Hey you guys hows it going? It's just another sunny (yet chilly) day in Cali over here. Well I've been trying to think of some things to put in this next chpt. Hopefully you guys enjoy it! Thx again for the reviews!!! Love them! Love them! Love them:)
Don't worry you guys this next chpt will be nothing but Spashley!!! Hahaha I know you guys are waiting for that and I promise it will be here. Sorry for the long delay.
To The End
Spencers POV
It's Saturday morning and here I am stuck in the house. I need to get out and do something.
I can not wait until Ashley gets here Monday.
Hmmm where to go? And what to do?
"Mom I'm going out." I yelled as I was standing by the door waiting for her responce.
"Where you going honey?" Ha. I wish I knew.
"I'm not sure. But I'll be home later ok."
"Ok. Be careful." I walked outside the door and the burst of wind made me shiver under my jacket. Winter was on its way and I knew that the snow will be coming. Oh can't wait for blocked off roads and snow days for school. At least that is one of the good points of school. Having those opportunities where you can't make it in because of the snow for school is awesome. I'm just glad that it's Winter break right now for school. Awww all this time off until after New Years. I'm loving every minute of it. I just wish that Ashley was here as well.
I quickly got into my car and I pulled out my cell phone.
Ring
Ring
"What do you want women?" Oh. My. Gosh. That's where I got the word "Women" from. Remind me to hate her for it later.
"Well hello to you to Jaimie. I was just calling to see what you were doing right now."
"I'm just sitting here trying to find something to watch on TV. Why? What are you doing?"
"Sitting in my car hoping that you will come out of your house and go driving with me. I'm really bored and I want to get out of here for awhile."
"Hmm sounds good to me let's go driving."
Yes! I got someone to come with me. This should be fun. A road trip. I always loved going on those with Ashley during the summer time. Let's just say that those summer nights were awesome. Damn she needs to hurry up and get home.
"Ok good. I'll pick you up in a few minutes ok." I shut the phone off and then I started the car.
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"I want to pick the music." I looked over at her and I was not going to let her pick the music. It's my car and besides that women does not have good taste in music.
"Uhhh uhhh. I pick."
"Take me back home."
"Shut up. Ok pick something from my CD case. I'm sure that there's something that you will like in there." At least I knew that there was everything that I liked in there because they were my CD's.
"Fine." Jaimie went through the CD case and I just drove and didn't have a clue where I was heading. I brought the map just in case we needed it but I doubt that we would. I know most of Ohio so I wasn't worrying about it.
"Do you know where we are going?" Of course she would ask that. Never can she just up and go and experience something new.
"Nope I don't. I just wanted to drive and get out of Cambridge. Don't you ever get like that?" I glanced over at Jaimie waiting to hear her responce. She was to involved in finding a CD. Gees she is impossible sometimes.
"Earth to Jaimie."
"Hmm." Oh wow she knows how to communicate.
"Nevermind. Have you found anything yet?"
"Yeah. Who's this?" She showed me the CD.
"Thats Kate Voegele. She's awesome. I just bought her CD last weekend."
"Ok I guess we can give her a try then. You sure she's good?"
"Yes Jaimie. Gees."
We were sitting in the car listening to the CD and just enjoyng the view around us. All of the leaves were pretty much off the trees and everything was looking like Winter was about to hit.
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It was about an hour later and I was driving aimlessly through Ohio and Jaimie decided to take a nap. What a buddy to travel with. She can't even stay up to keep me company. I saw a sign and it said Canton so I decided that I would stop there to get some food. I was already starving because I didn't eat breakfast this morning. Which I should of but of well I guess.
I drove through the town looking for the nearest gas station and then pulled over to get some gas.
"Jaimie. Jaimie!" I nudged her a few times and then she finally started to come out of her sleep.
"Damn it's about time. Did you not get sleep last night or what?" She looked at me whipping the sleep out of her eyes and she looked around the area before she even said anything to me.
"Where are we?"
"Canton. I stopped to get gas and something to eat. So you better get up and get what you need because I'm not doing it for you."
Jaimie got out of the car and a guy came up to us. He looked like he was the gas attendant. He was this big muscle looking guy whipping his greasy hands on a towel with a smile on his face.
God please don't let this turn out to be like the movie, Wrong Turn.
"How may I help you ladies today?"
"We just need a fill up and some snacks that's all." The guy looked at the car and then back to us. Freaky much.
"Alright. I can do that for ya."
"Thanks." We both said in unison as we made our way into the store to get some snacks.
I looked around the store and I picked up a few things that I thought would satisfy me where as Jaimie grabbed all of this junk food and all I could do is shake my head at her.
"What? It's a road trip right? Junk food is necessary when you are on these things." I laughed at her comment and then made our way over to the counter. Of course we had to wait there until the guy was finished with our gas.
"Has Ash called you?" I swear it was like right when Jaimie said her name my cell phone rang. Hmm I never thought I would get reception over here. I smiled when I saw her name on the screen. I swear it's been two days since I've talked with her. She's been busy with her dad lately that we haven't had time to talk.
"Let me guess that's Ashley." I shook my head yes just as I answered the phone with a huge grin on my face.
"Hey beautiful. I've missed you so much." The guy came into the store and started to ring up our food for us.
"I'm so sorry I haven't had time to call you. I feel so bad baby."
"Is there anything else?" The guy came out as I was about to respond back to Ashley.
"No that's it thank you." I gave Jaimie the money and I walked a few feet away so I could talk to Ashley.
"Who's that Spence?"
"Oh just the guy at the store. Jaimie and I are on a road trip. So we stopped in Canton to get some gas and food." She was silent for a second there.
"So I guess you haven't missed me then."
"Are you kidding me? I haven't stopped missing you since you got on that plane to go to LA. Of course I have silly. I love you and I can't wait until you get back on Monday."
"I can't wait either. Last night you were in my dreams and I woke up hoping that you were in my bed but you weren't there. I hate being away from you for so long. I mean I know that we were away from eachother alot of last year but still I thought those days were behind us."
"Babe next time you go somewhere you have to take me with you." I told her when I stepped outside with Jaimie right behind me.
"You don't have to worry about that. You'll be right by my side." I smiled at her comment and then I had to get off the phone. It was time to get back on the road.
"Babe I have to get going." I told her as I sat in the car. Jaimie was digging through the bag eating so I didn't have to worry about her at any point soon. Her and her food. I swear sometimes I wonder where it all goes.
"Please be careful." And that would be the second person to come out and tell me that today. They act like I get myself into trouble alot or something.
"Don't worry we will be fine. I'll call you tonight ok. Love you."
"Can't wait. Love you too."
I closed my phone and glanced over to Jaimie who was looking at me while her face was full.
"Are you happy now?" I smiled at her and I knew from her stuffed cheeks that she was content.
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"All by myself. Don't want to be all by myself anymore." You have got to be kidding me.
"Jaimie stop."
"It's hard to be sure-"
"Jaimie!" She finally stopped. This is the last time I take her on a road trip with me. I don't think I can handle this anymore.
"Sorry. It's been stuck in my head since it came on the radio earlier."
"Well at least sing it to yourself. Please."
"Fine. Fine. Gees someones in a grouchy mood. It's because you haven't seen Ashley for a week huh."
Ughhh. Maybe that was why. I missed her so much. I thought that this trip would be great but all it's making me do is think. When I think I usually get in trouble.
"Do you know where we are now?"
"Yeah we are in Euclid."
"You know I've lived in Ohio my whole life but I don't know any of these towns we have gone through."
"That's because you always stay south of Ohio. You never venture out to the North like Ash and I do. Over the summer we will travel up to Lake Eerie and take out the jet skiis. We always have fun."
I arched my back alittle trying to pop my back. We had been in the car for five hours now.
"So is that where we're going?" Jaimie asked.
"Yeah I thought we could get out there for alittle and then head home. Is that fine with you?"
"Whatever you want to do Spence is fine with me."
So we continued to drive through Euclid and I just listened to the radio not really paying attention to much. I had my mind on Ashley the whole time. Which of course had my mind off of driving completely. So I didn't see the raccon in the road.
"ANIMAL!" Jaimie scream as loud as she could and my head snapped back into focus and I swirved off the road real fast and the the next thing I hear was my tire popping. I tried to control myself with the car as I had both hands on the wheel. I finally came to a complete stop with my heart racing a mile a minute.
"SHIT!" I screamed out loud because I was so mad. I looked over at Jaimie and she was breathing hard as well.
"Are you ok?" She had these big brown eyes that looked like they were scared for their life.
"I'm so sorry Jaimie. I wasn't paying attention and I didn't see the animal. What the hell was it anyways?"
"I think-I think a raccon." She finally spitted out.
"Damn it the car." I quickly got out and I looked at the front of the tire and it was popped completely. Now what were we going to do? I looked at my phone and I had no service.
"Jaimie do you have service?" I walked over to her side of the car as she pulled it out trying to still compose herself.
"No. What's the next town?" Jaimie asked as I looked down the road to see if I can see a car coming but I didn't. This was perfect. Of course whenever I want to do something everything goes wrong.
"I'm guessing we are like a few miles from Mentor. Because we are almost to Lake Eerie and Mentor is by it so we can walk there to get a tow truck."
"Walk?" She looked at me as she got out of the car with a glare on her face.
"What else do you expect us to do Jaimie? I'm not leaving you here and I'm not getting into a car with a stranger. So we walk!"
"Fine lets go."
We grabbed our things out of the car and we started a trail to Mentor. Ashley and I would travel through Mentor but we wouldn't stop. We were always in a rush to get there that we never paid attention to the places around us that much. We would always stop in Akron or Cleveland on the way.
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1 hour later.
"Are we there yet?" I swear I knew how she felt but I wasn't whinning like she was.
"Must you whine so much. It's called excersie now deal with it. If you didn't scarf all the food down then you wouldn't be crying right now would you."
"Shup up Miss I have to eat nothing but healthy foods. Who does that on a road trip?"
"Me. Now stop complaining we should be there soon."
We trucked it for another thirty minutes and we came to the sign Welcome to Mentor.
How lovely. A very quante little town. This should be fun.
At first it was a few homes as we walked through and then we finally came to the town. Now where was the gas station.
"Do you see the gas station?"
"No but theres a restaurant. We can ask them." I swear if she was thinking about food I was about to scream.
We walked into the restraunt and it was like The Outer Limits or something. Everyone in there was looking at us as if we were outsiders. What a warm welcoming.
"Can I help you with something?" A older women asked us as we stood there not really wanting to move.
"We needed to find a tow truck to get our tire fixed. We got a flat tire about 5 miles south of here."
"Of course." The older lady walked outside and pointed us in the right direction. We said thank you and then walked over towards the gas station.
"I swear I don't even want to go to the lake anymore." I looked over at Jaimie and I felt bad for putting her through this all. I know that the whole point was to get away and try to have some fun but it seems like she didn't really have any fun at all.
"That's fine we will get the car fixed and then head home. I'm really sorry about this all. I didn't mean for anything to go wrong today Jaimie. I just wanted to get away and have some fun you know."
"I know Spence and I'm really glad that you invited me. I mean besides everything that just happened towards the end of the trip it was fun. So don't worry about it. I'm fine ok." I smiled at her and we got to the gas station shortly.
"Excuse me." A young brunette turned around to face me and it looked like she could be 18 or 19. She was wearing a green hoodie and pair of jeans. She smiled at the both of us and she seemed like she was pretty friendly.
"Do you know where the guy is? We need to get our car towed and the tire fixed."
"Yeah. Actually he just went out to get something from his house but he'll be back shortly if you don't mind waiting."
"Nah that's ok. We'll wait."
Jaimie and I stood there looking around the town when the brunette spoke up.
"Can I ask you where you're from?" I turned my attention over to her and I responded back.
"We live in Cambridge and we were just heading over to Lake Eerie but then I had to swirve off the road and I blew the tire."
"An Animal?" I shook my head yes while smiling at how stupid that must of sounded.
"Trust me. I've had to dodge a few of those damn animals myself so I know what your talking about." We all stood there laughing at the situation.
"By the way I'm Brittany." She reached her hand out so I could shake it and so I did.
"Hey. I'm Spencer and this is Jaimie my bestfriend."
"Well it's nice to meet you guys. Sometimes I get so bored around here that it's always fun to meet knew people when they come through. Usually I'm at home but today I decided to help out my uncle while he took care of somethings at home."
"Yeah I know what you mean about getting out because that's the whole reason we came over to Lake Eerie. I was so sick of being home that I needed to get out and I remembered all of the good times with my girlfri-" I paused at the word and I could see the expression on her face change. She's probably thinking oh please get this lesbian out of my town. I looked at Jaimie and then back at Brittany.
"Your girlfriend." Brittany finished the rest of the sentence for me.
"Um yeah. My girlfriend Ashley." With a few awkward moments there Brittany started laughing. Hmm I wonder what was so funny.
"It's ok Spencer. I don't care. In fact I had a girlfriend but things didn't work out with us. So its perfectly fine with me. Hahaha. Your face expression was awesome when you came out and slipped about Ashley. You looked like you were expecting the worse of me or something."
"Well I didn't know what to expect about that whole subject so I was going to keep it to myself but I just came out and said it. Trust me I've gotten alot of grief from my family and people in my own town."
"Yeah that's like me with my ex. It was really hard for my family to accept it. I still don't think that they have fully liked the idea but what are they going to do send me to bootcamp to set me straight."
Brittany laughed at that comment and I didn't really because that's exactly where Paula wanted to send me when she found out about Ashley and I. Let's just say that it was not so pretty around the house then.
"So Jaimie do you swing our way?" I laughed at that and I then looked over at Jaimie.
"Nope. I'm straight."
"That's cool. Nothing wrong with that." Brittany said.
Just as we were standing there a guy shows up with his truck.
"Is that your uncle?" I asked Brittany.
"Yeah let me go tell him that you need him to get your car." So we stood there for about five minutes and then they both came over to us and he asked where exactly it was. I told him that it was about 5 miles or less down south. He shook his head ok and then I gave him my keys.
I looked down at my phone and I checked the time. It was already going to be 6. Hopefully everything is finished with the car by 8. Of course we wont be able to get back home until 2 the most. I wasn't really tired anymore so I was pretty sure that I would be able to get us back home without any worries. Well anymore worries that is.
"So while you guys are waiting do you still want to make it to the lake?" Brittany brought me out of my thoughts.
I looked back at Jaimie and she shrugged her shoulders as if she didn't mind.
"Yeah that would be great. Thanks."
Brittany grabbed her car from around back and we hoped in driving over to the lake. The sun was down and the air had gotten colder. So much for wishing it was warm again. It was two summers ago when Ashley and I were here together. We layed out and got a tan enjoying everything around us and didn't have any worries. Man how I miss those days.
"What are you thinking?" Brittany came around from behind me as I was sitting on the ground looking over at the lake.
"About the old times and how I wish I could go back to them." Brittany took a seat next to me as we continued to talk. While Jaimie was walking along the water.
"So if you don't mind me asking. Where's your girlfriend?" I brought my knees up to my chest as I leaned my chin on them.
"She's in LA right now with her sister and dad. She spent Thanksgiving over there."
"Why didn't you go?"
"It's a really long story but to sum it up we kind of had to have some time apart I guess you can say. There were alot of things that happened in my life lately that had kind of gotten in the way of our relationship. She didn't want to leave me but I told her that she needed to be with her family. So she left and shes been gone for about a week now. I miss her so much. She's my everything and I know that it's been a long time since I've told her that. We're actually suppose to be getting married in April." I lifted up my hand to show Brittany the ring. Brittany smiled big and grabbed my hand to look at it closer.
"That's awesome Spencer. I'm happy for you two." I smiled at her and went back to looking out at the water.
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Everything was done with the car and we were standing outside waiting for it to be filled up. Of course Jaimie got her food for the road and I made sure I had my coffee for the road. I didn't want to fall asleep at the wheel. Again.
"Thank you so much for your help Brittany and for taken us over to the lake."
"Yeah thanks for that." Jaimie chimed in at the same time.
"I was happy to do it you guys. I had fun. You should definitely come through the next time your over here but of course next time come in the summer." I laughed at her and I shook my head ok. I didn't know what it was but I wanted to get over here and get to the lake. Yeah I know that it was cold but I loved the memories and just being here again had made me feel closer to Ashley.
"I'll make sure to mention it to Ashley when we do come up."
"Good then we can all hang out and it will be fun."
We said our goodbyes and got back into the car. I was so ready to be back home in my bed and wait for Ashley to come home. So as we drove all night I knew that I was heading home to something other then bad memories but more like to a lifetime of happiness. Ashley has always been that person to look to and she would be there. I'm so glad to have her in my life.
(A/N: OH MY GOSH!!! I'm so sorry for that LONG ASS update! I was thinking of deleting it but I'm telling you right now I didn't feel like coming up with something else at the time. I've been having the worse time writing lately and it sucks. I really hope that u guys dont hate me...because i think I would!!! I really hope that my mind gets back into writing better...or what not! Thx again though for waiting and putting up with my writing problems!! Luv Ya Guys!!!)