They finally arrived home. Spencer cleaned her’s and Ashley’s wounds. Glen and Spencer decided that they weren’t bad enough to go to the hospital.

   "Ashley, do you want to go upstairs and get some sleep?" Ashley just nodded. Spencer led her upstairs and tucked her in bed. "I’ll be right downstairs, okay?" Ashley nodded and snuggled into the blankets. Spencer brushed some hair out of Ashley’s face and gently kissed her forehead. Then she headed downstairs and into the kitchen.

   "You thirsty?"
   "Yeah." Glen tossed her a Mountain Dew
   "How is she doing?"
   "Right now she is sleeping."
   "That’s good. How is she like physically?"
   "She’s going to look like she got hit by a car for a week or two. But the wounds will heal. She’s definately going to be sore for a while though. He sure got ahold of her."
   "Yeah. How are you?"
   "My cheek will be fine. It’ll just be bruised and sore for a bit." Glen sat down beside her.
   "Now, I meant, how are you?"
   "Pissed, confused, depressed, concerned, worried, hurt. And all at the same time. I don’t understand why or how this could happen."
   "Yeah, I mean you always hear about this shit happening to people but you never think it could happen to you or to someone you care about."
   "Yeah," Spencer sighed as a single tear fell from her eye and down her bruised cheek. "I wish I could take her place. Take all this pain from her. Lord knows she doesn’t deserve this. I’ll kill him, Glen. I swear I’ll kill that bastard for what he did to her. He ruined her."
   "Calm down, Spence. Right now all you need to do is take care of Ash. She’s going to need you. She’s really going to need you."
   "Yeah, you’re right. But, I’m just so pissed. How could someone to that to her? She’s amazing, perfect…" The rest of her speech was incoherent because she began to sob and cry and mumble. Glen quickly wrapped his arms around her and let her cry all of her feelings out onto his shoulder. After a few minutes she finally calmed down. "I love her, Glen."
   "I know, Spence, I know."
   "No, I mean I really love her."
   "You mean like -" Glen was cut short because they herad Ashley scream.
   "Shit"
   "Damn"
 
They ran up the stairs and into Spencer’s room. Ashley was still laying on Spencer’s but. She was crying hard and loud. Spencer hopped on the bed and over to Ashley.

   "Ash, Ash. What’s wrong?"
   "D-don’t let h-him g-get me, S-Spence. D-dont l-let Aiden g-get me." Ashley rolled over and straight into Spencer’s arms. Spencer held her close. She looked at Glen and mouthed ‘I got it’. He nodded in understanding and mouthed ‘We’ll talk later.’ and left. Spencer stayed with Ashley through the whole night. And the whole time she never once slept and never once took her eye off of the brunette girl in her arms. Honestly, she was scared too. She didn’t want Ashley to wake up screaming and crying again. She didn’t want Ashley to wake up and think Spencer was gone. Occassionally Ashley did cry out in her sleep. She cried things like:

   "Aiden, No Please Stop." "Help! Oh my god, no. Get off of me." "Spencer, Spence, where are you?!??!?"

Whenever she cried out those phrases she would shake uncontrollably and cry in her sleep. Spencer would always have to calm her down with words like:

   "Ashley, it’s okay. I’m here." "Calm down, Aiden’s not going to hurt you anymore. Not ever again. I promise." "Sssh, honey, it was just a dream. It’s just you and me now. Aiden’s gone."

Whenever Spencer would calm Ashley down she couldn’t help but kiss Ashley somwhere. Whether it was her cheek, nose, forehead, or the top of her friend’s head. She would always tighten her grip and rub the girls back until the girls cries subsided. And everytime Ashley would fall asleep Spencer would always whisper:

   "Te amo tanto"

i kno its short, but hey its better than nothing. I may post more tonight. It depends.

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