Aiden chocked on his drink and his eyes bulged out of his head. So, okay, he had felt guilty about the whole thing for a long time, but it was not all his fault.

Spencer and Madison both burst out laughing at his expression, only stopping when Spencer fell off the couch and started hiccuping. They just sat staring at each other for awhile, till Spencer cocked her head to the side and smiled.

“We are such loosers, you know that? We are young, reasonably attractive people sitting crying on a couch on a Friday night. And I just realised that we’re going to have hangovers tomorrow when we go to lunch, with my parents. Oh God, that’s so gonna suck.”

They all three sat there contemplating lunch with Spencers’ parents and the happy, almost wed couple and all three groaned in unison. Paula was going to have a field day with them. Spencer’s only happy thought was that at least she would not see Ashley till that evening and by then her hangover would have probably subsided.

That was the last thought to float in her head as she walked to her room and kicked off her pants and put on a tank top to sleep in. Little did she know that Ashley would be popping by much sooner than that.

Ashley had caught an earlier flight out of England and landed about the same time Spencer drifted off into a dreamless sleep. She had been nervous during the flight, her leg bouncing incessantly and sleep evading her the whole way. She had had a lot of time to think about things on the flight to LA, hell, she had seven years to think about things. Things being Spencer of course. Ashley had made a success of herself, well, after almost killing herself the first year in London with nameless faces and a barrage of different drugs. She had done exactly in that first year what one would expect of her. She had buried her sadness in sex with people she would barely recognize in the morning and enough drugs to block out any thought of one Spencer Carlin. She had slowly numbed her brain, each day and each drug fading the sight of honey brown hair and blue eyes from her aching heart. She only realized the folly in all of that when she woke up in a hospital room after over dosing.