"Good morning." I roll over to see Stacy smiling at me. When did I even fall asleep?

"Morning." I mumble out as she pecks my lips. "When did I fall asleep?"

She sits up and stretches, "Around three I think. Right after Mikey and Joey began their game of who can belch the loudest." She chuckles shaking her head at the memory.

"Did everyone sleep over?" I can't stop imagining Ashley and Lexy in the same bed. Oh shit the picture! What room are we in? I shoot up, sitting straight up on the bed trying to remember what room we ended up storing the picture in.

"Yeah. I think so. You okay?" She asks, raising a brow at my action.

I swallow thickly, racking my brain to try to remember what room we'd place the picture in last. "Yeah." I nod. "Fine." I hope that didn't come out like it did in my head.

"Okay baby." She leans forward onto the bed and kisses me again. I need to get ready, I have to go home and change I have work in like..." She pauses and looks down at her watch. "Two hours." I nod as she walks into the bathroom connected to the room we're in. I scramble off the bed, falling to the floor in the process.

"Owie." I mumble out, rubbing my side. I hit the ground hard. I look under the bed to see if the picture is there. I let out a huge sigh of relief when I see it's not.

I guess the boys were smart enough to not let Stacy choose the room we'd hidden the photo in.

I grab my phone off the nightstand to text Madison.

'You're still at Ashley's right?'

'Duh bitch, where else would I be? I have a nice view of your fat head too, btw.' I chuckle and shake my head at her.

'I don't even remember falling asleep. Thanks for taking that room.'

'Yeah, yeah. I'm tired of saving your ass Carlin. Stacy was tryna choose this room.'

'Well I'm lucky to have a best friend such as yourself.' I text back, grinning at the cheesyness of it.

'Bitch, speak twenty-first century please and thank you. What are we doing today?'

'Stacy has to work and I think Lexy does too.' I text back.

'Did I ask you what thing one and thing two were doing? We as in us. Me, you and Aiden. Maybe Ashley cause I actually like her. You know... when her face isn't attached to yours. 'I throw my head back and chuckle as I reread the text. This girl cracks me up.

"What's so funny baby?" I glance up and see Stacy laying across the bed, trying to look at my phone. I quickly get up from the floor, locking my phone and placing it back on the nightstand.

"Nothing." I shake my head and smile at her. "Are you gonna stay for breakfast?" I ask as I walk towards the bathroom.

"Maybe." She nods. "Hurry k? I wanna at least get to say a proper goodbye before I go." She smirks and I force a smile before heading into the bathroom to shower and freshen up. I put a robe on and head back into the room, knowing I have to go to Ashley's closet to get something to wear. I tighten my robe when I see the look on Stacy's face. She gets up from the bed and approaches me slowly.

"I'm just gonna go see if Ashley has anything for me to wear." I thumb towards the door but she's not letting me go that easily.

"You know what I would love to do right now." She starts, taking her bottom lip between her teeth as she scans my robe covered body. She leans closer to me, "Kiss you." She whispers. "Here..." She says kissing my neck softly. "And hear." She places a kiss on my collar bone. "And here." She moves my robe to the side a bit and kisses the top of my left breast. I moan involuntarily at the contact.

Sue me, I'm horny.

"Maybe, we should go see if everyone else is up." I stammer out.

She lifts her head and smirks at me.

"You don't sound so sure about that." I gulp and then take a deep breath the try to calm my nerves. I must admit, Stacy is good at this. When her hands slide down between us and goes to untie my robe, I snap out of whatever trans I was in and stop her. Memories of that morning at my house with Ashley replaying in my head. I can't do this.

To myself.

To Ashley.

And most of all to Stacy.

She doesn't deserve this.

I need to come clean. I need to tell her the truth. That she's an amazing person, but she deserves to be with someone who can reciprocate her feelings. My heart belongs to one person and one person only.

Ashley...

"Stacy..." I pull her hands into mine, intertwining our fingers. How do I tell her this?

How do you ever tell someone that you're in love with one of their best friends when you're supposed to be falling in love with them.

"You okay baby?" She asks, genuine concern evident in her tone.

"Um... I need to talk to-"

A knock on the door interrupts us. I groan inwardly.

"Come in." Stacy tells the person.

Oh great it's Ashley. You think she could sense what I was about to do?

Yeah me too!

You think she has microphones and camera's strategically placed around the house too?!

Glad to see we're on the same page.

She looks at my robe covered body then up to my eyes. She looks hurt. I'm trying to tell her with my eyes that nothing happened but she adverts her gaze to Stacy.

"I just wanted to tell you that we're having breakfast if you guys want some." She says in a monotone voice before shutting the door back. Not even waiting for us to respond.

"Well she seems cheery." Stacy says sarcastically, turning back to face me. "You think Lexy wouldn't give it up last night?" She jokes, but I don't find that funny at all.

"I don't know." I say with a shrug, hoping she'll change the subject.

"Anyways, what did you want to tell me?" She questions, reconnecting our hands. I think about it for a moment. Trying to decide if right now is really the best time.

Maybe I've lost my nerve now.

Ugh!

Damn you, Ashley!

"Nothing." I shake my head. "It can wait baby, let's just go eat." I force a smile.

She glances up and down at me. "You should probably put some clothes on first." She smiles and I glance down at my robe covered body and chuckle.

"Right." I nod.

"But I can't stay. I should get going, I don't wanna be late for work." She kisses me again, this time taking her time. "Mmm." She pulls back, eyes still closed. "I will never get tired of kissing you." She smiles, finally opening her eyes.

"Have a good day at work baby." I give her another quick kiss. She grabs her bag off the floor next to the bed and leaves the room. I sigh and sit down on the bed.

My one opportunity to tell her before things get really fucked up and I chickened out.

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"Ayyyyyyeeee Spencer!" The boys shout when I enter the kitchen. I don't get why they're always so happy to see me.

"Hey guys." I chuckle and take a seat next to Madison at the table. Another massive spread of food awaits me and I can't wait to dig in. I'm starved. I grab a plate and begin piling food onto it. I look around the kitchen and see Lexy nor Ashley are present.

"Best friend stealer went to work and Ashley's on the roof." Madison answers my unasked question. I drop my fork on my plate and stand up.

"Hey Spence did you hear?" Joey asks, stuffing more french toast in his mouth.

I scrunch my eyebrows together. "Here what?"

"Well you know we got signed to Domino Records." I nod and he continues. "And you know about the signing party, well we're totally going on a small tour, you know just to get people interested in us. It's only gonna be a few shows in a few cities but still, we're opening up for The Arctic Monkey's how cool is that?" He asks me with a huge grin on his face.

"That's amazing Joey. When is it?"

"Not really sure yet. But I know it's gonna be awesome!" Aw he's so excited. "But I think Ashley said in a month or two." He shrugs. "You should ask Ash though." He adds.

"Okay I will." I smile and he just nods, eating more french toast.

I turn to leave and see the boy from the other day standing by the door. "Hey Jacob." I smile at him. He gives me a warm smile and waves. "You're more than welcome to eat Jacob, you know that." I tell him.

"Yeah dude, there's plenty." Andrew agrees and the rest of the boys nod. He drops his head and smiles, I guess he's surprised at how nicely we're treating him. He's probably always treated like the help by everyone else.

"Thank you." He mumbles and joins the boys at the bar.

"I'll be back." I whisper to Madison.

"Of course." She mumbles and rolls her eyes. I smile and kiss her on the cheek before head up to the roof.

There are a couple of people lounging around in the pool and on chairs. Ashley has her back to me as she looks out at the L.A sky.

"What are we doing, Spencer?" She asks when I come up beside her. Almost like she could feel me coming.

Creepy.

I lean over the railing, looking out into the city with her. It really is a beautiful site, even in the day time when the streets are full of people and the noise of the people and cars bustling.

"Right now we're standing on the roof of your apartment." I say in a light tone, trying to ease the mood. I can feel a heavy conversation coming on and I'm not sure if I can handle it right now.

"I'm serious, Spencer." She turns to me and says.

See! What'd I tell you.

"You're gonna have to be more specific." I sigh and turn, leaning my back against the railing. She turns away from me and looks back out into the city.

"It'd be so much easier if I didn't love you." She whispers, dropping her head.

I contemplate my next words. "Easier for whom?" I turn and ask.

"You remember when I told you a while ago not to date Stacy?" She asks and I nod. How could I forget that conversation? I'm pretty sure it ended in a hot make out session. "You remember the reason I gave you?"

I rack my brain for the answer. I don't think she did. "You didn't."

"That's because I didn't have one." She shakes her head, glancing at me briefly. She sighs and sits down on a nearby chair.

I follow her. "I don't follow what you're saying Ashley."

"I didn't have a reason for you not to date her. Stacy is amazing. I knew that. I didn't want you to date her because..." She pauses, and I can tell she's fighting back tears. "Well because she's so easy to fall for and I didn't want you to fall for her. I didn't want-"

"Ashley if you're talking about what you saw this morning, I swear nothing-"

She raises a hand, cutting me off. "I just need to say this." I nod and she continues. "You deserve so much better than this Spence, so much better than me. Stacy is uncomplicated and I know that she really likes you. You need to be with someone that's available to love you like you deserve to be loved..." She pauses as the tears begin to fall. I lift a hand to wipe them away. I can't stand to see her cry. "I'm sorry that I even put you in this predic-"

"You didn't do anything." I cut her off, moving to sit next to her. I know she asked me to let her finish but I can't sit here and listen to this anymore. "I'm just as much in this as you are, Ashley. I love you and you can't just push me away right now. We've done this... it's done. This love isn't just gonna go away because we want it to. You can't think for a minute that pushing me away, pretending like this never happened is gonna change anything." I pull her face up to look at me. "Yes, this is complicated. I know. And I know that it's completely unfair that Stacy and Lexy have to be the ones to get their hearts broken, but you don't get to choose who you connect with Ashley." I smile at the memory of the band in the diner that afternoon.

She chuckles through her tears. "You sound like Andrew."

I join in her laughter as I wipe away her stray tears and she wipes away mine. "He told me that." I nod.

"Figures." She rolls her eyes playfully.

"Don't try to push me away okay. You have no idea what that would do to me." I tell her honestly, holding her face in my hands as my thumbs wipe her tears. "I love you Ashley Davies and nothing you say or do could change that. Okay?" She nods and smiles a little. I lean forward and give her a light kiss, barely moving my lips against hers, just needing to feel them against my own. "You can't get rid of me that easily." I whisper and smile into the kiss. She sighs as we pull back.

We fully understand now the magnitude of our situation.

It's not just lust.

More than just love, really.

It's way more than that.

It's like she was put on this earth for me, and I for her.

We were made for each other and we don't exist if we don't coincide together.

"I love you." She whispers back, recapturing my lips. I pull back when the kiss gets heated, knowing how into we can get.

"I heard there's going to be a small tour." I say pushing her back with an index finger to her chest.

She groans then smiles, falling back into the deck chair. "Yes, next month sometime, we're opening up for the Arctic Monkeys." I fall down beside her.

"I'm really happy for you guys. You certainly deserve it." She smiles and kisses me quickly.

"I certainly deserve to make out with you right now too." I giggle and kiss her forehead.

"I was thinking we could go visit Mrs. Williams today." I say sitting up. She points to her lips as she sits up, poking them out. I give her a quick peck and she groans again. "We can't kiss all day, Ashley." I chuckle at her.

"I certainly don't see why not." She pouts, then leans forward, trying to kiss me again.

"I just told you. I wanna go see Mrs. Williams today. We promised her we'd visit and we've only been to see her once since the photo shoot. It's not right." I stand up and she pulls me back down onto the chair. She pulls my face to hers by the back of my head and kisses me hard. I moan into the kiss and quickly realize what she's doing. "No!" I pull away and point a stern finger at her. "Come on." I say over my shoulder as I walk away. I know that if I stay close to her we'll never leave this roof.

"No fair!" She shouts to my retreating figure.

"Life isn't fair." I throw back to her, getting a couple of stares from the pool patrons.

They don't want none...

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Chapter Title- Parachute- She Is Love

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A/N: I promise the moments you guys are looking forward too are coming soon. Just be a little patient with me. :)