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"Nice of you to show up." My mother says to me as I walk in the store.

"I'm not here to work." I assure her as I keep walking to the employee lounge. I open my locker and stuff all it's contents into my bag.

"What do you mean you're not here to work?" My mom asks, coming into the lounge.

"I quit." I tell her, slamming my locker shut and turning to face her.

"You what?" She asks, I guess making sure she heard me correctly. I don't think I mumbled my words.

"I quit!" I say again. And don't even wait for her to reply as I push past her and I faintly hear her calling my name and some obscenities being yelled. But I don't stop... I can't stop.

I have four days to figure out how to stop Spencer's parents from taking her off life support.

I don't have time to be working.

"Can I ask you something?" Madison asks me as we sit on her couch drinking tequila. After blowing off work I came over to her apartment and told her about my break up with Amy. She thought drinking ourselves into oblivion would be an amazing idea.

I didn't protest.

"Mhm." I mumble into my glass.

"Did you ever..." She trails off and looks at me. "You know..." She urges on.

Safe to say... I don't know.

"No, I don't know." I say pointedly.

"Well, you spent a lot of time at the Garden and you said you could see and touch her so I'm wondering if you ever..." She trails off again and I still have no clue what she's asking me.

"Mads?" I question.

"Did you ever..." She rolls her eyes and sighs. "Ashley, you're gonna make me say it aren't you?"

"Say what?" I ask, confusion written all over my face.

"Ugh!" She groans out.

"Seriously Mads, what are you asking me?" I ask raising a brow.

"Did you and the ghost girl-"
"Spencer." I correct her quickly.

"Spencer, right sorry." She shakes her head and sits her glass down on the table. "Did you and Spencer ever...do it?" She ask then quickly averts her gaze.

What?

"Do what?" I ask. She widens her eyes and nods like I'm supposed to OH!

"Madison, what the hell?" I shoot up from the couch.

"What?" She says standing up too.

"Why are you asking me this?"

"I don't know." She shrugs.

"I'm not discussing this with you Madison." I tell her firmly.

"Okay." She says in a defensive tone.

"Okay." I reply. We both sit back down on the couch.

"Well..." Madison says after a moment. "This is awkward." She adds as we both pick up our cups and take a sip.

"Is that everyone?" Spencer asks as I walk back into the room where we spend our days.

"Mhm." I nod and tell her placing the keys down on the table by the door.

"What time is it?" She asks me and I look at her intently before looking at my watch.

"It's nine-ten." I tell her with a smile. "Why does time matter to you so much?" I ask, raising a brow as I walk over to her.

She shrugs. "I don't know. I guess because it's all I have now." She says and I nod in understanding.

"I probably should have gone home and gotten some changing clothes and stuff, huh?" I ask with a smile.

"Probably." She nods in agreement.

"I'm gonna go check and see what Mrs. Peatree has in her office." I tell her and she nods as she pulls a cookie out of her pocket. "How do you always have a cookie?" I ask with an amused expression.

"It's a magic cookie." She assures me. "It's always in my pocket...everyday." She shrugs and eats it.

"That's...um... okay." I say and turn to walk towards the office.

"What'd you find?" Spencer asks when I come back.

"Two blankets a pack a crackers, some chips and a diet coke." I say holding it up as I announced it.

"Crackers." She says holding her hands. I toss them to her as I walk towards her.

"How do you eat?" I ask, realizing that was a question I haven't asked her before.

"The magic cookie that appears in my pocket everyday." She answers as she opens the pack of crackers.

"One cookie keeps you full?" I spread the blankets on the floor next to the wall with no tables next to it.

"Mhm." She nods and puts a cracker in her mouth. "I told you...it's magic."

"So why are you eating those now?" I ask, pointing to the pack of crackers she's devouring. "Didn't you just eat your magic cookie?"

"I'm unusually hungry today." She says avoiding my gaze. I squint my eyes and smile at her.

"The beds ready." I point to the makeshift bed on the floor.

"Delightful, I'm beat." She says as she finishes off the crackers and makes her way over to me.

"Delightful?" I question in an amused tone.

"Precisely." She says and lays down on the blankets.

"You're a weirdo." She shrugs and smiles. I shake my head at her and take a seat on the other blanket. "Do you sleep?" I ask her, as I turn to face her.

"Sure." She nods.

"Are you sleepy right now?" I ask.

"No." She shakes her head, looking straight into my eyes.

Suddenly things get serious. Neither one of us are smiling anymore and the mood has changed.

"Spencer..." I start and her eyes flutter shut at her name. I contemplate my next words carefully. Not wanting to scare her off.

"Say it, Ashley." She tells me, keeping her eyes closed. I swallow the lemon in my throat as my eyes drift down to her lips.

"I wanna kiss you." I admit. And I have wanted this for so long.

"Ashley." She says my name in a pleading tone.

"I know." Is my reply. She's never kissed anyone before.

"But I want to." She says quickly, opening her eyes.

"Sit up." I command her and she complies. We both sit up and face each other. "Stop me whenever this-"

"Okay." She cuts me off before I can finish, staring me straight in my eyes. I know that this is a lot for her. She's been in this... world or whatever this is... since the age of sixteen. While I was mourning the loss of my father six years ago, the Carlin's were grieving for their daughter.

"Okay." I say as she closes her eyes. I lick my lips as my head moves towards her. I keep my eyes open and her tongue snakes out and runs over her lips quickly in anticipation.

The moment it happened... the moment our lips touched, I felt electricity run through me. And I know that sounds cliché but I know she felt it too because her eyes shot open and she pulled back.

"Wow." She breathes out, placing her fingers on her lips.

"You felt that too?" I ask, sitting back down on the blanket. She nods as her fingers continue to play with her lips.

"I wanna feel it again." She says after a moment. A small smile escapes my lips.

"Me too."