Spencer's POV

"So the game goes like this. When someone says truth, you tell the truth. When someone says dare, you do the dare." Court explains with a mischievous grin on his face.

Court had slowly started to trickle into our group. It was crazy, I think he made Aiden happier than any person we've all ever seen him with. Or that we've met. Aiden and Court weren't together, not by a long shot. But it was obvious that there was something between them. Some kind of electric connection. They would both find innocent-looking ways to touch each other without bringing attention to themselves.

But I noticed. I noticed because that is how I used to be with Ashley. Anything to just touch her, to feel her, to smell her. To be affectionate with her. And I know she was the same way.

The afternoon not to too long ago when she kissed me, my whole world turned upside down. I almost didn't give her the index card back. But when I saw it, it was like I was not able to control what happened. Writing on it and filling in the blanks was like my passive way of confessing my hidden love for her. One I thought was unrequited.

I was wrong.

And I was never so happy in my life to be so totally and completely wrong.

I don't think any of our friends, or anyone for that matter, knew about us. It still astounds me that there even is an us. I love that word.

Us.

When she kissed me it was obvious that we were going to transform into an us. No other logic, thought, or reasoning worked. But I was still nervous, what was I supposed to do when she got to Aiden's house? Was I supposed to kiss her in front of everyone? Share a Public Service Announcement that we were, basically, together?

For the past few days between our "moment" as Ashley calls it, Kyla had been suspicious of my ridiculously good mood. And Kyla talks, she can't keep anything to herself. So it did not surprise me when Kyla, Aiden, and Chelsea were stealing quick glances between each other while we waited for Ashley to arrive.

"We're aware, Court. Thanks." Kyla says evenly to him.

"Be nice, Kyla." Aiden scolds her while he and Court share a smile.

Chelsea turns her attention towards me, but not before stealing a quick look with Kyla. "Where's Ashley?"

"She said she'd be here soon." I state. But my stupid goofy smile at her last text to me betrayed the evenness I was trying to convey in my voice.

I'll be there soon. I want to kiss you so bad. –Ash

"Why are we even playing Truth or Dare, anyway? It's such a cliché." Kyla spoke to the group, although she focused on Aiden.

"Uh, because it's fun. And mildly exciting." Court says to her. He smiles at her. He had no fear of battling with her. Playing her games.

Kyla mumbles something that sounds similar to "You just want an excuse to kiss Aiden."

"What was that Ky?" Aiden asks as he pops a oreo into his mouth. He was so oblivious.

"Nothing important." She smirks and raises her eyebrow at me, knowing I heard her loud and clear.

I hear the door to the basement open then slam shut and I turn my head to see Ashley walking down the stairs.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late." Her smile turns into a full on wide-mouthed, nose-crinkling, dimpled grin when our eyes meet each others. Her eyes are sparkling at mine and I can't help the butterflies that explode like a bomb within my stomach.

"Hey Ashley, we're playing Truth or Dare! Come join." Court says excitedly to her as she walks over.

"You just want an excuse to kiss Aiden." Ashley laughs, taking a seat next to me.

"That's what I said!" Kyla yells loudly. Too loudly for the cramped basement we were in.

Ashley speaks quietly to me when she sits down while Kyla and Aiden are arguing. "Hey cutie."

I try to say hi back but it's proving difficult to speak in her presence. My mind is solely focusing on short shorts and tight t-shirt. I smile at her instead.

I think we're both nervous to be together around our friends. I know it's not because they'll disapprove or anything like that, I'm sure they'd have a field day. I'm sure they'd love it, us. It's just a strange feeling to go from being best friends to a couple, especially for the first time in front of all your close friends.

But we were never really just best friends, were we?

I feel like a couple pairs of eyes are burning into me and part of me just wants to scream "Ashley is mine!" at the top of my lungs and kiss her. But I don't have the nerve.

After a moment of silence, we start the game. As Kyla is licking the carpet as per Aiden's request, I feel Ashley's hand drift to my knee, rubbing it softly. The simple action makes my whole body tingle.

"Should we say something?" Ashley whispers quietly in my ear as the group is laughing at Kyla. Her lips are physically on my earlobe and it is driving me insane.

"I don't know." I say honestly back to her.

"Jesus! Would you two just frickin' kiss already, you are making it so obvious!" Chelsea exclaims from out of nowhere.

"Chelsea!" Kyla hisses at her, obviously angry that her love of talking and gossiping is let out.

I'm about to let out a nervous laugh, but Ashley interrupts that by saying "Alright" quickly, cupping my face, and kissing me sweetly. I kiss her back, never wanting to stop.

When we break apart we are looking each other and sporting the same stupid smiles.

I don't care that everyone is smiling at us.

I hear clapping and turn my head to look at Court as I blush. "I knew you two had to be something. I totally called that." He says with a grin on his face while Chelsea claps with him, nodding.

The group laughs and I am beyond happy that I can touch and kiss Ashley however I want now. Well, maybe not totally however I want.

I knew that Ashley was never really one for public displays of affection with people she had been with before. But with me, she can't seem to not touch me in some way or kiss me in some way. And I am in love with the fact that I am the person she can't help but be like this with. I almost feel dumb for being so insanely smitten, but that thought it pushed out of my mind when Ashley pulls me so I am sitting between her legs, with her arms around my waist. I lean back into her body, sighing at the heavenly contact.

The game is getting pretty intense. Chelsea has told us that she had sex in a dressing room more than once, Aiden was bullied into admitting that he thinks Aladin is hot, and I have already shown everyone my polka-dot bra. This was much to Ashley's enjoyment as her eyes stayed wide on me.

Ashley rests her chin on my shoulder and I turn my head to kiss her cheek, letting my lips stay a little longer than normal. Her skin feels so good against my lips I can't help it. Her fingers are softly rubbing my sides as I think of a dare for Aiden.

"Okay. Aiden. I dare you to kiss Court." I look at him pointedly with a playful smirk on my face.

His expression is confused. His face obviously brightens up but there is a trace of nervousness in his green eyes.

"Fine." He says, eyes still locked with mine. Then he turns to his side and pulls Court's shirt collar towards him connecting their lips. I would have found this much more interesting if Ashley wasn't distracting me by nibbling on my neck. My hands rub her legs and her mouth connects with my jaw, biting lightly.

"Mmmm. I am so loving that I can do that." She purrs into my ear.

"Ash." I breathe out as my eyes flutter, hoping I can control myself from pouncing on her that second.

"Okay, I think we get it boys!" Kyla shouts, interrupting my dirty thoughts. Aiden and Court stop making out and the grins they are wearing are adorable. Court's face is all flushed and red while Aiden is looking cocky as hell.

They are sitting closer to each other now.

"Alright, Ashley." Aiden finally says. "Truth or dare?"

She speaks within a second. "Dare." Ashley Davies never backs down.

"Hmmm. Well, normally I would have dared you to kiss Spencer, but that doesn't seem so crazy now."

I can actually feel Ashley roll her eyes at him as she nuzzles my shoulder.

Aiden continues. "I dare you to not touch Spencer for an hour." He looks smug.

"What." Ashley deadpans.

"An hour. No touching."

"Aiden!" I yell out involuntarily. I didn't mean to, I just really don't like this dare. I hate this dare.

I hear Ashley let out a frustrated sigh from behind me. "Fine! I'll try." She says this and untangles herself from me and plops down beside me. "Sorry Spence." She frowns and I already feel cold from the loss of contact.

I glare harshly at Aiden and he just laughs, touching Court lightly on the knee to rub it in.

Chelsea is stuffing as many Oreos into her mouth due to Ashley's dare. I look over at Ashley and her eyes meet mine. She's sitting about a foot away from me. Brown is intently focused on blue, and she moves them to my lips quite frequently. Mine are doing the same, and we're definitely eye-fucking the crap out of each other.

Ashley's eyes leave mine and look ahead. "I fucking hate you Aiden." She says clearly to the group and he snickers like a little girl.

It's only been twenty-five minutes since Aiden's dare and I am already getting extremely impatient. Apparently, Ashley is feeling the same way because when we're taking a break from the game, she says "I quit your stupid dare, Aiden."

Then she scoots over to me and kisses me hard, her hands pulling at the material covering my stomach. I grab her hair and pull her closer to me. She leaves my mouth to breathe and kisses my nose gently.

"Better." She says softly as her arms go around me and pull me close.

"Better." I repeat and kiss the side of her mouth.

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By the end of the night, I am very tired. Chelsea and Kyla have already gone home, and Aiden and Court went upstairs to "get a drink." I'm pretty sure I fell asleep on the couch because I am confused and woken up as I feel a weight on top of me. I find Ashley straddling me when I open my eyes and look up from my lying-down position.

Her hands are rubbing my shoulders. "You wanna go soon?" She asks me sweetly.

"Yeah I'm tired." I smile at her.

I move my head up a little bit to kiss her and she meets me half way. I feel her hands go to my face and into my hair as the kiss becomes much deeper. Ashley bites my bottom lip when my hands drift under her shirt to scrape against her soft back. The pressure of her on top of me is seriously adding to the insane lust I am starting to feel. Ashley presses herself a little bit harder into me and I don't even realize that I let out a tiny moan. My hands can't help themselves and go up and under the front of her t-shirt, which causes Ashley to start to work on the side of my neck.

"Mmmm, Spence you smell so good." She mumbles into my neck while still biting it. I feel her tongue come out to soothe the hickey that I will most likely end up having. When I feel her lick me slowly I can't help that my body arches slightly into hers. Again, her lips capture mine and my eyes are still closed as I feel her just press her lips lightly against mine.

"This is good." I say as I try to catch my breath and I open my eyes. I see Ashley above me with her eyes still closed. She is smiling and nodding.

Ashley opens her eyes and just looks at me. I had no idea these kinds of moments actually exist in real life. I don't think anyone does until they live them.

She pushes some stray hair out of my face. "God, you're so gorgeous Spencer." Ashley says evenly. I fear my heart is going to burst through my ribcage from the way it is pounding so hard. Because Ashley just said I was gorgeous, and not in a way where she is my best friend. In a way that I have always wanted her to. In a way I never thought possible.

I smile up at her. "And you are ridiculously hot."

Ashley chuckles lightly but I can see the blush creeping up from her neck and onto her cheeks.

"Playtime is over children." Aiden's voice flows coming down the stairs. Court follows close behind him.

Much to my dismay, Ashley gets up off me.

"Where's those drinks?" She asks Aiden and Court.

The two boys look at each other quickly and Court answers, "Um, we drank them."

"Psssh. Sure you did." Ashley scoffs as I take her hand in mine and drag her up the stairs.

"Goodnight boys!" I yell as I close the basement door.

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"I kind of don't want you to go home." Ashley says to me from the driver's seat. My hand is intertwined with hers, playing with her fingers.

"I'll see you tomorrow Ash." I tell her, even though I don't want to go home either. But I know if I tell her that then she will most likely persuade me to just go to her house. And I really do need to go home.

She turns to me at the red light and gives me wide, sad eyes.

"Ashley stop it." I laugh at her.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." She admits with a frown on her face. "Spence?"

I lock my eyes on the side of her face. "Hmmm?" I'm focusing on how nice her fingers feel within mine.

"Um, are you going to. Well, are you gunna tell. Her." Ashley asks wearily with the slightest, smallest trace of fear in her voice. Just a pinch of fear.

Oh. Her.

Meaning my mother. I had not thought of that. I was too caught up in having the girl I love, love me back for the past couple of days to even think about telling my mother and my family. The thought alone makes me so incredibly nervous. I am not scared of her keeping me from Ashley, because there is no way one woman could keep me away from her. No army could keep me away. There is no way in hell she could ever do that. It doesn't matter what I would have to do. Jump out the window. Sneak out at obscene hours of the night. Disregard anything and everything my mother tells me to do.

I just got Ashley. I will not even allow the thought of me losing her to come into my head.

"Eventually?" I say to Ashley.

She nods slowly at me as her car parks outside my house. "Eventually. Eventually sounds good."

I unbuckle my seatbelt and lean over to kiss her, Ashley, the other part of the us, goodnight.

We both smile into the kiss.

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Yay cuteness =)