Ashley's driving to her house, "So, is your mom home?" Sara asks.
"No, I wouldn't have invited you back if she was." Ashley says thinking about this decision because in a way she feels like she's cheating on Spencer.
Sara looks at Ashley, "Are you saying you're embarrassed of me?"
Ashley keeps her eyes on the road, "Yeah. You and every other girl that I bring to that stupid place."
Sara feels kinda of abused and used, "So does that include Spencer, too?"
Ashley stops at a stoplight very close to her house; "Does it really matter to you?" she looks at Sara.
Sara narrows her eye. She may be alcohol filled but she knows how she should be feeling: hurt. "Well, yeah it kinda of does. I'm not here to be your personal sex slave."
The light turn green so Ashley drives, "I never said you were. You wanted to come with me. I'm not holding you hostage."
Sara thinks about this. I really don't want to get into a fight with her. I just wanna have fun. "Whatever, let's just go have fun. Why think about your stupid ex when you have this," meaning herself, "Right in front of you."
Ashley scoffs at Sara. What am I doing? If I did anything with her I'd be downgrading tremendously. I can't do this. "Listen, you don't have any right to talk about her, you don't even know her. And on top of that I love her." Ashley does a U-turn, "I'm taking you home."
Sara comes down from her little high, "Are you kidding me?"
Ashley laughs at this, "Sara, you're not so above her. And, no, I'm not kidding you."
Sara finds this kinda funny so she laughs, "She dumped you. Why do you still care so much for her?"
"Because I love her." Ashley says plain and simple.
"And you think she loves you?"
"I know she does."
Sara smirks, "If she loved you so much she'd be right here."
"She—" Ashley begins.
"She what? She's probably doing the same thing you are. But she's actually going through with it."
Ashley stops the car; "You don't know her, okay. You don't know what we've been through. All the hurdles and jumps and everything else; you couldn't imagine."
Sara searches Ashley's face then she opens the door and steps out but not before saying something. "Well, why are you even here? You could be jumping over more hurdles with this girl you love." She uses quotation signs with her fingers when she says love. Then she walks away from the car.
Ashley sits in the car thinking about this. Who is she to tell me anything about love? She was the one that ran away from our relationship. But I was the one that pretty much ended the relationship before it even began… I gotta find Spencer.
Spencer and Carmen decided to stop somewhere for some coffee or something. They've been sitting at Gray's for about an hour talking.
Spencer's laughing, "I feel like we've been talking forever."
Carmen smiles, "I feel like I've known you forever."
Spencer smiles at Carmen and bites her lip, "Same h—" her phone rings loudly. "Hold on one second." She looks at the caller id and sees that it's her mom. She answers, "Yes, mom."
"Hey, sweetie." Paula says.
Spencer makes an irregular face, "Um, are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm great. Where are you?"
"Oh, sorry. I forgot to tell you. I'm at Gray's with a—"
Paula assumes it's Ashley, "You're suppose to tell me when you're going out but tell her I said hi."
Spencer rolls her eyes, "It's not Ashley, mom."
"Oh." Paula says surprised. "Who are you there with? Aiden?"
Spencer scowls, "No, that's never gonna happen. I'm here with a friend, Carmen. She's new at school and town. I was just showing her around."
"Oh. Maybe you should invite her for dinner." Paula says.
"Uh, no. Actually…" Spencer gets an evil smirk on her face. "Her family invited me over for dinner and I couldn't decline." Carmen looks at Spencer with a devious look. Like she's impressed with her.
"Well, I think you should still come home and let the family meet her."
Spencer sighs, "Fine, mom. We'll come by in like twenty minutes."
Paula smiles over the phone, "Okay. See you when you get here. I love you."
"Love you, too, mom. Bye." Spencer closes her phone and throws it back in her purse.
"So you're a beautiful liar." Carmen says thinking of Shakira and Beyonce.
Spencer laughs, "Well, that's one of those habits I picked up from Ashley."
"I would say that's a bad thing but… it seems like you may be lying for the better if your mom is really like you described her."
"It's a great thing then because she's even worse than that."
Carmen laughs, "What's the lie you told?"
Spencer takes a sip of her lemonade; "I told my mom that your family already invited me over for dinner."
"I invited you for dinner?" Carmen asks.
Spencer nods her head, "Yeah. Don't you remember?"
"No, not at all."
"Well, you did. No take backs."
Carmen laughs, "I couldn't if I tried, right?"
Spencer makes baby-ish face, "Nope."
Carmen stands up, "So I guess I should take you home so we can mingle with the family."
Spencer stands up reluctantly, "I guess so." She makes it looks like she's wrapping a noose around her neck. Carmen laughs. Then someone comes over.
"Funny, Spencer." The voice says.
Spencer turns around and loses her smile, "Hey."
The person looks at Carmen, "So, who's you're friend?"
Carmen extends her arm to the person; "I'm Carmen."
The girl just stares at Carmen's extended hand, "That's nice." Carmen takes her hand back.
Spencer rolls her eyes, "Well, we were just leaving so I'll see you, Ash."
"Where are you going?" Ashley asks.
"None of your business." Spencer says slinging her purse over her left shoulder.
Ashley sighs, "This is what you've been doing while we've been broken up?"
"I haven't been doing anything. Just hanging out. What's your problem?" Spencer says shaking her head in anger.
"My problem is that I wanted to come work things out and you've been—"
"There's nothing to work out. You can't make up your mind and that's your problem. And not to sound rude but it's none of your business who I hang out with."
"Yes, it is."
"No. It is not. We have two separate lives."
"But I love you."
"And I—we can't say that right now. This only complicates things." Spencer grabs Carmen's hand, "We gotta go. And she's just a friend… not like it's any of your business." Spencer leads Carmen out of Gray's by hand. Spencer and Carmen make their way to Carmen's car.
Carmen gets in on the driver's side and Spencer hops in on the passenger side. Spencer slams her door, "Ugh, I don't wanna see my mom right now."
Carmen starts the car, "So where do you wanna go?"
Spencer looks out the window; "It doesn't matter. I just don't wanna go home." She says sadly.
"Let's… let's just go to my place." Carmen says.
"Okay." Spencer says then turns her head quickly toward Carmen, "I'm still really sorry about all this drama. And all on your first day of school." Spencer looks back out the window.
Carmen starts driving toward her beach house, "Don't worry about it. I already told you it's interesting." Carmen smiles at Spencer even though Spencer's not looking. God, I hope I'm not falling for this girl. She could completely trash my heart, well, from what I see with Ashley; she could destroy it. But from what I've heard… she could make my life so much better. It's way to early to tell…
Ashley is enraged with Spencer's behavior. She goes into the in-house gym at her house and starts taking out her anger on a punching bag. And she does this for the next ten minutes. What the hell[Punch what the hell is she doing with someone else at Gray's[Punch She punches the bag after every other word. It hasn't been twenty-four hours since we broke up. And I'm staying faithful for a change. This is bullshit. Why do I even try so hard to impress her? She doesn't even care what happens to me any—Ashley's thoughts get cut off.
"Um, what did the bag ever do to you?" Kyla's voice echoes throughout the gym.
Ashley continues punching the bag, "To me, there's a face on this bag."
"Hmm, is it my face because I think I might wanna leave now?" Kyla says reluctantly.
Ashley stops and takes off her boxing gloves. She sits down on the floor and starts to drink her water. "No, it's not your face."
Kyla walks over to Ashley and sits next to her, "Whose face?"