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I don't even know what to think right now. Her words just repeating over and over in my head, "I'm Gayle!" I just, I don't know what to say. I keep opening my mouth to say something and then shut it because what do I say right now? I can't even look at her right now.
I glance at her to see her sitting on the bed facing the wall. She just seems to be blankly staring at the wall. I open my mouth to say something but then I close again. I'm sure I look like Nemo right now.
The door knob turns and someone walks in.
"Spencer, I've been looking for you everywhere. Kendra ca-" And she stops when she notices Ashley sitting in the corner staring at the wall. She can probably feel the tension in the room. "Is everything ok?"
Is everything ok? I have no idea. I mean I know I should be happy because I finally met Gayle and we have a chance to be together. On the other hand, I am upset that I was lied to. I mean how long has she known for? Why is she just telling me now? And like this? Is this some sort of joke that she has been playing with her friends? There are so many questions that I would love the answer to, but I don't know if I even want to talk to her right now.
"I'm going to get some air." I state and leave the room without looking back.
Walking down the stairs, I see Kendra sitting in the corner surrounded by people, but she looks bored. She looks up and sees me walking down the stairs, and makes her way over to me. I sigh because I don't know if I want to be alone or not right now. I am just really confused.
"Hey are you ok?" She asks once she reaches me.
"Yes. I'm just going outside to get some air." I say and I turn around to head to the backyard. When I get there, there is no one outside.
I step outside into the nice warm night and take a deep breath. I am out there for a long time just staring at the dark sky that is lit up by the numerous bright stars. I never realized how peaceful and serene it can be at night.
"Hey" I hear. I turn to see Kendra walking towards me.
"Hi" I reply.
"I know you wanted to be alone but I wanted to see if you were ok."
"I honestly don't know how I am right now." I tell her.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
I do want to talk about it, eventually. But I don't know if I will be able to talk to Kendra about this. I mean she likes me and I like her as well, but not as much as I like Ashley and if I tell her this, I don't want her to get hurt.
"No, I just need try to sort everything out. I'm a little confused right now."
"Ok I'm here if you need me." She says and walks closer to me. I hug her when she opens her arms, but for some reason it feels so wrong. She turns to leave but before she walks through the doors she turns back and says "And please be careful with Ashley. She's not what she seems to be."
"What do you mean?" I ask because obviously something has happened between them.
She sighs and walks back over to me.
"I moved here last year from San Diego. I started King and I didn't know anyone so I was sort of a loner. Anyway, I went to a gay club one night and I was surprised to see Ashley there. I saw her around school because she was a cheerleader. I went over to her and started dancing with her. We danced for a while then she took me to a booth in the back. As soon as we got there we started making out."
She paused and I felt myself get jealous from her words.
"Anyway we continued like that with some touching and what not before Aiden came and told her that they were leaving. She was pretty drunk, so I didn't think she would remember me if she saw me in school. But surprisingly she did. I saw her at lunch and when she saw me, she was surprised. She came up to me after school and told me to follow her home. Of course I did, I mean look at her." She stops again. And I take in everything she's saying. I have no idea where she is going with this story.
"So when I get to her house we get to her room and she's on me as soon as the door closes. I carry her over to the bed and-"
"Ok I don't need the details. I still don't see why I need to be careful of Ashley." I interrupt.
"Right, sorry. So this happened almost every day for about a month or so. We were fuck buddies and I was happy with that. But we were also becoming friends. After the sex we would just talk and be ourselves. We didn't talk in school because she had her friends who I didn't like."
She sniffs and I look at her to see tears on her face. I hold her hand to give her support to continue.
"One day I got to school and everyone was staring at me and whispering. I had no idea what was going on. Then I run into Ashley and the rest of the cheerleaders. Ashley is looking everywhere but me. Then Madison starts saying how I need to leave Ashley alone and stop attacking her. She then told me that the entire school knew I was gay and that I was pathetic enough to think that Ashley would want me even if she was gay. The entire time she was saying this, Ashley was quiet." She started sniffing and wiping the tears away with her hand. "After that we haven't talked and every time I run into the cheerleaders well you saw what happened at the movies."
When she finished, I couldn't believe what she was saying. I couldn't believe Ashley would do something like that. And I believe everything that she is saying because I witnessed it first-hand.
"I'm so sorry. I had no idea that she would do such a thing." I said hugging her.
I don't know what I would do if something like that has happened to me. Then I start to think that maybe it is happening to me. What if this whole pretending to be a lesbian thing was all part of the cheerleaders scheme to out me to the school? Were they laughing the entire time we talked? Were they planning on using our conversations as some sort of proof?
Suddenly I feel dizzy and nauseous. I ran to the bushes and everything that was in my stomach was now in the grass. I wipe my mouth and turn back to Kendra.
"I'm going to go wash up and head to bed. I will talk to you Monday at school, ok?" I say to her.
"Yea, I'll see you then." She turned and went in the house.
I took one last look outside, before I followed her inside. The music was still playing and people were still dancing and having a good time. I went straight upstairs to my room. I was silently praying that Ashley wasn't there. I went in the room and saw two people making out on the bed. I was relieved that it wasn't Ashley, but annoyed that they were here in the first place.
"Out!" I yelled and they rushed up and ran out of the room. I closed the door and locked it. After undressing, I made my way to the bathroom for a shower. I am happy that the bathroom is inside of the room. I take a quick shower and dress in some shorts and a loose shirt soon after.
When I slip into bed, I try not to think about anything that happened tonight but it's hard not to. I have no idea what to think of Ashley. She is the girl that I have been dreaming of meeting. I have never liked someone as much as I like her. When I talk to her I am always smiling, and I forget the world around us. But then when I found out what she did to Kendra, I feel like the person that I have been talking to for so long doesn't exist.
I drift off to sleep and thankful that I can finally get some rest.
The sun rays coming through the window woke me up from my peaceful sleep. I get out of bed and go to the bathroom. When I finish in there I check my phone and I see that I have four texts. One is from Glen asking why he didn't see me all night, one from Chelsea wondering where I am, one from Kendra telling me that she hopes that I get better, and one from Ashley telling me that she is sorry for everything and that she just wants to talk to me so that she can explain.
I decide to text Kendra and tell her that I am fine. I text Glen and tell him that I needed to talk to him soon. I don't even know what to say to Ashley so I just ignore it. I'm not even sure if I want to talk to her at all. And instead of replying to Chelsea I head down to her room.
I knock before entering because as hot as both Chelsea and Carmen are, I would prefer if I didn't walk in on them having sex.
Door opens and Chelsea comes out pulling a shirt over her head. See I knew it.
"Hey Spence" She says in a cheery tone.
"Morning Chels." We start walking downstairs and it's a mess.
"What happened to you last night? After you left the room, I didn't see you for the rest of the night. Then after I kicked everyone out, I went to your room and you were knocked out." She laughs and starts picking things up.
I follow her and sigh. "Well there's a lot I need to tell you. I just don't even know where to begin."
"Well we have a lot to clean so we have a lot of time. And I would prefer if you started from the beginning."
I go to start telling the story, but Carmen comes running down the stairs.
"Wait, I need to hear everything." She goes to the kitchen and comes back later with a big garbage bag. "Ok now you can continue." She says and starts picking up trash from the floor.
I shake my head and laugh.
"Ok so do you remember my friend from online?" I ask them and Chelsea nods but Carmen gives me a confused look. "When school first started, I went on this chat website and started talking to this girl. We were talking every day until last week she suddenly stopped talking to me, around the same time that Ashley stopped talking to me as well."
"No!" Chelsea yells in disbelief, and I nod yes.
"LAbabe4u and Ashley is the same person." I tell them.
"What are the odds of that? Out of all the lesbians in LA, it had to be Ashley." Carmen says laughing a little.
"I told you that her description could fit Ashley." Chelsea says.
"Yea I know. And a lot of other things that she said should have told me that it was Ashley, but somehow I just didn't put two and two together." I shrug.
"Ok so what happened last night, why was there so much tension in the room when I came in?" Chelsea asks.
"Well right before that was when I found out and before that she kissed me."
"How was it?" Carmen asks and I laugh and Chelsea hits her. "What I know you want to know too!"
"It was amazing. It was so different than all the guys and Kendra. I didn't want to stop, but I had to." I sigh. "She ignored me for a week and as far as I knew she was a straight girl with a boyfriend."
"Oh my god! Aiden is gay!" Chelsea yells. And I realize that I haven't thought about that. Ashley said that she and her boyfriend were both gay and covering for each other.
"Yea he is. I wonder if Glen knows." I wonder out loud.
"Who knows? Anyway get back to the story." Chelsea says. She is so nosey.
"Ok well after I stopped her I yelled and she told me that she was LAbabe4u." I gave them the short version. I don't really want to relive what happened last night, well besides the kiss.
"What did you say after that?" Carmen asks.
"Nothing, I mean what could I say? 'Oh yay finally we meet, let's go drive off into the sunset!' Uh yea, no, not happening." I mock and roll my eyes.
"No Smartass, but you could have said something." Chelsea says.
"I know but I was still pissed. Why did it take her a week to tell me? Did she only tell me because I was yelling at her? Was she ever planning on telling me?" I say trying to control my anger.
"Maybe she didn't know how to tell you. I mean can you imagine how that conversation would go. 'Oh hey Spencer, you know that girl you've been talking to online? Yea well I'm her, surprise!'" I laugh when Carmen uses a ridiculous voice to mock Ashley. "I think that she was trying to find a way to tell you." Chelsea nodded her head in agreement.
"Ok that would be a good reason if she didn't ignore me for a week. What good excuse does she have for that?" I almost yell.
"I don't know, you have to ask her." Carmen says.
"I think I know, now that I think about it." Suddenly everything is making sense.
"Would you like to share?" Chelsea would be the one to ask that.
"Well when I went outside, Kendra followed me to make sure that I was ok." I paused to get the broom and when I came back Chelsea and Carmen were just standing there looking at me. "Anyway we were talking and I asked her why she told me to be careful with Ashley. She told me what happened when she first moved to the school. Basically she met Ashley at a gay club, they became fuck buddies, Madison found out, Ashley lied to Madison and told her that Kendra kept trying to get with her. Then one day when Kendra went to school everyone was giving her dirty looks and suddenly everyone knew she was gay."
"What a bitch!" Carmen says
"So that's how that rumor got started. I had a feeling it wasn't true." Chelsea says like it's nothing. "But how does this tie in with Ashley ignoring you?"
"Ashley told me that she liked me, well LAbabe4u did. I think that Ashley was scared once she found out that it was me. Like she knew me and there was chance for us to be together. I don't think she wants to come out to the school." I reply sadly.
"That might be it. Coming out is not easy." Carmen says.
"I know but she could have at least talked to me about it." I say getting frustrated. "Whatever, I don't even know if I want to talk to her anymore."
A/N: Ok so don't hate me! I hoped you enjoyed the chapter even though things are not looking so great for Spashley right now. As always tell me your thoughts.