CHAPTER #21: Sparia Timeline

Italics means thoughts, emphasized word or action. Bolded is a flashback. (….) is an indication that time has passed.

With the days flying by and the weather slowly increasing from the 30's into the 50's, the times are punched right in the middle of March. Assignments are now more thorough, exams are focusing on harder topics and the stress level are becoming just as high as everyone tries to keep their grades, social life, and their amount of sleep intact to a good balance. In regards to Spencer and Aria, they held their agreement with keeping their relationship status on the hush until they both feel ready. Although, Aria is a bit more closer to the edge than Spencer is, she respects Spencer's wishes because the matter of the subject is that they are both new to this. Coming out of relationships with their former boyfriends, the new scenery of being a relationship with another girl is different but couldn't more interesting since it's a secret after all. From the suggestive looks to the secretive quickies, they could both admit that maybe secret is good.

Walking past the lingering players as they leave the locker room, Aria checks her phone for the time. 6:15pm Knowing that Spencer should be out of practice by now, she decided to swing by and pick her up so she can possibly treat her to something to eat. With her car parked outside and warmed up for the cold, Aria takes a look around the room to find nobody inside but a loud buzzing sound.

Hmm.

Walking out of the locker room and down the quiet and concrete halls, Aria peeks into another room where she sees a couple females plugged into their phones working out. She opens the door and scans the area for her tall brunette only to not see her there either. Noticing a girl packing up her stuff, ready to leave, Aria politely stops her in hopes of her knowing Spencer.

"Hi, do you by any chance know a Spencer Hastings?"

"Yeah," The tired and hot blonde huffs out from her long workout, "She was here not too long ago."

"Would you know where she went?"

"Uhm….If she didn't leave, she would be in the locker room probably showering since we had a pretty intense training."

"Oh ok! Thank you!"

"Yeah, no problem."

Aria makes her way out of the weight room and walks back to the locker room she once was in to have a more thorough search. She enters farther into the room where she sees Spencer packing things into her bag from a location she wasn't in a few minutes ago.

"There you are." Aria smiles as she walks towards the brunette dressed in her blue Penn jumpsuit.

"Hey," Spencer turns around surprised at Aria's presence, "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to surprise you and pick you up," Aria wraps her arms around Spencer's neck and gives her a small kiss, "I was wondering if you wanted to go eat out someplace. The car is parked out front so you don't have to worry about walking anywhere."

"Well look who's being ever so thoughtful today," Spencer gives an appreciative smile as she cradles her hands on Aria's lower back.

"I always think of you." Aria coos as they both slowly sway side to side with her body pressed up against Spencer's.

"Oh, really?"

"Mmhmmm."

Spencer tilts her head up as she looks down at Aria with a small smirk, "What do you think about when you think of me?"

"I think good things….funny things…." Aria eyes drift downwards as her fingers teased the nape of Spencer's neck, letting her tongue slide across the bottom of her lip, "…bad things…"

"How bad?"

"Really bad." Aria tilts her head to the side with a small whine in her voice, "Like for example, I can smell that you just took a shower."

"I did." Spencer nods as her hands carefully slides up and down the back of Aria's open black leather jacket, "Blow dried my hair and everything,"

"And that just makes me want to get you dirty all over again….messing up your freshly dried hair." Aria deviously smiles as her fingers crawl up into Spencer's hair with a small tug with the grip of the roots before slowly releasing it. "Those kind of bad things."

Spencer presses her lips together as her eyes peel away from Aria's for a quick skim around to make sure nobody was in sight and that they were alone in the locker room. Because Spencer definitely wanted to be alone for what she was about to do next.

...

Spencer's movements were stealthy as she slipped into the storage room with her hand leading Aria. The smaller brunette does a swift double take of both directions before she walks into the dark, medium sized closet, silently closing the door behind her. Standing so close that she could feel the warmth of Aria's body backing into her, Spencer felt the sense of control leave her. She spins Aria around to face her and pulled her close, licking her lips before she kissed them. Her arms wrapped around the smaller brunette's body without hesitation, grabbing her ass and hoisting her up. Aria felt herself being spun around just before her back was pushed up against an open wall. Aria wraps her legs around Spencer's waist and moved her hips, grinding on her, sending Spencer into frenzy. Drawing her in tighter, Spencer's tongue searched out Aria's as her hands caressed over her thighs. Aria could feel Spencer's obvious hunger for her beginning to have an effect. Their tongues swirl around each other's with such sighing and moaning ever so softly that only they could hear each other. Dragging her lips down to Aria's jawline, still grinding her midsection against her, Aria's breathing starts to pick up an irregular pattern.

"I want you, baby." Aria whispers into Spencer's ear, "I want you so bad right now." Knowing how much this would get her going, Aria slides her hand down the brunette's chest to unzip her jacket.

An intense sense of a high makes Spencer put Aria back down on her feet and rip off her jacket before coming out of her own. The two immediately are drawn back into each other's embrace with fast but persistent kisses as Spencer glides her hand up Aria's shirt onto her chest. That raw, intense, super-buzzed feeling one gets when you know you could get caught at any moment but just feels too good to stop, Spencer and Aria press their luck in order to fulfill their boiling over desire for one another.

"Man, I'm beat as FUCK! WHOOO!"

Aria and Spencer immediately freeze in place as their heads snap in the direction on the storage door. With their quickened, hovered breathing and their bodies still pressed together, the two girls hear one female into the locker room.

"Today's practice was a biiiitch."

Make that two.

"Hey is that Spencer's stuff? Is she still here?

"I don't know. She's probably around here somewhere."

Standing there as possibly still as they can, Spencer wishes they had an invisibility cloak to shield them. However, staying as eerily quiet as possible was the second best move.

Don't come into the supply closet.

Don't come into the supply closet.

Don't come into the supply closet.

Don't come into the supply closet.

"Here. Toss these into the supply closet. It should be unlocked."

Fuuuuuuuuck!

Aria and Spencer silently panic as they pull away from each other, picking up their jackets from the floor in the process. Being completely dark inside, Spencer tries to remember to the best of her abilities how the closet was set up so she could help them hide. Within an instant, she yanks Aria's arm in the direction of the back of the closet and pulls her down behind the large locker of lacrosse sticks with very limited space between the back of the locker and the wall. Staying as flat as they can be, being shielded by the locker, Aria presses the front of her body completely against Spencer's front just as the closet door swings opens. With the overhead light flicking on, exposing the whole closet, the two girls stop breathing as the one of Spencer's teammates throw some objects within a crate of other objects.

Please go.

Please go.

Please go.

Please go.

Please go.

Please! Go!

Finishing what was needed to do, the lights turn off again and the door slams shut with the teammate leaving.

"Hey, do you want to head over to the Starbucks real quick? I'm in the mood for a peppermint double chocolatey chip frap."

"Holy shit that was a mouthful to say."

"Haha! I know right!"

Not daring to move, Spencer and Aria continue their silence until the voices fade out of the locker room and down the hallway. In the mist of safety, backing away from Spencer, Aria bends over with her hands on her knees as she catches her breath.

"That was way too close."

"Way too fucking close." Spencer responds back as she runs her hand through her hair, trying to remember how to breathe. "Where….where did you say you wanted to go earlier?"

"Well, I wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant, Han Dynasty." Aria replies as she puts back on her jacket. "That's if you still wanted to go."

"Yeah, yeah. We-we can still go. Chinese is fine."

Since their partnership decided in their Art class about a month ago, Mackenzie and Alexandria have been seeing the likes of Spencer and Aria more and more than originally planned. From an earlier perspective, the thought of the other group members were most likely going to be resulted in being around one another whenever an assignment or project was due. Other than that, Spencer and Aria would have thought that they would be mere acquaintances with the others. However, with their first project, the group found themselves together quite frequently until it was realized that Mackenzie and Alex would come over when there wasn't an assignment due but just to hang out. With the girls enjoying their company, all four college student have developed a tight knit group within the past weeks.

"We should have like a group name where we mix all out names together." Aria comments aloud as everyone sits on the floor of the living room with pillows, cushions and blankets sprawled out for comfort. Along with everyone holding a plastic cup of coconut Cîroc mixed with red Gatorade to enjoy their night, "Spencer and I have a name like that already."

"What is it?" Alex asks as the back of her head is rested against the front of couch and her legs on Mackenzie's back as a foot rest.

"Sparia." Aria gushes with her eyes almost closed and her cup raised in the air.

"Aww! That sounds so adorable." Alex's face lights up with a grin, "Sparia….We need one like that." The brunette wiggles her legs to get Mackenzie's attention.

"Already got it." Mackenzie lifts his head up, creating suspense in the room to unveil his creation, "…Kendrix."

"Ooooh," Spencer and Aria both nod their head in approval as Aria rests her head on Spencer's shoulders.

"That's actually cute!" Alex accepts with a laugh, "Team Kendrix!"

"Sounds better than my first thought….Kenlex." Mackenzie chuckles as he raises his head to take a mouthful out of his cup.

"That's way too close to Kleenex, the tissues." Spencer whispers loudly to Aria, making Mackenzie almost spit out his drink and everyone one else roar out a laughter in unison.

"Ok, what would everyone's names combine too?" Alex asks as her laughter dwindles down, "We all have pretty long names."

"Except Aria's whose length goes with her height." Mackenzie and Alex crack up in laughter as Aria slaps Spencer's arm, making the tipsy brunette giggle to herself.

"What about Spenkenalria?" Alex suggests.

"By the time we try to pronounce that, we'll all be dead." Aria frowns as she readjusts her sitting position with the pillow underneath her, "Let's just use the first letter of our first name."

"AMAS"

"SAMA"

"AASM"

"ASAM"

"MASA"

"Yeah…" Aria brings her cups to her lips as everyone spits out an idea of a group name, "That's gonna need some work."

"I just want to know, Mackenzie," Spencer starts up as she slowly rises to her feet, "what should we call you? Because your name is so long. Do you want be called Mac? Ken? Z? There are so many different options."

"I mean Ken is fine." Mackenzie responds, looking up at Spencer walk towards the kitchen.

"No wait. I got it…" Aria holds up a finger as she closes her eyes. "Mickey D's."

Spencer turns around in surprise with a snap and a finger point at the group, agreeing with Aria's suggestion. "Mickey D's!"

"Your name is Mac which is almost like Mc and your last name is Dillon with a D." Aria explains with a sense of boastfulness at the quick thinking, "Mickey D's."

"Woah, that is actually creative. I've never heard of a nickname like that." Alexandria leans over towards Aria raises a toasts, bumping both their cups together.

"Look at all the creativity flowing out of you, Aria." Mackenzie reaches for an unused pillow, "Maybe you should drink more so you can actually contribute to our assignments." He laughs as he chucks the pillow at Aria, causing the drunk group to burst out into hysterics again.

Being with Ken and Alex for as frequent as they are, Spencer and Aria felt that they were trust-worthy people enough and if anyone should know about them, it should be Ken and Alex. With the major potentials of slip ups, they would rather tell them upfront instead of being walked in on by accident.

Which almost happened once…

Knock! Knock!

Aria and Spencer immediately pull away from each other with startled looks at the door.

"Aria?" Mackenzie's voice sounds from behind the door,

"Just a minute!" Aria tries to calmly call out as she fumbles to get from under Spencer. "You have to hide!" Aria whispers as Spencer jumps off of Aria and frantically buttons her shirt.

"Hide?" Spencer whispers back, "Why-where am I gonna go?"

"Just…!" Aria frenziedly looks around in her small room before she looks back at the bed and pulls up the covers, "Hide under here!"

"Aria, I'm not hiding-"

"Just go!" Aria pushes Spencer into her bed with Spencer reluctant to get in at first. With no time, Spencer lays under the sheets as Aria covers her. Aria fixes her clothes with a quick run through of her hair before she puts pillows around Spencer. Trying to look as natural as possible, Aria makes the quick decision to sit on top of Spencer, causing the buried brunette to cough out a groan. "Come in!"

Mackenzie opens the door to find Aria looking up from her phone, sitting with her legs crossed and pulled into her. "So with the assignment, do you think it'll be better to go with a PowerPoint or a video because we can do either or." He asks with his head poked out from behind the door, "I just think if we incorporate it as a video, it'll be more fluid and to the point."

"Yeah, sure." Aria smiles with a head nod, "Video is fine."

"Okay, good. I tried to ask Spencer but…" Mackenzie takes a quick look behind him into the hallway before looking back at Aria, "I think she stepped out for a second."

"Oh, yeah. She should be back then." Aria assures him with the way of her hand.

"Alright," Mackenzie goes to close the door with Aria breathing out a sigh of relief before he opens it again making Aria quickly recover back into position, "Oh and you guys are out of pizza rolls."

Aria forces another smile, "Oh okay, thanks."

"Welcome."

With the door being closed and a few seconds of stillness, Spencer pushes her out of the burial of sheets as Aria hops off of her, breathing out fresh air, "Those was my pizza rolls!"

So, in order to prevent the sneaking from going bad, they just decided to rip off the Band-Aid with the only way they know how.

"So we're just going to come out and say this." Aria grasps her hands together as she takes in a deep breath, "Spencer and I are not only roommates….and best friends but…we are also together." Aria and Spencer stand side by side in the front of their living room with Alex and Ken sitting down. After a few seconds of silence, the two sitting down exchange brief looks before they start to snicker, trying to hold in their laughter.

Spencer narrows her eyes at their reaction with a raised eyebrow, "Why are you guys laughing?"

"We already kinda knew." Mackenzie glances at Alex with a head nod, "Well, Alex guessed it and told me and from then on we were just trying to pick up on the subtle signs."

Aria and Spencer mirror each other in crossing their arms as Aria gasps in amazement yet confusion, "Wait, how did you guys know?"

"I mean it was pretty evident sometimes. But if we want to be technical, Spencer pretty much gave it away." Alex flicks her eyebrow at Spencer who gives her an unsure look back.

"How did I give it away?"

"With those times when I would try to hook Aria up with someone, your face would just flare with jealously." Alex smirks as she leaned forward off her seat, "Remember Nick?"

"Ok, that doesn't count, Nick was an ass." Spencer uncrosses her arms with a roll of her eyes, "Even if I wasn't dating Aria, I still wouldn't have approved."

"Awww!" Aria turns to Spencer with her face light up in admiration, "You were jealous?"

"No, Aria." Spencer shakes her head with another eye roll, dismissing whatever accusation that was brought against her.

"That is so cute!" Aria latches onto Spencer's arm like a child as she nuzzles the side of her face on Spencer's long sleeve sweater.

"So who else knows about this?" Mackenzie curiously questions, "Just us?"

"Yep. Just you two." Spencer responds she Aria continues to hold tight onto her, "And that's kinda where it should stay until we're ready to go public."

"Safe with me."

"Yeah, you don't have to worry about anything."

"Thanks guys." Aria gives a warm smile as Mackenzie rises off the couch, walks up to the girls and stands behind them, wrapping his arms around them in a tight squeeze as he gives a wide grin.

"My little Sparia!"

Although the secret has expanded from two to four, taking their words, Aria and Spencer don't stress the fact that it'll get out unless it's done on their own time. Along with the social aspect of their life, Spencer goes on to deal with the academic portion as the offer of Penn GPA hangs over her like a cloud. Seeing that the details aren't as invasive as she originally thought, knowing how she was approached to be a part of the tight knit university club, she knew that she would never hear the end of it from her parents let alone Dr. Addison whenever she sees her on campus. After talking to Aria over it, understanding how it could help her in the future along with mapping out her current schedule, Spencer goes on to fill out the forms and turn them into the advisor for a seat on the Penn Political Union of the largest and most potent political group on campus. However, Spencer Hastings wouldn't be Spencer Hastings if she wasn't on Honors, in clubs and sports. Practicing nearly every day for about 3 hours along with working out with the team, Spencer has gained a respectable spot on the team as a third home. Not exactly the position she's used too but she's working her way into being a better player to get the better positions she believe she's meant for.

Already having a couple games under her belt, Spencer's team held an undefeated winning streak with 4-0. With their second home game against Georgetown University at 4pm inside of the Franklin Field, Spencer ties her hair into a high ponytail as she takes a quick look at her phone clock.

2:50pm

Knowing that she needs to be with the team by 3:30pm, Spencer calls out Aria's name while she walks over to her room where all her things are placed up in her blue, black and white Adidas sports bag. "Aria, I'm about to leave! Either you're ready and leave with me now or you just come at 4!"

Standing at the doorframe, oblivious to Spencer, Aria takes a long look at Spencer's uniform attire. Wearing her white short-sleeve top that reads "PENN" in large red letters along with the number 34 underneath, Spencer also wears a white long sleeve under-amour to help her with the brisk cold. Going down to her bottoms, she wears a small white Penn kilt with black under amour shorts underneath, finishing off with her white and red crew socks and her white and grey Warrior Low cleats.

"Looks like you're wearing the socks I brought you, huh?" Spencer turns her head in the direction of her door to see Aria fully dressed, leaning against the door frame with a sly smile.

"Yeah," Spencer goes back to her bag as she makes sure everything is in order, "I have a good feeling about this game so I'm wearing it for good luck."

"So I'm your winning charm?"

"Mhmmm. Only if I win today."

"Well, let's make sure you win today…" Spencer feels Aria's fingers carefully touch her thigh. Not catching onto Aria's subtle prowl, Spencer spins around to face the brunette.

"No, Aria." She pushes the smaller brunette's hand away, "Not now. I have to leave."

"You can't leave without your good luck charm." Aria purrs as she throws both arms around Spencer's neck.

Spencer groans as she removes Aria from her once again, "I have on the socks. That's my good luck. But if you keep messing around, I get to the game late, and we lose, you're going to be my bad luck."

"No, I'm your good luck." Aria continues to push on with sultriness in her voice. Trained on Spencer, Aria's eyes were glazed over as if she was drunk, however, the mood she was in was taking over and darkened her with pure lust. "Me, Aria Montgomery, I'm your good luck." She pushes Spencer onto her bed on her back before Aria crawls on top like a mountain lion targeting its prey. "Now if you just be a good girl, you will get all the luck you need for this game." Aria pulls the dangling stand of hair behind her ear before she leans down to kiss Spencer.

"I'm going to be late, Aria." Spencer mutters out between Aria's kisses as she feels her defenses weakening.

Aria pulls away from Spencer as she hovers above her, "It'll only take 10 minutes." She whispers gently as she runs a finger down Spencer's chest, "I won't even mess up your precious little uniform." Aria bends back down to place soft kisses on Spencer's neck as Spencer tries to time everything in her head. With every passing second of Spencer's willpower diminishing, Spencer ultimately caves in.

"Alright. Ten minutes. That's it."

"That's all I need." Aria growls into Spencer's ear before she pins both of Spencer's hands down into the bed, dipping her tongue to trace Spencer's lips.

Finding Alexandria and Mackenzie sitting in the middle of the student's home section, surrounded by roughly 100 people, Aria makes her way past the mixed, tight yet supportive crowd with a can of Mountain Dew in one hand and a plastic box of nachos drizzled in cheese in the other just after the singing of the national anthem was sung.

"Hey, what took you so long? We've been waiting here for you since before four." Mackenzie asks, taking a nacho chip as Aria walks past him to the open seat on the right of Alex.

"Yeah, why didn't you answer my texts? I asked you if you could pick me up some skittles while you were down there," Alex questions as well.

"I didn't want to leave without getting something to eat," Aria keeps a straight face as she puts the nachos on her lap and cracks open her soda, "Unfortunately, my appetite wasn't fully satisfied since I only had ten minutes before I had to leave." The brunette informs her two amigos as she raises the drink to her mouth.

"What did you eat?" Mackenzie leans forward with his head tilted at Aria. Aria chokes on her soda a bit as she puts her hand over her mouth to prevent anything coming out. Surrounding game-watchers turn their heads at Aria as she quickly redeems herself. "Wait, what did I say?" Mackenzie confusedly turns to Alex in wondering why Aria reacted the way she did.

Aria wipes off her jacket as she tries her hardest not to laugh out loud at everyone's concerned faces, "I'm okay, I just…swallowed too fast." Aria looks out into the field to see everyone setting up for the first draw of the game, "Hey look, it's about to start," Aria points out in front of her to change the subject, "Let's go, Penn! Whooo!"

With the timer hitting 0:00, the Penn girls celebrate their win as the supporters rise to their feet, celebrating in the stands as well.

Waiting for Spencer by the exit of the field after she was done with her team, all three friends congratulate Spencer on yet another win as Aria jumps up into her arms.

"I told you I'm your good luck charm," Aria whispers in Spencer's ears as she disguises it as a celebratory hug.

With the constant support from Aria and her new two set of friends, Spencer stress level lowers more and more knowing that her handle of things aren't so bad. Well…Since she's controlling it.

…..

Sitting on Aria's bed, Spencer attends to her computer screen as Aria paces back and forth in thought.

"Thelma and Louise?"

"No."

"Morello and Nicky from Orange is the New Black."

"No."

Aria snaps her fingers with a lightbulb moment, "Kelly Kapowski and Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell!"

"No, Aria." Spencer shoots down Aria's suggestion without even looking up from her computer screen.

"Why not?!" Aria whines as she throws herself face down on the bed next to Spencer, "It's perfect. I'm Kelly and you're Jessie!"

"Because I don't want to dress up as them."

"C'mon. We would totally be like them if we were back in the 80's."

"But we're not in the 80's so no."

Aria groans as Spencer continues to type away at her keyboard. Getting invited by one of her fellow peers in her Western English class, Aria tries to come up with an idea for a costume for her and Spencer to go together with. Seeing the theme "Couple of Pairs Party", Party-goers in pairs, whether dating or just friends, must come in costume with a pair of their liking. It could be as realistic or as wild as long as it's in good taste. Getting shut down with every direction, Aria tries to rack her brain with a sensible idea for the Friday night.

"Why are you being so difficult with this?" Aria questions as she rests her head on the palm of her hand being held up by her elbow.

"Because I'm not interested in any of those pairings." Spencer sighs out nonchalantly.

After a moment of pure silence, a daring idea pops into Aria's head that make her widely grin in mischief. "I know exactly who we're going as and you're not going to say no to this one."

"Wanna watch me say it anyways?"

"Look at me, Spencer." Aria demands, causing Spencer to peel her eyes away to look at the brunette nodding in complete cunning notion with her smile wide. "I'm going as Hugh Hefner and you're going as a Playboy Bunny."

"HELL. NO." Spencer leans into Aria with seriousness ruminating in her voice and her face, "How the hell did you jump from Saved by the Bell to Playboy?!"

"Because that's who we are going as on Friday night. Hefner and one of his girls."

"Aria, I don't know if the gerbil in your head is working in overtime, therefore not allowing to think clearly but no." Spencer sternly points at Aria with her eyebrows pinched as Aria continues to look on with a smile. "There is no way on God's green beautiful yet sinful earth am I dressing up as a playboy bunny. At a party. With people I don't know. Half naked. You must be out of your sex-crazed mind."

….

"I just want to say Playboy is unbearably oppressive to women by treating them like objects and adds to the narrative of rape culture and misogyny."

"Spencer, shut up." Aria responds to the brunette out of the left side of her mouth as she holds in a pipe in the right, crouching down besides Spencer in a pose for the camera.

"This is fucking golden." Alex laughs as she takes the picture of the couple before she walks over and shows them. There you have Spencer sporting her hair out in long curls with a black and white bowtie around her neck along with a strapped black corset top. Underneath her black leather shorts, matte black stockings covering her legs with the finishing touches of white cuffs, black bunny ears and black and gold 3" heels so she won't tower over her Aria.

And then you have the next pair, Aria, wearing a white captain navy hat on top of her high ponytail along with a silk black and gold smoking robe that stops mid-thigh resting over her black skinnies and black and gold loafers. Wearing her Michael Kors gold watch on her right hand along with a couple rings, Aria poses crouched down next to a backwards modeled Spencer. She squeezes under the crease of Spencer's ass with a smug, conceited look for the camera with a signature pipe sticking out of her mouth.

"Oh my gosh! YES!" Aria jumps up and down excitedly at her small photoshoot, "Send that to me right now."

Spencer takes a peak over at Alex's phone to see the fantastic shot Aria is raving about. Actually liking her serious model-like face along with Aria cocky look, Spencer laughs as she gives the phone back to Alex, "Yeah, send that to me too."

"Let's take another because we look too damn sexy tonight." Aria brags as she stands back in place with Spencer. "Here, let's stand side by side this time." Standing on the left side of Aria with one arm around her shoulder and Aria's hand palming her ass, Spencer crouches down a bit to rests the side of her face next to Aria's face as Aria takes in a breath and holds the pipe in her free hand, slowly letting the smoke leave her mouth.

"Oh shit! That's real?!" Mackenzie gasps in surprise as Alex takes the picture. "I thought that was a fake wooden pipe!"

"Na uh," Aria smiles as she smacks her lips, "This is a vape pipe with a nicely flavored juice."

"Since when did you buy that?" Spencer looks at Aria out of pure shock.

"Since when I knew I was going to be Hugh Hefner! See, try it!" Aria passes the pipe to Spencer who waves it down.

"No thanks."

"What-you don't trust me?"

Spencer looks at Aria whose eyes are twinkling with confidence but also hopefulness that Spencer wouldn't think of her that way. "It's not that I don't trust you…" Spencer sighs, "I'm just not into that."

"Just try one take and tell me how you feel about it. It doesn't have nicotine or anything so you're fine." Aria keeps on in a playful manner, gently pushing her.

"Fine…" Spencer takes the pipe of out Aria's hand and brings it up to eye level so she could see how it worked, "What do I do?"

"When you press the button, the coil inside heats up the oil and allows you to inhale." Aria points to the mid part of the pipe.

"Press this button and inhale at the same time?"

"Mhmmm. Then you let go when you're finished." Aria instructs as she carefully watches Spencer's facial expression. Spencer nods as she raises the nozzle to her mouth, thinking to herself before she puts the nozzle to her mouth and sucks in the vapor for about three seconds. Not fully inhaling the smoke into her lungs but only housed in her mouth, Spencer blows out the smoke before she starts smacking her lips with a squint in her eyes.

"What?" Aria gazes at Spencer with a faint smile on her lips.

Grabbing the taste she thought she tasted, Spencer's eyes widen as she quickly looks at the pipe. "No way. This….this…" She turns to look Aria who is trying to hold her grin back, "This taste just like Cinnamon rolls!"

"Uh-Huh…"

"Like…." Spencer smacks her lips some more, running her tongue on her top lip, "I can actually taste the sweet roll when I inhale and a cinnamon taste when I exhale." Spencer smile turns big like she just discovered Utopia, laughing in astonishment, "It seriously tastes like a Cinnamon roll!" Aria nods her head with a pleased smile as Spencer looks back at the pipe in her hands.

"Let me try it!" Mackenzie excitedly jumps at hearing Spencer's reaction.

"You guys are too fucking cute!" Alex gushes as she brings down her phone, taking a video and pictures of the whole experience. "I'm about to die in sexiness overload."

Spencer takes another inhale before passing Aria's pipe to an eager Mackenzie.

"That reminds me," Aria looks at Mackenzie up and down as he takes a huff before giving it back, "Who the hell are you supposed to be?"

"We're Donnie and Debbie from the Wild Thornberrys." Alex informs as she gives a flip to her thick and wavy, natural looking blonde wig.

"Oooooh!" Aria snaps in revelation at the pairs' matching idea, "I thought Ken was Tarzan and you were…someone I couldn't put my finger on."

"Nope. I originally wanted to go as Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas from Desperado but he kept pitching a fit about it. We could have looked as hot and sexy as you two but noooo, 'I look nowhere near Spanish nor do I look like Antonio Banderas' he cries out." Alex mocks with a roll of her eyes. Rocking the blonde waves and dark grunge makeup, wearing headphones around her neck with an open and oversized plaid green shirt over her small orange crop top, Alex has on distressed baggy jeans cuffed at the bottom over her black Steve Madden combat boots. As her partner, Mackenzie's only article of clothing is a long animal print shorts and scandals with his normally clean hair rugged and wild. "Thankfully I can pull off blonde." Alex brags, "Debbie Thornberry with a minor ethnic twist."

"You guys still look cute," Spencer comments out, applauding their outfit dedication.

"You should have done Esmeralda." Aria points out to Alex, "That's someone you probably could have pulled off very well."

"Uhm!" Mackenzie interjects with his eyebrows pinched at the girls, "And who was I supposed to be? Hunchback of Notre Dame?"

Aria cracks up in laughter as she finds Mackenzie's disgusted face to be hilarious, "You could have if you wanted to."

"Luckily, I can play the stereotypical 90's teen very well." Alex explains before she relaxes her expression into a resting bitch face with her eyes lowered in non-caring attitude, "C'mon, Donnie." She calls out in her version of a Californian accent behind her deepened and husked vocals, "We're going to be late for the party."

Mackenzie begins to incoherently babble with his tongue wildly hanging out as he impersonates his character. He hobbles over like a monkey towards Aria and snatches her sailor hat, putting it on his head before leaping on top of the couch, "To the seas of Australia!" Mackenzie shields his eyes with his hand and sticks out his chest like a captain manning his ship.

"Perfect," Spencer laughs at Mackenzie's spot on impression, "We have Hugh Hefner and his playmate along with Debbie with her monkey brother."

Mackenzie springs off the couch onto the floor as he crawls around with back hunched over and tongue out. He continues to babble in ramblings as he scouts towards Aria and Spencer. He takes a wonder around the girls one time before he stops at Spencer. Tilting his head to the side with his brows furrowed, Mackenzie curiously smacks Spencer's butt before he exclaims and quickly retreats backwards.

"Ok, no." Spencer wags a finger at Mackenzie as if he was a disobedient dog, "Bad monkey boy. Bad."

"Hey, if you want a smack, that'll $10." Aria bites on the mouthpiece of her pipe, letting it hang from her mouth. Spencer shoots her a confused look which only causes Aria to shrug in response, "What? Time is money. I can't have people smacking your ass for free."

"Oh god. I just became a prostitute." Spencer groans out, making all three other friends to laugh out.

"Alright, selfie time!" Alex unlocks her phone and clicks her camera app, lifting her phone in the air, "Let's take some pictures before we leave!"

Who knew so many things could happen in 3 weeks.

Sneaking around, winning games, making new friends, coming out to the friends, quickies, and now a costume party as Hugh Hefner, a Playmate, and Debbie and Donnie Thornberry.

Brilliance, wouldn't you say?

I wonder what holds in store for them next?