… and she took of running down the creek, out of sight.

"Spence! Spencer, wait up!" I yell after her starting to run. Damn, for a chick with asthma she’s really fast. 

"Hurry up, slomo! I’m gonna win!" Spence teases me. I can’t even see her, she went around a corner and dispeared. Where is she? I wanna hurry up and get this over with!

"SPENCER! Where’d you…." I drop the end of my sentence as the creek widens and water rushes through a circular hole in a rock that looks like a giant table. It’s a breathtaking sight. Spencer is laying stretched out on the rock. Her hair is shining and she looks like a goddess. Breathe stupid! Now, go over there and sit with her! Don’t let all this romance go to waste!

"Wow, yo.. I mean it’s really beautiful here." I say stoping myself from saying what I really want. Carpe Deum, seize the day!

"Yea, it really is. So, um… did you get in trouble after I left? Was your mom mad?" Spence asks tenatively. If her mom said anything… I just don’t know what I’ll do. The nerve of that woman to talk about her kin that way.

"No. I just hid in my room. But then yesterday when I was trying to leave to get to your house she called me in her room ‘so we could talk’." I say using air quotes. "She told me I… I needed more friends other than you. I told her I do have other friends and then started saying random names. Now, she thinks I like Aiden. She told me to invite him over tomorrow. She’s having friends over with their kids. But I don’t wanna meet these peoples’ kids." I say sadly.

"Well are you?" Spence asks me. "Am I what Spence?" I ask. "Going to invite Aiden? You do realize he likes you right?" Spence says watching as I sit down next to her. "I don’t want to but how else am I going to get my mom off my case. I can’t let her think I’m, you know… She’d disown me or something." I say watching a leaf caught in a current. "Well I can come too, if you want. So you don’t get stuck with him." Spence sugests watching the leaf. "I don’t know Spence, my mom might get all bitchy, and Kyla’s going to be there. I don’t want her to make you cry again." I pause.