The little girl bobbled her head. She picked up the picture in her little hands and showed Spencer the colorful scribbles proudly. In a loud voice she proclaimed it, “It’s a fwower (flower).”

She beamed down at the little girl, “Wow, it’s beautiful. Ashden don’t you thinks its pretty?”

Ashden nodded his head, “Yes!”

Spencer sat down the picture and stood up. She held Teigue in her arms and looked down at Ashden. She smiled and sat Teigue down in the chair she had just occupied. “I need to check on Mad. How about you color me another picture?”

Both children went back to work quickly, talking among themselves.

Spencer turned around and headed through the hallway toward the living room. Ashley had put Maddelena to sleep before she left. Every time that Spencer comes over, Maddelena gets comfortable around Ashley and ends up falling to sleep to her melodic voice.  It had only been a couple days since Ashley had first sung to the little girl, but from then they all have been spending a lot of time together. Either at lunch, or Ashley would come to Art class with Ashden, or getting ready for the wedding, or even hanging out after work. The two was becoming closer and closer and that sort of scared Spencer. She was afraid that they were moving too fast. That their relationship was becoming to go into a different boundary.

“Then again, who the fuck cared it we go headstrong into this relationship?” Spencer thought to herself. “Everything that had happened is behind us; we have let all that hurt go. We have started over. So, why can’t we just finally be happy and get together.” She was in the middle of an emotional turmoil. She knew that they both wanted this. She knew Ashley knew she knew that. They both where now playing the ‘let’s take it slow’ game that everyone in the universe thinks that would be best. They already went down that lane. Now, they were just wasting their time when they could be together. She knew the end result. They would get together. Yes, Spencer might be cocky, but it was all honesty. If they where playing it safe because the kids, or ease them into the idea of it, then it was a waste also.