Another chapter. Longer than the previous one. Enjoy!
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Josie: "Hmm." I wonder what a friend would get her rich friend. Probably something nice.
Josie takes the present down and carefully unwraps it so there won't be tears in the wrapping paper. She opens the box to find a bracelet with a seashell charm and a necklace with another seashell charm and at either side of the seashell charm were a real seashell. So there is a total of 3 seashells on the necklace.
Spencer picked up the 2 seashells on beach that night she kissed Ashley. She thought they were really pretty and special and couldn't help but keep them.
Josie: "Aww how sweet. Why thank you Spencer."
Josie puts the bracelet and necklace in her purse and returns the box into its wrapping paper that had the shape of the box already and made sure it looks like no one opened it. She then put it back on the door. Just then Ashley pulls up and sees Josie put the present on the door. Curious to see what Josie is doing, Ashley gets out of the car.
Ashley: "Hey Josie."
Josie: "Hey Ashley."
Ashley: "What is that?"
Josie: "A present. Spencer left it for you."
Ashley: "Oh." aww yes.
Ashley takes down the present and opens it to find nothing in it. A very hurt expression comes across Ashley's face. Why would Spencer give her an empty present?
Ashley: "There is nothing in it."
Josie: "I don't know."
Ashley: "Spencer wouldn't leave me an empty present."
Josie: "Maybe it symbolizes something."
Ashley: "Like what?"
Josie: "I don't know emptiness feeling for you. I don't know. I guess that is an evil way to show she doesn't want to be your friend anymore that she didn't take the time to find you a present…"
Ashley is devastated.
Ashley: "Oh."
Josie: "Yep. Sorry ash."
Ashley tries to hide her hurt expression. This doesn't add up at all. Spencer is not a person who would do that sort of thing. Hell, she wouldn't even do that to someone. She was missing something. But what?
Ashley: "Okay hold up. I know Spencer. She would not leave an empty present on my door and leave for Ohio."
Josie: "But she did."
Ashley: "No she didn't."
Ashley looks suspiciously at Josie and glances at her purse. She sees a piece of a necklace hanging out. Curiosity gets the best of Ashley. She needed answers or clues or something.
Ashley: "And what is this?"
Ashley grabs Josie purse and pulls out the bracelet and necklace and looks at Josie.
Josie: "Oh there mine. My friend gave them to me."
Ashley: "Uhuh."
Ashley is not convinced. Ashley looks at the necklace and behind the silver seashell charm in the center. Those weren't for Josie.
Ashley: "Okay. If your friend gave this to you, why does it say Ashley behind this shell?"
Josie-stuttering-: "uhmm uhmm ((think of something)). Because it is my gift to you. Jeez Ashley you really know how to ruin a surprise.
Ashley: "Oh." ((there is still something wrong with this.)) "Uhm sorry. Thanks."
Josie: "Haha. Your welcome."
Ashley: "That still doesn't explain Spencer's empty present."
Josie: "Well you can ask her about it when she comes back."
Ashley is still suspicious and looks behind the silver charm on the bracelet. Engraved in it was " Merry x-mas 3 Spence" in small writing.
Ashley: "You Bitch! This is Spencer's gift."
Josie: "What makes you say that?"
Ashley: "Hmm maybe it's the merry x-mas 3 Spencer on the back of this charm."
Josie: "Oh." ((damn it…uhmm)) "well yeah it is. I took it out of the box."
Ashley: "Why would you do that?"
Josie: "Because you've been talking about Spencer and I didn't think you would want to deal with something from her."
Ashley: "Bullshit. I'm not stupid, you wanted to steal it. What else did you steal from me?"
Josie: "Nothing."
Ashley: "Josie you better not be lying to me."
Josie: "I'm not. Now calm down. I'm sorry okay?"
Ashley: "Not okay. I think it is time for you to leave."
Josie: "What about our plans?"
Ashley: "They've been cancelled."
Ashley takes down the box, opens the door and slams it in Josie's face.
Ashley: That Liar. Argghh I hate liars.
Ashley goes in the fridge and pulls out a couple of beers, opens one of them and starts drinking. A habit she started picking up when she and Josie are hanging out. They end up drinking away their problems. Ashley goes to the couch and sits, thinks, …and drinks.
Ashley: So what does this mean? Spencer still wants us to be friends or does she have feeling for me but is not ready to show it? Jeez why did she have to leave? Why does everyone have to leave me?
Ashley chugs down a bottle of beer.
Seashells equal beach and we kissed on the beach…does this mean she cares about me? No No she doesn't care about me. If she did then she wouldn't of left me.
She chugs down the remaining contents of the bottle and opens another bottle easily by using the little table in front of the couch.
Ashley: She would of said good bye.
She drinks some more. Sorrow and pain fills her heart. This cannot be happening. She is missing something yet again. She needed to find something. Spencer would of said good bye somehow. She wouldn't leave her like that. Ashley needed to find something saying goodbye from Spencer. She needed to.
Ashley: Maybe she left me a message.
Ashley takes her phone out of her pocket and checks if she had a message. No messages. No call. No goodbye from Spencer. Hurt fills her mind again but she cannot accept it. It hurt too much to accept it.
Ashley: Nope.
The brunette drinks some more.
Ashley: I should call her.
Ashley calls Spencer's cell. At the Carlin house, Spencer is upstairs packing and her phone is downstairs charging. Spencer's mom hears Spencer's phone vibrate, walks over to it and picks it up to see who it is. Caller: Ashley.
Paula: Pshh. Its probably a thank you. Whatever, not important.
Spencer's mom flips open the phone and presses the ignore button. Ashley hears Spencer's Voicemail and leaves a message. The alcohol is catching up to her to where her words are slurring a bit. She didn't care.
Ashley-slurry a bit-: "mmm Hey Spenceee, uhm when you get thiss message can you call me, I really need to talk to you. Alright bye."
A voicemail notification shows up on Spencer's phone. Paula ignores the notification and puts Spencer's phone in her purse.
Paula: This trip is for Spencer to get away from Ashley. The last thing she needs is to be in contact with that thing. She will thank me in the long run.
Back at Ashley's house, Ashley tries to get up so she can go on her computer but sits back down. The drinks were catching up to her. Lately, she has been feeling the effects of alcohol rather quickly. It didn't help that the alcohol she was chugging was relatively strong.
Ahh major headache. I knew having all those drinks this week would eventually catch up to me…
Ashley falls asleep on the couch, thinking of Spencer.
