Here's another update! I actually got really into this chapter. I hope you guys like it!

"Are you kidding me Alyssa?" My mom yelled. She stood from the table now and was staring at her. "And you! I let you in my house and I think you're my daughter's bestfriend but really you're fucking my younger daughter!" My mom said looking at Riley pointing at her.

"Honey you need to relax, you're taking this wrong." Said Ben, trying to calm my mother down.

"Yeah mom you need to relax." I said now getting up.

"This is all your fault Spencer! All you ever done was make this family have problems. You are the problem! You brought Riley on purpose to California so you could do this. Jake isn't the one causing the problems, it's you! You pushed him to go this far. You fucking made your sister gay and had this trash swoon her and make Riley her girlfriend!" My mom said now facing me.

"You're a pathetic excuse of a mother." I said.

My mother stared at me and then slapped me across the face. She literally smacked me so hard my head turned to the left and I stumbled a little. My face stung and I knew it had to be bright red. I looked up and everyone's eyes were glued to me. I saw Ashley go to pull me away but somehow Alyssa was by her side calming her down. Tears filled my eyes but I was not going to burst out crying in front of my mother, even if I wanted to.

"You need to calm down Paula." Said Ben now grabbing her wrist and pulling her away from me. She managed to grab a wine glass and throw it at me. I put my arm in front of my face and the glass broke and slashed my arm. I was lucky to have that not hit my face.

"You ruined this family! I am making sure Riley goes to jail for this! Alyssa is a minor!" My mom said.

Ben pulled her into another room and they began to scream at eachother. I stood there starring into space when I heard Alyssa try to say something to me. I ran out of the house. I ran down the street and just kept running till I couldn't physically move my legs anymore.

I had no idea where I was but I kept a slow pace on the sidewalk. The beach was close which meant I ran several miles. My mom's house was close to the beach, ten minutes away by car but I knew I was probably at the beach next to the one we went to which is much further. I walked towards the beach and onto the sand taking my flip flops off and walking towards the water. I rolled up my jeans so they didn't get too wet. Then I cried. I cried so much, I was in a hysterical cry cursing at nothing.

"Are you okay?"

The voice made me jump a little and I turned around to see this beautiful brunette girl starring at me. I quickly wiped my eyes.

"I visited my mom and hell broke loose. Does that seem okay?"

"Now that would put me to tears if I saw my mother too. Only she would probably beat me or smack me in the face." The stranger answered.

"Oh my mom did do that, see?" I turned my flashlight app and pointed it towards my face.

"Oh my god does it hurt?" She asked with a concerned face.

"It stings a little, but it's starting to go away." I sat on the sand looking into the ocean. She sat next to me and played with the sand.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.

I chuckled. "Tell a complete stranger my life story? Sounds good." I turned off my phone so no one could reach me and began telling this beautiful stranger my story.

"So then she slapped me across the face and blamed everything on me again. Threw a wine glass at me and I managed to throw my arms up before it could hit my face." I showed her my arm and it had a big slash that bled down my arm and hand.

"Holy shit you need to clean that!" She said touching my shoulder. "Wow you really had a bad night."

"Yeah this definitely wasn't a good night." I said looking at her. "So what about you? I know nothing about you yet you know my whole life story."

"Ah but I don't know your name." She said with a smile. It seemed to me like she was flirting. "Well I was born and raised in Florida but moved to New York when my mother told me to get out. I am also gay and she didn't like that one bit. I got a full scholarship to NYU for photography."

I cut her off. "I go to NYU too! I'm an Art major, concentrating on graphic design for film." I said excited.

"It's a small world. So I just got out of a relationship with a girl that was part psycho and the other part insane." She finished. I laughed at her last comment.

"Wow seemed like she was a good one, why'd you let her go?" I said jokingly.

"I know I'm an idiot!" she laughed. "We should hangout when Spring Break is over."

"Yeah I'd like that a lot." I answered back. For some reason I felt guilty for talking to this girl but I didn't know why. I looked at her and saw how beautiful she was. Brown long hair like Riley's with the bluest eyes I've ever seen. She was my height with a kick ass body. She was beautiful.

"Are you checking me out?" She asked smirking at me.

I was caught off guard and stuttered. "Uh..uh no why would I do that?"

She laughed at me and stared at the water. "Aria."

I looked at her confused. "Huh?"

She faced me and then checked me out. "My name is Aria."

"We need to find Spencer! I've called her twenty times but her phone is off!" Said Ashley panicking.

"Okay relax we just have to look around and think where she would go." Said Alyssa.

"The beach." Stated Riley. "She would go to the beach. We went to the one 15 minutes from here when we visited her mom a couple months ago. Lets search there."

They took Ben's car and drove off to the closest beach.

"I like that name." I said to Aria.

"Well I'd say the same to you but your still a no name to me." She said smiling at me. Her teeth were perfect and white. There was no flaw with this girl.

"Spencer."

"Spencer." She repeated. "I love that name."

"Thanks, I actually like that name too. I find a lot of people who hate their own names." I said.

"Yeah me too."

We smiled and looked at eachother.

"Ugh she's not here." Said Ashley frustrated that she had no idea where Spencer was.

"Relax we will find her!" Said Riley also getting frustrated. "Let's go the next beach over. She could have walked all the way there."

They got back into the car and drove to the next beach. They parked the car and saw two figures close to the water sitting next to eachother. One had their phone out looking at it.

"So what's your number so we can hangout during school." Asked Aria.

I gave her my number and my last name. I heard a car and looked behind me, it was Ben's Mercedes but he wasn't driving it. I saw Riley get out of the driver's side with Ashley and Alyssa in tow.

"I guess I was found." I said to my new friend.

"So soon. I guess Cinderella has to go back home now."

"Spencer is that you?" Yelled Riley. She ran towards us when she saw me get up and recognized my face from the moonlight. Ashley was running behind her.

"Baby are you okay? You scared me!" Said Ashley hugging me. She looked at me and then the girl next to me. "Who's this?"

"Hi, I'm Aria, I made sure she was safe." She said with a smile.

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