Ashley: “Spencer who did this?”

Spencer: “My um my mom.”

Ashley eyes clouded over with anger as her jaw locked.

Ashley: “That bitch. Spencer I swear I’m going to kick her ass. Where is that cunt?”

Ashley began to walk towards the stairs of the pool but Spencer grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

Spencer: “There’s nothing you can do Ash just let it go.”

Ashley: “How can I just let it go Spence? You you have a bruise on your face and your mother caused it. She hit you.”

Spencer: “Ash please. You can’t do anything.”

Ashley: “Tell me what I can do to make you feel better.”

Spencer: “Just hold me.”

Ashley nodded her head and pulled grabbed Spencer’s hand pulling her out of the water. Spencer looked at her curiously.

Ashley: “My bed is much more comfortable.”

Spencer: “True.”

–

Spencer’s head rest on Ashley’s chest and her arms wrapped around her waist while Ashley’s ran her fingers through the blondes hair and. The two had been laying there for over fifteen minutes but neither had said a single word. It was just silent.

Ashley: “So, why did she hit you?”

Spencer: “Because I told her the truth.”

Ashley: “And what’s this truth you speak of?”

Spencer: “That she was a horrible mother.”

Ashley: “And why did you say this?”

Spencer: “Because she was being her usual self. Telling me how I should my life and that being gay is wrong. Her usual stuff.”

Ashley: “I’m really sorry that you have to deal with that shit just to be with me.”

Spencer unwrapped herself from Ashley and sat up. Ashley turned so that she was propped up on her elbow. Spencer gave her the most serious voice that she could muster and looked at her in the eyes.

Spencer: “Ashley, you don’t know how happy I am to be with you. This is just a little bruise and it will go away. I doubt she’ll ever do it again. Plus she didn’t hit me because I’m gay because it’s still an assumption to her. She hit me because I just told her the truth.”

Ashley: “Yeah but you let this truth out because I was more than likely brought up in this conversation and because she believes that I ‘turned’ you gay.”