Both girls knew that just about that moment, the hard part was really about to begin.

Paula: "You what?"

Spencer: "I´m going to get married. What part of it you didn´t understand?"

Paula: "The part where there´s no man to marry with, so the marriage can actually happen."

Spencer (ironically): "Honestly mom, you really need to review your legal rights library, because actually, in nowadays, men can finally be dismissed in this kind of things"

Paula (raised from the chair, furious and yelling): "Don't you talk to me like that Spencer Carlin. You have to respect your mother. Isn´t there any shame within you anymore?"

Spencer raised from her chair too, she was too confident about what she just did, that she wasn´t going to give up on this so easily. Ashley, in vain, holded her arm and told her to calm down, but she didn´t listen to her.

Spencer (now also yelling): "Shame? What should I be ashamed of? Loving and being loved? I don´t think i´m the one that needs to be ashamed in that matter!"

Paula was about to slap Spencer when Artur finally made his move and grabbed her hand.

Arthur: "It´s Enough!"

Everyone shut up, sit back down and stayed quiet when he said that. Clay, Glen and their girls were only moving their eyes because the rest of the body was static. The same couldn´t be said about mother and daughter, because we could sense their anger and disappointment to one another just by the visible thoracic movements in their chests. Ashley, in the other hand, couldn´t do anything else but try to calm down her fiancé, caressing her arm and whispering her to relax because it wasn´t really worth it for her to keep up with this conversation. And in this involvement, Arthur continues to speak.

Arthur: "Jesus Paula! Why can´t you simply be happy for your daughter? How can´t you see this is her way to happiness! She didn´t choose it, she just follow it, and this girl that you insist on hating so much is the only one that can lead her the way to that hapiness. Truthfully I thought that after all this yeas, you would know it better."

For a few seconds the only thing we could hear was silence, but Paula broke it, looking at Spencer with tearful eyes, and holding her hands.

Paula: "I just want what´s best for you…"

Spencer (now also crying): "So why can´t you see Ashley is the best for me mom? Why can´t you just let me … be!"

Paula: "Because it´s not normal honey. I mean…I could even consent your affair (she said that with disgust, looking to Ashley) with her, but marriage is sacred, it´s holly and all about respect and moral values, it´s commitment for the rest of your life. It´s probably the most blessed thing that can happen between a men and a women. Not a sin…"

Spencer took a deep breath, cleaned up her face, only to let one last tear rolle from her eyes, to the table. And then, calmly…

Spencer: "A sin? How can it be a sin if all the things you mentioned exists in my relationship with Ashley? God said "Love one another", not "Woman love men and men love woman". Love is always sacred, no matter what form he might be in. And I feel it mom. I feel love every time I hold her hand or when she covers me with blankets at night, when i´m asleep or holds me when it´s cold, I feel love when she smiles or when she cries with me and takes care of me when i´m sad, most of the times because of your intolerance, I feel real love every time she loves me or when she´s around me. I feel love, mom, even now, that she´s in silence here next to me, hurting with everything you´re saying and mostly with the things you don´t say, because even if she´s quiet enough for you not to notice, my love for her is big enough for me to feel her pain without she even say a word.

Spencer lifted Ashley´s face with her hand, so she could meet her eyes, and ear her talking to her.

Spencer (smiling and looking deep inside the brunette brown eyes): "And that, mom, that´s what God and Jesus meant when they were talking about love."

Ashley was so touched by her girlfriend declaration of love, that she simply throw her arms over Spencer neck, holding thigh to her body, never wanting to let go that hug she loved so much.

Ashley (whispering in Spencer ear): "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Spencer Carlin in our first year of memories".

Spencer felt so worm inside in that moment that she couldn´t hear, see or feel anything else but her girlfriend embrace, and she emotionally smiled, holding her even tighter, close enough to feel their both hearts, now beating in unison.

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Somehow, they managed to leave the house quickly, and all the sudden Spencer was climbing Ashley´s body in her bed. She didn´t know why she felt like that, but all that she wanted was - not to have sex – but to make love with her girl so badly, in such a way she never really had felt before. And so she did, she gently unbuttoned Ashley´s blouse, kissing the skin from her body that slowly were begining to be revealed, which made Ashley moan softly. After awhile of travelling in her girlfriend body, Spencer had managed to completely undress Ashley and herself, and just when her hands meet the heat and wetness from the inner side of Ashley's thighs, Ashley in a moan whispered at her ear "I love you, Spencer" – "more than life itself". Spencer leaned to the brunette mouth so she could kissed her lips, and deepened herself into her girlfriend body, and into the night, of pleasure and passion, but most of all, love.

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