Opposites attract

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Shay make her way to Ashley's door, she knocked politely, something she hadn't done in a number of years. Ashley came to answer the door and looked up at shay 'I'm so sorry' they both blurted out and then laughed slightly, Ashley threw her arms around shays neck and shay held her by her waist. They hardly ever argued and if they did it wasn't for long, by the end of the first day usually one of them had turned up at the others house.

By the time Selena returned with food the two of them were sat on the couch watching Little Britain impersonating the characters. The three ate their food before Selena said she had to go, Ashley pulled her into a hug 'thank you' she smiled back at her and nodded slightly 'always benson', 'always gomez' they hugged again before shay hugged Selena 'thanks for coming' she whispered 'anytime' Selena whispered back. The two parted and Selena left Shay and Ashley alone. 'Do you want me to stay or do you wanna be alone? Ty comes back tomorrow', Ashley bit her lip and nodded slightly

'he's gonna hate me Shan'

'No he's not ash, he could never hate you'

'He was so looking forward to having a baby' her eyes filled with tears before she wiped them away

'I need a cigarette' she mumbled getting up, she went into the kitchen and reached into the draw pulling out a packet

'Want one?' She offered them to shay knowing her answer but it was only polite

'No' shay said through gritted teeth, she hated when she smoked but she needed to pick her battles wisely. Ashley shrugged and lit one up and went to stand by the kitchen door.

Shay sat on the couch waiting for her to come up, she picked up her phone and scrolled down her Twitter until she saw a tweet that made her heart drop. '@celebinsider: @ashbenzo was seen at an LA hospital yesterday with serious bruising to her knuckles and clear tear streaks down her face'. Shay clicked onto her mentions to find them full of questions about Ashley. 'Is she okay?' 'What about the baby?', shay looked over at Ashley standing at the door, even with her head turned away she could see the tear stains on her cheeks. 'Ash, where's your phone?' She called out

'Um' Ashley wiped her eyes 'i don't know I think it died'.

Shay found it down the side of the sofa, she plugged it in to find that she had 274 messages and 150 missed called, 59 of which were from Tyler in the last hour. 'Ash' shay called out wearily, 'mm?' She said coming back into the room, as she did her phone rang again, 'it's ty' Ashley shook her head 'I can't speak to him, please shay' her eyes filled with tears and shay nodded slightly answering the call putting it on loud speaker

T - Tyler s - shay

S - Ashley's phone

T - Shannon?

S - yeah ty?

T - what the fuck is happening

He was pissed.

S - Ashley's sleeping right now

T - drop the shit shay, what the hell? Ashley was at the hospital, why did no-one call me?

Ashley shook her head at shay who bit her lip before answering

S - there was nothing to tell, we didn't think it would get out

T - we? So who else knows? She's my girlfriend Shannon I deserve to know this stuff.

S - stop being pissed at me okay? This isn't my fault.

T - fuck you shay. I'm coming home.

Shay hung up as tears escaped from her eyes, she never fought with Tyler, they were both trying so hard to protect Ashley that they had become unstuck. Shay looked up at Ashley who was also tearful 'I'm so sorry Shan' shay shook her head 'it's fine, come on let's go to bed' shay took Ashley's hand and took her upstairs, they lay cuddled together until eventually they both fell asleep.