This is the first time I have ever written for PLL. I rewrote this several times but hopefully this makes sense. I will probably add at least one more part to it, but let me know what you think! Thanks!

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Over the course of her life, Hanna Marin had become quite familiar with the unexpected. When she was seven her family had moved from upstate New York to Rosewood, and although she had cried her eyes out when they first told her, she eventually made the best of it. When she was ten, Alison DiLaurentis, who was the pretty Queen B of the school, chose her to be her friend and Hanna couldn't believe that the most popular girl in school would want to spend time with her. When she started high school, her father cheated on her mother and walked out on their family, leaving Hanna to adapt to change once again. When she had finally achieved an appearance that didn't make her cringe when she looked in the mirror, Sean Ackard had asked her out, which was something she never thought would happen no matter how hard she tried. When she had gotten close to a group of girls that she trusted with her life, Alison went missing, and it broke their bond apart. When Hanna had made new friends and finally come to terms with Alison's assumed death, A had showed up and turned her life upside down, and brought her back to Spencer, Aria and Emily. Emily. She was the most unexpected thing that came into Hanna's life, except it ended up taking her years to realize it.

It had started long before Alison ever went missing, long before Emily came out, and long before Hanna shed her "hefty" image and became desired by most guys at school. One day after school while the girls were all at Hanna's house, Alison had started making fun of Emily because she hadn't kissed a boy yet, and never seemed to be that interested in dating. Even though Emily was visibly embarrassed by the taunts, they continued until the girls had gone home for dinner. Emily was the last to leave, but before she could Hanna had told her that it was okay that she hadn't had a boyfriend yet. "It's not that I don't want to, I just haven't found anyone I wanted to kiss yet," Emily had quietly replied, "I'm just scared I'll be bad because I've never done it before." Hanna knew what it was like to be the butt of Alison's jokes, so she had marched up to Emily and pulled her into a kiss, pulled back a little bit, and then kissed her again. "There, now you have," she said nonchalantly, as Emily's face went from shocked to a thankful smile. What Hanna had never told anyone was that it had been her first real kiss too. Months later, Hanna had wanted the part of Juliet in the school play, but she lost out to some other girl and was blaming it on the fact that she wasn't skinny. She had marched into the girl's bathroom with every intention on getting rid of her lunch, but before she could, Emily came in and gently placed a hand on her arm. "You're beautiful the way you are, you don't need to do that. Especially not over some stupid school play," she had said. That was the first time that anyone besides Hanna's parents had called her beautiful, and she would never forget it.

After Emily had come out, Hanna started to think about what it would have been like if Emily had been interested in her, instead of Alison. She knew she would have never toyed with Emily's feelings like the other girl did, but the more she thought about it, the more she wondered. Emily was the one person that she felt she could be completely honest with, even more so than the other girls. They just seemed to get each other; one look and they knew exactly what was going on in the other's head. Despite the feelings she would sometimes get around Emily, she was still the same old Hanna on the inside, the insecure girl who worried about how the rest of the world viewed her. So, she did nothing.

Before Hanna knew it, the girls were all in their senior year of high school, and still dealing with the many A's, still dealing with the aftermath of Alison's death. She had Caleb, her wonderful and supportive boyfriend, by her side and Emily had been dating Paige and they seemed to be good for each other. There were some nights though, when Hanna would wish that she could just escape. She found that the closest thing to getting out of Rosewood was when she would be holed up with Emily in her room, watching Laguna Beach reruns or doing homework.

On this particular night, the girls were sitting on Hanna's bed with a stack of magazines next to them. "Is this article seriously trying to tell me the library is an appropriate place to take a date?" Hanna exclaimed out of nowhere, as Emily looked up from her book and glanced at the page in front of Hanna. "Well, you are reading the section called 'Fun & Free Dates'," she replied as Hanna shook her head and scoffed, "Okay, I understand a moonlit walk, but what are you supposed to do at a library?" Emily rolled her eyes and let out a chuckle while she gestured to what she had been reading, "Some people do read books for fun, Han. It can be romantic. It was for me…" she trailed off, saying the last bit much quieter than the rest. Hanna caught it though and was quick to respond, "Wait, you and Paige get it on in the library stacks at school?" to which Emily shook her head, "No, not Paige." Hanna's face immediately fell, "Oh, I'm sorry Em, I didn't mean to bring up Maya, I didn't know." Emily was quiet for a minute, staring off into space, before she set her book down and turned to meet Hanna's gaze, "It wasn't Maya, it was Alison." Hanna looked confused as she asked, "Wait, I thought you said you never got to tell her how you felt? Besides that letter?" Emily sighed, "I mean we never got to talk about it, not really, but I kissed her in the library once." Hanna didn't want to pry, even though she was dying to know what had happened, so instead she simply scooted closer to Emily, putting her hand on her shoulder. "She was reading me something from Great Expectations, and I guess I just couldn't hold it in anymore, so I kissed her," Emily paused for a moment before she continued, " And for a second it felt like she was kissing me back. She didn't say anything about it then, she just smiled and kept reading. Until a few days later when she told me I was just practice for boys. After that she just screwed with me." Hanna leaned forward and hugged Emily harder than she ever had before she spoke, "I guess it makes sense now, why she used to give you so much crap about getting a boyfriend." A small smile appeared on Emily's face as she thought about it, "You know I think she knew I liked her before I even did. I am grateful for one thing though, you were actually my first kiss, not Ali." After she said it her smile faltered, they had never talked about their kiss and Hanna could tell Emily was worried she had said the wrong thing or made her uncomfortable. "You were my first kiss too, Em. Which I am also grateful for, by the way," Hanna replied, playfully elbowing Emily's side, "better you than Sean." Emily kept a straight face for a moment before she broke out into a fit of laughter, with Hanna following suit.