Ashley slowly walked into her living room, where Spencer was laying in the couch, waiting for her to come. The brunette stopped when she entered the room, resting her back against the wall, where she stayed, just staring at her girlfriend, admiring her beauty and cuteness. Spencer, in the other hand, when finally realized that Ashley arrived to the room, the focus of her deep lovely blue eyes were now all over her. And that´s how they stayed for a few moments, just starring at one another, but it´s Spencer the one that breaks the silence.

Spencer (in a whisper): "Do you know what day is today?"

Ashley (nodded affirmatively smiling): "Yes…of course I do."

Ashley starts to approaching the blond, while this changed her eyes focus to the floor and kept speaking.

Spencer: "When I think about everything we went threw in all of this years, all we needed to fight for so we could be together, all the people we needed to face…all the disappointments (she whispers)… and everything else we needed to figure out about our own feelings, and still be capable to be there for each other, it´s so…so painful sometimes – true - but most of the times…" (She lifts her head and looks to her girlfriend who was now standing in front of her, touching her hair) "…the important ones, it feels so worm inside, and in my heart, I know I could never be more save than when i´m inside yours"

Ashley holds Spencer's hand, and pulls her up from the couch, forcing her to meet her eyes.

Ashley: "And I couldn´t be happier."

They both hugged tightly, and after a small period of silence, Ashley starts laughing. which makes Spencer pull her slowly away, surprised.

Spencer: "What are you laughing at?" (she asked, in a cheery way, she wasn´t upset, just curious)

Ashley: "I was just remembering our first anniversary, do you remember?"

Spencer (Now also laughing): "How could I forget? It went all wrong at the beginning, I was so disappointed and frustrated with myself"

Ashley: "Seriously, you´re the cutest thing, but you had always been such a drama queen!"

Spencer: "Oh no I haven´t, it was our first anniversary, and that stupid kid had to ruin it, I was upset, is only normal for me to…"

She didn´t ended her sentence, once she realized that Ashley was looking at her with an amusing ironic smile all over her face, like if she was saying "It doesn´t really deserve the effort for you to try to find out an excuse to be like that, you are what you are, deal with it". lol.

Spencer (now with a sulky face): "Oh, you´re so bad to me, stop it" (she punch ashley´s arm, when she said that)

. : Flashback : .

Spencer had been gathering for weeks everything she had, shared with Ashley, tickets for movies and theatre, visit cards from some places they´d been (hotels, restaurants, etc), lyrics from the musics who where already their very own property just for being the ones that said so much about their relationship, lots of pictures from their moments, well…lots of things in the end, lots of their things! And after gathering everything, she carefully made this book, that she called "Our first year of memories", where she pasted all those recollections from their relationship in the last year. And at the very end, in the last page, she wrote below one Black and White picture of them both, smiling and looking at each other:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

William Shakespeare

She wrote that because, that´s how she feels about love, no matter what form and aspect he carries, it´s always love.

After that, she was so happy with the final result that her anxiety couldn´t wait for the next morning. She needed to give the present to Ashley and celebrate their first year together, as soon as possible…which at that point suggested, right now. So, at midnight, when everyone else was sleeping, and it was officially their anniversary day, she grabbed some pants and t-shirt, put on a jacket, sneak out of the house, and made her way to her princess palace (which was the name she uses to ironically speak about Ashley's house), determined to make that night special by doing her a surprise, appearing without any notice and offering her love in those peaces of paper, because she knew the brunette would be up, she never goes to bed early.

And with that, after a few minutes of fast walking, Spencer was already in Ashley´s neighbourhood, and with the excitement getting bigger, the attention to the street and everything else surrounding her was getting smaller. Meanwhile, a drunken kid crossed the street in her direction, driving his skate and drinking some beer. Needless to say he wasn´t exactly in his best moment either. So, their completely different hallucinated worlds were only crossed by the few moments from the impact of the shove. The kid didn´t saw Spencer and she definitely didn´t saw him, and that common fact resulted in a resonant ram with each other. It took a few seconds for them to realize what happened, since actually in Spencer's mind, she could only had been stroked by an U.F.O. or something, because she was positively sure that there wasn´t any kind of movement in the street, except for the shadow of her girlfriend body getting undressed, by the window that she already could saw from the street.

Spencer: "Hey! What is your problem boy? Can´t you see where you´re going?

Boy: "Hun? What? Oh…calm down girl. I was just with…"

Spencer interrupts him, yelling.

Spencer: "Oh fuck! Look at what you did! I can´t even believe in this…my book, you ruined it, you stupid kid!"

Boy: "Hey listen, I only…"

Spencer: "Shut up! Just…just GO, ok?"

The anger and disgust growing inside Spencer´s chest was now at some point that she knew that she could and would kill the kid if he didn´t leave right away, which was exactly what he did, once he realized that he might get in trouble if he don´t.

Boy: "I´m sorry dude, I´m out of here"

And with that, he left. Spencer, in the other hand, was still in the floor, looking at the book she made, with so much love, now completely ruined, soaked with beer and dirty with all kind of trash from the floor, without speaking of the pieces of paper that the skate pulled out of the book.

Ashley, who was getting in her pyjamas in her room, heard the noise in the street and approached the window to see what was going on out there, and for her surprise, she found Spencer, on the floor. Spencer! What the hell? She though, and quickly run out the house, only to meet the sad waterfalls in the blond girl eyes.

Ashley (caressing Spence's shoulder): "Spencer, are you ok? What are you doing here, and in the floor? And, wow Spence, you´re bleeding, what happened?"

With all the preoccupation with the book and the growing hunger with the boy, she didn´t even realized she had ripped her pants and was bleeding from her knee.

Spencer (broken-hearted): "Oh Ashley…" She moans "Everything is ruined!"

Ashley: "What´s ruined? Come on baby, lets get up, we need to go inside and take care of those wounds"

While taking care of Spencer, the girl told Ashley what had happened, crying and grieving about it. She was so sad, because for her, this was so important and Ash could see in her eyes and in the sorrow she carried inside them, that she putted a lot on this gift. Which somehow make Ashley realize at the same time that she was intending to give Spencer something meaningless. She had never been with someone else this longer, and she didn´t exactly knew what to buy for this occasions, so she bought something trivial, expensive, but still trivial, with no significance, and in some way she was happy that this had happened, so she realized just that, that there were much better things to offer than the ones that money could buy.

They ended the night in the roof of Ashley´s house, watching the stars and the moon, at the sound of the brunette´s voice, singing for her lover who was now involve in her arms, enjoying her first year in love.

. : End of Flashback : .

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So what do u think? I know this might be getting a little bit too soppy, lol, but… hopefully it will get better.