Chapter 5
It should not have been this hard for Spencer to smell coffee. She WORSHIPPED the stuff. She'd been drinking it since she was practically a toddler. She knew all her friends' coffee orders by heart and always had a cup ready, on the go or at home. So why was it so hard to gulp it down after that day she met Paige? What was the reason surrounding this phenomenon?
She shouldn't have brought Alison, true, she crapped all over any hope she had of reconciliation and ruined a perfectly good coffee date between her and Paige. Not a date date like couples do but just a friendly get-together. It's not like she'd ever have a shot with Paige after the way she'd treated her.
But Paige shouldn't have been so sensitive to Alison's bullying in the first place. Okay she didn't lash out and she let it all roll off her back until Alison made that dig about families which, to be honest, was a devastating blow, but Paige... okay, Paige acted magnanimously in retrospect; Spencer would've decked Alison if she was in her shoes. But she didn't. And that's what bothered her. She wanted to wring Alison's neck and make her pay for hurting Paige and Emily the way she did but she couldn't because she was Lilly and Grace's 'mother'. Spencer wished she could stop fixating on Paige and Emily's coffee colored eyes and Lilly and Grace and Alison's frigid blue ones. Okay, maybe not Paige's brown ones. She didn't mind those. She just hated seeing them cry out to her. They made her feel so weak.