“Nah…my best friend back home was gay…”

“Okay…so yeah guys…Friday then?  Like around 9?  Ash?”

“Huh?”

Ashley had zoned out the minute that she heard Spencer say ‘dating’ and she wondered where that came from.  Surely they were past the dating stage.  What the hell was going on???

“Friday?  Grays?  We’ll meet you guys at 9 at your place?”

“Yeah whatever…”

RING

“Hey I gotta get going.  My next class is on the other side of campus…”

Ashley grabbed her stuff and headed off leaving the three of them to wonder what just happened.  Aiden and Jamie were trying to make things as comfortable as possible but Spencer could have cared less.  She wondered why Ashley just up and left like that. 

“So yeah…I guess I should get going too…”

Spencer grabbed her stuff and just like Ashley she headed off to class.  She knew that Ashley had Drama next period, which was right around the corner in the auditorium so she knew her bailing like that was not a good sign.  Unfortunately for Spencer, she didn’t have any other classes with Ashley which meant she wouldn’t get to see her until the end of the day which meant she had to sit through two more classes before getting a chance to talk to her.  This was going to be a long afternoon.

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Spencer stood by Ashley’s locker waiting for her so they could leave together.  After a few minutes Ashley arrived looking sad.

“Hey…what’s wrong?”

“Nothing…”

“Then why the face?  What’s up?”

Ashley slammed her locker shut and headed towards her car not wanting to make a scene at school.  She had managed to avoid Madison and anyone else who might piss her off and she didn’t need to give them ammunition by fighting with her straight-girlfriend on the first day of school.  Spencer had to practically run to keep up and it wasn’t until they were safely inside the confines of Ashley’s car that she finally spoke.

“Dating Spence?  Really?”

“What?”

Ashley had the last two periods to digest what Spencer had said at lunch.  Dating.  It sounded so…so…temporary.  Ashley had ‘dated’ quite a few people but she hadn’t been and hadn’t wanted to be ‘together’ with someone since Aiden.  But then Spencer came along and changed all that.  Deep down Ashley knew that Spencer probably didn’t see it as a big deal and she couldn’t blame her, it just kind of shocked her that Spencer had dismissed their relationship so easily.  Truth be told she probably shouldn’t have made such a big deal about it, but once Ashley got going it was hard to tame her stubbornness.  It’s a fault of hers.