Author's Note: This is my first story for PLL, and it deals with Emily's coming out to her dad, only in my version he isn't as accepting. Title comes from the lyric "Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase" in the song 'Pictures Of You' by Bon Jovi (love them). Sort of supposed to symbolize how there's certain things she wishes she could erase. This is just a really short one-shot. I hope you like it! I'll hopefully be posting other PLL stories too.
Every time I close my eyes I'm back in that room, cowering against the wall, his looming shadow advancing towards me. He raises a hand and slaps me twice across the face, hard. I cry out, helpless, even though I know there's nobody there that can hear me. He's doing this to me because I told the truth about who I was. Maybe if I'd kept my mouth shut this wouldn't be happening. If only I hadn't told him about being gay. It's my fault for believing I could count on him. It's nobody's fault but mine. I brought this all on myself.
To think I was so proud before I told him. So happy to finally be coming out, so I could be happy in my life. If only I'd known.
It hurts the most because he's the one I trusted. The one person I thought I could rely on. I've always been a daddy's girl, but now he doesn't even want me anymore. I can't tell anybody what's going on either, not even my best friends, not Spence, Han or Aria, because, well, he's my father, and family always comes first. No matter what he does, I love him and I can't do that to him.
So I'll just let it happen, and I won't tell anyone else about being gay because I've been scared back into the closet. And people can go ahead and ask me where the bruises keep coming from and I'll just keep on making up lies to protect him and nobody will question t because I'm the sweet, innocent Emily Fields; what else could have happened?
They don't know the half of it.
I've told more lies in my life than I care to say, but now the only thing I wish I could erase is telling my dad the truth.
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