"Spencer what are you doing outside?" Lexy comes from the house and asks.

I shrug. "I needed air. My mom you know." I add, thumbing a finger towards the house.

She chuckles and nods. "That's why I think my next plan is so amazingly genius." She smiles that patented Lexy smile and I already know what's coming next.

"Lexy no." I shake my head. "I am not staying at your apartment with you and your girlfriend again." I tell her in a hushed tone.

"What? Why not Spence?" She whines.

"Well for one you two need your privacy, I don't wanna-"

"It's fine." She waves me off. "Most of the time I'm at work anyways. My boss is a real asshole, she makes me work whenever she can legally get away with it." Lexy adds with an eye roll.

"Lexy I don't-"

"Please." She pouts. I sigh and shake my head at her.

"Lexy don't use the pout on me."

"Is it working?" She questions with a raised brow.

I sigh again, "Doesn't it always."

"Yay!" She jumps up from the swing. "You're gonna stay over the whole summer right?" She asks in a hopeful tone.

"Well Madison's coming down here with her boyfriend and I-"

"Ugh." She groans as she starts to walk away.

"Don't walk away when I'm talking to you woman." I yell after her.

"Well you started to bore me to death with tales of your other lover." She turns back to me and says. I can't help but laugh at her.

"You two are mess. There's plenty of room in my heart for the both of you."

"Right." Lexy nods, but clearly she's not buying it.

'Well I don't like, living under your spotlight.' Ugh! Does this chick ever stop! I quickly press ignore to Carmen's call.

"Hey guys." Ashley comes out the house. Lexy and I both turn to face her. "Spence your mom convinced me to do a song." She turns to me and says.

"Spence?" Lexy glances back and forth between Ashley and I. "We're on a nickname basis already?" She questions with a raised brow. "I guess you two had fun today." She adds after a moment.

"Slip of the tongue." Ashley says quickly.

Nice.

I roll my eyes as I get up from the swing. "I'm going inside." I tell the couple, brushing past Ashley. I hear her tell Lexy that she's going to get her guitar, Lexy says an okay, then I hear the unmistakable sound of lips moving against each other. I close my eyes and steady myself against the couch to keep myself from running away.

It officially sucks to be me.

"So the whole summer then?" Lexy comes in the house and says as she walks past me towards the den.

"Sure, Lex." I nod, just wanting this conversation to be over.

"Yay!" Lexy squeals, clapping her hands together. I shake my head as I follow her into the den where my mom and dad are already waiting. A few minutes later Ashley comes in with her guitar.

"Um..." She says as she sits down across from us on a stool. "This is a new song I've been working on." When is she ever not writing? "It's called 'Wanted'." She adds, glancing at me briefly enough that Lexy doesn't catch it. But my mom does before she looks at me with narrowed eyes. I sigh as she begins to strum her guitar. "You know I'd fall apart without you. I don't how you do what you do. Cause everything that don't make sense about me. Make sense when I'm with you. Like everything that's green girl I need you. But its more than one and one makes two. Put aside the math and the logic... of it. You gotta know you're wanted too." Escapes her lips and it takes everything in me to not burst into tears. I'm being such a lesbian right now but I don't even care. I glance at Lexy, the smile on her face tells me she has no idea. She's always been the doey eyed girl that sees the best in people. And Ashley and I... her girlfriend and best friend are taking advantage of that.

Which makes me feel even worse about all this. Ashley takes in a deep breath before starting the chorus.

"Cause I wanna wrap you up, I wanna kiss your lips. I wanna make you feel wanted. I wanna call you mine. Wanna hold your hand forever. And never let you forget it. Yeah I, wanna make you feel wanted." She glances up and I have to look away. Lexy's sitting right next to me so every time she looks in this direction Lexy will assume she's looking at her.

But I know.

When she randomly yelled Wanted outside... she was naming her song. This song. The song she's now singing to me in front of my parents...in front of Lexy.

"Anyone can tell you you're pretty." She smiles before continuing. "And you get that all the time. I know you do. But your beauty's deeper than the make up and I wanna show you what I see tonight. When I wrap you up, when I kiss your lips. I, wanna make you feel wanted. And I wanna call you mine, wanna hold your hand forever, and never let you forget. Cause baby I wanna make you feel wanted."

She strums her guitar more viciously as she goes into the bridge.

"As good as you make me feel, I wanna make you feel better. I wanna make you feel better. Better than your fairy-tales, better than your best dreams. You're more than everything I need. You're all I ever wanted." She glances up again, singing the next part softly. "And all I ever wanted. And I just wanna wrap you up, wanna kiss your lips I, I wanna make you feel wanted. And I wanna call you mine, wanna hold your hand forever and never let you forget it. I wanna make you feel wanted. Baby I wanna make you feel wanted. You'll always be wanted." She strums the last chord, slowly raising her head from her guitar.

"Wow." Lexy breathes out then smiles. "That was amazing baby." She gets up and kisses her. Ashley returning it. My mom looks at me as I have to look away.

"That was really amazing, Ashley." My mom says, breaking Ashley and Lexy's kiss. I internally thank her.

"Thank you, Paula." Ashley smiles.

"You have a n amazing gift." My dad speaks up. "Don't waste it." He smiles as he gets up. "Well I have an early day tomorrow so I'm gonna head to bed." He adds, walking over and kissing me on the forehead. "Goodnight all." He waves goodnight to us.

"I'll be up in a minute honey." My mom yells after him.

"Spencer..." Ashley says softly, making me turn to look at her. Her arm is wrapped around Lexy's waist and they're both looking at me. "What'd you think?" She asks, barely audible. My mom stands and turns to me.

"It was amazing." I nod and smile.

"Right." Lexy says cheerfully, breaking our staring contest.

"You're in a band right?" My mom asks, stepping in front of Ashley, blocking my view. Gotta love my mom, I know she can sense my pain right now.

"Yeah." I hear Ashley say.

"An awesome band." Lexy chimes in. My mother chuckles, turning her attention back to Ashley.

"And you guys aren't signed to any label right?"

"No." My mother moves aside and I see Ashley shaking her head.

"Well I have this friend. He knows a guy that can probably get you guys an audition with Domino Records."

"What, really?" Ashley stands, practically knocking Lexy out of the way.

I really love how into music she is. It's one of my favorite qualities about her.

"Mhm." My mom nods then turns to look at me. "I'll give him a call tomorrow and see if he can set something up."

"Oh my God, you have no idea how amazing that would be." Ashley replies excitedly.

"Okay then." My mom smiles, turned back to Ashley. "Well, since I haven't been called in yet I'm assuming all the really injured patients are waiting until I fall asleep to come into the ER, so I'm gonna head to bed. Goodnight all." She says, kissing Ashley and Lexy on their cheeks before walking over to me and doing the same. "It was a beautiful song, Spencer." She whispers in my ear before pulling back. I nod as she leaves.

"You guys ready?" Lexy asks, breaking me from my thoughts.

"What?" Ashley asks confused.

"Oh, I meant to tell you babe. Spencer's gonna stay with us for the rest of the summer. I mean she's gonna be over every day anyways." Lexy shrugs. "She might as well just spend the nights there too." She adds with a smile, kissing Ashley on the cheek. "That's cool right?" She asks, scanning Ashley's face. Ashley looks at me, seeing if I would give her a sign to say no, it's not fine.

"Of course." She smiles, turning to Lexy. "Why wouldn't it be?" Her eyes bounce around the room, landing everywhere but on me. Lexy kisses her again.

"I'm gonna go wait in the car." She says thumbing towards the door. "I'll take this." She tells her, grabbing Ashley's guitar. "You wanna help Spence with her suitcases?"

"Sure." Ashley nods.

"K. I'll be in the car." She smiles and kisses her again before leaving.

We both watch as Lexy walks out the front door before I move closer to her and hit her on the arm. "What were thinking singing that song in front of-"

"I know." She cuts me off. "Spencer I don't know what this is, but I know that-"

"No." I cut her off, shaking my head. "No, we're not doing this. I won't be that person. I will not break my best friends heart. I won't." I tell her again before walking away. I grab my suitcases out my room, the one I should be staying in.

"Here, lemmy help you." Ashley tries to take the suitcase from my right hand.

"I got it." I tell her, brushing past her and out the house to the car.

"I thought I told her to help you." Lexy says when she says me walking towards the car with both suitcases and Ashley with none.

"I had it." I smile at my friend. She leans over, popping the trunk on Ashley's Honda Civic. I put my suitcases in the trunk. Remembering my camera, I mumble a be right back, before quickly running on the porch and grabbing it off the swing.

"We ready?" Lexy smiles when I get back to the car.

"Yeah." I nod, getting into the car. Ashley cranks the car, putting it in drive and pulling away.

The entire ride home her eyes were fixed on me in the rear view mirror.

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Song Used- Hunter Hayes- Wanted