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Author's Notes: I hope you enjoy the chapter. Thank you for all the reviews! I hope everyone is staying healthy and was able to get everything they need as we deal with this virus. I live in Washington State and we have it really bad here and basically everything is closed so I have a lot of time on my hands right now. I will try to post as much as I can especially for anyone who needs something to do for the next few weeks. Thank you again!
World Tour
Chapter 18 – New York Continues
Ashley got back to the hotel room at 1:15 in the morning. Ashley quietly walked into the bedroom where Spencer lay sleeping. Ashley took her shower and changed into her night clothes with sweats and a hoodie over at the arena. She figured Spencer would be sleeping. She didn't want to disturb her by taking a shower in their room. Ashley pulled the blankets back and climbed into the bed next to Spencer after removing her sweats and hoodie.
"How was your show?" Spencer asks turning towards Ashley.
"I didn't mean to wake you." Ashley whispers out.
"You didn't. I was waiting for you, but nothing was on T.V."
"It was good. We should sleep though. We have that radio interview at 10 and TRL at 3 or was it 4?" Ashley says quietly.
"4. I think before we start dating, we should talk about things more." Spencer states quietly.
"Alright…"
"I never want to change anything about us except for how you found out I am gay. I really wish I could change that. I am sorry I was a coward and couldn't tell you. I'm sorry that you had to find out from my mother because she wanted my ex-girlfriend to be more understanding. As for the song yesterday, I wrote it while I was in L.A. It was my first night home after we got off the phone. I was bored so I got up from the couch and went to my piano just thinking about you. I put my phone on record and just started playing. That is what came out."
"You do know that is all everyone is going to ask you about, right? Especially after you walked out on an interview because he questioned you about your sexuality. You are kind of digging yourself deeper in a hole."
"Do we need to back away from each other, so you don't get dragged down with me?"
"I will happily be in that hole with you. Never doubt my loyalty to you. I will always be here no matter how bad it might get. We will handle it as we see fit." Ashley tells the blonde then pulls her into her arms.
"I…"
"Spence, I get you being scared to tell me or anyone else and I understand everything about it. I, just like you, wish I would have found out from you. It would have made things so much different but like you've said before. Things happen. We can't change the past. I don't want to continue dwelling on it. I want us to move forward. I'm sorry how I handled things yesterday. I shouldn't have handled it like that. And as for my last song…" Ashley pauses. "It explains itself. The situation hurt. It made me feel a lot of different things that I never want you to make me feel again. I do trust you and know enough about you to believe that you never will keep something so crucial from me again. Wait for my video tomorrow. This new song is going to have everyone forgetting about you altogether." Ashley finishes with a laugh and the blonde pokes her in the side.
"Now who has to make something into a joke?"
"It's what we do, isn't it?" Ashley starts giggling. Spencer shakes her head then rests it on Ashley's shoulder.
"It seems we do. There is something else I should probably tell you and I don't know how much I believe her or if she was lying to get me to not hate her but…"
"Breathe Princess. Now… who are you talking about?" Ashley says cutting Spencer off her rant.
"Right, sorry. Carmen. I talked to her before she left my apartment in L.A. She apologized about what happened in Ohio and about trying to out me. She told me that she will back off. I don't know how much I trust her really, but she eased my mind some."
"Okay well hopefully she backs off because you need to come out when you are ready and not forced out. It is no one's business but yours."
"It's our business actually." Spencer admits lightly.
"I have nothing to do with it, Princess. We maybe dating but this ultimately falls into your lap. I'm behind you no matter what. Now, who the hell is Lindsey?"
"The label hired her to cover my PR stuff. They want to try to stay ahead of the 'gay' situation. I came out to Ethan and Travis when I had my meeting at the label. They seemed cool with it and want me to come out when I want too. Lindsey has a list of questions people can ask me and if they don't follow those, she pulls me from an interview. Well, I learned that during my radio interview. I really didn't know what to do when she pulled me from it. I felt like it would be bad, but I didn't know what else to do after she stopped the interview and basically pulled me from my seat. I don't know how much she is going to help me because it seems she made it worse. Everyone is questioning it so bad now. Our break was supposed to relax me, and it did the opposite." Spencer tells Ashley with a sad look on her face. Ashley brings her hand up to Spencer's cheek and lifts her head up to meet their eyes.
"It'll work out. I promise. If for some reason it gets bad. I'll be right beside you. I'm not going anywhere. We are in this together. I got your back. Now no more sad face. You need to be happy. You are about to date me after all." Ashley ends with a cocky smile on her face.
"Oh god, what the hell am I getting myself into?" Spencer laughs out.
"Hey!" Ashley exclaims tickling Spencer's sides.
"Stop it!" Spencer yelps out trying to move away from Ashley on the top. Ashley grabs both of Spencer's hand and pins them over her head as she straddles her hips. Spencer continues wiggling under the brunette as Ashley moves her left hand down to start tickling Spencer's sides again.
"Say I'm sexy and I'll stop." Ashley tells the blonde.
"Stop it!"
"Say it!" Ashley yells with a giggle watching the younger singer.
"NEVER!" Spencer bucks her hips up into Ashley's center making her lose control. Spencer flips them over and pins Ashley to the bed. "I won!"
"You cheated!"
"Never." Spencer tells the girl pinned underneath her. Their eyes lock. Spencer moved her left hand from Ashley's wrist and places it on her cheek running her thumb along her cheek bone. Ashley closes her eyes as the sensation takes over her body. After a few moment Spencer stops her movements and Ashley opens her eyes to meet Spencer's again. Both women drop their eyes to each other's lips before meeting their eyes once again. Spencer started to slowly lean down. Ashley is laying frozen under her. She isn't sure what she should do. Ashley has never liked someone so much and Spencer seems to make her lose all her control. As their lips almost meet Spencer places her lips to Ashley's cheek and kisses it. "I don't kiss before a date and maybe not even after a first date. You'll have to wait and see." Spencer whispers into Ashley's ear. "Oh, and by the way, you are sexy as hell." Spencer adds before rolling off Ashley and onto the bed next to her.
"You…" Ashley starts then stops taking a deep breath. "You realize we've kissed before, right?" Ashley says after she composes herself.
"Hm… Not sure what you are talking about." Spencer says with a giggle.
"Like you could ever forget these wonderful lips on yours." Ashley admits looking over at Spencer. A light blush covers Spencer's cheeks.
"Someone's cocky as hell right now. Go to sleep Ashley."
"Must be serious. You said my actual name. Sounds weird coming from you." Ashley admits with a giggle.
"Goodnight Rockstar." Spencer whispers out as she rolls over into Ashley's side. The brunette wraps her arms around Spencer.
"Goodnight Princess." Ashley whispers back. They fell asleep feeling lighter than they had been in a while.
(13 Hours Later)
"We are going to play a little game. We are going to ask each of you questions about the other and you will write your answer on the whiteboard we give you. You say you are best friends; we will see how well you know each other. Here you go." The host of TRL explains to the musicians.
"I'm excited, let's do this." Ashley states happily as she grabs the small white board and marker.
"We are going to start off easy. Okay when is the other's birthday?"
'Aug 22' is displayed on the whiteboard as Ashley flips it around.
'May 8th' is written on Spencer's.
"Correct. What is the other's favorite color?" The host ask moving along. Ashley smiled at Spencer before writing down her answer.
'Red' is what Ashley wrote down.
'Grey and Blue' is what Spencer wrote down. Both singers nodded to agree with the other's answer.
"Alright off to a good start. One more easy question then on to tougher ones. Name of first pet?"
'Floater' is what Spencer writes. Everyone stares at Ashley as she thinks about the answer.
"Oh duh. Got it." Ashley exclaims before writing her answer.
'Carmel.' Ashley smiles over at Spencer triumphantly.
"Alright ladies, what is the other's biggest fear?" The woman says and Ashley begins laughing. Spencer shot Ashley a glare before writing down her answer.
'Unrequited love' Spencer had written down.
'Being on stage naked.' Ashley started laughing again as she turns her whiteboard around.
"I always make fun of her about it." Ashley says as she stops laughing. The audience 'awed' after Ashley's confession. "Hey there is things she makes fun of me about, so it is only fair I have a couple things on her." Ashley adds then laughs again. Spencer shakes her head at Ashley before looking at the host again.
"Spencer over here looks like she wants to move on so let's do that. How many serious relationships has the other one been in?"
'1' is what Ashley quickly wrote down and displayed. Everyone looked at Spencer for her answer.
"I can't answer that." Spencer admits.
"Really Princess?" Ashley says surprise the blonde doesn't know that answer.
"I can't remember everything." Spencer tells the older singer.
"Okay. Ashley has moved ahead. Lost virginity?" The audience began laughing.
'15' Spencer wrote down.
'16?' Ashley looked at Spencer to see if she was right. Spencer smiled at Ashley and nodded her head.
"YES!" Ashley yells out excitedly.
"You are too competitive." Spencer tells her best friend with a small smile on her face.
"Alright final question. If you died tomorrow, what would be the other's greatest accomplishment?"
"That's a good question." Spencer says then looks at Ashley.
'The relationship she has built with her sister' Is what Spencer wrote. Ashley smiled at the answer, making Ashley realize just how much the blonde does pay attention to her without her even knowing it.
'Our friendship' Ashley had written on her board.
"Of course, you make a joke." Spencer says laughing.
"You could've put that answer too." Ashley threw back with a smile. "I win!" The older Rockstar adds as she jumps up from the couch cheering.
"I think that we tied because your 'our friendship' answer was not the correct answer big head." Spencer laughs at the shocked face Ashley displays. "And here is the World Premiere of this conceited woman's new music video 'Beautiful Crazy' Enjoy it." Spencer adds looking over the audience and to the camera while shaking her head at the still celebrating brunette. Ashley walks up behind Spencer while everyone in the building is watching her music video including Spencer. The blonde didn't notice the brunette come up behind her.
"You know my greatest accomplishment would be having you." Ashley whispered into Spencer's ear. Spencer froze and dropped her head to look at the floor. Ashley knew Spencer had a small smile on her face while her cheeks turned a light pink. Spencer pulled herself together before looking back up at the screen.
(Ashley's POV)
Today has been wonderful. Spencer and I got through our Radio interview and TRL interview's without questions about Spencer. I know it won't stay that way. Today has only been about our music mostly which I am grateful for. Spencer seemed very relieved and I am glad she was. I would have hated if the interviews went bad, it would have ruined our whole night. I would have freaked if something ruined our wonderful night. This night needs to be the best. I finally met Lindsey this morning. I can't say that I like her. Shes an irritant ass. She thinks she knows all, and she thinks she can just boss Spencer around. She better back the fuck off and stop trying to make Spencer's life more complicated than it needs to be. I will fire her ass even if I technically can't.
"Ash, it's 6:50." Kyla yells. I am in my sisters' room. I am in the bathroom finishing my make-up.
"Thank Ky." I yell back. I finish getting ready then go stand in front of my sister. I have on a tight black dress that ends mid-thigh with a 2-inch slit up my left thigh. I have black 2-inch heels on to match. I have my hair down and straightened. My make-up is light.
"Damn sis." Kyla says looking over at me.
"Yeah?" I ask shyly looking down at myself.
"You look amazing. Spence is going to want to jump you." Kyla exclaims excitedly. I smile at my sister and glance at the clock. It is 6:55. I need to go get Spencer. She told me not to be late. I thank and say bye to my sister then walk out her hotel room. It takes me two minutes to get up to our room. I sigh and pick up my hand to knock on the door but drop it back down. These nerves she causes me is going to be the death of me. This is crazy. I have spent almost every day with her the last 3 months. We are two days shy of being exactly three months. Why the hell am I so nervous? I start pacing back and forth in front of the door mumbling to myself. I probably look like a crazy person. I stop in front of the door and attempt to knock again but my nerves get the best of me again. I can't do this. I have never felt this way about anyone, and I'm scared. What if this goes bad? What if we can't transition easily to more than friends. Who am I kidding? I don't think we have ever just been friends. At least I have never just felt friendly towards her. She's the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I've been attracted to her since the moment I seen her. I physically shake my own body and take a deep breath. I bring my hand up again and very lightly knock on the door.
"I didn't think you was ever going to knock, which that knock was pathetic." Spencer sarcastically throws out after she opens the door.
"Were you watching me?" I ask shyly.
"You mean the freak out you were having with yourself outside the door? Yes, I seen it all." Spencer says giggling which causes me to blush and look down.
"You look gorgeous." I finally let out shyly. This time Spencer is the one who blushes. She has on a light blue dress with white heels on. Her hair is down in curls.
"You too." Spencer whispers out. We stand staring at each other.
"Um…" I start then clear my throat. "You ready?" I add.
"Yes." Spencer says then grabs her hand wallet from the table by the door.
"John is meeting us downstairs." I tell her as we make our way to the elevator.
"You going to tell me where we are going?"
"We are going to have a nice dinner at Carmine's Italian Restaurant then…" I paused looking over at her with a smile.
"That's the surprise, right?" Spencer asks as we step out the elevator. I nod my head with a smile on my face.
"Good evening ladies." John says as we walk up to him. "There are tons of fans outside. We have barricades up but to be safe stay close." He adds. We nod our head at him and follow him out. Spencer and I stay close together but still stop to sign a few autographs on the way. I will never deny my fans if it stays calm. Spencer seems to be the same way.
From our hotel to the restaurant is not even a 10-minute drive. I used my name to get reservations at such a short notice. We have made small talk until we are sat at our table in the back and secluded. They accommodated for me since I am famous.
"Did you request to be away from people?" Spencer asks me while she looks around.
"No, they recommended it when I called. I agreed though. We are famous."
"Are you going to tell me what we are doing after this?"
"No, you will see. I just hope you like it." I admit shyly.
"I'm sure I will. We always seem to have fun together, no matter what it is we do." The blonde across from me admits with a small smile on her face. "I would grab your hand, but we seem to have an audience." Spencer whispers out and points to people around the restaurant watching us. I sigh then look back at Spencer. We ignored the staring people and enjoyed our dinner. We talked about the next coming days, things we want to do for the rest of the U.S tour. Spencer told me about being nervous about touring overseas. She has never been outside of the country before, but she has been to Mexico a couple times. She says that doesn't really count.
"Oh my god Ash." Spencer exclaims as we pull up outside the Majestic theater. I giggle at her reaction and wait for John to open my door.
"Come on Princess." I say pulling her out of the car.
"Are we seeing Phantom of the Opera?" Spencer asks excitedly. I nod my head at her cuteness and John walks us to the door and tells us he will be out here when we get done. "Oh my gosh. I am so happy. This is the best thing ever. I have wanted to see this for so long. This is amazing." Spencer said giddily. I smile at her and pull her through people and make our way to where we need to go. We find our seats. After the lights cut off, I grab Spencer's hand in mine. Our hands stay intertwined the whole play. After making it back to the hotel and Spencer starts to open the door to the hotel room.
"This can't be a proper end of a date with you dropping me off. We can have it in the room though." Spencer tells me shyly before pulling me into the room. I smile as I am being yanked into the penthouse.
"I had a really great time tonight. I know it is hard for us to have an actual date without it being plastered everywhere but I still enjoyed it and had fun." I let out shyly. Spencer smiles at me wildly nodding her head.
"It's a little hard too considering I am not out." Spencer says dropping her head to look at the floor.
"Hey…" I start and put my hand under her chin and guild her to look back at me. Once Spencer's eyes are meet with mine again, I start talking again. "You take as long as you need too. I am fine with this. I will wait for however long you need too. Plus, it will probably be better to keep it between close people for now so we can actually have a foundation before the crazy people start rumors…"
"Ashley I would never believe something I read in a magazine. I would never believe that you would cheat on me or anything else they could say, and I hope you would know the same thing about me." Spencer says sweetly. I smile at her. I put my hand on her cheek and rub it with my thumb. "I had a great time tonight. Thank you. Best date I have ever had. I know you don't like stuff like plays which I appreciate that you took me anyways. You were great." Spencer adds whispering. I smile shyly at Spencer dropping my head slightly. Spencer lifted my head back up and we meet eyes once again. The blonde singer looks down at my lips then back into my eyes. She repeats the actions several times before starting to move slowly towards me. I start moving with her feeling more nervous than I have ever felt before about anything. I know we have kissed before, but we were drunk. I don't want it to count. Just like she said, 'I don't know what you are talking about'. This will be our first real kiss. Spencer dropped her hands to my waist squeezing lightly. I have one hand still on her face and the other is on the back of her neck rubbing lightly. Our lips finally touch sending electricity to run through my entire body. Spencer slowly ran her tongue my bottom lip. I opened my mouth slightly to deepen our kiss. I move both my hands into her hair. Spencer grips my hips tighter pulling me into her. Best damn kiss of my life. After several minutes of making out I slowly pull back and rest my forehead on hers. I needed air.
"That was amazing. Let's go to bed Princess." I whisper out lightly. Spencer lefts her forehead off mine and grabs my hand pulling me into the room. She lets go of my hand and goes over to her bag. We do our nightly routine before climbing into bed. We settle into bed with our arms wrapped around each other and our legs tangled together.
"Don't wake me if I am sleeping because this is the best dream of my life." Spencer whispers into my neck. I inhale quickly as I feel her place a kiss to the side of my neck.
"Best damn reality because you aren't sleeping." I whisper back tightening my hold on her.
"Good."
"Goodnight Princess." I let out lightly then kiss the top of her head.
"Goodnight Rockstar." Spencer whispers. We quickly fall into a comfortable sleep.
(Spencer's POV)
Last night was amazing. I never thought I would be here like this with Ashley. She is perfect. I loved the night she planned out. I think I am going to plan our next date. I just need to think of the perfect thing. I hope she doesn't think she has to plan all our dates because I want to be able to romance her too. It can't just be one sided. That wouldn't be fair. We will have to talk about it when she wakes up. I glance over at the clock. It is 10:50am. We need to get up soon, we have another radio interview at 1:30. I should probably wake her up. She looks so cute and peaceful though. I know just the way to wake her. I have been wanting to wake her up like this for a very long time. I bring my lips to her cheek and place a light kiss then the other cheek. I move to her forehead then her nose. I kiss both her eyelids. She still hasn't even moved yet or made any type of noise. I place a light kiss on each corner of her mouth before softly meeting our lips together. I repeatedly kiss her mouth lightly. Still nothing. I start kissing down her jawline and to her neck. I nip lightly at her pulse point then run my tongue over it. I do it a couple more times before moving to the other side of her neck.
"Mmm." Ashley lightly moans out. I pull back and look at her. She is still sleeping. I place my lips back to her neck and suck lightly causing her to moan once again. I continue my assault on her neck. I get lost in what I am doing. I am not even paying attention anymore to whether she is awake or not until I feel her hands in my hair and she is pushing me into her neck more. Ashley let out another low moan. She grabs my head and pulls me up to her mouth. We make out for a couple minutes before I pull back and look at her with a shy smile.
"Good morning Rockstar." I whisper out looking into her eyes. She gives me a nose crinkling smile then pulls me back into her lips.
"You wake me up like that every morning and it will always be a great morning." Ashley says against my lips. I drop my head into her neck to hide my blush from her. "No need to get all shy now baby. Take control. I love it." Ashley adds with a giggle. I shake my head and put my arm around her waist.
"We have to get ready for our radio interview." I mumble into her neck.
"Ugh but I was enjoying this. Why can't we stay here? We are sick." Ashley tells me then fake coughs. I start giggling at her.
"They won't care so come on. You can shower first."
"Yeah, I need a cold one after being woke up like that but hey I'm not complaining." The older singer admits. I pull back out of her neck and lightly smile at her.
"Go shower. I'll text John and tell him to meet us downstairs at 1." I tell her. I roll over and grab my phone. Ashley whines as she gets up off the bed. I shake my head at her childness and send a text to John.
"I'll be done in like 20 minutes." Ashley says after she lightly pecks my lips. I watch her walk into the bathroom. The brunette winks at me before closing the bathroom door. I get up from the bed and pick out my clothes and get everything ready for my shower. Ashley walks out of the bathroom after 20 minutes with a smile on her face.
"I see you had a nice shower." I say sending her a smirk.
"Says the one marking people." Ashley smirks back. I quickly turn my head and look at her neck.
"Sorry." I whisper out once I notice the quarter sized hickey on her pulse point.
"I'm not complaining. I told you, you can wake me up like that every morning and I will be fine with it. Well not if you are going to mark me every time. That might end up looking hideous. Too many hickeys are ugly." Ashley rambles out.
"Noted. I'm going to shower now." I say then make my way to the bathroom with my stuff in my hands. Ashley follows me into the bathroom. After I sit my stuff down, she turns me around and lightly pushes me into the counter. The brunette quickly meets her lips with mine. Ashley moves her hands around to the small of my back and slowly starts moving them south. The older singer grips the bottom of my butt and top of my thighs lifting me up onto the counter. Our lips never losing contact. Ashley places herself in-between my legs. My hands are in her hair as we continue to make out. After another few moments Ashley starts kissing down to my neck.
"Fuck." I whisper out as she starts sucking on my pulse point. "Mmm." I moan out lightly again as she continues her attack.
"I would have marked you too, but we don't need to show up to an interview both displaying hickeys. They already think I sleep around so I will have no problem with getting out of it." Ashley says as she pulls away from my neck. She quickly pecks my lips before retreating out of the bathroom. "Enjoy your shower." The brunette adds with a wink before she closes the bathroom door. She is going to regret doing that. She is a damn tease.
