Christmas would soon be upon us and I was excited to spend it with Ali. Me and my friends were sticking to our usual tradition of spending Christmas Eve together in Spencer's barn, playing games and exchanging gifts. Christmas morning and afternoon I was spending with my parents, opening presents and enjoying the dinner my mum would be cooking, her cooking was amazing and I was drooling at the thought. Ali would be spending most of the day with her parents and her brother Jason before coming over and spending the evening with my family. She still hadn't met my dad and I couldn't wait to introduce her to him, I was sure that they would get on together.

My dad was returning from Texas today and would be back home by the time I finished school. I hadn't seen him in so long and I missed him loads. The Christmas Ball was only a week away and it was signifying the end of school for the Christmas holidays. We got a couple of weeks off from school and I was going to try and complete all my work before we broke up so that I could spend my time of relaxing rather than worrying about homework.

I had arranged to spend a couple of nights with Spencer completing some of the essays we had been set this week, she was a good study partner as she didn't get distracted easily unlike Hanna who I would end up just spending the whole time gossiping with. It was the first of our study sessions and I had arrived slightly late due to Alison physically not letting me leave her house. I'd gone to hers straight from school and after a few heavy make out sessions and eating tea I had finally managed to escape and walk over to Spencer's.

We were sat up in Spencer's bedroom and she seemed a lot quieter than normal, we had barely spoken two words to each other and I was getting ready to question her on it. Spencer was normally not afraid to voice her opinions but that wasn't the case when dealing with her own problems, she ended up shutting herself off and trying to deal with them herself.

"Spence..." I started hesitantly.

She stopped writing and looked up from her book catching my eye. She looked so distant as if her mind was on something else entirely.

"What's wrong? And don't say nothing, you've barely said a word to me since I got here" I finished, not breaking eye contact with her and trying my best to keep a neutral but concerned expression on my face.

She looked back down at her book and picked up her pen again before sighing loudly and putting it back down, her eyes had a glazed look as if she was trying to hold back tears. I kept quiet knowing that she would answer me once she had composed herself.

"I'm worried. I'm going to Georgetown University and Aria is going to Savannah College. How are we going to last when we're so far away from each other. It takes 8hours to drive there! And 8 days to walk!" She practically shouted at me, her hands gripping her bedsheets so tightly they'd began to turn white.

"Ok Spence calm down. You'll work through it, I'm not saying it won't be hard but you'll do it and after 3 years you'll have the rest of your lives to spend together." I said as I reached across to hold her hand trying to convey my point to her. "And also why on earth would you walk to her college?!" I added incredulously.

"I started trying to plan the worst case scenarios and that was if both are cars broke down and we couldn't afford a taxi and the only way to see her was to hike there." She said with a small smile forming on her face.

I returned the smile and nodded at her.

"And that's exactly why I know it will work out between you two. You'd do anything just to be with her." My words seemed to ease Spencer's worries and I saw her physically relax.

We'd been working non stop for the last couple of hours and there wasn't much left for us to add to our essays so we packed up our books and stuck on a movie. I let Spencer choose to try and keep her mood uplifted and she decided on an old black and white film. We weren't even 10 minutes in when her bedroom door opened and Aria and Alison walked in. I got off the bed and pulled Ali into a hug and pecked her on the lips in greeting.

"To what do we owe the pleasure?" Spencer asked them as Aria got comfy on the bed next to her and Ali and I joined them.

"We we're having coffee at the Brew and Hanna left to have tea with her mum so we decided to join you two having figured you'd probably have given up studying by now. And it looks like we were right" Ali said as she snuggled in to my arms.

"Plus Team Sparia needed reuniting" Aria added as she leant in to kiss Spencer.

Spencer returned the kiss and poured in all the emotion that had been building up over the past few hours into it. Aria seemed to pick up on it and snuggled in closer to her before whispering "I love you" in her ear. Ali and I smiled at them both, witnessing first hand the pure love between them and I knew that they both would put all their effort into making the distance work.

I could only hope that Ali and I would also be able to make college work together, we were still waiting to here back from the colleges Ali had applied to and my fingers were crossed that she had been accepted into UCLA. Three years spent with Ali by the beach sounded like heaven to me.

A/N

Another authors note. I'm feeling talkative haha. Here's my Tumblr username: itskindaobvious. Follow me or whatever :) I post random snippets from my real life experiences.

Not sure if I should end this story before they go to college and then I've got the possibility of doing a sequel but don't worry we're only in December in the story so I still have plenty of months to write about before it ends :)