Months had flown past and Spencer and Ashley had grown virtually as one. They spent every moment with one another; going over each other’s houses, doing home work, going to the mall, even walking in the halls before class. Though neither of them perused the other; it was evident to everyone in school that they had feelings for one another so therefore no one intervened. But what was holding them back? Fear? Potential heartbreak? No one knew and neither did they; they were just waiting for the other to make the first move; but how long would that take?

Ashley had invited Spencer over for the weekend; she had opened her pool for the summer so she thought they would have a nice time.

Swimming toward the deep end of the pool Ashley looked back at Spencer who stood awkward in the shallow end.

“Come on Spence! Swim!” Ashley encouraged her blonde friend to follow.

“I can’t,” Her words were whispered and Ashley could not hear them. The brunette swam back to her friend and pouted.

“Why aren’t you swimming?” She stroked the girls arm comfortingly.

“I can’t swim,” Spencer answered while looking at the water.

“Aw, c’mon it’s simple,” Ashley demonstrated by swimming around Spencer a few times, which made the blonde blush with embarrassment.

“I can’t,” she mumbled, Ashley smiled and held out her hand for the blonde leading her toward a deeper section of the pool.

“It’s ok, I got you,” She reassured her friend.

As the day progressed Ashley had tried yet did not succeed fully at making her blonde companion water friendly. All Ashley was able to teach Spencer was to tread water; which she did very well seeing as it was the only way she could stay alive.

“See you’re not doing so bad,” Ashley shrugged swimming circles around the blonde.

“Yes I am it’s not like I can actually swim! All I can do is stay in one place,” Spencer sighed.

“You’ll learn,” Ashley whispered swimming behind her blonde friend.

“It’s hard though,” Mumbled Spencer, the brunette hugged her from behind resting her head on the blonde’s shoulder.

“No it’s not,” Ashley hummed shaking her head but Spencer hardly noticed all she paid attention to was the closeness of Ashley’s body to her own.