One Look at You

We Plan, God Lughs

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"Hey" she said answering her phone as she got out of the car and headed into the house.

"Hi baby" Andrew said into the phone. She could tell by the sound of his voice that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" she asked as she began to undress in her room.

"Oh it's just my dad, he's always on me all the time about everything. We got in a big fight tonight, I'm ready to just get in my car and start driving you know."

"I know what you mean" Spencer said. Andrew and his dad fought a lot, mostly about Andrews's future.

"I wish you were here" he said into the phone.

"Yeah, me too" she said out of obligation.

"Are you at least having fun up there without me?" he said in a lightly teasing voice.

"Yeah, it's definitely fun, a bit crazy at times but fun" she admitted.

"I'm glad you're happy baby" he said.

"Thanks" she replied. "Things will get better with your dad, I know they will" she added optimistically.

The next day it was forecasted to rain so spencer took a book with her and headed over to the garage.

She rang the bell in the front and toby came up to the desk and brought her back. "You know in the future you can just come back, you don't have to ring the bell" he said.

"Ok" she said with a smile.

"So how did he take it?" Toby asked. He'd been wanting to text her all night but figured she would tell him as soon as she could.

"What?" she asked mildly confused.

"Andrew" he said simply "How'd he take you breaking up with him?"

"Uh, um, I didn't break up with him, he got into a fight with his dad and it didn't seem like a good time...." She said trailing off.

"So when do you think is a good time to dump someone exactly?" he asked sarcastically.

"When he's not so upset, I'll tell him ok? I promise" she said looking him in the eye.

"You know you shouldn't be back here, it's a liability" he said coldly.

"Don't be like that, I told you I would tell him and I will" she said.

He went back to working on the car in front of him not saying a word.

"I can't believe you're mad at me because I didn't dump my boyfriend for you!"

"You know what, don't bother breaking up with him" he said angrily "because this?" he motioned between the two of them "probably isn't going to work out anyway"

She began to tear up and left in a rush. She went back to the house and tossed herself on the bed. Part of her was pissed at Toby but the other part knew he had a point. There was never going to be a good time to break up with Andrew. She needed to just do it and get it over with but she was too emotional to do it now. Tonight, she vowed shed call him and tell him that she wanted to take a break and see other people over the summer. In truth she was partially afraid to tell him. He could have a temper when he wanted to.

The rain hadn't lasted long and by midafternoon spencer was thinking of texting the girls and seeing if they wanted to meet up for dinner.

"You have a visitor." Melissa said breaking her away from her thoughts. Toby walked in.

"Hey" she said quietly.

"Hey" he replied. "I'm sorry about earlier, I was being a jealous jerk. Andrew is your boyfriend and you should decide when and if you want to break up with him."