Title: Just Tell Me What You Want
Rating: This chapter is probably only PG. It has some slight sexual content.
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. (Of course, minus Brock and his father, who are still at the bowling alley)
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Summary: This will be a Spencer/Ashley story. It will involve the other characters of South of Nowhere though too.
Author's Notes: This is the next tidbit of what's going on in the Spencer/Ashley world. I love to hear what everyone thinks of my stories, so thanks to everyone who sends feedback. Enjoy.
"So, can I see you at lunch?" Kelly turned to look at Spencer. Spencer got a ride to school from Kelly, and luckily they had gotten ready in time even with Glen walking in on them in an awkward position. Also luckily, he didn't mention it at breakfast; he was smarter than that. Kelly had off-campus lunch, and she wanted to come spend it with Spencer on her school campus.
"Wouldn't that take a while? The drive, I mean." Spencer turned to look the other girl in the eye before reaching to grab her book bag from the floor.
"It's not that long of a drive." Kelly shrugged as she answered. She really just wanted to spend some more time with the blonde girl at her side.
"Sure," Spencer relented, smiling. A thought of Ashley becoming jealous from seeing Spencer and Kelly together flashed through the blonde's head, making her smile even more. Kelly assumed it was because of her, and returned the smile with a flash of white teeth from her part. "I'll see you then." Kelly leaned in and gave Spencer a quick peck on the lips. It bothered Spencer because they were in public, and she wasn't willing to come out suddenly to everyone, in case her mom truly figured it out, but Kelly didn't seem to care about that kind of thing. Another flash of Ashley popped into the blonde's mind, and Spencer knew that Ashley would have known not to do that in public. And in another flash of time, Spencer was out of the car and heading towards her first class, really quickly. For once, math might be helpful in clearing her mind.
"Miss Davies, I assume that you have a good reason for being late." It was second hour when Ashley appeared on the school grounds. She rolled her eyes before turning to face her teacher again. The brunette, well, this wasn't her first time being late, and she knew how to handle a situation like this delicately.
"I was sick." She waved the pass in the air before settling it down on his desk. He frowned at it for a moment before realizing that it was a pass directly from the office, which meant that she had, indeed, turned in a notice that was good. Her mom was good about leaving notes, already filled out, around the house. Her mom wasn't home enough during the week to truly know if she was sick or not, so when Ashley was old enough, her mom just left a few notes on the table, in case they were ever needed. Ashley abused the privilege of the notes at times, but it's not like her mom really cared anyway. That's why the automatically filled out notes were there already to use at her disposal. And that's why she overcame her case of food poisoning so soon, soon enough to be able to come back to school in the same morning. At least, that's what the note said. Why her mother left notes stating that Ashley had food poisoning…Well, that, Ashley could not answer.
The teacher took another glance at it before nodding. It wasn't the first time that she had been ill in the morning, and he assumed that it wouldn't be the last. Of course, as long as she had a legitimate pass, it wasn't his problem.
"Mr. Dennison, I assume that you have a good reason as well?" Aiden strolled in just as Ashley had sat down in her seat. She told Aiden that they couldn't walk into class together, because it would look suspicious. Leave it to him to walk in just a couple of minutes later. He wasn't as smooth as she was at this kind of thing.
"Uh, I, uh…slept in." He was definitely not as smooth. Aiden had a forged note that he handed directly to the teacher. He didn't bother with the office, because he knew that one of his mother's friends worked there, and there was no way that he could get the note past her, in his handwriting. The teacher frowned again at this note.
"So, it says." The teacher inspected it for several moments, suspecting it to be a fake, but he shrugged and sat it down on his desk anyway. They didn't pay him enough to deal with having to examine notes that well. "Sit down then, Mr. Dennison, so we can resume class. That is, after all, what class is for." Aiden nodded his head, before he headed towards his seat in the back, with a few of the other guys that he talked to.
Spencer watched suspiciously as Ashley walked into the classroom. Ashley was definitely not sick, and Spencer spent the five minutes while Ashley talked to the teacher, trying to figure out what was really going on. Then, Aiden had walked in. Oh. It clicked in Spencer's mind as to why they were both late. Aiden lied his way through being late, and Spencer noticed that as well. Aiden never was a good liar. They had obviously been together last night, and now…they were late together. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize, at least partly, as to why the couple had been late. Spencer's mind couldn't concentrate the rest of the period. Tonight, she wouldn't understand the new chemistry she had learned either. That was completely Ashley's fault. She glanced at the brunette and frowned, slouching lower in her seat. The blonde wasn't going to let Ashley get to her.
Ashley could feel someone's eyes on the back of her head during chemistry, so she turned around to look at the blonde behind her. "What?" She whispered fiercely as the teacher wrote more notes on the board.
Spencer ignored her, and suddenly seemed intensely focused on the empty piece of notebook paper in front of her. She hadn't taken any notes since Ashley had walked in the door. "What?" The brunette repeated her question again, and then Spencer finally looked up.
"Nothing," the blonde was being obviously stubborn.
"Then stop staring at me." The brunette hissed her reply before turning around in her seat.
The blonde scowled and leaned forward in her seat before reaching the girl in front of her. "I can't help it. You do sit right in front of me."
Ashley tried to ignore the way that Spencer's breath felt hot and heavy on her ear, and the way that she just wanted to turn around and kiss her because of the way it felt. "You don't have to talk to me." The brunette noticed the hurt register in the blonde's eyes at her new remark, and instantly felt bad. "I don't mean it like that."
"Like what?" Spencer was instantly in denial that Ashley knew how she felt.
"Like how you're taking it." Like it or not, both girls knew that Ashley knew how Spencer was taking it, and it was not in a good way.
"I'm not taking it like anything." Spencer shrugged her shoulders, as she glanced up front. Their chemistry teacher was still going on about his precious notes, and their assignment for today. Okay, that assignment, Spencer had done. She could not focus for a few more minutes.
"You're the one who doesn't want to answer my calls." Ashley didn't mean for that phrase to slip out, but by the time it had, it was too late to take it back.
"I talked to you last night." Spencer suddenly looked puzzled, and Ashley couldn't figure out why that would be. After all, Spencer had hung up on her without saying a word.
"The call after that." Ashley tried to jog Spencer's memory.
"Call after that?" Again, Spencer looked puzzled, and Ashley did now too, actually.
"You hung up…or turned off your phone or something." Ashley rambled on for a moment, hoping that something would register. Well, she was also hoping that something wouldn't register. Even now, neither girl would lie to the other. There were simply feelings there that couldn't be shared. Spencer was with Kelly, and Ashley was with Aiden.
"No, I didn't." Spencer shook her head, as she explained that she only had her phone the once the night before when Ashley called. Ashley began to realize that Spencer wasn't the one who hung up on her, and she wondered who it could be. It had to either be Kelly or Paula. Spencer began to realize that Kelly must have had control of the phone at the time, if Ashley was telling the truth, and that would mean that Kelly was purposely keeping them apart. She'd have to ask her at lunch. Before she could ask Ashley about Aiden, the teacher stopped writing on the board.
"Miss Davies and Miss Carlin, if you wish to continue talking, then you will have to do so in detention this afternoon. Do you both understand?" The girls agreed that they understood, and sheepishly turned their attention back to the board for the last three minutes of class.
It seemed to take forever for lunch to arrive, and both girls were still avoiding each other hesitantly. They didn't know what to think after the fight the night before. They were each supposed to be with someone else, but why did it still feel like they had a closer connection? It was confusing both of them.
"Hey Spencer," Kelly called after she parked her car. "How is my favorite girl?" Spencer smiled at her.
"Hey Kelly," Spencer replied before she felt Kelly's lips on her own again. She loved to kiss the girl, but she really didn't understand what Spencer was comfortable with in public. "Not here, Kelly," she began when she noticed Aiden and Ashley talking to each other.
"Ashley, we have to talk about this morning." Aiden began as he ran a hand through his hair. He was still confused, and Ashley kept avoiding his questions.
"We talked this morning," Ashley pointed out.
"No, you talked. I just listened. I have some thoughts on certain things too, you know." Ashley kept herself from rolling her eyes.
"I know you have thoughts, babe. We'll talk about them, I promise, but right now?" She looked at him pleadingly, but he didn't give into her puppy dog looks. He wanted to talk about what had happened between them that morning right then, and he wasn't going to let her change the subject.
"Yes, right now." He crossed his arms, and Ashley looked to the side, wondering how to get out of a feelings conversation. She hated conversations like that. Just then, she saw that Kelly had started kissing Spencer. They stopped for a minute, and Spencer noticed Ashley looking at them. Crap.
Ashley tried to hide her jealousy, but it was obvious to Spencer. Spencer looked curiously at the brunette, trying to read her, and Ashley couldn't handle it. Spencer wanted Kelly, and it wouldn't help things any if Spencer knew that Ashley still wanted her. So, Ashley did the only thing she could think of that would solve both of her problems, or perhaps just make them worse. She kissed Aiden. Aiden stopped talking about feelings, and he kissed Ashley back. Spencer stopped staring, and instead focused her attention back on Kelly whose mouth was still moving, but she didn't hear any of the words coming out.