The school bell rings loudly. Hundreds of students get into the overcrowded hallway of Rosewood High, a public high school in Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Classes were finally over for today and most of them are in a hurry to go back home.
In between all these students, there is a group of four girls, talking to each other and making their way through the masses of people to the students' parking lot.
"Hey!" says Emily Fields, the most athletic one out of the group and captain of the Rosewood High swim team. "Do you guys want to go to the Applerose Grille with me? Just grab a cup of coffee and get some homework done?"
The small girl, who is walking next to her, nods. Her name is Aria Montgomery, she's the artist out of the four girls - drawing and painting are things, she's really good at.
"Sounds good to me," Hanna Marin agreed as well. The blonde is the most fashionable girl in comparison to her friends and always best-dressed. Today she's actually wearing a new dress from Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers.
Emily smiles, "Awesome! What about you, Spencer?"
The last girl is tall has rather toned body. Her hair is long and of a darker brown color, her eyes are brown as well. Her skin is pale and spotless. The little make-up she's wearing, underlines her warm facial expression perfectly.
"She's really beautiful," Emily thinks to herself as they push the door open to get into the parking lot.
"Yes, I think I will join you guys as well," Spencer finally replies.
Emily smiles, she has hoped that Spencer would come with them. For some reason, she has started to like her the most out of her three best friends.
Of course, Spencer is really beautiful - that's something, nobody could ever deny. But she's also smart, funny, sportive and loyal...
Emily has often thought to herself, that Spencer would be the perfect girlfriend for her. But they have basically been friends since forever, so Emily isn't interested in changing things between them - nor in dating her, of course.
A car honk interrupts Emily's thoughts. She sees Spencer's face brighten up, the girl grins from one ear to the other. "Wren," she shouts, her voice full of happiness. Spencer runs over to her boyfriend and gives him a kiss.
Wren is a really nice guy. He's a doctor at the local hospital and used to date Spencer's older sister, Melissa. But after they broke up, Spencer and Wren got closer and finally became a couple.
Now they have been together for almost seven months and still seem to be as happy as in the beginning of their relationship. He's good to Spencer and she's desperately in love with him.
"I like Wren, it's just..." Emily thinks to herself.
Anyways, Spencer gets into his car, shouts something that Emily cannot understand and they drive off, waving at them.
Aria giggles, "Well, I don't think she will come with us to the Grille. Seems like it's just the three of us. Let's go." Aria and Hanna start to walk off the parking lot. "You're coming, Em?" Hanna asks.
Emily is still starring into the direction in which Wren's car disappeared a few seconds ago.
Something in her body starts to ache, but she ignores the pain. She doesn't want to give these feelings any room to grow. The possible feelings for one of her best friends, Spencer Hastings.
She mumbles something that sounds like "Yes, I'm coming." and finally starts to catch up with the others.