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. I don't own Scooby Doo (Where are you?) series either. I do love Scooby Snacks though…Nor do I own Lucky Charms (the cereal). Well, I own it to eat it…but I don't own it otherwise.
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: Look! Land ahoy! Er, update ahoy! X marks the spot!…And I've been watching way too many pirate movies. Anyway, this is the next segment of the story. I had some extra time tonight to type it up. I apologize for any slowness in my updating, but I do blame school…(And thank you to all who review I love knowing what you think of my updates.)
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"Mm," Spencer mumbled sleepily as she buried her head up against Ashley. The blonde's arms and legs were draped across the brunette. The blonde ended up with her face pressed against Ashley's neck. She smiled to herself and then lightly kissed the skin there.
Ashley smiled, and Spencer could feel it. "Good morning to you too."
"Yeah…" Spencer opened one eye lazily and pulled back a little bit. She was met with the sleepy face of her girlfriend. "Think of me as a personal alarm clock."
Ashley groaned, suddenly remembering that it was early, which meant school. "What time is it?"
"Five," Spencer mentioned it casually, but Ashley groaned again. It was really early.
"Which means you need to go home?" Spencer nodded her head. Ashley reached out and touched the blonde's face gently with her hand. "Be careful." She'd kiss her, but…morning breath was a killer in many relationships. She wouldn't let that happen.
Spencer smiled at the gesture; she knew why they didn't kiss in the morning, until they brushed their teeth. The blonde stood up and walked towards the doorway before turning back to the brunette. She hesitated, but she wanted to say it, before she lost her nerve. "I love you." She was gone before the brunette could say anything.
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"Way to not use the front door." Spencer stumbled through the window onto the bathroom floor. She glanced up at Glen, who was busy fixing his hair.
"Front door?" Spencer grinned, playing innocent.
Glen rolled his eyes. "Someone's cheeky this morning."
Cheeky. Huh. Spencer had never heard her brother use that one before. "Someone's increasing his vocabulary this morning."
"Oh get out." Glen pointed at the bathroom door, but Spencer couldn't help but giggle at the mention of the word, 'out'. "Of the bathroom, Spencer. Out of the bathroom!"
The blonde had just barely stepped into the hallway when she was met by her other brother. Wow, her family was up early that morning. It was about 5:30 a.m. by that point. Usually the blonde wouldn't and couldn't force herself to move for another hour. "Spencer?"
"Clay?"
Clay smiled apologetically at his sister. She still looked half asleep. "Just wanted you to warn you that Mom's on a warpath already."
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"Spencer?" It took her mother five whole minutes before she actually knocked on the door. It was a miracle. Her mother didn't walk in the middle of all of the drama, meaning when Spencer was falling back through the bathroom window, for once.
The blonde had been expecting it. "Yeah?"
"Are you up?"
"Yeah?" Spencer asked it hesitantly because she wasn't quite sure why she'd be answering her mother in the first place if she wasn't awake. "Morning, Mom." She forced a smile as Paula strolled into her room.
"Good morning, Spencer." Mommy was playing nice. Well, she was trying. She would make it through this conversation without mentioning That Girl. "I'm driving you to school today." She said it so easily that Spencer couldn't help but agree.
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"Paula, we are not sending her here." The kids were at school, and Arthur had a few minutes before he had to be off to work. Paula frowned at her husband.
"What? Why not?" Arthur looked at her incredulously. "It's just a new school. A new change of scenery."
"You're just doing this to get her away from Ashley."
"And if you were a good father, then you'd do the same thing that I am."
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"How was the morning in Hell?" Ashley smiled as the blonde showed up at her locker with no Paula in school. Apparently even Paula couldn't follow her child while at school.
Spencer couldn't help but laugh at her girlfriend. "It's not Hell. It's my house."
"Your house is Hell," Ashley clarified.
"Only when my mom blows a gasket."
"Like last night?"
"Exactly like last night." Spencer smiled at her girlfriend then took her hand. "But it turned out okay, huh?"
"Yeah, it turned out okay. Definitely."
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Madison glanced at the couple across the hall, then she turned to her boyfriend. "So, what's with the Scooby Doo Queer Are You gang?"
"I think they're fine." Glen chuckled. "Spencer came home this morning while I was getting ready for practice."
Good. They were together again. They were supposed to be together. As much crap as she gave the two girls, it'd be weird if they weren't dating each other. "Explains the smiles." She noticed the two girls link hands together, and she immediately rolled her eyes. They were disturbingly cute. "I think they've been eating too many rainbows out of their Lucky Charms again." Of course, kissing Glen refocused her thoughts for a little while at least.
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"Hey," Glen raised his head in a quick nod; a greeting.
"Hey," Clay greeted his brother back. He had been talking to Chelsea about the night before.
"Thanks for taking care of the ladies last night, man."
"No problem. I told them about the time that you got lost." Clay grinned to himself, remembering the story. Chelsea glanced at her boyfriend, and she immediately knew that something was going on.
Glen rolled his eyes; he knew the story. "When I was invisible? You just had to tell them that story, huh?"
Madison's eyes widened in recognition of the story. "Were you really naked when they made you visible again?"
Glen's eyes widened, and his brother laughed. "Clay!"
Clay shrugged easily. "It's not my fault if the truth is more boring than that."
Madison looked at her boyfriend suspiciously. "So, you weren't naked?"
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"You are not sending her there. We're both her parents."
Paula's eyes were blazing. Oh. Look. She was angry…again. "And I seem to be the only who cares about what happens to our daughter in that case."
Arthur raised his fist and slammed it against the countertop. She wasn't the only one allowed to be angry. "I'm not the one sending her to a few states away!"
"You said that you were okay with it." Hell. She shouldn't even be the angry one. She already had everything thought out. He was the one who was just supposed to be okay with all of it.
"I absolutely did not. Were you not listening to me?" He took a deep breath, calming himself, soothing his anger. "Wait, of course you weren't listening to me. You were too busy thinking of Ben!"
Paula's arms folded defensively and immediately her glance went in the direction of her purse. "We're not making this about Ben." Her cell phone was in her purse.
"Too late! I think he's already in this conversation. I can hear your phone ringing in your purse, Paula." Just as he said the words, the purse began to vibrate. Arthur pulled it out of the purse before Paula could object. "Look! It's him. Who would have guessed? Oh yeah. I did."
Paula grabbed for her phone. "Arthur, don't act like this."
"I think that we need to try therapy, Paula. Not with Spencer, but with me and you."
"Only if Spencer gets therapy too." Paula huffed. She was more concerned about her daughter's sexuality than she was with her marriage.
Even her husband could see that. "She's not a bargaining chip! She's a girl. Our daughter."
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"Hey," Spencer leaned up against Ashley's locker, blocking her path.
"Hey you," the blonde smiled at the brunette innocently.
Fortunately, Ashley wasn't too concerned with her locker just then. "I like the way you say that."
"That," Spencer giggled.
Ashley rolled her eyes, "Smart ass."
"You liked the way that I talked to you when you first got up this morning too."
"You're right." Ashley smiled and brushed a piece of hair out of the blonde's face. "I like a lot of things about you Spencer." There was a good chance that they were both going to be late to their next class.
"Like what?"
"Like your laugh, your voice, your smile, your personality." Ashley paused for a moment, admiring her girlfriend. "You're beautiful."
Spencer couldn't help the blush, nor could she help the smile that worked its way onto her face. "You sure do know how to bring up a girl's confidence level."
Ashley bit her lip, then dove into what she didn't have the chance to say that morning. "I love you too." If she thought that the blonde had been smiling and blushing before, then she was in for a surprise once the words registered in Spencer's mind. Then again…Her smile was just as silly as her girlfriend's; her happiness was just as genuine.