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For those of you who were asking for an ALL SPASHLEY chapter. Your wish is my command. :)

I own nothing but my imagination. And of course Miranda, Alyssa and Casey.

This chapter is Rated M.

We were lying in bed just holding each other. Neither of us was sleeping. Just enjoying the peaceful, warm and comforting feeling of each other's arms. The silence was comfortable but of course I couldn't shut my brain off.

"Spence?" I whispered.

"Hmm?" She replied sleepily.

"When's your birthday?"

"November 13th. Why?"

"Because you are my girlfriend and I want to know everything about you. Plus your birthday is kind of important."

"Eh. It's just another day." She played it down.

"It's the day that you were brought into this world Spence. So in my book it's more than just another day, it's a frickin' holiday."

She laughed. "You're so corny Ash."

I rolled my eyes. "But I love that about you."

She ran her fingers down my face and traced my lips before she leaned in for a gentle kiss. Re-adjusting herself she rested her head in the crook of my neck.

"Spence?"

"Ash?"

"What made you start teaching at Archer's? You're this big shot college professor why would you want to teach at a high school?"

"First of all, I am not a big shot professor. I have only been teaching at UCLA for a little under 2 years and I only teach 3 classes. And I started teaching at Archer's because they needed someone to fill in for Mr. Connors and I just happened to be speaking with Mr. Goodman at the time about my concerns with Miranda. I jumped at the chance because I love teaching literature and I could also keep an eye on Miranda."

"You're amazing Spence."

"I'm the best version of myself when I am around you. God Spence, when I'm around you I want to change the world and you almost make me believe I can." I laughed.

"I'm glad that I make you feel that way Ashley. But you don't have to try and change the world. What you are doing for Miranda and Alyssa, that's more than enough."

Thoughts of Alyssa instantly brought sadness. I rolled on to my back and stared up at the ceiling. Writing that song with her the other day was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. But she needed it so I did it.

when I get where I am going

don't cry for me down here

"I wish I could do more for Alyssa." My voice cracked.

Spencer held me tighter. "What you have done for her and what you are still doing for her is admirable Ash. You've made a difference in her life. You've given her a reason to smile and laugh. Imagine what her life would be like right now had you not visited her that day."

"You made me do it Spence. You believed in me." I rolled back over to face her.

"Thank you." I whispered.

"You saw something in me that I didn't even know was there. How did you know?"

"I saw it in the way you were with Miranda and even me. You have a big heart Ash."

"You're wonderful." She leaned in and kissed me softly.

"So beautiful." Another soft kiss.

"And unbelievably perfect." This kiss was a little less soft and she let it linger.

"The first two were a given but I am far from perfect Spence." I laughed.

She shook her head and then lifted my hand to her lips. She kissed my hand and then cradled her face with it.

"You're perfect for me."

I gave her a shy smile. For once she had made me blush. Thank God it was dark and she couldn't see my face redden. I would have never heard the end of it.

"Do you believe in fate Spence?" I asked her seriously.

"I do."

"I believe that we were meant to find each other. That we were meant to love each other."

"Sort of like soul mates huh?"

"Exactly like soul mates." I grabbed both of her hands and held them to my chest right against my heart.

"This feels like forever Spence." My voice cracked again.

"I like the sound of forever." She said before burying her head in the crook of my neck again.

We laid there silent for a couple of minutes. Sleep finally sounding appealing.

"Spence?"

"Yes Ashley." She chuckled.

"I love you."

"I love you too Ash."

I woke up cold and alone..again. This was beginning to be a trend when I slept with Spencer. One that I did not like one bit.

I could smell the coffee brewing downstairs. My early bird girlfriend must be up for school already. I sleepily made my way down the stairs. She was standing in front of the coffee maker again. This time she was spreading some jelly onto a piece of toast.

I walked up behind her and wrapped my arms around her.

"Mmmm. Morning Ash."

"Morning Baby." I kissed her cheek, then her neck and then her shoulder.

"I like this morning routine that we seemed to have started."

"Me too." I bit down on her shoulder.

"Well except for the part where I wake up alone in your bed." I rested my chin on her shoulder and pouted.

"I'm sorry. You just looked so peaceful and you were snoring so cutely. I figured you needed the sleep since we were up so late."

"Okay, I do not snore and if I did I would hardly call it cute." She laughed. "And we were up so late because you wouldn't stop talking to me."

"Excuse me." She turned around in my arms. "YOU wouldn't stop asking questions."

"And you didn't stop answering them so it is your fault as much as it is mine."

She shook her head and laughed. "Whatever you say Ash." Exactly.

She turned back around and continued spreading her jelly onto her toast. The coffee maker beeped signaling it was ready.

"You're not going to steal my coffee again are you?" She asked.

"Well that depends." I replied.

"Depends on what?" She asked curiously.

"Are you offering anything else?" I whispered as I pressed up against her back. I could feel her shiver.

She turned around quickly and held out a plate.

"I made toast." She said proudly.

"Really? Toast?" I asked with a raise of the brow.

"Did you have something else in mind?"

"As a matter of fact I did."

I dropped down to my knees, my hands on her hips.

"Ash what are you doing?" She asked nervously.

"Don't worry Spence. I'll keep it PG. Ya know since Miranda is home." I winked.

She chuckled and ran her hand through my hair.

I locked my eyes on hers and slowly pushed her tank top up so it was resting just below her breasts. Then I reached for the jelly on the counter. I dipped my finger in and scooped some out. She giggled and squirmed as I dragged my finger around her stomach forming one half of a heart. I grabbed some more jelly and finished the rest of the heart.

"You're crazy you know that?"

I just smirked, wrapped my hands around her back and pulled her to my mouth. I started just below her belly button tracing the heart with my tongue.

The plate of toast fell from her hand to the floor as she gripped the counter. She threw her head back and let out a soft moan.

When I had finished with the jelly I found her belly button and swirled my tongue around in it. One of her hands left the counter and landed in my hair.

"OH MY GOD! My eyes, my eyes."

I whipped my head around to see Miranda standing in the doorway covering her eyes. I chuckled.

"I am now scarred for life." She said with her hands still blocking her vision.

I stood up and Spencer lowered her tank top. Her cheeks were red. She was clearly embarrassed.

"Uh I think I am just going to go back to bed until you two leave. Bye now." She turned around and walked quickly back to her room.

"Oh my God. I am so mortified." Spencer said now covering her face.

I pulled her hands down form her face and kissed her hard.

"Don't be. You looked so hot with your head thrown back and your mouth wide open. Can't wait until we finally make love. I can only imagine how hot you're gonna look when I.." She covered my mouth with her hand. I couldn't help myself. The old and new Ashley were both very cocky and very horny. The taste of Spencer's skin was so intoxicating. I wanted her right there and then but I knew it couldn't happen.

"I am going to take a very cold shower." She said taking her hand off of my mouth.

"Can I join you?" I asked with a smirk.

"NO! Stay here. Behave." She smiled at me and shook her head.

"Can't make you any promises." I yelled as she entered the bathroom.

I laid down on the couch and turned the T.V. on. I must have dozed off. When I woke it was after 9 a.m. and I jumped off the couch. I looked out the window and saw that Spence's car was still in the drive.

"Spencer?" I called out confused.

"In here." I heard her reply from the office.

She was at her desk going through some papers. I was going to ask her why we were still home and not at school but I couldn't move my mouth. It was stuck, wide open. Now you would think by my reaction that Spencer was naked or at least wearing something revealing but that was not the case. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a L.A. Dodgers baseball jersey that was unbuttoned with a light blue t-shirt underneath. Her hair was up in a bun, she had on her black reading glasses and a pencil was hanging out of her mouth. I had never seen her so beautiful. I know..I'm crazy. Even in her 'just out of the shower, no make-up, I don't care what I look like I'm comfortable' look, she looked so incredibly sexy.

She looked up and took the pencil out of her mouth.

"Good morning. Again." She smiled.

"Morning…uh.."

"School's closed. Water main break." She said probably sensing my confusion.

"Oh."

"Cool."

"What are you doing?" I asked as I walked over and sat on the side of her desk.

"I was just reading and editing some stories that my students at the University wrote." She threw the papers on the desk as well as her glasses.

"Come here." She held her hand out.

I walked the small distance to her chair and straddled her. She wasn't expecting it and she gasped.

"Sorry. Am I hurting you?"

"N-no. Not at all." She ran her finger nails down my back as I leaned down to kiss her.

The moment our lips met we both wanted more. Instantly her tongue was tracing my lips and demanding entrance. I let it in and sucked on her tongue. She let go of my back and latched on to my neck to pull me further into the kiss. My body was on fire and I wanted so badly to touch her. So I did. I lowered my hand and cupped her center. She jerked so hard that the chair flew back and I landed on top of her.

"Oomph."

"Oh my God are you okay Spencer?" She covered her face and started laughing. I guess she was okay.

I pulled myself off of her just enough so that I wasn't squishing her.

"I'm sorry." I chuckled.

"That's twice now today that I have been embarrassed." She said dropping her hands to show her red cheeks.

"Why are you embarrassed?" I laughed.

"Shut up Ashley. You are not nice." She playfully punched me.

"Ow. I said I was sorry. I don't know what came over me. Honestly."

"I forgive you." She rolled us over and off of the chair. Now she was straddling me.

She kissed me hungrily while her hand crept up my shirt. I felt her fingernails scrapping my stomach. Then slowly her hand moved upwards again.

"Spence what about Miranda?" I didn't want to be walked in on again in a compromising position.

"She left about 15 minutes ago. Went to Chelsea's." She said in between kisses.

Her lips left mine and latched on to my neck where she licked and nibbled. Then slowly she kissed her way down to the skin exposed from my tank top. I pulled at her jersey and she took it off. Her hands went to my hips and then up to the hem of my shirt pulling it up. I helped her out and yanked it off. This was the first time she had seen my breast. Probably the first time she had seen another woman's breast so up close and personal. After getting a good look she looked back up at me. I kissed her to ease her nerves and pressed myself up against her. Her shirt came off next , her bra followed soon after. I wanted to feel her skin against mine. I rolled us over again and looked down into her darkened blue eyes that were telling me so much.

I love you.

I want you.

I need you.

I lowered myself onto her and she gasped as our breasts met. She felt so good against my skin and I couldn't help but let out a moan. My mouth hovered over hers and then lowered itself to meet her waiting lips. Our tongues danced as our hands wandered. Spencer 's hand trying so desperately to touch me. I lifted up and put some distance between us. Soon after I felt her hand cup my breast and then started to roll my nipple between her fingers. I closed my eyes to revel in the sensation it was creating. I opened my eyes to see her biting her bottom lip. She was enjoying it, but she wanted more. I rolled off her and onto my back. She flipped to her side and smiled.

"You have such an amazing body Ashley." She said looking down at me while her fingers traced my tattoo.

"It's all yours Spence."

She scooted her body down and kissed my stomach. I closed my eyes again. I had wanted this for so long and even though it probably wasn't going to lead to sex I knew it was enough or now. She kissed and licked and nipped at nearly every inch of my stomach then finally started moving towards my breast. She hesitated at first but then surprised me by taking my nipple into her mouth. I responded by pulling her by her hips into me and she moaned. I nearly lost all control when her wet tongue reached out and licked the other nipple and then bit down.

"Speeeence." I moaned out.

I felt her leave my breast and then her mouth was back on mine. Hungry and aggressive.

Then all of the sudden she pulled back and sat up.

"We have to stop before we can't." She said not looking at me.

"Ok." I got up and grabbed my shirt and threw it on.

"I'm sorry Ashley."

I grabbed her shirt and held my hand out for her.

"For what?"

"For stopping. I know you didn't want to."

I tugged her towards me and hugged her.

"Don't be sorry. I love you and I want to wait for the perfect time too. You're right, I didn't want to stop but I don't think you did either."

"No I didn't." She put her shirt back on. I couldn't help but stare as it glided down over her perfect breasts.

She walked over to her chair and picked it up. Then she plopped down into it.

"God Ashley this is getting so hard." She put her head in her hands.

I walked over and kneeled down in front of her spinning her chair so she was facing me completely.

"We can do this Spence. Not much longer. We can be together. Whenever, wherever, however we want. Look at me Spencer." She looked up at me, her blue eyes back to normal but a little sad.

"I love you and I am in this with you a hundred percent. Now why don't we go do something? Watch a movie, play a board game, I can teach you how to cook." She slugged me again.

"Do you like scrabble?" She asked excitingly.

I nodded.

"Good. Let's see how good you really are with your words."

After a reeeally long game of scrabble where I lost by over a hundred points we ordered pizza and watched a movie.

The movie ended and we just sat on the couch holding each other.

"So did you find a story you liked for class?" She asked.

"I did. Right before you caught me on my phone with Mads." I admitted.

"So you did actually read some of the book?"

"What did you think, that I started texting Madi right after you stopped talking?"

"That's not what I said." She said defensively.

"Good because that is not what happened." I snapped at her and immediately regretted it.

"So what did you pick?" Good, she changed the subject.

I walked over to my bag and pulled out the book. I tossed it to her. She found the bookmark and smiled.

"I love this story."

"Another thing we have in common." I smiled back at her.

"Read it to me." She begged.

"You have already read it."

"Read it to me Ash. It's been awhile."

"So you read it. What do you need me for?"

"I love your voice Ash. It's soothing and sexy." I looked down over at her and smirked.

"Read it to me pleeease." She gave me the puppy dog face and I couldn't resist.

"Fine."

I sat back into the couch and held my arm out for her to settle into me. Then I opened the book and began to read.

Scarlet Stockings by Louisa May Alcott

"COME out for a drive, Harry?"

"Too cold."

"Have a game of billiards?"

"Too tired."

By the end of the story she fell asleep..and it was a shooort story. I closed my eyes and pulled her closer. I sat there just happy to have her and to hold her.

After her nap and eventually mine (yes, I fell asleep again) we were in the kitchen cleaning up.

Something had been bothering me for the last couple hours and I had to talk to Spencer about it. I just hoped she wouldn't be too mad.

"Spence I need to talk to you about something." She was putting the extra pizza in the fridge and I was grabbing some more Coke.

She turned around and grabbed my hands.

"What's going on?" She asked concerned.

"I need to talk to you about Carmen."

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