“Nice to see you again Spencer.”, a voice said from behind me. Ashley and I turned to see her cousin, Aster standing behind us. Beside her stood a petite woman with shoulder-length black hair. She was very pretty; with large dark doe eyes and flawless pale skin. Ashley squealed, smiling brightly and rushing over hugging her cousin, who just squealed back. The two jumped up and down in each other’s arms. The petite woman shook with laughter at the two. She noticed me and came over to my side, “I don’t believe we have met, I’m Vivian, Aster’s girlfriend.” I smiled shaking her hand, “Spencer.” Vivian smiled a knowing smile, “Pleasure to meet you.” We both looked over at the two cousins still squealing, then Ashley glanced over and our eyes met. She smiled looking deep into my eyes, Aster noticing her cousin’s change followed her gaze and smacked the girl. Ashley snapped out of it and followed a laughing Aster over to where we stood. Aster took her place at her girlfriend’s side, leaning over giving her a small kiss, “I see you’ve met Spencer.”, Aster said. “I must say you look nice wearing things other than a towel, Spencer.”, Aster added. Vivian just chuckled rolling her eyes at her girlfriend, apparently she was already filled in on the story of how we met. “Vivian cant you do something with her?”, Ashley asked putting her arm back around my waist. “Yeah, I could but, we both know it wouldn’t help.”, she joked making Ashley shake her head in agreement. “Ohh..I’d love you to do something with me..”, Aster purred rubbing her nose against Vivian’s jaw. Vivian looked over at the girl placing a kiss on her lips then rubbed her nose against Aster’s, “Behave.”, Vivian said. Aster just smiled at her and I watched as Vivian’s smile widened. It seemed that Lacey and Lindsay weren’t the only ones that made a cute couple around here. I looked over at Ashley’s smiling face, she gave my waist a squeeze as I smiled back at her. “We’ll see you ladies a little later, I’m going to get a drink for this one.”, Aster said leading her girlfriend over to where the bartender stood, she turned her face back around giving us a wink then kissed her girlfriend on the jaw. I looked over at Ashley, “Are they..” “always like that.”, she said finishing my thought. “Yeah, they have a hard time keeping their hands off of each other. It’s sweet though. “, she said rubbing her thumb over the exposed skin on my waist. I smiled, I know how they feel it’s hard for me to be around Ashley and not touch her. “They’ve been together since high school. They had a rough go of things during those times but, they loved each other too much to not make it through.”, Ashley added. I nodded looking over at the couple at the bar, Aster had her arms wrapped around her girlfriend’s waist and Vivian had one hand stroking Aster’s cheek while the other rested on her arm with her thumb rubbing the skin there. You couldn’t tell to look at them that they had been through so much, they looked so carefree. I was nice to see that it was possible for a couple to make it, even through rough times. Seeing them made me think of the struggle I was having to let Ashley in and what I was putting her through by pulling away. I needed to figure the shit out in my head and stop doing this to her. I looked over at Ashley, she had this look of contentment on her face, sipping her drink and bobbing her head to the music.

“Hey Ash, ready to rock girl!”, Steven said coming back over to us. He was smiling widely, twirling one of his drumsticks. He was bouncing around a bit, “I better go before Sparky here, wets himself.”, Ashley teases. I nodded, she gave my waist another squeeze, “I’ll see you in a while beautiful.” I smiled, “Rock out and kick ass, babe.” She smiled, “Always.”, she leaned over kissing my cheek. She gave Steven a playful push, making me laugh. She turned around giving me one last smile before disappearing into the crowd. I looked over to see Kyla walking over to me, she smiled as we both made of way closer to the stage. When we get to the spot right in front of the center of the stage, I watch as Ashley stops what she is doing and smirks at me. Okay…why is she looking at me like that. She walks to the edge of the stage, kneeling down she leans down so her mouth is right next to my ear, “It seems we’ve dressed to match tonight.”, she purrs before standing back up. I looked at her confused as she backs away, she quirks an eyebrow then glance down at me slightly. A sudden realization flashes over my face as I remember what color the bra is that is peeking out from my vest…turquoise…the same color as her tank. My eyes meet hers and I watch as she laughs lightly before throwing a sexy smile my way . Huh…very interesting, I thought with a smirk of my own.