Chapter 40

Ashley's POV

How can you count memories? Can you do that really? Do you say I have a memory, I have two memories, I have three memories? Memories are priceless.. You can't count them.. They just exist in you..

The years I spent with Spencer I remember so many things.. From our first kiss to our first time together and of course our coming out.. How could I forget this..

It was a beautiful morning of May in 1956 and we were drinking our coffee at the central park.. There was a beautiful cafe close and we liked going there especially in the weekends or when Spencer had some free time..

Of course the world wasn't ready yet for gays.. What pissed me off was the hypocrisy of those people.. In the morning they were the best husbands or wives but at night they had their boyfriends and girlfriends close to them in the underground clubs.. You could recognize them from afar.. It wasn't that difficult.. And usually those were the ones who were causing all the commotion..

We were sitting there with Spencer when we saw a gay couple walking right in front of us and they were holding hands.. Of course whoever saw them started calling them names and even some of them got up from their seats to start a fight.. Looking all that was taking place right in front of us scared me but at the same time i wanted to do something.. At that moment like Spender knew what I was thinking looked at me and said 'kiss me'.. At first I thought she was joking.. We never ever did anything like that in public but the urge to kiss her and the need to help these men who were scared made me to do it.. So I got up from my seat walked slowly to where Spencer was sitting and kissed her while having her in my arms.. In that moment I didn't think what would happen.. I was just kissing my girlfriend of ten years in public.. And it felt so good..

When we stopped kissing pretty much everyone was looking at us.. They wouldn't hit a woman, or at least I hope they wouldn't.. And they didn't.. What surprised me though was the reaction of the same people who were ready to hit those men moments ago.. They were staring us with their mouths open and I remember clearly one of them saying 'can you do it again?'.. Men would always be men..

So that was our first time coming out.. I am not saying that from that moment and after we were kissing right in front of everyone but we would share a kiss when we knew it was safe and maybe we would hold hands while walking..

Spencer came out at her work a couple of years later.. And pretty much so did Marianne, George, and Linda.. Metropolitan Hospital was actually proud to have exceptional doctors and nurses like them.. They were the first gays who came out at their work.. But don't think that the people at the hospital didn't gossip.. I came to realize that no matter the age and time people will always gossip.. It's in our system..

As for me.. Well.. I finished the cooking school and I took my degree.. I worked as a sous chef to well known restaurants till I was ready to open mine.. My surprise came when one night I was asked to go out because some people wanted to congratulate me about the food.. And when I saw my parents.. Well, let's just say that it was a surprise seeing them after twenty years.. They tried to start a talk and ask me things but all i said to them was 'I am glad you enjoyed the food' and I turned my back on them like they did to me so many years ago.. I had a new life, I was a new person and my past was already erased..

Aiden got married and Susan gave birth to two beautiful girls.. Aiden became one of Spencer's and I's dearest friends.. He was right next to us whenever we needed him and he even invested to my restaurant as a silent partner..

And as for me and Spencer.. Well.. We are still together, holding each other every night when we go to bed, walking at central park and enjoy each other as much as we can.. The only thing missing is a child of our own.. We discussed it so many times but in order to be pregnant I had to go with a man or Spencer had to go with a man and none of us wanted something like that.. So having our own family it was something we realized we would never have.. We were though the aunts of two beautiful girls..

'What are you thinking Ash?'

'Us..' I felt her coming closer to me kissing the spot she knew it made me tickle..

'What about us?'

'After so many years of living with me aren't you tired?' I said with a smile and she

knew I was joking.. Even if she was the only woman I have been with I never, not once, thought about being with anyone else but her..

'Nope. Never'

'Good answer'

'After so many years my dear I think I know how to answer those questions'

'I love you'

'I maybe love you'

'You know that maybe most if the times means yes'

'That's what a hot girl I met a long time ago said to me'

'And what about that hot girl? Where is she now?'

'Laying here right next to me'

THE END

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