I Do Not Own Pretty Little Liars.

Best Friends Forever

Prologue

"Hi Noel!" She squeaked in glee. She was so excited to see him again.

"Emily!" The little boy was gleaming with joy when he saw his best friend rush up to hug him. It was the first day of first grade and the pair was so happy to be able to see each other everyday again. Emily and Noel have been best friends for a really long time. They did almost everything together. From going to the park, riding bikes, or even playing with dolls and action figures during recess.

Emily Fields was always so quiet and shy. She would normally sit in the back of the room, isolated from everyone else. If she did speak, it was because the teacher called on her to answer a question or to say "thank you" or "excuse me" when someone says "bless you" or if someone is in the way. She didn't let her shyness affect her behavior and polite manners.

Noel Kahn, on the other hand, was the class clown. He was never afraid to speak his mind. He also had a shy side, but not as shy as Emily. Unlike other class clowns, he was polite and was never mean to anyone unless he had to. Although the situations of that never happened. Noel never really cared when every boy in class would make fun of him for hanging out with girls. However, that did affect his and Emily's friendship.

Four year old Noel Kahn was playing in the sandbox with Ezra Fitz and Caleb Rivers. Nap time was over so Mrs Lee decided to bring the class outside. Noel was playing around the sand when Emily Fields caught his eye. She was sitting on the swings all by herself. He didn't seem to recognize her before. His plan was to go over there and ask her to join him. He wanted a new friend.

"Hey Ezra, Caleb!" He called to his two best friends making castles out of sand.

"Yeah, Noel?" Caleb asked, blowing his long bangs out of his hair.

"Whose she?"

"I don't know her name, why don't you ask her?" Ezra says, going back to digging the artificial sand. Noel was curious and he desperately wanted a new friend so he stood up and ran over to her. He didn't know it, but he was nervous. He approached her quietly as she was playing with her hair. He lightly tapped her shoulder as she slightly jumped from the encounter.

"Hi, whats your name?" He asked shyly, as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and looked down. Emily opened her mouth to answer, but nothing came out. She couldn't believe a boy was willing to talk to her. He shifted uncomfortably, noticing how long it took for her to answer.

"My name is Emily, whats your name?" She finally answered, this surprised Noel. She answered him with a big smile on her face. Noel smiled, showing his teeth.

"My name is Noel." He beamed, reaching out to shake her hand which she timidly accepted, "Do you want to play with me and my friends at the sandbox?" He asked, in hopes to have a new friend. She nodded, afraid she might scare him away if she screamed out yes. Noel was overwhelmed, grabbing her hand and dragging her to the sandbox.

While they were running over there Noel stopped and turned to face her. "Do you wanna be my new best friend?" He asked, before he introduced her to his "old" best friends.

"I don't know. I never had a friend before." She said, sadly.

"Never ever!" He was shocked. She nodded her head, "Can I be your first ever best friend?" He asked, in hopes of her saying yes.

"Okay!" She gladly accepted, in a joyous tone.

"Great! Maybe one day, you can come over my house so I can show you all of my toys!" He said, happily before dragging her to the sandbox again. He was still holding her hand when they reached their destination. "Ezra, Caleb! Guys, this is Emily! She's going to be playing with us today!" Ezra and Caleb looked almost disgusted, moving away from Noel's new friend.

Ezra spoke up, "But she's a girl!"

Noel was confused at his snide comment, "What's wrong with girls! Your mom is a girl!" He defended.

"But my mom doesn't have cooties! Emily does because all the girls in school have cooties!" Caleb said, standing up with Ezra. They were both upset with Noel and angry with Emily.

"I don't have cooties." She said quietly. She took a small step forward, causing Caleb and Ezra to flinch and step back.

"Don't come near us! You're going to get us infected with a disease!" Emily was hurt, she let go of Noel's hand, fearing that she might give her first ever friend sick. She didn't want to be embarrassed anymore so she stepped away, and ran back to the swings. She was clearly hurt. She thought she already lost her only friend, one minute after they united.

"Why'd you guys do that! She just wanted to play with us!" Noel was furious with his friends. He couldn't believe they scared off his new best friend.

"Noel! She has cooties! Cooties can get us so sick that it might kill us! My mommy said so!" Ezra said, trying to talk sense in his friend.

"Come on Noel! Lets go on the slides. She already infected the sandbox!" Caleb said, Noel was too mad to come. He stayed planted at his spot outside of the box.

"Noel, are you coming?" Ezra asked, and Noel shaked his head.

"Okay, well at least wash your hands! She touched you!" Noel shaked his head again.

"She's my new best friend! She can't have cooties!" He huffed, and then smiled. He had an evil plan in his mind.

"All girls have cooties, Noel! Its a fact!" Caleb was confused at this.

"What's a fact?" He asked not very familiar with the new vocabulary.

"I'll tell you later." Four year old Ezra sighed.

"Hey guys, can I get a high five?" Noel raised his "cootie" filled hand.

"No! You're infected!" Noel came closer to the pair as they ran away in terror. Noel laughed to himself before running back to Emily.

As he approached her, he heard small whimpers and sniffles. "Emily? Are you okay? Why you crying?" He asked.

"Because I gave you a disease." She choked out, sadly.

"No, you didn't! I'm fine! See!" He held up his cootie free hand, in all smiles to try and make her feel better.

"But I have cooties, you don't wanna be friends with me now." She sniffled, looking away.

Noel sighed, "Ezra and Caleb were just being meanie faces! You don't have cooties! I wanna be friends with you! Were gonna be best friends forever!" He exclaimed, in all smiles that showcased his pearly whites.

"Promise?" Emily asked, giggly. Her tears, ceased to cascade down her face.

"Pinky promise!" He said, holding out his pinky.

Emily looped her pinky through his, smiling, "Best friends forever!" They said in unison.

They did everything together, from that point on. Caleb and Ezra refused to play with Noel which made Emily upset all over again. She didn't want him to lose his friends but Noel refused to stop playing and talking to her. He said he promised they would be best friends forever.

Caleb and Ezra didn't want to lose their third buddy and Noel didn't want to be friends with them again until they accept Emily. They accepted and acted civil around the girl and never tried to talk to her like a pal until Noel's fifth birthday.

Caleb was the first to have a change of heart for Emily when they first played with lightsabers. Ezra, on the other hand, was not fond of her playing with boys stuff.

"Hey Emily! Look what I got!" Noel held up his glowing blue lightsaber.

"Another lightsaber! Can I play?" She asked, he smiled and handed it to her.

"No way! She can't play with that! Its a toy for boys only!" Ezra huffed.

"That doesn't mean a girl can't play with it, Ezra." Caleb said, watching her swing the saber around.

"But its a boys toy!"

"I think its cool she wants to play star wars with us." Caleb mumbled, seeing Noel and Emily having fun, battling with their lightsabers.

"I'm not playing." Ezra crossed his arms.

Caleb thought it was pretty cool she wanted to play a boys game, unlike the other girls at their school. He completely ignored Ezra and said, "I wanna play too!" Noel and Emily smiled and they all ran upstairs to his room. Ezra reluctantly stalked behind.

"Come on Ezra! Stop being such a- such a-" Caleb didn't want to be mean to his best friend so he kept quiet.

"Such a what, Caleb?" Ezra was fuming.

"Such a baby!" He blurted. Noel, Ezra, Caleb, and Emily widened their eyes. Noel, Emily, and Caleb covered their mouths. Oh No He Did Not! He just called him a baby!

"Oh my gosh, he just called him a baby." Noel whispered to Emily's ear. They were all in shock. That was probably the meanest name you could call someone at that age.

"I'm telling!" Ezra yelled. Caleb flinched and grabbed his arm.

"Please don't tell, Ezra! Please, please! I just thought you were, umm, exasperating!" Noel and Emily looked at Caleb with confused looks.

"Exaspe-what?" Emily asked.

"My mommy taught me that word. She told me I was exasperating!"

"Its exaggerating! Not exasperating! And I was not exaggerating! She's a girl! And girls can't play with us, boys!"

"What's going on in here?" Their moms came in the room, wondering what the fuss was all about.

"Mommy! Caleb just called me a baby!" Ezra screamed, exasperated.

"Now why would he do that?"

"I didn't mean to. He was being a meanie pants to Emily." Caleb said in a scared tone, not wanting to get in trouble.

"What happened?" Mrs Fields asked when she heard the mention of her daughter.

"Emily, Caleb and I were playing with lightsabers and then Ezra told Emily she couldn't play with us because she's a girl and then- and then Ezra said he's not playing and then- and then Caleb called him a baby!" Noel said quickly. So quickly that he was running out of breath.

"Just because its a boys toy doesn't mean girls can't play it, Ezra Fitz." His mother chastised.

"Caleb Rivers! Just because someone is being a meanie pants does not give you the right to call them a mean name." Mrs Rivers criticized.

"Besides girls can do everything a boy can, and they can do boys things, sometimes even better than a boy." Mrs Kahn said. Noel piped up.

"Nu-uh! Mommy! You're not better than me in lightsabers." Noel was joking, of course which caused the grown ups in the room to laugh.

"I can be, but what I'm saying is that girls can play better than boys and with boys." She said, "Now Ezra, you should play with Emily and have fun. That's why you're here right?" Ezra nodded.

"Okay, I'll play but what about cooties!"

"Emily doesn't have cooties, sweetie." Mrs Fitzgerald said while all the moms went back downstairs.

"Were playing teams, Ezra and Emily versus Me and Caleb!" Noel said, throwing him and Emily a sword while he and Caleb ran to the other side of the room.

Ezra and Emily became friends the minute they beat Caleb and Noel. Noel thought he was the clever one for setting Emily and Ezra up on teams.

With Emily always hanging out with Noel, Ezra, and Caleb, she got enough courage to become more social with the other girls, who gladly accepted to being friends with her. Ezra and Caleb didn't take too long to befriend Emily's new friends Aria Montgomery, Spencer Hastings, Alison DiLaurentis and Hanna Marin. The seven were the best of friends.

"I missed you, Emily! I haven't seen you in almost three weeks!" Noel exclaimed.

"I missed you too, Noel! But I was on vacation." She said.

"At least you didn't forget about me yet. Remember, best friends forever."

"Best friends forever and ever." She repeated. They were both in happy moods.

"Come on! Lets go find Caleb, Ezra, Spencer, Aria, Alison, and Hanna!"

"I already found Hanna over there!" Emily grabbed Noel's hand as they rushed to find their friends.

Chapter 1 - Anything

"What in the world are you doing?" Emily asked as she walked into the Kahn's garage.

"Looking for my moms tennis racket." Noel pulled out a lightsaber, "Nope, not a tennis racket. Remember this?" Emily took the object out of his hands.

"How could I forget? The almighty Ezra Fitz and I kicked your ass in star wars." She laughed.

"You know you guys cheated." He shouted, still rummaging through old boxes of stuff to find, "Found it!" He popped out from behind an old box and coughed, "My mom decides to play tennis now. A million years later after she bought this thing."

"Why is she playing tennis now?"

"I don't know, probably because she wants to try out this new weight loss thing for woman." Noel said, furrowing his eyebrows in a confused manner. They were both in the tenth grade now, "So what brings you to my fortress?"

"I came with a message from the great Obi Wan Kenobi." Emily laughed, "But seriously, I'm bored."

"Well I have nothing to do either, so I wasn't the best person to meet at the moment." He motioned for her to come inside so he could give the racket to his mom.

"You have nothing to do? At all? You always have something to do."

"Well I was going to my trampoline."

Emily smiled, "Then lets go." She grabbed his hand and dragged him outside to his large trampoline.

"So no gossip today?" He laughed while they jumped around and did flips.

"Well there are new movers today. Toby and Jenna Cavanaugh."

"Yeah, wow! The St. Germain's moved here last week and now the Cavanaugh family." Emily soon became distant at the mention of the St. Germain family.

"You know Maya St. Germain isn't bad."

"She seems pretty hot and I heard she's into the ladies." Noel said.

"How do you know that? She's been here a week." Emily laughed even though just a few days ago, she had a run in with Maya.

"Well Ben said he saw Maya at the front of her house kissing some girl." Noel says, "I wonder if that girl goes to Rosewood." Emily stopped jumping, feeling a little uneasy.

At this, Noel stopped too, "Something wrong, Em?" He asked with concern.

"No, nothing's wrong, umm, its just-" She hesitated, "Nothing, never mind."

"You can tell me, best friends forever, remember? You don't have to tell me now, but when you're ready okay?" Emily smiled, and nodded.

"I want to tell you but not here or now, is that okay?"

Noel gave her a reassuring smile, "When ever you're ready." They did a few flips and just bounced around the trampoline before the pair headed inside to watch a movie.

Emily felt a little uneasy throughout the whole movie. All she did was worry about if Ben saw her and Maya's kiss. All she did was worry about if Ben told anyone that it was her. She was just worried. She didn't even know about her feelings involving Maya.

Noel, noticed this, of course. Her facial expressions said it all. The nervous worried faces she's making, concerns him since it wasn't a scary movie. They were watching Pitch Perfect. It wasn't even close to a scary movie.

"Emily, you feeling okay?" Noel's voice was gentle, it was comforting so it didn't startle her.

"I'm fine, why would you think that?"

"You're shaking." Noel was worried about her. He always cared for her like an older brother. Normally, the guys would say he had some kind of crush on her every time he defended her. He just cared, a lot. He would always deny when someone accuses him of loving Emily. He does, just not in that way. At least thats what he thinks.

"Noel, can I tell you something?" She asked, quietly.

"Anything."

"Remember when Ben told you he saw Maya kissing a girl?" He nodded, not sure what she's saying, "That was me. I kissed Maya St Germain a few days ago." Noel thought he felt his heart drop. He didn't know why he felt that way, he just did.

"Why?" He choked out, he had no idea why he felt so broken over this, "Do you like her in that way?"

"I don't know. I think I do but I just don't know." He put a hand on her knee, "But I do know, is that if I'm gay, my mom will never accept it."

"She's your mom, she will accept you for who you are. I know I will because I know you'll be happy and I think that's all that matters." It almost stung to say those words. He still didn't know why and he was denying the fact that he might actually like her in that way too. He doesn't know that he does like her in that way but he does and probably much more.

He thought that if she was gay, he would lose all his chances with her. Although he doubted it, he always thought they would end up together.

"Thank you, I think I needed that."

"Don't worry so much, everything will be fine."

"You don't know that for sure."

"You're right but that doesn't mean it won't be okay."

She smiled, "Can I sleep here tonight? My mom's out."

"You know, I never say no to these offers." He turned off the lights and wrapped his arms around her in a friendly way.

"Night Noel."

"Goodnight, Em."

This is a Nemily story. (Noel and Emily) This is Emily and Noel's part of the story. Parts of my story "Don't Play Games" will be in this but not in the same exact form. I changed it up just a little bit. To those who read that story and if you haven't already check it out, if you ship Spoby. This chapter was rather short but I didn't know how to start the story. I just knew I wanted to write a Nemily story. Haha. Review maybe? Byyyyyeeeeee -ThatKidFromSchool