Title: Just Tell Me What You Want
Rating: This chapter is probably only PG-ish. Slight sexual content and slight language.
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. I can't claim them. They are all property of the hard-working folks who are involved in the show South Of Nowhere.
Feedback: Yes please, I love feedback.
Summary: This is a Spencer/Ashley story. It will involve the other characters of South of Nowhere though too.
Author's Notes: Thank you to everyone who continues to send me feedback. I'm sorry that it's taken a little while to get an update out, but they should be coming more frequently now seeing as I shouldn't have so much work to have to do. This chapter isn't as long as some of the chapters, I know, but I wanted to get this section out there. Enjoy :)
Ashley had, in fact, gone home and slept for a little while. Then, she managed to wake herself up enough to trudge downstairs to get some breakfast, well, early lunch. She reached her hand up to her hair and realized that she still hadn't taken a shower or brushed her hair in an attempt to get ready for tonight. Crap. She glanced at the clock. Good, she still had time to get beautiful, like she really had to try to do that anyway. She padded the hall to the shower. She felt much more awake when she climbed out, and proceeded to change into clothes that she was hoping would interest Spencer. She pulled on a pair of black jeans and a tight-fitting light gray vintage t-shirt with purple lettering spelling out one of the bands her dad had been in. Ashley wasn't really sure where they were going tonight, but honestly she was just hoping to look good to Spencer tonight.
After Ashley left, Spencer did fall back asleep for a few minutes, but this time she didn't have to wake up to her brother gawking at her and her friend/girlfriend, er, Ashley. This time she didn't have to wake up to her brother gawking at her and her Ashley. There, that sounded right in her head. Smiling to herself, she walked to the bathroom and turned on the shower. The first step in the process of getting ready for a date was generally a good shower. Afterward, she tried on even more outfits than when she had gone on the date with Kelly, which was truly saying something. The blonde finally decided on a pair of denim blue jeans with a dark purple tank top. Hopefully this outfit said something to Ashley, something good. After putting the finishing touches on her hair and lip gloss, the doorbell rang.
For once, Ashley was ready to go almost early, and showed up at the Carlins' house just a little bit late. She bounced around on the front porch for a moment before the door opened to reveal Arthur who had just gotten home from work. "Hi Ashley. Spencer's upstairs."
"No, she's not." Spencer declared as she grinned from the bottom of the stairs. "You're almost on time for once."
"Hey, I can be ready in time." Ashley tried to defend herself.
"You are when I tell you that you have to be somewhere an hour before it's actually time, anyway." Spencer smiled as Ashley caught onto what the blonde was hinting at.
"Are you saying that you told me to be here an hour earlier than you actually planned on me getting here?"
"To know Ashley, is to time-manage her activities for her." Spencer re-worded something that she had once heard, and she was pretty sure that it fit Ashley better this time around. Ashley sighed. Spencer was already figuring her out, down to her little quirks like almost always being late, fashionably late. (If only the teachers at school would see it as fashionably late.)
Arthur smiled at the two friends. "I'll see you later tonight then, Spencer?" His daughter nodded and smiled at him. "Don't be back too late, okay? Have fun."
The brunette was tempted to make a statement about how she was sure that they would have fun, but she caught Spencer's eye, so she changed her sentence was around. "I promise I'll have her back at a decent time, Mr. C." Ashley's brown eyes shimmered as she went over what she said in her head. Spencer was either going to kill her for making it sound so much like a date, or laugh. Personally, she was hoping for the latter.
Arthur smiled. Okay, what Ashley had just said sounded a lot like she was planning on bringing Spencer out on a date, but he was sure that it wasn't meant that way. Ashley had a pretty quirky sense of humor at times, so he was willing to guess this was a joke too, probably anyway. Either way, it was good that Paula was still at work, so she wasn't there to fret over silly things like one comment. "You better," he smiled right back at Ashley, and this time it was her who tried to decipher his meaning and whether or not he thought tonight was a date.
Spencer looked between her Ashley and her dad for a moment before breaking the moment by walking towards the door. "Come on Ash. See you later, Dad." Just like that, they were out the door.
"So, which one of us gets to be the one to decide where we're going?" Ashley glanced over at Spencer as she asked. "My only request is to not go clubbing tonight." Spencer laughed.
"I can agree with that one, though, it didn't end up so badly in the end." Spencer reminisced about after they had left the club, and shared a kiss later.
"That part doesn't count," Ashley argued. "That part took place on the beach."
"Well, does this count?" Spencer and Ashley were sitting in Ashley's car, stopped at stop light when the blonde leaned over and kissed her gently on the mouth. Ashley kissed her back, and just as the kiss was tempted to get heated, Spencer pulled back. "The light is green," Spencer explained as Ashley looked at her dumbfounded for a moment before realizing that she had to continue driving. "So, does that count?" Spencer asked innocently as she smiled over at Ashley.
"Oh, that counts alright. That counts, for my car anyway, but not for the club." Spencer laughed.
"Pull in here!" Spencer suddenly exclaimed. A neon sign out front said, 'Neil's Bowl-O-Rama.'
"Bowling?" Ashley questioned a grinning Spencer.
"I haven't gone bowling in so long. Well, not since I moved out here anyway." Spencer explained to her date.
"I haven't gone bowling…um, for a while, anyway." Ashley explained as she tried to figure out when the last time she had gone bowling really was. "I think it was a couple of years ago, when my parents decided that they were going to have some family bonding time with me and we all went out bowling." Ashley and Spencer climbed out of Ashley's car and leaned against it together as they looked at Neil's establishment for a moment thinking.
"Was it fun?"
"I was horrible," Ashley deadpanned before smiling. "I bet I can beat you though."
"Oh yeah?" Spencer chuckled and tilted her head toward the ever-amused Ashley.
"Yeah," Ashley claimed as she wrapped her hand around Spencer's waist.
"Aw, I'm going to get to beat my girlfriend in bowling." Spencer said sweetly as she kissed Ashley softly on the neck. She caught what she had finally said out-loud.
"Girlfriend, huh?" Crap. Ashley wasn't suppose to notice that. Shyly, Spencer turned and looked at Ashley who was grinning. "I like the sound of that." They smiled and both leaned in towards each other.
"I'm still going to beat you." Spencer whispered and took off running towards the bowling alley.
"That was evil, Spence! Pure evil!" Ashley shrieked across the parking lot as she began running to catch up with her gigging girlfriend.