Disclaimer- Same as before. I don't own anything.

A/N: Yea, almost a year later, here goes part 2. I am the biggest procrastinator and the biggest slacker I know. And I said this would be up before Christmas, again I lied. And so yea, I suck, but here it is. Oh yea, and I used a quote from Imagine Me And You in here, I just added a few words to it.

"So, was he mad?" Ashley asked from the driver's seat. They were leaving the parking lot of the club on their way to the pier. They had called Aiden and Maggie to tell them they were leaving.

"You could say that. But it would be an understatement. Was Maggie mad?"

"Yea right, she's probably already found somebody else to hook up with tonight."

"Somebody Ielse/I as in you were the first somebody she was going to hook up with?"

"No, not…I mean, well she probably thought so, but no."

"You don't sound convincing."

"You honestly think I would do that to you?"

"Jealousy knows no boundaries."

"Spencer! Ok, so what does that mean you would have done with Aiden?"

"You think I was jealous?"

"Think? No, I know you were. If you weren't you wouldn't have been staring at me the whole time you were dancing with Aiden."

"Well, you were sitting way too close to your Ifriend/I."

"Closer than you were when you were dancing with Aiden?"

"No, but…"

"Didn't think so."

"Ok, so we were both jealous and we've established that it was my fault. But I've gone over this conversation in my head a million times, and you better love it.

"We'll see. You just better hope that it is one hell of a confession."

The rest of the ride to the pier was silent. Except, of course, for the radio which didn't stay on one single station for more than two minutes before Spencer found the need to change it. When Ashley finally pulled into a park and cut the car off she turned to Spencer.

"Alright Miss I have a speech, lead the way."

They reached their destination and Ashley sat down on a rock beneath the pier. Spencer didn't sit down right away. She took a minute to look out at the ocean. The waves were coming in pretty big and they looked harsher than they had the whole time she had been in LA. She finally sat down on the rock beside Ashley. It was still another few minutes before she spoke.

Ashley, for her part, just sat there. She so desperately wanted to make a joke about something, anything, but she knew right then was not the time. She had to let Spencer sort out whatever it was she was dealing with no interruptions. But she was human, and she was definitely impatient, so she gave her a little push.

"Spencer, I was kidding when I said you had to work hard at what you were going to say. I wasn't trying to put pressure on you."

Despite Ashley purposely not making a joke, Spencer smiled at the irony.

"I know, I was just trying to find a way to make it a lot simpler that I had originally made it sound in my head. I was in no way trying to make it more complex."

"Good, so just say it simply."

"It's more complicated than that."

"Yea that's obvious. Because I'm all of a sudden really confused."

"It's hard to make what I want to say simple, because it's not simple by any means. But I think I would understand it better if it were."

"But you just said it's not, so you understand it fine the hard way, right?"

"No, not really."

"Ok, maybe it's you that is confusing." Ashley smiled, really not understanding what Spencer was taking about.

"Maybe, but I think I got it now so just listen, no interruptions ok?"

"Yea I wouldn't chance interrupting you, because I really don't want to go through the 'it's easy, it's hard' conversation again."

"I grew up in a town that was like completely opposite of LA. The most trouble anyone in my town ever got into was when the twins that lived two houses down from me got caught cow tipping and had to work on the guy's farm for a week."

Spencer heard Ashley trying to suppress a laugh and looked over at her. "What?! It's the truth. Anyway, so you can imagine how big of a change it was for me moving out here. And then, of all people for me to run into on my first day of school, it had to be someone who the girls on the cheerleading squad that I was so desperately trying to make referred to as 'the bitchiest person you will ever meet'. But then, Iyou/I found Ime/I and apologized. Now was I supposed to believe the girls on the squad, or was I supposed to believe that your apology was genuine?"

Spencer stopped for a minute. She had never really thought about it before, but she really didn't know how she came to the conclusion to trust Ashley and leave with her that day. All she knew was that the girl had intrigued her to no end, and she had to find out her secrets.

"And because I'm such a smart girl, I obviously made the right decision. And to tell you the truth, after a few weeks I realized that the decision hadn't really be that hard in the first place. I mean, I felt something for you that I absolutely could not feel. I was the straight country girl and you were the 'I don't give a damn' city girl. And that part that struck me was the fact that you were a girl, and again that I was straight. But there was no denying that fact that everything I was feeling was because of you."

Spencer again stopped. She really had to think about how to explain the next thing she was going to say. It wasn't something you took lightly, and that wasn't something she was really considering doing right now anyway. This conversation was serious.

"I don't think love is something you fall into. It's not something you learn over time like people like to believe. That if they change someone they can make that person love them. I think it's something you know immediately, as soon as your eyes meet the eyes of the other person. Then everything that happens from then on just proves that you had been right in the first moment. When you suddenly realized that you were incomplete, and now you are whole. You all of a sudden fell something you've never felt before. That's what you did to me Ashley. You made me feel something that I didn't know anyone could feel. And to be honest with you, it scared me more than anything."

Spencer turned on the rock to face Ashley. She took her hands and looked right into her eyes. There was no way she would ever stop loving her, no matter what people thought and no matter who tried to come between them.

"So, I'm honestly sorry about everything I have done to you the last few months. All of the hiding and putting this off. And especially going out with Aiden tonight. I never meant for any of it to hurt you. You have to know that I love you, and that I will always love you no matter what I say or what I do. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and no one in my life will ever be as important to me as you are. Never forget that and never believe anyone who tells you any different."

Ashley was on the verge of tears. She was desperately trying to hold them back because she had taught herself a long time ago how to control her emotions. She never cried, no matter what. Then she realized that she was with Spencer, and that the tears she was so close to crying were good tears. So she let them fall, and Spencer noticed that Ashley never looked as beautiful as she did when she smiled through her tears.

Ashley didn't know what to say. No one had ever been that honest with her and it was overwhelming. She didn't want to say much to break the moment so she wiped her eyes and placed her hand on Spencer's cheek.

"I love you Spencer. I didn't think anyone could ever love me the way I know you do and I didn't think I could ever love anyone the way I love you. Thank you so much for everything you said. You have no idea how much it means to me."

"I think I do." Spencer said as she stood up and offered her hand to Ashley.

They walked down the beach replaying everything that had happened that night. Spencer couldn't believe she had found the courage to tell Ashley everything she had told her. And Ashley couldn't believe that for once in her life she had everything she wanted and needed. They were both very thankful for that night, no matter how it had started, because they had ended up together. And even though neither wanted to be the jealous type that was exactly what had made Spencer realize how important it was for her to tell Ashley how she felt and what she wanted.