Author's Notes: So, since our internet is not available and I can't even research, I decided to write another chapter. I got tired of playing DOTA so here is chapter 7.

Disclaimer: I do not own SON. *sigh*

~Ashley's POV~

I went to the kitchen again and beer seems more appealing to me now. I grabbed three bottles of beer and headed to the rooms. To be honest, it takes a dozen bottles of beer for me to get drunk but I don't want to be selfish, so three will have to do. I saw Kyla sitting on one of the couch in the study room so I decided to join her.

"Yo! Where is your extra appendage?" I ask Kyla sitting at the couch adjacent to her then downing half of my first beer.

"Extra appendage?" She asked me as if I was crazy.

"Aiden."

"Oh… he's just getting drinks. And you're the one to talk. Where is your extra appendage?"

"I don't have an extra appendage."

"Spencer."

"She is not my extra appendage."

"Whatever, you two are always together, well, except now. So, where is she?"

"She's with Carmen at the beach."

"Who's at the beach?" Aiden, out of nowhere, suddenly appeared with two sodas and one huge plate of French fries.

"French fries!" I immediately took the plate off his hand and started eating. I absolutely love french fries! Nothing scream juck food more than french fries! There are lots of ways to cook french fries but I really liked the baked ones. These french fries that Aiden brought, however, are just cooked in oil and served with salt or something that makes it salty because the white grains are bigger than that of salt. It's a bit more salty for other people but this is just the way I like it.

"I brought that for Kyla."

I looked at him with puppy dog eyes then I turned to Kyla using the same eyes.

After 8 seconds. "You can have it." Both Aiden and Kyla said at the same time.

I smiled at them and continued devouring the fries and drinking my beer. After I finished eating half of the fries and drinking one beer, I started to feel giddy – first sign of getting drunk. I ignored it because I know that I can handle my drink well and I only had one beer. One beer! No one can be drunk after just one beer! No one! That's just crazy!

"So Ashley, what's with the need for comfort food?" What is Aiden talking about?

"What are you talking about Aiden?" I asked Aiden, feeling a bit irritated.

"Well, you're inhaling the fries like there's no tomorrow and your gulping down the beer in the same matter. So, put two and two together and I got four!"

"Wow! I'm amaze that you actually know the answer to that." I told Aiden with a teasing smile. "Why? Do I have to be in some funk to eat french fries?" I said going back to defending my eating habits before drinking down my second beer.

"By the way you're eating it, then yes!"

"I'm fine." I said, half heartedly, while eating more fries and drinking half of my second beer. The truth is, I know Aiden is right about fries being my comfort food. I just feel really down when I wasn't the one who gave Spencer the soda. With everything that happened today I actually forgot that I was here to set them up.

"No, you're not fine. What's up, Ash?" Kyla asked me, sitting at the arm of the chair I'm sitting on and rubbing my back.

"I just feel sad, I guess." I said after jugging down my second beer and eating three fourths of the fries. "You see, Spencer has the hots for Carmen and she asked me to help her get Carmen. That's what I'm doing right now - I'm helping. But then everytime I see them together, I feel like shit." When did my tongue get so loose? Am I drunk already after just two beers? "But Spencer needs help so I obliged and you know I will do everything for my girl." My girl? Where did that come from? I hope they did not catch that. "You see here is what happened…" So I told them everything that happened at school and at Spencer's house and at the beach today complete with hand gestures and exaggerated expressions. They just sat there and listened to whatever I was saying. Meanwhile, I was multi tasking – I was eating the rest of the fries and downing my third beer. By the end of my monologue I know I was drunk.

"…that is why I am here drinking beer and eating french fries and talking to you two." I finishes sulking in a sulking manner.

"Why did you agree to that when you know that it will hurt you?" Kyla asked me.

"Because she is whipped to Spencer." Aiden replied for me. Fuck you Aiden! I am not whipped!

"I am not whipped! You are whipped!" Yeah, when I'm drunk I get defensive.

"I am kinda whipped." Aiden admitted, making gooey with Kyla. Uhg, I feel like vomiting and its not because of the beer.

"Please, spare me the mushy shit. I think I'm gonna be sick."

"You're just jealous that you don't have someone you can be all mushy with." Kyla said, while crawling on Aiden's lap.

"No! I'm a bad-ass! I don't need sappy stuff in my life. All I need is"

"Spencer." Aiden told me, a knowing smile on his face.

Suddenly, the opening of my empty bottle of beer looks really interesting. "… Its just… I have never seen her be all over another girl before." I told them, misery lacing my voice. "She had flings before but none of them made her sad to a point of brooding or giddy with excitement or…" I sighed and continued, "None of them made her really really happy. More than happy when…" I can't finish that sentence.

"when she's with you?" Kyla finished for me.

"Yeah." I said meeting Kyla's eyes.

"Do you love her Ashley?" I was about to go all defensive again and say 'of course I love her, she's my friend' but the look Kyla and Aiden is giving me is so sincere that I know that the least I can do is tell them the truth.

"Yes." I suddenly feel tears running down my eyes. I know that this is embarrassing beyond belief especially after declaring awhile ago that I am bad-ass but somehow the tears keep falling and I can't stop it – I don't want to stop it. Aiden and Kyla are immediately on my sides; Kyla embracing me in a sideways hug while Aiden rubbing my back. This is only the second time that I cried ever since I became a teenager – the first time was when my father died.

I'm crying because I'm sad that Spencer is finding happiness somewhere else. I'm crying because I'm happy that I finally understand what I have been feeling. And I'm crying because I'm in love with my best friend.

Happiness and Sadness all laced to being in love.

Some drama huh?