Disclaimer: Don't own it.

Guest GoMe: Spencer's got her ammo prepared. Ready for a fight? You'll see her fight for Ashley in the chapter after this one or so but its close. And how things will go with the whole Spencer/Kade talk, well you'll just have to wait and see.

Odunit: Don't be sad, they'll get back together soon enough

Chapter 20: I Realized Something

Spencer's POV

The bell rang and I gathered my things and headed out of Mr. Jenson's class. When I finally got my two, very large textbooks to sit comfortably in my hands, I raised my head to only be met by staring eyes.

No, sadly they're not Ashley's.

There are some girls leaning up against the lockers and they're whispering to each other and looking at me in a way I can't describe.

And it continued the further I walked. There were even some guys doing it!

Ew. No not that way. Get your head out of the gutter and stay up here with me please!

A brunette came into my view and she winked at me on her way by.

Ok. Weird.

This never happened before.

I wonder if anyone found out about Ashley and I's breakup?

It can't be because the bathroom was empty.

I wonder if Ashley …

Nah, she wouldn't do that. Would she?

I finally got to my locker after more weird encounters with passersby. I entered the code and opened my locker to be met by folded strips of paper. A few even fell to the floor.

What is this?

I picked up those that fell and unfolded one of them.

234-5678, Michelle

Call me cutie

You won't regret it.

Stunned at what I just read, I reached into my locker and opened the others. They were all the same. A name, a number, and a little note; some more suggestive than others.

I wonder why this is happening now. It never happened when I was outed so it's confusing that it's happening now.

I put my books and all the papers back inside and got out the book I needed for my next class and then closed the locker only to be met by a person standing next to me.

She almost made me jump out of my skin!

Now I just want to wipe that stupid smirk off her face.

"Fucking hell Chels! You scared the crap outta me!"

Her smirk grew even wider. Just she wait; I'll get her back.

"You should thank me. At least now you wouldn't have any crap to put up with." She chuckled.

"Not funny." I side stepped her and started walking away. "I could've gotten a heart attack."

"Oh stop being a drama queen Spence." She caught up with me and looped her arm in mine. "I'm guessing everyone found out about you and Ashley's breakup and that's why you got all those numbers?"

"It seems so. But the question I want the answer to is how."

Just as we stepped into the quad, we were approached by a dirty blonde. "Hi Spencer." She smiled.

"Um hi?"

I looked at Chelsea and she just gave me a slight shrug of her shoulders.

"I was wondering if you'd maybe want to go out sometime?" She reached for my hand that Chelsea wasn't holding, but I quickly pulled it back.

I looked at Chelsea again, this time for help.

"She's not interested. Bye-bye." Chelsea gave her a fake smile and a wave.

The girl glared at her before looking back at me sweetly. "What'd you say?"

I shook my head. "No thanks."

"Come on. Don't be like that." She reached for my hand again, but Chelsea used the advantage of our joined hands to pull me backwards and she stepped in front of me.

"She. Said. No." Chelsea's venomous voice spoke to her.

The girl finally got the hint and scurried past us, mumbling things under her breath.

"Thanks." I gratefully hugged her. I couldn't ask for better friends.

"Don't thank me; I'm just doing my job as your best friend." She gave me a toothy grin and dragged me in the direction of our table.

As we got closer, we saw that our table was occupied by strange feminine faces who seem to be waiting for something … or someone. We stood away from it and tried to search for our friends who were nowhere in sight. Then Chelsea and I's phone rang at the same time. I got a text and so did she.

Table surrounded by Spencer thirsty bitches. Meet us in the caf instead – Kels

When we finished we turned to each other and giggled. "Cafeteria it is then."

We pushed open the door of the cafeteria and I'm hit with the reasons I prefer eating outside in the quad than in this clustered place. First off, it's very noisy in here because almost everyone is talking and their sound waves are just bouncing off the walls. Secondly, the scents from different people's food and the caf's food mix together and form an unpleasant scent. Last but not least, the air conditioning is never at a right temperature. It's either warm enough to cover your body in a light sheen of sweat, or cold enough to be freezing your boobs off … or in a guy's case, nipples.

As we spotted our friends I noticed two things. One, the table Ashley's sitting at is right next to them. If I had to, I would say that this is faith's way of telling us that we belong together. And two, a bunch of girls are surrounding Ashley.

At least she looks annoyed so I know she's not enjoying the attention.

Chelsea and I sat at the table and eyes were staring at me expectantly.

"What?" I asked.

"Did you and Ashley broadcast your breakup or something?" Carmen asked.

"Or did you do it in public?" Stephanie asked.

I quirked an eyebrow at her and she rolled her eyes.

"I didn't mean it like that. Head out of the gutter Spencer, you need to stay up here."

"I don't know Steph. I am a lesbian so my head needs to be down under most of the time …"

"Stop Spencer. Just stop right there." Stephanie shook her head and I just laughed.

"And um no we didn't do it publicly; we were in the restroom." I said.

"And you're sure that the stalls were completely empty?" Kelsey asked.

"Well no … but it was awfully quiet in there."

"Spencer, nobody is gonna make themselves known if they were listening to the breaking up of the most popular cheerleader and her girlfriend." Glen said.

Hmm … he does have a point there, but I could've sworn we were alone.

"Somebody was totally there Spence. And they didn't keep what they heard to themselves because the two of you are the talk of the school right now." We watched as several girls walked by and winked at me. "And these girls didn't come out of nowhere for nothing." Chelsea said as she glanced over at Ashley's table.

"Maybe you're right. But the question now is, who?"

I was starting to get angry. I wanted to know who the person was that spread this news and what possessed them to do it.

A girl approached our table and she chose the absolute worst time because Hurricane Spencer is coming and she's about to make a storm.

"Not now." I angrily spat at the poor girl before she could even get the chance to speak. The girl's eyes widened but she said nothing and just scurried off.

"Somebody's hot when they're angry." Carmen joked. I sent her a dirty look and she instantly stopped joking as she held her hands in the air in defense.

It doesn't help my anger seeing all those girls by Ashley, and Madison sitting extremely close again. The only thing that's stopping me from going over there and biting her head off is Ashley's obvious discomfort.

What I saw next caused me to flip my switch.

Madison casually snaked her arm around Ashley's torso.

Oh no you don't bitch!

Fortunately for her, Glen was watching me the entire time and also saw what Madison did, so he managed to get a hold of me when I flew up and he dragged me out of the cafeteria.

I was about ready to be pissed off at Ashley as well, but I caught sight of her squirming out of Madison's touch and looked like she was going to blow up on the brunette. I didn't see anything else because I was already hauled out of the doors.

"Spence I know you're upset-"

"I'm fucking pissed Glen!"

"But you can't just go and beat down the girl." He tried to reason.

He should know better than to try and reason with me when I'm angry.

"She deserves what was coming to her. How can she even think about trying to make a move on Ashley when she knows how we feel?"

"Spencer-"

"No Glen. I don't want to fucking hear it. Nothing excuses her actions."

And I walked away from him. I was surprised, yet thankful, that he didn't follow me.

I somehow ended up in front of Mr. Cooper's classroom door. I looked down at my watch and saw that I still had twenty minutes left of lunch.

Then I heard a voice calling after me. The raw accent of my Latina friend rang through my ears as I stood rooted to the spot.

No, it's not Carmen, its Stephanie. Surprised me too. I need to have a talk about good friendship with two black-haired girls and two blondes. How can they let my newest friend show them up like that?

She got to me out of breath and panting.

"Of all the places. Who would have thought that you'd be here? I told you that you are a nerd." She smiled and the ends of my mouth twitched.

Damn her and her ability to lighten my mood.

But my sulkiness conquered. I looked at her with sad eyes.

"Hey, you okay chica?" She reached out and wiped a stray tear away from my cheek.

Then I did something that surprised the two of us and threw myself at her and sobbed into her shoulder. She soothingly rubbed my back and allowed me to cry into her.

Couple minutes later, we were sat on the floor with me curled into her side and she rubbed my arm until my sobs subsided to just sniffles.

"You let out the tears. Ready to let out the words now?" She calmly asked.

"I'm not okay. I just want Ashley back. I want everything to go back to the way it was when we first got together. I want to hold her again, kiss her again, make babies with her again."

Her body shook form laughter. "Making babies? Really? Is that what you call having sex Spencer?"

"Laugh all you want. Ashley and I would make cute babies."

"I have no doubt that you will."

I wrapped my arms around her and gave her a tight hug. "Thanks Stephanie. You're the best."

"I know." She grinned at me. I playfully scowled at her. "And don't mention it. It's what amigas are for." She got to her feet and helped me up.

"I wasn't there that night to know what happened, but I'm sure it can't be that bad that Ashley won't forgive you. Did you sleep with her?"

I shook my head. "It was a kiss."

"It'll take a while, but I'm sure she'll come around. Hopefully soon. You too are too love struck with each other to not get back together."

"What makes you think so?" I have no doubts about my feelings for Ashley but I want to know why people thing we're right for each other.

"Well, if all those girls were handing themselves to me on a silver platter after I got dumped, I wouldn't be here in your position right now if I wasn't absolutely head over heels for one girl."

"I guess you're right."

"Not guess. I am."

"Ok Miss Rican. Don't let your head overflow by being so full of yourself."

Mr. Cooper interrupted our laughter.

"Good afternoon ladies. You two are early." He noted as he got out keys to open the door.

"Yes sir. We wanted front seats today." Stephanie sneakily stomped my foot when he looked back at us strangely and I hit her bare leg in return.

"You don't have to tell me the real reason, but try to make up a better lie next time. Nevertheless, it's good that the two of you are on time anyways." He pushed open the door and walked in.

"Front seats Spence? How am I supposed to fall asleep now?"

"Exactly. Now you can learn something."

"You hate me don't you?"

"Nah. Quite the opposite really."

"Whatever. You so owe me for this. Here's your stuff." She handed me my bag and my textbook.

I took them and gave her another hug. "Thanks. For being here."

She sighed. "No problem. I'm just looking out for you."

We entered the class and I took my usual front seat and pulled Stephanie down into the seat next to me when she tried to sneak into the back.

Ashley's POV

I stood by my car and waited for Kyla because of a text she sent that said to wait for her here.

Then someone hit me upside the head.

I turned around, ready to bitch slap someone, and saw Kyla standing there.

Oh.

I can still hit her right?

"You broke up with Spencer?!"

I sighed. "Ky-"

"No. Don't Kyla me. I know you're scared and probably clueless about how to handle some things, but none of those are good enough excuses to dump the girl."

"Kyl-"

"No. I'm not done. Aiden and I both talked to you and you said Kelsey came over and had a talk with you too and nothing still sank through that thick skull of yours."

Yes, Kyla did have a talk with me a couple days after what Spencer did. And I couldn't forget it even if I tried. She may be small, but this brunette has some bark in her; and a little bite, but I'm not gonna get into that.

"Kyla-"

"I know you like to handle things on your own Ash but sometimes you'll need to take other's advice into consideration because it's not everything you can deal with alone."

Am I like this with Spencer? Cutting her off before she can even get a sentence out to explain herself? I'll need to apologize for that because it's stupid having someone rant about you and you can't even get in a word.

"Kyla I-"

"And then Madison? Really Ashley? What the fuck was that in the cafeteria? Spencer was ready to kick some serious ass. If Glen hadn't held her back she would've beaten Madison's sorry ass and I'm sure you would've gotten an earful. Not that the two of you wouldn't have deserved it."

Did she not see me slap the shit out of Madison? She was waaaaaaay out of line trying to hit on me. I didn't expect that from her because she, Aiden and Kyla are the people I poured my heart out to ever since I saw Spencer kiss that girl. I thought nothing of the close sitting; the table was getting crowded now-a-days. But putting her arm around me was not okay.

"Kyla!" She opened her mouth to speak again. "Don't you dare interrupt me again!" I pointed a warning finger at her and she finally shut up. She crossed her arms and I rubbed my temples before mimicking her actions.

"To an average outsider's perspective, if they heard what happened, we're not really broken up, just taking a time out. And yes I am scared of a serious relationship, but I did listen to you and Aiden and Kelsey but I don't know okay. I don't know how to fix this. I know Spencer isn't the only guilty one in all of this mess, but I just don't know how to go about making things right for what I said. I accused her of cheating when she didn't and then practically told her I didn't love her. I didn't mean any of those things Ky. I was just angry and you know I'm an irrational thinker when I'm upset." I finished my rant and now I'm just feeling sulky. I just wanna go home and crawl into bed, never to be seen again.

But I'm not done. "And nothing is going on and will never happen between me and Madison. If she wishes to be with me then she can take that wish to a genie because that's the only way it will happen and we all know genies don't grant love wishes so she can go with it to Neverland because it is never going to happen."

A smiled played at Kyla's lips. "It's so hard to stay mad at you when you go off and be a doofus because it's so adorable."

Oh no she didn't!

She burst out laughing from my horrified expression.

"Sexy, yes. Hot, yes. Drool-worthy, yes. Smokin', yes. Hell, I'll even take fuckable. But adorable, no."

"Well welcome back ego."

"I'll think about what I have to do but thanks for sticking on my ass about it. But for future references, I'll need some space to pull my head out my own ass."

"Could've said it a little less vulgar, but I'll take what I can get." She went around and got into my car. "Now take me home. Got places to be and things to do."

I rolled my eyes and got in on the driver's side. "Don't you mean places to be and people to do?"

"I'm not you Ashley."

"Touché little sister. Touché."