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Chapter 14:
Spencer felt a wave of doubt run through her body. "Toby," She used her free hand to grab his arm and pulled him closer to her. "What if she doesn't like me? I've never been good at meeting parents, let alone mothers." She said in a hushed voice.
Toby quickly pressed a kiss to her cheek and smiled. "Just be yourself and you'll do fine." He whispered back, giving her hand another squeeze as he turned to the older woman who was now only a few feet away.
"Hi mom," Toby smiled when the older woman stopped right in front of the couple, a smile of her own appearing on her worn face. "You look beautiful, as always." He took a half step forward and placed a kiss on her cheek.
"Not nearly as beautiful as the young lady at your side," She sent Spencer a big smile. "It seems my son has forgotten his manners. I'm Marion Cavanaugh." She said sweetly holding out her hand to Spencer.
"Spencer Hastings." She replied shaking the older women's hand with a smile. "Toby's told me a lot about you."
"All good stories I hope." She teased while looking at her son, who let out a nervous laugh.
"Only the best ones, I promise." Toby winked. "Mr. Lopez is here tonight, he seemed very pleased about my settling down." He said letting go of Spencer's hand and wrapping his arm around her waist instead.
Marion let out a small chuckle as she grabbed a glass wine off a tray that one of the waiters offered to her. "A pleasure we have all been waiting for these last few years." She took a small sip and turned her attention to Spencer. "So Miss Hastings, are you in school?"
"Yes Ma'am, I'm currently finishing my senior year at UPenn for my law degree. I'm supposed to take the LSAT next month and I've already sent out a few applications to different law schools, so I should hear back from them after I take the test and my results get posted."
"I must say, I am very impressed, most of the young women your age still don't have a clue as to what they want for their life." She smiled and took another sip and then lowered her glass with a curious look on her face. "Hastings," She muttered the name to herself. "Are your parents Peter and Veronica Hastings?"
"Yes Ma'am they are." Spencer said with a nervous nod, unsure if that was a good or bad thing to admit.
"Very respectable people, your mother helped me with all the legal paperwork when Daniel passed away." She said as her eyes watered at the mention of her deceased husband. Toby reached out and gave her arm a gentle squeeze. "I'm fine Toby," She covered her free arm over his and gave him a weak smile before turning her attention back to Spencer. "Now seeing how you are dating my son, I think it is only fair that I invite you over for dinner next weekend so we can get to know each other a bit better, how does that sound?"
Spencer gave her a big smile. "That sounds wonderful, thank you Mrs. Cavanaugh."
"Please, call me Marion," She smiled back. "Now you two go on and enjoy this party, I have some rounds to make before the night is over. It was a pleasure to meet you Spencer," She nodded at her and then took a step to Toby, whispered in his ear and kissed the side of his cheek. "Have fun, I love you."
Toby smiled in return. "I love you too mom." When his mother left, he turned to Spencer, the smile still bright on his face. "See, that wasn't so bad right?" His voice was teasing and she could not help but smile back.
"No, it wasn't but I could sure use another drink right now to calm down."
"Sure, let's head up to the bar." He pulled her closer to his body and guided them through the mass of people. A minute later, the pair was waiting at the bar for their drinks and Toby was still smiling at her.
"Okay, spill, what's with all the smiles?" She asked.
"My mother likes you." He said, his smile growing even bigger when she looked back at him in surprise. "C'mon, did you really think she wouldn't?" he questioned after seeing her face.
"Well, to be honest, yes, most mothers hate their only son's girl friends. How do you know she likes me? Did she tell you when she whispered to you before she left?"
"She invited you to dinner." He said not really answering her other question. "My mother has never done that before, so it means you really likes you and truly wants to get to know you better."
Spencer stood there shocked. There is no way that I am the only girl friend that she wants to have over for dinner, there is just no way. "Do you mean to tell me that out of all your girl friends, I'm the first one that will be having dinner with your mother? How many girls did you date before me?"
"I've only had one serious girl friend and that was back in high school." He said as he grabbed his beer that was placed down next to his arm and took a sip.
Spencer wanted to press him for more answers but right as she was going to open her mouth, Hanna and Caleb arrived at their sides.
"Hey guys! Having fun yet?" Hanna asked as she leaned forward and grabbed the wine glass right out of Spencer's hand.
Spencer rolled her eyes playfully with a small laugh. "You know you can order your own drink right Hanna?"
Hanna just smirked and handed back the glass after taking a few more sips. "So, what you two been up to?"
"Had to make some rounds and Spencer was kind enough to stand through all the boring business talk with me." Toby said sending his girl friend a warm smile.
"That's it? No dirty dancing? No making out in a corner?" Hanna shook her head with a frown when the pair in front of her started to laugh while shaking their heads. "Man you two are boring. This is a party, live it up a little."
"Hanna, Toby's business partners and co-workers are here, it's not that type of party, this is a fancy dinner party." Spencer tried to explain to her friend.
"Maybe not for you because you are dating the boss man, but for me, it's always that type of party. C'mon Caleb, let's go dance." Hanna said giving Spencer a quick kiss on the cheek and then dragged a laughing Caleb to the dance floor.
"That didn't even make sense." Spencer mumbled as she brought her wine glass to her lips.
"Does anything ever with Hanna?" Toby teased.
Spencer only smiled in agreement, it was funny that the two had only been dating for a little over two weeks and yet she felt like they had known each other forever. "So how many more rounds of small talk do you have to make before we can really enjoy ourselves?" She teased him back.
"Oh, so you think I'm boring now too huh?" He asked in a low voice, his smile turned over to a grin as he stepped right in front of her, his arm that was resting on the bar was now up against her own, his fingers wrapping themselves behind her elbow as he gentle pulled her closer, his eyes starring deep into her brown ones.
Spencer was speechless, he was close to her that she found herself getting lost in his blue eyes, his cologne reached her nose and made her stomach flip in excitement. His fingers on her skin were driving her crazy and all she wanted to do was lean up and kiss him, taste him, feel his tongue press against her own. "I-uh-I never said that." She managed to stammer out in a hushed voice after she remembered that they were not alone.
When he let out a small laugh, she felt herself go weak in the knees and was thankful to have the support of the bar that she was leaning on. When he reached up and tucked back some of her hair, she had to ask him to repeat himself, since she had focused on his thumb caressing her cheek. "I'm sorry, what did you ask?"
"Do you want to get out of here?" He repeated his question with his boyish grin still playing on his lips.
Spencer looked around the room at all the guests before looking back at him. "What about all your guests? And what about your mother? I don't want to give her a reason to dislike me Toby."
Toby tilted his head in thought and a second later nodded in agreement. "I have another idea," He moved his hand to grab her own and laced their fingers together. "And I think you will like this one better." He smiled and pulled her away from the bar and started to make his way through the crowds to the large doors that led back to the main entrance of the hotel.
"Toby, where are you taking me?" Spencer asked through a laugh as they walked across the carpeted main floor towards the door label stairway.
"Shhh, you'll see in like less than 5 minutes." He teased as he opened the door for her and motioned for her to enter first. With a quick look around the deserted lobby, he followed behind her, taking her hand again and started up the stairs.
"I am so not wearing the right shoes for this!" She hissed out as she tried her best to hurry up the flight of stairs in attempt to keep pace with him. Suddenly he stopped and turned around with an amused look. "What? If I knew you wanted to jog up some staircases, I would have put on flats instead of three inch heels."
"Now if I told you all my plans I wouldn't be able to do this." Toby smiled and before she could ask 'what', he already lifted her bridal style into his arms. "Now that your heels are safe from being damaged, up we go."
Spencer wrapped one around his neck and laughed at his sudden outburst to carry her up the remaining flights of stairs. "You are crazy you know that?"
"Are you having fun though?" He asked as he carried her with ease up each step, not showing any sign of tiredness from holding her.
"Yes, I am."
Toby just smiled and after a few more minutes, he used his body to push open the metal door that led to the roof. After carefully setting Spencer on the ground, he made sure to jam a few bricks that were next to the building into the doorway to stop the door from locking them out.
Taking her hand again, he led her to the middle of the roof, letting his free hand gesture to the sight before them. "What do you think?"
"I think it's beautiful." She said as let her eyes wander out to the skyline, seeing all the other building lit up in the darkness. "Thank you for tonight Toby," She turned her attention to him, placing her hands on his chest when he wrapped both of his arms around her waist. "I haven't had this much fun in awhile and I really needed it."
Toby smiled. "You're welcome, I'm glad I could help." He paused before speaking again. "I can be honest with you?" He asked as he looked right into her eyes.
She looked back and nodded, suddenly feeling nervous at what he would tell her. "Of course you can."
"I've been dying to kiss you all night, since the second I saw you walk in and stand off to the side of the room with Hanna. It took every ounce of my being to not run over to you and lift you in my arms and kiss you in front of everyone."
Spencer couldn't stop herself from blushing, or control the huge smile that pulled at her lips. "If you saw me the moment I walked in, why did you make me walk around to find you?"
"I was worried I was dreaming because there was no way this gorgeous beauty was actually here to be with me, but when you found me and I felt your eyes on me, I knew I wasn't dreaming, you had actually showed up and I couldn't have been happier to see you."
"I can be honest with you now?" She asked as she moved her hands from his chest up to wrap around his neck. When he nodded, she leaned up so her lips were only centimeters away from his. "I felt the same way about you."
Toby smiled and decided not to waste any more time in connecting their lips in a kiss that quickly turned heated. Tongues danced together, moans slipped from their mouths and hands gripped one other in attempt to close the gap between them.
Spencer felt the burning growing inside her again as her mouth moved along in perfect sync with his, her stomach flipped and rolled with each moan she heard him make. Her heart was racing so fast she thought she was going to pass out while her brain was trying to catch up and process everything her body was feeling.
When they broke apart from their kiss, Toby rested his forehead against hers; he reached behind his head and pulled down one of her hands, making it rest on his chest, over his heart. "This is what kissing you does to me."
She smiled at the feeling of his heart beating at a quick pace under her fingertips. "Would it be weird if I agreed with you again?" She teased as she flipped their hands and let him feel her racing heart.
"Not in the slightest." He chuckled with a smile and moved his hand up from her chest to under her chin, raising her head and let their lips meet again for another kiss.
A/N: Just want to point something out just incase it got confusing for you readers. In this story, Toby's parents were together up until his father, Daniel died. I had mentioned during their first date that he had a step-sister, he does, it will be Jenna, but the roles got switched. So Instead of Toby's dad getting married again when his mother died, his mother got remarried instead when his dad died. (I thought it would be interesting to break from the TV storyline with his parents.) More of that will get explained when Spencer goes over to her apartment for dinner. If you are still confused, no worries. haha! :)