Chapter One: Take My Hand
Emily's POV
I had only one box left to unpack before I was completely installed in Hanna's room, actually our room for a while.
"Are you done yet?" Hanna asked me.
"Why?"
"Girls want us to spend the night at Aria's like we used to do." Hanna told me.
"Great, give me ten minutes."
Hanna received a text from Aria and she read it out loud.
"Sorry, my parents don't want me to invite friends right now so we can't stay at my house."
Hanna left the room without saying anything. She came back few minutes later with a big smile on her face.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"We'll do this here tonight, my mom said yes and she won't be here." Hanna answered me.
"Great, I'm going to take a shower" I told her.
I stepped under the stream. I always thought that there was something so relaxing about taking a shower. Simply the feel of the water against my skin was enough to calm me down. I was in there for a while and when I got out; I looked around and realized that I hadn't brought any clothes. I wrapped a towel around myself and walked out. I was relieved to see that Hanna was still downstairs. I put on underwear and pants and then drop the towel in order to finish dressing myself. It is at that moment that Spencer walked in the room.
"Oh, shit!" Spencer said as she turned around and left the room.
I quickly got dressed and went after Spencer. I took her hand and dragged her back into the room.
"I'm really sorry." Spencer said as she blushed.
"Don't be, it was my fault. I should have locked the door."
"No, I should have knocked before." She said, blushing even more.
"We should just forget about that" I suggested.
"Yeah, the girls are waiting for us downstairs, we are gonna watch movies!" Spencer said.
We met Aria and Hanna in the living room.
"Spence, are you okay? You seem flustered!" Aria asked Spencer.
Spencer looked at me with a "What should I say" look.
"Yeah, I'm just a little warm." Spencer answered, trying to sound normal.
I had to smile at that and Hanna noticed it.
"What really happened?" She asked.
"Nothing" I affirmed.
"You're hidi… Are you…?" Aria asked confused.
"No!" Spencer replied.
"What is it then?" Hanna said insistently.
"What movie are we watching first?" Spencer demanded avoiding the subject.
"I don't know, but maybe we could play truth or dare instead" Aria said.
"Good idea" Hanna approved.
"Not if I'm not drunk." Spencer said.
"Well, like this you are going to tell us all of your secrets." Aria smirked.
"Great." Spencer said uneasily.
"I'm in" I added.
"Yeah, I'm too." Hanna retorted.
Spencer's POV
Hanna took some beers in the kitchen.
"Is someone hungry?" Hanna called from the kitchen.
"Nope" Aria said simply.
"Who wants to start?" Emily asked.
"I will, Spencer, truth or dare?" Aria asked.
"Dare" I answered thinking of getting out of answering stupid questions.
"Damn! I dare you to drink half of the bottle without breathing" Aria demanded.
"Easy" I said with a smirk.
"Hanna, do you choose truth or dare?" I asked when I was done with my dare.
"Truth" She replied.
"Hum… What is your higher grade in school?" I asked her even if I was sure she didn't care enough to know that.
"Only you would ask that kind of question, Spence, but I don't even remember." Hanna said.
"What did you expect me to ask Hanna? About your first time with Caleb? Too bad that it doesn't interest me." I said sarcastically.
"Well, yeah. That's kinda the point of this game! And just so you know, it hasn't happened yet."
"Really?" I asked incredulously.
"Your turn" Aria told Hanna changing the subject.
"Emily, truth or dare?" Hanna asked.
"Truth" Emily said.
The game is about to take another turn. Emily can't lie and the girls will tease us endlessly with what just happened upstairs.
"What really happened when Spencer went upstairs?" Hanna asked with a smirk.
I knew it.
"Why do you really want to know that?" I asked.
"Why are you so defensive?" Aria asked picking on my voice tone.
"I'm not." I said backing down.
"Well, it seems like something is going on." Hanna stated out loud.
"What make you think that something's going on?" Emily asked.
"First, Spencer went upstairs and we heard her scream… After you came down and you seem shy. And then Aria asked her what's going on and when she said that she was warm you smiled." Hanna told her.
"I didn't think of it that way." I said.
"But it's really nothing." Emily said.
"Then you can tell us" Aria insisted.
Emily looked at me and I nodded.
"Before you came here I took a shower and I forgot to bring my clothes to the bathroom so…" Emily wasn't able to end her sentence because Hanna was about to comment something.
"Shut up and let me finish. So as I was saying, I put a towel around myself and went in the room. It was okay because Hanna wasn't there. So I put my pants on and before I had time to put my shirt on, Spencer came in the room" Emily said.
"That's all that happened?" Hanna asked.
"Yeah, it is." I said.
"Wait! Didn't you say that you were a little warm when you came back downstairs?" Hanna asked in a way that made it pretty clear where she was going with that.
"It's already late, you should start a movie." I said avoiding the subject all together.
Hanna put the first DVD she found in the DVD player but it was Insidious. I was usually not scared of movies but that one was the only one I couldn't watch and Hanna knew it. We were all sitting on the couch. I was between Emily and Aria and Hanna was next to Emily. The girls were really focused on the movie, but I wasn't able to concentrate so I turned my head and looked at Emily. What happened this afternoon was really awkward but I didn't hate it. I hadn't realized I was still looking at her until I saw that she was watching me too. It seemed like she was trying to know what I was thinking of. I looked back at the T.V. just when something appeared on the screen. I took Emily's hand and hid my face in her neck because I was scared. Hanna laughed a little but she didn't stop the movie so I stayed like that. Damn, she smelled good.
Emily's POV
Spencer took my hand and put her head in my neck because she jumped. I felt her breath on my neck and it felt really good. What's wrong with me!? She's my best friend it's not supposed to be like that! But I wasn't able to pull away. It felt natural. When the movie ended she still didn't move. I knew she wasn't sleeping. What did that meant?
"Is she sleeping?" Aria asked.
"Yes" I lied.
I felt her smirk on my neck.
"Go put yours PJs on while I awake her" I said.
The girls went upstairs and Spencer moved back. It took everything for me not to pull her back.
"What just happened?" I asked her.
"Nothing happened. I was scared and you protected me." She winked at me and walked up the stairs.
We went in my bedroom where the girls were.
"Who sleeps with whom?" Aria asked.
"We'll take Em's bed and she can bunk with Spencer for tonight." Hanna stated.
I wanted to tell them that they were incredibly lousy but I couldn't, the arrangement was suiting me too well.
"I'm going to go change" Spencer said.
She left the room and Aria and Hanna looked at me expectantly.
"What?" I wondered out loud.
"What's going on between you and Spencer?" Hanna asked me.
"I'm sorry. What?" I asked shocked about the question.
Spencer came back at this moment and I took my PJs and escaped to the bathroom.
Spencer's POV
Emily left the room and the girls looked at me.
"So, what's going on?" Aria asked me.
"What do you mean?" I was oblivious to what she was implying.
Emily came back shortly after and we all jumped in bed.
"Goodnight girls" Aria said.
"Night'" We answered.
I didn't know how to act with Emily. I hated feeling her close to me and not being able to touch her. I was not supposed to feel the need to do so. She moved a little bit closer to me and took my hand under the covers. I smiled and fell asleep.
