After one close call with a security guard that Ashley deemed as new, since he was wandering about campus confused, they successfully snuck back into the school and back to Spencer's room going undetected. Ashley locks the door behind her and starts stripping her now wet clothes from her body as Spencer disappears into the bathroom to grabs some towels.

When she comes back into the living room, Ashley is down to her underwear. After a few seconds of staring, Spencer walks over and wraps Ashley in a towel. "I'm going to take a quick shower, make yourself comfy and help yourself to whatever."

"You mean you don't want me to join you?"

Spencer shakes her head, "Ash…"

Fifteen minutes later both girls have showered, separately much to Ashley's displeasure and protests. Now they lay in Spencer's bed, snuggled up with each other talking about absolutely nothing, but everything at the same time.

"My favorite food is pancakes or no bacon or no toast and jelly…" Ashley lays there smiling at Spencer's indecisiveness, "okay; no… my favorite is pretty much any type of breakfast food. I'm obsessed with it and can eat it at any hour. My dad makes the best pancakes in the world, me and brother used to literally cancel any plans we had going on when he was making them."

Ashley laughs softly, "My favorite would have to be any type of ice cream. It's one of those foods that have multiple purposes. You get to eat it when you're happy or celebrating something, it's also a comfort food for when you're sad or depressed. There are tons of flavors to suit any craving, and there's a variety of toppings for them. Which brings me to another purpose… you can have fun with ice cream… use it on bodies, along with the toppings…I could go on for hours with what you can do with ice cream pertaining to that."

Chuckling now, Spencer looks at Ashley, "I've never realized it had so many uses."

"Baby when I'm through with you, you'll know every single one of them…"

This only makes Spencer laugh harder, and eventually pull Ashley in for a brief kiss, "You're unbelievable, has anyone ever told that?"

Ashley scoffs, "Umm yeah, everyday!" Spencer shakes her head and smiles, "Ok favorite color?"

"Hmm…" Spencer's brow furrows, "I guess that have to be purple… yours?"

Ashley stares into Spencer's eyes, "It used to be red, but now it's shifting towards blue."

"Oh yeah, and why is that?" Spencer mumbles, moving closer to Ashley, so that their lips brush together as she speaks.

"I don't know, just something about seeing the color turns me on now…" Ashley mumbles back, closing the small distance left between their lips and kissing her softly.

Pulling away they smile at each other, both barely able to stay awake for much longer. Kissing Ashley's forehead, Spencer burrows into Ashley's side, getting comfortable, "Night Ash."

Ashley smiles at this and wraps her arms tighter around Spencer, "Night Spence."

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It is lunch time and Ashley has the biggest grin on her face as she thinks back to last night and her revenge on Madison. So big, that her oblivious friends even notice. Kyla, who takes a seat next to her, smirks, "Who are you and what have you done with my grouchy, moody sister that was ready to kill a certain Latina about two hours ago?"

"Hey! I'm not grouchy or moody!" Kyla rolls her eyes at her, "Ok, so maybe I am. But I am capable of smiling sometimes."

"Right, but only when you do something evil to someone, so what did you do now? And what am I going to have to cover up?" Chelsea asks as she takes a seat across from the two sisters.

Ashley gasps, "Chelsea I have no idea what you're talking about! If I didn't love you so much I'd be slightly offended right now." She smiles evilly as she sees Madison walk by and head toward the food line. "I'll be back; I need something to drink…"

Noticing this, Chelsea starts to protest, "Ash just leave her be for one day…"

"Oh Chelsea let her, it's funny when it involves Madison, besides she deserves it after that little stunt she pulled in Miss Calso's class today," Kyla responds in Ashley's defense, smirking at her sister's retreating body.

Chelsea just shakes her head and turns her attention towards Clay who is now joining them. "What did the devil do now?"

"Hey you, how come you're late?"

"I had to go see my advisor really quick about some classes for next semester." He smiles as Chelsea nods and steals the cookies he had just gotten, not bothering to tell her he got them for her anyways. "So…? What did she do?"

Chelsea sighs at this and bites down into one of the cookies, leaving Kyla to tell the story. "Picture it: Sicily, 1943… it was a cloudy day and it was expected to rain…"

"Kyla…" Chelsea rolls her eyes, but can't help but smile.

She looks over to Chelsea smiling innocently, "What?"

"Enough with the Golden Girl's Sophia impersonation; just tell the damn story."

Clay chuckles at this and waits to hear the story, as does the rest of the table.

"Right, sorry…" She grins sheepishly and continues, "Well to make a long story short, Madison announced in Miss Calso's class that Ashley had tried to bribe Madison into letting her cheat off her exam today and then proceeded to threaten her when she refused. This is crap I know, but you know how Miss Calso loves Madison… inside and out. So she believed every word of it and gave Ashley a failing grade on the exam for trying to cheat."

"Can she do that without any proof?" Clay asks.

"Apparently Madison doesn't need proof, but rather just needs to continue screwing Miss Calso and she'll believe whatever Madison has to say. Besides Miss Calso has never liked Ashley since she turned her down last year and almost got her fired, so she's always looking for ways to get back at her."

Clay shakes his head and turns towards the food line in search of Ashley, everyone else's gaze at the table following his.

"Hey Madi, how are ya?"

Madison turns around to glare at Ashley as she interrupts her and Carmen's discussion about one of the professor's butts, "What do you want?"

Ashley's grin only grows even more wicked, "Oh sorry to interrupt baby, but you forgot these in my room the other day when you were in a rush. I thought you might want them back." Ashley pulls a pair of black lace underwear from her pocket, barely containing her laughter as Madison's eyes bug out and her face turns beet red, "I have to say, I am a fan of the new underwear, but red still looks the best. Maybe tonight you can wear the red outfit I got you." She winks at Madison, and bites the inside of her cheeks to keep from laughing.

By now everyone in line is watching, some are yelling for them to get it on right there, other's already have their phones out texting, while a few are snickering as Madison lets out a shriek and snatches the underwear from Ashley's hand. Gritting her teeth together, Madison glares at Ashley, "You'll pay for this!" Letting out another shriek she shoves past Ashley and storms off with Carmen trailing behind her.

Soon everyone starts cracking up, and a few high five or pat Ashley on the back. One particular person, who Ashley hadn't noticed until now, isn't smiling or doing any of the above things mentioned. But rather, frowning and looking very disappointed as well as slightly hurt or confused..? Ashley wasn't sure. Not making eye contact, Spencer turns and leaves the scene quickly, but not quick enough for anyone to think anything of it. Well… except for Ashley.

Ashley gives a few smiles to people, although now it's fake, rather than real and tries to follow Spencer. However, Spencer seems to have forgotten to mention that she's a pro speed walker because when Ashley looks around the dining hall she is nowhere to be found.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, she walks back to her table slightly confused, but that is momentarily forgotten when the whole table starts cracking up and making comments about Madison's reaction. Even Chelsea joins in.

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The next two periods seem to drag by for Ashley as she anxiously waits for it to be last period, so she can see Spencer. Much to her displeasure, when she gets to the classroom she sees that class is cancelled.

Confused more than ever now, she heads towards Spencer's office in search of her. After no such luck, she searches the dark room, the music room, the library and the lake. Not finding her only makes her even more frustrated so she heads back towards the dorm building and heads straight for Spencer's room not caring if she gets in trouble. Finding the door unlocked she walks in after checking to make sure the coast is clear. Hearing rustling in the bedroom, she walks towards it.

"Hey, you disappeared today… what are you doing?" She eyes Spencer who is walking back and forth from her closet to her bed with random pieces of clothing in her hand.

"What does it look like? I'm packing." Not stopping, she continues to put clothes in a small duffel bag.

"Yes I can see that, but why?"

Spencer stops and glances at Ashley before turning back to her closet, "I'm going home for the weekend."

"For what?"

"Because I need to, I need someone to make me sane again and to knock some sense back into me."

"I didn't know you were going insane…" Ashley sits down at the edge of the bed and looks at her.

"Ashley why were you in the hospital freshman year?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Can you please just answer me?" Not getting a response, she turns away again, "Ok, why are you and Madison always fighting?" Again, no response, "Don't want to share that one either huh? Ok, why are you always having nightmares?"

Ashley says nothing for a minute before finally shaking her head, "You're right; you must be going insane because I don't see how any of that is relevant to why you're going to Texas."

Spencer finally turns around to face Ashley, her hands on her hips, "Clearly I must be. I mean here I am 22 years old, a teacher, dating one of my students who is only 18. Here I am risking my job to be with someone who clearly still has a lot of growing up to do." She's pacing now, with her arms flying everywhere as she speaks. "I mean god Ashley, after seeing you do that to Madison today, just made me realize how much growing up you still have left to do. And that's ok, I get that. You're not even out of high school so I don't expect you to be mature all the time. But what the hell am I doing? I'm supposed to be mature and here I am dating one of my students who won't tell me anything about herself to even make this worth it… are you kidding me? I'm a freaking mess. So I need to go home and see my parents, talk to my friends, regroup, and figure out what the hell I am doing."

"So you're just going to run away?"

"I'm not running away. I'll be back on Monday for classes."

Ashley stands up, fists clenched down at her sides. "Yes it is exactly what you're doing Spencer! You see me act my age and freak out, immediately booking a flight back to Texas without even talking to me… that's running away! You say I'm immature? Take a look at yourself babe."

"Maybe you should go; we can figure this out when I get back…"

"Awesome Spence. You see me do one freaking thing that's immature and you run, that's just great."

"It's not just one thing Ashley! Sure it might have been just one thing today, but it'll be like that everyday! And seeing that today just put everything into perspective. Sure, I'm still immature at times, but you and I are at such different places in our lives right now. You still have college to attend or whatever you plan on doing, and I can't risk my job because of this when there's a good chance it isn't going to work out, especially if you never let me in completely."

Tears start to form in Ashley's eyes, which only piss her off more, "I didn't ask you to risk this! Remember? I was the one to push you away, not the other way around. You came after me, I told you I wasn't worth it." She whispers through gritted teeth. "You're just like everyone else Spencer, making promises you can't keep."

"Jesus Ashley! I'm going away for the weekend! I need time to think! We can deal with all of this when I get back!"

"Forget it Spence, I'm done. Hope you have fun."

Spencer lets out a frustrated sigh, "That is just like you Ashley. You say I'm the one running? You're the one that shuts everyone out, but still expects the world in return. I didn't say we were done, I said I have to figure out what this is. But maybe you just answered that for me right now. You're shutting me out! You won't tell me anything! It's like pulling teeth with you! What the hell happened to you? Why the hell do you always have nightmares and why are you always fighting with Madison? Just please Ashley… why won't you just tell me these things? Why won't you let me in?"

"Because you're the one leaving! You're the one who made promises and told me I was worth it! You're the one who has already managed to get more out of me in the past few months than my closest friends have in years. That scares me Spence; I've been hurt so much… I just can't risk it again."

Tears are falling now, and Spencer goes to make a move towards her, but Ashley refuses and steps back. "You want to know why I have nightmares so much? Because the people that are supposed to love me are always hurting me. You want to know why I was in the hospital my freshman year? Because a so called 'family friend' didn't know what the term 'no' meant and raped me and beat the crap out of me one drunken night. And then to add insult to the injury my own father covered it up because he does business with the boy's father and couldn't risk this by pressing charges. Apparently money is worth more to him than his daughter."

By now she is sobbing, her body shaking with each sob, "You want to know why Madison and I fight so much? Because we used to date and I fell in love and trusted her and told her about everything. And do you know what happened? She left me and now uses this little piece of information as a bargaining chip whenever she feels necessary." She wipes her face and takes a deep breath, trying to stop the cries, "I'm allowed to shut people out Spence, some just don't deserve to be opened up to. You wanted me to open up and to stop running from you… there you go. Now it's your turn to stop running. It's your turn to prove something to me."

She wipes her nose and grabs Al from the nightstand where she had left him the night before and leaves, not caring if anyone saw her exiting Spencer's room.

A/N: Ok, so it was late when I wrote this chapter and I'm not sure if I like it or not since it went in a completely different direction then what I had planned… so any kind of feedback is welcomed… thanks for reading!