"…Oh what the future holds, none of us can be sure. We've grown up our whole lives going to school and working towards an 'ideal' life that we can only hope will result in our own slice of happiness.

Whether happiness means, a mortgage, a car and a family. Or, whether happiness means a rather healthy bank account and a beach house in Malibu. But, for some of us all happiness means is love." Spencer added looking at Ashley in the crowd of seniors.

"We, as graduating seniors, may not all get to be rock stars or big time movie directors but, I know that our possibilities are endless and that as we graduate today doors of opportunities will be opening left and right. I actually had a whole lot more to say and was going to quote a few famous scholars and poets but, it seems that the words of the past can't fully prepare us for the future. I will say this, 'You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? Class of 2010 we did it. Puhhh-yeaaace!" Spencer immediately left the podium to return to her seat to see several of her friends cracking up at her impromptu speech.

She could not believe she had just totally improvised her valedictorian speech. Thinking of all the respected members of the community who had expected a professional and well thought out speech, were probably more than a little shocked. However, looking to see Ashley giving her the trade mark nose-crinkling smile made it completely worth it.

"I thought it was truly heart felt albeit, a bit unorthodox." Paula commented beaming with affection as she gazed towards her youngest child.

"Attagirl, whoooowheeewww! That's my daughter!" Arthur shouted, whipping out a blow horn with the intention of setting it off, only to be stopped mid arm raise by a fully embarrassed Clay.

"It's okay sweetie, just be thankful you're adopted so, you don't have to actually admit to being related to us." Paula winked as Mr. Wyatt stood at the podium to announce King's High class of 2010. As the crowd erupted with cheers and shouts, Arthur couldn't be stopped as he quickly pulled the trigger to the blow horn nearly deafening the ears of his now completely embarrassed family.

However, as the Carlins began to scout the football field for their graduates they saw a group of kids sneaking off behind the bleachers into the parking lot carrying beach towels and one confiscated beach ball.

"All right on 3. We jump."

"3 and a half…"

"No, if we do 3 and a half you won't jump Ky."

"That's the point."

"Hurry up it's freezing balls!"

"Sorry Aid, us girls wouldn't know what that feels like."

"You sure about that Madison? Because from this angle it looks like you just might."

"Screw you, douche bag"

"Kids play nice"

"One, two, three!"

"Wait-" Kyla quickly screamed only to be pushed off the pier with Aiden, and Madison, by a giggling Ashley and Spencer.

"BITCHES!" Madison sputtered from the water below.

"Geronimo!" Spencer shouted as she grabbed her girlfriend's hand and plunged off the edge of the pier.

"You chicas be loco for deciding that swimming in our underwear would be more fun than actually wearing our swim suites." Madison shivered as she swam for shore to help Chelsea with the bon fire.

"What? It's not like your bikini covers up much more than what you're wearing now." Ashley smirked as she pulled Spencer to her in the water wrapping herself around her girlfriend.

"I still can't believe you ripped up your cue cards seconds before you gave your speech Spence!" Kyla laughed as the remaining friends made their way to the beach.

"I know neither can I! But, I think what I ended up saying was more sincere and original than what any cue cards could have said." Spencer grinned lacing Ashley's fingers with her own.

"Spontaneity is sexy." Ashley whispered as she pulled Spencer behind the rest of the group to kiss her slowly making Spencer feel the kiss in her bones. The older girl slowly held the blonde's hips firmly deepening the kiss sliding her tongue along Spencer's bottom lip, causing Spencer to moan softly.

Ashley used this opportunity to sink her tongue into the girls mouth getting that taste she had become heavily addicted to. Spencer couldn't think, couldn't breathe and she moaned louder as Ashley softly bit her bottom lip.

Honestly, this was the stuff wars were fought over and people would go crazy for. Sometimes Spencer felt that she might die of primal lust before her and Ashley ever actually made love to one another.

Ashley pulled back noticing how worked up Spencer was getting. She couldn't help but soak in her beauty and flat out sexiness. She pulled Spencer even tighter against her as she tilted her head to kiss along the blond's jaw line.

She needed this, as she kissed along the girl's neck, to feel Spencer's pulse point against her tongue, to have her girlfriend feel the heat that seemed to set them both a flame. A lustful fire so hot it burned blue, something that seemed to have such a strong force that it seemed down right deadly and wonderful at the same time.

As Spencer bravely tugged at Ashely's pants button and fiddled with the older girl's zipper they heard their friends calling them from the bonfire.

"Hey Ellen! Portia! Stop sucking face and get your lesbian butts over here. I am not responsible if all the beer is gone while you're both over there doing God knows what!" A slightly buzzed Madison shouted turning on the stereo and dancing around the bonfire.

"Spencer, can we talk about… you know…" Ashley murmured, feeling insanely unsatisfied. Her poor heart could only take so much teasing before it out right burst.

"Yeah, tonight." Spencer chuckled, grabbing her girlfriends hand pulling her towards their circle of friends.

"We'll talk about or… we'll do IT?" Ashley choked out realizing that tonight may be the night that her and Spencer would spend the night together. It wasn't as it they were waiting for something specific to happen before they had sex, made love, what have you. But, things seemed to always end up not completing working out.

Like the time when Paula first found out they were together. That. Was. Awkward. Ashley and Spencer had finally been able to get some much wanted alone time, due to the fact that everyone was suppose to be out of the house.

It had magically worked out that everyone had a Friday night date but, to the girls horror and surprise Paula came back remembering she needed to give Spencer the number of a "nice boy," from church.

Then there was the time they decided on whim that they were ready to go all the way in Ashley's Porshe while they were at one of LA's look out points. That turned out to be wonderfully embarrassing moment when a cop pulled over to yell at them for getting frisky in a public park. They were both lucky the cop was a woman who happened to be of the lesbian persuasion, who empathized for LGBT youth sneaking around to avoid persecution.

Last but, not least there were countless times when Ashley and Spencer would be alone at the loft only to have Kyla come storming in every five minutes only to be scarred for life at seeing her sister attempting to "do the nasty."

All in all, it just seemed that there was some cosmic force trying to keep both Spencer's and Ashley's pants on, and they hated it.

Well, Ashley hated it, Spencer more or less was still anxious about being one hundred percent intimate with the girl she loved. It was a big step, and from Spencer's experience sex always seemed to ruin things…

"Perhaps both." Spencer purred as she walked away to sit next to Chelsea cracking open a soda.

Ashley grinned happily as she stared at her girlfriend who looked even more beautiful with the light of the fire dancing across her face and her blue eyes radiating something that was impossible to resist.

"Who knew we'd all turn out to be friends?" Aiden randomly pointed out sipping his beer, plopping next to Ashley observing the collected group of friends chit chat around the bon fire listening to music, and discussing memories from high school.

"Yeah, no kidding. Life, is undeniably funny like that." Ashley murmured opening her Corona and taking a swig. No less than about three years ago, it seemed impossible that she would be able to tolerate, let alone be friends with Madison.

Spencer was a shy timid girl, that had followed the head cheerleader around like a lost puppy and was afraid of her own opinion as much as any one else's.

Aiden was an iron pumping douche bag who relished in the power of being King High's Jock God by having as many one night stands as possible.

Kyla's existence was still a complete secret and was living blissfully unaware of her half sister all the way in Baltimore.

And Chelsea was just about Ashley's only friend. Back then Ashley had adopted the motto of, Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll, to the fullest. Life had most definitely changed. But, it seemed that it had changed for the best, despite the growing pains in between that came with the ups and downs of high school.

"Remember when you made that horrible documentary and asked everyone about their first times having sex?" Aiden chuckled quickly snapping Ashley's attention to the present, taking a slight trip down memory lane along with everyone else.

"That was ridiculous! She even asked my Mom!" Spencer announced hearing Aiden from across the fire pit.

"Oh! What about the time when you tried to teach me to drive Aiden? That was awesome." Kyla piped up fondly looking back at the memory.

"You what?"

"Ash, uhm, it was like one time. And due to the fact that your half-sister is a horrible driver I never let her drive again…"

"Yeah, that better have been what happened." Ashley threatened half-heartedly.

"Oooo or the time we had that massive paintball fight with your family Spence? I totally tricked your brother by saying 'Let's make love not war,' and then I shot the crap outta him! I had mad skills" Madison bragged as she pan mimed a fake gun shooting it at the fire.

"Thank God, no one has ever made the mistake of giving you a real gun." Chelsea said solemnly, quickly grinning as Madison stuck our her middle finger pointedly in her direction.

With all these memories being brought up, Spencer couldn't help but, become more afraid of the future. She still hadn't told Ashley that she got accepted to Worthington and UCLA.

It's not that she was intentionally trying to keep it from her, it was just that she wanted to get a better perspective on which school she might pick before breaking the news to her girlfriend. Of course, Ashley had shown her support no matter where she got in but, Spencer knew that it would just about break the brunette's heart if she moved to Boston.

Yes, Worthington had an amazing film program but, then again it would probably be easier to get an internship after college in LA and if she went to school here she'd be able to network and get her foot in the door. On top of that, Spencer was trying to figure out when her and Ash would talk about sex; or rather proceed to actually doing 'it.'

It wasn't that it was suppose to be a business meeting where both parties would mutually agree to do the deed and sign a contract or something, it just seemed like a good idea to at least talk about why they hadn't done it yet, seeing as they had had plenty of opportunities to do so. It seemed life after graduation would only prove to be stressful…

Spencer was so lost in thought that she didn't even notice that everyone was beginning to pack up the suburban getting ready to head over to her house for the BBQ.

"You ready to head over to su casa, babe?" Ashley asked tentatively, holding her hand out for Spencer. The blonde nodded and sneakily smacked her girlfriend's ass proceeding to run towards the SUV for safety.

"Ohhhhh Carlin you're so dead!" Ashley shouted smiling as she ran after her.