"You two better stop plotting!" I warn the two huddled up suspiciously in the living room.
"We're not doing anything, Ash. Calm your ti-"
I glare at Emily knowing what her next word was going to be.
"...Um.. I mean calm down. Right Ashton?" She taps my brother and they both look at me with the most innocent face they can come up with. Only Emily's face turned into a smirk. Hello lesbian.
"Yeah Ashley, chill and make me something to eat woman!" Ashton says in a serious tone, trying to make his voice deeper than it is.
"I've taught you well my young friend."
My brother and Emily both laugh and high-five each other. This can only lead to nothing but trouble. I'm not at all surprised that Emily and my bother get along. They both have the same twelve-year-old brain.
And if you're wondering, yes I'm aware that Ashton is fourteen...
I've been riding with Emily to and from school ever since that day she came to pick me up and caught me dancing around in my underwear to Call Me Maybe. It became a weird routine. Especially now that Katie is busy being boo'd up. We usually hang out at her house after school. When my brother doesn't have after school activities we pick him up and we hang out at my house. That's where we are now.
I put the pizza in the oven and at the same time I saw Emily and Ashton pretending to, (but failing) to act casual. My brother is practically bouncing as they disappeared to.. I have no idea where they went. Shit this cannot be good.
"Pizza's gonna be ready in twenty minutes!" I yell to no one. I grab a water bottle from the refrigerator and froze as soon as I turned back around.
My bother and Emily are both in front of me holding four water guns all aimed for me.
"You wouldn't fucking dare." I threaten them both
"Oh we wouldn't?" Emily throws back at me. Complete with an eyebrow raise.
"No, I don't think you would." I say moving away from them. It probably isn't wise to bait them now that I think about it.
They both move, making sure to keep their water guns on me.
"What do you think Ashton? Should we let her go?" She asks my brother without breaking her gaze on me.
"Fuck that!" My brother says keeping his aim on me.
"Ashton! Language!" I laugh along with Emily.
My brother rolls his eyes not even caring. I can tell all he's waiting for is a word from Emily so he can start shooting me.
"Guys, this isn't fair I don't have a gun." I say pouting. Maybe the pout will work on Emily.
"Oh I'm sorry here.." Emily says offering one of her water guns to me.
I eye her suspiciously and before I grab it…
"Go!" Emily commands and both start shooting me with the coldest water known to man.
"Ahh!" I scream running away from the two. "Stop! Stop!"
"Never!" They say at the same time laughing their asses off.
"Time out." I say turning around to face them as they continue to shoot me. "My phone's ringing! Stop!" I put both my hands up swatting away the water being sprayed at me.
"Okay.. Okay.." Emily says lowering her gun as she used her other hand to stop my brother. "You're no fun but go ahead pick up your phone." She sprays me a couple more times, which causes me to glare at her. "We'll be waiting." She says tauntingly.
"Come on!" My brother says and shoots Emily. They both left laughing and shooting each other.
"Take that shit outside! I'm not cleaning this mess!" I yell after them. I grab my phone out of my pocket and press the accept button without looking at who's calling.
"Baby!" Spencer yelled into my ear.
"Hey baby!" I reply, out of breath. I really need to exercise more often, damn. But back to the task at hand, Spencer's on the line and fuck have I missed her, it's been seven long ass days and it's so good to hear her voice.
"I'm a free woman. I missed you!"
"Finally.." I can see my brother and Emily inching their way back into the living room but I'm not really concerned with them now. "I missed you too." My eyes widen when I saw them charging towards me. I quickly got up to run away form the two psycho's after me.
"Oh my god!" I cover up the phone and tell Emily and my brother to stop. I can hear Spencer say something but my attention is on the two assholes that are still shooting me.
"Sorry what did you say?" I hold back a laugh when I see Emily slip, almost falling on her ass. I gave her the finger and she pouts like it was my fault that she slipped.
"Um… I asked you how you were doing."
"I'm good baby." I answer Spencer as my eyes follow my brother and Emily. I heard my brother saying they should refill their guns. Great! The house is already a mess. My mom's gonna give me shit for this. "Sorry can I call you back later?"
"Yeah sure.."
Shit, now I can tell Spencer's disappointed.
"Ok, I love you." As much as I wanna talk to Spencer but, right now I can't, not when these two are making a mess of the house.
"Yeah, I love you too."
Wait, did Spencer just say too?
"Charge! Charge! Charge!" I hear my brother yelling as they run towards me.
That's it! I run towards my bother since I know I can take him and tackle him into the couch and I take his guns away. I push him down and smother him with a pillow before getting up and shooting both of them.
"Em! Help I'm unarmed!" My brother yells at Emily and my friend tosses him one of her guns. "Retreat! Retreat!"
Now it was my turn to chase them around the house. We're all laughing and slipping when I heard the oven beeping.
"OK stop!" I say stopping suddenly and lost my balance. "Ahh!" I scream knowing I'm about to fall. Good thing Emily has good reflexes and catches me before I bust my ass.
"I'll get the pizza!" Ashton leaves us both to go in the kitchen.
Well.. now it's awkward. Emily has her hands around my waist holding me close to her and my hands are on her arms and we're just standing here looking at each other.
"Look at you getting me all wet. I knew you were good." She says with a sly grin and a raised brow. "But I didn't know you were this good." She finishes with an eyebrow wiggle then breaks whatever just happened between us and laughs, still holding on to me.
"Shut up! Let's eat." I say pushing her away and making my way to the kitchen.
"Real shit?" She asks catching up to me.
"You two better help me clean the house!" I tell them both ignoring what Emily was implying.
"Yes mom." They both say at the same time.
"You are not allowed to hang out with Emily anymore." I tell my brother who is busy stuffing his face.
"No, Emily's my favorite!"
"You hear that. I'm his favorite." Emily says looking proud of herself.
"Yeah only cause you do hoodrat shit with him."
"What's wrong with th-?"
I look at Emily who suddenly stopped talking and I see her looking shamelessly right at my boobies. "Seriously?"
Emily's eyes snap back up to me. "Well... your shirt is all wet." She says with a shrug then continues to eat her pizza.
I'm finally done with my homework. Emily did stay and help me clean the house. Things are always so weird with her. One minute we can just be hanging out,you know as normal as can be. But then suddenly we get ourselves in these… situations. I don't know what to make of it.
I should really call Spencer. I could tell she felt some type of way over our conversation earlier. I grab my phone from where it was charging and was about to press the call button when Emily walks in my room like she owns the place.
"Katie invited us to dinner with her and her new girl. Get your pretty ass up."
How dare she? I really don't wanna go. I wanna stay home and call Spencer. Ashley, think of a lie.. quick!
"Your mom already said you can go and I know for a fact you finished your homework like a good nerd. So get your cute ass up. I'll wait for you downstairs." And with that Emily leaves my room to go downstairs. "Ashton, hurry up let me beat you in that game before we leave!"
"Ugh." I quickly change out of my pajamas into some presentable clothes and made my way downstairs.
"Ash, we're not done yet!" Ashton whines when he saw me walking into the living room.
"Sorry Ashton. I'll kick your butt in this tomorrow." Emily says handing the controller back to my brother.
We say our goodbyes to my mom and brother and head out.
"So, I had an interesting conversation with Katie earlier." Emily says
"Oh yeah what about?" I ask her, half way caring. I'm trying to look for something to listen to in the car.
"Spencer's friend Madison."
"Excuse me?" Ok, now I'm paying attention.
"Yeah, apparently her and our whore friend Katie hooked up."
"Whaaaat?! Holy shit!"
"Right! Doesn't she have a girl?"
"Yes! Oh my god! Wait, when you say hooked up, do you mean…"
"Yes, hooked up.. hooked up." Emily clarifies as she parks the car at Olive Garden. We're so fancy tonight.
"Jesus…" I got out of the car and waited for Emily.
"Your girl never told you?" She asks as we make our way towards the restaurant.
"No, I haven't really spoken to her since she's been on punishment. I was about to call her before some asshole came and kidnapped me."
"Oh ha-ha… you didn't say no." Emily opens the door for me and I felt her hand on my lower back guiding me inside the restaurant.
"You didn't give me a chance to bitch!" I tell her turning around.
"Yeah yeah.. Look there they are." She says pointing to our friend who's whispering to her.. what are they a couple now? Anyways, they seem like they're in their own little world. It's cute. Sigh, I miss Spencer..
"Hey guys.." I say, greeting them before taking a seat in front of Katie.
"So Jodi, what are you intentions with our friend here."
"Emily! Shut up!" Katie says already embarrassed.
"Bitch we just got here. Can we order first? Shit." I say to my crazy friend.
The waiter has some good timing. He showed up right when I said that. After ordering Emily gave me a look that said ha bitch.
"As I was saying, what are your intentions with our friend?"
"You don't have to answer that." Katie tells Jodi and threw a glare at Emily.
"To treat her right and eat her right." Jodi says like it was no big deal and takes a sip of her drink.
Of course I laugh and when I look at Katie she was blushing.
"Baabe!" Katie says.
This is definitely not the Katie I know.
"Jodi.. my Jodi.." Emily says and I can tell she's impressed with her answer.
"Let me guess Baby Boy?" Jodi asks with an eyebrow raised like she's heard it a million times before.
"Yup."
"Ok, now that that's done can we be normal now?" Katie says looking at Emily begging her to stop with her eyes.
"So how long have you two been a couple?" Jodi asks.
That question almost made me choke on my lemonade.
"We're not together." I say quickly.
"Well, damn Ashley don't be so quick to answer." Emily sarcastically says and she rolls her eyes for full effect. "She has a girlfriend.. unfortunately." She answers Jodi but looks at me with a smirk.
"Um.. ok, what the fuck did I miss?" Katie asks us both.
"Oh look our food is here.." I announce seeing our waiter coming towards us.
He's so gonna get a big tip.
"Emily, get back in the car. Why are you walking me to my front door?"
Dinner went by smoothly after our food came. So we all ate happily and made plans to hang out after school tomorrow.
"It's only right. We did go on a date." Emily says laughing.
"Bitch, that was not a date." I say pushing her away laughing along with her. I get my keys out of my purse and open the door. I was about go inside, fully ready to leave Emily's crazy self standing out here.
"So, I had a nice time tonight. We should do it again some time." Emily suddenly says still acting like we're on a date. I don't even know if she's joking or not.
"Not a date you crazy whore." I tell her laughing it off.
"Does that mean I don't get a kiss?" She says stepping closer to me.
"Goodnight Em." I roll my eyes and give her a hug.
"Bye Ashley. I'll pick you up tomorrow." She says in a low voice not letting go of me.
"OK…" We stayed in each other's arms for another minute when I realize this hug was lasting way too long. "..um.. yeah. I'll see you tomorrow." I say taking a couple of steps back from her.
"Goodnight." Emily says with a smirk knowing she got me for a second.
I gave her the finger and went inside the house. I shut the door behind me and placed my back against it, closing my eyes.
"You so totally like her don't you." I hear Ashton say. I open my eyes and he's standing in front of me.
"No I don't." I say firmly as I lift myself up from the door and walk up the stairs to my room.
"You do. I can tell. You're like how you were around Spencer when we first moved to L.A." He says with a grin on his face as he follows me up to my room.
"I'm so not. Now leave me alone you little twerp." I tell him then push him back before he could come into my room.
"I think Emily's cool." He randomly yells through my door. "Stop pretending like you don't too." He adds before I hear him walk away to his room.
I never said she wasn't cool. Clearly she is...
But that doesn't mean I like her like that.
Ashton is clearly delusional.
I really need to call Spencer. I tell myself as I grab my phone out of my bag and flop on my bed. It rings two times before she answers.
"Hello." Is how she greets me. Yup she's definitely angry with me.
"Hi baby." I try to lighten the mood a little. Although she's on the other side of the country, I can still feel her anger radiating through the phone.
"So you have time for me now?" Spencer asks in a flat tone.
"I'm really sorry about earlier Spencer, I wasn't trying to blow you off or anything you just caught me at a really bad time." I tell her honestly. Cause I mean come on, of course I wanted to talk to her, she's been on lock down for a week and I missed her. "Aston and Emily were shooting me with water guns." I say with a nervous laugh.
"Nice." She says and I can practically hear the venom spewing from her words.
"What's wrong?" I asks, wincing at her tone.
"You wanna know what's wrong, it's your little friend Katie. I knew there was a reason why I didn't like her. You know her and Madison hooked up right?"
"Yeah, Emily told me today."
"Nice Emily...I gotta go Ashley. I'm tired." She says coldly.
Ok, what the fuck.
"What's wrong with you?" I ask again a little angry now. "Why are you mad at me? I didn't make Madison cheat on Jade."
"Mhm." She says dismissively.
I fucking hate when Spencer acts like this. It's like whatever I'm gonna say she's gonna be mad and there's no changing her mood. "Right. Yeah.. I'll talk to you later."
"Yeah Bye." I didn't even get to say goodbye before she hung up the phone. I check my phone to see and yeah Spencer just hung up on me.
"Ugh!" I scream out into my pillow. I felt my phone vibrate next to me fully expecting it to be Spencer.
'Have my breakfast ready when I get there hoe!'
It was a text from Emily.
'You wanna come over?' I text her back.
'Can't get enough of me huh?'
I roll my eyes at her reply and I couldn't help but laugh a little. 'You are so full of yourself. Just come over.'
'Sure. I'll be there in 5.'
I'm not sure if that's the best idea right now but I don't really have many friends these days. I made my way downstairs to wait for Emily and I saw my mom laying on the couch watching TV.
"Are you ok Ash?" She asks me looking concerned.
"I don't know mom." I say sitting down on the other couch. "Me and Spencer kind of got into.. Ugh, I don't know.." I have to say that was a first for me and Spencer. Whatever that was on the phone. That has never happen to us before. And being so far away...I hate it. I sigh not knowing how to explain myself to my Mom. "Oh Emily's coming over for a little while. That's ok right?"
"Yeah, that's fine." I can tell she wants to say more but she doesn't.
"Oh she's here now." I can see Emily's car pulling up to the curb.
"Ashley.." My mom stops me in my tracks. "..be careful." she says in a warning tone.
I knit my eyebrows not sure what she means by that and honestly I'm too tired to even try to figure it out. That phone call from Spencer just left me drained. So, I said a quick sure then turned to open the door for my friend.
"Hey.." I see Emily's smile turn into a look of worry.
"Hey.." I say in the same tone completely different from how we were earlier. I head up stairs assuming that Emily will follow me. She said a quick hello to my mom and follows me up stairs.
I went straight for my bed and Emily soon follows. We lay in comfortable silence and I'm halfway in shock that Emily hasn't tried to flirt with me, I mean not that I'm waiting for it or anything.
"I'm not gonna ask you if you're ok. You obviously aren't so whenever you're ready..." Emily says out of nowhere.
"Spencer..." I say with a sigh. "I don't even know.. she.. we got into it on the phone if you can even call it that. It was like she was mad at me for something I had no control over. She was the one that called me earlier when we were having a water fight and I could tell she was upset that I got off the phone. And when we were on the phone earlier she seemed like she as mad at me about Katie and Madison like I was the one that made her cheat you know? I don't know... I hate this.. And we never just hang up on each other you know? Even if we get mad.. or we fight.. we still say I love you at the end of the day. But now it's like ughhh what the fuck. Even if I call her now she'll have that front that I can't get through with me being here. And her being in that mood will put me in the same mood and we'll never get shit accomplished. I don't even know why I told you to come over... sorry for ranting. This is so frustrating..."
Emily still hasn't said anything after my rant. Is this bitch asleep?
"Are you gonna say something or did my rant put you to sleep?"
"I'm up. I was waiting for you to finish..." She says normally without that Emily attitude. It's... different. "You gotta look at it her way though. I mean you guys are doing this long distance thing and I'm sure that takes a toll on her. You don't see each other so all you have is the phone. You guys haven't spoken for a week. She probably feels like you're not as... as enthused as she is since you got off the phone. And as for her being mad about the Katie/Madison thing, I doubt she's really mad at you. You know what I'm saying? But what do I know, right?" Emily says laughing it off.
"Look at you. You have layers." I tease her.
"Oh shut up." Emily says yawning. "I should go though.. Are you gonna be ok?" She asks sitting up on the bed.
"Yeah.." I hope so. "You can stay if you want. Just keep your hands to yourself." I say playfully warning her.
"I don't know about all that." She says getting back into bed. "Totally kidding" She says then pauses as we get under the covers "... maybe." She adds with a smile.
Great, now I brought back perv Emily.
"Shut up and go to sleep."
"I don't know why you pretend like you don't enjoy all this attention Davies. Just admit it. I turn you on." She says in a low voice and I turn and look at her before we both burst out laughing.
"I shoulda just stopped while I was ahead huh?" She asks with a smile.
"Definitely." I tell her with a playful glare.
"What?" She asks me as I continue to stare at her.
"I'm glad I met you." I say genuinely.
"Yeah." She says, her face becoming serious. "I'm glad I met you too." She lets a small smile escape her lips. We lay in bed just staring at each other for a moment before Emily breaks the silence. "So should we like... make out now or something? I'm not really sure how this works." She says with a huge grin on her face.
"Go to sleep Emily." I say in a serious voice then turn over facing away from her.
"Goodnight Ash." She says and I can hear the smile in her voice.
As much as what's going on with Spencer sucks, I'm honestly so glad that I have a friend like Emily to count on.
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I begin to stir in my sleep hearing a phone vibrating. "Ugh..." I say turning around trying to keep hold on the last bit of sleep.
I can feel Emily reaching for the vibrating phone. "Yeah..." She says sleepily. All of a sudden she shoots straight up in a sitting position. "It's Em-" I turn around ready to curse her the fuck out when I saw her face. She looks like she's about to panic.
"What…" Then I see that she's holding my phone. I sat straight up matching her earlier movement and I'm sure my face matches hers too.
"That was Spencer.." was all Emily said and I suddenly felt a cold chill pass through my body.
"Why did you pick up my phone?!" I ask fully awake now.
"I didn't! I thought it was mine!"
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" I grab my phone from my friend's hand and try to call my girlfriend back. "Shit! Her phones off. It went straight to voice mail." I say tossing my phone on the bed. "What did she say?"
"She said unfuckingbelievable and hung up. Shit! Sorry Ash. I told you to change your case!"
"Oh fuck my life..."
Shit just keeps getting better and better.