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Chapter 2

"Hey, Shay Butter," Ashley said, letting herself into Shay's dressing room. "You haven't answered a single one of your text messages! What's up with that?"

"I've been busy," Shay said.

"Moping over Ryan?" Ashley asked. "You broke up with him!"

"I know," she said.

"Are you just going to keep shutting me out forever?" Ashley asked. "I want to talk to you again. I miss my Shay Butter. Where'd she go?"

Shay turned around and smiled at her. She hugged Ashley and whispered, "She's right here, AshBenzo."

"That is what I have been waiting to hear since yesterday!" Ashley exclaimed, giggling happily. "Why don't we get ice cream together tomorrow night and take some awesome Instagram videos?"

Shay laughed and answered, "I would love to, but not tomorrow night. We have the PLL mid season wrap party! Does tonight work?"

Ashley didn't know what to do. She wanted to spend the day with Shay, but she had a date with Ryan G. that night. However, she knew that he would understand. Her friend needed her, and she wasn't going to abandon her. She would find a way to reschedule with Ryan.

"Tonight is great," Ashley said, grinning. "You, me, tonight at seven, Buttah. Don't be late."

Shay smiled to herself as Ashley walked out of the dressing room.

"What do you mean?" Ryan asked angrily. "Ash, I'm not here forever. I have to be flying across the United States. My plane leaves tomorrow, and you'd rather go for ice cream with Shay Mitchell than go on our date? You see her every single day, but you don't see me every day."

"I know, and I'm sorry, but she's in a bad place after her break up with Silverstein, and she really needs this!" Ashley tried to explain.

"You can't do it any other day?" Ryan asked. "Any day after I leave! I can't even be your date to the party tomorrow because I'm leaving. I don't want this to be our goodbye."

"It's fine," Ashley said, sighing. "I'll see you again soon, Ryan. We don't always have to be together."

"We're never together!" Ryan yelled. "I'm not here for you half the time!"

"Well, that's the way our careers make this, whether you like it or not!" Ashley argued. "Do not make our goodbye be like this. Can't we end this on a peaceful note? I'm not bailing on Shay when she's in this state, so my mind is made up. Let's make this good. Let's not fight."

"Fine," Ryan said, sighing. "I want to end this well. I'm going to miss you so much, Ashley. I love you."

"Goodbye, Ryan," she quietly said, and kissed him before letting him out of her house.

She was a little too pissed to say 'I love you' back... or maybe she just didn't feel the same way, especially at that moment.

"Vanilla for you, and chocolate for me," Ashley announced, sliding Shay's ice cream towards her. "That's right, Mitchell. I remember your order."

"You actually did?" Shay asked with a laugh. "I told you my order like half a year ago! I can't believe you remember something like that."

"The little details matter," Ashley said with a shrug, putting a spoonful of her ice cream into her mouth.

Shay giggled and said, "You have some ice cream around your mouth, Ash."

Ashley had trouble wiping it off. She tried wiping several spots on her face, but couldn't get the one Shay was talking about.

"Here, I'll just do it for you," Shay said, and leaned over to wipe the ice cream off of her face.

Her fingers gently rubbed against Ashley's face, removing the ice cream. Both of their hearts were racing at the way Shay touched her face. Their eyes met as Shay removed her hand and wiped the ice cream off of her hand and onto a spare napkin instead.

"That was a little bit... weird," Ashley commented with a tiny laugh.

"Yeah, I know," Shay agreed.

There was an awkward silence for a few moments, but it was cut off when Ashley's phone buzzed. She glanced at her phone and laughed. It was a text from Troian.

"Troian just sent me this," Ashley said, unable to stop laughing. She handed Shay her cell phone, and the she read the message with a smile growing on her face.

"'Marlene just said she's going to put Hanna and Emily together on the show'," Shay read Troian's text aloud. "Wow, this is great. I would have believed it if we were actually filming today. Shouldn't she be with Patrick? She has way too much time on her hands for an engaged woman. She should be planning the wedding."

"I guess she doesn't want to rush into things," Ashley said, shrugging.

"Maybe she doesn't love Patrick," Shay suggested, looking up to see Ashley's thoughts.

The blonde was stunned she would even say something like that.

"Are you crazy?" Ashley asked. "Of course she loves him!"

"Well, we all think she loves him," Shay answered. "Sometimes people think things that aren't true. She's never said that she loves him out loud to us."

"Come on, Shay... are you referencing to your relationship with Ryan?" Ashley asked.

"Maybe a little," Shay confessed. "Everybody thought I loved him so much, but I didn't feel that way! I had other feelings."

"No way! Do you love somebody else, Buttah?" Ashley asked, her eyes glowing with happiness. "Spill it, Mitchell! Who's the other special somebody?"

"I didn't say I'm in love with someone else!" Shay cried. "It's true, I didn't love Ryan. All I said was that I had other feelings when I was with him. Didn't you think it could mean that I was truly unhappy and unsatisfied when I was dating him?"

"Well, I didn't think that way because I know you well," Ashley said with a grin. "And since I know you, I know that you're in love with somebody else. So who is it?"

"Shut up..." Shay mumbled, blushing.

"It's true!" Ashley exclaimed, grinning. "Now you have to tell me who this person is. If I don't know them, I'm going to have to meet them. Do I know the person?"

"I'm not telling you anything!" Shay cried.

"Please!" Ashley pleaded. "We're supposed to tell each other everything."

"No, I can't, Ash," Shay refused, shaking her head. "This person is seeing somebody, and I don't want to start any drama. You know you're like my favorite person in the world, but I don't want to say anything about them. I don't think there's any chance they even feel the same way about me."

"You never know. People can surprise you," Ashley told her. "I get it if you want to keep the name a secret, though. But, can you at least tell me if I know the person?"

"Fine, you do," Shay mumbled. "You know them really, really well..."