“You mean you don’t want to?”

Ashley kissed her softly when she heard the fear in her voice.

“Of course I do, but I don’t want our first time to be in a bathroom.”

Spencer bit her lip and cocked her head.

“You do realize this wouldn’t be our first time, not by any stretch of the imagination.”

Ashley chuckled at the truth of those words.

“I know, but it’s been seven years. This would be like a new first time.”

Spencer remembered the day she expressed the wish to have a new first time. She also remembered the gentle, loving way Ashley gave her that new first time. Her heart warmed at the thought that Ashley wanted it to be special, wanted it to be everything a first time should be.

“I guess that’s kind of true. It would be the new and improved Ashley and the, hopefully, new and improved Spencer’s first time.”

Ashley lifted the hand on her shoulder and kissed the warm palm.

“Exactly! And you never needed to improve, the old Spence was everything I could ever wish for and the new improvements are just a bonus.”

They kissed once more before heading out of the bathroom and joining the rest of the dancing woman in varying degrees of drunkenness. On top of the stage Kyla and Madison had both found themselves a male counterpart to dirty dance with.

“Hey, isn’t that Madison’s cousin she’s basically dry humping with?”

Ashley looked again and found that it was indeed Soulful Steve that was grinding hips with Madison. She gave a rather naughty smile at Spencer as she leaned closer to her ear.

“Ever hear the expression ‘Cousins makes dozens’?”

Spencer frowned, clearly at a complete loss and Ashley smiled.

“Babies, Spence, babies.”

Spencer ‘ewwed’ for about a second before she burst out laughing.

The rest of the evening went well, luckily Madison ended up leaving with someone not related to her and Kyla only vomited once. Spencer for her part had been a little more subdued, sure she had danced and joked with Ashley, but there was something bothering her. Ashley knew her well enough to know there was something on her mind. She debated asking her as they rode in the quiet limo with a sleeping Kyla across from them.

After another five minutes of watching Spencer stare out of the window, she decided to ask.

“Spence, is there something on your mind?”

Spencer was startled out of her thoughts by the question and the gentle squeeze of Ashley’s hand. There was indeed something she was wondering about, had been wondering about ever since her love-fuzzed brain had cleared a bit. She worried at her bottom lip as she looked into Ashley’s warm brown eyes.

“We’re together now, right? I mean you said as much in the bathroom, so I’ve been wondering…” She was quiet again, leaving her sentence just hanging in the air. “I’ve been wondering how this is going to work.”

Ashley was confused for her part. She was not sure where Spencer was going with this.

“First of, yes, we’re together now, much groveling on my side has assured that luckily. Second, what do you mean how is this going to work?”

Spencer gave her a look that asked if she was being stupid.

“Ashley, I asked how this was going to work, because you live in London now and I live in LA.”

Ashley mentally kicked herself as she realized two things. First off she was being stupid, because their living in different countries was an obvious problem and second, because it was an obvious problem she had not realized they had during her whole campaign to get Spencer back.

She looked into Spencer’s face and not for the first time in their history together, Ashley hesitated after a very important question.