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Clay shows up at the party and Sean greets him with sarcasm, “I didn’t think you’d choose the party with the brothers.”

Ok Sean, give him a break. Glen is lame but he is also Clay’s brother--which is not Clay’s fault. Everybody knows you can’t choose your family! 

But now Clay finally gets it. “You think I’d rather hang out with Glen and his friends?”  Clay asks, “Why do I have to choose? My life has been about trying to blend rather than separate. Why can’t I just roll with both?” Sean says Clay can try to “blend,” but if it comes down to it Sean’s going to pick the people who have his back. Clay counters, “Like my brother and sister.”

Meanwhile, Glen and Madison are in the Carlins’ living room doing a lot of heterosexual kissing.

At the gig, Ashley takes the stage and dedicates her first song to her dad and her “two friends who are always there for me.”  But they aren’t there at all. They are in the parking lot, making out in Aiden’s car.

Ashley, we need to have a little talk. You can’t let Spencer off the hook for this. If she gets away with getting drunk and making out with some dumb guy right under your nose, you’re going to be churning out pathetic lovelorn lesbo ballads for the rest of your career. Hold her accountable! Dump her, then take her back with conditions! The future of rock depends on it!

Spencer passes out, so Aiden takes her home. They walk in on Glen and Madison in a clinch. Glen goes from dumb jock to extreme caveman in under sixty seconds. “What the hell did you do to my sister?”

Spencer mumbles, “This is not what it looks like.”

Madison, who always gets the best lines, says “It’s not?  ‘Cause it LOOKS like you've been getting the dressed in the back of someone’s Nissan XTerra.”

Spencer is a few steps behind them, “Aiden—isn’t that what you drive?

Spencer’s parents walk in and ask her if she’s drunk.  She says no and then promptly barfs all over them.

After the show, Ashley’s dad arrives and he knows that he’s blown it with her. (Although the larger offense is that he looks like Joe Pesci wearing a metal dude fright wig.) Ashley confronts him about how he always lets her down.  But she forgives him and they sing a duet at the bar--one of her dad’s hit ballads. It’s all very VH-1 Storytellers, and Ashley seems every bit the star.  Spencer missed out on the real show—this moment is very sweet.

The next day, Madison breaks up with Aiden via a text message because she is classy that way. Spencer runs into Aiden and tells him that she was sick for two days and is grounded for a week. She asks him, “Did I do anything with you that I should be embarrassed about?” He tells her, “No. It was great until you passed out.” 

But Spencer knows that she really needs to make up with Ashley.  She goes to her, and Ashley coldly says, “I want my flask back.” Spencer thinks she can handle this with humor. “Fine. The smell of it alone starts up the yak-fest again.”

Ashley delivers a zinger. “Well at least you’ve got Aiden to hold your hair back.”

Spencer doesn’t want Ashley to get the wrong idea. “We’re not together. I was drunk and stupid and after the way I acted I’m lucky that we’re still friends.” Someone needs to send Aiden a text message with this information, because he thinks that Spencer is into him.

Spencer asks sweetly, “Are you and I still friends?”

Ashley is going to make her work just a little more. “I could use a friend that I can count on my life. There are enough people who I can’t.” Spencer tells her, “But you can count on me, I promise. Let’s not let Saturday ruin this ok? Forgive me?”

Ruin “this”? What is “this?”  I think its code for their budding romantic relationship, not their “friendship.”

Ashley relents, “You’re forgiven. But you’re on probation.”

That’s right Ashley, make her prove herself.

On the next episode of South of Nowhere, they tell us, “Clay likes Kelly” (cut to Clay with cute new girl) “but Kelly likes Spencer.”

Cut to cute new girl asking Spencer, “So you’re single?” 

R U gonna watch?  I am!