Spencer mouthed, “Pretend you’re asleep,” to her, and Ashley quickly lied down and hid under the covers.

With her heart pounding a mile a minute, she quietly padded over to the door and opened it.

“’Ey, Squirt!”

It was Easy.

“Uh, Squirt?” Easy stepped back a ways. “Why do you look like you’re mad at the world?”

“I thought you were Mom…” she trailed off through gritted teeth.

“Uhhh…Noooo. Why would it…” He looked at the disshelved appearance of his little cousin and smirked. “Sexy time.” He nodded, as he crossed him arms over his chest.

“Ugh, shut up!”

He leaned into the room. “Mornin’, A.” He sometimes referred to Ashley as ‘A’. He thought it was unique; it just pissed her off.

Ashley stayed under the covers but lifted her arm into the arm, acknowledging him.

“Naked, right?”

Ashley turned her wave into a thumbs-up, before hiding back all the way under the covers.

Easy turned back to Spencer – who was glaring at him – and held up his hand. “High-five!”

“Go away, Easy…”

“C’moooon! High-five!”

Reluctantly Spencer raised her own hand and gave him a half-assed high-five.

“Very nice!”

“Easy, what do you want?!” Spencer really wanted him to leave.

“I just wanted to tell you to look outside.”

“Okay…well, leave, then.” She made a shooing motion with her hand.

“Fine, fine…I’m gone. One thing first…” he leaned in for a whisper, “clean yourself up. Your shorts are on backwards.”

“Ugh!” She grabbed for the door and shoved him out of the room.

“Wait, one more thing!” Easy yelled quickly, while holding his hands, seemingly blocking the door from being closed.

“What? What could you possibly want??”

He pointed to her hair before muttering, “Sex hair…”

“GET GONE!” she yelled, before slamming the door, in his face.

Spencer walked over to the bed and sat on the edge. “Kill me…”

Ashley didn’t reply, as she stayed completely under the covers.

“Uhm, hello?” Spencer patted the bed, trying to get the other girl’s attention. “I said ‘Kill.Me.Now’.”

“Can’t hear you, I’m sleeping.”

The blonde reached for the duvet and pulled it down, so she could see Ashley’s face. “You’re hilarious.”

“I know,” replied Ashley, with a brilliant, teeth baring smile. “Sooo…why did Easy want you to look outside?”

“Oh, uh,” Spencer looked over to the window, “I don’t know. I’ll go look, I guess…”

She stood from the bed and walked over to the window, as Ashley rolled on her side, still looking after her.

“Well?”

“Oh…my…God,” Spencer said in disbelief.

“What?”

“OHMYGOD!”

“Okay, first…I’m not sure if that’s even a word, and second…what the hell!”

Spencer jumped up and down and squealed like a giddy school girl. “Get dressed, get dressed, get dressed!” She looked over to Ashley who was staring blank-faced at her. “Come on! We’re going outside like now!”

Before Ashley could ask why, Spencer ran into the bathroom and leaped through the threshold, closing the door.

“Oh-ho-kay, then…”

Ashley shook her head and climbed out of bed. She grabbed a throw blanket and wrapped it around herself, before walking towards the window.

She looked out of it, closed and rubbed her eyes, and stared, again.

“Oh, fuck me…”

It had snowed.