Title: Truth Serum is Legal With a Prescription
Rating: This chapter is probably only PG-ish for some slight language and/or sexual content.
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine...I cannot claim them. They all belong to the hardworking people involved with South of Nowhere. Okay, Nikki, Aiden's girlfriend, is not part of the original cast of S.O.N. but that's all.
Feedback: Yes please, I want to know what everyone thinks of this story so far.
Summary: This will be a Spashley story. Sequel of "Just Tell Me What You Want"
Author's Note: I really do appreciate any and all reviews that I receive. I re-watched season one of South of Nowhere recently, and it gave me a few more ideas of what could happen with this fic yet, so I'm trying to expand on a few of them.
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"So, this was the emergency?" Mr. Carlin came home after a frantic phone call from his wife, to find his home completely intact, and the silence was almost overwhelming. Nothing was broken, no one was screaming, and his wife was pacing the kitchen. It was all almost too calm and normal.
"Yes!" Paula stopped her pacing to glare at her husband. "I think you can leave your poker game to come here and see what's going on in your own family."
"Fine." He realized it was going to have to take care of it one step at a time. "Where's Clay?" One teenager at a time.
"Out with Chelsea." He was the easy one, the good one at the moment.
"And Glen?" Mr. Carlin raised his eyebrows, curious if something had happened with his other son.
Paula began her pacing again. "Out with Ashley or Madison or someone…" It still didn't all make sense to her. Something was going on with her children, and she was going to figure it out. She was a good mom.
"And Spencer?"
"Upstairs, sleeping." Paula explained this, and suddenly she realized how easy it all sounded to her husband. All of the children were out of harm's way at the moment.
"So, where's the problem?" Arthur frowned at his wife, wondering if something was wrong at work and not with the family at all.
"The problem is that while you were off gallivanting with your friends, your son was upstairs making-out with someone who wasn't his girlfriend." Oh. So, maybe it was the family after all. Wait, someone who wasn't Glen's girlfriend… "Madison."
Arthur raised his eyebrows in surprise. "I thought Madison was his girlfriend?"
"No, Ashley is now." Paula pursed her lips at his silliness. He didn't pay enough attention to his children. "Don't you dare mention that 'boys will be boys', Arthur." She noticed the familiar glint in her husband's eyes. He was going to let his son off easy…again. He was always doing that with his children.
Mr. Carlin chuckled, not wanting to get Paula even more agitated. "You know me too well, Paula." Which was true. She smiled at him wanly, unsure of whether to let his joke be or not.
"Ew, child alert. Still here, thanks." Spencer walked in just as the two smiled at each other. So much for her being asleep. "I'll go meet Ashley and make sure she's okay."
"Okay, Spencer, but don't be too late." Arthur smiled at her. She was going to take care of her…friend.
"Arthur!" Paula frowned at him and hit him on the arm.
Arthur backed away from her, "What?"
"I don't trust Ashley with Spencer." Frown. "She's going to corrupt her! That's why Glen is supposed to help Ashley out, then the two girls can be friends on better terms." Honestly, her husband just didn't understand. Paula was doing that for her daughter's own good, and he was ruining it. "Arthur, don't look at me like that. Arthur!" He was already on his way back to his poker game. Maybe it wasn't too late to get in on another hand.
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"Madison, listen to me. I'm sorry, okay?" Luckily, Glen had been able to catch Madison before she had gotten too far away. Okay, so he hadn't been chasing Ashley really. His mom didn't need to know that though.
"You just humiliated me in front of your mom." There were…there were actual tears in her eyes. Glen had never seen his girlfriend cry. "She saw me with you, with you, with you." She glared at him, and the tears were almost instantly gone. She was pissed. "Then, to top the matter off, you still pretend to be dating Ashley. You actually ran off after Gay-zilla and left me standing there." She was tired of trying to be someone else in front of the parents while Ashley got to get all of the benefits. "You should have seen the look that your mom gave me." Madison sneered at him. "Oh, and I so heard your sister act innocent in the matter as I left. Spencer the eighth gay wonder of the world."
"You don't call my sister that." For once in her life, she didn't look so attractive when Glen looked at her. She had said one too many jokes about his sister.
"A gay wonder? Cause that's what she is. Only more like the gay freak thanks to Ashley. Otherwise, she might have a chance at being normal. Least that's what people are saying around school." She had been a good girlfriend, not telling him about that right away. "Even if she does have a good taste in music." She rolled her eyes at the thought. Spencer had something going for her with that anyway, if only she would drop Ashley. "Not that you'll listen to me anyway. We're through." One more glance at him, and Madison was walking away towards her car. Her sandals clicking furiously as she walked away leaving Glen to stand there blinking, wondering what had just happened. God. She was so hot when she was mad.
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"Hey Ash," Spencer hurried out of her house and met her girlfriend there. "That was some good acting."
"I should be an actress." Ashley gloated happily as she reached for Spencer's hand.
"Well, you don't need to go and get all spoiled on me." Spencer laughed gently at Ashley's appalled face. "Maybe it's too late for that though. I think your head is growing."
"Hey!" Ashley looked surprised at such a thought and swatted playfully at her girlfriend, not letting go of her other hand though.
Spencer lightly kissed Ashley's hand. "It's a very cute big head though."
"That's better." Ashley smiled at the small gesture. Girls were so much better than guys. They didn't have the stubble on their chins when they kissed your hand like that. It didn't tickle or itch. Score! "So, are we going to talk about tonight then?" She turned serious for a moment, letting the giddiness leave her momentarily.
Spencer tilted her head to the side a bit, and turned to look at her. "I thought that we already did."
"No, I mean, seriously talk about tonight." Spencer still didn't seem to quite get it. "What would we have done if your mom had walked in on us?" Oh, about that…
"Pretend that we don't understand English?" Ashley wasn't in a joking mood, so Spencer stopped with them, and half-shrugged. "I don't know, Ash. I guess…I guess I'd have to tell her then. But we don't need to worry about that, because she didn't walk in on us. She's all worried about Glen now, so we have at least a few more weeks before she worries about the two of us too much again." Spencer thought it was a good idea, not telling her mom until it was absolutely necessary. No need to play with fire unless needed. She didn't understand why it bothered Ashley so much sometimes.
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"Hey Baby," Madison breathed sexily into the phone a few minutes after leaving Glen. She was driving.
The voice on the other end of the phone immediately recognized her. "Madison? We haven't been going out for weeks."
"That's just it, Aiden. I miss you." She pouted, letting her voice carry an extra-heavy sexy scent to it. Guys were so easy to manipulate.
"What about your Wonder-Boy Carlin? What'd he do wrong now?" Aiden seemed to suddenly forget about his current girlfriend, Nicole. Madison was hard to get our of your system completely without wanting more.
Guys. "I just miss you." So easy to lie to. "Don't you miss me?" So easy to convince. "Just for old times sake…" At least when you were Madison Duarte.
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"Hey Mom. Hey Dad." Clay was home from his date, and his whole family was sitting in the living room. "What's up?" Spencer and Glen and his dad all looked slightly miserable. Paula was ecstatic.
"We're having a family dinner tomorrow." Paula smiled at them, ignoring any groans of complaint. "We've realized that there has to be something going on in each of your lives that we've been left out of, and we feel bad for missing some parts of your lives due to our busy schedules. We're both taking tomorrow night off of work…So, we're all eating together tomorrow night. You can all bring someone, and so we can all catch up." At least one of them was smiling about the idea.