The sun shining brightly from the unclosed curtains dragged Spencer back into consciousness. The first thing she realized was that she was still holding Ashley as the other girl slept peacefully curled into her. The second thing was Ashley looked beautiful when she slept, so peaceful and innocent. The third thing was it must be later than she normally woke up because her Whiteberry vibrating on the coffee table in front of the couch. The final thing she noticed was how she didn't care for once her phone was ringing. She was perfectly content holding the girl in her arms until the brunette woke up.
The last revelation being the most shocking considering Spencer had never let her phone go unanswered, ever. If she happened to be in the shower or otherwise busy, she always returned the call or text no longer than 15 minutes after receiving it. Glancing at the clock next to the bed, she sighed, it was already past 9am, which meant her daily assignments had probably just come through. Luckily she was on light duty for the next 30 days, as where Aidan and Madison, to help Ashley adjust to everything. She was only on overflow duty; she only got assignments if all other Fates were busy at the time.
She laid there in bed, debating about whether or not to move and risk waking up the emotionally drained girl sleeping half on top her, causing feelings she was not ready to think to deeply on at the moment. She ran all the reasons why she shouldn't be laying around in bed all morning through her head. She still had a job to do, it was expected of her and she had to be an example for those in her dorm that looked up to her. Also, Aiden was probably wondering where she was, they were supposed to have breakfast together that morning…
"Morning" a raspy, sleep filled voice cut through Spencer's racing thoughts. Her blue eyes looked down into bright, caramel colored eyes. Ashley's cheeks were still flush from sleep and her hair was all tousled in the most appealing bed-head in Spencer's opinion.
"Morning." Spencer smiled back down into those deep eyes feeling a warmth, that wasn't from the sun, spread through out her body. She again pushed the implications it meant back down into the further recesses of her brain, not wanting to deal with what it all meant, not being able to when there was so many other things to worry about.
Ashley rolled over onto her back, stretched her arms out as far as they would go and let out a loud yawn. She couldn't remember the last time she had slept so peacefully and contently. Waking up in Spencer's arms had even managed to alleviate some of the embarrassment she should have felt for breaking down like she had the night before on the blonde. She stealthy sneaked a glance at the Light Fate, trying to see if she was looking at her with pity. Ashley hated to be pitied but having Spencer look at her like that might kill her all over again.
Spencer was carefully watching Ashley, taking in every emotion that flitted over her face, searching for signs of awkwardness after the night before. Finding none she allowed herself to take in the sight of the brunette, from her full, slightly pouty lips to her cute little nose to her long lashes that naturally curled up to her mesmerizing eyes, that were currently staring right back at her own. 'Oh, crap, so busted…' Spencer quickly dropped her eyes down to stare at the comforter on the bed, pretending the pale yellow shapes where the most fascinating thing in the room, when they were so far it. The most fascinating thing in the room was currently laying in bed next to her, smirking.
Ashley couldn't wipe the smirk off her face at catching Spencer checking her out. If she was feeling 100 she would have teased the girl but after sharing such an emotional night together she decided to give her a free pass. Stretching again, this time making sure her hand "accidentally" brushed up against Spencer's still blushing cheek, allowing the back of her knuckles to just gently trace the blonde's smooth skin, she sat up. "I'm hungry…" She smiled suggestively at the even redder girl, "how about you?" Ok, so almost a free pass, Ashley was being gentle with her.
It took Spencer a few beats to recover from the speeding of her heart at the smile Ashley had given her and a few more to comprehend what had been said. "Uhh, food…yeah…Aiden. We're supposed to meet Aiden in 15 minutes." She mumbled, trying to pull together a complete sentence. 'Wow, why don't I just grunt and drool while I'm at it, I'm sure she thinks I'm a complete moron now.' Spencer rolled her eyes at how incredibly lame Ashley could make her feel as she jumped out of bed.
"I'm going to take a quick shower; I'll be out in less than 10 minutes." In her rush to get to the bathroom and hide her red face from the brunette who was still smirking at her, Spencer tripped over her computer chair, sending her sprawling over the arm of her couch, ending up on her back with her left leg over the back of the couch. Her face felt like it was going to burst into flames as she heard Ashley laughing like she had just seen the funniest thing ever.
"Are…are you…oh..okay?" Ashley gasped out between fits of laughter.'Great, make that a klutzy moron' Spencer sourly thought as she tried to get herself untangled from the couch.
"Uh, yeah, fine, totally, fine." Spencer rolled off the couch, her elbow hitting the coffee table, which only sent the brunette into renewed fits of laughter.
"Are you sure? Because that sounded like it hurt." Ashley was trying to stifle her laughter as the blonde slowly got up and rubbed her elbow. She knew it was rude to laugh but she couldn't help it. Seeing Spencer topple over the arm of her couch had been too funny, and Ashley was the type to laugh at klutzy people, it had been one of many bad habits her mother had tried to no avail to break her of but was never successful at. At least she had the decency to sometimes, in the smallest corner of her brain, to feel slightly bad for laughing.
"I'm alright, I'm just gonna…" Spencer not able to look over at Ashley, waved her hand in the direction of the bathroom, and careful not to trip on anything else, rushed in, closing the door with a mortified bang.
Walking into the diner almost half an hour late to meet Aiden, Ashley stopped in her tracks as she saw Madison sitting next to the Gray Fate in the booth. "You didn't tell me she was going to be here." Ashley hissed at Spencer, feeling uneasy being around the Dark Fate.
It wasn't that she intimidated Ashley, not in the least. It was that Ashley intuitively knew that Madison was the type that would prey on any weakness she saw in anyone and until Ashley felt surer of herself and her new position in the scheme of things, she knew she would be a target to Madison. She knew Madison would see that as a weakness and use it against her. Ashley hated looking weak more than anything.
"I didn't know." Spencer whispered back, "Though, I can't say I'm surprised. She doesn't want me to monopolize all your time."
Before Ashley could ask why, Aiden turned around and noticed the girls by the front counter. "Finally, you both made it. I'm starving."
Madison merely glared at the tardy girls as they took the booth across from the two waiting Fates. "Ashley, it's so good to see you again. Glad to see Sandra Dee hasn't bored you into nonexistence, yet."
"Ah, good to see you too." To say Ashley was shocked by the friendly greeting from Madison was an understatement, "And Spencer has been thoroughly entertaining so no need to worry."
Spencer barely suppressed a grin when Ashley stressed her name to the Dark Fate.
"Than you must still be in shock or brain dead to find her entertaining," Madison huffed while rolling her eyes, "but to each their own, even if it is incredibly dull."
Before Spencer could reply with an appropriate comeback, Maude came bounding over to the table. Her loud greeting to the four sitting there effectively cutting anything Spencer might have said, off.
They exchanged pleasantries, well except for Madison who was too busy texting on her Blackberry, and placed their food order. Madison kept looking back and forth from Spencer to Ashley, her eyes getting narrower each time. They were sitting a little to close for her comfort and seemed to be caught up in their own little world while telling Aiden about their shopping trip the day before. Even though they were talking to the dark haired guy, it seemed more like they were talking to each other.
"Ashley wanted to get this cute little baby blue top but I saw it first…" Spencer was telling him while giggling.
"But it so looked better on me…" Ashley interrupted with a smirk.
"Oh, whatever, get over your self, it totally looked great on me…" Spencer protested with a laugh, even though she did think it looked a lot better on Ashley, she wasn't about to admit that out loud, especially in front of Aiden and Madison.
"I didn't say it didn't, just that it looked better on me." Ashley teased, poking Spencer in the side, eliciting another loud laugh from the blonde.
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that, it looked okay on you." Spencer playfully rolled her eyes, poking Ashley back.
'Oh, they are so flirting with each other!' Madison realized with glee, finally after years and years of looking, she finally had something to hold over Little Miss Perfect's head. "Ugh, seriously, is there a point to this inane story?" Madison snapped, "because all I hear right now is wah wah wah wahwah. Could you be any more tedious?"
They both stopped laughing for a moment, smiles still on their faces despite the sarcastic words.
"Aw, if we're boring you so much, you could always leave, Madison." Spencer replied with an infuriating smile on her face that only caused the Latina to scowl even deeper. "And the point was, I ended up getting the blue shirt and Ashley got one in red."
"Yeah, red's more my color anyways, brings out the natural red highlights in my hair." Ashley grinned at Spencer, reached over and stole a piece of honeydew off the blonde's plate.
"Wow, fascinating." Madison dryly remarked pulling her Blackberry back out to play a quick game of Tetris. She had to figure out the best way to use this new revelation to the utmost of her advantage. If she completely ignored them, she'd stand a better chance of not saying some snide remark that would tip Spencer off that her little secret wasn't such a secret anymore.
"You're awfully quiet today. Is everything ok?" Spencer asked Aiden who had barely said two words since they had sat down.
"He's just pouting because someone finally called his council out and for once they can't blame us." Madison patronizingly patted Aiden on the shoulder, "It's ok, I'm sure the Elder Gray's barely care what a High Angel think of them."
"Shut up, Madison." Aiden uncharacteristically snapped at the Latina, pushing her hand off his shoulder.
"Whatever, Aiden, don't get pissy with me because you have to go to an all day meeting over some comments a lame High Angel made on national TV." Madison smiled at seeing the irritation on the Gray Fates face. She loved irritating him as much as he irritated her.
He had told her before the other two had showed up that the Gray Council was in an uproar over St. John's flagrant disregard for their place in the Balance and flaunting it all over the airwaves. He was now stuck going to a boring all day mandatory meeting on how the Gray Council planned on handling the situation. Only those with assignments where allowed to leave and only to handle their assignments and then they had to come right back to the meeting.
"Don't worry, Aid, I'm sure it'll blow over. Remember when that Demon, Garamond, was calling for the abolishment of the Gray Council about thirty years ago? I heard they reincarnated him as a circus freak… Lobster Boy or something he became?" Spencer tilted her head trying to remember what exactly the Demon had ended up being reincarnated as.
"No, he ended up being reincarnated as the child of some Taiwan prostitute who left him on the door step of a sweatshop when he was five. He's worked there every since." Madison glared over at Spencer, unable to believe she hadn't known that. Everyone knew that.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter; they still got rid of him within the year." Spencer shrugged, not really caring anymore. "The point is, they don't allow anyone who speaks out against any of the other councils to stick around long enough to cause any real trouble."
Ashley was feeling incredibly inadequate and left out, not knowing enough to have any type of opinion on the matter. She seriously couldn't wait for the day when she would finally understand everything they were saying and not feel like such a loser for knowing next to nothing. She picked at her pancakes, not hungry anymore but also not having anything else to do.
"Yeah, I know, it's just this is the first time I've ever known it to be a high member of the Light Council to be the one causing trouble. I think my council is kind of freaked out about the whole thing, bad PR and all, especially because St. John is so popular with the masses." Aiden looked troubled, his forehead creased with worry lines.
"The mindless Light masses maybe," Madison wrinkled her nose in disgust as she said the word Light, as of she was talking about raw sewage, "my side can't stand the guy. We even have dartboards with his face on them for sale at some of our stores. All I can say is they better treat him as harshly as they've treated everyone from the Dark Council who's ever spoke out or there will be hell to pay."
"You might want to say that when you have a little more power to make good on your threats, Madison." Aiden bitterly laughed. Madison, the ever overly dramatic.
"Laugh all you want, Aiden, but I'm not the only one that feels that way." Madison glared at him.
"Oh, I don't doubt that one bit. We all know you're incapable of an original thought." Who was she to be saying anything about how his council should or shouldn't handle anything? He had no idea where she thought she had the right to say anything.
As the Aiden and Madison had been trading sarcastic comments between them, Spencer's Whiteberry had gone off. With a sigh of frustration, she read the text message over again to be sure she had read it right the first two times. Ashley looked over in concern, hearing the girl next to her sign again.
"Is everything ok?" she asked quietly.
"Not really, I have three assignments I have to do today." Ordinarily, Spencer loved her job, loved trying to lead people to the Path of Light even if it didn't always go her way. She felt a sense of accomplishment that maybe next time they would take her words to heart, that she had made a difference in that mortal's life. The problem was, ordinarily, she didn't have a fun, beautiful, brunette to help adapt to the In Between.
"That's ok, I'll just come with you." Ashley didn't understand why Spencer looked so disappointed.
"Actually, you can't. It'll only be a few hours, but I'm sure you can hang out with Aiden." Spencer rushed to reassure Ashley as her face fell at the news that she wasn't allowed to come with.
"Sorry, Spencer, I have that meeting all day, remember?" Spencer hadn't realized that the Dark and Gray Fates had stopped arguing and had been listening to hers and Ashley's conversation.
"It's ok, Ashley can spend the day with me.' Madison had a predatory smile on her face that made Ashley's skin crawl.
"Ah, I don't want to be any trouble, I can just hang out at the dorm room until Spencer gets back. I don't really need a babysitter." Ashley really didn't want to spend the day with Madison. Even a few hours with the Dark Fate sounded like cruel and unusual punishment.
"Nonsense, I insist, you can't sit around a stuffy dorm room all day. I'll show you around my part of town, it'll be fun." Madison used her fake soothing voice, trying to come off as non-threatening but instead looking like a spider trying to lure a fly into its web.
Spencer had stayed quiet during the exchange, knowing she couldn't try and stop Ashley from spending time with Madison. It was completely Ashley's choice. Unfortunately, Ashley couldn't think of any other protests so reluctantly she agreed to spend the day with Madison until Spencer was done with her work.
Spencer patted her sympathetically on the arm. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
'Not soon enough.' Ashley said under breath but turning to the blonde she put on fake smile, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"I'll call Madison when I'm done. Meet you back at the dorm later?" Spencer asked a little uncertainly. What if Ashley did like hanging out with Madison after all and didn't want to stay at her dorm anymore?
"Count on it." Crinkling her nose in an adorable smile, Ashley assured Spencer.
Waving good bye to Ashley, Spencer and Aiden made their way out the door and onto their respective responsibilities leaving Ashley alone with the Dark Fate.
"Finally, now we can go have some real fun." Madison said while heading towards a large, black SUV parked in front of the café. "I can't wait to show you my side of town."
'Can't wait.'Ashley grimly thought, wanting nothing more than to run back to Spencer's dorm and lock the doors until the Light Fate came home.
"You and Spencer seem to be getting along well." Madison casually said as she and Ashley walked along the boardwalk, on their way to some place that Madison just had to take her to. She had been tuning out the Dark Fate for the better half of an hour, taking in the sights around her.
Madison had taken to her a part of town that was right on the beach, but more south of where Spencer lived. While it was still cleaner than the LA Ashley knew, there was an undercurrent of something Ashley couldn't quite figure out. It put her on edge but also seemed familiar at the same time. It bugged her to no end that she couldn't figure it out, the same way not remember what the name of a song was that was stuck in her head. Hearing Spencer's name on the Latina's tongue snapped her out of her musings.
"Huh? Oh, yeah we're getting along fine. She's been really good at explain things to me without making me feel stupid." Ashley watched as a couple cute guys on skateboards went pass, turning their heads to wolf whistle at the two girls.
"Ugh, Reapers are so repulsive; I don't know why they don't have their own part of the city. The way their allowed to just roam with us higher beings is despicable." Being whistled at by two guys she found so far beneath her had thrown Madison off her purpose of trying to pump the girl walking with her for information about how close her and Spencer had actually gotten so far.
"Why do you find Reapers so repulsive?" Yet another thing Ashley didn't understand, as far as she was concerned, at least they knew what their purpose was, at least they knew how everything worked around here, which was a lot more than she could say about herself.
"Are you serious? I see Spencer hasn't bothered to explain anything important to you." Madison huffed. Why did she always have to be the one to explain things? "Reapers don't do anything important, they're like the trash collectors. They only release souls from their mortal bodies, and that's it. They don't even get a Smartphone, that's how low they are! All they get is a cheap little phone to check in with their Supervisors and I guess each other because who else would want to hang out with a Reaper?" Madison looked over to see if Ashley even comprehended how low that made them.
Not seeing the required understanding from the newly dead girl, she continued her rant. "They get their assignments on post-it notes! They don't even rate high enough to get a text message, let alone a file! Reapers are too irresponsible to trust with any real power, they all act like a bunch of little kids. That's why they have to see their Supervisors everyday to get their assignments. It's not like us higher beings; most Fates only have to check in with their Supervisor once a month, if even that."
Ashley nodded, hoping to end the tirade; she still didn't get the big deal. Glen was the only Reaper she had met and even though his jokes had been lame, he didn't appear to be that bad. "Uh, yeah, post-it notes are lame." She interjected, hoping it was the right thing to say. Listening to Madison rated right up there with listening to the muzak version of Barry Manilow.
"Exactly! I mean, seriously, post-it notes? That's all they can be trusted with, the imbeciles." Madison waved her arms in the air. Then as soon as her ranting had started it stopped. "We're here!" the glee in her voice was unmistakable. Ashley just groaned as she realized where "here" was.
In front of them loomed a massive three story monstrosity of steel, glass and plastic. It was the exact opposite of the quaint boutiques' and shops Spencer had taken her to the day before. No, this was everything yesterday's shopping trip hadn't been, this was the most exaggerated mall she had ever seen. It was everything she hated about malls, times ten. If yesterday with Spencer had seemed like Heaven, then today with Madison, truly felt close enough to Hell.
"I told a few of my friends to meet us here by the fountain." Grabbing Ashley's arm again, she pulled her through the large glass doors and into everything that was fake.
'Oh, great, this is gonna be as much fun as getting my eyes pecked out by birds.' Ashley glumly thought. As the approached the fountain, three girls who looked like carbon copies of Madison squealed and ran up to the Dark Fate as if she was a movie star. They all were wearing dark Capri's with tight, sleeveless tops and more make up than Ashley had seen on Vegas strippers. 'I take that back, the birds seem a lot more fun and painless.'
"Girl, that outfit looks so good one you! I love what you did with you hair today. All the guys are gonna be all over you." a tall girl with straight dark brown hair and pink highlights gushed to Madison.
"I love those shoes, Maddy, you have to tell me where you got them!" squee-ed clone number two, as Ashley had named her.
"Madison, I booked you a mani and pedi for two this afternoon like you asked." Clone number three chimed in.
"Girls, I want you to meet someone. This is Ashley, she's going to be spending some time with us today. I expect you all to welcome her into our little group." Madison commanded. Her minions nodded their heads in unison and basically fell over themselves to compliment Ashley, hoping to win favor with Madison.
'Shoot. Me. Now.' Ashley thought as she was bombarded with insincere compliments about her hair, her shoes, her top and what ever else any of them could think to say. She was sure mixed in with all the fake flattery one had even complimented her on her earlobes but she couldn't have been sure. They all were talking so fast and in that annoying valley girl way that made Ashley want to jump out the nearest window.
"Ok, ok, let's give Ashley some breathing room." Madison cut in, annoyed at not being the center of attention, when the other three girls were slow to comply she raised her voice. "Seriously, enough already!" The three clones immediately went silent.
"Ashley, this is Sherry," Madison pointed to the girl with the pink highlights, "Terri," the one that loved Madison's shoes, "and Carrie." The one that was all proud of making Madison's appointments.
"Nice to meet you." Ashley said only to be polite, even though it was so far from the truth it wasn't even in the same universe.
The three girls looked over at Madison, seeing if it was acceptable to return the greeting or not. Madison gave just the barest of nods. The clones quick repeated the false sentiment, almost in unison.
"Now that you all know each other, lets go shopping." Madison clapped her hands in excitement, with the clones, along with a very reluctant Ashley, following behind her.
"Of course Todd was only trying to make me jealous, I mean, seriously, why else would he have taken that half rate Fate, Gretchen to Ego? Only to bug me!" Sherry or maybe it was Carrie, bitched. Ashley wasn't sure at this point and really didn't care which one it was going on and on about some guy Todd. She just wanted it to stop. All these girls did was talk a lot of crap about other people and about how they were so much better than everyone else.
"He's a sleaze, you could do so much better, Girl. You need to forget about his second rate ass and hook up with that hottie Eric. He's is so fine." Another one of the clones droned on.
Madison was trying on yet another pair of shoes. This was the fifth shoe store Ashley had been dragged into and each time the only person who actually tried anything on was Madison. The clones just stood around yapping about whatever it was they yapped about while falling all over themselves to kiss Madison's ass. Ashley was beyond bored and kept staring at every clock they passed, hoping she would be able to get back to the dorms soon. She wasn't sure how much longer she would be able to handle Madison and her minions without beating the crap out of them.
It was bad enough she had to sit in the middle of them while getting a manicure, which completely ruined what should have been a relaxing experience for her. The pedicure had been even worse. She had got stuck next to Madison who had spent the whole time telling Ashley how Demons were far superior to Angels because they weren't afraid to use their full power like Angels were. Demons didn't have as many restrictions as Angels did which in Madison's opinion made them weaker and by default below Demons.
The entire time she had sat there, nodding her head, secretly wishing she could just tell Madison to shut the hell up. She didn't care if Derek the High Demon, who had been the one to cause the Fall of the Roman Empire, once hit on her and told her she had a great future ahead of her along with a great ass. In fact, she gagged a little at the last part.
Madison waited for the clones to finish telling her how great the shoes looked on her before tossing them back on the shelf, deciding she didn't like them after all. Of course that lead to the clones agreeing with her, Ashley barely held back an exaggerated eye roll at the absurdity of it all.
Walking to the next store Madison just had to check out, a blonde curly head caught Ashley's attention. Leaning up against the third floor railing was Glen with a few other people. Ashley had never been so happy to see another person. "Glen!" she shouted, catching his attention.
"What are you doing?" Madison hissed with fury, "Are you crazy?"
By this time, Ashley was beyond caring what the Dark Fate thought. She saw an out and was more than willing to take any reprieve she could find.
"Hey, A. Davies, how's the after life treating you?" Glen inquired, still leaning against the railing.
"Good…" Ashley tried to find something to say to continue the conversation, not wanting to go back to Madison and her drones any sooner than she absolutely had to.
"Well, alright. So what are you doing hanging out with Maddy and the fembots? I took you for someone with better taste than that." Glen looked over Ashley's shoulder where Madison was standing there glaring at him and his friends, but not wanting to get any closer incase anyone got the mistaken idea she was actually talking to him. He smirked at the pissed off Latina and winked at her. Ashley didn't have to turn around to know that Madison was extremely pissed off by his blatant disregard of "knowing his place" that if it could, smoke would be coming out her ears.
"Kinda got stuck with her while your sister had some assignments to take care of." Ashley smiled at Spencer's brother, feeling more comfortable than she had since being dragged to the mall.
"Oh, that sucks. She called me an hour ago and told me she was just hanging around her dorm. Sounds like she's done to me." Ashley could have kissed the blue eyed guy at that moment so happy that she could now get away from Madison and back to Spencer. Then her heart sunk, why hadn't Spencer called Madison like she was suppose to let her know she was finished. Insecurities started creeping up on Ashley, even though Spencer hadn't given her any reason to feel like she didn't want her around, maybe the blonde was just to nice to say anything. Maybe she hadn't called because she wanted some time alone?
"Oh, well I guess I'll just wait for her to call Madison to take me back to the dorms." Ashley said with forced casualness. It wasn't good enough because Glen heard the slight dejected tone in her voice.
"Ha, if you wait for Madison to tell you Spencer called then you'll be stuck with Madison all day and night." Glen shook his head, a grim smile on his face, "Isn't that right Madison?" he said in a louder voice, directing it over Ashley's shoulder, towards the still fuming Dark Fate.
"Excuse me? Did I say you could talk to me?" Madison replied in her most holier than thou tone.
"Yeah, I bet Spencer did call and you just didn't tell Ashley, that sounds about right. Though if you did do that, wouldn't that be going against the rules? Not like I would expect anything less from your kind." Glen sneered walking closer to Madison with each word until he was standing in front of her.
"I didn't break the rules! I just forgot, she called while we were getting a manicure, I couldn't answer my phone. It was a mere oversight, I didn't break any rules and you better not be going around telling anyone differently!" Madison protested, her eyes wide with faked innocence.
"Ok, what are these rules everyone keeps talking about?" Ashley asked with frustration. She kept hearing about rules but no one was telling her what they were.
"This rule would be the one where Aiden, Spencer and Madisoncan't keep you from spending time with any of them when you want because that could be seen as trying to influence your decision. They can talk all the smack they want about each other but they aren't allowed to keep you away from any of the others for the first 30 days." Glen explained, enjoying the discomfort on Madison's face.
"Like I said, I forgot. Spencer's so boring, it's hard to remember anything about her let alone when she calls." Madison rolled her eyes, playing down the seriousness of her actions. Wait, back up the bus, Spencer called and that bitch... Ashley was beyond pissed.
"Well now that we all know Spencer's done with work for the day, Ashley do you want to go back to the dorms or hang out here with Madison and her brain dead friends?" Glen smiled in triumph, it wasn't often that he was able to best Madison, he was enjoying every second of this moment.
"Yeah, sorry, Madison, I'm all shopped out, I just want to get back to the dorms and take a nap." Ashley lied. She didn't care, at this point the Dark Fate should be happy Ashley hadn't tossed her over the railing for keeping Spencer's call from her for over two hours.
"Fine, whatever, I have to meet Gauge soon anyways." Turning and walking away, Ashley only had a brief second to thank Glen before taking off after her ride.
The ride to Spencer's dorm had been awkward to say the least, Madison had been fuming and instead of talking to Ashley, she blared obnoxious hip hop at ear splitting levels the entire time. She didn't even bother to turn it down as she stopped in front of Spencer's building. Ashley didn't care, she didn't have anything nice to say to the Latina and just wanted to get as far away from her as she could. She quickly jumped out of the SUV without so much as a wave good bye and ran up the steps to Spencer's dorm.