"Oh alright," replied the brunette.

   "What time do you have to get back?" asked Spencer.

   "I actually don’t have a specific curfew, my mom doesn’t really care much about Kyla and me, or what we do.  But I should probably get going too so I can find my sister,"

   "Oh, ok.  Well do you wanna get going then?"

   "Yeah, come on, I’ll walk you to the elevator," answered the brunette, standing up and offering her hands to Spencer to help her up.  Spencer obliged, and couldn’t help but notice how good Ashley’s hands felt in her own.  As the girls began making their way around everyone else’s chairs they said their goodbyes and made plans to meet up in the same place the next morning.

 Spencer and Ashley walked in a comfortable silence to the elevator, stopping just in front of it.

   "Well I had fun tonight, and I’m sorry again about the club," said Ashley quietly, looking directly into Spencer’s blue eyes.

   "Hey, like I said it’s fine," assured the blonde smiling and meeting Ashley’s gaze.

Ashley averted her eyes after a few seconds and wrapped Spencer into a quick hug before pulling back again.  "Well I’d better get going so I can find Kyla,"

   "Uh..alright, well I’ll see you tomorrow?"

   "Yeah totally, alright well goodnight," said Ashley in a rushed tone.  She gave the blonde a quick grin and then walked off.

Spencer was more confused than ever at the weird way Ashley was acting, but decided not to read too much into it.  She had a bad habit of over-analyzing things which caused her a whole lot of unecessary stress.  

The blonde made it back to her room only to find it completely empty.  Apparently her brothers were still out doing Lord knows what.  She decided that she would rather not know and changed into her pj’s before grabbing her CD player and getting into her tiny little bed.  She knew that she definitely had too much going on in her mind to be able to fall asleep without a little assistance, so she fell asleep to the soothing sounds of Dashboard Confessional once again.

         ….Color the coast with your smile it’s the most genuine thing I’ve ever seen, I was so lost but now I believe……