The next morning Spencer woke up and was at peace for all of five seconds before the events of the previous night came crashing back down on her. Letting out a groan, the tall brunette sat up, rubbing her eyes and glanced at her phone. She looked over at her phone and saw she had 4 missed calls and 7 new texts. Confused, Spencer glanced at the clock next to her bed and felt panic creep up on her.
"Shit!" Spencer whispered, jumping out of bed without checking her messages and running to the shower. She was extremely late for school and she'd promised to take Aria that morning. Aria! Crap!
"I hope she got to school okay." Spencer muttered to herself.
Spencer showered and dressed quicker than she ever thought would be possible for her, throwing on a simple dress and light makeup. She picked up her school bag, cell phone and car keys and was out the door. Sitting in the front seat of her car, the tall girl decided it was probably best she check her messages before she went to school. The missed calls were 2 from Aria, one from Hanna and one from Emily. Spencer sigh, not wanting to call anybody back considering they were probably all in class, she moved on to the text messages.
Aria: Hey Spence where are you?
Aria: Spencer is everything okay? You're never late…
Aria: Spence I'm freaking out over here! Are you okay? Answer your phone!
Spencer felt guilt weigh her down; she'd expected her girlfriend to be furious with her for not showing up to take her to school and then not even answering the phone or an explanation as to why. Aria was worried about her, concerned that something was wrong, not angry. Spencer felt like a terrible girlfriend for what seemed like the millionth time this week. Bracing herself, she moved on to Hanna.
Hanna: Spencer where are you? Aria said you never showed up to take her to school.
Hanna: Spence everyone is worried sick! What's going on?
Once again, Spencer felt the guilt creep up on her, all her friends were worried about her for nothing and she hadn't even had the decency to reply and let them know she was okay. She started her car, ready to pull out of her driveway and head to school after she checked her message from Emily.
Emily: Spence where are you? Is everything okay? Please text one of us back! We're worried about you.
More guilt. Realizing that she still had one more text that wasn't from any of the girls Spencer tensed.
Blocked I.D.: Rough morning Spence? Let me help. You have until the end of the day to Aria about your little fling with Jessica or I will. –A
Attached was a picture of Aria leaning against her locker and Jessica was talking to her, both of their facial expressions were serious and Aria looked tense. Spencer was frozen in shock. Sure, she knew Jessica wanted to mess with her but she never thought that she would stoop so low as to harass her current girlfriend. Spencer drove to school so quickly it was defiantly illegal but she didn't care. Walking to her 3rd period class, Spencer was in a daze. She had no idea how she was going tell Aria. The brown-eyed girl knew that it would hurt so much worse if it came from A and Aria deserved to hear it from her. If Spencer could do nothing else for Aria, she at least the deserved the truth and she deserved from Spencer. The tall girl quickly pulled out her phone and sent out an S.O.S to Hanna, asking the blonde to meet her in the bathroom by her 3rd period.
Within minutes Hanna burst through the bathroom doors, her eyes wide with panic. Seeing Spencer's look of distress, the blonde turned around and locked the bathroom before pulling her tall friend into a hug.
"Thank God you're okay! What the hell is wrong with you? You had everyone worried sick and you wouldn't answer your phone!" Hanna exclaimed, quickly going from relived to angry.
"I know and I'm sorry! I overslept, I'm fine. I just have so much on my mind Han." Spencer said tiredly.
"Spencer what's going on?" Hanna asked carefully, sensing that there was something her best friend wasn't telling her.
"Han I have until the end of the day to tell Aria about me and Jessica or A will." Spencer cried softly, her voice breaking.
Hanna was frozen in shock; it was like all the air had been sucked out of the room. She knew that Spencer had screwed up badly when she dated Jessica behind Aria's back but she also knew that Spencer truly did love Aria and this could ruin everything.
"Shhh, Spence it's gonna be okay." Hanna coed softly.
"How can you say that? I'm about to break my girlfriend, who I love more than anything in the entire world's heart! She's so amazing and she's been such a good girlfriend and she doesn't deserve this. I don't deserve her." Spencer muttered, her face buried in Hanna's hair.
"Spencer if A tells her it will be so much worse. If you two really love each other, than you can make this work. Aria has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever known and you're right, she doesn't deserve this. But she does love you and I think you guys can get past this." Hanna comforted, pushing a lock of Spencer's wild chocolate hair behind her ear.
"You're right Han." Spencer sniffed, drying her eyes.
"Of course I am." Hanna grinned sarcastically.
Spencer rolled her eyes and smiled.
"Thank you Han, for being there for me." Spencer thanked her best friend, pulling her into a loose hug.
"Anytime." Hanna whispered back.
The bell rang loudly and the two girls jumped apart, Hanna off to her next class and Spencer in search of Aria. Lucky for the taller brunette, she didn't have to go far. Walking around the corner she found Aria leaned up against Emily's locker, laughing at something the raven-haired girl was telling her. Letting out a sigh of relief, Spencer practically ran across the hall and pulled her tiny girlfriend into a tight embrace, missing the look of disappointment that flashed across the tan girl's face.
"Spencer oh my god! Are you okay! What happened?" Aria asked frantically, her eyes trailing over her girlfriend's body looking for any sign of hurt.
"I'm fine, everything is fine." Spencer said, finally feeling whole again now that she had Aria in her arms.
"I just overslept babe, I'm so so sorry that I forget to get you for school this morning. To make it up to you, I'll take you out to lunch?" Spencer asked, planning to break the news to her then, before A could get the chance.
"It's fine Spence and lunch sounds amazing." Aria agreed happily, glad that her girlfriend was okay.
Emily looked down, a little sad. How could Aria just be fine with Spencer forgetting her!? If Aria was her girlfriend, she'd put Aria first all the time, not just whenever like Spencer did.
"Em, you okay?" Aria asked concerned, she reaching out and touched the tan girl's arm, causing her to jump.
"What? Oh yeah Ar, I'm fine. Just got lost in a thought." Emily said with a blush.
"If you're sure…I'm going to go meet Spence for lunch. We still on for later?" Aria asked, her hand still on Emily's arm in a platonic way.
"Y-yeah, totally." Emily agreed eagerly.
Aria nodded, flashing the taller girl a smile and taking Spencer's hand as her girlfriend led them away to lunch. The taller brunette led them to Spencer's car and they drove off in a comfortable silence. Their hands were intertwined and Aria was playing with the radio in a way that Spencer found absolutely adorable, especially the cute pout that clouded Aria's face when she didn't like a song. Soon the couple pulled up to the deserted park, one they used to go to when they were younger.
"Spence I thought we were going to lunch?" Aria asked, confused. She reached over and intertwined her fingers through Spencer's again, only to have her tall girlfriend pull away and look down, not meeting her gaze.
"Baby you're scaring me." Aria said, her voice starting to shake.
Spencer finally looked up to meet Aria's worried, nervous eyes. Aria gasped when all she found in Spencer's eyes was guilt, regret, sadness and worry.
"Aria there is something that I need to tell you." Spencer stated solemnly.
"Spence it's okay, whatever it is, we'll deal with it together." Aria said comfortingly.
Spencer felt her heart sink deep into her chest. She felt like the lowest scum on the planet. Here she was, about to tell her amazing girlfriend that she cheated on her, and Aria was trying to make her feel better! How messed up was that.
"Do you remember last night when you asked me if I ever dated Jessica?" Spencer asked quietly, she was so nervous that her voice was shaking.
"Yeah…" Aria trailed off, confused.
"I lied." Spencer said, her voice cracking.
Hey guys, sorry it took me forever to update. I've already started writing the next chapter so it won't take nearly as long this time! So Spencer and Aria are talking about it, Aria is still not wanting to believe it. It seems like Emily has a crush on Aria? Whoa. Anyways, what did you think? Any suggestions, what you liked or would like to see? As always, thank you so much for reading and please leave a review, they make me want to keep writing! Haha thanks guys.