#82-Utopia- Perfection- Ebonypsyche- South of Nowhere

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Title:  Perfection
Fandom: South of Nowhere
Pairing: Aiden/Ashley, Ashley/Spencer, Aiden/Ashley/Spencer UST, past Aiden/Kyla
Prompt: 82-Utopia
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Summary: In a perfect world, Aiden would be with Ashley and Spencer and drama just wouldn't exist.

"Morning."

Aiden opens his eyes to find Ashley with that camera again. She looks so completely innocent that he feels nervous suddenly and races to the bathroom. Sure enough "Ashley's girl" is scribbled across his forehead.

He walks outside to see her with a smirk on her face.

Honestly, tackling her is the only thing to do in a situation like this. Aiden waits until she squeals her defeat before he kisses her. She feels perfect against him and he wishes that it was like that for her too.

"Good morning." He finally responds.

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It feels wrong when they hold hands and walk down the hallway. In that completely right way.

Aiden laughs to himself. Of course it would be like that. When has anything with Ashley ever been simple? Even before Spencer and the drama that followed. Like that time Ashley dated her. Or the time he almost did. He thinks he should be able to hate her, be mad at her- at both of them for that matter, but he can't. He loves Spencer too. She gets him in a way that's new and not filled with tragedy. She bonds with him because she wants to, not because she needs to.

See? Anything but simple.

In a perfect world, the three of them would just date each other. Just cut the drama out and God knows that's what his libido wants. Ash's too, if the way her eyes focus on her "best friend" is any indication.

But it's not perfect. So instead they have this. Three relationships melded into two people. The only time everything fits is when they're alone together, sharing things that they know they couldn't tell anyone else. A part of him feels victorious to have that part of Ashley just for him.

He could leave but he knows he won't. He's too selfish for that and Ash is too lonely to let him go.

"See you later?" Ashley looks at him and smiles.

"Yeah." For a moment things are as they were back then. He feels the urge to kiss her and hold his hand over the baby that's no longer there.

"Ash." Spencer runs up to the two of them and instantly Ashley's fingers are out of his hands and into hers. "Hey Aiden."

He waves a greeting, kisses them both on their cheek and heads off to a class he's already late to.

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"You're in love with both of them," Kyla sagely informs him during drama class.

"Are you saying this as Ash's sister or my ex-girlfriend?" Aiden questions her with an eyebrow raised.

Kyla grins and smacks him across the chest. "I'm telling you as the friend whose heart you just happened to have broken when you left me for my sister."

"I love Ash." Aiden says.

'Trust me, I know that more than anyone."Kyla says and Aiden ducks his head at the memory of her finding out that he still loved Ashley on prom night. "But that doesn't mean that you don't have something for Spence."

She quiets down as their teacher passes them, and presses up against him, eyes wide and innocent. He's about to comment when he realizes that that's in the script.

"Just tell them." She whispers before kissing him.

Aiden would revise his utopia to include this too but that would be too weird. Even for him. Besides, Kyla might not be into making out with her sister just for his twisted dreams (Even if it does give Ashley a chance to see what he meant by that tongue thing that Kyla does).

She hits him on the chest as she pulls away. "Don't even think it."

"Too late." He grins and doesn't even duck when she attacks him with glitter.

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He walks up behind Ashely and Spencer without either girl noticing him. Their heads are bent together and they're lost in their own little world.

"Hey. You ladies aren't planning on running away together again are you?"

Ashley grins up to him. "Not without my chauffeur." She pulls him for a kiss but turns away when she sees Spencer getting up. "You heading home?"

"Yeah," Spencer says as she shifts from one foot to the other.

It's on the tip of Aiden's tongue to tell her to stay, or better yet to come home with them so that they can finally figure things out-

"Call me when you get home okay?"

-but he can't. The problem with utopia is that eventually you have to face reality, and the reality of it is getting their feelings out there will just cause more issues, more drama.

And Aiden is scared to be left alone when dust settles.

Spencer looks at him as if his thoughts are written on his face but nods anyway. Ashley watches as she leaves before turning to him. "I'm lucky to have you, you know?"

"Yeah, I am pretty awesome." The stand up together and Aiden can't help but think that for having almost everything that he wants, things are pretty perfect.