On one of the many Saturday nights that Ava and Ashlee spent watching DVD's Ava had a loud knock at her door. Looking at each other wondering Ava approached asking loudly who was on the other side. They spent the first part of the day walking the city for hours taking photographs and had finally settled down to a night of Mel Brooks movies and cheap wine and Chinese food. The evening started in the living room With a Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum but now they were lying on her bed dying with laughter from a scene in Space Balls. Ashlee had just gotten back from her third potty break and Ava was teasing that the next time she wasn't going to pause the movie without payment next time.

"What kind of payment?" Ashlee giggled. "I have exactly thirty two dollars in my account I after paid my half of the delivery bill." She still wasn't letting Ava pay her way and she felt bad enough that Ava had to keep paying for her tickets across the Bay and her own gas on the way down.

"Maybe I don't want cash" Ava said easing closer to the edge of the bed. Breathe chic Ava said to herself.

Pursing her lips and tapping her temple Ashlee lay face down on the bed so that her head was just touching Ava's knee "Ummm what do you want me to write a term paper for you?"

Oh my God Ava don't fuck this up. "I was thinking maybe you could" but suddenly remembering each of her most recent couplings she was regretting the amount of alcohol Ashlee had. Not that either was drunk but she didn't want this to happen because of artificially lowered inhibitions. Moving and standing up she forced herself to lighten her tone "I have some laundry and some dishes that could use some work" but the look in Ashlee's eyes showed that the switch wasn't as smooth as she had hoped.

"Ava" Ashlee said crawling off of the bed towards her.

Oh fuck she thought turning around but when Ashlee reached her silently questioning there was a loud ring of in the front room.

"It's me Ave. Open up we need to talk." Fuck the duck, what now?

Leaving the chain engaged she pulled the door slightly open and looked out and enquired to Jake "What's up?" Earlier he texted that they had some work to go over but after she responded with ok he hadn't sent another message and that was over four hours ago. Now he was at her door with her favorite pizza by the smell and a bottle of wine but she didn't see any folder of work unless it was in his pocket. "It's late Jake"

"A, come on let me in" Turning back towards Ashlee the other woman nodded her head to let him inside. Walking in he was smiling saying "Thank God the pie's getting cold" but he suddenly stopped once he saw Ava's other guest.

"Jake I'm a little busy. If you needed to come by you should have said so earlier."

"Better yet you should have waited for Monday" Ashlee said without any preamble. "But thanks for the pizza Ava and I love mushrooms" and snatched both the pizza and the wine away.

"A what the hell are you doing here?"

"Jake"

"None of your business asshole you're a married man with a child so why don't you go spend time with them and leave AaaaVahh alone."

"A we need to work on"

"Jake"

"Go work on something with your wife dickhead"

"Ashlee!"

"Don't Ashlee me. Did you ask him to come here?"

"What Ave and I do is"

"I didn't ask you dumbass I asked Ava. Ava did you ask JB to come tonight?"

"No I didn't but"

"So leave"

"If Avie wanted me to leave she would ask me Bitch"

"Don't you dare Jackson you can get the hell out of my house right now"

"Ok okay I'm sorry I just need to talk to you okay. Please it's important" Jake said holding his hands up. "I'm sorry Ashlee I didn't mean it."

Now totally ignoring JB Ashlee sat the items down and pulled Ava closer into the room and farther from Jake. "Ava come on don't do this he's"

"Ashlee I'm going to talk to Jake could you wait for me in the bedroom?"

"What?"

"Ash please just for a few minutes."

Looking at JB a final time before leaving she let her eyes show just what she thought of him. "I'll be right out if you need me AAAVAHHH!" and slammed the door.

"Jesus" she was going to hear about this at the next tenants meeting that's for sure.

"What the hell is going on here? You trying to make a point or something?"

"You said you had something to say." For the next ten minutes Jake tried his level best to stir up emotions even simple lust to win Ava back. "You can come back out Ash" Ava called out as she cleared off the condensation on the table from the pizza.

"Where's everything?"

"I told him to give them to his wife."

"Good but you should have at least took the wine even if it was cheap."

"I think that you've had enough for the night Ash. I'm kind of tired so I'm going to bed. You know where the stuff is. See you in the morning" and she left without once looking up to see the other girl's eyes. She had spent almost an hour under the hot shower cursing herself for almost ruining everything. Maybe this wasn't ever going to happen, hell she had fucked her mother if that wasn't the kiss of death almost sleeping with her while Ashlee was clearly drunk was a clear sign that she might not be as ready for this as she thought she was. "Damn it" she cried sinking down under the spray. Now an hour later tossing and turning under the covers silently crying she tried her best to shut off her mind. "Ashlee was right I should have kept the bottle"

"See you should always listen to me"

"Oh My God!" she shouted sitting up in bed. "You scared the crap out of me" Ava said with her hand over her heart. "You trying to kill me or something!?"

"What's going on Ava?" Ashlee whispered standing just inside the door. The light was on in the hallway so Ava couldn't see Ashlee's expression very well and she hadn't come any further into the room.

"Other than you giving me a heart attack?" she tried to joke but Ashlee hadn't moved or said anything and her head was trained on Ava's. "You should go back to sleep Ash. Ash?" Now it was her turn to whisper "Ash?"

"Why did you stop us tonight? I thought I hoped that we were feeling the same thing. Please don't tell me you are still in love that jackass." Ava's laughter filled up the room but it wasn't funny. "It's not funny Ava fuck! Is he the reason you don't want this? Are you hung up on that asshole?"

"Jackson? God no he has nothing what so ever to do with this except."

"Except what Ava because I thought earlier on the bed we were both wanting the same thing. If not just tell me I'm wrong."

"You're not wrong Ash"

"So?"

"Ash I think we should talk about this later maybe after"

"We talk about this tonight or I'm leaving and never coming back Ava I'm serious. I can't do this if I'm the only one wanting"

"You're not the only one Ashlee but I don't think it's the right time to get into this"

"You know what fine. Fuck this could you loan me some cash to take a taxi to the station please?"

Getting up from the bed and following the other girl into the guest room "Ashlee, Jeez". Seeing that the girl was serious about getting dressed she yelled "I slept with your mom!"

"fuckkkk"