It was a long day at the firm for Spencer Hastings. Since Veronica Hastings was a pretty big name in the business, her boss took every opportunity he could to use her name in a case to make big bucks off of it.
It worked of course.
That's how Spencer felt. A toy you could play with, or a vacation home being rented out by family after family.
Her home life wasn't all that good either. She tried to avoid that dreaded street where she grew up as well as she could.
When she couldn't she always made a quick trip to The Brew or the nearest bar in order to get prepared. Today didn't happen to be one of those days, but it did happen to be a night where her boyfriend Wren dragged her out of her shared apartment with Aria.
She didn't go out very much. Wren took her out on the occasional lunch date during her breaks at work but she was busy most of the time. Aria didn't push or force her to go out or anything. They liked to relax and hang out.
If she really, genuinely wanted to spend a ''fun'' night out, Emily, Alison, or Hanna were probably in town.
The five girls talked as much as they possibly could. Hanna and Caleb lived together in New York. Although it was no more than an hour flight to and from and a 3 and a half hour drive by car Hanna and Caleb traveled a lot.
Mostly because of Hanna's desire to be an icon in the fashion industry. Caleb claims that it's gotten to the point where when he arrives home, sometimes his suitcase will be packed for him, and Hanna's clothes will be draped over the furniture in their quaint living space. Hanna will look up at him and say "I'm booking a flight to LA tonight". All because she wants new outfit inspiration.
Emily and Alison stayed together in Philly but all of their schedules were packed and it was hard to make free time.
On Friday's they all skyped together. They talked for hours. Caleb would beg Hanna to be quiet and calm her giggling so he could sleep.
Today was Friday. She was also dog tired, but knew that in the end she would hardly get any sleep anyways so she went out with Wren.
She felt pretty bad since skype was pretty much all the five girls had going for them right now but she knew they would understand.
She didn't hate Wren but she wasn't exactly head over heels in love him. Melissa dated him because her parents loved him. They definitely did not mind her sharing the Kingston last name. Wren was really smart and was a doctor in training finishing up his time in medical school.
Melissa ended up not caring when Wren cheated on her. It was with her own younger sister too.
Neither did their parents. Now she thinks about it, it was pretty rude. What if Melissa was heartbroken over this?
She doesn't think stone is that easy to break in half but it's pretty cruel for her parents to not even give a single care in the world.
I guess Peter and Veronica didn't care which daughter got the Kingston last name, as long as they got it and their family looked perfect and polished in the end.
She finally resurfaced back to earth leaving the train of Spencer's thoughts. They finally arrived at a classy, nice bar down town.
Wren opened the door for her.
The bar was pretty casual. It was probably unlikely to see people get wasted and drunk out of their minds here. She smiled at Wren as the entered.
Wren sat down at the bar right next to her.
"You'll never guess what happened today at work'', he said talking in his strong British accent while grinning from ear to ear.
She nodded along as he went on talking about his day completely oblivious to the fact that she wasn't listening at all.
After what felt like a lifetime passed by of her twirling her straw around in her glass of water, something or someone caught Wren's attention at the door and he headed towards the back of the bar.
She didn't bother to look over or ask any questions. She just checked her phone for notifications so something could distract her from her own painfully boring life but when nothing was there she basically proved her self right.
Wren was in the back for over an hour now. Spencer looked around the bar. Then she met eyes with a ocean blue eyed boy wearing a black and white flannel.
She felt her jaw drop a little and looked down back at her full glass of water.