Spencer watched as she swiped the card and then glanced
back over to what had her attention a moment a go. It was
Ashley but she couldn’t make out who she was sitting with.
She saw Ashley holding her hand up to her mouth and the
other one was holding her stomach, she was laughing. Spencer
tried to make out the other girl but her back was to her,
Spencer was baffled.

Maybe it’s not her.

She asked Ashley last night if she was going to be at lunch
the next day so that Spencer could see her, and the brunette
said that she had a meeting and that she couldn’t. As she
approached she could hear the laugh that she could recognize
anywhere. A feeling washed over her, and it wasn’t anger.
She was sure there was a reasonable explanation as to why
she turned down Spencer’s invite and was now sitting with
this girl. Ashley didn’t lie, at least she thought that.
She watched as this girl was able to make her girlfriend
laugh with ease and she realized what the feeling was, no it
wasn’t anger. It was jealousy.

Ashley looked up and met eyes with Spencer, who was
unconsciously walking towards the table that she was sitting
at. Ashley’s face lit up when she saw her but immediately
turned into a frown when she saw Spencer’s do the same. It
was then that she noticed that Spencer was looking at the
other girl she was sitting with, Tracy. Spencer wanted to
leave and run out of the cafeteria but she knew she
couldn’t. She didn’t like Tracy much at all, she was
always making smart comments and making things
uncomfortable. With the two or three encounters that she had
with her she could tell that she was bad news, and she
didn’t like how she acted around Ashley. They were friends
but Spencer secretly didn’t like her and she said
something about her once but Ashley froze up and wouldn’t
talk about it. There was something that she didn’t want to
tell but now she might have to.

“What’s wrong?” Ashley mouthed at her as she
approached

Spencer didn’t respond. Instead she looked down and
avoided eye contact.

“Hey Spence, Pull up a seat” Tracey said smiling