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I haven't talked to Spencer in about a week or so.

Ever since the whole crazy girlfriend fiasco she isn't returning my calls.

I've tried everything, I've gone over there but she locks herself in her room.

The only way I know that shes alive is because Kyla will come over every couple of days to talk to me, and get our opinion on what she should do.

I try to help, try to tell her all the right things but I really don't know.

"I know what to do!" but I guess Madison does.

Me, Madison and Kyla are sitting in my living room talking about all that has happened since we have met.

So much has happened in such a short amount of time that it feels like we have known the Carlins longer then we have.

Sure does seem like it, especially with my intense feelings for Spencer.

"Ok well that seemed easy, what is your plan?" I say a little sarcastically to Madison

"wellll," she says while giving me a mean look, "We need to ambush her!" she says like she just told us the best idea ever.

I laugh "and how is that suppose to help?" she is ridiculous sometimes. I don't know.

"We don't exactly ambush but...like we need to get her to somewhere and we will be there too." She says.

"Like the grocery store cause that worked out so well" I say. Ugh that was the worst day ever.

She looks at me then at Kyla "Not exactly like that, I mean we will have to plan it better...Like figure out what we are going to say so we don't make this worse."

kyla looks up and kinda nods her head "that's probably the only way we are going to see her, or get her to see us."

I don't know about this plan, it seems difficult. " How are we suppose to get her out of the house and away from Carmen?" I say a little worried.
"I don't want her to get hurt again because she leaves the house with out her. We should try to do it at your house or maybe when the whole family is out we can get her alone somehow."

Kyla and Madison agree that the next time they are out that's when we are going to do it. We figure out what to say and what not to say. How to go about it so she doesn't run off. We need to go at it in a way that doesn't come on to strong, but will still get the point across.

All that we need to do now is figure out a way to get her by herself, and we can't do that untill we know where they are going.

Thats going to be the hard part.

Actually its all going to be hard.

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Madison burst into my room and looks...a little scared actually. She is waving her phone through the air, maybe like she just don't care, I'm not too sure.

She finally catches her breath and says, " Kyla just texted me." oh shit, is this it? " They are going to be at the pier in about an hour."

"Great, there is a lot of stuff there that can get them distracted while we talk to Spencer." I say while jumping up and getting me shoes and jacket.

Madison follows me into the living room were I grab my keys, "That is exactly what I was thinking." she says and we head out the door.

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The pier is a pretty cool place, just think Santa Monica pier with a little bit more shops and that's what this pier looks like, rides and all.

We make our way to a table and wait for a text from Kyla telling us where they are.

Finally after about the longest 45 minuets of my life Madison's phone beeps. Kyla says that they are going to the rides first, because bitchface Carmen really wants to go on the ferris wheel but Spencer is really afraid of heights, so she's not going.

This is our chance to get Spencer alone, so me and Madison head to the ferris wheel. When we get there we see them right away, Carmen and Spencer's parents are standing in line, while kyla and Spencer are standing out side the barrier talking to them. So we wait.

It takes about 15 minuets for them to get on the ride, now all Kyla has to do is get her away from there.

I see her lean in to say something, Spencer nods, and they start to walk towards the games.

I tell Madison we should walk the other way so we could "run into them".

Madison and I stand back and watch them till they pick a game to play, they walk a little then Spencer points to a game,(the one where you knock down the milk bottles).

they stop, give the carnie some money, and he hands her 3 baseballs. She steps back takes a breath and throws the ball, pretty hard I might add, probably all that pent up anger/frustration from all the stuff that has been going on. She only hits two of the 6 off, but they go flying.

The carnie looked a little scared.

She steps back and throws another but doesn't hit any.

that's when I walk up to her and say, "Don't worry I got this." I grab the ball and she watches as the milk bottles fall to the ground. HA yeah right.

I wish I was that confident.

I actually take a deep breath, nod to Madison and walk towards her. When I get there I pay the carnie and he gives me 3 baseballs. I take a ball and throw it hitting the middle of the milk bottle pyramid concoction. The middle two fly out while the top one falls down and hits the bottom row knocking one off, leaving 2 left.

I look at Spencer who still hasn't noticed I'm there and say, "see sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you throw it just where the ball lands."

I think I startled her a little because she turns to me rather quickly. "Ashley! What are you doing here?" she says.

I turn back to the game and throw my baseball knocking down the last two bottles, then the carnie hands me a pretty big stuffed bear. "I'm trying to give you a lesson on the fundamentals of knocking down milk bottles," I say as I hand her the bear,"and winning you this." I say with my best smile.

She looks at the bear, then back at me "I can't Ash." I give her a sad look and say, "just tell Carmen you won it."

She sighs and looks around.

By now Kyla and Madison have wondered off, so I grab Spencers hand "Come on. I'll buy you a corndog or something." She gets a worried look on her face and looks in the direction of the ferris wheel.

I squeeze her hand " I know of a food stand where you can see the ferris wheel well enough to know if they are getting off the ride. They wont be able to see us."

she looks at me with sad eyes, shakes her head and says "ok."

Ok that was going to be the hardest part of this plan.

Getting her to talk to me.

We get to the vendor and I get a lemonade while she gets some cotton candy. Its such a little kid thing to get, it boggles my mind that she is in an abusive relationship. We sit there for a while, while she people watches and I watch her. Looking so innocent eating her cotton candy.

Finally she looks up, "Why are you here Ashley?"

I swallow.

Ok this is it. " I havent seen you in a while, and the summer is almost over, so I thought I'd see how things are going. Ya know? Since we are "friends" and all." I say. "Your words not mine" I add quickly.

She opens her mouth to say something but doesn't. She is quiet for a minuet, " I'm not in an abusive relationship. I talked to Carmen and she's working this out. I just wanted to say that first off, but I am happy to see you." I don't know why she feels the need to lie to me.

"I'm glad to see you too, Spencer." I say "Why havent I lately?" This is the hard part, trying to get information but knowing when I'm pushing too hard so she wont run off. She sighs which she seems to be doing a lot.

Without looking at me she says " What happened at my party wasnt something I could just get over in a day Ashley. I had a lot of things to think about..." she looks up at me "and my conclusion in all this is: you all gave me reasons to dump Carmen, so I had to go back and do the pros and cons plus see her side of the argument. Sometimes I feel like Kyla wants Carmen gone more than she cares how it will affect me, you know? So I just had to shut everything out and let me work it out by myself."

"What did you work out?" I can tell she is having trouble wording things. Shes trying to make Carmen look like the victim, that's why she's all over the place.

"Well" she says, " I figured I should try to work with Carmen. See if we could fix this whole thing so the last 3 year wasn't a waste, you see cause this is what this whole thing is about, me and Carmen. Not anyone else. Not you, or Madison or Kyla, no one." she takes a breath, " I also figured that even though it doesnt seem like it, I had only know you for less than a week. I shouldn't give in to whatever this was," she says while waving a hand in between us,"and I sure as hell wasn't going to let you make me question my judgement. You had no right!" she says in a raised voice.

Shes mad.

I don't know if she is mad because she doesn't trust what I said, or that I pointed it out after a day and she couldn't figure it out after three years. I let her yell, it's probably helping her out a lot. Letting her let her anger out on me means she won't do it to Carmen, where she could get hurt. After she is done she looks defeated and gets up "Look Ashley, I'm a big girl and I can work this out myself. I appreciate that you care, but it's my decision." she says and walks away in the direction of the ferris wheel.

Madison and Kyla run up to me with questioning looks.

I shake my head."I barely got to talk. She told me she needs to figure it out on her own" I say," She really doesn't want Carmen to be who we say she is."

Kyla sighs and sits down next to me, "she is so stubborn" she says or more like grunts as she puts her head in her hands.

I smile and put my hand on her back " I've notice." I say " I also think we should wait awhile till shes not so defensive. we should actually give her time to work this out. Spencer seems like a capable girl and sooner or later she'll come to the same conclusion that we did."

they both agree cause there is nothing really else we can do, this whole "running into" them thing just never works out.

we get up and leave, saying we will talk in the morning.

We all just really need to go rest, and try not to think about Spencer.

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