Hello, sorry for the delay, again. I'm so swamped with school work its killing me. Thank goodness it's almost holiday break. I need a break from my English persuasive paper, so I'm writing this new chapter instead. Lucky for you guys, not so cool for my English grade. Comment, rate, review, you know the drill.

Stolen Hearts

[Spencer's P.O.V.]

So if you would have told me that I would be in my bed, watching a movie with Ashley at this point in our, whatever we are, I would have never, ever, EVER believed you. But here we are watching Mean Girls, in my bed. Ashley knows the whole movie by heart, and I get to sit here and watch her re in act it for me.

"Spencer shh this is the best part."

Considering there has been like twelve 'best parts' I just laugh. I can tell she's waiting for whatever line is the 'best part' because she makes this concentrated face and it's just a laughing riot. Ashley and serious never go too well.

"That's so fetch."

She just starts laughing uncontrollably. I have no idea what she found funny, but I find myself joining in with the laughter. Her laugh is so contagious, you can't NOT laugh when Ash is at a full on riot.

"That…was…the…best…look…on your face…EVER"

I don't even know what Ash is talking about. All I did was sit and wait for her to spit the line. It doesn't matter though, I'm sitting here laughing my ass off, with Ashley Davies in my bed. Nothing else matters.

"Excuse me! I'm not the one who has the whole movie memorized. 'Oh em gee Spencer listen this is the best part'."

She stopped laughing and is trying her best to make an applaud face, but is failing miserably.

"Spence I SO do not sound like that. Miss 'well Ashhhhhley I don't want to watch that movie, can't we watch Cinderella?' At least if you are going to do an impression of me, do it right okay hun?"

She did not just go there. Okay I totally did want to watch Cinderella, I mean hello it's a classic, who wouldn't want to watch it? Other than Ash anyway, plus I didn't whine like she did. I simply just asked to watch a different movie. Spencer Carlin does not whine, ever.

"Ashley Davies, I did not get all whiney like that. I just simply asked if we could watch a different movie, which happened to be Cinderella. Which, by the way, is a classic and even you can't turn that down."

I stuck my tongue out at her and she just turned, pouted, and continues watching the movie. She cannot give me the silent treatment in my own house, no fair.

"Ash we both know you can't just sit there and ignore me. I'm too amazing… but apparently not as amazing as you totally checking them out in those skimpy Santa costumes."

Okay, she's totally too into this movie. Time for plan b, operation shower time.

"Well I guess since I'm not amazing and I'm being ignored I'll go take a hot, steamy shower, all alone. With no on with me, completely naked…. Alone."

Okay, this has to be bothering her at least a little bit.

"Okay, okay I'll pay you attention, IF you can beat me in a pillow fight"

Just then she launches a pillow at my head. I grab the closet one to me and just start whipping her with it. If one thing is for sure, Spencer Carlin is the master at pillow fights. Growing up with Glen did have its upsides, like becoming amazing in pillow fights.

So we're getting nowhere so I decided forget the pillows, I'll just wrestle her to win. I jump to push her off the bed, but when I push her she grabs me and pulls me off with her. I start trying to get her hands to pin them over her head, but somehow she manages to flip me over so she's on top and I'm on bottom.

It's not until this moment where I realize how amazingly close we are. At the same time where I've missed this so much, I'm scared to death. I mean, she left me completely broken, and although it seems like she's sincerely changed, how can I be so sure? I mean she just about threw my heart out the window, how can I just hand it back to her?

"Spencer…"

She's whispering, I always know she's completely serious when she gets quiet like this.

"Yea?"

It's all I can mutter out, I doubt it was loud enough for her to hear. I mean we're so close. If I even lift my head a smudge, our noses would be touching. I can't breathe, and I don't know how to react, or if I even want to react.

"I'm going to kiss you, and if you don't want me to, just stop me okay?"

She has never been like this. So sincere, so completely considerate, maybe she really has changed. And before I have any time to react, her lips are on mine, and I'm not moving. I start to kiss her back, missing this. Missing us.

She slowly pulls away and just looks at me. All the sudden she gets up and gets back on the bed. I lay there for a second before following her.

"So… did I win?"

Yeah, okay way to change the subject but someone had to take a knife to all that tension.

"Yeah Spencer, you always win. Always will win, you know that."

Serious Ashley always scares me. All the sudden I remember one thing…

"When do you have to leave?"

I shouldn't have said that. Someone had to bring it up though…

"Do you want me to leave? I mean, I could if you want. I would completely understand, I so shouldn't have done that and-"

"Stop, of course I don't want you to leave. But your whole life is across the country, and I figure you have to go back sometime. I just need to know, before, I don't know I just need to know Ash."

This is like prom all over again. Just as things seem to be getting back to normal, everything falls apart. Okay so, we're not normal, but it was just us again. I missed that, and I don't want it to go anywhere.

"Look, if this," she points at herself and then at me, "is serious, which I truly hope it is, then I won't leave. I can't keep leaving, that's what today is all about Spence. I'm not going to leave unless you want me to leave. I can't keep running away, and if that means goodbye California, then so be it. I don't care as long as in the end it's you and me when the credits role."

Exactly, her and me, that's all that matters.

"No, I don't ever want you to leave Ash, and I mean that."

"Guess Ohio better get used to me, because I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to hold you to that. I won't leave you as long as you won't leave me."

She's such a dork sometimes I swear. But I guess that's why I love her.

"Deal."