*Emily's POV*
I was sitting in the plain beige chairs in the waiting room in the hospital of Manhattan, holding a blanket around my back with a plastic cup filled with water placed in my hand; my gaze staring blankly at the floor.
"How is she?" I hear Spencer say as she sits in the chair next to me.
"Who?" I said barely moving. I could feel Spencer staring at me; I looked up and met her gaze.
"Aria!" She said with a slight tone of sarcasm in her voice.
"Oh!" I said in realization. Dumbass I though to myself. "Hanna's is talking to her right now. She must be torn…I would be"
"Yeah, Same here. I'm gonna go check on her" I heard Spencer say as she walked away my gaze going after her.
My gaze went back down to the floor. It almost seemed surreal: the gashing of Ezra's blood caused by A's bullet, who knew it would get to this. At first it was accidents and threats and pranks motivated by Mona's thirst for revenge. But now? I dont even know anymore! I never thought whoever was behind that black hoodie and mask was so vicious as to point a gun at us and shoot. What did A want!? What did Ali do that was so bad?
As my train of thought continued I heard footsteps getting closer to me. I shifted my head slightly to see a pair of heals standing next to me. My eyes traced up the beautiful body that was Alison's to just reach her beautiful, angel-like face. Her cheeks and eyes were red; she had been crying.
"Are you okay?" I asked as I stood up next to her. She nodded at me with a faint smile and held her gaze blankly to one side as I saw the smile fade turning into more of a frown as her eyes watered and she shook her head with a tear streaming down her face. I reached out my arm as she crossed hers and hugged her tightly as I felt her sobs on my shoulder. I took the blanket off my back and wrapped Alison as I softly kissed her cheek.
"Its all my fault" I heard Alison say in between sniffles as she just cried harder.
"Ali no! Of course its not!" I said as I hugged her tightly but all she did was nod against my shoulder and cry "Ali listen to me" I said as I pulled away from her and looked into her watery blue eyes. "Listen to me okay?" I said with a slight crack in my voice as we held our gazes and I tucked a piece of her curled golden hair behind her ear and held her warm cheek "This wasn't your fault" I told her looking into her beautiful blue eyes. I wiped her tears off her cheek with my thumb as she nuzzled her cheek into my hand. "Jesus christ I've missed you Alison." I said with a slight grin making her smile that adorable smile. Seeing that only made my smile grow. I pulled her in and kissed her forehead softly. "Everything's gonna be okay" I whispered as she looked into my eyes and leaned in to hug me only making me hug her back tightly.
"You always know how to make me feel better dont you" Alison said as she leaned her head on my shoulder. I smiled and hugged her tighter. "C'mon" I told her as I pulled apart and held out my hand for her to hold. Even though Alison was kind of hesitant she held my hand interlocking her fingers with mine as we walked together to where the rest of the girls are.
There in the next room was Aria with wide red eyes blankly staring at the floor with Hanna and Spencer comforting her. "How is he?" I asked sitting next to Hanna who turned to look at me and with a faint tone of voice said "We're waiting for the doctor to come out." I looked back at Alison's whose expression seemed much like mine. We sat in the waiting room outside waiting for news from the doctor.
I placed Alison's hand on my lap and started playing with her fingers and arm as we smiled at each other. I was trying my best to distract her but my mind was clustered with so many things; I was out of it. I hear the door open and the doctor walk towards us. We all stood up to face him and hear what he had to say; Aria front and center. He looked down at his clip board and looked at us.
"He's going to be fine." I heard a sigh come out of all 5 of us in unison. "The bullet can be easily removed and didn't hit any vital organs. He will have to stay here a few days, maybe even a week but he will be okay" the doctor continued. Me and Ali looked at each other and hugged in relief.
"Let me see him" I heard Aria say as she tried to walk past the doctor but he immediately stopped her and held her back. Aria looked at him confused as he started to explain that Ezra was on very powerful sedative drugs and he will be very drowsy, even though Aria insisted she wanted to see him, the doctor insisted that it wasn't the right time. I reached out to touch Aria's arm and she whipped around to look at me. I was left speechless really. The pain I saw in her eyes left me with out words.
"We'll come back first thing in the morning Aria. You need rest and so does he" Spencer said from the other side. I nodded in agreement; she read my mind. Aria shifted her head to see that we all agreed with Spencer so she softly nodded and walked out with us.
We drove to the hotel, we checked in ordering 2 separate rooms; I slept with Spencer and Aria and regardless of my countless requests to have a room with Ali she went along with Hanna. We went up to our rooms; ours contained two beds and a pull out bed as well. As soon as we freshened up, Aria and Spencer fell asleep ever so quickly. Yet, even though I was absolutely exhausted, I just laid on my bed staring at the ceiling in my t-shirt and boxers. My mind just wouldn't shut up.
While laying there thinking about nothing and everything I hear my phone vibrate. I look over and get it to see a message from Alison saying:
Meet me up on the ceiling, I wanna talk to you.
I jumped up out of bed quicker than I thought I would, unlocking my phone sending Alison a message that I would be right up. I quietly grabbed a jacket and a room key and went up to the last floor, continuing to go up 3 flights of stairs to get to a beautiful terrace filled with plants and beautiful lights; and even more to admire, Alison there waiting for me watching the stars.
"I always wanted to do this with you" she said as she sensed me coming. She looked down at me and smiled "Stargaze with you. Even though you're so beautiful I don't know if I could focus" Ali continued widening her smile. My cheeks turned deep red, but I refused to get closer. Even though Alison is here with me she still hurt me…I can't go through that again. "It truly is beautiful" I said looking up. I feel Alison gently hold my hand which made me turn and look into her eyes.
"Thank you…for calming me down today" she said with the most genuine smile.
"That's what friends are for right?" I said with a smile. Ali let out a short chuckle under her breath as she looked straight into my eyes.
"You truly do get more beautiful every time I see you Em" She said gently caressing my face. She always knows the right thing to say. Yet, I blushed and looked at her speechless. "Theres nothing I regret more than hurting you Em" she continued "You always cared so much about me and I just took that for granted" Wow. This was a side of Ali I never saw before. It was so…vulnerable. "I just always felt this way about you…about girls I guess that I didn't want to feel. You know what thats like right? And I tried so hard to push it way but every time I see you, it just comes rushing back." Ali said with the sweetest voice looking deeply into my eyes. Before I could answer she continued "And even after I hurt you, you never stopped caring about me" She said with a small crack in her voice.
"Well you never forget your first love" I responded to Ali's vulnerability. Damn it! I said to myself when I came to realization of what I just said. I looked at Ali embarrassed to see her have the biggest smile on her lips. "Was I your first love?" She asked as her hand traced down my hand and interlocked her fingers with mine. I looked down in embarrassment as Ali's other hand delicately pushed my chin up to have my eyes lock in with hers. Ali looked down at my lips and continued "Because you are mine." Hearing Alison say that made my heart race and I couldn't help but have a giant smile on my lips. Ali smiled back as she held my face in her hands and she got closer and closer until our lips grazed each other leading into a passion filled kiss.
Butterflies filled my stomach and fireworks filled the skies. I love you Alison DiLaurentes I thought to myself as stars filled the skies, and we kissed under them.