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Chapter Six-

I Just Wanna Let You Know

Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Little Liars, in anyway, only this story.

"Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend."

―Anonymous

"Spencer, what's wrong?" Emily asked, after Spencer came barging into the apartment, and ran straight to her room.

"Nothing," Spencer called out from her bedroom.

"Come, on Spence. Talk to me," Emily argued, banging on Spencer's bedroom door. "At least let me in."

"Fine," Spencer said, getting up to open her bedroom door. "I'm not telling you what's wrong, though," Spencer said, stubbornly.

"Please, Spence. You of all people should know that bottling things up doesn't help."

Spencer groaned, realizing Emily was right, "Fine."

Emily joined Spencer on her bed, ready to listen.

Spencer took a deep breath. "Well, this morning on my way to class, Toby asked if I wanted to meet him for lunch, so I agreed. I meant him there at twelve-thirty and everything was going great... Until half way through our meal, he decided to mention that he has a kid!"

"That's not that big of a deal, Spence. I'm sure you can deal with him having a kid," Emily comforted.

"Yeah, I would be able to... If that kid wasn't adopted and named Greyson!"

"Oh.. Wow, Spence. That is big."

"Yeah, that's what I'm saying."

"I don't even know what to say.." Emily said, flabbergasted. "Are you sure? Maybe it's just a misunderstanding."

"No, it's differently not. He clearly said he had an adopted son, named Greyson. Plus, his name sounded super familiar, now I know why." Spencer explained. "Oh, and I would appreciate if you kept this between us. Especially, don't tell Hanna, because once she knows, Caleb knows―and well probably the whole neighborhood, but anyways, Caleb will probably tell Toby and I would prefer if it was me that told him, even though I would still rather not tell him.

"You're going to have to tell Toby, eventually. Do you think you can avoid him forever? I think you're going to owe him an explanation sooner or later."

Spencer sighed, once again realizing that Emily was right. "Yeah, I guess. I just want time to myself first."

"That's understan―" Before Emily could finished, she was interrupted by Spencer's phone going off. "Aren't you going to answer that?" Emily asked, after Spencer ignored it.

"No, it's Toby, like I said, I don't want to talk to him quite yet," Spencer, answered Emily, pressing ignore on her phone.

A few hours later, Spencer was sitting on the couch, in her apartment, with Taylor in her arms and Melissa sitting across from her. She was originally supposed to go to Melissa's house, but not wanting to run to risk of seeing Toby downstairs, she convinced Melissa to come to her apartment, without telling her the real reason why she didn't want to go to Melissa's.

"Can you say, Aunt Spencer?" Spencer asked the little girl, in her arms.

"Uh, ant pence," Taylor tried.

"Good job, girly," Spencer praised. Feeling a vibration in her pocket, she pulled out her phone, to see a text message from Toby waiting for her. He had called once since her conversation with Emily earlier, but once again, Spencer choice to ignore the call.

"I just wanna let you know that, you don't have to feel like you have the responsibility of playing step-mom if you're in a relationship with me. Only if we get serious, should you worry about that. Grey shouldn't make a difference in our relationship at the moment, I just thought I should tell you about him, before you found out yourself, or from someone else. Please, call me back, so we can talk. ―Toby." the text message read. Spencer decided to ignore the text for now, at least until her sister and niece were gone, anyways. She continued to play with Taylor, lifting her up over her head and blowing raspberries on her bare stomach, causing her to giggle. At times like this, Spencer kind of wished that she had kept Greyson. She probably would have, if he actually had a sensible father. Maybe, if she did keep him, she wouldn't be in this mess with Toby, right now.

"You're so good with, Taylor," Melissa commented.

"Thank you," Spencer replied, knowing that she was thinking about Greyson. She was thankful that Melissa did not bring him up. Melissa had only mentioned him once, since she gave birth to him, and she was happy about that. That one time, that she did bring him up, was a couple weeks after she gave birth. Spencer was once again playing with Taylor. Melissa had said how it would be so nice if Spencer had kept Greyson, so Taylor could had a play-buddy, like she had said many times before Greyson was born. Spencer had told her to not bring up Greyson again, because it made her feel guilty. And when she told her.. she told her good, which is probably why Melissa hasn't said anything about him since.

Later, after Melissa and Taylor had left, Spencer sat down to eat her dinner, when there was a knock at the door. She got up to open it, thinking it was just the neighbor's, coming to borrow some sugar, because they had a shortage, again. She certainly wasn't expecting to see Toby standing there, when she opened the door.

"Hi," he greeted. "Before you slam the door in my face, I just want to let you know that I'm not calling you, and sending texts for no reason. I really do care for you, and I want you to at least give me another chance," he said, like he did something wrong.

"Maybe. I just want sometime to myself first. I will talk with you when I'm ready. Don't worry, I wasn't planning on ignoring you forever. Just give me some time to think things over. I'll call you when I'm ready. Sorry for shutting you out."

"Okay. Well, I guess I should go."

"Yeah," Spencer agreed. "Bye."

A/N: I seriously can't tell you guys how sorry I am that I did not post this yesterday. With all the awesome response I got last chapter (I got the 8 reviews I wanted overnight, then 2 besides) I would have posted this chapter the next day, but I just couldn't. It wasn't possible with how busy I was. And of course yesterday, that day I said I would post this chapter, happened to be my busiest day so far this school year. I was spending ALL day doing homework, so I had no time to finish writing this, check it over and post it. Again, I'm super sorry!

But, Thank you guys so much, for the incredible reviews I got last chapter!

I will try and post the next chapter sometime this weekend. And I would love to get all the reviews I got last chapter, for this chapter! (although, I realize that it wasn't very interesting [considering there was barely even any Spoby] and that it was also very short)

Oh, and I forgot to say this last chapter, but go to my bio for a link to my polyvore, that has one outfit from last chapter!

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