A/N: So, yeah, I know Ashley's kind of being a bitch but it's difficult when you're feeling feelings you don't want to feel and you don't really know how to handle them. Haven't you ever liked somebody you didn't want to like? It just upsets you sometimes and that's what she's going through. She gets better though, I promise :) Thanks for the reviews. Keep them comin'.

"God, can you guys believe it's already August 5th?" Julian, asked, slightly reminiscing on the summer we've had already.

"Fuck," Aiden let out pissed off, arms giving, collapsing back onto his towel.

"Why did you have to remind me?" I asked pulling my sunglasses off to glare at Julian.

He gave me this don't fuck with me expression with his perfectly faux hawked hair, even at the beach. I tried to get him to go in the water but he would have none of that.

"Water time!" Oliva yelled excitedly and jumped up, clearly having enough of the depressing energy, "It's only beginning of August. We have time."

I jumped up with Oliva and stared down at Aiden who's eyes were closed, "You coming bean head?"

He squinted his eyes open and looked at me in a daze, "No thanks. I'm gonna get a tan."

"God, Aiden you're so gay!" Chelsea yelled, getting up from her towel, "I'm in!" Chelsea grabbed Dereck's hand and yanked him up, "Baby lets go."

He groaned and slowly got up. Chelsea's boyfriend is so whipped, "Ey Olivia where's Jerry?" he asked looking around as if to find him. Dereck wasn't the smartest guy out there but he was nice. A hell of a lot nicer, actually.

I've always been a fan of just getting in there so I grabbed Olivia's hand and began to run, "Let's go!" I jumped in and she fell in after me ontop of me and it was kind of funny so we began to laugh. Really, this would be one of those moments that'd be engrained into my memory bank forever but I'm not going to get all sentimental.

Dereck let out a series of inaudible noises and fell into the ocean, "Ah! This feels so good."

Chelsea stood at the shore nervously, dipping her foot in the ocean, "It's chilly," she said meekly. She was such a girl.

Olivia and I made our way closer to the shore and began to power splash her and she began to girl scream which only made us splash harder, "Dereck come help us! Get your girl in the water!" Oliva screeched out excitedly.

Chelsea gave her most innocent glare towards him and he put his hands up in defense, "If I ever plan on havng sex again I think I'll stay here."

I cringed inwardly pushing the mental image to leave my brain and swam walked back to the deeper ocean and fell back into the water.

"Wave!" Dereck yelled and we all prepared our positions.

As I turned around, I saw this big surge of water aiming right at my head and as I realized I hadn't prepared for the wave as well as I thought I did, I was hit and mixed into a tumble of water. It felt like I was under water for a year but it was probably ten seconds at the most. When it all stopped I couldn't help but cough like crazy. I was like the dead body washed up to shore and I just layed there at the shore, feeling the water that kept rushing up and backing away against my legs and back.

"Ashley?" is that an angel?

"Ashley is that you?" the voice got closer as her face appeared above me.

I coughed again, spitting water in her face accidentally, "Are you stalking me?" I asked her scratchily.

She laughed and looked around for some help and then looked back at me sympathetically, "We've got to stop running into each other."

This felt like a dream sequence where the edges of my vision were all blurry because of the water and it was hazy because I was tired and then there was Spencer, who I guess had put her hand on my cheek but I didn't realize it, "You're stalking me," I joked.

She rolled her eyes, "That's it. You've caught me. I'm stalking you. I just can't get enough of you."

"Oh my, Ash!" that was Olivia's peaked concerned coming closer. She kneeled down beside Spencer, "Question. Who are you?" Olivia asked, worry and confusion in her tone as she faced Spencer.

"Spencer," she informed her looking back down at me, "Ashley can you get up?"

"Oh, so you're Spencer?" Oliva suddenly became less worried and wiggled her eye brows as she looked at me and then back at Spencer.

I coughed, "Really, Olivia. Right now?"

"It's about time somebody got in Ashys pants," Olivia smiled at Spencer who clearly looked uncomfortable.

"Yeah, uh let's get Ashley up."

They pulled me up and I was able to hobble back to my towel and lay down where Dereck and Chelsea stood worried, "You're okay!" Chelsea exclaimed overjoyed and took me into the biggest embrace ever, which made me cough more.

"Careful. Too much pressure to her abdomen's going to make her cough more. She needs to get the air going back through there," Spencer warned as her knit brows stared at me looking worried.

"Darling, get that worried expression off your face. It causes wrinkles," Julian informed Spencer. It may sound rude, but he means it in the nicest way.

"Sorry, the healing instinct is just in me. My mom's a doctor."

"I'm studying to be a doctor!" Aiden piped in excitedly.

"Oh really?" Spencer asked, not really caring, eyes still focused on me.

"Yeah. I go to UCLA."

"Nice," she let out, still lacking concern, "You okay, Ashley?"

I smiled. It was nice to see a different side of Spencer, "I think so."

"I mean, I love running into you and all but I'd rather it be in less life threatening circumstances," she cracked.

"Of course," I could see her walls going back up.

"Then again, I love saving hot babes on the beach. There's something so baywatch about it."

Dereck nodded in agreement and received a slap from Chelsea.

"Spencer! There you are! You just walked off and- Oh, hello?" the girl asked suddenly looking like she felt a little awkward.

"Jay, this is my friend Ashley. She was dying on the beach."

I don't think her friend liked me very much and I don't know why none of Spencer's "friends" liked me but it was starting to get irritating so I leveled her stare which made her snake her arm around Spencer's tanned hips. "Well, glad you could save her but I'm getting hungry so let's go babe."

"Whoa. Wait. Are you gay?" Dereck asked, enthralled by this.

"Gay as Elton himself," Spencer smiled proudly.

"Damn," and his eyes scanned her and he was probably turned on.

"Don't be a pig!" Chelsea slapped him again.

"Yeah, this is the girl Ashy slept with," Olivia laughed, amused at the situation and I could see Jay whats her name's grip on Spencer tighten a little.

"Oh hold up. You slept with a girl and didn't tell me?" Julian took off his sun glasses, pissed as all hell.

"Oh no, Ashley's blushing," Olivia continued to laugh.

"Anyway, Spencer and her friend need to get going. I'll see you around sometime, Spencer."

She looked at me with an expression I couldn't read, "Not ever going to text me, huh?"

I genuinly felt bad. I had meant to text her but I'd been so busy lately. Back to back to back I had plans and I don't know maybe I'm making excuses, "I will text you."

The corners of her mouth turned up, "Really?"

"We'll see," I smiled back.

"Spence, I need to go pee so I'll meet you at the car?" her friend could not take this situation.

Spencer nodded and looked back at me, "I'm going to head to my car. It was nice meeting all of of you. Aiden," she nodded, sensing he wasn't too fond of her, "I hope to see the rest of you sometime again. Bye Ashley."

She began walking to her car and I guess I decided to walk with her because I owed her, "Hey!"

Spencer turned around and looked at me running to catch up, laughing at my pathetic attempt to run in the sand but stopped to wait, "You look ridiculous."

"Sand running is hard," I panted as I reached her.

She shook her head, "What are you doing?"

"I figured I'd walk you to your car since you cared enough to come see if I was okay."

She shrugged like it wasn't a big deal, "I see a half alive body on the beach and I feel like it's my personal obligation to see if the person's okay."

"You knew it was me."

"Maybe."

We continued to walk in silence. Comfortable silence.

"Well, there's your car," I love to state the obvious. It's what I do when I don't know what else to say.

"Yes it is. How informative of you, Ashley," she leaned against her car as I stood in front of her.

"Anyway, Billy's having a party this Friday night. Come. Bring your friends."

"Why are you friends with that ass hole?"

"I don't know. I'm friends with a lot of different types of people."

"Maybe we'll come."

She tried to stifle a laugh, "Yeah, hopefully you do come."

I gave her a glare of that's not funny, "Nobody's ever been good enough to make it happen," and I smile evily.

She coughed, surprised at my comment, "Uh, you sure about that?"

I waved my hand dismissing that part of the conversation, "Maybe I'll go to the party."

"I hope you do."

From behind us was a clearing of the throat and I turned to see Jay who glared at me, "Spence, you ready?"

She nodded and then opened her car door, "Well as much as I'd like to stay and chat, I have to go. I'll talk to you later, Ashley."

~*~

To go to the party on Friday or not to go to the party. That is the question.

"I know you're debating on whether to go to the party," Aiden began, reading my thoughts, "I'm going."

"Is Olivia going?"

"Call her."

I hit speed dial number three on my phone and within two rings her perky little voice answered, "Yes?"

"Are you going to the party at Billy's?"

"Was I invited?" she asked busily. I could tell she was doing something really unimportant, like painting her toe nails.

"Psh. Of course!"

"Hm. When is it?"

"Friday."

"Ashley, that's in two days. That's not a lot of notice," so she's irritated. That's one of Olivia's pet peeves is not giving her enough notice.

I wince at her voice being so loud, "I'm sorry! Aye!"

"Okay, well I'm pretty sure I'll be able to go but I might bring Jerry."

I groaned, "Ew."

"You're going to have to like him eventually."

"No. I'm not. Aiden and I are going on Friday. Text me if you want to go. We can work out ride arrangements."

"Okay. Bye skeeze."

I hung up the phone and looked at Aiden, "So I don't know anymore than I did before I called her."

"Typical Olivia," he stated, playing with the ruffle on one of the blankets that rested on my bed.

I decided to lay back down on my bed, "It's hot."

"I know. And I'm bored," he blew air out of his mouth in a bored state.

I grabbed my phone off my night stand, shuffling through my contacts, seeing if there was anybody interesting and as I was about to set my phone back down on my bed I came across the one name I knew was definitely not uninteresting. Spencer :)

I sent her a text.

Hey you :)

I waited nervously for her to text me back and I began to fidget. Maybe I should have told her who I was in the text. What if she's one of those people who doesn't text the person back if they don't know who it is.

uh...im sorry for asking this but who is this?

Ashley. duh.

oh! hey ashley :)

I told you id text you eventually

took you long enough

I know. im sorry. so uh, you are going to billys on friday yeah?

uuuuuuuuh. I think so

Im gonna go.

then ill be there ;)

Haha silly. no sex!

darn! I was hoping id get lucky. :p

Not this time carlin

oh well. that's what jaylen's for

I set my phone down because of a noise coming from my floor. Aiden had fallen asleep and I laughed looking down at him.

Aiden fell asleep haha

draw on him!!!

Thats mean…

do itttttt!!!

Come over and help?

love to. address?

567 wilshire blvd. 90017 la, ca

be over soon :)

I leaned back and set my phone down on my night stand. Oh, Ashley, what are you doing?