Ashley smiled down at her girlfriend's sleeping figure. Recalling the past nights events in her mind. She's never felt this way about a girl before. Never wanted someone so much.

At this moment, right now, she had everything she could have possibly dreamed of.

The perfect job, with the perfect boss.

The perfect house, with the perfect bed.

And most importantly, the perfect girl... that was now sleeping in said bed.

She couldn't imagine how life could possibly get any better.

"Mmm, morning." The blonde rolls over, staring up admirably at her girlfriend. Ashley couldn't help the smile that spread across her lips. The perfect shade of blue, the only shade of blue Ashley wanted to see in the morning.

"Good morning." She replies, leaning down to kiss her girlfriend.

"Gross." Spencer turns over quickly, causing Ashley's lips to land on her shoulder.

"Ugh! What gives?" Ashley groans out, kissing her way around Spencer's back to her lips.

"Stoooop." Spencer whines out with a smile. "I have morning breath."

Ashley's head snaps up quickly, eyes narrowing down at the incredibly cute blonde. "Spencer Carlin, if you don't kiss right now I swear I'll explode." She says and the blonde erupts in laughter.

"You will do no such thing." She responds as her body shakes from laughing so hard.

Ashley puts on her best pout, poking out her bottom lip about as far as it would go. "I would. You can't deprive me of Spencer kisses. It's in the law." She nods, keeping her pout in tact.

"Let me just brush my teeth then." Spencer says, untangling herself from the covers to get out bed. Just as her second foot was about to hit the floor she's yanked back into bed by her lover.

"You want me to explode!" Ashley shouts with a smile on her face as leans in a kisses her girlfriend. Spencer protests for all of two seconds before she gives in. Not being able to withstand the Ashley Davies charm. Not to mention how much of an amazing kisser Ashley was. "Explosion averted." Ashley says, pulling back with a smile. Spencer could only smile and shake her head at the brunette. She was crazy, but Spencer was crazy about her, so she figured it all balanced itself out.

"Can I go now?" Spencer asks with a raised brow. Ashley leans down and kisses her girlfriend once more.

When she pulls back she's biting her lips, something she knows drives Spencer crazy. "I guess." She says and smiles.

Spencer narrows her eyes at Ashley, knowing exactly what the brunette was doing. "I'm going." She tells her girlfriend, pushing her off of her to get up form the bed.

"Nooooo, don't leave me!" The brunette calls from the bed.

"Needy much." Spencer throws over her shoulder as she walks into the bathroom and shuts the door to freshen up.

"The pain!" Ashley shouts. Spencer can only chuckle and shake her head. She couldn't believe that she'd found a love so perfect.

Six months later

"I'm not doing this again, Ashley." Spencer whispers harshly, shaking her head at the girl. She couldn't do it anymore. The constant fighting they'd been doing the past couple of weeks had become too much for her.

"You think I like fighting with you?" Ashley shouts, getting the attention of a few people walking by. They were standing outside of Ashley's apartment building, Spencer refusing to go up after the fight they'd just had at Le Petite Jardin.

Things were changing.

Ashley was changing.

According to Ashley, Spencer was changing.

Two months ago they were happier than ever.

And now... well now they find it hard to even look at each other.

Be around each other.

"Ashley I'm gonna go." Spencer turns to walk away but her arm is grabbed by the other girl. "Let me go." She snaps her head back in Ashley's direction and says through gritted teeth.

"Just come upstairs Spence, we need to talk about this."

"There's nothing to discuss." She snatches her arm away from the brunette. "Maybe we just need to admit that this isn't working anymore, that we're two different people and we just don't work as a couple anymore." Spencer says. She could feel the tears building in her eyes. She didn't want to break up with Ashley. She loved her. But she couldn't brush it under the rug anymore. Ever since Ashley got a promotion at work, she just hasn't been the same.

Ashley narrows her eyes at her girlfriend. "Are you saying that you want to break up?" She asks, barely able to get the words out. She never thought in a million years Spencer would utter those words.

Spencer nods quickly, the tears that were threatening to fall now doing so. "It's for the best." She closes her eyes, forcing herself to believe her own words.

"Spencer..." Ashley whispers, barely audible as she grabs Spencer's hand. She didn't care how much fighting they'd been doing. She didn't want to lose the blonde. She loved her.

"I'm gonna go." Spencer nods, wiping away the stray tears and avoiding Ashley's gaze at all costs. She knew the power Ashley's eyes had on her.

"Spencer please." Ashley tried again, grabbing a hold of the blondes hand. Spencer shakes her head, begging the brunette to just let her go.

"I love you." Spencer whispers, pulling her hand from the brunettes and walking away. Ashley wanted to move, she wanted to chase after her. But she couldn't move.

She couldn't breathe.

She just watched as the blonde disappeared into the night.

Five Months Later

"Ashley grab some of those oranges and a few plums." Madison points from across the outdoor market.

"Madison I didn't want to buy the whole market." Ashley shouts back to her friend. Madison waves her off, continuing to look around the market. "I just wanted to some peaches." Ashley mumbles to herself, grabbing some oranges and plums as instructed by her friend.

"Hi." A familiar familiar voice says softly behind Ashley. Her breath hitches when she recognizes the voice. She leans back from the oranges and turns around to a smiling blonde.

"Hi." Ashley barely gets out. She swallows the lemon in her throat and shifts uncomfortably onto her right foot as the blonde doesn't say anything, she just stares at her. "Spencer." Ashley scrunches up her eyebrows, not sure what the girl wanted.

"You look good." Spencer finally says, a smile spreading across her face as she scans the brunettes face.

"Thank you." Ashley nods. "You look amazing too." She shrugs and smiles. "You always do."

The blonde closes her eyes, taking a deep breath before saying her next words. "I've missed you." She releases them like a giant weight had been lifting from her shoulders. After their break up they decided it'd be for the best if they didn't speak for a while. You know... open wounds and all.

A while turned into five months.

Ashley licks her lips, contemplating whether or not she should say it back. Not that she didn't miss Spencer or anything, she just... she didn't know what saying those words would evoke inside her. She's tried her best not to think about the blonde. Not to imagine kissing her, waking her next to her, holding her, making love to her, whispering how much she loved her. Those were all the things she gave up that night on the front step of her apartment building.

"You don't miss me, Ashley?" Spencer moved in closer to the brunette, backing her into the basket of sweet Florida oranges.

Ashley cleared her throat, fighting the urge to smile. "I did." She nods.

"Then tell me." Spencer commanded. Ashley was finding it hard to breathe, the new dominating Spencer was sexy...

Really sexy...

"I missed you... a lot." Ashley added and nodded for good measure.

"Good." Spencer smiled.

"Are you still at that gallery on Bouluvard?" Ashley asks, trying to make conversation.

"Yeah." Spencer nodded. "Things are going great actually. I just brought in Lisa Vernon, her work is amazing. She's um... the biggest client I've landed yet."

"That's really good, Spencer. I'm glad that things are going well for you."

"What about you? How's the marketing industry looking these days?"

"Amazing. I just made partner actually." Ashley smiled at the blonde as she nodded. They both grew quiet, not knowing what else they could possibly talk about. Spencer's eyes drifted down to Ashley's lips. Ashley fought the urge to smirk.

"I should probably go, I'm here with my mom." Spencer says, thumbing towards the exit. "I just wanted to come speak." She shrugs and opens her mouth to speak again but smiles and bites her lip instead.

"Okay." Ashley nods, not knowing what else to say.

Leaning even closer to the brunette the blonde whispers, "But we should probably kiss first." She chuckles a bit before continuing. "We wouldn't want you to explode now would we." She adds with a wide smile.

Ashley couldn't help but return the smile as she remembered that morning almost a year ago exactly where she'd used that excuse to get the blonde back into bed.

"No." Ashley shakes her head, returning the smile. "We wouldn't." She adds before moving in to connect her lips with the blondes. Although Spencer had sad it in a joking manner, she wasn't really joking at all. She'd missed Ashley. Every part of her.

And the moment their lips touched they forget all about the bull crap that tore them apart.

All the fighting.

The lies.

The pain and anger.

They forgot it all.

For a moment the only thing that existed for them was each other.

When the blonde pulled back Ashley smiled, taking her bottom lip between her teeth as the blonde beamed at her. "Explosion averted."