Chapter 7

(Ashley's POV)

When I woke up this morning I walked through my room in a daze. I guess it still hasn't sunk in. I plan to call up Spencer and meet with her somewhere and discuss this whole baby business. After talking to her then I'll have to tell my family. God, I know that is going to suck. As soon as I tell them they'll probably go into question overload. Alright time to face the inevitable I guess. As soon as I step out of the protective sanctuary that is my room I am bombarded with the intense smell of coffee, freshly imported Brazilian coffee to be exact. That can only mean one thing Kyla's up. I slowly begin my descent towards the kitchen.

As if to know someone has entered the room she looks up.

"Good morning sis" she says cheerfully.

I mumble out a simple hey while my body seems to almost glide towards the coffee. As I pour out my coffee and take a couple of heavenly sips I finally address Kyla properly. "So do you have anything planned today?" I asked.

"Nope I am free as a bird. Why?"

"Oh no reason just a curious." I say

"What do you want? It better not me illegal either"

"First of all what makes you think I want something? Second of all when have I ever introduced you to illegal activity" I say slightly peeved.

"Well for one you can never just be curious there is always something behind your questions." She says matter of fact.

Then continues on to say "I also see you seem to have forgotten the 04' Halloween debacle, you know the one where you just had to get that school girl costume but the all the store's we visited were sold out. Except for one that was holding their last costume for a customer who couldn't come to pick it up just yet. Then you being you came up with a plan."

"It was a decent plan." I say in my defense.

"Really it was." She says feigning surprise. "What part of it was decent? The part where we openly flirted with the guy behind the counter. Or was it when I was leaning over the counter with his tongue down my throat. Oh no no no it was when the guys parents who owned the store called up the cops pressing charges against me. What were those charges again Ash?"

"Sexual harassment against a minor" I mumble.

"Yeah that's what it was. Oh remind me again how old was the boy?"

"Thirteen, but he looked a whole lot older Kyla and you know it." I say coming to my own defense.

"It doesn't matter. What's done is done. I'm just glad the kid said that he initiated the kiss and wouldn't let me go."

"So back to the discussion at hand what do you want?" Kyla says with a bit of an attitude

"Look I don't want much just for you to come with me to meet someone." I say being vague.

"Yeah I'll go with you. What time are you leaving?" She asks.

"Uh I don't know yet, just let me call them up." I say. She simply nods in acknowledgement. "Call me when your ready." She says walking up the stairs towards her room. I assume she's heading up there to take a shower and get dressed.

As I begin to dial in Spencer's number my hand begins to twitch a bit from the anticipation of hearing her voice.

"Hello" she answers. For a few seconds I'm stuck clueless. "Hello" she repeats.

"Uh hey Spence...r." I say a bit unsure if she would be okay with the presence of a nickname. "I was calling to see if we could get together today and talk about, everything that's happened."

"Yeah, I'd love to. Do you want to meet somewhere?" she asks.

"If it's okay with you I was wondering if I could pick you up. Then maybe we could head over to the local pizza shop." I say nervously

"Yeah that's fine. Just call me when you outside."

"Alright see you soon." I say with a huge grin on my face.

"See you soon Ashley." She responds.

As soon as I hear the dial tone I rush upstairs to get ready. While getting ready I try and come up with a decent apology for how I treated her. Maybe just maybe I don't have to be alone.

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I know it's really short but I've been overwhelmed with school so much lately.