“Do you want a refill?” Ashley asked, sincerely
“Um sure, I’ll get it though you don’t have too” Spencer started
“No, it’s fine, stay here. I’d be happy too” she
said flashing a grin as she took the cup

Okay. Wow I can’t believe she is here, so random.

Ashley effortlessly glided back towards Spencer and handed
her the freshly poured jungle juice. Spencer took a sip

“Ahhhh” she exaggerated
The brunette chuckled “What was that?” she asked
“Sorry, it was refreshing” Spencer replied blushing

The two stood in silence for a minute or two, not an
awkward silence, the kind of silence only best friends had.
The accepted silence, once Spencer realized that neither of
them had spoken for a bit, she spoke up to ease the tension.

“So are you a Sophomore?” she asked
“No, I’m a Junior” she replied sipping her drink
“Oh cool, I haven’t seen you before, that’s why I
asked” she responded
“Yeah, I try to keep below the radar” she said taking
another drink

Thirsty? Or just trying to get drunk so this will be
easier? Maybe I should get to drinking.

“Why’s that?” Spencer asked
“No reason, hey do you want to play beer pong with me?”
she asked, sort of changing the subject
“Um yeah, sure” she replied
“Okay I’ll get us on the list”

Spencer walked over to the table and had a quick
conversation with the team that was playing, she smiled and
then retreated back to where Spencer was standing.

“Good news” she said cheerfully
“Oh yeah, what’s that?” Spencer said back
“We’re next, and it’s last cup” she said
“Oh Awesome” the blonde replied “I’m going to go
get us some more jungle juice to fill our cups with” she
said walking towards the kitchen

Ashley went over to the table to watch how the rest of the
game panned out. By the time Spencer got back, the game was
over.

“Who won?” she asked eagerly
“We’re playing those two girls” she said as she
leaned in close and pointed to the two girls standing in the
hallway waiting to use the bathroom.

Her hair brushed up against Spencer’s shoulder and that
was when she got a waft of Ashley’s hair scent,
paralyzing. Spencer regained composure and pretended to not
be effected by it.

“Got any dirt on them?” Spencer asked, clearly
strategizing
“I like your thinking Carlin…Here’s what we’ll
do”

The two stood over the pong table and discussed their game
plan, finally they were ready to play.

“Who’s your friend Ash?” one of the rather manly
looking girls on the other end of the table asked

Woof.

“This is Spencer… Spencer that’s Chrissy and Sarah”
“Hello” Spencer offered cheerily
“Hello to you” the same girl said and smiled

Did she just lick her lips!?

Spencer looked up at Ashley somewhat skeptical, and Ashley
shot a look at both the girls, she seemed to captivate
everything she wanted to say with just a death glance and
then she looked back at Spencer with apologetic eyes.

“Okay, let’s play” Spencer broke the awkward silence
“You guys won so you get balls” she said rolling the
ping pong balls down the table toward their end

“No thanks, I don’t like balls” one of the girl’s
snickered

Ashley shot them another look and then looked over at
Spencer who pretended to not hear the girls.

It’s like she’s protecting me, kinda cool. Game On.

~~~~~~~

Ashley bent her knees to get the perfect angle, her right
arm was raised and the ping pong ball was being rotated by
her thumb and index finger, to get the ultimate arch. This
was the duos 5th straight game, after shutting out their
first opponents and allowing their second to only get 1 cup,
the next two made it down to 3 cups but they were
triumphant, this team posed their only threat. They each had
one cup left, and after both of the opposing team’s
shot’s bounced off the rim they decided to stop playing
games and finish it. Ashley’s right eye was shut, the
“sniper eye” if you will, either she was really focusing
or she was really drunk. She released the ball and sent it
through the air, it hit off the right rim and fell into the
cup.

“YES!!” Spencer yelled and gave her a high five
“Just make this one and we win” Ashley reminded her
“I know you can do it” she whispered into her ear
softly.

A jolt of electricity traveled up her spine and thru her
right arm, acting on impulse she release the ball, not even
taking her time. The ball line drived and went into the cup
with ease.

Both Ashley and Spencer stood in shock as the other team
fell to their knees. Ashley stared at Spencer as the blonde
stood paralyzed.

How did that happen?

“Oh my god, Spencer… you made it!” she yelped

It finally caught up with her, it wasn’t that she made
it, she made plenty of last cups before, in fact she
normally always made them. It was why she threw the ball,
she threw it because Ashley whispered in her ear and her
body reacted in a way she never felt before. A good way, she
didn’t want the feeling to go away.

“AH!!!” she yelled and gave Ashley a double high five

Holy shit.

“Next” Spencer challenged

They played 2 more games, beating both. There were no moreteams left to play, the party was still alive. It was at the
stage where everyone was pretty much having sex on the dance
floor and party fouls were happening left and right. It was
now that part of the night that you either had a red juice
stain on your outfit or in your mouth.

Spencer pulled out her cell phone that had just vibrated.

Matt: hi babe, where are you im bored here
Spencer: I’m at trish’s, stop by 4205, the door’s
open come on up : )

She went over to where the iPod was hooked up to the
speakers and started browsing through it, she found a song
she liked and hit play. While the music was off for a brief
second because of the change of song’s she yelled.

“Where’s Trisha at!?” as she walked out into the
middle of the floor.
“Shorty had them apple bottomed jeans..” the music
started

Trish ran out from the kitchen to join Spencer, they
started to do a dance in sync with each other. Like they
made it up once before.

Everyone started to laugh and mimic the perfectly
coordinated dance. Ashley was standing up against the wall,
she began to smile as she watched the two girls sing to each
other.

“Shorty was hot like a toaster, sorry but I had to fold
her like a pornography poster” Spencer sang into her cell
phone as she pointed to Trish.

When the next song came on, they both screamed.

“Do, Do you have a first aid kit handy?!” they both
sang

All of a sudden 3 of Spencer’s sorority sisters ran up
the stairs singing and dancing followed by Matt rubbing the
back of his neck.

Trish and Spencer turned around to see them and while
Spencer was singing she held up her hands and signaled them
to join them on the floor again they had a perfectly
coordinated dance and they were all singing and dancing
their hearts out.

“Tell me are you up for the challangeeeeeee” they
yelled

Most of the onlookers had joined in by this point, Ashley
was still leaning up against the wall with her hands across
her chest. She was laughing to herself at how crazy Spencer
looked but didn’t care. She had great moves though, she
had to give her that.

The song ended and the girls looked around trying to figure
out what to do with themselves… Spencer saw Matt standing
in the corner so she went over to greet him.

“Hey baby” she said and threw her arms around him.

Clearly Drunk. She didn’t believe in excessive PDA
otherwise
“Hi Babe” he said pulling out of the hug and lunging
for her lips.

Spencer found herself indulging herself in a passionate
kiss, he had his left hand around her lower back and she
brought her left hand up to his cheek to keep him from
stopping.

What’s gotten over me?

They didn’t stop for quite a while, they finally came up
for air.

“I missed you” he said looking into her eyes
“I missed you too” she said kissing him one more time

She pulled away from his grip to see where her friends
were, if they left or if they had gotten a drink which meant
more partying.

Ashley had moved from the spot she was at before, she felt
uncomfortable watching Spencer make out with that boy. She
went over to where some girls were sitting on the couch,
they could see the hurt in her face.

“What’s wrong Ash?” One girl asked
“What? Oh nothing” she replied dryly
“Come on Ace, I know that look” the girl said as she
reached for Ashley’s arm
Ashley pulled her arm away quickly.
“Whoa” the girl said
“Cut it out Trace” she replied angrily
“I was just trying to comfort you” Tracey replied
“I don’t need comforting, I’m fine” she replied
“Keep telling yourself that, I know you Ace” she said
sympathetically
“You knew me” she corrected
“Arrite, I’ll take it.” The girl averted her
attention across the room “She’s pretty though, I’ll
give you that, too bad she’s occupied”
“If I remember correctly, so were you” she shot back
glaring, her eyes narrow
“You can’t turn them all…” she started but was cut
off by Spencer
“Hey! There you are, this is Matt, my boy… my friend”
she quickly changed her mind
“I’m her boyfriend” he said as he reached out to
shake her hand
“Ouch” Tracey muttered under her breath

Ashley glared over at Tracey which caused Spencer to look
at Ashley and then to Tracey and then back at Ashley.

What’s going on?

“Well I don’t consider him my boyfriend cause he’s a
loser” she added quickly only half jokingly, messing up
his hair in the process

“Funny” he said fixing it with his fingers “Do you
guy’s know why there are so many girls here? Like where
are all the guys?” he asked

His comment caused Spencer to look around the room and
notice in fact that it was only girls, Matt was the only
guy. The girls were grinding with each other, touching each
other now that she thought about it, it was kind of strange.
She’d been so preoccupied with Pong that she didn’t
notice.

“That’s cause we’re all…” Tracey started to say
“Really good friends” Ashley cut in “It was a
girl’s night” she added hoping to answer his question
“Oh” he said
“Matt was it? Do you want a drink or something?” Ashley
asked
“Is there any beer?” he asked
“Yeah I think so, I’ll get you one” Ashley said
“Trace, you want to come with me?” she said looking at
her with narrowed eyes
“I’ll go with you” Spencer offered

Before Ashley could say no, Spencer was by her side. Matt
took out his cell phone and walked away from Tracey. Thank
god.

“What was that about?” she asked

Ashley ignored her, pretending not to hear. She opened the
cooler but there was only ice.

“Ash?”

Still no answer, which practically killed her because she
wasn’t able to respond to the nickname Spencer used.

Ashley tapped Trish on the shoulder, causing her to turn
around

“Where’s the extra beer?” she asked confused
“Oh I put it in my room” she said
“Got it” the brunette said as she started walking away
toward Trish’s room

Spencer followed her in, she wasn’t letting it go that
easy. She shut the door to Trish’s room and stood in front
of the door. Ashley grabbed a beer out of the cooler in the
closet and stood up to find Spencer in front of the door.

“What are you doing?” she asked puzzled
“I’m not moving until you answer my question” she
said, crossing her arms I mean business
“Spence, stop playing around” she said

Spence? She shivered and then sighed sweetly to cover it up then she refocused

“I’m not playing”
“Fine, what was your question?” she asked giving up
“What was that all about?” she asked one more time
“What was what all about?” Ashley asked sounding
puzzled even though she knew what she was referring too
“The looks you’re been exchanging with people all
night, the death stares, first to those girls we played in
pong, and then just now to that girl. What did she say that
got you so upset?” Spencer asked uncrossing her arms
Ashley sighed “I wasn’t upset” Lie. “I just do that
out of habit, I’m sorry I didn’t think you noticed”
Another lie.
“Why haven’t you given me one of those looks?”
Spencer asked almost upset that she hadn’t

Ashley took a step closer to her, Spencer could feel her
body stiffen.

“You don’t need to worry about that, I won’t ever
give you a look like that” she said almost whispering

There it was, that jolt.

Spencer stood in silence for what seemed like forever, she
swallowed what felt like a golf ball.

“I, um, I have to go…before Konover closes. Matt wants
to get a sandwich” she said with a cracking voice

She went over to pick up her coat off the floor, Ashley
just stood there.

“I’ll talk to you later” Spencer responded struggling
to get her words out

She walked out of the door, as she did she could hear
Ashley curse herself under her breath and she heard a
clanking noise, perhaps the beer bottle. She found Trish to
say bye, then she found her three friends and Matt on the
couch.

“Hi, are you guy’s ready?” she said in a hurry
“Yeah” the three girls replied simultaneously
“Where’s my beer?” he asked
“They ran out” she said lying

The 5 of them walked out the stairs and out into the
coldness of the night. They trekked their way to Konover to
get late night sandwhiches.