"Spencer? It's me baby. Come on out. I just wanna talk to you, I miss you." The man was now at the employee's door.

Spencer had gotten up from the table ready to run in fear that he might burst in at any moment.

He immediately started to go into an outrageous outburst.

"Spencer! Get out here."

Thump thump

"Spencer, I'm not messing around get out here."

'Alright this guy has had too much fun and I'm pissed off enough.' I thought to myself.

Another jock strap in my life is not going to fit in well with the other hundred or so. So what did I decide to do?

I marched out there and swung the door open as hard as possible.

"Look! She doesn't want to talk to a jock strap stalker now get out of this Coffee Shoppe before……"

Spencer rushed to her side.

"Ashley…."

I could hear Spencer speaking but her voice started to fade away.

Panic started to set in what was happening? Why had everything gone so dark? I just couldn't stay awake any longer I was beginning to think I was on the verge of death.

"Sigh…."

Later…

"Is she going to be okay Mom?"

"I don't know Spence; she took a really bad hit to the head and crashed into the table, chair and floor afterwards. Who did this?"

"Take a guess Mom…."

"He is back, isn't he?"

"Yeah"

"How did you manage to get out with Ashley without him finding out?"

"Well…"

"Spencer? Where am I? What happened?"

"Ashley! You're awake!" Spencer ran over to me and threw her arms around me. Not that I didn't like the attention but I was curious as to what had happened?



"Where am I?" My memory was failing me I didn't know how I ended up in a white room. I was at the Coffee Shoppe with Spencer, that's all I could remember.

"You're at the hospital sweetie"

"Hi I'm Dr. Carlin, Spencer's mom." Dr. Carlin had a concerned look on her face.

"Spencer was just about to tell us what had happened. Spence…"

"Okay well after Ashley had gone to throw Tyler out of the shop he knocked you out." I got knocked out? That would explain why I was in a hospital and why my head was in major pain. What a jock strap.

"Then he came after me but some guy had come into the shop and wrestled Tyler out of the shop."

"What did the other guy look like?" I asked in anticipation.

"He looks a little like Tyler; he has black hair and green eyes. A smaller build though but still he looked pretty nice."

"Where was Jake during all of this?" Jake, although he was a pain in the ass he could be very helpful at times like these.

"I'm not too sure I think he was out back talking to someone." Spencer looked deep in thought.

"Well Ashley why don't you get some sleep? We're trying to notify your parents that you're here but no one seems to be answering." Mrs Carlin said that like she really didn't know what had happened the previous night. It had to be on file or something. Maybe she just didn't like me, who knows?

"My parents were killed last night in a car accident. Neither of them made it…" I slowly turned onto my side not wanting to talk about it. Tears slowly started to fall from the pain of losing the people who gave me life and the fact that I had just got fucked up not to long ago. Hospitals really did suck!

"Ashley…" Spencer started walking over to me; I could hear her getting closer.

"Don't worry about it Spencer. I just want to sleep."

"Come on Spencer. Just let her take everything in. I'm really sorry about your parents Ashley." Mrs. Carlin took Spencer and walked out the door.

I slowly wiped away the tears that had fallen and closed my eyes waiting for sleep to overtake me.

Flashback

"Oh my, Ashley! Who is this? Don't you dare say a word. Get that that thing out of my house."

"Mom no! That 'thing' is a girl and she is my girlfriend! If you were home more fucking often you would have realized that I'm a lesbian!"

Smack!!

"Don't you ever talk to me Like that ever! Get into your room right now. And you, you leave now!"




I rampaged up the stairs screaming to my mom. She wasn't supposed to be home for two more days. I slammed the door shut behind me. I could hear my mom walking up the stairs and opening the door.

"How disgusting do you have to be? What ever happened to Aiden? Why a girl? That is so gross!" She left the room in a hurried walk

"Oh crap. Please, please don't let this happen again!" She came back into my room but she didn't come empty handed. In her hand was a belt with 5 cm nails screwed into it. She had only done this once before but my dad came in and blocked me from the blow causing him to have scars on his back. Who was going to save me now?

She lifted the belt into the air behind her. She flicked her wrist and arm as hard and as fast as she could.

"Stop! Please stop. STOP!!"

"Ashley… Ashley! Wake up. "

"Spencer…." She wrapped her arms around me as I buried my face into her neck and just cried. She never asked any questions. She just held me right there for what seemed like forever telling me that things were going to be alright.

For some reason I believed her.