So glad to be back with a new multichapter story!

This will be centered around Hanna, Emily, and Alison. Gonna have a little love triangle action going on here and I'm really freakin' excited to write it! There will be a couple scenes from episodes 5x01 and 5x05 in this story, but the dialogue and actions of the characters will not match those of the show.

Idea credit for this story goes to my friend Lord Jeremy Silver.

This chapter is purely for backround purposes. It's just to give you an idea of what's going on in that pretty little head of Emily's at the end of the mess that this story will tell and then next chapter will flashback and that is where the real story begins (;

Hope you like it!

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Emily's POV

It's crazy, laying here right now with her, blonde hair splayed across my chest, a pale arm wrapped tightly around me, her legs intertwined with mine. The last few days have been anything but easy for us. Hell, the past few years haven't been easy. But we got through it. Just like we always have. Just like we always will.

It's a funny thing, your first love. You hope and pray that you'll be together forever. Most of the time you won't be. You'll have fun, but your love will run its course. And where does that leave you? With the promise that you'll always be friends? Yeah, right! You say that, but then time goes on, you drift apart, and then you're strangers. Like you never loved at all.

It makes you wonder. If it's so easy to forget each other, was it ever really love in the first place? Or was it just infatuation? Was the entire relationship, or whatever you want to call it because it certainly wasn't a conventional relationship by any means, a source of comfort for when you both were going through a difficult time?

But sometimes, that first love, you realize it wasn't your first love at all. When you finally meet the right person, and they show you everything that other person didn't, things about yourself, things about the world, that's when you know that you're really in love for the first time.

Turns out that person was in front of me the whole time. I just had to open my eyes and see her for everything she is, everything she had the potential to be.

She put me back together stronger than ever after the most difficult time in my life. She never left my side. And somewhere along the way I fell completely and totally in love with her. But I guess she didn't have enough faith in that love. Believed that I would leave her as soon as that presumed first love came back into my life. But that wasn't true.

She was my best friend. I'd always loved her. I didn't always know the extent of that love for her. But I do now. And I will never let her go. Not for anything, not for anyone.

If only she knew that from the start.

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A very short intro, but I hope it has you intrigued enough to stick with this story.

I will be updating this every Saturday, as opposed to the three day cycle I had for "You Could Be The Light" , so if I forget to update on time, message me and tell me to get off my ass and post the next chapter! (;

I look forward to hearing your feedback!