Spencer got handsy towards the end of the movie, part of her still feeling she owed him for all she'd put him through, and most of her being so in love with his touch and needing him to keep moving forward that she quickly escalated from kind of handsy to full-on grinding on top of him, laughing as she pushed him down. Though the subject matter was anything but, her movements were almost childlike in their playfulness and energy. She was always trying to behave, to take up as little space as possible and be eternally agreeable about everything. She rarely got those moments of freedom, recklessness and fun. She always made herself laugh when she got to feel those things because she was so genuinely enthralled and giddied up about everything. The little things meant more than the big things most of the time.

"You're beautiful," he said, pushing hair behind her ear and letting his lips turn up into a smirk, mimicking her cute laughter. His lips remained upturned while leaning forward and putting his hands to her hips to guide them. "And you're torturing me," he said, flipping them over, both of their laughter and smiles breaking their kiss. She liked kissing him, but the moments where their smiles would break a kiss were her favorite.

She giggled more and more as they started to tease one another, but she was determined to one-up him, bottling in laughter and undressing him and touching him in all the right places.

"Spence…" he groaned under his breath, but she just pressed her lips against his while she worked towards his boxers to finish what she'd started, kissing and kissing down to meet her hands.

After he finished he pulled her back up and kissed her a million times and mumbled sweet things as his hands wandered to return the favor. He was kissing her neck with his hand resting just above it's destination and the only fabric left between them when she nuzzled into his neck and pushed her hips back away from his hand.

"I have to tell you something," she said chewing on her lip. She felt the words he didn't even speak yet asking her what was wrong.

"Are you okay?" He moved his hand to her side and rubbed her back.

"The reason… the reason I was ignoring you the past week, and, uhm…my leg… the reason that I did what I did… was that Melissa kind of convinced me of something that I know isn't true about you…I mean us… and I feel bad because after tonight… I…"

"Spencer, spit it out." Toby was getting impatient and defensive now. He hated her family more than he could explain in words, and hated more that while Spencer complained and acknowledged that she knew her situation was less than ideal, she still loved her family very much and wanted to normalize their relationships more than anything in the entire world. "What did Melissa say?" He said more calmly, but still stiffly.

"She…she kept saying that you were using me for something… " She tried to stop stuttering, playing with the tag of the blanket to focus on anything other than his big, blue eyes that would inevitably be full of hurt when she was done talking. "That you're trying to get to Mom and Dad for an internship or something… or that the only reason you… feel the way you do about me… is because of this stuff… because I've made it so easy…because I'm easy." She stumbled on her words. "And I believed her for a minute. I didn't want to and I know that that isn't the kind of trust we should have… but I believed that you only said those beautiful words and were so gentle with me because I put out, and I can't believe I thought that because you're so much better than that and you're so good to me and you keep fighting for me and tonight…" she was rambling, her eyes starting to fill with tears clouding her vision as they stuck to her pupils, begging not to fall. "I just thought you should know the truth." She put her hand on his knee, afraid of his reaction.

He blinked, trying to keep his cool and not go on and strangle Melissa. He pulled her closer upon seeing her well up "Hey…hey don't do that." He kissed her head and stared into her eyes, his thumb near her cheek ready to wipe any tear that broke free. "I don't think you should be apologizing to me for that; you should be apologized to. If I ever made you feel like I was using you for the physical stuff…I'm sorry, but I can't believe your sister would say that. I mean, I can believe it, she's a bitch, but that's awful to say to a person." His eyes searched for hers, and although she said she knew it wasn't true, part of him thought that she was telling him not to clear her conscience, but to gain reassurance that she was loved for her mind, her spirit, and who she was on the inside, not for the fact that she undressed in front of him and let him touch all of her and was wiling to touch every part of him back.

"Don't be sorry… I just, I guess I wanted to talk about it… I mean, just…being with you like this reminded me… but I don't want her to ruin a good thing. I like being with you like this."

"Spencer, I would still be with you even if we never did this. You know that, I've told you that…"

"I know that…I promise I do. I just needed to say it out loud, I guess, it was still kind of bothering me that everyone thinks so negatively of our relationship and it's so not that. It doesn't even bother me that they think that I'm bad or a skank or that I'm not good enough for you, it makes me sad that they think you could be so shady. Like they think you're a bad guy. And you're not and I just want one nice thing in my life without having it poisoned by them…" she sniffled. "I mean there are still days I can't believe that you and I have this…this thing. Because it's as close to perfect as I can imagine anything ever being but it kind of puts a damper on things when it feels like there's not one person on this planet that believes…" She blinked furiously to regain her composure and not let herself cry again today.

"That's really healthy of you to get out," He smiled, but it was kind of a sad smile. "I want you to do this all the time, instead of withdrawing, talking about the bad stuff, ya know? This is nice." He kissed her head. "Don't worry about what they think about me. Or about you. It says more about them than it does about us. You have me, and you have all your friends, and even my dad, who not only think you're this stellar, crazy-cool person, but think that I couldn't have found myself a better girlfriend." He caressed her sides adoringly to comfort her. "There are people that believe that we belong together. Not that anyone outside of us matters."

She leaned forward and kissed him a few times right on the lips. "It's when you say things like that that I'm sure I'm dreaming all of this," she admitted. "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, you know." She said teasingly and honestly, tucking herself in the perfect curve between his arm and his side, filling every space with skin to skin contact.

He smiled and kissed her nose. "You, too." He felt her fingers dance up his sides, poking curiously and adoringly at his tattoo. He leaned into her. "So do you want the next movie, or are you gonna crash on me." He smiled at her sleepy eyes.

"How about we pick up where we left off?" She bit her lip, interlocking their fingers and placing his hand back against her stomach and guiding it down to separate her from her panties as her lips latched onto the nape of his neck. His eyebrows raised and he laughed again, climbing over her to situate himself better. This time his fingers did the dancing across her skin, removing the fabric barrier between them and latching his fingers inside and his lips up towards her chest.

xx

Spencer had her arms around his neck, and his phone was buzzing for the 100th time. "Are you sure you can't stay?" She was reluctant to let him go.

"My dad is calling me like crazy. He got home this morning and I wasn't there, so…" Toby said, pressing on a button in his pocket to silence the phone. "I'll come back tonight for the next movie? After you promise to take a nap." He smiled and kissed her head.

"Okay, fine." She leaned into his chest and yawned.

"See, you're sleepy. Go." He said pushing her back by her shoulders and holding her a few inches away before kissing her head one more time and ducking out.

Toby went to his car and returned the missed calls on his phone. "I'm getting in my car now, I'll see you soon, Aria. I'm so excited, too. Okay, okay, I'm hanging up now." He said clicking off and speeding off.

Inside, Spencer stood with her back against the door, still grasping the doorknob, breathing in deeply and trying to organize her thoughts and her feelings. Her tired eyes closed for a minute, taking in the afternoon sun and the lingering scent of Toby by the door and on her skin.

"Well, well, well, look who finally decided to put some clothes on and get out of bed." Wren said as he slowly came down the stairs, each one creaking louder than the one before.

Spencer opened her eyes and put her hands on her hips. "I thought you all were at your spa weekend until tomorrow morning. When did you all get back?" She tried to play it cool, more concerned about her parents asking questions than Wren being there, however annoying and gross he'd proved himself to be.

"Not all, just me. I decided to come back early. Turns out Melissa and relaxing don't really go well together. She was being a bit of a snob if you ask me, and if I was just going to be ignored and yelled at I wasn't going to stay."

"I know that feeling." She let out a bit of a laugh. Wren might be gross and may overstep his boundaries, but he knew almost as well as she did how hard the Hastings could be.

"I don't suppose that little show this morning was for me…" Wren came closer, his lips turning up into a smile.

Spencer stiffened again, the small bit of relation she'd just felt to Wren dissolving as quickly as it'd come on.

"You know, you and that football player. I wasn't sure at first if I was really listening to innocent little Spencer having it off," He laughed, his breath hot next to her ear as he came close to whisper in her ear. "You know, I could show you a better shag. There'd be no second-guessing what noises were coming from your room." He chuckled, stepping backwards from her ear.

Shivers shot down her whole spine, giving her a visible chill. She didn't even have any thoughts, she was just frozen because she was disgusted, scared and mortified all at once. Speechless.

"You know, we still need to get that physical and immunization form out of the way." He smiled.

"Maybe later, I have to go." She said grabbing her keys from the hook by the door, running out before he could get close enough to trap her and do God knows what.

xx

Spencer wanted so badly to sleep, but she didn't want to be home alone with Wren. She drove aimlessly before parking in front of Toby's house and dialing him.

"I know you wanna spend time with your dad but can I come over? I just need a nap."

"Sorry babe, we're not home," he said, but she distinctly saw his car in the driveway. She guessed they took his father's car.

"Oh…it's okay. I'll just hang here." She hung up, and texted Aria for alternate plans.

She tapped her steering wheel waiting for an answer when she saw Aria pull up across the street from Toby's and run up his driveway, only to be met by Mr. Wonderful himself at the door with a big bear hug.

Her phone buzzed with a text from Aria, and she gulped as she opened it, afraid to see the text. "At the movies with Han, maybe later. Xo."

Spencer tried not to focus on the negative, but it did seem pretty fishy. He loves you and she is your best friend, besides Toby. And he's her best friend. There has to be some explanation for it. There just has to be. She tried to convince herself. She thought she believed it, but that didn't stop her from having tears pour from her eyes her entire drive around town, where she finally settled on the library. She pulled into a spot, wiped her eyes, fixed her makeup, and gasped for air another moment before re-applying mascara and heading inside, trying desperately to get work done, but her heavy eyelids and racing brain had different ideas.

xx

Spencer drove around for what felt like forever, but was really only long enough for the CD in her car to loop through once before going back home and holing up in her room.

She was checking her phone every five seconds, waiting for a text from Toby, or even Aria. She played every possible scenario in her head but none of them made sense as to why the pair had lied to her. She felt like an idiot for still wanting to hear from them after feeling betrayed, but she just wanted an answer. Whatever it was, she'd believe them, she decided. She could still here Wren creaking up and down the steps every so often. She finally gave in and called Toby once, no answer. And again, straight to voicemail. After four calls she texted him, trying to sound casual as she asked him to come back because she missed him.

She threw her phone aside after that, not being able to take the anxiety of the unanswered attempts at conversation.

When there was a soft knock on her door, her heart fluttered up into her throat at the thought of him coming back to her. She jumped up to meet him halfway as the door opened slowly.

"Why—" She started, but stopped abruptly as she backed up so quickly she ended up tripping backward and stumbling to sit on the edge of her bed. It was not Toby who'd entered, but Wren.

"Please leave, I'm not in the mood." Spencer rolled her eyes.

"You don't have to have an attitude, young lady." He raised an eyebrow.

"Fine, I'm sorry, but I'd rather if you weren't in my room." She shifted uncomfortably.

Wren sat next to her calmly, pulling a folded up piece of paper from his pocket, unfolding it and displaying it to her - but not close enough for her to touch it.

Spencer took in a small gasp. She wanted to curl up and die at this point. It was the flyer Ali had posted all over the school of her. Her heart ached when she saw it. It reminded her of all of the people who saw her as a joke - and because of her, Toby, too.

"Where did you get that?!" she barked.

"You owe me one, remember," he said, refolding it despite her effort to grab it from him and sliding back into his pocket. "I was at school that day and I drove you home."

"Please just leave me alone," she pleaded. "Please."

"If you can make deals like this with him, why not me? I'm up for a negotiation."

"It's not true," she raised her voice, rising to her feet in front of him. "He's really my boyfriend."

"Well how about this for a negotiation — you listen to me, or your family will be seeing this poster and finally finding out the truth about you and him. They're already suspicious, you know. A scandal like this, my, they'd go bonkers, I'm sure. We both know you're not above a quick shag, so you might as well just give it to me."

"IT'S NOT TRUE," She screamed in his face.

Spencer wasn't sure what happened in the next few moments because everything happened so fast, but all of a sudden she was gasping for air with his body pressed up against her, his hand at her neck holding her against the wall.

"Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I want to fuck you, and I'm going to fuck you whether you like it or not you dirty little—"

Please, please God make this stop. Spencer pleaded, praying for some saving grace.

xx

Toby hopped on his bike the second he could, his backpack stuffed with all he'd need to surprise her. He got to her house, and left a trail from his bike up towards her doorstep. He took the hidden extra key from under the mailbox and let himself in quietly, leaving the last of his trail on her steps.

He called her back, finally, to get her to come downstairs and meet him to walk through together, but when she didn't answer, he crept upstairs towards where he heard noises, figuring it must have been music drowning out her phone as she often studied with music much louder than he could focus with.

As Toby approached the landing of the stairs, he could start to make out the noises as yelling, not music. "…I'm going to fuck you where you like it or not you dirty little—" Toby heard this from the hallway and barged into her room, punching Wren before he could finish his insult.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER AGAIN, DON'T YOU DARE EVER TOUCH HER," Toby said, now pinning Wren up against the wall. Spencer had shriveled onto the floor, desperately trying to catch her breath.

"She was asking for it, she wanted it. Your girlfriend's a cheating whore." Wren said as Toby let go, backing up towards the door.

Toby held him by the collar and got real close to his face, snarling. "If you even look at her wrong again I swear to God you'll be so broken they won't know how to put you back together again." He pushed him backward. "You pretend she doesn't exist from now on, okay? Do you understand? You leave her alone."

Wren chuckled under his breath. "You mean like everybody else?" He smirked, looking past Toby at a clearly distraught Spencer, still on the floor. Wren's lip and nose were bleeding and he seemed not to even notice, his evil grin stretching across his face as he insulted her.

"Now." Toby barked, getting in his face once more.

When Wren had finally disappeared down the hallway, Toby returned to Spencer's room and picked her up off of the floor, guiding her to her bed.

"I'm not going to let him EVER touch you again," he kissed her head, his hands at her elbows as he leaned back to inspect her body. "Did he hurt you?"

She shook her head no and collapsed into him. "Thank you for saving me, I thought he was going to…I don't even know what." She had prayed for a savior, she shouldn't have been so shocked when it came in the form of Toby. That's what he was to her, after all.

"You don't need to worry about that. As long as I'm around he won't even look at you," He rubbed her back.

After a few moments of silence, Spencer spoke again. "Why did you lie to me?" She let her eyes find his, though her voice was quiet.

"What?"

"You said you were with your Dad but you were with Aria…"

He grinned and started to laugh a little.

"What's so funny?" Her eyes narrowed.

His hand found hers, "Come on, I'll show you."

"Where are we going?" Spencer let him lead her down the stairs.

"Just downstairs," he shrugged.

He bent to pick up a little box and handed it to her. "Find the rest?" He said, walking outside to his bike, leaving her in her doorway. "There are four more," he filled her in.

She looked puzzled. "Can I open it?"

"You need to find the rest, first."

She scanned her front yard and slowly found each one, the last leading her to him. When she came over, she laughed. "Now can I open them?" The boxes were spilling from her hands.

He nodded and watched her sit down on her lawn and slowly unwrap each, revealing a small child's block with a letter on each. She set them all out and it only took a minute before she had rearranged them into a word.

She looked up and he was pulling flowers from the storage trunk of his bike, a grin spread across his face.

"Are you…is this…are you asking me to prom?" Her nose wrinkled, a slight smile hidden beneath her lips as she rose from her seated position on the ground.

"Ah, you're quick." he laughed and pulled her in, kissing her cheek and handing over the flowers.

She smelled them and examined them. "These are lovely…thank you." She sighed. "But…I don't think so."

"What?" he looked shocked. His jaw literally could have hit the floor. "What don't you think?"

"Prom..it's not…it's not for me. Not really my scene. I know you're nominated for King and I would never tell you not to go because that's awesome, but I don't think I can do it." There were a lot of reasons. Her parents would surely laugh at her dress and her photos and compare her to Melissa, who was Prom Queen, kids would laugh when they walked in, and while she was okay with that, she wasn't okay with how that would make Toby feel. And honestly, it was only something she could easily brush off when it was about herself personally. Attacks on her relationship really did hurt. She doubted enough, she didn't need other people to push her over the deep end. Although the posters happened, people either believed them, or saw it as a complete joke. Because the end of senior year was so busy, Spencer and Toby barely had time for one another during the school day and apart from their close friends, their relationship wasn't widely broadcasted, and Spencer had purposely tried to keep it that way. And it really just wasn't her thing. She didn't like big crowds or the music or the socializing.

"Come on, Spence. It's the last event, we'll be with all our friends and dress up all fancy-like and I'll get to show off my beautiful girl."

She swallowed hard. That's exactly what I don't want. "Toby, go with your friends. I just don't want to. It's not for me."

"You said that about the first party I took you to and you became friends with Aria there…" he reminded her. He was hurt.

"Toby, I just — i can't do this right now. It's been a long day and I really just can't. I'm sorry."

He sighed. He was prepared to let it go for now, because he realized it really had been a long day/continuation of the night before. She'd been on an emotional-roller-coaster and she needed to de-compress. But he fully intended on asking her again.

"You're right," he pulled her towards him. "Do you want to come over?"

She nodded, pushing herself into him and sucking in his scent. "I have to grab my keys," she started towards the door but he grabbed her arm. "No, don't." He pulled a second helmet from the trunk. "I finally got you one so you could ride with me," he grinned.

She took it as he thrusted it at her, but didn't put it on. "That's so cool! But…I'm not sure…you go so fast on that thing and I'm a little—"

"I know it's your first time, I'll be gentle," he teased in an overtly flirty way.

She raised an eyebrow, half-laughing. "You did not just say that,"

"You know it's true," he shrugged.

"You're crazy, you know that right?" She said, pulling the helmet on. "Come on, before I change my mind."

He grinned and hopped on as she straddled the back clumsily and he instructed her on how to hold on before revving up the bike. She scream-laughed all the way to his house.

Meh I didn't really like this chapter too much, I don't feel that it was written well but I think/hope it moves the plot along to the next few storylines. Please review if you liked or if you have any suggestions/criticisms as well!