Yeap... it's me and I know I shouldn't publish a new story having two other that I haven't updated in a very long time but I must be honest with you; I'm going to a huge writter's block (still working on a new chapter of TIFR) so... I read somewhere that people is not longer writing new Paily fics (except for one of my fav. siophiefandom who has a pretty good story going. I highly recomend for you to read it) which made me think about some ideas for a new fic. Hopefully, I could use this one as a second air to continue with my other two. Meanwhile, I had to write this and have my closure for the stupid ending of PLL becasue for me it doesn't matter how bad Marlene screwed things up. Paige and Emily will always belong to each other.

Note: This story starts 5 years after the great (bullshit) finale ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own the story or any character of the PLL world (otherwise everything would end up different)

-Paily love-

(Rosewood – June, 10th 2022)

"Paige…?" Emily asked beyond surprised "Oh my God, what…?"

"I know I'm as surprised as you are…" Paige let out a bright smile "though in my case I had the feeling I would see you at some point" she stated

Emily looked at her confuse. Did Paige come back for her? "I don't understand…"

"I…"

Paige was about to explain herself when she saw a very familiar face coming out of the bakery

"Paige!?" the woman used a harsh tone on her "what are you doing here?"

"Nice to see you too Alison, how are you?" Paige asked politely

"Yeah… hi" she looked at Emily, who returned a hard look "sorry, I was just surprised to see you here"

"It's ok, I understand. I was just telling Emily the same thing"

"Yeah, Paige was about to tell me what brought her to Rosewood" Emily said intrigue and excited, which called Alison's attention

Paige just smiled at them, leaning a bit, as if she was about to tell them a secret "you won't believe this but it seems destiny keeps pulling me back to Rosewood"

Emily didn't noticed at the beginning how changed Paige was, the impact of seeing her there in front of her again, make her head blurred but now that she was hearing the other woman talking she could noticed how relax -and probably… free?- she looked. Not even Alison's presence was bothering her anymore, she looked so confident and sure of herself, treating her wife as a true friend. Emily didn't know if she should appreciate that or feel sad of the fact that Paige was completely over them, the only thing she knew was that something definitely moved inside her when she saw the woman after all those years.

"It turns out…" Emily went out of her trance when she heard Paige's voice again "my in laws live here now…" Paige finish, still with a smile plaster on her face

Emily felt like someone had slapped at her, even though she knew she shouldn't feel like that, she couldn't help herself

"In laws? So you got married…" Alison voiced what Emily was so desperate to ask

"Yeah, I did… in fact you probably saw her inside" Paige said directing her attention to Alison "of course you couldn't know who she was"

"Well the place is not too crowded, maybe I did cross paths with her" Alison answered, after Paige's news she was feeling more comfortable

"It's the brunette…" Paige started "who is actually walking out of the bakery, right now" Paige smile got wilder when she saw the pointed woman walking to her, surprisingly; holding a kid in her arms

"He just woke up and asked about you as soon as his eyes got open" The woman smiled at Paige

"Mama…!" the little boy turned his body a little, addressing her mother and asking silently to go into her arms

"It's ok, buddy. I'm here" Paige said softly. The toddler rested his head into her chest as soon as he was in her arms "what happened? You had a bad dream?" she asked sweetly

"No… he just miss his mama that's all, right buddy?" The brunette smiled at the picture of her son resting peacefully in her wife's arms

Paige smiled at him before raising her head again, addressing Emily and Alison who were still standing there; one looking at them with surprised but satisfaction, the other one with sweetness and… something she couldn't describe at that moment.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so rude. Emily, Alison, this is my wife; Heather. Heather, this is my friend Emily and her wife Alison" something definitely twitch inside Emily this time, almost feeling like a stab. Since when did she move to the friend category in Paige's life? "and this…" Paige continued "is my little sweetheart; Daniel" she pointed at her son

"Nice to meet you both" Heather answered politely

"You too, Heather" Alison returned the gesture and turned to her side to looked at Emily, waiting for her wife to returned the gesture as well but the woman was deeply drowned in her thoughts

Heather wasn't Paige's type, not physically at least, there was something about her Emily couldn't cope with. For some reason the girl wasn't on her like-people list. It was like seeing her there, standing next to Paige, was making her look so small and that had nothing to do with her height. Yes, the woman was pretty enough; long, wavy, black hair, hazel eyes, light skin, a couple of inches shorter than Paige, she has a nice body – thing and fit but not sporty- and looked more like the intellectual kind. Yeah, she was good but it wasn't enough for Paige. Paige was the kind of person who deserved the best of…

"Emily!?" Alison could finally call her wife's attention

"Sorry… I was thinking about the girls, they're about to get out of school and I want to be at home for them" Emily said, gaining a strange look from Alison "Nice to meet you Heather" was the only thing she said before she turned around

"Em…?" she heard Paige calling at her. Hearing Paige's voice addressing her by her nickname after all those years, was definitely doing something to her. She turned around slowly, trying to act as normal as possible "I wanted to invite you…" Emily's heart bumped in her chest a little. What was happening to her? "actually, I wanted to invite your girls to Daniel's birthday party"

"Oww… you guys have kids?" Heather intervened when she found out the news "we'll be glad if you can join us. My parents have just moved out here a couple of months ago and is the first time we came to visit, well… MY first time, I know my wife grew up here but since she moved out she lost contact with her friends and we don't know much people around so it'll be good if Daniel gets contact with other kids" Heather said hopefully, she really wanted for her son to start making friends

"Sure…" Alison started but Emily interrupted her abruptly

"We'll make our best, hopefully we'll be there but you know how this is, you only got the weekend to spend time with your family and we promised the girls to go visit my mom so…" Alison looked at her wife like she has grown two heads; since when did they spend 'family weekends'? And when she was planning to tell her about visiting Pam?

"Oh… ok, we understand" Paige said, she couldn't deny she was a bit disappointed. Emily looked at the floor feeling ashamed of herself for acting so rude

"Well, in case you could make it" Heather added cheerfully "the party is going to be this Saturday at six" she took a card from her purse and offered it to Alison "there's my parents' address"

Alison took the card and when she saw the name in it her eyes grew wild open "You're William Allen's daughter?"

"Uhm… yeah, do you know my father?" Heather asked curiously

"He is one of the most important bankers in the business world. He is the owner of the biggest bank's chain in the State" Alison pointed out, still in shock

She and Heather got into a pretty interesting conversation, forgetting for a while that their respective partners were waiting for them. Though Emily was feeling pretty awkward just standing there looking as an outsider, she took her time to look at Paige; the woman, in contrast to herself, was looking pretty relax, playing with the little boy who was now trying to walk into the Candy shop that was just next to the bakery. Emily was feeling pretty worn out, there were too many news to handle in such short amount of time. Paige was back in Rosewood, looking more beautiful than ever, if that was even possible, but she wasn't alone, she was married now and has a family on her own. Something that Emily never thought it could happen, or more like she never thought it would happen with another woman that wasn't her. Her head was spinning now and all she wanted was for Alison to cut the conversation to go back home.

"Not anymore" Heather answered to Alison "he is retired and manages everything from home now but he thought it will be useful to make new cards to let people know where he lives now"

"Good to know; my brother and I were thinking about reopen the family business, we actually thought about going to your father asking for help again. His name was the only thing we used to hear when our parents had the lead of the company"

"I'm sorry, what's your family's name?"

"Dilaurentis"

"So you're the Dilaurentis' daughter. Of course, I remember your parents spending time at our house. I heard about what happened to them. I'm really sorry"

"Oh, so you've heard what happened to them?" Alison asked but looking at Paige, who was still distracted playing with her son until she realized she was the focus of attention of the two Rosewood girls

"Don't look at me…" Paige said half joking

"Oh, no, no. It wasn't Paige the one who told me about what happened in this town. To be honest it was all over the news around the country, I actually thought Media was too cruel on the people who was living here by that time. When I met Paige and she told me she was from here and that she had some things to tell me I chose not to ask. I told her that I wanted to date her, not her past" Heather said sweetly looking at her wife

Emily let out a groan that she had to cover as a cough when Alison turned to look at her "Ok, Alison, I think is time to go see the girls. See you around" Emily forced a smile

"It was nice to meet you Emily, and Alison please feel free to go to my parents' house, maybe I can help with your business" Heather offered kindly

"I'll definitely take your word on that. Thank you" Alison took Emily's hand and before she turned around she added "It was a pleasure to meet you Heather, and Paige…" she made a short pause, carefully choosing her words "I'm so glad you finally found the love of your life" both Heather and Paige smiled at the comment. Emily just close her eyes, forcing her brain to forget those words, though she knew things have never been that easy.

I haven't read about this topic before so tell me what you think. Should I continue or it'll be too much? Just let me know. See ya... (hopefully with a new TIFR's chapter... if you're still interested)