Disclaimer: I do not own South of Nowhere.

AN: Hey all! So a long time ago I promised many people a sequel to my story "The Bet."
I got so caught up in other fandoms and stories that I just haven't had the time to write, but I never wanted
to leave this unfinished, so here is a preview of the sequel. If I get a good response, I'll make sure I focus more energy
on it!

Thanks and your reviews are always appreciated :D

Time To Cash In

Chapter 1

Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice. The two could never co-exist because it would be a constant battle; one would overcome the other. But to me, I was fire and she was ice. Somehow we worked, so everyone else must be wrong, right?

"Kyla, if you do not get your ass down here in five minutes I will leave you!" I shouted up the stairs, impatiently tapping my foot. My sister came pounding down the stairs as I slipped on my sunglasses.

"You're lucky Aiden thinks rainbows come out of your ass, because you're about as graceful as an elephant with wings," I said grabbing my messenger bag and strutting out towards my Porsche.

"Didn't Dumbo have wings?" Kyla asked as she hurriedly followed me and climbed into the backseat of my car.

"Dumbo had ears Ky," I said as I quickly reversed out of my driveway. She paused, "But they worked as wings." I sighed, "Not the same thing," I said as I pulled into a familiar driveway. I put the car in park and quickly hopped out of the car and rushed to the front door, curtly knocking.

"Ashley! How are you?" came the warm voice of Mrs. Carlin as she opened the door.

"I'm fine Mrs. Carlin. How are you? Off to work?" I asked as I stepped through the threshold. She was dressed in her usual scrubs and lab coat with a piece of toast in hand. I noticed Glen in the kitchen a bowl of some cereal in his hand as he scarfed it down. I rolled my eyes at him.

"We've been over this Ashley, call me Paula. Yes, I was put on the morning shift today. Spencer! Ashley's here!" she yelled up the stairs and I heard a door open and close as Spencer came down the stairs with her bag over her shoulder. Unlike Kyla, she moved swiftly and gracefully on her feet as she came downstairs stopping in front of me. I couldn't help the smile that graced my face as she leaned in and kissed me.

"Good morning," I said beaming.

"Better wipe that grin off your face Ash, people will think you're less of a badass," came Glen's teasing voice from the kitchen. I was about to respond when my car horn startled me out of my retort.

"Let's go before your sister tries to drive to school herself," Spencer said and I rolled my eyes. It wouldn't be the first time that Kyla did something drastic to get her way, I mean she did trick me into a bet so I would ask out Spencer.

"Have a good day girls!" Paula shouted as she headed back towards the kitchen.

"Yeah, school...great," Spencer muttered as we made our way to my car. I climbed into the driver's seat and ignored my sister's huff of "finally."

"Come on Spence, senior year. It should be fun," I said. Once it had processed what I had said, I gagged and rolled my eyes.

"Seriously Ash, you're saying school will be fun?" she asked sarcastically.

"Yeah I don't know what I was thinking," I responded as I parked my car in the parking lot, hopping out of my seat and running around the car to grab Spencer's door.

"Oh so chivalrous of you. Despite what you say, I'm still going to miss summer," she said taking my hand.

"You're only going to miss me in a bikini," I joked leading the way through the school. People parted for me as I walked down the school and I smirked, it was nice to have a famous dad and a reputation for trouble.

"Not true, I'm going to miss taking it off you as well," Spencer dead panned.

"Spencer!" I felt my face grow warm, which was unusual. Usually I'm the one making others blush. She bumped my hip and chuckled at my reaction.

"Okay, ew, I did not need to hear that," Kyla said opening her locker next to mine.

"Oh please, it's not like I haven't heard you and Aiden when you're in your room," I said shutting my locker and leaning against it to look at my sister.

"Yeah, well Aiden and I broke up so you won't have to deal with it anymore," Kyla said shrugging and shutting her locker. I gaped at her and turned to Spencer. The look on her face told me she didn't know about the sudden change in Kyla's relationship either.

"Why though?" she asked "And why didn't you tell us?"

"It wasn't big news, we're still friends," Kyla responded. I had a feeling that she was lying about something but I didn't know what.

"I'm going to go find Carmen and Chelsea, I'll see you later?" Spencer said to me and I nodded allowing her to kiss me briefly before walking off.

"Chica, you are so beyond whipped, it's disgusting," Madison's voice came from behind me where she stood with a tall jock with a King high Letterman on. I think his name was Dave, I couldn't really remember.

"Shut up Madi, you know Spencer and I are adorable," I responded, "How was Cancun?"

"Same old, same old, you know? Ash you remember Dave? We met him at the beach at the end of last year?" she asked smirking as Aiden came up. I rolled my eyes, I hated that my best friend could read me so well. Well enough to know I had no idea who was next to her.

"Hey guys," Aiden said looking directing at Kyla. She averted her gaze, "well I'm going to go find Spencer. Bye!" Oh yeah, her break up is totally not a big deal. I sighed, maybe I could get her to talk to me later.

"Do I need to kick your ass? Because we're friends and all, but that's my sister," I said looking up at the brunette boy in front of me.

"Hey, hey, don't look at me. I don't know what happened. Just randomly two weeks ago she said we needed a break. I've been trying to talk to her since. She hasn't said anything to you?" he asked. Ugh, I so did not need to get in between my sister and my friend's break up.

"No, but I'll see if she'll talk to me. You know Kyla though, she's always the dramatic one. She probably broke up with you because she's afraid of the long term commitment next year, even though you both have an entire year to work that out," I said and he nodded.

"Come on Aid, let's get to class."