A/N: Wow, just wow, your guys comments for this last chapter has been extremely uplifting to say the least. I'm so happy that you all enjoy reading this, and that these girls and their shenanigans are entertaining for you. It's so fun to write this and to receive your feedback, good and bad, though I've had mostly good so far so thank you! I hope you like this one. I could've made into one chapter with yesterday's but I was too tired lol Don't hate me though, I apologize now. Anyway this FOF is a mix of chapters 5 and 6. Thank all so much for reading and reviewing, please don't stop its so much fun to read your responses you guys are all amazing! Enjoy the chapter!

sparkels04: Well thank you I appreciate the extra points! Yeah it was fun to add that part, Edgar Allen Poe was a character and I enjoyed linking the that with Spencer's love of reading so I'm glad you enjoyed it.

BeautyLikeFrozenCathedrals21 : lol you think she's mysterious? Huh I guess I made that impression without realizing it. Glad you like it thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the next chapter.

MackMoney: i've been meaning to tell you I love your username, it gives me a nice chuckle every time i read it. Yes love is wafting in their midst. Progress the kiss shall come in due time and look at that today is now tomorrow so enjoy the update and thanks for the review.

Brucas4ever:TBH its so hard to update everyday lol only cause I try to make the chapters super long since the story won't be that long but i really enjoy writing it so it evens itself out. You take the time to read my fic the least i can do is put it out often enough for you to actually read it lol. They are adorable, I love sweet Spashley moments. i wish they had more in the show. Glad you like it thank you for the review and enjoy the next chapter.

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Guest: Well look at that you chimed in right as I was posting so I caught you to do a FOF. So here's another one so you still have a new one to read. i cracked up when you said they remind you of six year olds that's a new way of looking at it I appreciated the different perspective. Thanks for the review and hope you like the next chapter.


Chapter 7: North Carolina Pt 2

"Spence let's pull into the next rest stop and take a break you've been driving three hours, we're surrounded by trees and the closest hotel is forty miles behind us. I know you want barbecue but it'll be there tomorrow."

Spencer's mouth opens wide as she releases a big yawn. Her eyes tear up a little as she heavily sighs.

"I'm trying to get as close to the Smoky Mountains as possible it's in southwest corner of this place."

Ashley turns in her seat and reaches her hand over and places it on Spencer's headrest. She smoothly buries her hand in Spencer's blonde hair and scratches gently. Spencer pushes her head back as she urges Ashley to continue.

Neither of them understood why things felt so comfortable but they weren't going to argue. Hand holding is great but Ashley wants more quickly. Spencer isn't hesitating on her advances either. Can being stuck in a car with one person really do this? Cause an attraction that blossom so quickly. Too quick for either girl to even catch up, they just have to relent and let things flow naturally. Their feelings moving faster than their thoughts, and they are not even trying to develop some sort of explanation. It feels good, it feels right, it feels real and that's all Ashley cares about.

Spencer licks her lips as she concentrates on pacing her heart. Ashley's head massage isn't helping matters. Things worsen as images flash in Spencer's mind, Ashley's fingers grip onto blonde hair tighter, her soft lips kissing Spencer's neck feverishly. Spencer gulps at the thought she imagines Ashley's teeth nipping at her neck and she moans quietly.

"Feel good?" Ashley asks and Spencer remembers where she is.

"So good." She says softly. Ashley just nods and continues to gently massage Spencer's scalp as she drives.

"Look there's a rest area in five miles. Please stop I'm worried about you." Ashley breaks out a soft pout and Spencer makes a tsk noise in protest.

"That's not fair!"

Ashley sticks her bottom lip out a little further and the blonde gives up on a fight she knew she would have lost before the brunette's added attempt.

"You can't resist the pout Spencer. It's impossible."

"It's not as good as mine." She argues playfully and Ashley grunts in agreement.

Spencer pulls off towards the exit of the rest area. The long winding road to a parking lot with an information center, restroom and vending machines, which were only accessible through credit/debit card, becomes the girls resting ground for the next several hours.

Spencer turns off the car and sits back. She traps Ashley's hand between her head and the seat and the brunette giggles.

"Am I not allowed to have my hand back?"

"No I like it. It's very handy. Ha! Get it." Spencer cracks up as she lifts her head allowing Ashley to retrieve her hand.

Ashley snorts at the bad pun and pushes her seat farther back. The panoramic moon roof gives her a sight that she would not be able to see in New York. The tips of the trees meet with the stars in the sky and she sighs at the view. It is really a sight to see. This trip is turning out to be so much more than she could have ever imagined. A lot of that involves the blonde who starts to push her seat back and matches the same level as the brunette.

Ashley smiles softly at the girl. The stars were almost as beautiful as she is. The moonlight paints her face and the fluorescent light from the lamppost several feet away from the car gives her a better chance to enjoy the view in front of her.

Ashley turns on to her side and props her up with her shoulder. She reaches her hand towards Spencer's face and brushes a few strands of unruly blonde hair. Ashley felt Spencer's cheek warm to the touch. She is blushing and Ashley found it adorable.

"We're crazy aren't we?" Ashley asks with a small laugh. Her hand cups Spencer's face and she grazes the soft cheek gently.

"Why?" Spencer croaks out, her voice betraying her as she loses it at the feel of Ashley's hands on her again.

Ashley shrugs one shoulder. "Last week we were at each other's throats."

"That was last week." Spencer comments as she pushes her cheek further into the brunette's palm. "And it was more me than you, so." Spencer leaves the sentence to hang in the air.

"When you add onto the reason you gave me before I'm sure I'll understand." Ashley asks removes her hand and begins to lightly drag her fingers over Spencer's face, drawing imaginary lines. Across her forehead, down the bridge of her nose, over her cheeks, then she drags her thumb over Spencer's lips.

The blonde's breath gets caught in her throat as she closes her eyes at the sensation of the back of Ashley's fingers brushing softly against her lips. Her mind urges her lips to push up in order to lightly kiss the root of the tingles that were racing through Spencer's body but they were too late respond. Ashley pulls her hand away and reaches to hold the blonde's hand.

Ashley giggles at the pout she receives from her companion. "You're right your pout is better than mine."

"I told you." They lay silently in the leather seats and Spencer is the first to break the silence. "I don't think we're crazy." She finally answers.

She sees Ashley smile and mirrors the same reaction. "I don't either. I just wish it didn't seem crazy."

"So what if it seems crazy. Crazier things have happened."

"I guess I'm surprised by our vast closeness. I never felt like this so quickly."

"How do feel?" Spencer asks highly intrigued. She turns on her side and props her head in her hand. Her elbow keeps her high enough to hold Ashley's gaze with her own eyes. She knows how she feels, she felt it for four years but even she has to admit that during the past week emotions have skyrocketed.

"I'll share if you do?"

"I'm all about give and take." Spencer reassures her crush and watches as she reaches towards the touch screen menu in the dash and shuffles through the music in search for a song. Once she's found it she looks back at the blonde.

"I'm not really good with words so do you mind if we try something?" Spencer just nods her approval and Ashley presses play. A piano scale fills the car as the music begins to play and Ashley leans back in her seat gripping Spencer's hand gently.

"Now we've been talking for a while, and you got me tryna figure out, oh I don't know what to say to you but you got me feeling some kind of way for you. And all I know is when we're together no one can make me feel the way you baby I wish each moment could last forever it's hard to explain the way I feel for you I just can't find the words."

Spencer smiles as the music plays through the car. She listens as the singer describes the way she feels about the person she has feelings for. Tripping over her words and fighting a feeling that seems inevitable, the chemistry that's undeniable between two people. She looks over at Ashley and watches the brunette keeps her eyes closed, her head sways to the beat of the song and lips moves as she silently sings the words along with artist.

Spencer is mesmerized as she watches Ashley allow the music overtake her. Spencer feels the girl grip her hand as if she were signaling certain parts of the song were important. Ashley gets more into the song and starts to sway her shoulders. She finally opens her eyes and looks at Spencer as she continues to sway to the music. She sings a set of lyrics as she keeps her eyes locked with Spencer's blue ones.

"It's so hard to fight it can't help but feeling this way."

Spencer's heart tightens as she fights the urge to kiss Ashley. She watches as Ashley slows down along with music. The smile that's plastered onto Spencer's face reassures the brunette that it did what she meant for it to do.

She can't explain why, or how she feels the way she does and music is her greatest outlet. Is this the best kinds of feelings? The ones that you don't see coming, the unexplainable ones, the extraordinary ones. There hasn't been one thing ordinary about their relationship since they drove away from the Carlin residence and for that Ashley is grateful. She's had enough ordinary, and Spencer is everything but.

"Your turn." Ashley whispers softly.

"You want me to follow that?! I can't sing!"

Ashley laughs heartily and readjusts herself in her chair trying to get more comfortable.

"You don't have to. I couldn't help it music does that to me. Well now you and music." Ashley quickly corrects.

"Ashley…" Spencer whispers softly, the confession surprising her, causing her heart to swell.

"Spencer I can't help it." She looks into blue eyes. "I don't want to rush anything or label anything I just want you to know how I feel. I want it to lead us wherever it may."

Spencer sits up and turns sideways in her seat. She crosses her legs, one knee resting higher than the other due to the incline of the chair.

"You're so honest." Spencer pulls her hand away from Ashley's and buries them both in her lap. She looks down into her lap.

"Trust me it's new for me. I just would rather you know how I feel than not. Especially since you make me feel good."

Ashley adds a laugh at the end of her statement hoping it would evoke a positive response from the girl.

"What if you don't have the song I'm thinking of?"

"Impossible, I've got every artist imaginable. Check it out." Ashley nods her head in the direction of the menu and she closes her eyes as she waits for Spencer's song choice. Her mouth shoots into a smile as she already recognizes the song.

"I'm in trouble. I'm addict. I'm addicted to this girl. She's got my heart tied in a knot and my stomach whirl. But even worse I can't stop calling her she's all I want and more. I mean damn, what's not to adore."

The beat comes in with the ukulele. Spencer smiles shyly as Ashley nods her head in rhythm song. Ashley sits up and searches for another song.

"One more." She tells the blonde once the song is over.

She quickly finds the song and lies back down in the chair. She positions herself on her side and asks Spencer to join her. The blonde obeys silently and her heart races as she hears the guitar start a song that she knows very well. As if metal to a magnet Spencer and Ashley's hands meet in the middle and link together again. Their eyes never leave each other as the song plays.

"With every appearance by you blinding my eyes I can hardly remember the last time I felt like I do you're an angel disguised. And you're lying real still but your heartbeat is fast just like mine. And the movie's long over that's three that have passed one mores fine. Will you stay awake for me, I don't wanna miss anything."

Ashley releases Spencer's hand and cups her cheek again. Spencer brings her hand up and wraps her hand over Ashley's moving her face slightly. She places two soft kisses in Ashley's palm. The brunette's heart races, she fights the temptation to lean over and kiss the blonde. It's too soon and she'll be damned if their first kiss is inside a car. Spencer is special. She makes Ashley feel special and everything that will happen between them from here on out will be special.

She brushes her fingers over Spencer's lips again, and smiles as watches blue eyes close.

"The song says you're supposed to stay awake." They both laugh and the blonde lightly pushes Ashley.

"It's your fault."

Ashley shrugs and turns of the display once the song is over. She looks at Spencer and releases a content sigh.

"I like you Spencer and it's crazy how quickly my feelings are moving but I'm tired of trying to fit myself in a box. So I'm just going to let them go. I hope that's ok with you."

Spencer bites her lip nervously and finds courage in Ashley's eyes. "I've had a crush on you since freshman year, and I'm so used to keeping my feelings for you a secret. Our time together has been so overwhelming in so many ways. I didn't think I'd make it through this trip but now I don't want to go through it without you."

"You had a crush on me?" Ashley stares at the blonde confused. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"I did." Spencer's expression is just as confused as the brunette's.

"I think I'd remember you telling me you had feelings for me Spencer."

Spencer looks away from Ashley as she contemplates. How could Ashley not know? The whole school knew. Madison made sure of that.

"Spencer?"

Spencer looks up at Ashley and sighs. "Sorry. I must've made a mistake." She gently shakes her head ridding the bad memory away.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

Ashley captures the inside of her cheek between her teeth as she reads the blonde. "Well I don't believe you."

Spencer smiles and lifts her shoulders adding a pout for good measure. Ashley groans and points an accusatory finger.

"You can't just throw pouts around whenever you want your way."

"Cause you'd break every time?" She asks knowingly.

"Exactly." She agrees and huffs. Spencer laughs at Ashley and they both lie quietly, facing the starlight sky. The car that was once filled with confessing lyrics now only holds the sounds of their shallow even breaths as they both easily fall asleep.

Ashley groans as she leans backwards cracking her back it had been a long day. The drive earlier that morning had been silent. Ashley decided to switch places with the blonde but had to force her to sleep some more. It is hard being the passenger but it's even harder to drive. The made it to the Great Smokey Mountains and spent the day there going on the guided tour. The last thing Ashley wanted was to get lost in the woods.

With Spencer being asleep on the drive to the national park and the lack of an opportunity to have a deep conversation with Ranger Roy telling of the mountains history it left last night's matter unresolved. They haven't gotten a chance to continue with their conversation and Ashley couldn't get it out of her head. Spencer liked her since freshman year. Why would she think that she told Ashley? Ashley would have remembered that, and it would have made her remember Spencer. If she remembered Spencer then the blonde wouldn't be this perfect stranger that Ashley is quickly growing fond of.

"This whole state smells like barbecue I love it!" Spencer says as they walk to a highly recommended barbecue restaurant that resides within walking distance of their hotel. Ashley just groans in agreement her thoughts still on the fact that Spencer has had feelings for her for the past four years.

"Hey what's the matter?" Spencer asks as she gently grabs Ashley's hand to stop her from walking farther.

Ashley forces a smile then shakes her head. "Nothing I'm fine." Spencer could tell that she is far from it.

"No you're not. Come on Ash tell me."

"There's nothing to say. I'm fine." Ashley is closing up, too frustrated with the situation at hand. Questions were reeling through her mind. If Spencer liked her for four years is whatever she is feeling for Spencer even real? Is it the nostalgia of being with someone from home while on the road? What if she doesn't live up to Spencer's expectations? Suddenly it hits her. What were Spencer's expectations? Ashley tried leaving this behind and it followed her all the way to the freaking south. She doesn't even know her own expectations of herself and she's starting to think what other people expected of her. What Spencer expects of her.

Does Spencer have any expectations at all? All the questions in Ashley's head were self doubting and it is starting to freak her out. She thought she was becoming someone new? She thought this wouldn't be an issue but Spencer's four year secret starts to make Ashley nervous. She sensibly argues with herself that the two have no relation but Ashley is already in flight mode.

"What happened to being honest?" Spencer asks quietly. Ashley laughs sardonically.

"That's rich coming from you."

It is as if she became a whole other person because she didn't want to do that. She didn't want to say that, she wants to say all those things the lyrics were telling Spencer last night. She wants to go back to how things were last night but all she is a big pile of confusion, and questions. Obviously the remedy is to talk to Spencer but Ashley already established that words weren't her strong suit.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You're just good at keeping secrets so I don't know how you're talking to me about honesty."

Ashley can't believe the words that are coming out of her mouth. She doesn't know where they are coming from and she knows she doesn't mean it. So why the hell can't she stop? Her heart breaks as Spencer nods and walks away mumbling that she was no longer hungry.

Ashley wants to shout for Spencer to come back, she wants to shout that she's sorry that she didn't mean to make a complete one eighty. She's so used to doubting people around her it scares her to find one she doesn't have to. Spencer was honest and that's what she was looking for. A real honest person, so why is it that when she hears of real honest feelings, she pushes them away?


Idk about you guys but for some odd reason this felt really short to me. Do you agree? lol So you tell me what you think. Thanks again for reading! Have a good one.