Spencer spent the rest of summer locked in the hospital, working on restoring her energy. She had been shot in the lower stomach and her right leg, the pain and nightmares made it hard to sleep but Ashley and her family was there from the beginning, day in and day out. Turns out she’d been in a coma for a month in a half, but the weirdest thing besides the constant nightmares of a man named Cal kidnapping her or her parents fighting or drowning in the sea or bullets and blood that she seemed to never remember when she woke up was that her mom and Ashley were getting along.

“Hey,” Spencer turned her head away from the window in which she’d been staring out since last night, not able to sleep.

“Ash,” Ashley smiled before sitting in a chair near the bed, “I thought my dad was coming in?”

“He is I just wanted to stop by, is that okay?” the blond nodded but stayed silent before turning her attention back to the window, “You sleep last night?” Ashley asked noticing the dark circles under her girlfriend’s eyes; the girl was trying to be strong, not wanting to show how weak she was.

“No, hey so I’m getting out of the hospital tomorrow…”

“Nice subject change, your getting better at it.” Ashley stood up and sat on the bed, leaning forward brushing some loose strands of hair behind Spencer’s ear, “You excited?”

“Sort of, I can’t believe I spent the summer asleep.”

“Yeah well, it wasn’t fun anyway so no big,” Spencer intertwined her hand with Ashley’s before kissing every knuckle, “Seriously are you okay?”

“I’m afraid…”

“Of what?”

“Going back to school, I know it’s stupid…”

“No it’s not; I’m actually not looking forward to it either.” Ashley assured her.

“Really?”

“Yeah, I mean we just got you back and well I know we haven’t talked about what happened at prom…”

“Ashley,”

“Listen okay, I have been sitting here non stop hoping for the best. I barely spoke to Kyla or anyone else. I haven’t seen Aiden since that night, and now I have to go to school and listen to the rumors or hell see him and you know he’s going to want to talk and I do owe it to him I just don’t want you…” her rant was short lived as Spencer placed a finger to her lips.