Hanna POV
I thought time was crawling by as I waited for the last day of school. But now that felt like nothing compared to waiting for Spencer. And it didn't help that I was bored out of my mind.
I threw a party of course on the last day of school and half the school showed up. Or at least that's what my mom said. She came home early from a conference and kicked everybody out. Now, I was starting the first week of summer grounded. No shopping, no parties at other people's places, and no cell phone. How could I go around without a phone? That would be like going around without a brain. Or shoes! At least she hadn't banned me from Caleb or my friends.
I guess I missed her so much today because tomorrow she would finally be home. All of us would finally find out if she could see again. I would still love her just the same even if it didn't work. But I would be madder at the universe than I was at Toby right now if Jenna Marshall could see but Spencer couldn't. And that was saying a lot.
"I'm here!" Mona announced as she made her grand entrance into my room.
"Oh, finally, I'm so glad you're here." I said as I shut the door and locked it. "I need your help. And since you had a secret little club looking for evidence, I figured you would be perfect for this secret mission."
"Okay, what does this secret mission involve?" She asked curiously.
"Well, my mom banned me from throwing anymore parties here this summer. And I can't go to anyone else's parties. But I really want to have one for Spencer this weekend." I told her.
"So you need another place for a party, help planning, and help sneaking out. I think I can manage that." She said with an evil smirk.
"Thank you, Mona, you are a life saver!" I exclaimed as I hugged her. "Okay, so we need a place, that's our number one priority."
"My place is too small or I'd say we could do it there." Mona sighed. "I know! Spencer's lake house, it was perfect for Caleb's party. It's not in town so no one would find out meaning no one gets in trouble again. And if we have it Saturday night you technically won't be grounded anymore since you were grounded for a week starting last Saturday morning."
"You are an evil genius!" I laughed. "The lake house is definitely the perfect place for parties. And if Spencer can see then we can do fireworks. But only if we're super cautious of course."
"Of course," She nodded. "Okay, so we got the place, the date, and you figured out. What's the next thing?"
"I'm not allowed to shop either. So I'll send Aria and Mike out for food and you can get decorations. They should be Spencer's favorite colors and get lots of those glow stick necklaces. You can't have party without those."
"Got it, decorations are my specialty. What about the guest list?"
"Spencer's not a big party person. So I'd say just us, Jason and Melissa, and a couple of her other friends from school. But not that Andrew kid." I told her.
"Yeah we don't want the party turning into a debate about which one of them is smarter." She nodded.
"There's nothing to debate. Spencer is definitely smarter than he is." I stated confidently.
"What about Toby?" She asked cautiously.
"No, if I ever see Toby again I'm going to punch him in the face again. And for some reason I get the feeling Spencer wouldn't like that." I stated. "But forget about that. This party is going to be great and Spencer's gonna love it. If she can see it'll celebration, but if she can't it'll cheer her up and let her know we still love her no matter what."
"Is it true that you hit Toby with that lamp over there?"
"Three times," I said with a smug grin. "And it felt good too."
"Oh, I bet it did." Mona agreed.
"If anything ever happens between you and Mike, and I really hope nothing does, but just in case. Let me know and I'll let you borrow the lamp." I told her and we both ended up laughing.
The next day...
"Ugh, when is she going to call?" I asked for the twenty-millionth time.
"Hanna, she said she'd be back today but not when. She could come home at 11:59pm for all we know." Caleb sighed.
He was probably tired of me but I didn't care.
"I can't wait that long!" I yelled.
"I'm sorry, Han, but you're just gonna have to. How about we go over to Aria's? You can hang out with her and you two can wait together." He suggested.
"You just want to beat Mike's butt in video games." I rolled my eyes. "But fine, just let me grab my purse and my shoes. Oh, and do me a favor. Text Aria and tell her we're coming and tell Mona and Emily to get over there too."
"Can't I just give you my phone so you could do it?"
"Nope, I'm restricted from all phones after my mom caught me using Mona's." I smirked.
"You chose now of all times to listen to your mom's rules." He mumbled.
I shook my head and laughed as I went upstairs.
"Oh my soul, I'm glad you're here!" Aria sighed in relief when she opened the door. "I'm going crazy. Come on upstairs, Em just got here. And Mona's been here since the crack of dawn."
"Are you sure she didn't sleepover?" I whispered as we went upstairs.
"Ugh, I hope not. But either way I don't want to know." She said shaking her head.
We walked into her room and were greeted by Mona and Emily. We immediately started talking about anything and everything to try and keep our minds occupied. But finally around two o'clock, the phone call came.
"Hanna! I've got some great news!" Caleb announced with a huge smile as he appeared in the doorway of Aria's room.
"Caleb, I love you. But I honestly do not care that you just beat some insane high score on your nerdy little video game." I told him with brutal honesty.
"I love you too, Hanna." He sighed. "And for the record, I did beat the high score. But I know you don't care so that's not why I'm here."
"Then why are you here?" Mona asked him.
"Spencer's back." He stated with a smug grin.
"No way, really? She is? How do you know? Why didn't she call us?" All four of us shouted at the same time.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, one at a time!" He somehow managed to yell over us. "Yes, Spencer is back. But I didn't find out from her. Jason called me about three minutes ago because my number is the only one he knows. He told me Spencer's back and how she's doing."
"Well, how is she doing?" Emily asked the question all of us wanted to know.
"The surgery went…You'll have to find out for yourselves. Last ones to Spencer's is a rotten egg!" He said and then he ran down the stairs.
"That's just mean, Caleb!" I yelled at him as I followed him.
"You are so immature, Caleb Rivers!" Mona shouted.
All of us made a mad dash for our cars. And since Caleb had Mike start up the car in advance we, Caleb, Mike, and I were ahead of Aria, Emily, and Mona. Caleb was driving way over the speed limit and I hoped we didn't get pulled over. I would literally explode if I had to wait any longer to find out how Spencer was doing. Later I would give Caleb a piece of my mind for not telling me in the car.
When we got to Spencer's I jumped out of the car before Caleb even put it in park. I ran straight for the backdoor. I stopped in my tracks when I saw Spencer and Jason standing in the backyard talking. Even from a few yards away I could tell she was still wearing her dark sunglasses.
That was good. Right? I vaguely remembered Spencer telling us about the eye surgery. Didn't she say something about her eyes being really sensitive and she might have to keep wearing her sunglasses for a while? Ugh, why was I paying more attention to that magazine then those boring medical phrases Spencer was using?
"Hey, Hanna, where's everyone else?" Jason waved over to me once he saw me.
"Umm, right behind me I…I think." I stuttered not realizing until now that I had left the others behind in the dust.
"We're here, Hanna just ran at the speed of light before I even put the car in park." Caleb joked as he and the others arrived in the backyard.
"Caleb, I hate to break it to you. But it's not possible to run at the speed of light." Spencer smirked.
"It's good to have you back, Spencer." Emily laughed.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're having a great time catching up. But we can do that later." I stated becoming impatient again.
"Right, I'm sure you want to know how things went." Spencer nodded. "Why don't we go inside? You might want to sit down for this."
"We might need to sit down because this is good? Or we might need to sit down because this is not so good?" Aria asked nervously.
"I'll let you decide that for yourselves." Spencer sighed.
Spencer POV
Ten days. That's how long I told the girls I would be gone. And I was right of course. A lot of things can happen in that amount of time. And a lot of things sure did happen in that short amount of time. Or long amount of time depending on how you look at it. I still can't wrap my head around all of it.
Time is a funny thing. A few weeks ago I couldn't wait for the day of my surgery to arrive. But once I got there I wished time would slow down a little. I wouldn't come right out and admit it to anyone but I was nervous. Another thing I would never admit was that I wished Toby was with me. He always made everything easier and I felt like I could do anything if I had him there to support me.
But Toby wasn't around anymore and I needed to stop thinking like that.
So I went from wanting time to go by faster, to wanting it to slow down, and now I wanted it to speed up again. New York was nice and believe it or not I enjoyed the time with my family. We hadn't taken a real trip together of any kind for a really long time. But I was anxious to get back to Rosewood and most of all my friends.
Finally we got back home and I was greeted by a crushing bear hug from Jason. Melissa went into the barn to rest; the pregnancy was taking a lot out of her. And my parents went inside since they didn't want to hang around Jason too much. So it was just the two of us standing in the backyard. I told him how things went in New York and he was glad to finally have me back.
I heard someone running towards us and it turned out to be Hanna. The others arrived fifteen seconds after she did. She must have really been running. I teased Caleb like I usually did but then I could tell Hanna was getting impatient. And I really wanted to talk to them too. So we all went inside and sat down.
"Okay, so I'm going to spare you all the long details and cut to the chase." I told them. "The surgery went well. And a couple days ago I found out that it was success. I can see!"
She can see! Sorry for ending it like that. I originally wrote more but I wasn't happy with it. But the ending of next chapter will be better. You know why? Because I'm finally giving you Spoby! I know it's about time and it'll be 100% worth the wait. Enjoy the weekend everybody and see you Tuesday.