They hadn’t talked in over a week.  Spencer had been avoiding all of Ashley’s calls, causing Ashley to feel a serious crack in the resolve she had built up over the past few months.  Vanessa found herself busied with attempting to keep her from losing it completely and reverting to the girl she’d first found in London.  Hence the setting up of a gig at a new club downtown, Blaq.  What neither of them knew was that Spencer had been relentlessly hounded by a friend at UCLA to accompany her to the new hot club downtown.

She didn’t really know why she was there.  Angela had bothered her endlessly about needing to get out more once she had started spending more time in the dorm room she had earlier vacated for the apartment.  So there she sat, at the bar in Blaq with a cheap beer in her hand and a dull glaze over her eyes.  She hadn’t enjoyed watching the sweaty bodies pulsate to yet another predictable electronica beat.  She continued to wonder why she was there, why she was still feeling horribly dependent on others, why she was being stared at by a green eyed brunette, why said brunette was then standing directly in front of her with a thoughtful expression.

“You’re Spencer Carlin right?” and the plot thickens.  It seemed she had much more to wonder about after that question.

“Yeah, why? No wait, I’ve got a better question, how do you know my name?” the brunette laughed.  Spencer seemed to be completely lost in the situation; quite ironic really, from what she’d heard the girl had been lost in nearly all situations.

“I’m Vanessa.  Ashley talks about you non-stop.  Showed me pictures once, though I doubt she remembers that night.”

“Oh, weird.  This is quite the coincidence then, huh?” once again the other girl laughed, as though she was in on jokes the blonde had no inkling of.

“There’s no such thing as a coincidence when it comes to love.  Which brings me to my next question, Spencer dear, why are you fighting the inevitable?” Spencer furrowed her brows in confusion.

“What are you talking about?” she couldn’t at that time decipher why Ashley had quite nearly relied on this girl to help her over those months.