“Well I guess the beginning would be good. So when we graduated and you dumped me-“

“Because you cheated on me.”

“Right. Not concerning the matter at hand Spence, so no need to bring that up.” She got up and started walking around the office. The last thing she needed was Spencer giving her the evil eye when she was explaining her little situation. Well little… “Anyway, I went to college. But that didn’t really work out. So I started travelling until that got boring and I wasted enough of my dad’s money. After a while I decided to open a bookstore. Yeah, I can hear you thinking, Ashley, books? No way.”

“Actually I’m thinking when on earth you’re gonna get to the point of this little story. I don’t need to know your entire life Ashley, I have magazines for the life story of drama queens.”

Ashley sighed and turned around. She ran a hand through her hair. “Bitch ‘r’ you, huh Spencer?”

“When it comes to you, yes. So either get to the point or stop wasting my time.” Spencer really didn’t have the energy for this. And Ashley beating around the bush didn’t help her mood. Every second more the brunette was in the same room as herself aggravated her more and more.

“In that case, I guess I was wrong when I thought that you could put the past behind us when I come to you for help.” Ashley grabbed her purse and walked towards the door.

Spencer watched Ashley go and kicked herself over the head for acting so childish. This wasn’t high school anymore. She wasn’t teenager Spencer anymore. If Ashley was still teenager Ashley was something that could be debated about. Either way, there was no need to resort to such behaviour. “Ashley wait…” She got up and walked to Ashley. “I’m sorry, that was uncalled for.” She easily slipped into her professional behaviour and took the other woman’s wrist, practically dragging her to the chair she had just vacated. She pushed Ashley down. So maybe her professional image still had a few cracks here and there. “Now, continue.”

Ashley just raised her eyebrow at Spencer, wondering what just happened. One minute she wants the brunette out and the other minute she wants to know what’s going on. Talk about mood swings.