Ashley sat picking at the last plantain on her plate.  She normally ate everything from Pampas Grill, but she had lost her appetite lately.   

“Come on Ashley, hurry up.” Kyla looked at Ashley then stood up.  “Seriously, are you going to eat that, or just keep poking it?  Hey!  Ashley?” Kyla practically yelled, trying to get her sister’s attention.  “We’re going to miss the beginning of the movie.” 

Ashley looked up from her plate.  As she started to stand up, she caught the sight of familiar blond hair through the middle of the Farmer’s Market.  Ashley stared. 

“Spencer?”  Ashley, a bit dazed, whispered to herself.

The blond kept walking, behind a stall and out of Ashley’s eyesight.  Ashley shot up, knocking her chair to the ground, and took off towards the stall behind which the blonde disappeared. 

“Hey, where are you going?” Kyla yelled out after the sprinting Ashley.

Ashley quickly came to the spot she first spotted the blonde.  ‘Could it really have been Spencer?’ thought Ashley.  Frantic, she scanned the crowd.  She took off at a jog, west towards the far end of the market. 

“Spencer?” Ashley called out again.  ‘There’s just no way.  What are the chances that in a city of 3 million, Spencer will be here, after not seeing her for a year and a half?  And what are the chances that Spencer is even in LA anymore.  She graduated from UCLA; she could be anywhere in the country now,’ thought Ashley.  By the time Ashley made it all the way back around the market and still hadn’t spotted the blonde again, she knew the blond hair had just been a figment of her imagination. 

“Ash, you really have to stop thinking you’re seeing Spencer.  This is the third time this has happened since the toured ended and you came back here,” Kyla said, sounding annoyed.  First you see her on Melrose – in front of Fred Segal – from a block away.  And where else did you tell me you saw her?  Oh, right, at LAX.  Spencer hated to go out to clubs, forget the fact that it is a straight club!  Never once did you both go out to the clubs off Cahuenga when you two were together.  Do you really think that she would have been at LAX?