Ashley laid on her bed next to her best friend, Spencer. It was Friday night and since fifth grade, every Friday they would stay the night at one of their houses. It's been two years since that traditional started and it was something they wanted to keep going until college where they had planned on living together. They had become best friends quicker than anything and they were inseparable since. They had everything planned out together. They both couldn't wait until they grew up.
"When do you want to have kids?" Ashley asked, shoving popcorn into her mouth.
Spencer looked over at Ashley and raised her eyebrow, "I don't know… maybe when im 25. So im outta college and have my life set on track, ya know?" She smiled over at Ashley, "how about you, Ash?"
Ashley shrugged, "I don't want kids. They're annoying." She shoved more popcorn into her mouth and continued to watch what was on the TV.
"You're just too young to know what you want right now." Spencer laughed and laid back down, "I want three kids; two boys and a girl." She smiled proudly, knowing exactly what she wanted.
Ashley laid there smirking because she knew exactly what she wanted, but she just wanted to get Spencer worked up. She found it cute and she just couldn't help getting the blonde frustrated, "You're going to have an alien baby."
Spencer's eyes went wide, "That's horrible! No! Im gonna have three normal looking kids!" She said defensively.
"Nope, ones going to be a alien baby, another one will have three eyes and four arms with one leg, and the other one is going to hav-" Spencer put the pillow over Ashley's face to get her to stop talking, she laughed as she succeeded until Ashley threw Spencer off of her. The two girls laughed together and continued to watch TV, talking about anything that came to their mind. It didn't matter what was on, they weren't watching it anyways.
"There's something different about you, Blondie." Corey announced over his Starbucks coffee which made Spencer and Annie both looked up from their books and shared a look with each other. Spencer raised her eyebrow, "its Miss California over there isn't it?" Corey nodded towards Ashley who was flirting with the girl behind the counter.
Spencer's eyes went wide and a light shade of pink fell onto her cheeks, but then again, a full rage of jealously fell into the bottom of her stomach and her stomach turned, she looked back down at her book, "No." She mumbled, crossing her arms around her stomach, she felt different but it defiantly wasn't because of Ashley.
"Girl please, you're so smitten with that girl." He smiled over at Spencer and Annie laughed and agreed. "So what are you doing here?" Spencer looked up with a questioning look which made Corey gesture over towards Ashley once more, "Go claim that, piece of ass!" Spencer became even redder and she quickly looked back down at her book.
"She's outta my league anyways, Core." Both of her friends laughed at this comment but Corey became serious.
"She's smitten with you as well, Spencey." He smirked across the table and took another sip as he watched Spencer looked over at Ashley and just stare at her. She tightened her arms around her stomach a bit more and sighed. "Her body language she's giving, Kelly, is sexual." Corey said leaning on his elbows on the table, "But the body language she gives you, she likes you, Girl. There's defiantly something there."
"Spencer could do much better anyways." Annie admitted, tapping her pen against her book.
Corey and Spencer looked over at the red head, "Excuse me? That piece of ass is perfect for, Spencer, girl." Spencer smiled to herself, sitting there listening to her friends bicker.
She looked back over Ashley who happened to look over at her at the same time; Spencer smiled sadly and returned to her book work. There was no way her and Ashley were ever going to get together. There was no way that Corey was right about this. He's wrong sometimes, but usually never. She couldn't even concentrate on her reading anymore because all she could think about was Ashley and Kelly, the brunette from behind the counter, going at it.
But Spencer couldn't take their flirting anymore, she needed to stop it, it was the only way that she was going to feel better. She set her notebook and pen down onto her textbook and walked over to Ashley and snaked her arm her waist, "Babe let's go for a walk?" She reached her hand up to Ashley's face and moved a piece of hair behind her ear. Ashley's eyes went wide and she started to blush hardcore. Spencer looked over at Kelly and smirked at her and slid her hand into Ashley's back pocket and directed her towards the door. She didn't know where that move came from, that surprised the two of them.
As Ashley and Spencer walked passed Corey and Annie, Spencer smiled big to them and Corey knew that was the boldest thing she had ever done since she got here. Once outside, Spencer removed her hand from Ashley's back pocket and her hand instantly became cold and Ashley looked over at her, "What was that about, Spence?" She raised her eyebrow towards her best friend as they walked slowly down the side walk.
"You know, I didn't think this through." She crossed her arms; she wished she had grabbed her jacket.
"Spence."
Spencer looked over at Ashley and she smiled, "Come on," She walked over to her car and grabbed an extra jacket from the backseat and slipped it on.
It was the same hoodie that she had worn at the beach the night before she left. Ashley smiled, "Where we going… babe?" She smirked over at Spencer who blushed.
"She was a whore, Ashley!" They shared a laugh, "I was just trying to save you from getting AIDS!" She said defensively. Ashley didn't say anything more, she left it at that. She knew that Spencer didn't do that just because of that reason, but then again, she didn't want to push her further.
The two girls walked with light chatter to downtown and towards the river. It was a beautiful walk, the beginning of winter breeze blowing, the leaves tumbling and crunching underneath their footsteps. The two girls laughed together just like if it were old times. Cars would pass by every so often, making a gust of cold wind blow into their faces which would send them into bitterness until the car was out of sight. Once down by the river, the two girls sat up on a bench that overlooked the late season fishermen, their boats, the flowing water, and the boat ramp.
Ashley grabbed a few rocks from the ground and she casually threw them into the racing river, "You know what this kind of reminds me of?" Ashley looked over at Spencer who stared down at an old fisherman, re-baiting his hook, "The night on the pier." Spencer looked over at Ashley then and she smiled. "He was such a nice man; I wonder what he's up too." She turned her attention back at the fisherman down below.
"That was a good night." Ashley said quietly looking at the ground for more rocks to grab. Spencer watched as the brunette walked around the bench to gather more rocks to throw into the river. "Even if it was cold and you took far too many pictures of me."
Spencer laughed, "You're gonna have to get used to that if you wanna be a rock star." Ashley froze and looked at her best friend.
"Excuse me? I am a rock star." Ashley smiled proudly and continued to throw rocks into the river below. A silence fell between the two girls and when Ashley was out of rocks, she didn't bother looking for more, she just took her seat once again next to the blonde, but closer than when she first sat down. "Do you miss her, Spence?" Spencer looked at Ashley quickly, not knowing who she was talking about, "Your mom…" she looked at her best friend, waiting for her to answer, knowing this was going to be a really tough subject, but Spencer never opened up about her Mom. She wanted to know everything about her, she only knew her name and how she passed away.
Spencer nodded, "I do." She said in a voice so quiet, it reminded Ashley of a little kid who was scared of admitting something that hurt, "Tomorrow's her birthday actually…" Both girls could feel some sort of tension building up, "I'll be spending it in class doing an exam." Spencer lightly laughed, not moving her eyes from a leaf on the ground. "Do you miss your Dad?"
Ashley was taken back from the sudden change of conversation, "Yeah… but I mean, he wasn't around much so im used to this feeling. You never got to meet your mom… I couldn't handle that. Even though I hate mine." Ashley laughed, trying to lighten the mood she had created.
She nodded, agreeing with Ashley, "I guess."
Ashley wrapped her arms around Spencer and she followed the brunettes' actions. Spencer laid her head against Ashley's inner shoulder, "Your hair smells good."
"Well that's good to know." Spencer laughed pulling away, "Thanks."
"For what?"
"The hug. It was needed." Spencer smiled sadly and looked down at the ground.
Ashley was defiantly concerned with the tone of voice Spencer was using, "What's going on Spencer?" She held onto the blondes hand and waited patiently for a response.
The clouds above moved over the sun and the temperature felt like it dropped ten degrees, the wind picked up and the leaves stirred up and flew across the ground. The old fisherman below finally decided to call it a day until the season changed again; he reeled in his line and packed up his tackle box. His black lab started to bark, excited to finally be leaving. In the distance, a train was signaling it was passing through, the frogs croaked along with the wind in the bare trees.
Spencer didn't look at Ashley, she wrapped her arms across her stomach again, and quietly she told her best friend what the biggest thing that was bothering her, "Im late…"
