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Chapter Five: A Lunch to Start a Friendship

A day had passed since the Lily blabber mouth incident. Though, Lily sincerely feeling sorry about what she had said, tried to contact Spencer, but Spencer was a hard person to find. She had always been a champ at hide and go seek. Innocent Lily didn't know Spencer was one to hold a grudge and would make it generally impossible for someone to apologize to her. But, luckily Lily was persistent and finally trapped Spencer the day before decision day.

Toby had taken Jace out to the Rosewood Park for playtime near noon. Toby had given Spencer the offer to join them, but she politely declined. He didn't push the offer and accepted her decision to her luck. Unlike Toby, Spencer had not taken a break from work and was secretly working on a case with late night meetings on the phone with the client. Pulling out her laptop, Spencer started it up while taking out paperwork from her workbag. Spencer began to work with a hot cup of coffee in hand and peace and quiet filling the air.

"Hello Spencer," a perky voice entered her ears startling Spencer from her work.

Spencer looked up from her paperwork meeting the big chocolate brown eyes of Lily Peterson, the person she had been hiding from for the past day and so many hours in between. "How'd you get in?" Spencer asked shocked by her presence.

"Toby made me a key," Lily stated.

"Oh," was all Spencer said.

"So, how are you?"

Spencer raised an eyebrow. "Well, and yourself?"

"Good."

Spencer glanced down at her paperwork then back up at Lily. "So, is there a reason for you being here? Toby is at the park with Jace."

"I'm here for you. I wanted to apologize for the things I said two days ago."

Spencer sighed. She had been hiding from Lily for two day for the exact reason. Now she could've just bolted out of there believing she could catch Lily by surprise and give her a head start, so she could continue holding her grudge, keeping her silence. Spencer had done it many times before with other people. But, since Lily did not know that she decided to throw in the towel and let Lily apologize. "Okay."

"Really?" Lily looked surprised. "Great! Let's go have lunch!"

"Wait, what?"

Lily waved her hand at Spencer's response. "I can shoot Toby a text telling him we went to lunch. C'mon let's go!" She grabbed Spencer's hand and tugged her out of the house.

Now seated in the Apple Rose Grill Spencer knew she couldn't back out on throwing in the towel. They were in public and sprinting out of the restaurant would sure make a fool out of Spencer. Taking a sip of ice cold water, Spencer pushed back any thoughts of running out of here.

Lily smiled at her with bright white teeth. Spencer had felt a little insecure sitting here with Lily. Said girl was wearing a brightly colored striped maxi dress and had her princess curls in a perfect messy bun with a few strands framing her face. As for Spencer she was sporting a comfy grey V-neck t-shirt and at least her favorite pair of cropped yoga pants. Though, she had her hair in a high pony tail and was fresh faced. But, now observing Lily Spencer could see Toby had a beautiful girlfriend for Spencer to compete with.

"So, I guess I can say I'm sorry now. I really, really am sorry. I just blab on when my brain gets stuck on a story idea. I didn't even think about how it would affect you," Lily said softly so no one but Spencer would hear her.

Spencer took a pregnant pause. She thought about what to say back to Lily. She could be sweet as a peach and accept Lily's apology or she could be a mean jerk and stomp Lily's apology to the ground. Wetting her lips, Spencer decided. "I accept your apology. I may have overreacted a bit, though, so you shouldn't feel too bad."

"Oh, no, I should. I mean, I sprouted out the idea of a mental stalker running around watching your every move, I would've freaked out too." Lily admitted.

Spencer nodded her head agreeing since she had freak out when Lily told her about the story idea. As Spencer stayed silent, Lily took note that Spencer wasn't going to saying anything more, but Lily still wanted the conversation to go on and not die out. "So, how did you met Toby?"

The question took Spencer by surprise. "What?"

"Well, I assumed you and Toby knew each other before since you are Jace's godparents."

"Uh, yes we did know each other before," Spencer mumbled out. Spencer had assumed that Toby had told Lily that she was his ex-girlfriend, but Lily seemed clueless about their past relationship. "I tutored him in French junior year of high school."

Lily smiled happily. "That's nice. Were you guys ever friends?"

"Um, I guess," Spencer lied. "We were both Emily's friends, so we got along."

"So-" Lily was cut off from her next question when they waiter had come over to their table with their food. Also Spencer dug right into her salad making sure her mouth was full, so if Lily asked another question she'd have time to actually think about the answer.

Sadly, after they were done eating Lily jumped right back into the water of questions she had. Spencer grumbled in her drink silently feeling like she was participated in some game show. "So, I was wonder-I know this is really out of the blue-but I was wondering if we could be friends. I know it's a totally crazy thought and totally crazy thing to ask since of what happened two days ago and that we've only known each other for an hour or so. But…"

Spencer took a while to answer Lily offer. It wasn't every day that your ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend asked you to be her friend. Also there was the fact of Spencer having major trust issues. Lily chewed on her lower lip. "I guess we don't have to be-"

"We can be friends," Spencer stopped Lily from finishing her statement. To Spencer Lily was like a cute stray puppy that you just wanted to take home, so Spencer was going to give Lily a chance.

Lily nearly jumped out of her seat. "Really?"

"Really." The corners of Spencer's lips perked up.

"Great!"

The check came around only for Spencer to realize she didn't have her purse with her. She must have forgotten to grab it when Lily was dragging her out of the house. Lily noticed this and only smiled her shiny white teeth at Spencer taking this as an opportunity to start their friendship. "Don't worry about it. It'll be my treat."

Spencer wanted to protest, but she had no money to protest with. Lily paid the check happily. When the waiter came back with Lily's credit card Spencer began pushing out her chair to get up to leave, but Lily stopped her. "Where yah going?"

"Aren't we leaving?" Spencer asked the obvious.

Lily giggled. "No, silly! I thought we'd stay a little longer to get to know each other."

"Oh." Spencer scooted her chair back into place.

"So," Spencer was getting slightly irritated with all of Lily's sos. "When did you move out of Rosewood?"

Spencer choked a little on her water she was attempting to take a sip out of. Lily really did know how to throw her off. "Uh, three years ago."

"Why?"

Lily was soon going to learn why curiosity killed the cat. Spencer bit the inside of her cheek to keep her from spitting out an annoyed response. Lily took note of her question taking a step past the line. "Oh, I understand. You don't have to tell me. It's your business."

Spencer nodded curtly being glad that Lily was okay with no answer. She also took the chance to ask the questions for Lily. "How long have you and Toby been dating?"

"Six months and two weeks," Lily answered cheerfully.

December 2nd Spencer calculated quickly in her head. Spencer began to wonder if Toby had any girlfriends before Lily, but she very well knew she couldn't ask Lily that since it'd be extremely rude. "How did you two meet?"

"The grocery store. I bumped into his chart by accident and was drawn in by his amazing blue eyes. I immediately started up a conversation and gave him my number." Spencer sighed mentally. So, Toby at least wasn't the one to start it all. "It took him a while to call me back, though. Apparently he wasn't completely over one of his ex-girlfriends, but I offered to start as friends, and a few weeks later we started dating."

So Toby did have other girlfriends. Well, it wasn't surprising, he was quite the looker and had the kindest heart in the world. Spencer let her mind drift away from Toby, so she wouldn't lose her turn to ask questions. "Since you're a writer, do you have any published work?"

Lily immediately frown at Spencer's questions. A frown on Lily's face didn't seemed to fit in, though. "No, I actually don't…to be honest I don't even have a story I'm working on. I've had a few ideas here and there starting up a story with a chapter or two, but then I've lost inspiration."

Spencer frowned as well. "Well, inspiration can come out of nowhere. You'll just have to wait and see."

Lily grinned. "Yeah, I guess so."

Their conversation didn't proceed on with more questions, because Lily's phone made a sharp bleep. Lily picked up the white iPhone scanning the screen. "Toby says Jace and him are coming back from the park. He's going to put Jace down for a nap. Do you want to go back?"

"Sure," Spencer jumped at the opportunity for the question game show feel to end.

"Okay, let me text Toby and we'll be on our way."