A/N: Sorry that it took me so long to update! I was planning on waiting on writing this for at least another chapter but I think people waited long enough with me taking forever to update xD
Sorry if it's not exactly what you wanted but..I think it's at least okay?
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC's
"This class is ridiculous." Spencer heard Derek mumbled to Dave who snickered. Spencer bit his lip to make sure he didn't smile.
He had to admit Derek was right. Although it wasn't so much that their Psychology class was ridiculous, it was their teacher.
Ms. Gerald didn't even have the correct teaching degree for the subject. All the kids in her class had noticed her constantly reading from a guide book every time she even tried to teach them something. Spencer would bet all his savings that he'd be able to teach this class a thousand times better than she could. Almost everyone in her classes only took it for an easy grade, Spencer on the other hand only took it since the class he did want was already full. At least Derek, Dave, and Emily were in this class with him.
"Okay now! Everyone grab a balloon!" Ms. Gerald reached out her hand that were holding strings connected to different colored balloons. Spencer grabbed a green one.
Spencer looked over to Derek at the sound of his random grumbling. "Trade with me!"
"No...I think the pink balloon suits you." Spencer snickered along with Dave and Emily.
"It's just a balloon, Derek!" Emily rolled her eyes.
"I don't want the pink one!" He whined, "Spencer give me your green!"
"Uh oh, better give it to him before he starts stomping his feet!" Dave teased causing Emily to snicker more.
"Come on man!"
Spencer rolled his eyes and roughly grabbed the string of the balloon from Derek's hand.
"Baby." He mumbled before Ms. Gerald started talking again.
"Everyone have that secret that I asked you to write? Good! Now tie it to your balloons and...let it go!"
Glances were shared along with shrugs before they all tied their pieces of baby to the string, and let the balloons float into the air.
"Doesn't that feel freeing!"
"Yeah...cause this class just ended." Dave grumbled. Derek bumped his knuckle against Dave's. Spencer rolled his eyes.
What no one saw, was a pink balloon get stuck in one of the trees that was taken an hour later.
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A week had past since their balloon Psychology class. It was pushed back from all their minds.
For some reason, Spencer found himself awake at 3am. Huffing in frustration, he sat up and rubbed at his eyes.
His eyes landed on something in front of their door. Getting up, he bent down to pick it up. His name was on it using cut out letters from a magazine. Spencer suddenly felt a chill go down his spine.
Sitting back on his bed, Spencer carefully opened it. A single plain card was inside with a website written on it.
His breath caught in his throat as he quickly but quietly grabbed his laptop, plugging his headphones in just in case. It was a good thing, as right when he entered the website, an audio recording started playing with the words going across his screen. Another chill went down his spine as he realized it a distorted voice, just like the ones kidnappers would use on tv when calling for a ransom.
Hello Spencer. Let me get right down to the chase. I have your Balloon. And now your secret. If you want to keep your secret safe, come to the Psychology classroom at 8am. You will find more instructions.
Spencer glanced at the clock, he had 4 hours. He glanced over at Derek listening to his snores, it was a Saturday which meant he would be sleeping till at least 9. Whoever this was, knew Spencer always got up before 8, even on weekends.
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Ashley woke up a little before 8am to her phone ringing, but right as she went to answer it, the call ended.
Groaning, she grabbed it anyway her face turning into confusion when she saw it was Spencer. She knew he got up around this time even on weekends, but he would know she'd still be sleeping especially after her movie night with Penny.
Ashley put the phone to her ear to listen to the voicemail.
Uh hey Ashley, I know you're probably asleep but I just..I know I should tell you this in person but I just need you to know now that...I love you. You mean more to me than you'll ever know.
Ashley felt her eyes widen. It sounded like a goodbye voicemail or something pretty damn close to it. Panic filled her chest. Quickly throwing on clothes that were presentable enough, Ashley ran to Penny's side of the room.
"Penny!" She shouted, shoving her shoulder to wake her.
"Wha.." Blindly grabbing her glasses, Penny blinked at her. "What's going on?"
"I just got this weird voicemail from Spencer saying he 'just wanted me to know he loves me' and that I 'mean more to him than i'll ever know'!"
Penny shot up and squealed, her blonde hair a mess on her head. "Oh my god! He said he loves you!"
"Penny!" Ashley shouted, placing her hands on the other blonde's shoulders. "It sounded like those voicemails you get when someone is saying goodbye or that they're going to do something stupid!"
"But..what..huh.." Penny got up and tried to fix her hair while throwing on clothes herself.
"Come on!" Ashley grabbed her best friend's hand and dragged her out of the room.
Ignoring the looks from other students awake at this time, they ran to Derek and Spencer's dorm building. Dodging boys exiting the dorms, when they finally reached the right room, Ashley began banging on the door.
"What the fu-" Ashley heard Derek say before he stopped in the middle of his sentence as he opened the door. Derek rubbed at his eyes. "What are you two doing here?!"
"Uh…" Penny's mouth was open as she stared at Derek's naked chest. Ashley rolled her eyes before nudging her friend. Now was not the time to stare at a half naked Derek Morgan.
"Is Spencer here?!"
Derek gave her a look. "No, I think he left not too long before you two got here."
Ashley let out a sigh of frustration before pushing past Derek to go in the room. She heard Penny explaining what she knew to the confused teen. Ashley walked over to Spencer's bed, it didn't take her long to spot the white envelope with a white card sitting on top of it. She had been in here enough to know when something was new or out of place.
"What's this?" Ashley picked it up as Derek and Penny walked over to her.
All three of them stared at the cut out letters spelling Spencer's name, and the website on the card.
"What does it mean, Spencer's Balloon?" Penny asked confused.
"Crap…"
Both girls turned to look at him as he explained the secrets tied to balloons in their Psychology class.
"This doesn't look good." Ashley mumbled.
Without saying anything, Derek grabbed the card out of her hand and turned on the computer in the room.
Ashley swallowed the nervous lump in her throat, her mind quickly flashing back to Alan Powell revealing her secret. She had an idea on what Spencer had written. And by the look on Derek's face, he did too.
Ashley jumped at Penny suddenly talking, and the anger in her voice.
"Derek, you call Aaron and Dave and tell them to check out the Psychology classroom, I doubt we're going to find anything but it doesn't hurt to look. I'm going to call Emily and JJ and tell them to bring my laptop.."
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Less than 10 minutes later found all of them in the dorm room, Penny typing furiously on her laptop. Aaron and Dave had found nothing in the classroom to hint at where Spencer may have been led to.
Ashley barely registered Derek's pacing, or the hands Emily and JJ on her shoulders as support. She had a terrible feeling about this.
"Ha!" Penny suddenly shouted, making all of them jump.
"What do you have?!" Ashley quickly moved to sit beside her and the others moved closer.
"I traced the website back the computer it was made on, and what do you know...it's from Brandon Powell's computer."
"Wait a second...Powell?!" Ashley choked out.
"Alan Powell's little brother." Aaron told them, "He started as a Freshman this year."
Ashley's mind drifted again to the image of Alan spilling her secret and Spencer punching him in the face...and then she thought of the bruises that had covered Spencer's body because of him. She felt sick.
"So what..he wants revenge for getting his brother expelled even though the asshole deserved it?!" Derek growled.
"I don't think he's alone in this…" Dave said, "You all remember the looks we'd get from Alan's friends, I would bet my life that they are in on this too."
Penny quickly went back to typing, her fingers moving even quicker if possible. "I just traced Brandon's cell, it says his phone is at the boys locker room on the other side of campus!"
"Wait..why didn't you just trace Spencer's cell phone in the beginning?!"
Penny glared at Derek. "Don't you think I tried that?! I can't get a signal from it if the battery was taken out!"
"Okay enough!" Aaron shouted. "Derek, you me and Dave will run over there. Penny, you stay here and call us if he moves. Ashley, Emily and JJ you three go get Strauss and tell her the situation."
"Even running there will be too slow!" Ashley told them, her voice filled with worry. She could feel it eating away at her stomach.
Emily suddenly grinned. "Steal one of the staff carts, those things can go pretty fast and it'll bring you over there much faster."
No one even thought to argue about stealing it.
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Derek jumped out of the back of the cart, "Remind me to thank Emily for the idea later."
Aaron and Dave both gave him small smiles before they carefully crept up to the door of the locker room.
"Please…" Derek heard Spencer say before he coughed. "Don't.."
Derek felt his anger boil at how weak he sounded. He didn't even wait for a nod from Aaron and Dave before he shoved the door open.
His vision turned red from anger at the sight in front of him.
Spencer was only in his boxers on the cold floor of the locker room, blood running down his face, his lip cut, and his chest had blood on it that wasn't from the blood pouring out of his nose. His hands were also tied behind his back. But what angered him the most, was Brandon casually standing there while three of Alan's friends surrounded Spencer, one of them had their pants around their ankles.
"You sick bastards!"
That was the last thing Derek remembered before his anger took over and he charged at them, going for Alan's friend that had his pants down first. He knew Aaron and Dave were right behind him.
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Spencer could barely comprehend that Derek, Aaron and Dave had arrived. They seemed to always come to his rescue. He closed his eyes to block out the fighting going around him. Tears poured down his face as a sob escaped his lips.
He had to be one of the stupidest people on the planet to have done this without telling anyone...again. All of this wasn't worth keeping his mom's condition a secret. If only he realized that sooner.
More shouting filled the locker room as Spencer slowly opened his eyes.
He blinked a couple of times.
His last thought was wondering if he was seeing things when a furious Strauss stormed into the locker room along with three security guards that littered the campus.
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When he finally came to, Spencer let out a groan. He was in the hospital.
"Hey, you're awake." Spencer looked over to see Ashley holding his hand smiling at him from the chair beside the bed.
"Please tell me that was all just a horrible nightmare…"
Ashley gave him a sad smile. "I wish I could." Spencer recoiled when she flicked his forehead. "Next time, tell us what's going on!"
Spencer gave her a small smile. "I think I've learned my lesson...I'll try not to be so stupid next time."
She chuckled. "You aren't stupid."
"I'm guessing my secret is out about my mom, huh?"
He shut his eyes for a moment when Ashley reached up to push his hair out of his face. "Not the whole school, but everyone in the group knows. They were a little hurt in the beginning that you kept it a secret for so long when you knew everything about them, but they're okay now. Actually..they are all waiting outside."
"I'm so sorry…" Ashley placed a finger against his lips.
"Seriously, don't be. And we'll all be here whenever you want to talk about what happened." She told him softly.
Spencer stared at her, and just like the first time he saw her, he was suddenly struck by how beautiful she was. Ignoring her and his own bodies protests, Spencer forced himself to sit up against the pillows.
"Come here." He told her. Ashley moved closer and Spencer gave her a smile before kissing her. Spencer almost felt his heart burst out of his chest as Ashley kissed him back with more force.
"I love you." He whispered when they slowly pulled away.
Ashley laughed a watery laugh. "I love you too."
Their moment was broken as their friends stormed into the room and piled on top of him with hugs, but he couldn't bring himself to be upset.
A weight was finally lifted off his shoulders. He had everything he could ever want at that moment. He'd deal with the memories of that day later.
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