Okay, things are slowly going to start getting interesting, this may be some kind of random filler chapter, or maybe not, you decide.

The weekend passed without any contact from Spencer. Ashley was worried she'd thought her and her friends were boring. She wanted to talk to Aiden about it but knew that he would get upset that he wasn't invited to the party.

"Hey, you alright rockstar?" Emily walked into Ashley's room seeing her laying on her bed staring at the ceiling.

"Huh? Yeah, just, it's been a long day." Ashley didn't move.

"It's only 1 o'clock." Emily laughed. "Want to tell me what's really wrong?" Emily took a seat on Ashley's bed. Ashley contemplated telling Emily about her feelings for Spencer. What if she hated her afterwards? What if Emily wouldn't accept the fact that she might have feelings for another girl? She didn't even know what she was feeling, this wasn't just some silly alcohol induced feeling. This was more than curiosity getting the best of her.

"I just had a test this morning that I know I didn't do very well on." Emily sighed, knowing she was lying. "I know that sigh. I'm not lying, I really did have a test this morning." Ashley smiled, finally turning her head to look at her friend. "There's just a lot on my mind that I'm still trying to figure out. When I know what's going on I'll talk, that cool?" Emily smiled, nodding.

"Good. Do you have any more classes today?"

"No, my three o'clock class was cancelled or something." Emily eyed her suspiciously. "I'm not ditching, trust me if I was ditching I wouldn't be here where you'd see me." Ashley laughed, receiving a slap on the leg from Emily.

"Well I have to run to work in a bit. Just thought I'd see if you were alright in here. I'll be back later, make sure you eat something." Ashley was about to respond. "And please don't say half a bagel and a few M&Ms are a meal!" Emily scolded her on her way out of the room.

"They totally are a meal!" Ashley yelled back. She knew Emily was right, she really should eat something but with Spencer not talking to her, she didn't feel very hungry. She grabbed her laptop and went out into the living room hoping to be inspired to work on an English paper she had due in two weeks.

Her phone went off as soon as she'd sat down.

"Hey Aiden, what's going on?"

"Well, I'm out of class early and looking to get some lunch. I haven't seen you in a while so I figured I'd call and see if you wanted to grab something."

"Yeah, that's cool. Where do you want to go?" There was a knock on her door. "Hold on buddy, someone's at the door." She opened it to see a smiling Aiden.

"Well, you don't mess around! How'd you know I was home?"

"I saw Emily when I was walking, she said you were here so I just walked right over. This way you couldn't avoid me!" He smiled, proud of his plan. "Get some shoes on and let's go!"

Ashley figured she would get food and kill two birds with one stone. Appease Emily's request and see if she can get any information out of Aiden. As they walked to a nearby sandwich shop Aiden talked about his classes, work and some girl he had developed a crush on.

"That's pretty cool Aid, you should talk to her."

"Well, I still have a thing for Spencer and I don't want to mess any of that up."

"Spencer? Really? I thought you two were just friends now?"

"Yeah well. She's just really complicated. I probably shouldn't tell you what I'm about to tell you, but I'm guessing you might already know, or you will eventually..." He trailed off, lost in his thoughts.

"Okay... spill. I'm pretty confused here."

"Spencer is bi." Ashley couldn't help but smile. Maybe things could work out for them. That is, if she ever gets a chance to talk to her again.

"Well, that's cool."

"Can I ask you something though Ash?" Aiden looked at her, Ashley nodded, seeing something similar to fear in his eyes. "Do you like her? I mean LIKE her?"

Ashley stopped walking, she furrowed her eyebrows in thought and tried to not smile, opting to chew on her bottom lip.

"I don't know. We haven't talked much lately. She seems really cool though, and she's gorgeous. I'm not really sure what I feel." Ashley tried her best to breeze through the topic, hoping Aiden would let it be after her reply.

"I mean, are you gay?"

"I don't know. Maybe, but maybe I'm bi too. I'm not really into labels." Ashley shrugged, walking ahead of Aiden towards their destination. Luckily Aiden didn't push the topic any further and instead started talking about a new video game he had recently bought.

After lunch, Aiden had to go to another class and Ashley went over to hang out with Tim. When she reached the apartment complex she felt her phone buzz in her pocket.

Spencer (2:58): Hey, I need to talk to you. Meet me at my dorms tonight at 8?

After Spencer got off work on Saturday, her dad called telling her she had to come home and take care of Glen while him and Glen's mom went out. She had planned on spending time with Ashley, but knew she had no other choice and really wanted to see her little brother.

When Spencer arrived at her dad's place, she noticed the doors were locked and their car was gone. Sliding her key into the door she quietly entered the apartment and saw Glen sitting on his own personal chair watching spongebob cartoons.

"Glen, where's dad?" Glen ran from his seat, knocking his chair over and jumped into Spencer's arms.

"Gone. Mommy said I had to sit and watch spongebob 'til you got here. She said they would know if I didn't. I'm glad your here. I already seen these ones." He pouted. "Soooo boooorrrredah." Spencer couldn't help but laugh at his dramatics.

"Alright then buddy, let's do something fun shall we? Are you hungry?" Glen nodded his head wildly. "Mac and cheese or grilled cheese?"

"Mmm, 'pasghetti!" Glen's eyes widened with hope.

"No buddy. That wasn't an option. You know we can't have that unless dad is home, your mommy will get mad." Glen's eyes began to water and his chin trembled. "Don't cry little man. How about I make mac and cheese AND grilled cheese and we just have a big cheesy party!"

"YAAAYYYYY PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!" Glen began dancing around the living room. "And then we can play games and watch movies and- and- and-"

"Yes, but I also need to make sure you're asleep at a decent hour or I'll never be allowed over here again. So, come with me in the kitchen and help me unwrap the cheese slices." Spencer leaned down as her brother hopped onto her back. She galloped into the kitchen, Glen giggling loudly in her ear.

"Alright, Scooby doo or Spongebob noodles?" Spencer pulled out the boxes once the water started to boil on the stove.

"Scooby!"

"Good choice!"

After their dinner, and after Spencer managed to get all of the cheese off of Glen's face and hands, they decided to play Go Fish and watch A Bug's Life.

"One of these days I'm going to beat you in this game." Spencer shook her head as she lost the third game in a row.

"Nope. I'm lucky!" Glen said, holding his head up high and pounding his fist against chest.

"I guess so." Spencer looked at the clock, knowing she'd have to get Glen ready for bed soon and their sibling bonding moment would be over. "Well shorty," Glen started yelling, he knew what was coming next.

"I no want dis to be over. I want to stay up all night wif you. Party!" Glen was usually a fairly articulate kid until he was sad. "You stay, lock dem out." Glen demanded, standing up and stomping his foot.

"Baby bro, you know I can't do that. It'll be okay, when I get old enough I'll come rescue you. Until then you have to be a good boy like you promised you would be. Don't break a promise to me." Glen hung his head in defeat.

"Okay." He said sadly. "Come read me a story." He grabbed his sister's hand and dragged her into his bedroom.

"Go brush your teeth first monster man. I'll pull out some jammies for you and pick out a book. Deal?" Glen nodded and walked towards the bathroom.

Spencer sat on her brother's bed, she wanted to text Ashley, to explain why she hadn't talked to her all day but how could she explain the situation she was in with her family? What was she supposed to do about this, what if it was too much to handle? She thumbed through her contacts, about to call Ashley when Glen came back in.

"Jammie time! Story time!" He hopped on the bed next to Spencer.

"Alright, here's your jammies, and I decided you can pick out the book." Glen was changed and back at her side in seconds, crawling under his Toy Story blanket.

Spencer began reading the book to Glen, but never finished, he'd fallen asleep a few pages in. She pulled the covers tightly over him and kissed his blonde curls. She smiled at the innocence of her little brother, making a silent promise that she would do whatever she could to make sure he got whatever he wanted. Wiping a tear from her eye, she slowly crept out of his room just in time to hear her dad coming through the door.

"Hey dad. Paula." She acknowledged them, grabbing her jacket from a nearby chair.

"Hey baby girl. Thanks for coming over. You guys have fun?" Arthur wrapped his arms around her tightly, kissing the top of her head.

"Yeah, we made dinner, he kicked my butt in Go Fish and then I put him to bed."

"Well, that explains the mess in the kitchen!" Paula spoke, never truly greeting Spencer when she'd walked in.

"I was about to clean it up, you guys are home earlier than I expected." Spencer's voice was slightly shaky, she didn't want to upset Paula, knowing she had a temper and would most likely wake up Glen if things got out of hand.

"Don't worry Spency. I'll clean it up." She loved her father. He was always on her side when it came to matters between Paula. She thought her father was a saint for putting up with a woman like Paula. "You should probably get going though before she flips her lid." Spencer smiled appreciatively at her father, kissing him good bye and walking out without another word to Paula.

Sunday was spent locked in her dorm working on homework and listening to music. She refused to answer her phone or the knocking on her door. She needed to escape. What she really needed was to talk to Spencer, but wasn't sure how she was supposed to do that without scaring the girl off. She decided to get Aiden's advice and text him asking if he thought she'd freak out if she knew she was bi.

BlockHead (9:30pm): I don't know. I wouldn't guess so. I can always find out for you if you want. I mean, I have no problem with it. :)

Spencer told him not to worry about it that she would figure something out. She made sure to mention that she just didn't want to lose a friend and that Ashley seemed like she could become a really good friend.

"No need getting him all worked up thinking I like Ashley when I'm not really sure how she feels about me yet. Hopefully he's smart enough to not say anything to her." She said to herself. She spent the next hour finishing up a paper and crawled into bed. Between work, Glen and worrying about Ashley's reactions, her weekend had her worn out.

"Hey Spence. I um, may have mentioned to Ashley that you're bi." Aiden caught up with Spencer before their afternoon class.

"What when?" She gripped his arm tightly, watching him wince a little.

"Um, like earlier today. We went out to lunch and it just came out. I just started talking and then I caught myself but Ashley already picked up on the fact that I wasn't finished. I'm really sorry."

"Whatever. What did she say?" Spencer was now very curious as they took their seats in class.

"Something like 'that's cool' or whatever. Then she said she's not into labels. I'm pretty sure she's bi like you though. This one time at a party I could swear I saw her staring at these girls who were making out, kind of envious of them or something." Aiden was very casual in his response, not knowing the feelings this story was stirring up in Spencer's stomach.

"Really? Well, maybe I should talk to her. See what the real story is." Spencer did her best to control her voice to not sound overly anxious. This was her in, her chance to finally get to figure out Ashley and see what, if anything, could happen between them. She looked over at Aiden, he had his face shoved in the school paper focused on the crossword puzzle, clearly not paying anymore attention to their conversation. Spencer slipped her phone out of her pocket and sent a quick text to Ashley. Within minutes her phone buzzed.

Ash (3:01): Yeah, I want to talk to you too. I'll be there.