Chapter 1 – "The beginning"

Every now and then time can really trick you.

He passes by you so fast, that sometimes, we don´t even notice him, until he´s already gone. In fact, until this very moment I never actually realized how true that was!

I mean…eight years passed by me, since I arrived to LA, but in some way, it feels like it was yesterday. And even though it feels so close, I know it´s not, but I also know I felt every single day, every hour, every second of it, with the same intensity of the first time, with the same hunger for life, with the same straight to fight my fights, for me, for love and especially for future…to be able to have one, a happy one. And it wasn´t always easy , actually it isn´t always easy to be the way you are - it sure wasn´t for me - but somehow I always managed a way to follow that path, since i´m pretty sure it would be so mush harder to be the way i´m not.

Spencer was standing in front of the river, with no shoes on the cold sand from this amazing beach, thinking in everything she´d been trough in the past few years, all her adventures, all the drama, all the obstacles, but also all the happiness and the good moments from it. Well… she´d been thinking about her journey, now realizing that she´s not a child anymore, she´s a grown up now, and also knowing that this is just the beginning of a new cycle in her life, certainly the most wonderful of all but probably, also the hardest.

Has she´s thinking about all that, she´s playing with the ring she now carries in her left hand. Spencer is a 24 years old married women now, and besides all the bad roads she´d been riding on until she get here, she had never felt so happy.

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Their distant thoughts were only broken by the sound of someone approaching her, she could sense her and smell her so well, that stranger, once, that now became the most important part of her life.

Person: "How does it feel?"

(Has she said that, the person covers her with a jacket and hugs her, from behind, putting her chin on Spencer left shoulder)

Spencer (rests her head in the person head, and smiles): "It feels cosy!"

Person: "And how do you feel about the sunset here?"

Spencer: "It feels perfect … with you."

Person: "ow, you´re so adorable Spence. I could hold you forever." (They both smile) "Besides, I love Venice. I´m so happy we´re finally here."

Spencer: "I´m happy too. You can´t imagine how much"

Person: "Trust me dear, I think I do"

They enjoy a little silence, and with this, Spencer raises her head to the wind coming from the see, closes her eyes, and smiles, just like she uses to do, to enjoy the peace surrounding that serene and perfect moment.

Spencer (still with her eyes closed): "Ashley?"

Ashley: "Yes babe?"

Spencer: "I love you!"

Ashley (now softly smiling): I love you too.

That´s the end of the first chapter, of my first fanfic. I´m not a pro, not even closer to that, but I hope you liked. I´m sorry if my English is not perfect, i´m doing my best, since i´m Portuguese. lol