Spencer Carlin pulled up onto the king high parking lot, slowly got out of the car and looked at the place she knew quiet well.  With a cigarette in one hand and a phone in the other, with a text message on the screen that read, “ Please come home”, she had been reading the same message for weeks when’s he finally decided she would return to L.A.

She blow out the final puff of smoke and discarded the cigarette butt, put her phone into her pocket and started making her way towards the quad, where she knew her friends would be sitting.

As she walked along she could see the stirs and hear the whispers from the other pupils in the school.

As she approached the table if which all her friends sat, she noticed nothing had changed.  There was Glen, her brother sitting next to Madison, Clay her other brother, sitting near his girlfriend Chelsea.  Then there was Jake with his back turned facing Kyla however, someone was missing.

She got closer to the table but still no one noticed yet. They were either sucking face, eating or reading. When she got to the table she jus stood their observing her friends. Glen then looked up feeling another presents at the table.

“Excuse me can I- OH MY GOD SPENCER!” he shouted out in surprise. With that everyone at the table turned in surprise and shock.

“ Spencer… where have you-“ kyla tried to talk was abruptly cut off.

“Where’s Ashley?” Spencer asked, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. She took one puff blow out the smoke and looked at her friends waiting for an answer.

“Gosh Spence, no hello-“ before Jack could finish his sentence Spencer punched him in the nose and surely, he was bleeding. Everyone around the table looked on in shock.

“ Spencer, like what the hell!  why did you-“ again Kyla was cut of by Spencer.

“I said where’s Ashley?” she asked clearly annoyed, but remaining calm.

“Fine” Kyla said defeated. “She’s in the restroom”

“Thanks” she said, and then crouched down to Jack and inspect the damage. “See. It wasn’t that hard” she laughed knowing that he would probably be bleeding for a while. “ Oh and don’t call me Spence, you lost the right to that a while ago” she said in a serious voice, looking at him straight in the eyes. She stood up, looked around the table once more and then made her way to the restroom.