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Chapter 4 – Looks Bad

Ashley's POV

"How is she doing so far?" I asked Nate, the co-producer as I entered the studio and noticed Casey was already in the booth singing.

"Good." Nate simply said, pulling his headphones down off his ears, and spinning around to face me. "She actually hit that one note she's been struggling with."

Ha! My technique worked. Take that bitch ass blonde.

"Great... maybe now she'll stop complaining so much and won't be a such a pain the ass." I replied, getting a 'yeah right' look from Nate and I shrugged back as Casey continued to sing in the booth.

Standing by or waiting at your back door
All this time how could you not know that
You belong with me
You belong with me

Have you ever thought just maybe
You belong with me
You belong with me

"Okay, probably not, but at least she hit the note..." I tried looking on the upside as Nate laughed at me. Casey emerged from the booth as she finished up the song and frowned as soon as she saw me.

"Well done, Casey. I see you've finally got past that one spot." I congratulated her as entered the studio.

She glances at me for a second with a disgusted look before rolling her eyes. "Don't think you're little thing a few days ago had anything to do with it..."

"The point is you hit the note, and the song sounds great. So we can move onto the next single." I replied, ignoring to throw a comeback at her comment.

"Whatever..." She hissed at me, waving me off with her hand as she made her way over to the other side and sat beside Nate. "Play it back for me Nate, I want to check if it's goodbefore we move on."

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Alexis' POV

"Listen Lexi, I really am sorry for losing contact after high school. We didn't really talk about where we left things before graduating and I guess I just assumed." Cameron apologized as he moved to my couch to sit down. I had taken the seat across from him, being on the same piece of furniture would just be too much temptation.

I had called Cameron the night after going to the basketball game with Spencer and asked him to come over so we could talk about our whole situation with Jordan, hoping that it would clear some things up for me in the process. Plus, we had to find the best way to tell Jordan about us and our history that wouldn't come out in a way that would make things awkward between the three of us.

"It wasn't like I couldn't have picked up the phone either. I guess we were both just too busy, you with basketball and me with my music."

"Still I'm sorry. You mean--meant too much to me to just lose contact like that..." He stuttered, as he fidgeted with his hands and faltered his eye contact with mine.

Oh boy... yeah, this isn't going to be awkward at all.

I stared at him, opening my mouth a few times, just to have it close again as I didn't really know what to say after that. It wasn't until he glanced back up at me that I looked away out of embarrassment.

He chuckled at my reaction while he shook his head. "So you and Hayes huh, how'd that exactly happen?"

"We don't have to talk about that if you don't want to..." I said, hoping that he would agree as I secretly didn't want to. "I mean... it would be kind of awkward with our... uh... history."

"It's fine Lexi, we're not in high school anymore. I'm hoping we can be civil about these kinds of things, and plus... I like the guy, he's like my best friend on the team."

Which makes this SO much better...

"We haven't been dating for that long, only a couple of months, almost five actually." I replied with some hesitation, not being able to look Cameron in the eyes. "But you're right, he's a great guy and I really like him."

"Well I'm glad." He said softly, trying his hardest to say it a tone that sound like he meant it.

"So what about you... no prospects?"

"Na, it's hard with basketball. You're traveling so much and everything. You're lucky you got Jordan before things start getting busy."

"Yeah, it'll be hard though when the team travels, who knows, maybe I'll come along for some of the games if I can get off work."

"I'm sure he'd like that Lexi." He smiled at me as he patted on thigh lightly. "And I would too. Have you told him about me yet?"

"What do you think...?" I asked rhetorically, shaking my head. "I kind of got blind sighted at the party, and I didn't want to tell him anything until I talked to you about it."

"It's funny, that whole time he was talking about his girlfriend, Aly, I never put it together that it could possibly be you..."

"Small world."

"Yeah, no kidding. I can't believe you moved down here with Ash and Spence. How are they by the way?"

"The same old Ashley and Spencer, still like an old married couple... that fuck a lot."

He laughed at me as he glanced around our place aimlessly. "And you agreed to live with Ash willingly?"

"There's a reason my bedroom is on the opposite side of the apartment." I chuckled myself, pointing behind me to my room. "Plus I lived with all throughout college, and we did room together in our last year of high school. I'm pretty sure I'm used to zoning the noises out."

"Should I be sitting on this couch?" He asked jokingly, standing up quite fast and pointing down at it as he looked at me with one raised eyebrow before sitting back down and laughing.

"Err... actually, probably not." I answered with a serious face with made his eyes pop open. "And not just because of Spence and Ashley."

"Dude!" He yelled, jumping up and standing. "You could of warned me I sat down on the 'sex couch'!"

"Where would the fun in that be?" I chuckled, leaning back on the chair as I stood there watching Cameron pat off his ass and everything that was touching the couch.

"Don't worry... there hasn't been any action on that couch for a few weeks or so, well actually, I can't speak for Spencer and Ashley so don't quote on me that..."

"Ugh!" He yelled louder, patting himself off faster now as I sat there enjoying this moment.

Cameron ran into the kitchen and came back quickly holding a towel, placing it carefully down on the couch and then sitting back down, on the towel. "There... much better."

"I'm glad to see you're still strange Cam..."

He dropped his face to the ground and started fiddling with his hands before raising his head and looking me slowly in the eyes. "Yeah so about us..."

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Spencer's POV

"Hey baby." I yelled, running to the black Porsche that had a certain brunette parked on its hood waiting for me. "Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's alright, I was just looking at the scenery."

"Anything interesting?" I asked as she jumped off the car and gave me a light kiss.

"Nothing nearly as interesting as your scenery." She husked, looking me up and down as she licked her lips slowly and gestured to me with her eyebrows.

"You are insatiable, you know that..." I shook my head as she smirked at me.

Ashley raised her one eyebrow as she crossed her arms in front of me and smirked back. "Are you complaining Ms. Carlin?"

"No, I'm just making a simple observation."

"Hm... well how about you're so unbelievably gorgeous..." She said, gripping my waist and pulling me closer to her, her legs on each side of me. "How's that for a simple observation."

"That would still probably lead back to you being insatiable." I laughed, nudging her slightly before bringing her into a hug and nuzzling my lips along her neck. "But I'm okay with that." I smiled and kissed her collarbone lightly.

"Good because I don't have to go back to the studio tonight." Ashley whispered in my ear, flicking her tongue at it and nibbling on my earlobe gently.

"We r-really... have to... stop doing... this here." I mumbled out, as Ashley had moved further down to my neck and had begun sucking on it persistently. I stretched my neck, giving her more access to it, as she continued sucking harder, nibbling occasionally. My hands were viciously all over her back, pulling her closer to me and trying to grip onto anything.

"I can't help it if you're so addicting." She purred, stroking my bottom lip with her fingers and lingering by my face so our lips were just grazing each others.

"We should go..." I muttered, pulling back gradually from the brunette and noticing that we had brought in a little bit of a crowd.

"Back to my place?" She jumped up and smiled at me, hopeful for my reaction. She waved at all the people staring and took a bow before taking my hand and opening the car door for me as I got in.

"You are unbelievable you know that..."

"Why thank you, you weren't too shabby last night either." She winked at me as she turned her car on and put it in drive.

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As we pulled into the driveway we noticed Jordan just getting out his car ahead of us.

"Hayes!" Ashley yelled, getting the boy's attention.

"Hey girls, glad you're here. I wanted to surprise Aly and it makes it easier to get into your place now that you're here."

"Surprise her? Surprise her with what?" I asked curiously as Ashley and I walked up the driveway closer to Jordan, hands intertwined.

"Well I'm not going to be here on Saturday for our five month anniversary so I thought I'd surprise her by doing it tonight." He replied in the cutest tone as he smiled like a dork at us. It's not like we could say anything, we were an even cheesier couple.

"Awe, that's so sweet Jordan." I commented, putting a small smile on my face as the blonde in front of me looked proud. "Why don't you do stuff like that for me?" I turned to Ashley and pouted, jokingly.

"Excuse me?" The brunette asked, offended, letting go of my hand.

"I'm just kidding babe." I grinned, taking her hand back and kissing it lightly. "I love all the stuff you do for me."

"You better." She winked at me, squeezing my hand tightly as we walked to the door.

"Hey Aly! We're home!" Ashley yelled, taking my hand and leading me towards her room as we saw Alexis and...

"Cameron?" Ashley screamed, as the tall blonde stood up from the couch as he heard her voice. "Oh my god! Cameron Walker is that you?"

"Hey Davies! Spencer... and... oh shit." Cameron greeted us and then saw Jordan trailing behind.

"Hayes? What the hell?" Jordan screamed, finally seeing him as he walked quickly past Ashley and I. "Aly, what is Cam doing here?" Jordan asked patiently pointing the other blonde who was standing along with Alexis.

Alexis walked towards him as he backed up and held his hands up. "Jordan, it's not what it looks like... Cam and I--"

"No Alexis, let me explain..." Cameron interrupted her as he stepped in front of the girl so he was standing between her and Jordan. "Listen Hayes, she's right, this isn't what it looks like. W-we sort of know each other."

"Know each other how?" Jordan's voice began getting angry as Ashley and I crept to the corner of the room, not wanting to be in the way.

"Do you think we should give them privacy?" I whispered to the brunette as she stood in front of me with her arms around both my sides, almost acting like she was protecting me.

"What? And miss this? Hell no." She whispered back, turning her head towards me and giving me an evil grin as I shook my head and rolled my eyes at the girl.

"All four of us..." Cameron explained, pointing around the room, "we kind of all went to high school together."

"Wait... so Alexis, MY Aly, is your Lexi from high school?"

Cameron bobbled his head around and scrunched his face together, grinding his teeth in the process. "Yeah..."

"And the reason you two didn't tell me... I don't know, when I introduced you to each other is because...?"

Cameron took a step closer to Jordan, as he could see him getting angrier. "We know this looks bad Hayes, but--"

"We wanted to talk about it first, which is what you walked in on..." Alexis calmly explained, "... nothing happened."

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A/N: So I know not a lot is happening with Spashley, but I wanted to establish their good relationship before getting into the drama.

Song is still "You Belong with Me" by Taylor Swift. It'll be the last time used, I swear.

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