“College fair in the gym…didn’t you guys go during first period?”

“Oh that…yeah I was a little late getting to school this morning…”

Spencer rolled her eyes at Ashley and proceeded to spread out the different pamphlets showing Ashley where she wanted to go to school and what programs they had available.  It was enough to make anyone’s head spin.

“Geez Spence…these are some great schools…where are you going to apply?”

“I haven’t really decided yet…my dad wants me to go to USC and major in psych like he did…but I don’t know…I want to do something different…like English or Communications or something…”

“Well with your SAT score I’m sure you’ll get in wherever you want…”

They had taken the SAT’s in November and Spencer had done really well.  She scored a 1450 but what she didn’t know was that Ashley edged her out by a mere 20 points…Ashley just didn’t want Spencer to know she did so well given that she really didn’t want to go to college.  She knew that if Spencer found out her score that Spencer would be hounding her to at least apply somewhere and if by some miracle she did get in she didn’t want to have to make a life altering decision like that.  I mean how can you really decide where to spend the next 4 years of your life?  Ashley just wanted to take things one day at a time.  Not Spencer though.

“Well I don’t know…I was looking at some schools back east…or possibly UW…have you ever been to Washington?  Ash?  Ash?”

“Huh?”

Ashley had just been listening to what Spencer was saying and she had images of Spencer going off to some great school and leaving her in la-la land as she called it.  Spencer had so many hopes and dreams and while that was something that Ashley loved about Spencer…but it was also the same thing that made her feel insignificant at times.  Like right now.

“Uh yeah.  Its great I guess…”

“Hey…you okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine…so when is all this stuff due anyway?”

Spencer studied Ashley for any signs of what was going on but when she came up empty she just gave in and kept the conversation going.  Another trick she learned when it came to Ashley.  Sometimes she just had to let Ashley go and know that Ashley would open up to her in time.