A/N: So yeah, I sort of do NOT own Pretty Little Liars or Spoby for that matter. But I love all of you guys, and that no one can own except for me. ;) Enjoy…
On Sunday Spencer planned out since breakfast morning that she would spent her time studying, to make it up for any lost time, which was almost none because she was already ahead of her studies. To leave Spencer peacefully at home, Aria decided to go out for an afternoon walk to photograph some beautiful things.
Trying to focus her Nikon D7000 on a bird near her, eating something out of the ground – a worm-, Aria felt someone tap her shoulder, making her miss the beautiful scenario in front of her. Her blonde, hot boyfriend stood right there in front of her, a frown in his features.
"Have you been ignoring my calls?" He asked, not bothering to greet her first, annoying her because the bird now flew away.
"Maybe ."
"Why?"
"Jason, I don't think this is working out anymore. You have been keeping things from me lately. You freaking let Toby take a drunk Spencer home," Jason just struggled, as if nothing could have possibly happened, "meaning he could have abused her in various ways." And right then, in front of Aria Jason snapped, his face becoming red, his usually soft expression, hardening.
"He's my buddy, I know him." Aria hands flew up in frustration, but still careful not to drop the expensive camera, she couldn't believe she was actually having this fight with him right now.
"And she's your freaking sister for Christ sake. I think a sister is way more important than a 'buddy'."
"Yeah, you know what? You're right, this," he pointed between them, "isn't working. We're over." His last works weren't so harsh, but he simply turned around and walked away, not bothering to look behind him as a single tear rolled down Aria's cheek.
Meanwhile, Toby was walking through a bunch of small shops. He had just stopped by at the super market to buy a chocolate flavored ice cream, and some other necessary candies he liked to keep it hidden in his drawer.
With bags being hold by one hand he spotted Jason walking towards him, his face furious with anger. An alarmed Toby quickened his pace and caught to Jason before they met halfway.
"What happened dude?"
"Fuck you Cavanaugh." Jason passed by Toby, bumping really hard against his shoulder to knock his balance off, almost succeeding.
"What just happened?" Once Toby looked in the distance he saw a tiny familiar face, camera in hands, his heart tightening as he saw her expression.
"Aria?" He mumbled to himself, deciding whether or not to go over there talk to her. But before he could come up with an answer Aria was already walking forward to him.
"Hey Toby."
"Hi. Are you alright?"
"I don't think so." Toby put a hand on her back in case she wasn't feeling very well.
"Want me to walk you home?"
"Could you?"
"Of course, come on, give me your camera." Aria linked her arm on Toby's. Her camera around his neck and his groceries bag on the other hand.
"Aria, I am so sorry about yesterday with Spencer, it's just that my head has been messed up lately that I'm always bursting at people around me." Aria smiled sympathetically at him, knowing he was meaning his word.
"It's alright. You just have to apologize for Spence."
"I will do it. Now what happened between you and Jason?" He watched as her face completely fell in once split second.
"We broke up, hope you have some ice cream in your bag." Though she meant as a joke, Toby smiled opening the gate of the way to her apartment, walking up the stairs with her.
"I actually do have ice cream, a whole box of it." Aria messed with her keys, dropping it twice, interrupting Spencer's silence inside their condo. Suddenly the door flew open, a wind hitting Aria's face. Spencer had opened the door smirking to her best friend, and glaring at Toby once she figured she was there.
"Are you having problems with the keys Aria?" Spencer mocked Aria, stepping aside so she could come in.
"A little. I hope you don't mind, I bought Toby over." Between words Aria's voice cracked as if she was trying to be strong, shaking her head and walking to the kitchen after Spencer voiced her concern.
"Something happened to her?" Spencer then asked Toby instead, who was still waiting outside to be invited in.
"She and Jason broke up, I was nearby, she walked up to me saying she wasn't very well, and then I offered to walk her home." He whispered so Aria couldn't hear their conversation.
"Oh thanks then, I guess, you can go now." When she turned around to close the door, Toby's strong hand encircled around her wrist, stopping her on her tracks.
"I'm so sorry about my bipolar behavior lately, I just don't think properly sometimes and then I end up hurting the people I care the most. I am truly, indeed, so sorry." Spencer turned around very slowly to face him, something tucking inside her chest, right in her heart, telling her he was being honest with her. So there was no other thing to say except for an ´okay´.
"And plus I have ice cream, chocolate and popcorn, which I strongly believe you will need it, all you gotta do is invite me in." Toby smiled cutely, making Spencer giggle quietly, pulling him in by the arm.
"I wanna watch a movie, an horror one guys." Aria sat down on the couch, yelling to Spencer and Toby back in the kitchen.
Toby was making popcorn while Spencer was putting the ice cream in 3 different bowls, dividing equally.
"Alright Aria." Spencer shouted back laughing, glancing at Toby ahead of her, waiting for the microwave to beep.
"Most girls watch sappy movies when they break up, Aria watches horror movies." He joked, getting the popcorn out and putting it on a big red bowl written popcorn in white all over it.
"You ready?" Spencer asked grabbing the ice creams.
"Yes, you?" She nodded and they joined Aria on the couch in the living room. The delicious smell of popcorn filling their noses and the entire apartment for that matter.
After having a long discussion of what movie they would buy on demand, Aria decided they should get Paranormal Activity, the first one, which only Toby had watched before.
Being a Hastings and not voicing her concern to any of the people beside her, Spencer bit her bottom lip and pretended to go along with the choice of film. The truth was, she hated watching this kind of movies, specially when she didn't have anyone to cuddle to on the scary parts.
"This movie is freaking scary." Toby announced, putting a spoon full of ice cream in his mouth, settling down on the middle seat on the couch, between Aria and Spencer.
"Great…" Spencer mumbled, tucking her legs under her, watching as the movie began to play on their screen monitor.
An hour later into the movie, Aria was hiding her face behind Toby's shoulder while Spencer was clutching to his biceps and Toby was biting his bottom lip to keep from laughing out loud.
"Toby… what happens next?" Spencer asked, her voice in a higher pitch than normal, her nails forming half-moons shapes on his skin.
"I can't tell you Spence." Aria peeked to see the movie -right when it showed some sick paranormal thing, such as the board catching on fire out of the blue- and she ended up biting Toby's left upper arm, causing him to yell and startle both girls.
"What the hell Toby?" Spencer shouted back at him, her eyes never leaving the screen, nor the nails his skin.
"Aria bit me."
"Sorry…" She spoke up from behind him, her voice showing her embarrassment.
With the credits rolling up the screen, neither of the girls moved a single inch, too scared to do so. Instead they were holding on tightly to Toby's arms, each girl on each side. By now, his skin had a lot of marks, from nails shaped one to teeth carved ones.
He was sitting there just waiting for any movement, and after none was made, he decided to give it a shot and get up.
"I better get home, there's school tomorrow and I don't want to bother you girls." He glanced at the girls on the couch, they were now holding on to each other, really funny and cute at the same time. It seemed like they were little sisters protecting each other.
"I beg you to stay over please." Aria said desperately grabbing his hand and tucking on it.
"It it's okay with both of you then I'll crash on the couch, otherwise I'll just head home." Aria and Toby looked at Spencer, at the exactly same time, waiting for her answer.
Even if she was freaking out on the inside, she was raised in an abnormal way, and her family didn't allow showing any kind of weakness while she was growing up, and once to get used to it, it becomes a habit, so she looked at Toby, faked a smile and shook her head.
"I think you can go home Toby. We're safe in here." Toby struggled, walking to the kitchen to get the remaining of his groceries. Aria and Spencer were hot on his tracks as soon as he left the living room, too afraid to be alone in the complete darkness.
All the creepy images flashing through their minds, especially Spencer's, -Mika being killed, the door shutting close if of the blue in the middle of the night, Katie standing up beside the bed for hours and the final scene that freaked her out the most.
"Hey Toby… you know what? Maybe you should crash on the sofa. We can even have a slumber party in the living room." Spencer said looking to Aria and Toby back and forth.
"Are you sure? I think you girls will be just fine all alone in here." Toby chuckled, replacing his groceries on the counter.
"She's right." Aria added, walking to her room to get blankets and pillows, leaving behind her a trail of lights she had to turn on not to freak out.
Once everything was set up on the living room, and all the furniture moved aside to give room to Aria's bedroom mattress on the floor, where she would be sharing with Spencer, they finally lay down to rest.
"If you girls need anything just scream. And remember, I'm right here." Toby tucked the blankets under his chin and closed his eyes, ready to just fall asleep.
"Alright, good night." Aria and Spencer said in union, eyeing the dark room around them.
After good 10 minutes of silence, Spencer broke it, sitting on the bed, awaking an almost asleep Aria.
"What is it Spence?"
"I'm scared." She whispered knowing Toby was already sleeping, and his soft and slow breathing confirmed that.
"Wake Toby up then."
"Why would I do that Aria?"
"I have no idea, but he told us he would protect us." Spencer weighted her options, deciding she would give him a call, if he didn't wake up, she would just snuggle up to Aria and try to sleep.
"You okay Spence?" She didn't even have to call him because he had been faster than her and sensed something was wrong with her.
"…Just a little scared." It took all willpower in her to say this out loud, especially for Toby, but she did it, thankful the room was dark enough so he could not see her blushing cheeks.
"Can I tell you something?" She nodded, but then realized he probably couldn't see his face properly so she said a low 'yes'.
"When I was little, around 5, whenever I would get scared because of the thunders outside, I would call my mom and she would lay in bed with me. Then she would give me her hand to hold on to until I fell asleep. It was my way of facing my fear, so maybe I could do the same with you." His voice broke slightly but Spencer didn't notice, too concentrated on his story.
When she didn't answer, he figured out how weird that just sounded. Why on earth would Spencer hold his hand while she tried to fall asleep? But she surprised him, grabbing his hand from the sofa and holding on to it, his arm in a comfortable position falling off the edge of the couch.
Not a couple of minutes later, Spencer was fast asleep, her grip on his hand letting go, but his hand still touching her arm. They didn't realize, but if he was on the same level as her on the mattress beside the couch, they would be in a cuddling position, looking extremely cute.
A/N: Here it is, sorry for the delay. Really, I am. My reason is, I didn't get the 10 reviews to update on Friday, so I just updated today. Sorry. :P I still love you all guys, thanks for keeping up with me. Hopefully I'll get some nice reviews and I'll just on Saturday. :D And I promise from now on, no more jerk Toby. Thanks again for reading and please leave a very nice review. xoxo