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Spencer POV

Things between me and Ashley have been great. It's been two weeks since she became my girlfriend, two amazing weeks. We've been spending a lot of time at her house. Her mom is really nice always making us snacks and asking if we got everything we need. It's nice to have some place to go and have people care about how your day went. Her dad is a lawyer so his always at his firm, its late when he get home so I haven't met him yet. She still hasn't said a word to me, and it's still all I can think about. Like how her voice sound and why she refuses to speak. Everything I have learned about her has been through her mom. Like her favorite candy is air heads and her favorite flower are lilies, and she was a cheer leader back in Detroit before they moved, and many more little facts about my silent girlfriend. Now I'm just waiting for her to tell me the big facts or anything at all.

Right now we're in her bedroom. I'm walking around her room looking at the pictures while she's lying on her bed watching me. I just picked up a picture off her desk. She's in the picture with five other people. Three boys and two girls, one of the girls have her hands wrapped around Ashley's waist and their staring in each other eyes.

"Nice picture. Are they your old friend's?" I ask as make my way over to lay on the bed with her. When we're both laying facing each other she smiles and nods her head at me while taking the picture out of my hands. I point at the picture of the girl she staring at in the picture before asking, "Was that your girlfriend?" She looks at me for a minute before nodding her head yes. I had told her about my ex's and I had asked her if she had any, so the question wasn't out of nowhere. I mean, I told you what they looked like in the picture. There is no way they were not together.

I was about to ask her more about the people in the picture when her mom knocked on the door, than popped her head in.

"Sorry girls but Spencer, Glen came over and said your Grandma wants you to come home." I look from Ashley to her mom.

"Thanks Mrs. Davies. I'll be heading out in a minute." She just says okay see you later sweetie before she shuts that door leaving me alone with Ashley again. I look at Ashley and give her a kiss on the forehead before getting up to put on my shoes. After I was already to go, I walked over to the bed room door, Ashley followed. I leaned in and gave her a quick kiss.

"I'll see you tonight." Was all I said before leaving to see what my Grandma wanted, me and Ashley would see each other later on it is only four in the afternoon.

Ashley's POV

Spencer and I have been hugged up on the back porch for an hour now. No, we are not afraid of my brother or my mom seeing us, they're both gone. My family doesn't know I'm gay and Spencer knows that. She figured out they didn't know when my mom started telling her about my life in Detroit and boys that I use to talk to. I never went with any of them but I brought them home every now and then so my parents wouldn't ask any questions. Anyways Spencer told me she understands and will not out me till I'm ready. So when my family is around we're just best friends.

"I would love to hear your voice." She says break me out of my thoughts. She's been saying things like this a lot lately. And I can't blame her, I would want to know what my girlfriends voice sound like too.

I want to talk to her and tell her my deepest secrets, but for some reason I can't. I hope my silence doesn't run her off. I think I'm falling for this girl, and I don't want to lose her.

I pull away from her so were sitting next to each other with our feet hanging off the porch. I look over at her and smile while giving her a kiss on the cheek so she knows I'm not mad or anything. That's how we communicate, through my body language.

"I like you Ashley, and I'm not going to stop even if you never say a word to me." She says looking me in the eyes. I feel like I'm about to cry. She gives me a peck on the lip before continuing, "I want you to know, that I'm going to be here when you're ready to tell me what's keeping you from speaking or just anything at all."

I no longer feel like I'm about to cry. I am crying, and Spencer's here to hold me.