I stir awake, gliding my hands over the cool covers in search of Ashley. I stretch my arm as far as it can go before I safely decide she's gotten out of bed already. I sigh as bury my face in this extremely soft pillow.

I really don't want to leave.

Like ever.

Reality sucks ass. It's sucking my Ashley time away.

Ashley time equals fun time. I groan and roll over quickly grabbing my chest in horror as I see Ashley kneeling on my side of the bed.

"Ah ya creeper!"

She just giggles as she lifts the covers and climbs in next to me. Fully dressed may I add.

Clothes suck ass too.

I'm making a list.

Reality, clothes, and morning breath sucks ass because all I want to do right now is devour her lips as she smirks at me.

"I didn't mean to scare you." She apologizes and everything is all better as she pulls me closer to her and we tangle our legs together. She's got on a pair of jeans on and the material feels good against my bare legs. I slide my foot up and down her covered leg and she leans forward to kiss me.

Take cover!

I bury my face into the white feather stuffed pillow and Ashley's lips come in contact with my hair. She pushes some of the hair away from my neck and places gentle kiss up and down.

"No fair." I mumble.

"What's not fair is you denying me your very kissable lips."

Wow she's good I barely understand myself as I bury my face further into the pillow. Musician's ear I suppose.

I lift my head up and pout and she pecks my bottom lip quickly. She tosses her head towards the bathroom and I quickly get up and jump over her body.

Though our stay here completely spontaneous, this place came fully equipped; toiletries, and wardrobe good thing Ashley and I are relatively the same size, though I wouldn't be opposed to sleeping in the same bed naked.

I'm just throwing ideas out here.

I freshen up and dash back into the bedroom. My mouth drops as I notice she's gone.

There's only so many places she can be so I make my way to the door and turn the knob.

My brows furrow in confusion. I turn it the other way and it doesn't budge. I jiggle the handle and nothing.

I knock on the door feeling ridiculous because who the hell knocks on the door from inside a room.

Well someone who is locked in first of all.

I hear Ashley's voice right away. "Who is it?" Her voice playful and I can practically hear her stifling her laugh.

"Oh ha very funny Ashley, open the door."

"Uh…can't."

I quickly panic. I'm trapped!

"What do you mean you can't?"

"Well I can but not right now. I've got a surprise for you and it's not ready yet and I don't want you to come out here until its done."

Oh HELL no!

"What?!"

"Yeah so just sit tight and I'll let you out soon. I don't want to ruin the surprise."

"Ashley!" I shout out quickly before she disappears

"Yeah?"

Oh I thought she left. Huh.

Her voice is closer she must've gotten closer to the door and I lean my head against it.

"You gotta let me out of here."

"Spencer relax you'll be fine."

"What if I run out of air?!"

I'm dead serious.

This is no joking matter and she's chuckling right now.

"Then go out onto the balcony."

I look to the other side of the room and see the doors that lead out to a decent sized balcony. This place is freaking awesome. It's got lounge seats with pillows and a table and the view breathtaking.

"This is a hostage situation! You cannot hold me here against my will, I demand you let me out this instant Ashley Davies. I'm not cut out for imprisonment."

She's laughing again and I stomp my foot petulantly. Good thing she can't see me because I'm about to go into tantrum mode.

I clench my fists and pout as if this combination would magically open the locked door.

"Spencer you've got a fifty inch high definition flat panel television, DVD and a Blu-Ray player, bookshelf of movies, a Jacuzzi tub, and a giant ass bed, I don't really think you can consider yourself living a hard knock life."

"Are you going all Kathy Bates in Misery on me? Are you going to hobble me?!" I grab my knees in mild horror.

"Why on earth would I damage those sexy legs?"

"Good point." I say as I look down at my legs smiling at how nicely they have colored since my arrival. I get over the scene quickly and go back to my task of getting out of here. "This is wrongful imprisonment Ashley! I want out."

Okay maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit but I don't want to be by myself, Lexy comes back tonight and Madison will be flying in today and there's only so much more alone time left with Ashley.

Call me selfish but I need my Ashley time before her girlfriend comes and rightfully claims her once again.

"Too bad. I promise it's worth it just sit back and relax. I'm going to be right out here so if you need me well, just shout."

"Ashley!"

"Just like that…see getting the hang of it already. Be back soon love you." I can hear as she walks away and glide my feet against the soft carpet and drop back onto the bed. It's like sinking into a marshmallow.

I roll around in the covers restless and growing frustrated. My phone brings me out of my pity party.

Boo phone I was enjoying my wallowing.

I untangle myself from the covers with a lot of effort. I tried my best not to panic, I almost drowned in all the covers. I'm already a prisoner the last thing I need is to die of suffocation. I grab my phone off the side table and smile at the number.

I clear my throat and answer the call.

"Hey you reached Spencer can't get to the phone right now so leave a message and I'll call back."

I smirk as Madison quickly assumes that I'm actually my voice mail.

"Bitch your ass is never going back to LA, apparently you forget how to answer your damn phone. If I call your dumb ass one more time and you don't pick up all fucking hell is going to break loose. Don't test me Spencer I've been stuck in the airport all damn night and I do not…" She stops at my laughter. "Asshole."

"I miss you too Mads. What's up?" I roll of the bed successfully landing on my feet and walk towards the balcony. In prison they call this yard time…I step out into the LA sun and I nod in acceptance.

I don't hate yard time.

"I'm just calling to let you know that we finally got a freaking boarding time. We are heading out in an hour. It's a sign."

"Madison it is not a sign you better get your butt over here. You promised."

"I don't recall this how do you call it…promise? I don't think you know what they are yourself because I mean you promised to speak to me every day and the amount of times I heard from you I can count on one hand."

I settle onto the lounge chair and lean back comfortably. "I know Mads I'm sorry things have just been…hectic."

"Well I've got an hour to kill. So that gives you one hour to explain yourself or the first thing I'm going to do when I see you is slap you upside the head."

"No hug?" I whine.

"After the slap now start."

Where do I even begin?

"Well right now I'm locked in a hotel room because apparently Ashley has this surprise for me that I'm not allowed to see because it's not finished."

"Wait she's surprising you with stuff? Say word Spencer's got a sugar mama."

I laugh and shake my head. Of course that is what Madison notices and not the fact that I'm a prisoner.

"I do not have a sugar mama. She's just…being nice."

"Spencer, spare me the bullshit."

I roll my eyes. "Fine so I'm afraid things have gotten worse, but amazing at the same time. Lexy went away with her boss."

"Does that mean I don't have to see the bitch?"

"She comes back today Madison." I stifle a giggle. I really don't know where all this hostility is from.

"What the hell was the point of you getting my hopes up then, ass? Continue." I do as I am told being the good and respectful friend that I am…Do not quirk your brow at me with the good and respectful.

Anyway I give Madison a play by play of the last two nights. How Ashley and I spent the first night together, then how we confessed our love for each other."Hold the motherfucking phone! What?!"

I squirm a little uncomfortable. It's like I can feel Madison's eyes boring holes into me all the way from JFK.

"Yeah we sorta said I love you, she sang me this song…"

"Another one?" Her unimpressed tone makes me a little defensive but Madison scares me a little so I don't dare retort.

"Yes another one and it was so honest and she told me in the song she loved me and I couldn't not say anything back especially when I love her too."

I can practically hear her shaking her head. She stays silent and I continue on with my extremely crazy two days. How we fall asleep on the couch holding each other. How Ashley woke up the next morning breakfast. Then meeting her parents.

"Holy shit."

"I know." Is my response before I reveal the twist. "Lexy's never met them."

"What the fuck?!" She shouts and I have to pull my phone from my ear.

"Babe stop being so damn loud." I hear a muffled voice.

"Hi Aiden!" I shout and I hear him greet me. Aw I miss him.

"Spencer focus." Madison tells me and I get back on track.

"Yeah so Lexy never met her parents or knows that Ashley's rich or at least her parents. Who are cool but a tad crazy but what family isn't right? I mean they got into the huge argument in front of me about Ashley having this badass suite but not staying in it at the Ritz which is freaking awesome and we had a spa day and spent another night together. But as of right now I'm currently serving time in the bedroom due to this surprise."

"From your sugar mama."

"She's not my sugar mama!"

The line is silent and I'm really hoping she doesn't call me out on it.

"You're not telling me something."

Shit. How the hell does she do that?

"We kinda almost slept together last night. Nothing too crazy!" I cut in…more so for my guilty conscience than Madison's relief. "It was just some intense making out with the intention but we stopped."

I let out a slow breath to calm my jumbled nerves. Madison is quiet. That's bad…she's never quiet. Loud, pushy, blunt but never quiet.

"Well Spence you're fucked."

See told you blunt.

"Tell me something I don't know. What do I do Madison?"

"Spencer what do you want to do?"

My heart pounds at this question because I know what I want. I know what I need.

I just never admitted it out loud.

"I want to be with Ashley."

"Spence…you already are." I close my eyes and sigh. "Sure this situation is messed up but really everything between you two is way too strong to ignore. If you want to take the risk I'll be your side no matter what you choose, but know there is a risk."

"Madison…" I call out to her and my voice fails me. It's weak and fragile and the reveal of the truth is suffocating and freeing at the same time.

"I know sweetie. No matter what though everything will turn out how it's supposed to. "

A knock on the glass door that leads to balcony grabs my attention and I turn to see a smiling Ashley leaning against it. Her smile reassures me that she didn't hear any of this conversation and I'm relieved.

"Mads text me your flight info and I'll see you tonight."

She reluctantly says goodbye and I face Ashley with a huge grin on my face.

"Warden."

She smirks and holds her hand out to me. I get up and connect our hands. "You've been let out early for good behavior." She jokes as she pulls me in front of her and something covers my eyes.

"I'm being kidnapped too!"

She chuckles. "Stop it Spence, I just want you to see your surprise at the last second."

"Taking charge Davies, I like it."

"Do you now?" Her lips brush against the shell of my ear and I gulp trying to moisten my fast drying throat. I let out a shaky breath and she places a hand on my lower back and guides me out of the room and through the hall.

We are walking slowly and my hands outstretched in front of me even though Ashley is guiding me I'm still scared to fall.

Or you know...run into a wall or something.

We stop and she rests her hands on my shoulders. "Okay ready?" Her voice is a little shaky and she seems to be nervous. What the hell did she get me? She takes off the blindfold that she put on my eyes before we the left the bedroom and I blink my eyes a couple of times to adjust to the brightness of the room. My eyes go from blinking to not blinking at all. "I had to lock you in while the delivery guys brought this in. It would be kind of hard to be subtle with these."

My mouth hangs open as I turn in a circle and see my pictures blown up in sixteen by twenty tangible photos. The gloss impeccable I've never seen my pictures so big. They are all taller than me and Ashley standing on top of her shoulders.

They are almost touching the ceiling.

"How?" Is the only word I manage out.

"My dad knows some people I kind of put a rush order on some stuff after I sent the selections via email. They got it out perfectly."

I raise my hand to cover my mouth as I fall deeper into shock.

I can't speak but I feel myself move closer as I go to examine the pictures Ashley has chosen to have printed.

I smile as I see a photo of Madison, Aiden and Me taking obnoxious bites of Nathan's hot dogs standing in front of the cyclone. A lump forms in my throat as emotions wash over me realizing just how much I miss my friends.

There's a picture of Mrs. Williams from the photo shoot the other day as she dangles her feet in the water, a soft smile dances on her lips as she happily watches Joey dunk Mikey's head under the water in her pool.

Another a close up of Ashley's face the first day we snuck into the garden.

My heart is racing as I fall more in love with this girl. I can't believe she did all this.

I choke up more as I see a picture of my parents that I took as my father holds my crying mother at my going away party last year.

There's the Leaving Brooklyn Sign that says Fuhgeddaboudit.

I look at the final picture but I don't remember taking this one. I couldn't have taken this one since I'm sleeping in it. I close my eyes at the picture it's so overwhelming. I open up my eyes again as I see a picture of my sleeping form with Ashley holding me her eyes closed.

"So I hope you don't mind that I used your camera." Anyone else yes but her…not in a million years. I still don't know what words are so I just shake my head. "There's more."

"What?!" I squeak out she just smiles and pulls me towards the couch. We sit down and my eyes dance around at all the pictures that are encircling us.

"Well my dad again has a curator friend in New York and I spoke with him after you fell asleep last night, I raved about you and sent him some of your work as well and he was so impressed that he said when you get back at the end of summer he wants to discuss what work you'd like to put up at the Yossi Milo Gallery."

I think I've gone into shock.

I'm not moving.

I'm not even sure if I'm breathing.

I open and close my mouth but I probably look like an idiot since nothing is coming out, but I honestly couldn't care less because I've just received the best news any professional photographer wants to hear and I'm still a student.

A soft touch on my cheek brings me back to life and apparently I'm crying as Ashley wipes a tear that has somehow escaped.

"I…I..." Say something you fool. "I don't know what to say."

She leans forward and places a soft kiss on my lips.

"You don't have to say anything Spencer, you're amazing at what you do and the world deserves to see great talent like yours."

My heart is going to explode…any minute now.

"I love you." I tell her as I pull her closer to me hungrily taking her lips into mine as I try and show her how grateful I am in this one gesture. She receives the message as she kisses back with the same exuberance as if she were telling me I were welcome.

"There's more." She says pulling back as her chest rises and falls in dramatic fashion. We're both trying desperately to catch our breath's which seems nearly impossible right now.

"More?" I groan. She's clearly already done enough.

A smile creeps on to her lips. "Just breakfast." She shrugs. She holds out a hand for me to take and leads me into the kitchen.

"This is a buffet." I point out. She chuckles a little.

"Yeah."

"Ashley I'm one person. I can't eat all this." I smile and take a seat at the table. A young boy in a red waiter's outfit is standing by the fridge. "What's he doing here?" I lean over and whisper to her.

"For anything you need." She whispers back.

"Ashley, I can take care of myself." I roll my eyes playfully at her.

"I know." She nods, sitting down next to me. "But he came with the food so..."

"Ashley, let him leave." I tell her with a smile as I pop a strawberry in my mouth.

OH MY GOD!

Best. Strawberry. Ever.

"Jacob was it?" She turns to the boy and asks.

"Oh, um yes ma'am." The boy nods nervously.

"Would you like to join us for breakfast?" She questions and he immediately shakes his head.

"Oh no ma'am I-"

"I'm not taking no for an answer Jacob." She smiles, gesturing to the seat across from us. The boy stands motionless, glancing from the seat to us.

"She doesn't take rejection well Jacob." I tell the boy eating another strawberry from heaven.

"It's true, I don't." Ashley nods. The boy apprehensively walks over to the stool and sits down. "Now that's more like it." She says handing him a plate. I turn and smile at her as she piles the boy's plate up with food he probably helped prepare. Words can't even begin to express how much this girl means to me.

Did I mention how much reality sucks?

Oh I did?

Well let me tell you again then.

It sucks!

Because I know that in a couple of hours this will all be over and I'll go back to Stacy and her to Lexy.

I wish this... right here and now with her... was my reality.

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