Note: Well, school has started, so I'm trying to get back in the swing of things. I warned you before that my priorities have shifted to my studies now, so this is going to have to take a back seat, so there will be less frequent updating, but I'm telling you again anyways and I'm sorry. I really do wish that I could just sit around all day and write for y'all and read other's stories, but alas, I have to make something of myself. Don't blame me. Blame this stupid society that for some reason values higher education.
me4son: My loyal reviewer? Really? Moi? I'm honored. Sorry this wasn't as quick as the last one. If you read my notes you know my excuse. (insert smiley face here)
anLeyda: Ashley does need some love! Let's see what we can do about that. And don't worry, Spencer will 'Escape the Fate.' This story is not called 'Not Escaping the Fate' for a reason. Hehe. I made a funny. At least in my opinion. (insert smiley face here)
McrFreak1991: I was trying to trick you! Yay! I was so sure that people would be like, 'oh she's bullshitting us.' I'm so glad it worked. Sorry you don't like her decision, but there has to be some sort of situation in this story or else it would just be fluff, which I'm sure many people would be okay with, but not for this story. (insert smiley face here)
LyricalHarmony53: Why thank you! (insert smiley face here)
Prissy020304: Yeah, I really wanted more people to know about what Ashley is going through and I thought Kyla would be the best choice. Glad you like it. (insert smiley face here)
Ryoko05: I might follow your advice, I might not. You'll have to read and find out. (insert smiley face here)
sparkyleathers08: I think I'm becoming a little biased towards your reviews. If you choose to abuse this power, I can't say I would blame you. And I always want to here about cookies. Always. I fuckin' love you, dude. I fuckin' love you. (insert smiley face here)
lalalalee: Censorship sucks. To punctuate this opinion, here is a list of cuss words: Fuck. Shit. Cunt. Asshole. Motherfucker. No worries about non-reviews for previous chapters. You're loyal reading is what counts. (insert smiley face here)
Aguslalinda: The Netherlands?! Kick ass, man! I'm so glad you decided to give this story a chance. Welcome aboard. You'll find that we accept everyone with open arms….except gay people. Haha! Just kidding. Can you imagine? (insert smiley face here)
Raingazer: I promise the suffering will not last forever. Just bare with me, and we'll get through it together. (insert smiley face here)
.HEART: I realize that your name got cut off on my last post. I tried to reload it, but it did the same thing, so I apologize for that. Will Spencer? Or won't Spencer? We shall see. (insert smiley face here)
Charly: I hope this eases your anxiousness. And Spencer will get her own plan. That is a promise. (insert smiley face here)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Situations
The party was huge. Spencer wasn't sure if her friends and brothers had been trying to go for a "sweet sixteen" kind of feel, but either way, it was awesome.
The only people who were meant to be there were people that Spencer could actually consider at the very least acquaintances. Spencer never realized how many people she actually knew. Pretty much her entire grade was there, a large portion of the juniors, quite a few freshmen, and a surprising amount of seniors. The Davies Estate could never be called small or a standard sized house for that matter, but with all of these people packed in there, it looked less monstrous than normal.
"Hey, Spence!"
Spencer turned around and saw Carmen. "Hey!"
"So?" The dark-haired girl lifted her hands in the air, gesturing to the party going on around her. "What do you think?"
"This is awesome!"
"Yeah. Ash and I know how to throw a party," Carmen bragged.
"Oh, hey, where is Ashley? I haven't seen her all night," Spencer questioned.
"Last I saw her she was outside."
"Okay, thanks," the blonde said as she made her way through the throng of people who all wished her a 'happy birthday' as she passed to the back yard where there were significantly less people, but still enough to be a crowd.
The blonde searched the grounds until she found the brunette she was looking for sitting on a bench that was next to a tree near the back of the grounds.
She was not alone.
Sitting on the bench next to Ashley was Brendon Goldman. Senior. Quarterback. Hot.
Ashley and Brendon were quite obviously flirting. She threw her head back and laughed at something he said as she lightly punched him in the arm, him chuckling, happy to let her abuse his body. She was a beautiful girl after all.
Spencer watched this exchange with curious eyes, an interested mind, and a confused heart.
Telling herself that this was a good thing, that Ashley should move on, the blonde walked away to find her boyfriend.
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Ashley had been having a pretty good time. She had only heard Andy DJ once before, and while he was good then, he had gotten better. She watched impressed as he easily worked his magic with the disks.
Andy had just waved to her, and she was waving back and giving him a smile of approval when Brendon walked up behind her.
"Andy always said he could DJ, but I didn't know he was actually any good," the well-muscled senior said.
Ashley turned around and was a little surprised with who was talking to her. She didn't know Brendon personally, but she knew of him. Who doesn't know the quarterback?
"Yeah, he is," she responded.
"You're Ashley Davies, right?"
"Yep. And you're Brendon Goldman."
"Right you are."
The two continued to talk for a while inside until it got too loud, so they took their conversation to the backyard. Ashley led the senior to a bench that sat by a tree near the back when the boy suggested they should have some privacy.
Ashley knew what he was after. She also knew that he wouldn't get it.
Just because she needed to move on from Spencer didn't mean she was going to break her promise to Nurse Julie.
Besides, she liked flirting and Brendon was nice to talk to. He wasn't bad to look at either.
"So, you maybe wanna go somewhere?" Brendon asked, his eyes eager and full of hope. He may be the quarterback, but he didn't get everything he wanted.
Ashley knew that was the international code for 'will you have sex with me?' but she thought it might be more fun to mess with him. He wasn't getting in her pants anyway.
"We are somewhere," she said cheekily.
"Well, we could go somewhere else," Brendon suggested.
"What's wrong with here?"
"Nothing, nothing. I just thought we might be more comfortable somewhere else."
"Are you not comfortable here?"
"No, of course I am," he insisted.
"Because I'm very comfortable here."
Brendon looked like he was going to go for another try at getting her upstairs, but then decided against it. "Well, if you're comfortable here and I'm comfortable here, then let's stay here."
Ashley hadn't been expecting that. She figured once he realized he would be getting nowhere, he would ditch her. She was pleasantly surprised to find herself wrong.
"Okay," Ashley agreed. "We'll stay here."
"You wanna hear a good joke?" Brendon asked, looking a little unsure of himself.
Ashley thought it was cute how when he was only looking for sex he was confident and smooth, but now that he knew that wasn't going to happen, he wasn't quite sure what to do.
"Always."
"Okay, so, there's a bear and a squirrel in the middle of a forest and they come across this magic lamp. They decide that they should both rub it and then maybe they'll both get three wishes, so they do. The genie then pops out of the lamp and says, 'since you both rubbed me you will both get three wishes.' The bear then goes first and he wishes that he were the only male bear in the entire forest so that all of the female bears will have to come to him. The genie then grants his wish and turns to the squirrel. The squirrel wishes for a helmet, so the genie gives him a helmet. Then, the bear says, 'wait, I wish I was the only male bear in all of the nearby forests as well, so all of those female bears will have to come to me, too,' and the genie grants his wish. Then the squirrel wishes for a motorcycle, so the genie gives him a motorcycle. Then, for the bear's final wish, he decides he wants to be the only male bear in the entire world so every female bear in the world has to come to him, and the genie grants the bear his finale wish. The squirrel then puts on the helmet, gets on the motorcycle and starts it up and gets ready to go, and then says, 'I wish that bear was gay.'"
It wasn't very often that Ashley found jokes to actually be funny, but this one she really liked. She laughed as she tossed her head back, lightly punching Brendon in the arm as she did so, him laughing a little at his own joke as well.
After the brunette girl's laughter died down she spoke. "That was awesome."
"Yeah, that's like to only non-knock knock joke I know, so cherish it."
"Will do."
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The party was starting to wind down as more and more people left until finally Andy had packed up his stuff and gone home.
Spencer and Kyla thanked people for coming as they left until the only people in the house were them, Aiden, Glen, Clay, and Madison who was apparently sticking around until Glen left.
"So, are we gonna have to clean all of this up?" Glen asked, looking apprehensively at the mass amounts of trash scattered around the room.
"Yup," Kyla said with a sigh, rubbing her hand across her forehead.
"We better get started," Spencer said, leaning down to begin the process.
"Not you, Spence," Kyla said, stopping the blonde girls movements.
"Yeah," Aiden agreed. "This party was for you. You're not gonna clean up after it."
Spencer thought about arguing, but then realized that she had no desire to help with the process, and since they were offering, decided to go with it. "Awesome."
The rest of the people in the room, which didn't include Madison anymore who practically ran out the door when the first mention of cleaning was brought up, began picking up all of the plastic cups and other remnants of the party while Spencer flopped herself down on the couch. Looking around all of her friends, she realized someone was missing. "Hey, where's Ash?"
"I don't know, but she better get in here and help us clean this up," Kyla muttered.
"I'll find her," Spencer said, standing up from the couch.
The blonde decided that the best place to look would be where she last saw the brunette, so she headed to the back yard, and low-and-behold, they was Ashley, still talking to Brendon Goldman.
She stood for a moment, just watching them, until realizing how incredibly creepy that was, before approaching the two.
"Hey, guys," the blonde said, slowly approaching them.
"Hey, Birthday Girl," Brendon said.
"Heh, yeah." Spencer momentarily forgot why she had gone in search of Ashley in the first place, but then noticed all of the trash that littered the back yard as well and was reminded. "We're starting to clean up. I mean, everyone is gone so…"
"Oh, yeah." Ashley stood up and turned to Brendon. "I should go help."
"You know I could stay and help, too," Brendon offered.
Ashley smiled. "That'd be great. Thank you."
"No problem."
The two then walked into the house with a hesitant Spencer in tow. The blonde had no reason that she could think of to dislike Brendon as much as she did, but she just didn't like him.
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The drive back to Aiden's house had been a little awkward for Spencer at first, but then her boyfriend took her hand in his and smiled at her and she felt better.
Then of course they got to his house and the nerves came back. But Aiden said 'I love you' and Spencer was able to relax once again.
Aiden led the blonde up the stairs of the otherwise unoccupied house and into his bedroom, and when she left that bedroom the next morning, she was no longer a virgin.
Spencer spent the night with Aiden, his arms wrapped around her. She felt safe and secure and loved and accepted.
That was one of the things that marveled Spencer about this idea that they were 'meant to be.' She felt so comfortable with Aiden. She could relax and be herself and she was loved for it. For being exactly who she was.
But Aiden had no more control over this than Spencer did. She made him feel the same way and she did nothing more than be herself, just like he did.
The only difference was, Aiden wasn't questioning these feelings. Spencer was.
Still, regardless of whether Aiden had control over these things or not, he did it anyway, which is why, no matter what happened in the future, Spencer would never come to regret this decision. She felt that, above all, they were best friends. And that was something that never would, never could, change.
Note: I realize that many people will be upset with what I've done here. I did take all of your opinions into consideration on whether or not Spencer should sleep with Aiden, but in the end, it was my choice (well, Spencer's choice) and I did what I thought worked best with the story. I'm sorry if you don't like that, but keep in mind that this is not meant to be fluff. There will be things that the characters will do that you won't like. That's what makes it angst. If the characters did everything right the first time and nothing ever went wrong, there would be no story. Then, the ending of when they do get to be together wouldn't be nearly as satisfying. If you want to bash me I cant stop you, but do consider what I'm saying. South of Nowhere was (past tense, so sad) a drama and there is no drama without conflict.
On another note, the joke that Brendon told Ashley is my favorite joke.
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