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Chapter Four
To Get Better
Later, that same day…
Spencer opened the door of Ashley's hospital room.
"Hi…I'm back" – Said the blonde.
"Great…" – Ashley rolled her eyes, and spoke sarcastically.
"So… are you feeling better?" – Tried Spencer.
"Are you really asking that?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Cause… lets see… you are still around…I'm carrying a baby… I'm stuck in hospital… do I need to continue?"
"No, I get the point" – Spencer showed something that may have been a smile. –"I can fix two of those things."
Ashley looked at the blonde, waiting for her to continue.
"I can stop being around, and I can get you out of hospital."
"Let me guess…" – Said Ashley. – "It includes me and a psychologist."
"It does" – Now Spencer was fully smiling.
Ashley rolled her eyes for the second time that day.
"Look Blondie, the only way I'm doing that is if I find a reason why to"
"To get better"
"That's not possible, there isn't anything better around." – Ashley argued. – "What else do you have?"
"For you future child."
"I won't be having it" – the brunette answered.
"Wait… I know… I can show you!!"
"Show me what?"
"Show you why you need to get better, ok?"
Ashley looked out of the window. – "Does that include going out of hospital?"
"Yeah, it does" – Spencer knew she was winning.
"Ok, then I guess I'm in."
Ashley had to get dressed, but she was still very weak, so Spencer offered to help.
"I don't need any help" – stated Ashley.
Spencer waited outside the room. Ashley came out wearing a black T-shirt and dark blue jeans. Her clothes looked very old and messy, but she looked cute in them. The holes on the jeans seemed to be made on propose, to look cool, and not because she hadn't got the money to buy another pair.
They went out of hospital and walked together. Spencer tried to think of something that made life worth living to show Ashley, but as we know, Spencer had never recovered from her marriage, and she didn't find it easy to see the beauty of things. But then again, she just knew she had to try for the brunette.
Spencer guided Ashley to a park. They walked in silence until the blonde took seat on a bench and invited Ashley to do the same.
Spencer looked at her watch. It was about to happened, she could tell because she was used to seeing it on her lunch break, and because of all the parents standing on the sidewalk.
A bell rang on the opposite block. Spencer pointed at two big doors opening. Ashley looked.
A crowd of children ran out of the kindergarten class, some of them trying to reach their parents, others playing with each other.
The girls stared at them for a while, Spencer smiling, Ashley lost deep in thoughts.
"They are so cute" – said Spencer – "They have nothing to worry about"
"This is the reason to get better?"
"It can be. One of the many"
"It's not enough"
"Why?"
"Look" – Ashley pointed at another bench on the park, where an old man was sleeping, with alcohol bottles all around him. – "an alcoholic homeless"
Then Ashley pointed at a man on a Lamborghini; the man was wearing a black suit, talking, almost screaming trough a very expensive cell phone. – "That one is a drug dealer. I know him." – Ashley continued. Now she was pointing at a little boy, who was still sitting at the kinder garden's stairs, while all of the rest had gone home with their parents. – "The one supposed to love him and take care of him, forgot about it."
Spencer was wordless. Ashley was capable of seeing bad things everywhere, a lot more than the social worker with the broken heart. Convincing her wasn't going to be easy at all.
"Can we go now?" – The brunette asked.
Spencer stood up and started walking to the hospital again. After a few steps, Ashley shook by her side and fainted. Spencer caught her before hitting the floor. The brunette was very pale, and she looked dizzy.
"My good!" – Spencer exclaimed – "have you even ate something today?"
"No, I haven't. I'm just fine" – Ashley said. She tried to stand up but she fell again… in Spencer's arms. The blonde held her protectively, and helped her to sit on the floor. Then she walked off, and disappeared around a corner. When she came back, she had a cotton candy in her hands. She gave it to Ashley.
"Sorry, they only had pink… I figure you prefer black, but well…"
Ashley didn't laugh at the joke. She slowly took a piece of candy and ate it.
"I thought for a sec that you were leaving" – she said, with no emotion in her voice.
"I just went to buy the candy" – Spencer looked at Ashley's eyes. – "I'm not leaving."
"Ok" – There was a short silence. – "You know?... I haven't ate this since I was a little girl"
Spencer smiled – "Did you like pink back then?" – She said, joking.
"I don't think so" – Ashley answered, smiling back a bit.
After leaving Ashley in the hospital again, Spencer made some calls. She had just decided to take the exams she needed to become a psychologist. She was going to be that girl's psychologist.
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