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Chapter Three
Ice Box
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The awkward silence covered the room like a hazy fog consuming everyone. Spencer was speechless and didn’t know what to say. She had expected this, she expected her to have the two point five kids married to the former basketball star. She expect it. That didn’t mean that she was ready for this though. That she was ready to finally let go of the girl who had cut her heart out and kept it. She wondered what the girl had done with it. Did she put it into a metal box and keep it high up in her closet like what the blond did with all their keepsakes. Or maybe she buried it deep into the ground, and now it is just the remains the worms left. It intrigues the blond to wonder where her cut heart was.

The buzzing sound of a timer gone off broke the silence and everyone stood up and went their separate ways. Spencer excused herself to the bathroom, saying she had to change Maddelena’s diaper. The two Carlin parents went into the kitchen with Clay and Chelsea and Glen followed Spencer upstairs. The young Davies girl went into the dinning room, following Clay into the kitchen. Ashley took a seat in the large chair as the young wild haired child crawled up into her lap.

Spencer quickly climbed up the steps, her black Chucks making a clacking sound as she traveled. She held Maddelena on her hip as she traveled down the familiar hallway. She heard Glen behind her but didn’t say a word.

Her eyes watched the pictures go by. Some pictures where familiar to the blond, some where new. She saw a picture of Chelsea looking adoringly at Clay as he held their daughter in a rocking chair, and one of the entire Carlin families in Paris. They where standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paula holding Siena May on her hip as Arthur stood behind her with his hand on her shoulder. Clay and Chelsea held each other, standing close. On the opposite side Glen stood with his hand resting on Arthur’s shoulder. The family looked so content with themselves, but their faces told Spencer that something was missing. She was missing.