Without saying a word to protest his leaving or anything that he had said, Ashley watched him walk away. This was the second time she had lost her ability to form sentences when she needed them most. She didn’t want it to end like this. It wasn’t supposed to be this bad. She was under the impression that she’d still have her best friend at the end of this. No matter how delusional it sounded or how naive the thought was a girl could hope right?

With what little pride she could scrape off the floor, which wasn’t much, Ashley turned around and pushed her way through the crowd. Immediately deciding that school could wait another day. And just as she saw the final group of students leaving their small circle that once encircled her and Aiden, she saw her. Saw the blonde head of hair walking away from the crowd as well. Had she heard the fight? How did it make her feel? All sorts of ridiculous thoughts were swarming Ashley’s head the moment she saw the back of Spencer walking off.

Deciding against running after Spencer, Ashley let her go. She herself needed to process the whole situation, and she could only imagine what was going on in the other girls head. Walking towards her car Ashley couldn’t help but feel a little relieved yet confused and emotional about the whole situation that happened in less than 2 hours of being at King High that morning. This school was jinxed she decided. 

With all these thoughts clouding her Ashley found herself in the parking lot in no time. Making her way to her car with not a clear thought in her head. Everything was jumbled, from the moment it all went wrong to now. She couldn’t get her thoughts in order. What was she supposed to do now? Where did she go from here? How the hell was she supposed to get Spencer to hear her out? That would be the hardest of them all because if anyone could hold a grudge it was Spencer, and boy did she have a great reason to back her up.

With that final thought making its way into her head Ashley opened her car door ready to speed out of King High….that is of course right before someone decided to shut her door forcing her to turn around and meet the eyes of one of the last few people she thought she would encounter that day.

“Did you mean what you said back there?” The girl asked cutting straight to the chase.

Ashley simply stood there in shock unable to process what was going on.