“I hardly think that’s it Spencer. You’re about to cry. Besides, families don’t just disown members, what happened?” Ashley asked as she inched closer to Spence and laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

“I don’t know why I’m telling you this. I mean, I’ve never told anyone. Not even Clay. He is my brother that lives in Colorado. He didn’t disown us or anything. He loves us and he hasn’t even met Justin. But he can’t get away from Colorado so I can’t see him and Justin can’t meet him and it’s just all a mess.” Spencer said as she sniffled. She was not going to cry this time. No matter what, she could not show that she was weak. If she opened up, then Ashley would hurt her just like everyone else in her life had.

“I don’t know either. But I think I might have an idea. I think it’s because we both know that what we have, is going to be something amazing. This friendship is going to be better than any other friendship or relationship that we have ever had. That’s why you’re opening up to me. Does that sound about right?” Ashley wasn’t quite sure where that came from, but she knew that everything she had just said was true.

“Yea, that sounds about right. Well, I guess since I started I better tell you the rest huh?” Spencer asked as she straightened up in her seat causing Ashley’s hand to slip down to rest on her lower thigh. “Ok then, here goes nothing. Well, my family disowned me because I got pregnant. It was the end of my freshman year in high school when it happened…” Spencer began but sort of tapered off. She kept thinking of how she had never told anyone this other than her family and best friend, both parties of which had not believed her and had later abandoned her.Spencer just couldn’t help but feel like Ashley would leave her too. However, once she felt Spencer’s comforting hand on her shoulder and her other hand being grabbed by Ashley’s other hand, she realized that that wouldn’t happen this time. She was finally able to continue. “Well, it was at the end of October in the middle of football season. Football at my old school in Bowdon, Georgia is a huge deal. Anyway, the star football player of the team, his name was Blake, asked me out. I didn’t really think twice about if cuz the most popular senior had just asked me out. I was the smart, goody-two-shoes freshman. Liz, my best friend, got jealous but I didn’t care cuz I knew she would get over it. So anyway, it was a long weekend cuz the school had a teacher workday on Monday. The rest of my family left town to go to the lake or something, I don’t really remember. Anyway, I didn’t wanna go cuz of my date with Blake so I pretended to be sick. What makes me so pissed off is that no one even bothered to see if I needed anything, they just up and left. So I was left at home on that Friday night all alone. I started to get ready and just as I finished putting on my make-up, the doorbell rang. I ran downstairs all giddy and excited as I pulled open our heavy wooden door. I asked Blake to come inside while I ran and got my purse I had left in my room. So I ran back upstairs and into my room, but when I turned around to leave, Blake was standing there blocking my way. He asked where my family was and when I told him that they had gone out of town, he got the weird look in his eyes that really scared me. When I asked him if he was ready to go, he said that he had changed his mind and that he wanted to stay in for the night…” This is where Haley stopped speaking in a robotic monotone voice and had to pause. Her voice began to shake and tears were streaming down her face.