Spencer's face looked as if she had just seen a ghost.

Ashley cocked her head to one side and gave Spencer the most hurtful look possible.

Ashley: (shakes her head and rolls her eyes) Never mind.

Ashley quickly turns around and heads towards the bathroom.

Spencer took a step around Melany, but Melany put her arm out; in order to stop Spencer from going.

Melany: No, don't go!
Spencer: Look, (talking over the music) I have to go to her!
Melany: No! If there's one thing I know, it's Ashley. (rolls her eyes) She gets these little (air-quotes) 'attention power-strikes' and she throws herself pity parties.
Spencer: (looks to the right) Well, I just -- I need to go see if she's okay.
Melany: (narrows her eyes) Are you and Ashley... you know, (air-quotes) 'together'?
Spencer: (shrugs) I... I guess you could say that! But, I have to go see if we still are, at the moment.
Melany: (moves her head: up and down) Oh, man! That explains it. (moves over to Spencer and puts her left hand on Spencer's right shoulder) Spencer, please tell my cousin that... that I thought you were alone. Tell her, I'm really sorry. (puts her hand on her forehead) I'm always doing this.
Spencer: 'I'm always doing this'? so, this has happened more than once? Okay, (turns around) I'll try.

Spencer takes off in a sprint-like motion towards the bathrooms.

She busts through the door and looks under every other stall; in search of Ashley familiar feet.

Spencer: Ashley? (looks under the third stall) Ashley?

Suddenly, the second stall door opens up and this short brunette girl walks out, looks Spencer up and down and then points at her.

Girl: Hey, chick... quit yelling! And by the way, I don't think your little (air-quotes) 'girlfriend' is in here.

Spencer was too upset and nervous to use her manners.

Spencer: (mocking her) Hey, chick... why don't you just shut the hell up! (saying it as a statement; not as a question)
Girl: Jeez, sorry! I was just playing around. (rolls her eyes) Man, you blonde girls are so temperamental.

She gives Spencer a catty "pssff" and then exits the bathroom.

Spencer just shook that girl's comment off and went back to her search for Ashley.

She made her way to the very back stall (the handicapped one) and saw a pair of beige, jeweled sandals and evenly tanned legs.

She stopped, hesitated and then proceeded to speak.

Spencer: (gravelly voice) Ashley?
Ashley: (sniffs) What do you want?
Spencer: (leans back against the wall in front of the stall) I want to know if you're okay. You -- are okay, aren't you?
Ashley: (sarcastically laughs) Yeah, Spencer... I'm perfectly okay with my girlfriend dirty dancing with my closest cousin. (sniffs) Yeah, that is alright with me.
Spencer: (sighs and walks up to the stall door; she leans on it) Ash, Melany said that she didn't know that you and I were close, like that. She said she was extremely sorry.

Ashley then opens the door, looks at Spencer with mascara all over her face and stares intensively at her.

Ashley: I'm not that upset with Melany. (blinks)
Spencer: So, you've thrown all this on me?
Ashley: (gets frown lines on her forehead) See, I understand the fact that Melany didn't know any better, (pauses) but you did know! (widens her eyes) And you still did it, Spencer!
Spencer: I'm sorry, Ashley! I just... wanted to dance. (puts out her left hand; as if she were holding a tray or something) And, she just happened to be the first one that started dancing with me.
Ashley: (raises her eyebrows sharply) Yeah well, you can just dance with her all night... I don't care!

She walks around Spencer and opens the door and leaves Spencer, by herself, in a bathroom... alone

As Ashley's trying to exit the whole "club" scene, she is abruptly stopped by her cousin.

Melany: (puts out her arm; stopping Ashley) Ashie, where are you going?
Ashley: Away, Mel. (pushes through her) Now leave me alone.

Ashley takes a few more steps away from Melany and then turns around; slowly.

Ashley: Can you just take care of Spencer for me?
Melany: (frowns) Of course, but -- why can't you?
Ashley: (sighs) It's personal. Look, can you just make sure that she gets home, please?
Melany: Yeah, sure.

Without saying "thank you", Ashley goes back to what she was doing before; leaving.

Melany turned and looked at the bathroom, as if trying to see through the walls. She took a few steps towards it, when all of a sudden, Spencer weakly opened the door, and looked as if a tsunami had just hit her.

Her make-up was running, her eyes were all puffy, her hair was a little frizzy and she had about ten Kleenexes in her hands.

Melany calmly went up to Spencer and just looked sympathetically at her.

Melany: Are you okay, Spencer?
Spencer: (shakes her head) Not really. (pauses) Is Ashley still here?
Melany: No, she just left. She told me to take you home.

Spencer's eyes became very glass-like and at that moment in time, she was the most vulnerable.

Melany: So, why don't I take you home?
Spencer: (sniffs) Okay.

Melany puts her arm strategically around Spencer's neck and guides her out of the club.

+THE NEXT DAY+

Spencer wanted to call Ashley so badly, that it literally made her sick. She woke up with a sore throat and a runny nose. She wanted, more than anything, to tell Ashley how sorry she was, but she thought about that situation for the longest time and came to the conclusion that the two of them needed a little bit of time apart – just a little.

Spencer: (out loud to herself) How come Ashley can flirt and dance crazy with any girl... but, I can't? (shakes her head) I don't understand that.

Meanwhile, Ashley was at her house, mumbling under her breath.

Ashley: (to herself) I'm still trying to figure out how Spencer could do something like that to me. I mean, I thought --

All of a sudden, Ashley's cell phone rang.

Her heart skipped a beat, because she thought that it could possibly be Spencer. But, when she looked at the Caller ID, it wasn't Spencer... not even close.