Back to Me

No Happy Ending

I was NOT happy about spending the night in the hospital. It was only because I might have a concussion and in the end I didn't so it was completely unnecessary. Jason ended up crashing at Caleb's place for the night and in the morning he came back and so did my parents and Melissa.

Finally I was able to go home. My parents left the hospital and went straight to work, which wasn't surprising, so Jason and Melissa brought me home.

"Surprise!" I heard several people shout as I walked through the back door.

"Hey, what's this?" I asked in total shock.

"We are celebrating that you're home. And we made plenty of coffee just the way you like." Hanna announced proudly.

"It was only one night." I laughed.

"That's funny because the way you were talking last night you felt like you were staying a thousand nights." Mona teased.

"It's one of those things, it's annoying while it's happening but then you look back and it wasn't too bad. Or at least that's what you tell people." I shrugged. "Now where's the coffee Hanna talked about?"

"Right here and we've got your favorite muffins too." Emily told me as all us girls sat around the kitchen island.

"Wow, you guys are really buttering me up. Are you sure this is just because I spent one night in the hospital?" I asked feeling like there was an ulterior motive for all this.

"Well, Spence..." Hanna started. "Ow, Em!"

"Okay, what's going on?" I demanded.

"Nothing, everything is fine, Spence. Your friends are just happy you're okay." Melissa tried to convince me and totally failed.

"Come on, she's not stupid. She'll find out eventually." Mona sighed.

"I'll find out what?" I asked and I was really getting annoyed.

"I'm not telling her!" Emily, Hanna, and Caleb said simultaneously.

"If I tell her we'll go back to hating each other." Melissa stated.

"I'm not telling her because it always falls on me. It's someone else's turn." Jason said washing his hands of it.

"Why are you always afraid to tell me things?" I asked throwing in the air. "I don't care who tells me just somebody, please."

"Fine, cowards, I'll tell her." Mona stepped up. "Caleb went with Jason back to the apartment to check it out. A few police officers and fire fighters were there. Obviously someone started the fire on purpose and they think it was Toby. With his history, they think it's a little too convenient that he's the one that found you."

"What? No, he didn't, he couldn't!" I stated and I started panicking. If Toby got blamed for this he wouldn't be going away to reform school this time. He would be going somewhere worse, for a long time.

"We might not be together right now but he wouldn't do that. And I think the noise I first heard was shoes, high heel shoes walking on the tile in the kitchen." I told them.

"Are you sure? You should go to the police and tell them that. It would get Toby off the hook because he definitely wouldn't wear high heels." Emily suggested.

"Hold up, that's a great suggestion, and you should do it. But what do you mean you're not together?" Melissa asked me.

"Neither of us actually said 'I'm breaking up with you' but I think it was understood. I don't know what changed while he was in Boston, but he doesn't want to be with me anymore. And if he doesn't want me I don't want him." I answered and tried not to get emotional.