The morning of the wedding found Ashley and Spencer asleep on Kyla’s bedroom floor. Above them on the bed Madison and Kyla snored away lightly as the breeze blew lazily in through a open window. After the rehearsal dinner Kyla had kicked Glen out of the house saying it was tradition that they only see each other at the church. He left pretty much grumbling and moaning as he phoned his parents to inform them he would be staying the night there.

The plan was that everyone would leave together to have hair and make up done and then come back to get dressed. The wedding was only starting at three o’clock in the afternoon and they would have time to have a late breakfast before leaving to have everything done.

Ashley was the first to shift, consciousness slowly pushing the tendrils of sleep away. She buried her face into the shoulder she had been sleeping on and tightened her grip around Spencer’s waist. Ashley was not much of a morning person and whenever she had the supreme luck of waking up next to Spencer, she tended to prolong the process of waking fully. There was always a safety in Spencer’s arms that she could never find anywhere else and this morning was no different. She inhaled the always familiar sent of the slumbering young woman next to her and gave a sleepy smile.

They had not intended to fall asleep on the floor, but the night had run very late with conversation and movies and soppy love songs being played. Spencer had built them a bed of pillows and blankets around one in the morning right next to the bed where Kyla and Madison where still chatting about how much it was going to suck for Kyla to have to sleep with only one person for the rest of her life. Needless to say the riveting conversation sent Spencer to dream land not long afterwards and Ashley knocked out an hour later.

Now Ashley lay and watched as Spencer’s chest rose and fell with her even breathing, feeling as though all was well with the world in that moment. She smiled as Spencer gave a small sigh and wrapped her arm even tighter around Ashley’s shoulder.