AN: Thank you for the kind reviews. I wasn't really expecting to get any and it made me smile to know that you are loving my story.

I hope you enjoy this chapter too, altough I'm not really happy with it.

Chapter 1: What the heart wants

"Mind if I join you?" Spencer said slipping her arms around his waist and resting her forehead against his back.

"Do you even have to ask?" He questioned her, turning around and to stare at his naked girlfriend who just stepped into the shower with him, as she brought their wet, naked bodies closer to each other. She could feel his hardness pressed against her as his rough hands stroked her lower back and squeezed her bottom.

They smiled at each other, and he brought his mouth down to meet hers and kissed her deeply. She brought one hand up to stroke his hair as she slung one leg around his brawny hip, rubbing herself against him knowing it would drive him crazy. Growing in desire, Wren pushed Spencer against the cool ceramic tiles and grabbing her by the legs he carefully lifted her up wrapping both of her legs around his hips. He kissed her neck fiercely causing her to moan as he got inside her.

Some... Ok, a lot of time later...

"Do you really have to go?" Spencer complained with a childish tone as she finished to straight her hair.

"My only sister is getting married Spence, of course I have to go." Wren said checking for the third time his luggage to make sure he wasn't forgetting anything for his trip to London.

"I know, but 2 whole weeks? What I'm supposed to do here all alone for so long? You could only go for the weekend and come back." She kept complaining, walking towards him and hugging him tightly.

"My mother insisted, babe. I haven't seen her in a year, I couldn't say no to her." Wren kissed her forehead and rubbed her back softly. "And don't be dramatic. You have friends to entertain you while I'm not here and let's not forget about your other boyfriend. You won't even remember who I am."

Spencer looked up at him and lifted her brow "Other boyfriend? Toby? Well, I'm pretty sure he would rather be with his actual girlfriend." She pecked him on the lips and continued "And for the record, even if you leave for a year I will never, ever, ever forget who you are. I'm going to miss you so much"

"There is only way you won't miss me. Go with me."

"Wish I could honey, but finals start in 7 weeks. I have to prepare for them and skipping classes for 2 weeks it's not the right way to do it."

"I know, your last finals as an undergrad student. By the way nerd, you are like 15 minutes late for class. You should get going." He kissed her for some long seconds before he took his arms off her body.

Spencer grabbed her books and bag from her desk and planted a quick peck on his lips. "Don't have fun without me, ok? I love you."

"I love you too baby." Wren said as she walked by him and pinched her butt.

"Hey!" She yelled and left.

"Okay. I promise this is the last one. If you weren't a human what would it be? And why? You can't chose animals or plants for this one either" Spencer asked while drinking the last zip of her strawberry juice.

"Mmm...My motorcycle, because that thing is a chick magnet." Toby laughed.

"Toby!" Spencer cried annoyed hitting him in the arm. "You are not taking this seriously. I'm not playing here, I have to present your psychological profile based on all the test I've been applying to you the entire semester and this, as stupid as might sound, it's one of the most important."

"Relax, Spence. I think your homework is completely stupid but I promised I would help you and I will. Just let me..." He was interrupted by his phone and excusing himself, he stood up and picked up "Hi Pumpkin!" He walked away.

Rolling her eyes at how dumb Toby sounded calling Delfina a pumpkin, Spencer took Toby's credit card of his wallet, that he had left on the table, and gave it to the waitress. As they usually do on Fridays, Spencer and Toby were having lunch together at a small place close to Toby's office. The blue-eyed guy got a job with one of the most important architects of Philadelphia shortly after he graduated the previous year from the Architecture School of U. Penn. He was really talented at what he was doing and it clearly made him happy, which of course made Spencer happy too. She was very proud of her best friend.

"Sorry, I had to get that. Delfi couldn't remember where she left her sunglasses."

"Ohh! Of course. Major crisis. How is pumpkin going survive without them?" Spencer said sarcastically and gave the credit card and bill the waitress just brought back to Toby. "Thank you for lunch, by the way."

"You're welcome...thief" He smiled at her standing up and making his way out of the restaurant with Spencer by his side. "I need your help with something Spence but before I tell you I need you to promise me that you will be 100% supportive."

"I can't promise that if you don't tell what it is first."

"Spencer." Toby grumbled as they walked by the streets "Just promise me."

"Okay, I promise." She was scared at how serious Toby's tone was. It sounded important but it also sounded like something she wouldn't agree with, otherwise he wouldn't have made her promise she would be supportive.

"I'm thinking about..." He made a long pause, which scared Spencer even more. Whatever he was thinking about wasn't a good idea. "...I'm going to ask Delfina to marry me." He whispered but Spencer could heard it.

"WHAT?" She stopped walking and grabbed him by the arm making him to stop and face her. "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? ARE YOU DRUNK? HAVE YOU BEEN TAKING DRUGS? SHE IS TRYING TO FORCE INTO THIS DOESN'T SHE?" Spencer yelled. She freaked out completely. There was no way she was going to let that happened. She was not going to let Toby make a mistake as huge as that.

"You promised me to be supportive." He said annoyed at her reaction. Toby really hated that Spencer wasn't supportive about any decision he made about his love life. He hated that she never approved any of his girlfriends, she didn't even approve his very short relationship with Emily back in high school and she was one of her best friends.

Spencer took a deep breath and tried to calm down. She knew Toby well enough to know that yelling at him wouldn't change his mind and it would only upset him and they would end up fighting. So she was going to get that crazy idea out of his mind using valid arguments.

"Okay, I'm going to try to be supportive but first tell me why do you want to marry her? Are you completely sure she is the woman you want to spend the rest of your life with?" She asked, reassuming their walk.

"Of course I'm sure. I love her and she is funny and even if she doesn't look like it, she is smart. Not as much as you, of course, but she is smart. Delfina makes me happy."

"Smart? She makes Hanna look like Einstein and it is funny to make fun of her but that's it. There is no way that dolphin bimbo could make him happy. He must be thinking with his other head." She thought as she faked a smile that Toby could tell was fake.

"I can understand that she makes you happy and you love her and all that, but don't you think you are rushing things? Marriage is big deal, you know? and it's suppose to be forever, and forever is a long time. How can you even know you want to be with her forever? You two have been going out for less than two years, you don't even live together. You don't know each other that well. Why don't you just take one step at the time and ask her first to move in with you?"

"I'm not rushing things, Spencer. I just don't overthink things like you do. I'm more spontaneous."

"I am spontaneous." Spencer complained.

Toby just laughed. He wasn't going to waste time arguing with her about it because even she knew there wasn't anything spontaneous about her.

"And what's wrong about having my life planned? I know what I want and Wren likes my plan. He know I want t-" Toby interrupted her immediately, not wanting to hear every single detail about the plan for the millionth time.

"I know Miss Freud. I know you want to get a degree in Psychology and work at the Children's Hospital for a year, and then you want to abandon me and move to London and get your Masters degree in developmental psychology and clinical practice at the Anna Freud Center. Once you are done with that you are going to marry Wren and you'll have 2 kids, a girl and boy. I've been listening to your plan for years Spence."

Spencer rolled her eyes at her friend. Sometimes she hated that Toby knew everything about her. It made it harder to convince him about something. "Smartass" she mumbled a little bit annoyed.

"It's great that you have so many plans for the future Spence but life sometimes it's unexpected. You can't know what's going to happen tomorrow or in a year. You can have everything plan out but life might have something else planned for you, so just live a little and do want your heart wants you to do every once in a while. That's what I'm doing right now; I'm leaving this decision to my heart."

"But, your brai-"

"Your brain makes smartest choices most of the time. I know that but what if Wren's heart tells him it's right time to take your relationship to the next level and he proposes to you right now? You would say no because getting married right now it's not a part of your plan? What would be your heart's answer?"

She had no idea how Toby always managed to do this, turn all her arguments against her and convince her. She hated to admit he was right but she answered with her heart. "Yes, my heart would say yes." damn it Cavanaugh!

Toby looked at Spencer's chocolate eyes with a boastful smile thinking that he had won that argument. Of course in Spencer's mind this argument was far from over, he might have a point with the follow-your-heart-thing but she was sure Delfina wasn't right for Toby, so she was going to follow her heart and stop her Bff of making a huge mistake. She just needed a better plan and some time to elaborate it, in the mid time she was just going to pretend to he had convinced her.

They kept walking for a couple minutes in silence and stopping in front of a jewelry store, Toby asked Spencer to help him look for the perfect engagement ring for Delfina. Spencer agreed to help him since she was pretending. Toby's speech was good but not enough to change her mind about the Argentinean bombshell, she still didn't like Delfina and she still had the feeling that she was dishonest, not to mention she was shallow, sluttie, dumb and had no class at all. Being there helping Toby really annoyed her but she posed her best fake smile and started to look at the rings.

"This is one is really pretty." She said pointing at one ring in the counter.

"Mmm. I don't know." Toby examined the ring. It was pretty but he wasn't fully convinced. "I don't think that's Delfi's style at all."

"Oh so now I'm supposed to know what's her style?" Spencer thought as she rolled her eyes.

"What do you think about this one?" Toby said pointing at a beautiful yellow gold ring with a princess cut diamond on the center and a total of 16 little diamonds on the sides.

"Wow! That's the most beautiful ring I've ever seen in my entire life." Spencer looked at it almost wanting to buy it a keep it for herself. "Can I see it, please?" She asked the dependent.

"Sure." The dependant said giving the precious piece of jewelry to the brunette.

Spencer admired the ring; it was for sure incredible beautiful, almost a piece of art. She loved it so much, that she even tried it on forgetting who was going to be the real owner of the little shining object in her finger.

Toby couldn't help but smile. The ring looked perfect on her, like it was made especially for Spencer but what he loved the most was the smile she was sporting on her face. She looked so happy that it kind of hurt him knowing that the ring wasn't for her and that he was the one to remind her of that. "So, I guess you really like it for Delfina?" he said awkwardly

"For Delfina? No." She said with the same huge smile and excitement in her voice. "But if you buy this for me, I promise you I'll leave Wren and marry you."

"Are you saying that you want to marry me, Miss Hastings?" Toby said with an almost seductive tone, and lifting his eyebrows. "Now I understand where all your dislike for my girlfriend comes from. You are jealous. You want me." He joked.

Spencer blushed. For some reason, his joke made her nervous, like what he was saying was true. But no, it wasn't true, at least not entirely true. That's the moment when she realized that it was not like she wanted Toby to give her an engagement ring but she didn't want him to give it to any other girl. And it was not like she was jealous of Delfina but maybe a part of why she hated her so much was the fact she was taking Toby away from her and had a part of Toby's heart that she never will. Not that she wanted Toby to love her in a romantic way or anything but still.

"Spencer, I was joking." Toby he assured her after noticing the blush on her cheeks and how her smile had faded away.

Pushing her thoughts aside, Spencer faked a smile and gave the ring back to the dependent. "Can we go now? I forgot I promised Hanna to help her with something." She said trying not to look at Toby. She felt like he had read her mind but in reality he was completely clueless about her sudden change of attitude. Toby wanted to ask what happened but knowing Spencer it would be better not to, so he just mumbled an okay and walked outside the store with Spencer.

"You sure you are ok?" He finally asked when they were outside.

"Yes, I'm fine. I only forgot about this thing I promised Hanna to help her with." She lied.

"Ok, I'll call you later Spence." Toby hugged her and gave her a kiss on her hair.

"Bye, bye Pumpkin." She mocked him, winking her eye and making an effort to sound stupid.

"Bye weirdo!" Toby laughed and walked to the opposite direction she was going.

Walking back to her apartment, that was just a few blocks away, Spencer got herself lost in her thoughts again. She questioned why all sudden she was afraid of losing Toby to someone else, when she is in fact the one that was planning to leave to another country with her boyfriend. She never felt threaten by Delfina or any of Toby's previous girlfriends before, but now she was feeling that way and she was sad instead of being happy for her best friend. Was she being selfish?

The beeping of her phone interrupted the internal debate she was having with her feelings. It was a text from Toby.

"I forgot to answer your question. If could be something other than an human I would be that tattoo you have that I'm not allowed to see anymore."

"What? Why?" She texted back fully confused. Why on earth would Toby want to her tattoo?

"You already know ;)"

She knew exactly what was Toby talking about because only the two of them knew what that tattoo meant. And throwing all her insecurities away, she smiled at her knew realization: No matter where life would take them, which slut Toby decide to marry, how far away she moved with Wren or how old they were, nothing could tear them apart and he will always be with her.

I hope you didn't hate it. Thanks for reading :)