We always find our way back (a spoby love story- 5 years forward)

Chapter 10

THREE WEEKS EARLIER

My wedding date was coming closer and closer. I was stressed about EVERYTHING. Plus, I had to deal with my ex being in town whom I recently shamed out of the room. I had started to feel more and more guilt about that as time went on. I told Wren every detail of our conversation at the Brew after he had left. He was very understanding about it. But I couldn't help but notice he got pretty happy when I said he left out of embarrassment.

But he knew how important Toby had been to me. And he knew that it would take me a while to get over this. And him being here. All it was doing was adding stress to my list of things to deal with. "Alright Spence. Trust me, this hurts me way more than it hurts you." He paused. "you are going to go talk to Toby. And your not going to leave until you work out the grudge against each other. I trust you. All I want is for you to be happy. And I know you won't be with this on your shoulders."

I sighed. But I was happy at how much he really cared. I smiled and nodded.

~~

We made our way to the Brew so I could work things out. It seems like we go to the Brew for everything. It's where all the drama happens. This time I was going to the loft, thought. He had recently moved back in.

 I thought that I would be dreading this, but I wasn't. I secretly had been just wanting to move on from this. I've never like grudges.

We pulled up and I saw his truck. Wren walked in first and I tentatively followed. We walked upstairs and unlocked the door. He was sitting on the infamous couch drinking his coffee. We walked up to him together. He looked up. "Hey, guys"

We both smiled, surprisingly. There was an awkward silence for a few seconds. "well...um...I'll let you guys talk." Wren finally said. "I'm going to go meet with the wedding planner. Meet me at the venue at 3:30" He said quietly. It wasn't quiet enough for Toby not to hear it, though. He had an awful look on his face when he said that. I pretended that I didn't see it. 

Wren left and I sat down next to him this time, and not two spaces away. That made him smile. Which made me smile.

This was already turning out to be okay.

"I think we have quite a lot of catching up to do" He said.

"That's the understatement of the century." I said, which made us both laugh.

So we talked for a while. And it was good. Things were good. We talked about that night, and how it wasn't anyone's fault, and we were blaming all the wrong people. We talked about how different our lives have been. We talked and laughed for what felt like a few minutes, but turned out to be a couple hours. I sighed. Being honest, I really didn't want to leave.

"well, I should probably get going, I'm already late to meet Wren." I paused and walked towards him. "I had a really great time. I'm glad we can move on from this."

He smiled in that way that I always adored. "Me too, Spencer."

I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. I smiled, "Bye Toby."

I turned around and started to leave when I felt a gripping hand on my arm. He pulled me back and kissed me in a way that I haven't been kissed in a long time. It was passionate.

We both pulled away, and I did something I thought I never would.

I kissed him back.

~~

After that, things escalated pretty quickly. It was all over before I knew it. But I didn't regret it. At all, actually. I had missed him so much, I wished he had come back sooner.

We were lying together in bed. "We should probably tell Wren"

He chuckled. "That might be a good idea"

"I was supposed it meet him at 3:30..." I looked and down at my watch, "...and it's 7:47.

We both laughed at that. "Well, he's probably not there anymore but I should check anyway. You're coming too. We can tell him together"

He smiled very very big at that.

~~

We headed to the venue where I was supposed to get married, obviously that's not happening now. I loved Wren, really I did, but Toby and I had something that couldn't be replaced.

On the way, we both practiced what we would say to him and how we could let him down softly. I knew this wasn't going to be easy.

"Do you really think he'll still be there?" Toby said to me.

"I really don't know. I haven't heard from him, and he hasn't responded to me, so this the first place to look."

We got to the venue and we both slowly headed upstairs. When we reached the top, there he was. Sitting there waiting for me all this time. He looked up at the both of us. "Hey Oh my goodness I thought something bad happened and my phone died and--" I interrupted him.

"...Wren. We have something to tell you. Toby--"

"wants to give you my blessing." Toby said interrupting me.  I looked at him with a confused face. What was he doing? Why did he do that?

Wren smiled. "Oh good you guys worked things out. Well this is amazing. Now everything's perfect!.

Toby looked back at me and nodded. He went back downstairs. "Excuse me." I said to Wren.

I chased him down the stairs until I stopped him at the door. "hey! HEY! TOBY!" He turned around and faced me. "Why did you do that? I-I thought we were going to tell him."

"Spencer." He said softly. "I waited for you for two minutes." He paused. "He waited for 4 hours. And you deserve someone who loves you enough to do that."

A tear ran down my cheek. "I will always love you."

He smiled. "I will always love you, too. We will be friends, and talk a lot forever, and never let anything change that, okay?" He kissed my forehead.

"Goodbye, Spencer"

AN: ok so I understand this last chapters might be a little confusing so PLEASE ask questions if you have them. here's a recap. I hope this helps: in the last chapter I said "ONE MONTH LATER" right? And then in the beginning of THIS chapter I said "THREE WEEKS EARLIER" that was three weeks earlier AFTER the one month thing. This whole chapter was a three week flashback. Now after all that drama happened, fast forward three weeks to present day, they are all friends, everything's good, and then she gets the text from A. Ask questions if you have them!