One Look at You

Secrets Out

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When Spencer got home she stripped out of the dress that she had just put on about an hour again and jumped into the shower just wanting to wash off this horrible feeling that she was having. Why did this keep happening to her? She began to cry finally letting herself.

"Spencer" she heard her sister's voice "what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm fine" she lied.

"I thought your big date was tonight" she asked. Spencer cried even harder.

"No" she cried.

After her shower she put on a pair of white capri pants and a grey tank top.

"I really thought he liked me" she said laying her head in her sister's lap.

"This is for the best, Spencer" Melissa said "the summer is going to end and it will be time to go home"

"I just had my heart ripped out and you say it's for the best?" she squeaked.

"Better now than if you had developed more deeper feelings." she amended.

Spencer rolled her eyes but she knew Melissa was probably right.

It was the next day and Spencer was on her computer when there was a knock at the door. She assumed that it was probably Toby here to grovel.

"You want me to get it and tell him to get lost?" Melissa asked.

"No, I can handle this" she said getting up from the couch.

She was surprised when she peeked out the door and saw that it was Emily. She opened the door.

"What do you want?" she said coolly. As far as she was concerned she was angry with their whole friend group.

"Can we talk?" Emily asked hesitantly.

"Talk" she said flatly.

"Not here" she said nervously looking around. "Let's go down to the beach"

"I'm not in the mood for a walk on the beach Emily. As a matter of fact I am not in the mood to talk to anyone."

"It is about Alison and Toby." Emily said. "Just give me a half hour please."

Spencer eyed the Filipino girl and then huffed, "Fine". They walked down to the beach but Emily had yet to say anything.

"I just don't understand why you and the girls kept pushing me and Toby together. You pushed, and you pushed, and you pushed, and the whole time they were screwing."

"They aren't screwing" Emily said. "Believe it or not there is a perfectly logical explanation to what happened tonight."

"I can't wait to hear it" she said sarcastically.

"Alison and I have lived here our whole lives, the whole group of us has actually." Emily began. "We don't open up to tourists so much because they have a tendency to leave and never come back or call or write or any of the other lame ass things they say they will do."

"So it's okay that Toby is trying to get into my pants and simultaneously screwing Alison because I'll be gone come august anyway?" Spencer asked.

"I'm gay" Emily blurted out.

Spencer didn't know what to say. She also had no idea why Emily had picked right now to tell her.

"That came out of left field didn't it?" she said.

"Yeah" Spencer said nodding and chuckling slightly.

"Sorry, I'm not too smooth when it comes to telling people." Emily said.

"It's okay" Spencer said.

"Spencer" Emily said taking a steadying breath. "Alison is my girlfriend."

"But Ben, and the revolving door of boyfriends that Ali has" Spencer asked wondering if this was some elaborate lie they were telling to get Toby out of trouble.

"Ben is just my cover" Emily said. "He actually has a real girlfriend the next town over. She is really sweet. Ali is bi. She doesn't do anything with those guys she sees. Alison and I have been seeing each other in secret because we are both very much in the closet." Emily said "The only people that know are our friends."

"So, Ali cheated on you too?" Spencer asked even more confused as she was trying to get what Emily was saying.

"No. Ali did not have sex with Toby, Not tonight. Not ever before. Not ever in the future." Emily said. "Toby is Alison's brother. Jason and Toby were both born the same year. Tobys dad married Ali's mom and they had Ali together."

"Toby lets me and Ali use the garage sometimes to see each other. She was showering there because we were there together this afternoon. Toby would have told you but he didn't want to out us." Emily finished.

"What color were the panties?" she asked still thinking she was covering for her friend.

Emily smiled. "Purple"

"I guess I shouldn't have judged so quickly" Spencer said.

"Hey, it looked bad" Emily said. "Toby knows that"

As they kept walking they met Ali on the beach.

"Did you explain it to her?" Ali asked hesitantly before taking Emily's hand when she was confident Spencer wouldn't punch her.

"Yeah, I did" she replied.

"You should go see Toby" Emily encouraged.

"Yeah go make up with my loser brother so he stops being mad at me" Ali said with a small wink.

"Ok, I will" she said. Spencer walked over to the garage. She knocked lightly and after a minute Toby answered. He looked visibly upset until he saw her face.

"Hey" she said softly. "I talked to Emily. She told me everything."

Toby let out a sigh of relief. "Good, I'm glad"

"I'm sorry I made assumptions about you and I am sorry I ruined our first date." She said.

"I can reschedule it" he said looking grateful just for her to be there.

"How about tonight we just skip straight to the good night kiss?" She said as she leaned into him. He wrapped his arms around her closing the distance between their lips.