Paige's POV
I'm walking out of the brew from my meeting with Caleb. We decided together to look into A on our on without the girls knowing. Lies and secrets are dangerous so Caleb gave me his permission to at least tell Emily about what we're doing. He thought I would feel guilty about lying to my girlfriend but he doesn't know that Emily left me last week. We haven't really told anyone yet with Toby and Spencer's anniversary coming up, we didn't want them to feel wrong about celebrating their successful relationship while ours was over. It was a mutual break-up, Emily was just the one that brought it up first. We were really, just too different. I'm competitive, she is more laid back, she's quiet and I'm more outspoken. The only thing we really had in common was swimming. I love her so much and I know she loves me, we were just never really in love with each other. I needed Emily to push me forward and give me the strength to come out, kind of how Em needed Maya to help her. And she needed my to show her that there's life after a death.
She will always be my first love, but we were not meant to be each others last.
"Toby, I need you to tell what I saw wasn't real" I heard a heartbroken voice beg from above me, snapping me out of my thoughts. Wait above me? I look up and on the stairs, of the outside wall of The Brew, I see Spencer huddle in a ball at Toby's apartment door. She's crying, heavily.
I make my way up the stairs, trying to be quiet so I don't scare her.
"Toby?" She calls out cautiously, almost as if she hopes and fears that it's him.
"No, it's me Paige." I tell her softly, I don't want to startle her.
"Oh" mumbles out. That one syllable held so much sadness and defeat. It was a sound I never expected Spencer Hastings to make. What the hell happened?
She quickly tries to gather herself and weeps away at her tears violently, but more keep coming as if she will never be able to stop. She tries to stand and walk away from me, but I carefully try and stop her.
"Wait," I choke out.
I move toward Spencer and wrapped my fingers gently around her wrist, halting her steps. Spencer turns to me slightly. "Spence," I feel like right now she might need someone to take care of her so I use her nickname to try and show her I'm her for her, like I have always been. She doesn't react to my touch or her name, so I try again. "Spence, hey, what is it, what happened?"
"I...I can't. I just want to go home, can you please take me home?" she asked. The look on her face was sad and pained. Her body is shaking and she is still crying. It kills me to see her to see her like this. I mean, it's Hastings, she never breaks like this, it's one of the things I admired about her. She was always so strong, strong willed, strong minded. That's why we've butted heads for most of our lives, we are similar like that.
"Give me your keys" I ask as I hold out my other hand towards her. She puts them in my palm and I can feel how cold she is. I wrap my arm around her back and hold her to me.
"I got you Hastings" Slowly, she puts her arm on my waist, I turn and kiss the top of her head when she rests it on my right shoulder.
"Let's go home."
She nods her head and we walk to her car together.