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I raced home and was surprised to see my mother's car out front along with one I didn't recognize. Great now I have to be polite for company. Fuck it; I'll just go straight to my room.
I walk in the house and hear talking coming from the dining room area.
"Spencer is that you?" I hear my mom call for me. Damn I was so close to the stairs. While rolling my eyes, I make my way to the dining room.
When I get there I see my mom sitting across from some old guy with a big bald spot in the middle of his head and a face that kind of resembles a monkey. I turn to my mother and look at her expectantly.
"Spencer, I'd like you to meet Dr. Taylor." I just stare at the two of them as I try to figure out why I was called in here in the first place.
"Hi Spencer, it's nice to finally meet you. I've heard so much about you." He says standing up and putting his hand out for me to shake. I just look at his hand. I do not like the vibe I am getting off of him.
"Ok is there a reason why I'm here or…" I say directly towards my mother. She scrunches her lips tightly and I know that she does not like how I am acting right now but I could care less.
"As your mother said, my name is Dr. Taylor from Pure Restoration and I am here to help you." The monkey said to me.
"Help me with what?" I say getting slightly defensive.
"With your problem, sweetie. It's not normal." My mom says in a calm voice which makes me mad.
"Not normal?" I ask raising my voice.
"Hey what's going on in here?" My dad comes in the living room looking concerned. "Who are you?" He asks Monkey.
"Hi I'm Dr. Taylor from Pure Restoration and I was-" My dad cuts him off before he can finish.
"Get out of my house, now!" My dad yells and it actually scares me because I can't remember the last time he raised his voice like this.
Monkey a.k.a. Dr. Taylor grabs his things and rushes out of the front door. After the slam of the door my father starts talking again.
"Paula what the hell was that?" He yells once again.
"Well if you didn't cut him off he was going to tell you how he was here to help Spencer and Glen." I guess she thought we would show up at the same time.
"Listen to me Paula because I am not going to say this again." He steps closer to her. "There is nothing wrong with my children. You will not bring any more of these people near them again. Do you understand me?" He says firmly.
"But it-"
"Stop it Paula!" My dad is not holding back tonight. "I'm sick of you making them feel like they are doing something wrong. You can't change who they are, so just stop it." She seems taken back by his words. "If you can't accept them the way they are, then you can just leave because I've had enough of this!"
"Arthur you can't be serious." My dad doesn't respond. Instead he just walks to the front door and holds it open. I can't believe this is happening right now. I never wanted to cause any problems between my parents. My mother walks to my father. "Where in the world do you expect me to go?"
"I don't know, but don't come back unless you bring my wife with you because this" he motions towards her "is not the person I married."
My mother turns to look at me one last time and then towards my dad, then she walks out the door.
"Dad I'm sorry. I didn't mean for all of that to happen." I say once the door closes.
"None of this is your fault. She's just…" He takes a deep breath before he continues. "I'm going to go for a drive." He grabs his keys and right before he walks out the door, he turns to me and says "I love you, Spencer."
"I love you too dad." I give him a small smile.
I go to my room and think about how crazy everything is. First it started out with losing the game, to the argument with Ashley, and now this crazy mess with my family.
I was such a bitch to Ashley but I couldn't keep it anymore. I know it would have been smarter to just talk to her instead of blowing up on her like that but all sense went out the window because of all of the anger that I was holding in.
It sucks being here alone right now. I just need someone, anyone at the moment. And then it hits me.
Ashley has no one. Her dad is never home, and her mom is always taking some vacation for weeks at a time. She has no siblings, and other than Aiden she has no real friends.
"Damn it!" I'm such an ass. Ashley is probably crying at home alone because I was such a selfish bitch. Fuck. I need to go apologize.
After grabbing my keys, I run down the stairs and rush to the door. I swing it open and pause for a second to lock it.
On the drive to her house, I try calling her but she doesn't answer. She is really angry with me, great.
When I pull up to her gate, no one answers so now I am really confused. I try calling again but I got nothing but voicemail. I really wish I had Aiden's number because he might know where she is. I hope he is with Glen because that is my only hope.
A few rings go by and Glen picks up. "Hello?" He yells over the loud music.
"Are you with Ashley or Aiden?" I yell just as loud so he can hear me.
"Yea Ashley's here." Thank goodness.
"And where is here?"
"At Sherri's party." I hang up and start driving towards Sherri's party.
I finally get there and when I walk in the house the smell of alcohol, sweat, and weed hits me hard. Who throws a party on a Wednesday night anyway? There are so many people here so it's hard to find Ashley anywhere.
Finally I spot someone that I know. "Ivy have you seen Ashley?"
"Um I saw her with Jake in the backyard like a few minutes ago." Jake? Who is that? "You know the one on the basketball team." She clarifies.
"Oh thank you."
I walk through the house to the backyard while making as little contact with other people as I can. They are practically fucking as they dance and I am staying away from that shit.
Looking around the backyard, I try to make out any figures I can. It is dark that if it weren't for the talking then I wouldn't think that there was anyone out here.
I am about to give up until I hear Ashley's raspy laugh.
"Ashley?" I call out for her. "Ashley where are you?" She doesn't answer but I hear her laughing. I walk over and see her sitting on a bench with Jake who has his arms around her.
Immediately I get jealous and I would yell if I wanted to cause a scene. I am a little angry because I thought Ashley would be alone crying herself to sleep, but she is at a party all on some guy. I control myself and put my anger to side for a moment, even though Jake is far too close to Ashley for my liking. Besides he doesn't know that we are together, and Ashley has a glazy look on her face so I can tell that she's probably wasted.
"Ashley can I talk to you for a minute?" I say in a calm tone even though on the inside I am screaming because he squeezed her tighter when I walked over here.
"She's busy right now." Jake says and I roll my eyes at him. Was I talking to him?
"Is your name Ashley?" I respond to him and he stays quiet. "I didn't think so." I take both of Ashley's hands and pull her up. She stumbles into me which confirms that she is drunk.
"Spencer, what are you doing here?" She slurs out and the strong poignant smell of alcohol reaches my nose.
"I'm here to take you home." I tell her as I walk her around the house to the front yard.
"I don't want to go home!" She stops dead in her tracks dragging me with her.
"Ashley you are too drunk to stay here, and if you drink anymore you will get sick. Let me just take you home." I say as I try to nudge her to keep walking but she stays rooted in her spot. Gosh why does she have to be a stubborn drunk?
"Why do you even care?"
"Because I care about you Ashley." I tell her sincerely, but she just looks at me not saying anything. "I know what I said earlier and I am really sorry that I hurt you but can you please just let me take you home. I would rather not have this conversation here." She looks at me for a few minutes and I'm afraid that she will say no but she finally nods her head and I smile.
"Ok only because everything keeps moving and I really want to lie down." I laugh and roll my eyes at her. We walk to my car and I open the door for her. "I'm drunk Spencer, not handicapped."
"Sorry but you can barely walk so…" I trail off as I help her into the car. As soon as I closed her door, I rush to my side and hop in.
"Your car is so comfy." She says as she reclines the chair back and rests her head.
"I know right? She's my baby." I say as run my hands across the dashboard. She looks at me and just by looking in her eyes I can tell something is wrong. And now it's quiet. I guess I should do what I drove all the way over here to do. "So Ashley I wanted to apologize for what I said earlier. I didn't mean to take my anger out on you like that; I just didn't know what else to do. I was mad at my mother and upset about the whole bathroom thing with Madison. You were there and you wouldn't give up on finding out what was wrong with me so I did the dumb thing and said some things I shouldn't have. I really hope you can forgive me because I don't want to mess up our relationship when it just started." I finish my speech and look over at Ashley to see her passed out with her mouth wide open. So attractive Ashley, I think to myself. She's lucky I am driving or I would have taken a picture.
Oh well I guess I will just have to tell her in the morning.
I continue my drive to Ashley's house and right when I get there I realize that I have no way of getting in. I try to wake up Ashley but she doesn't budge. I guess she will be staying the night with me tonight.
When I pull away from her house, Ashley starts snoring lightly. She is so cute. About fifteen minutes later, I pull up to my house, and I start lightly shaking Ashley to wake her up.
"Ash." I whisper. "Ashley." I say a little louder. "Babe you have to wake up."
She turns towards me and I think I heard her say "Spencer wait" but my mind must be playing tricks on me.
I try waking her up again but she is really knocked out. I get out of the car and walk over to her side. After carefully opening the door, I lean in and try to think of how I can pick her up.
"Spencer?" I hear from behind me and I jump causing me to hit my head.
"Ouch!" I whisper/yell. Coming out of the car, I turn around to see my dad standing by the door. "Yea dad?"
"What are you doing out here? Do you need help?"
"Can you hold the door open?" He nods and I turn back to Ashley. I put my arms under her body and she immediately rolls over towards me. I slide her out of the car and shut the door with my foot. When I get to the door, my dad gives me a confused look. "She was drunk and she passed out. Can she stay the night?" I ask even though I am already carrying her through the door.
"Yea and who is this?" He asks although I can tell by the slight smile that he already knows who it is.
"This is Ashley." I strain through deep breaths as I reach the stairs. I begin walking up, taking one step at a time. A few minutes later, I make it to my room and I nearly drop her on the bed. She shifts and turns as she tries to get comfortable.
I head back downstairs and my dad is sitting on the couch watching the news. I don't know how he does it, the news is so depressing.
"I'm sorry I just brought her over here. I was going to take her home but I couldn't get in and she is passed out, so I brought her here." I explain.
"It's ok but try not to let it happen again." He says and turns back to the TV. "Oh and I still want to meet her formally." He winks at me.
"Well on that note, I am going to bed. Night dad." I chuckle and kiss him on his cheek.
I change quickly and hop into bed. I roll over to the side that Ashley is laying on and I kiss her cheek. After wrapping the covers more securely around us, I put my arm around Ashley and smile. I love sleeping next to her.
My alarm clock wakes me up way too early. Without opening my eyes, I lazily reach over and shut it off. Wrapping my covers tightly around me again, I snuggle closer to the body next to me. "Five more minutes." I grumble to no one in particular.
I feel shifting in the bed and open my eyes just in time to see Ashley running towards my bathroom. As soon as the door closes, I hear Ashley getting rid of last night's toxins. I shudder at that thought and look at the time to see how much – Oh shit! It's already 9:30. I slept for way longer than five more minutes.
"Do you have an extra toothbrush?" Ashley asks groggily from the bathroom.
"Yea check under the sink." I hop out of bed and head downstairs. I hope no one else is home because I am screwed if they are. When I get downstairs I look around and let out a breath I did not know I was holding when I didn't see anyone. Just to be sure, I checked outside to see if there were any cars, and was relieved to only see mine.
"Are you spying on your neighbors or something?" I hear from behind me. I close the curtain and turn around to see Ashley standing on the bottom step with a slight smile on her face.
Even with slightly dysfunctional hair and mess up make up, she is still the most beautiful girl I've seen.
"You're beautiful." I voice my thoughts. She blushes and looks down.
"Normally I would agree, but right now I look like shit." She chuckles.
"To me you still are as beautiful as ever." I say looking directly into her eyes. "Look Ashley about last night-"
"How about we eat something first before we get into that." I nod and walk in the kitchen. I open the refrigerator and realize that I can't really cook and I would rather not get her sick.
"How do pancakes sound?" I turn around and ask her.
Her eyes light up and she nods. "That sounds delicious."
"I'm glad you think so because IHOP has some great pancakes." I walk passed her as I walk towards the door. But of course I don't get off that lucky, she grabs my hand turns me around.
"Are you telling me that you don't know how to make pancakes?" I duck my head to hide my embarrassment.
"Maybe." I whisper.
"We are changing that right now." She stands up and walks into the kitchen, dragging me along with her. She rummages through the fridge and takes out the ingredients for the pancakes and I get the other things that I am sure she will need.
I can't believe we are actually going to cook. IHOP is not even that far.
"Ok come here." I move over to where she is standing and she moves me so that I am standing directly in front of the counter. "Grab the flour and pour some in the bowl." I pick up the box and start pouring. She puts her hand on top of my and controls the angle of the box so that less comes out. I purposely drop the box and flour goes everywhere.
"Opps" I say while trying to look as innocent as possible. I turn around and she has flour all over her face, and hair and right arm.
"I can't believe you just did that!" She says with a smile. She then wipes the flour off of her arm and right on to me, thus starting a flour fight.
"Say you give." I say to her as I inch closer and closer to her. Right now her back is to the wall and she has nowhere to go. I have the flour box in my hand and a devious smile on my face.
"Never." She says shaking her head. I walk closer and when I get right in front her she looks up at the box that I have hanging in the air over her head.
Suddenly I am being flipped around and now my back is to the wall and the flour box is on the floor. Ashley is looking at me with a smirk
"That's not fair." I pout.
"Aww poor baby, want me to make it better?" She says and I nod. She leans in and I am expecting her to kiss me so I close my eyes. Next thing I know I feel her flour covered hand on my cheek. I open my eyes and glare at her. How dare she use a kiss to trick me? I take my Ashley kisses seriously.
After cleaning up the flour mess we get back to cooking, which meant her standing behind giving me step by step directions.
Having her so close to me and her breath right on my ear does crazy things to me. I am not even concentrating on what she is saying but whenever she talks, I inwardly shiver. Every ingredient we added caused me to get more and more turned on. And the worst part of it all is that she has no idea what she is doing to me.
I keep taking deep breaths because that's the only thing that stops me from just dropping everything and turning around to attack her.
After we finish cooking the pancakes with a side of eggs, we sit down to eat.
"Thanks for the unwanted cooking lesson." I tease.
"I can't have my girlfriend not knowing how to cook, now can I?" I still love it when she calls me her girlfriend. I was afraid that after last night she wouldn't want to be with me anymore.
"Sure you can, you will just have to cook for me." I grin and she rolls her eyes.
"You are probably right because you could get me to do just about anything for you." I smile triumphantly. "Like right now I am going to generously help clean syrup off of your lip." She leans over and brings her face closer and closer to mine.
At this point, I think I've stopped breathing in anticipation. Gradually and torturously she slides her tongue across my bottom lip. Of course a moan slips from me, which is a good thing because at least I am breathing now. She bites my bottom lip and pulls on it as she moves back. I'm sure my eyes have glazed over long ago. I don't think I can get any more turned on than I am now.
Unfortunately I spoke to soon because now she is slowly dragging her tongue across her lips with her eyes closed. "Yum" She says like it was the best thing she ever tasted. I bet I can give her something that tastes even better. Oh gosh, me being turned on leads to very bad thoughts.
She opens her eyes and winks at me. I jump and quickly turn back to my food pretending like I am not at all affected by her little show. The uncomfortable feeling in my panties is clearly telling me otherwise.
After breakfast we take showers, separately of course, and get dressed. My shower ran a little long because I couldn't get Ashley's little performance out of my head. I let her have my room while I used the bathroom in the hall. When I walk in, she's sitting on my bed looking through her phone.
"Aww you look so cute in my clothes." I say as I walk in my room and she jumps.
"Way to scare a person" She laughs while holding her chest and then looks down at the clothes she was wearing. "I love wearing them. It's like I'm surrounded by you and your scent." She lifts the shirt to her nose and inhales deeply.
I laugh at her and take a seat next to her. "You're cute." And once again she blushes. I don't think I've ever seen her blush this much.
It gets quiet and I feel like right now is the best time to talk about what happened last night.
"Ashley I…" how do I start this? "Last night I..." She looks at me and waits for me to say something. "I'm really sorry." I finally get out.
"I know Spencer. I understand where you were coming from, but you really hurt me. I told you to come to me whenever you needed to talk. I meant anytime and anywhere." She sits up and turns towards me. We are now sitting on my bed facing each other.
"I know, but I am not use to talking to people about my feelings Ashley. I usually just write them down and move on. I'm sorry for not coming to you, and it will take me some to remember that you are there for me." I take her hand in mine. "I was just so upset with you and Madison and then everything that happened with my mom just took me over the edge."
"I'm sorry that your mom can't accept you. She will, just give her some time. She loves you, I mean it's hard not to." She squeezes my hand. "And with Madison…it's complicated. I told her that so she would get off of my back about you." She sighs and gets off the bed and walks to the other side where I'm sitting. "It really hurt when you said that you thought I didn't care about you. Spencer you mean so much to me. I wish I could truly explain it to you. I've been with so many girls and none of them even compare. Every time I'm around you, my heart starts beating a little faster. Whenever we kiss anything and everyone around me just disappears because the only thing that matters in that moment is you. When I see you smile I can't help but smile even if I may be in a bad mood." She pauses and takes a deep breath. "I've never felt these things about anyone. So please don't ever question how I feel about you, ever." She finishes with so much conviction, that it makes me believe every word she just said.
I hug her and she leans into the embrace.
"I'm really sorry for hurting you. I was just letting my insecurities get the best of me and said some stupid things." I hold her hands in mine. "I didn't mean any of them I was speaking out of anger. I know that this lame apology won't fix anything but I will make it up to you I promise. I'm just so glad that you didn't decide to break up with me." I let out a breath and smile at her.
"You thought I was going to break up with you?" she seems surprised.
"Well yea I said some horrible things and then I just left."
"But then you came back. You came and saved me from Jake who probably would have slipped me some drug because I was too wasted to think straight." I laugh at her and she continues. "But I knew that you were angry and I knew that you needed some time to think straight. Besides it's going to take a little more than some yelling to get rid of me. I like you too much to leave that easily." She chuckles.
I pull her down in my lap. "You're amazing. You know that right?" I say looking into her beautiful brown eyes. She blushes yet again and attempts to hide her face but I turn her face towards me and lightly kiss her.
Damn I've missed her lips.