A/N:  Fast fwd another 11 years…this makes Ash/Spence/Aiden/Kyla 16, Glen/Clay 17.  

Ashley was befuddled.  Well, not really confused, but more worried about the upcoming trip.  If she was honest with herself, she’d have to say she’d first started noticing Spencer’s body when she first began the frightening transition called puberty.  It had been even more frightening after their 6th grade teacher decided to show them a video called "Changes and Choices", which featured a scary looking man in a blue suit that said "testosterone" across the chest and an equally hideously appareled woman in pink, marked "estrogen".  The two sang and danced through this 70′s era video about the changes the young students’ bodies would soon be undergoing.  "I’m testosterone" sung one "I made boys have hair on their chests!"  "I’m estrogen" replied the other "I make girls have breasts!".  Of course, they came together to sing the theme song, "changes and choices, and so many voices!", and danced merrily in their costumes while scaring all of the 12 year olds in Ms. Carlson’s class shitless about the onset of the dreaded "testicular development" and "feminine hygeine problems".   

Anyway, Ashley, being slightly older, had began her surge in hormones a bit earlier than Spencer, and thus one day awoke in bed next to her best friend (they slept over quite often) and for the first time noticed the younger girl’s tiny breasts as her night shirt had ridden up in the night, and felt an uncomfortable surge of heat in a henceforth unfamiliar location.  This was obviously quite disconcerting, and became even more so in the following months as she noticed the changes in her own body, and soon after, in Spencer’s.  The heated feeling between her legs came more often as Ashley noticed how Spencer’s hips were becoming more developed, and tufts of curly blonde hair had began to appear at the apex of her thighs (they also changed in front of each other).  Soon after, Ashley decided to give her friend a bit more privacy when they changed for bed or put on bathing suits, nearly running away anytime poor Spencer even dared to remove her socks, leaving the poor younger girl befuddled as to why her best friend all of a sudden found her to be such bad company.