"Favorite animal?" Ashley asked still lying on the sand, Spencer on top of her, the teen's head on her chest listening to the steady beat of her heart while Ashley combed her fingers thru blonde hair.

The two girls just laid there in silence for hours, it was barely ten o' clock when Ashley asked the question, a way to find out more about the girl in her arms after three years of no communication, "Panda bear….you?"

"I don't know, eagle." Spencer lifted her head off Ashley's chest cocking an eye brow, "What I like eagles…"

"Why?"

"Why do you like panda bears?"

Spencer shrugged her shoulders, "There cute and quiet and vegetarians…"

"No…Spence don't tell me you've turn into a leaf eater…no more Stomach Ache Fridays?" Ashley pouted.

"I'm not a vegetarian I just like that they don't eat other creatures and you remember Stomach Ache Fridays?"

"How can I not, do you know how many times I thought I was going to die after one of those days…"

"I loved those, my dad would order several pizzas or burgers and fries and we had to eat until we exploded…dad always won."

"No kidding I swear he had the stomach of a cow, never ending…" Ashley felt Spencer's chest rise and fall back on to her as the girl giggled.

"Favorite color?" Spencer asked after calming down. Ashley didn't exactly like that the girl changed the subject but whatever…

"You know,"

"I do?"

"Spence it hasn't changed since I was four," Ashley insisted.

"Blue," Ashley shook her head no, "No…but than what is it?" Spencer asked feeling like she must not have known the girl so good if she messed up her favorite color.

"Spencer blue,"

"Huh?"

Ashley laughed, "Spencer blue is my fav…you know why?" the brunette reached forward wiping hair out of the blonde's eyes.

"No…"

"Because it's not just one shade,"

"There's more than one?" Spencer didn't understand where Ashley was going with this but the girl always made her life interesting so why would this be any different.

"Yep….I love the color of your eyes when you cry," she traced the dry path of the tears Spencer cried earlier.

"You like it when I cry?" Spencer asked some what appalled.

Ashley placed her finger on the girl's mouth, "Let me finish…I love how they turn gray, like clouds rolled in and lent you their rain for your tears."

"Awww, still didn't grow out of the romantic sap stage I see,"

"Hey!" Ashley yelped wrapping her arms around Spencer's waist while flipping them over so she hovered over the younger girl, "you love it!" she winked. Spencer squirmed underneath and Ashley could tell she didn't like the situation she was in, "I love…" Ashley began in a whisper causing Spencer to stop moving around and glare up curiously, "the color of your eyes when you're mad, turning dark as midnight or brightening into a sky blue when you're happy and smiling, but do you know the best one?"

Spencer shook her head feeling the sand behind her head, her eyes darted to Ashley's lips and she subconsciously licked hers before staring back up to the older girl, "No…"

A small smile tugged at Ashley's lips, the brunette leaned forward letting her hair tumble around Spencer draping her in a waterfall of auburn waves, her lips brushing against Spencer's, "the way your eyes burn indigo when your all hot and bothered like now…"

It was slow but finally after three years it happened again, their lips collided in an intense lock of pent up passion and longing. Tongues darted out running along teeth and flesh of lips, fighting for dominance that Spencer gave up happily. The blonde's hands ran up and down Ashley's back over the shirt causing the fabric to rub her into a frenzy, she needed to be closer to feel Spencer wiggling under her, skin to skin contact, to be inside her.

Ashley's hand snaked its way between their bodies running up Spencer's thigh and into her skirt, "Ash!" Spencer broke the kiss and pushed the girl above her away.

"Spence I'm sorry," Ashley jumped off the girl, she didn't want to push but all coherent thought leaves around the blonde.

Spencer fidgeted trying to get her breathing under control, "No…don't be sorry, I….not ready for that."

"I know sweetie and I didn't mean to push,"

"You didn't, push…I just," Spencer fumbled with her words, hand running thru her hand and over her face, moving back and forth in a confusion, "new to all this…"

"Your still a…" Ashley raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah," Spencer said shyly, "I' am…"

Now Ashley felt guilty, she didn't quite know why though. Three years they were apart and Spencer was still a virgin and Ashley not even close, she'd done it a thousand times, different ways, styles, fetishes, she was a sex goddess she knew it and most people around her knew it but not Spencer, the innocent girl she caught falling off a slid so many years ago, her first crush, first love, first kiss (awkward kiss but still).

"Wow so you haven't….that is um…why?" Ashley sat in the sand in shock, letting her toes stink in and out of the cool sand trying to find a way to tell Spencer about her past, one she no longer felt pride of but disgusted, in a way she felt like she had cheated on her best friend, on her girlfriend and now her stomach burned in acid.

"Living here isn't one of the best places to hook up, especially if ever one hates you," she tried to laugh it off but Ashley saw thru it, "Besides what girl in her right mind would want me?"

"Me…" it was barely audible but the fact that she had said it while staring directly into Spencer's eyes which she saw flash sky blue made it clear to Spencer.

"I said right mind Ash,"

"Than I guess I'm glad to be crazy if it means I get to be with you," she leaned over and pecked Spencer on the lips, "Be my girlfriend again?" she asked pulling away and staring at the girl. Her eyes fogged over into a blue Ashley forgot to say, icy blue, this is when Spencer was afraid or shocked; "I mean only if you want to?"

"I…me, you want me?"

Ashley now knew what she was shocked about, "Yes babe I want you."

"But…" Spencer leaned forward, "Are you still a?"

To lie or not to lie, she really didn't want to start of their relationship by lying to the girl, "Let's just say I owe you ten bucks…" she tried to laugh it off.

"I knew it," Spencer clapped.

"You're not mad?"

"Ash no, we weren't together, besides I made that bet with you, I knew no one as hot and charming as you wouldn't have popped the cherry before marriage."

"Cute Spence, real cute but back to my question…" the confusion returned, "Look we can do it right this time…every one here knows your gay, I know it, you know it. We won't have to hide like last time and we're older so I can take you on dates."

"Real ones?"

"Yeah,"

"Better than the plado picnic incident?" Spencer asked with a smile remembering when Ashley was nine and she just turned eight, the brunette created a picnic of food created from plado but the eight year old didn't know that and before Ash could tell her she scarf down three of the plado cookies. That night was spent in the hospital with Spencer throwing up, but Ash stayed the whole time, playing cards and making her laugh.

"Way better," Ashley smiled the way Spence loved with the crinkle in her nose, "So what do you say?"

"I would love to," Spencer leaped forward crashing their lips together again and again.

"Well girlfriend what do you want to do now?" she asked running her hands up and down Spencer's arms.

"As much as I would love to stay here all day in your arms, I'm hungry and we've missed almost a full days worth of class..."

Ashley pouted as Spencer pulled her up but didn't protest as they made their way back to the school, making sure to lock their paradise up before heading to the cafeteria.

TBC.