Paula and Ben glowered at them, “come on Glen.”  She pulled Glen along with her.

Ashley had been mostly quiet but she finally pulled out from her thinking, she wanted Paula to hear this so she needed to say it fast.

“Spencer Carlin, will you promise me that you’ll stick around long enough to become Spencer Carlin Davies?”

The room was silent.

“What?!”  Paula half gasped half whispered in utter shock.  “Is this a proposal?”  Her voice escalated higher, “B-but it’s a phase Spencer.  She’ll outgrow you.   Spencer is straight Ashley.  She is straight.” 

Ashley was now smiling because she saw the answer in Spencer’s eyes.  She could always predict the answers for yes or no questions from the way those blue eyes spoke so clearly to her.  And also because Spencer knew very clearly that Ashley had wanted to say this in front of her mother.  And her eyes were almost scolding Ashley for being such a pain in her mother’s ass.  But she was loving it the way Ashley could make the older woman hyperventilate.  

“Yes Ashley Davies, I promise.”

Spencer walked across the room and hugged Spencer tightly.  She could feel the smiles of her friends and loved ones, and three pairs of eyes glaring down on them.

“Disgusting.”  Ben scoffed.

Ashley looked up from her embrace with her lover. 

“You know Ben what I find disgusting is your face.”  Ashley said smirking.  Ashley loved getting people so worked up.  Especially if they deserved it.  Ben looked as if he wanted to storm over towards Ashley, and he did.  Just as he was in Ashley’s face Spencer slipped in between the two.

“Aren’t you supposed to be getting out of MY house now?” 

“Get out of my way little girl.”  He seethed.

“Wow, you really can’t take a hit to your pride can you?”  Kyla mocked from the side.  “Its amazing how little it takes to get you to attack a girl.”  Clay added with an almost professor like tone.

Ben’s eyes were now wild with fury he did not come here to get beaten down by people’s words.

“Sticks and stones will break your bones but words should never hurt you!”  Chelsea chirped happily from the corner as if she were a mother scolding her son.

“SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!”  He yelled, he looked around at all them having trouble keeping his temper.

Just then Aiden stood up from his chair.  “Dude just chill, now I think it’d be best you and Paula leave now.”

Ben looked down at the boy.  He may have been taller but the boy had quiet some muscle on him.  Ben finally looked around at the many eyes of the Carlin pack staring down at him. 

“Lets go honey.”  He called to Paula, Glen followed them out the door.  Satan and Sataness walked out with their noses held so high it was sickening.

When the door finally shut close Ashley smiled a little, looking like a child who just broke her mother’s favorite vase, “I guess getting Clay to get them to come over wasn’t such a good idea.”

That managed to get a couple people giggling.  After that Arthur spoke up.

“Ashley thank you for bringing back my daughter back.”  Arthur beamed at the brunette.

Ashley blushed, she wasn’t used to getting good comments from adults.  She had always been beat down by her mother and her teachers.  It felt nice.

“It was no problem Mr. C.  I think we all really wanted it.”

Then the official reunion began.  The hugs and the tears of joy.  Spencer hugged them all and thanked them all for standing up for her.  Arthur spoke like a gleeful child, “I’ll go bake a cake as celebration for Spencer’s birthday!” 

Kyla, Aiden, Clay and Chelsea all conversed happily while Spencer watched her friends.  No they weren’t friends anymore, they were her family, she watched her family talk passionately smiling, laughing.  And she knew she was home.  Feeling warm arms encircle her waist she leaned backwards into the comfort of Ashley’s body.

“Thank you babe, I love you so much.”

Ashley smiled to herself and nuzzled Spencer’s neck breathing in her girlfriend’s scent.

“Welcome home beautiful, and happy birthday.”  They help each other and continued to whisper their “I love you’s continuously and quietly in the corner.