I hummed my response eyes closed.

“I love you”  She said and kissed my head.

“I love you too”  I repeated my voice already huskier from sleep.  I grabbed her hand in mine.  We laced our fingers together and slowly drifted to sleep.  

“Spe-”  I began to say, only to realize that she was completely out.  Cute gentle snores were being realized through her mouth.  The rise and fall of her chest was even and she lay on me like a dead weight.  

I let out a sleepy smile and kissed her on the cheek.  Oh well.  I guess I’d have to wait until tomorrow to ask her to marry me.  With a lazy shrug I let my self drift.

At that moment I didn’t think it was possible to be any happier.  

End Flashback

x x x

Spencer P.O.V.

It was like a dream.  That memory, this entire day.  I remember her kissing me.  I remember writing the hearts and I remember falling asleep in each others arms.  When she left me I might as well have been Vada losing my best friend.  

But now I had her back and I almost messed everything up.  After seeing that heart on her wrist, tattooed on permanently something inside of me sparked.  

“I’m so sorry I went with Randell.  I didn’t mean to.  You just seemed so different and older and I felt like a little kid.”  I blurted out suddenly.

I waited for Ashley to look me in the eyes and tell me that I was stupid or that now she really didn’t want to see me.  But she never did.  Her good hand was placed on mine and she stared at me intently.

“I like you for you Spence.”  She said seriously.  “Just the way you are.”  Those simple slightly cheesy lines spoke volumes to my tampered heart.  

We simultaneously sighed out our reliefs and exchanged smiles.  I can’t believe how stupid I was.  

“I’m sorry.  I-”  I tried to tell her how much of an idiot I am but she stopped me.

“Don’t be.  What do you say we forget about this.  Baby steps remember.”  She said.