place. The cold air nipping at my skin. It's October 31st and October is not a very good time for me. A year ago last week my mother died. I don't know what happened to her, but the nurses at Radley said she killed herself. Not even two months later my father started seeing another women and now their married. Today my stepmom and her daughter Jenna Marshall are moving in. My father is making me empty the moving truck and bring all of Jenna's things inside, because apparently Jenna is "too tired," to do anything.

She didn't seem tired when her mom gave her money to go buy a Halloween costume for tonight. Jenna teased to my parents about how I should show her around town. My father told her it was a possibility. I'm praying to god my parents don't make me go to that stupid Halloween party tonight. I just got down talking to my neighbor Emily Fields. I don't really know her well, but I know about her. Emily is a member from Alison's posy and Alison is the queen bee. In other words she's the most popular girl in town. All the guys want to date her and all the girls want to be her.

Alison's posy is a group of five pretty girls; Aria Montgomery short, black hair, and compassionate, Hanna tall, slightly chubby, but still pretty, blonde hair and blue eyes and admiring, Emily Fields tall, black hair, brown eyes, and is the most loyal out of the girls, Spencer Hastings tall,extremely beautiful, brown hair, brown eyes, and is usually considered the smart one, and lastly Alison the girl that brought the group together. Alison is tall, blonde hair and blue eyes, some say she's pretty, manipulating, evil, and a total bitch.

Each of these girls have their own problem. I don't mean to butt into their personal life, but it's just something that I've noticed. I'm a quiet person and people say the quiet people see all. For example I see when Alison puts down Emily whenever she tries to be herself. I see when Alison picks on Hanna about her weight making her feel insecure about herself. I see when Alison calls Aria out for being strange. Most importantly I see when Alison picks on Spencer and taunts her about secrets she can't help, but keep.

The way that Alison treats people and her friends is just terrible. I don't understand why anyone would want to be friends or even get to know Alison. That bitch is horrible and does horrible things to people. Last week Alison spread a rumor that Mona stuffs her bra with tissue paper. Yesterday she convinced the whole school that Lucas was part male and part female. Just today she stood up in front of the school pointing out Spencer's flaws. I wish someone would put in end to Alison, so no one has to live with her misery.

I sighed as I reached for another one of Jenna's snow gloves. I was so busy getting wrapped up in my own thoughts that I didn't even notice someone walking up behind me. I jumped around then sighed in relief when I saw that it was just Spencer walking by. Spencer jumped back a little when I turned around.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you. I was just walking over to Emily's," she said.

"Oh no you didn't scare me."

She laughed, "are you sure, because you literally jumped three feet in the air."

"No I was just startled a little no harm done," I smiled at her.

She walked towards me and leaned against the moving truck. She stared at all of the stuff and reached for one of Jenna's snow gloves. The snow glove had two turtle doves inside with their wings intertwined. She holds the snow glove up to get a better look.

"Now I know these don't belong to you," she said.

"No there're not."

"Were they your moms?"

I clenched my jaw and cleared my throat. She immediately apologized when she realized that this is a touchy subject for me.

"No they belong to my stepsister."

"Do you want help carrying some of these boxes inside?" She asked.

"You don't have to do that." But she was already picking up a box and walking towards my house. That's one thing you got to admire about Spencer, she won't take no for an answer. I picked up another box and walked after her.

Spencer looked around the empty room and sat the box down on the bed. I set the other box right next to it. I watched as Spencer scanned the room. Her eyes looked over at the empty selves by the window. The tip of her fingers traced over the surface of the wood.

She turned around to look at me and said "this is Jenna's room?"

I looked at her in surprise," how did you know her name is Jenna?"

She waved her hand, "I know things. What's she like?"

I smirked at her,"I thought you knew everything."

"I just know minor details, so what's she like?"

I shrugged," she gets what she wants."

She smirked and said "oh great another Alison."

I chuckled," if Alison is such a problem then why hang out with her?"

She sighed and sat down on the bed," it's complicated."

"Alison's the complication or the reason why is complicated?"

"Both Alison is a pain, but my other friends are there."

"You're the only one Alison seems threatened by," I noted. This time she looked at me in surprise. I mocked her and said "I know things."

She nodded," so it is true."

"What is?"

"That quiet people see all, so do the smart ones."

"A quiet person and a smart person coming together, what kind of team would that be?" I asked.

She bit down on her bottom lip and said "I don't know."

For a moment we just sat there staring at nothing. Then I turned my gaze on to her. I noticed how her eyes sparkle in the sunlight. How her hair falls perfectly without her trying. Her smile is brighter than the sun. Everything about her is beautiful.

She giggled," why are you staring at me?"

I turned my head away and looked down blushing. "Sorry you just look beautiful."

"Thanks, normally guys think Alison's the pretty one."

"Not me, to me you're the pretty one."

She smiled and nudged my arm," quiet and you know how to make a girl blush."

"Well you're the first girl that's talked to me without running away, so I had to think of something charming to say ," I teased.

She laughed, "you're funny too. You're going to make a girl very happy some day."

I smiled and said," thanks"

For a moment we just sat there smiling at each other. This whole time I've been trying to figure Spencer out. Normally I'm good at figuring people out, but Spencer's different. She's like a complete mystery to me that I'm dying to figure out. I can't help but think to myself that I want to know more. After a long time of sitting her staring at her lips, she stood up.

"I should get going. I need to get home to work on my costume," she said.

I nodded," okay thanks for the help."

"No problem," she said. She was haft way of the door when she stopped to look back at me. "I really hope you're going to the Halloween party tonight. It would be nice to hangout with a guy for awhile instead of spending the whole time with the girls and I would really like to see you again."

I smiled at her," I wasn't planning on going, but if I change my mind."

She nodded in understand. She smiled at me one last time before walking out. As soon as she left, I sat down on the bed and smiled a real smile that I haven't shown since before my mother died. Never in a million years would I expect for someone to come in and make me feel this way. What kind of girl just walks in for a few minutes and then walks away with your heart? If there's any girl that is capable to do so, it's Spencer Hastings.

Spencer's pov

Patients is the first thing you learn as a kid. You learn to wait for your turn. In softball you're always told to wait for your turn to bat. Kids are always told to wait in line to get on a ride or wait in line to buy stuff. Most importantly we're taught to have patients with other people. And when you know a person like Alison Dilaurentis, you need patients.

"Spencer," Alison made a face of discus as she looked at Spencer in her Halloween costume. "What the hell are you supposed to be?"

I smiled and said,"I'm Mary Queen of Scots, this is the dress she wore when she was executed."

"You look like my grandmother on a bad hair day. Take that off and wear something else," she demanded.

"No, I worked very hard on this costume and I'm wearing it."

She scuffled," fine if you want to go dressed like something that crawled up from the dead then I don't care."

"I think Spencer looks nice," Hanna said.

"Shut up Hanna!" Alison snapped. "Hurry up and fit your fat self into your costume, I don't want to be late, because my stupid friends held me back. Now you all have two minutes or else I'm leaving without you."

We hurried down the stairs and out to the party. When we got there everyone from school was here. We haven't even been here for ten minutes and Alison is already giving someone her death stare. I looked to see who she was glaring at and saw another girl dressed up as Lady Gaga and that's what Alison dressed up as. What pissed Alison off even more is that people seemed to like the other girls costume over Alison's.

"I'll be right back," she said through gritted teeth.

Alison disappeared leaving the rest of us by our selfs. Ben came over to ask Emily if she wanted to dance, to which she accepted. Hanna and Aria went over to take turns dancing with Noel, while I stood here on my own. I turned to go find Aria and when I did I accidentally stumbled into someone else.

"Opps I'm sorry," I quickly apologized.

The person chuckled," forgive me Queen Mary."

I snapped my head up and saw Toby standing there. I was surprised and happy to see him here tonight. He wasn't wearing much of a costume though. Just a pair of jeans and a grey hoodie. I didn't even think he would come, but here he is. I just now noticed that he called me Queen Mary, which means he knows who I'm dressed up as.

"Wow you are the first person to notice what I'm dressed up as," I said.

"How could nobody know? Mary Queen of Scots was a classic to learn about in history."

"Yeah, so what are you dressed up as?"

"I decided to dress up as Toby Cavanaugh."

I smiled and said "well I think that's the best costume. I also would have found it ironic if you dressed up as Mary's husband."

"It would be better if I dressed up as Spencer Hastings future husband."

It's a good thing it's dark outside that way he can't see me blushing. Was he seriously trying to flirt with me? If that's what he's doing then it's working on me. I had one conversation with Toby and he already has my heart racing. I never imagined Toby to be so nice, gentle, caring, and a total goofball. Like for real we've been talking for twenty minutes and I cannot stop laughing. Right now we're standing off to the side joking about how people are dressed tonight. Honestly this is the most fun I've had in years.

People were complaining that we were standing in the way of all the dancers, so we moved to sit somewhere less crowded. We found an empty bench were only a few people are hanging out. Here we sat and talked for another hour and it was amazing.

"Why did you come here tonight?" I asked.

"Jenna wanted to come and my parents made me bring her and I kind of wanted to see you," he admitted shyly.

I smiled and looked at him in awe," you really are sweet."

"Thanks you're not so bad yourself," he teased.

I laughed and nudged his should softly. All night Toby has been saying sweet things to me and making me feel special. Something no one has ever done in awhile. Not my parents, not Alison, not even the other girls. It seems that Toby is the only one that knows how to make someone feel good.

Toby's pov

Throughout the night my gaze kept going between looking into Spencer's eyes and staring at her lips. Her perfect pink lips that I'm dying to feel against mine. I wonder what it would be like to kiss her. Would she let me or would she slap me away? I really want to kiss her, but we just got to know each other. Right now Spencer was telling me about her family and her experience on having a sister.

"And when I was twelve Melissa locked me in the coat closet just because I used her shampoo."

"Wait she locked you in a closet for how long?"

She shrugged," four hours."

"Four hours!" I exclaimed. "Where were your parents?"

"At a meeting, but I got out eventually. You see when you have an older sister I practically had to teach myself how to pick a lock with a bobby pin."

"You picked the lock with a bobby pin?"

She nodded and smiled," yeah, over the years I've learned how to pick any lock using a bobby pin."

"Well now I know who to call when I need to break into a bank," I teased.

She laughed and shook her head. Hearing her laugh made me laugh and pretty soon we were both laughing. I haven't been this happy in a long time and I'm glad Spencer is the one making me feel better. I really needed this, a good laugh, a smile, and a friend like Spencer. Eventually the laugher died down and we went back to staring at each other.

I pushed back a loose piece of her hair that was sticking out from under her wig. Then the next thing I know we're both leaning in. Our lips were only a few centimeters apart when her phone rang. She pulled away and dug her phone out. She looked at the caller I.D and rolled her eyes.

"Speak of the devil. I'm really sorry Toby, but I have to go."

I nodded and said "okay, I'll see you around."

She smiled at me as she stood up. "Yeah I'll see you at school tomorrow."

I laughed and said "okay, but tomorrow's Saturday."

She laughed and face palmed herself," oh right then I'll just see you when I see you."

"Okay, bye"

"Bye," she said and then ran off quickly.

I sat back on the bench and sighed. It's only been one day and Spencer Hastings already has me falling for her. There is defiantly a bound between us and I'm wondering where this bound will lead us.

Greetings everyone! This is a new fanfic i'm writing with my friend Addicted2Spoby4Real. It's about how Spencer and Toby come together to form the A-team. I hope you all enjoy this fanfic that we're writing and we hope to update soon. Thanks for reading please review!