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Part 3/4

"Don't you understand? We have this fight almost every night or morning, sometimes both morning and night."

"I know that and I also know that you have been working more than you have to." Arthur said and both he and his wife could hear a text coming to her phone.

Arthur grabbed the phone and read the message.

"Work right?" Arthur said, hoping that there would be an explanation to why his wife's' boss was sending texts to Paula.

"What else would it be?"

"Well that might be true." Arthur said "And I for one would like to make some changes around here, and both you and I know that you can do some of those things."

"I don't have time for this." Paula said. "I'm late."

"And why would that be." He said to himself.

The three Carlin kids had heard the argument and it hadn't been the first one and from the look of it, it wouldn't be the last one.

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Glen was standing with Madison, Clay and Chelsea were there too.

"I just wish that Spence and Kyla would talk to each other and fix this." Glen said.

"I know what you mean." Clay said. "She needs her best friend at the moment.

"What are you talking about?" Chelsea asked, she had just heard bits and pieces of what was happening between two of her friends.

"Oh, just some family stuff." Glen said and then turned around to Madison and taking her hand. "How good is Ashley in crises?"

"Depend on what kind." Madison said. "Why?"

"There are just some fighting going on at home and Spence needs someone she could lean on." Glen explained.

"And Kyla just to be that person." Clay filled in,

"Kyla needs to talk to Spencer or the other way around." Madison said "I wouldn't count on Ashley in this situation. She isn't that good with family."

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Ashley was walking alone all she had heard from her coach and her friends pointed in different directions. She needed a confident boost from Spencer but she hadn't seen the girl around all day

"Kyla." Ashley said but the girl kept on waling. "Can you wait?"

"What do you want?"

"I know that you don't want me around and all of that shot but have you seen Spencer?"

"It's not like the two of us are talking at the moment." Kyla said and added "I thought that you knew that."

"Yeah I have heard something about that but I mean you are her best friend." Ashley said "And from what I've heard today from different people, she would need you at the moment."

"Why would she need me, she has you."

"I don't know." Ashley said and sighed "But it sounded like there had been fighting or something like that."

"Please, can you at least tell me that it's not her parents fighting?"

"I don't know." Ashley said. "I haven't seen her all day."

"Do you know anything?" Kyla asked.

"Yeah some stuff I do know but that I don't know because she has been hiding all day." Ashley said "SO are you coming to practice today?"

"Not sure." Kyla said. "I think I need to find Spencer and talk to her."

"You do that and I try to cover up for you if you aren't there." Ashley said, but the last part was said to herself, Kyla had left before Ashley had had a chance to finish talking.

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Kyla saw some of her friends in the school around the lockers.

She could see that there was something going on and from the look of it, they were cleaning someone's locker.

"What's going on?" The brunette asked.

"Just some students that are trying to be funny." Chloe said pointing at a locker.

"Who's that locker?" Kyla asked and from the looks from her friends, she could tell the answer to that question. "Who would do that to Spencer of all people?"

"We don't know but apparently it's fun to point out some people." Glen said.

"They could at least have had a better imagination then that." Kyla said looking at what was written on the locker.

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Aiden was with some of friends most of them were jocks, Michael was among those friends.

"I don't get all of this." Aiden said.

"What is that you don't get?" one of the guys asked.

"This whole thing with Ashley."

"Ashley is the same girl and person that she always have been." Michael said, he had an idea where this was going and he himself didn't like it.

"Okay, if Ashley is the same person as you say." Aiden said. "Then why is she with Spencer."

"That is something that you have to Ashley her about; she is the only one that can answer that."

"Yeah, right." Aiden snickered. "Bet that Spencer has some kind of catch on her and there for are forcing her."

"Listen to yourself." Michael said "That's ridiculous."

"I'm with Dennison on this one. Sorry Mike." Some guy said and the rest of them nodded in agreement with Aiden.

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The school day had passed by and Ashley had made the decision that she was going to tell the team what they all wanted to know.

It was going to come back and bite her if she didn't sooner or later, this way she could do all of this in her own way and tell them just as much as she wanted them to know.

The brunette walked inside the locker room, seeing almost all of her teammates.

"Ashley, I think that you have something that you need to tell us." Kait said.

"I don't have to tell you anything that I don't want you to know."

"That might be so but we." Kait said pointing to herself and almost every other player. "Won't be playing until we all know what what's going on with you and the tutor."

"Fine." Ashley spat out. "Then I guess that we don't have a team."

"Ashley, you know and I know that you'll tell us before the end of this practice." Emmy said. "So why don't you just save us all the time and tell us."

"Ash?" Amy asked looking over at the girl, Ashley just sighed she knew that the team was right and she had told herself that she was going to tell them but she wanted it to be in her own way and this was not it.

"Okay, so what you all have heard is probably true." Ashley said "To make a long story short, yes Spencer is my girlfriend."

"Does that mean that you are gay?" Some girl asked. "If you are then I won't change in front of you. I wouldn't feel comfortable with that." And there were a few more girls that nodded agreeing with that.

Both Ashley and Amy sighed and shook their heads, at the same time Jenny came through the door.

"You know your friend is gay right?" Someone said looking at Jenny.

"Who?" The blonde asked.

"Davies."

"Like that would be news." Jenny said "I mean she has been gay since forever, I'm just happy that she is being true to herself and realize that."

Ashley just looked from Jenny and then to Amy trying to understand what was going on and what she was hearing.

"You knew and you didn't tell me?" Ashley asked.

"Yeah, I mean you and Spencer." Jenny said, "It couldn't be more obvious." Ashley couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"She isn't as clueless as I thought." Amy said looking at Ashley and Ashley could just nod, this was not true.

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A couple of days passed and not much had happened, nothing that affected the girls more than normally. It was almost to quiet around them from what Ashley had told her teammates and all of their friends knew.

It was like there was something more brewing somewhere and just waiting to happen, just waiting to come out.

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The day passed by and no one seemed to pay any attention to what was happening around the locker area at the end of the day.

Ashley was on her way to the gym, she wanted to get some weight training on before she was going to Spencer to spend some time with the girl. She hadn't even gotten a chance to change before she was slammed against the lockers in the locker room.

"What did you do?!" Kyla yelled.

"What are you talking about?" Ashley asked trying to push the girl away.

"You don't know, great. Just great." Kyla said, stepping back and sinking down against the wall down to the floor.

"You do know that you need to talk to me and tell me what you are talking about." Ashley said. "Otherwise I can't you tell you anything or help or defend myself."

"Just so you know." Kyla said. "This is all your fault." The last part she repeated over and over again, she was hiding her face in her hands.

"Okay. So something is my fault." Ashley said to herself trying to figure out what it could be. "Could you maybe tell me what that is so I know what I did wrong?"

"You are almost as clueless as your friend. The blonde one." Kyla said

"Jenny" Ashley asked and Kyla nodded. "I take that as a compliment she isn't as clueless as you think."

"Whatever." Kyla said. "You wanted to know, Spencer."

"Spencer?" Ashley asked not sure what could be her fault with Spencer.

"Some moron pushed her, she hit the back of her head in the lockers and I think that she got a black eye too."

"What?!" Ashley yelled, she went in to protective mode, someone was in big trouble. "Who?" But Ashley didn't get a response from her sister. "Kyla, I asked who."

"I don't know." Kyla yelled "Spencer won't tell me and she won't tell anyone."

"Okay, that means that we need to figure that out."

"You do know that this wouldn't be happening if you were just a little bit smarter."

"Are you even listening to what you are saying?" Ashley asked. "You know what, you do what you have to do, I'm leaving and I don't have time for this."

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Ashley was sitting in her car not believing a word of what Kyla had said but at the same time all of it hit home in some strange way.

No one would ever hurt Spencer, she of all people would never hurt a fly and now someone was pushing her around. It all sounded unbelievable.

"Amy, did you see?" Ashley asked her friend after calling her.

"Sorry, Ashe. It was a lot of people around, the only one that knows for sure is Spencer and then of course whoever did it."

"Thanks anyway." Ashley said "I need to call some other friends maybe someone saw something or maybe we can piece everything together with what everybody saw.

"Whatever you do, don't do anything stupid." Amy said "And I think you should talk to Spencer and then to Harrison."

"Like she could do anything." Ashley grunted.

"Ash, she is the principle after all and she can handle it." Amy said and then she just heard a click, Ashley had hang up on her.

Next one on the list to call was Aiden, not likely Ashley thought to herself. Not if she would believe how he had reacted to finding out according to Amy and Madison.

"Mads, tell me everything." Ashley said as she had gotten her friend on the phone.

"Ashley, listen to me." Madison said. "It's nothing big, she had a black eye after someone got their elbow in her face and she hit the back of her head when she backed in to the lockers."

"Do you even listen to what you are saying?" Ashley asked.

"I promise that she is okay. I was with Glen when he took her to the hospital." Madison said.

"I'm coming there." Ashley said "So where are you, County or General?"

"They are on their way back home." Madison said. "Drew, is with her, you don't have to worry."

"Okay." Ashley said and took a deep breath "I hope that they know who did this."

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"Thanks Madison."

"No problem Spence, but you need to tell Ashley or she won't give up." Madison said "And then you need to tell Harrison."

"That won't be to big help for me." Spencer said shaking her head.

"But for others later on, think about that."

"It's not a crime." Spencer sighed "I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time."

"We both know that's not true." Madison said "You have to tell someone."

"Just leave it."

"I know this isn't the first time." Madison said. "I've seen the bumps in the hallway the last week."

"It was like that before too." Spencer defended herself.

"That might be so but I can tell that there is more now than before."

Spencer realized that she couldn't say anything to get her out of this and maybe that was a good thing after all.

"I'll see what I can do."

"If you don't tell Harrison, I'll and I will tell her everything." Madison said.

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"We don't have anything under control."

"We?"

"Yes, we. I don't know what's going on in our children's lives anymore."

"I wouldn't say that, it's more like you don't know."

"Did you hear that Spence was brought to the hospital today?"

"I did, you see they called me to let me know."

"Mum, dad." Glen said as he came down the stairs, the two adults turned around to see him coming down.

At first neither of them said a word, just waiting for the boy to say anything.

"It has been a long day for us." Glen said. "I don't know how it has been for you."

"Pretty long and hard." Paula said looking over at Arthur waiting for him to agree.

"Okay, so all of us have had a bad day." Glen said "I think you need to keep your voices down."

"Okay that we can do." Arthur said.

"Great. This is hard on Spencer." Glen said. "Actually it's hard for all of us." With that he left and went up the stairs again.

He walked to Spencers' room, where he saw this sister sleeping and Drew was sitting on the bed and Spencer was holding on to the older girl. Maybe the day would end in a good way or all of this after all.

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Ashley was lying on her bed, tossing and turning, trying to get some sleep but it was impossible for her.

Her brain was working on high speed; she wanted to know what had happened in school and how Spencer was doing.

The blondes' cell had been off, and she didn't want to call the house or any of her friends.

Ashley had Kyla' words running through her head too, that this was all her fault.

She couldn't understand that from what she had heard from people that had seemed this fight it had looked like Spencer was caught in the crossfire.

"I'm going to get all if the answers I need tomorrow from either Spencer or someone that was there." Ashley said to herself. "And when I find out someone is going to pay big time."