It was after a 'quick' sale shopping trip to the mall until its closing time that Hanna had arrived at the Hastings household. Her 3 not so sober best friends all welcomed her with complains and complimentary hugs.

"Geez isn't it too early for the booze you guys?" She only complained because they didn't wait for her. She usually was the one to initiate drinking and they would be reluctant at first.

"It's never 'too early' for a good shot of tequila Han" Aria said casually taking another shot.

"What's up with her?" Spencer and Emily just gave it a shrug. Hanna assumed it was an Ezra issue again. "I'm just gonna put my stuff away. Leave some for me" Seeing the contents of the bottle Hanna rushed upstairs to the guest room to put her shopping bags in place and change into some comfortable clothes. The 3 other girls were laughing and whispering as she came down.

"Spence rehearse her through" Emily said with fits of laughter

"Rehearse me with what?" She scans the faces of her friends and surely not failing to see the empty bottle of what they had. "Hey I told you to leave me some"

"You took too long. Come here" Spencer was sitting on the floor and patted the seat beside Emily which was just in front of her and Aria. Rolling her eyes Hanna followed the instructions. "Okay so you know that me and Toby are like planning on doing the thing right?"

"Okay?" She doesn't really get where Spencer was headed

"Uhm…can you like…can you…" Spencer's demeanor suddenly shifted. By the way she fidgeted with the edge of her shirt, Hanna then saw that Spencer was nervous.

"Spencer wants you to teach her how to kiss" Emily spilled out in behalf of Spencer.

"But haven't you and Toby made out already? I know he's been away for too long but still" Toby, Spencer's boyfriend had been in another state for almost 2 years and was coming home in a few months. When he was still in Rosewood he and Spencer were too scared to move past 1st base but now that he was away for far too long they've come in mind that it was time to hit home run.

"We've made out couple of times and each time we do he was controlling the whole thing because I didn't know what to do. Come on help me out. This time I want to do the right things to do when kissing" Hanna burst in laughter at Spencer. It was like Spencer was asking her a manual for kissing.

"Why don't you ask Aria or Emily to teach you? Aria's pretty active in that department. I don't have a boyfriend remember? And Emily's well she's I don't know with her" of course Hanna was hesitant. She wasn't sure what Spencer wants her to exactly do

"I'm not committed to anyone thank you very much. It's just an unofficial fling" Emily defended herself

"I've kissed them already and Aria said I'm the worst kisser and Emily just laughed at me" It was Emily and Aria's turn to shrug. While Hanna was enjoying her shopping spree unbeknownst to her, her three friends were already assessing Spencer's kissing kills.

"So what exactly do you want me to do?" Spencer smiled grimly wiggling her eyebrows

"Oh hell no I am not kissing you" all of them laughed at Hanna's immediate decline

"Why don't you and Emily show her how it's done instead" Aria suggested making Emily laugh harder and Hanna's eyes grow wide. She has kept deep inside herself her girl crush on Emily. Well Spencer and Aria knew she had it but they did not know that that little girl crush she had has already turned into a massive one.

"Yeah. You're both not tied to someone right now. GO!" Hanna remained stunned. She kept asking if this was a dream and if it was she wanted to wake up. Emily already had alcohol in her system so her once prude self was long gone by now.

"Come on Han" She swallowed hard as Emily herself tried to convince her

"O-Okay" She laughed at how she stuttered. She actually felt nervous of kissing Emily but she can't back out right now. She hoped that if it was a dream she would wake up already.

"Don't be scared of me Han" Emily encouraged her. Hanna now regretted sitting beside Emily.

"I'm not scared. It's just that what if I'm not good. What if I couldn't live up to your standards" Hanna rambled but quickly recovered "What if Spencer can't learn anything out of it?"

"We wouldn't find out if you don't start won't we? Now kiss!" Spencer demanded

"No what if it's me who can't live up to your standards" Emily fired back along with laughter. "Okay just think of it as Carmilla and Laura. I'll be Laura you'll be Carmilla"

"Oh my God!" Hanna was laughing so hard. There certainly was a sanctuary of butterflies on her stomach by now.

"Or you'll be the Piper and I'm Alex." Emily smiled from ear to ear making Hanna's heart swell.

"Okay let's do this then" Spencer and Aria cheered as Hanna turned to face Emily. As soon as her eyes met the brunette's she giggled like an idiot.

"Hanna!" Emily whined but laughed. Hanna composed herself and faced Emily again. With one nod that she was ready she started to lean in. Two soft lips met in between and silence filled the room except for the sounds of them kissing. Emily was too natural with what she was doing while Hanna was too preoccupied not to shame herself to Emily. Emily's hand cupped one side of Hanna's cheek. Hanna's hand was on Emily's shoulder and the other was on Emily's waist. She could taste a bit of the alcohol Emily had drunk. But what she liked best was the natural flavor of Emily mixed with the mint tang of the mouth spray the taller girl had used before they kissed. Tongues didn't battle for dominance but danced to a rhythm they had created. Hanna can't help herself and bit Emily's lower lip in which she victoriously earned a moan from the other girl. Emily smiles tentatively but doesn't break the kiss. Hanna repeated her actions again and received the same reaction. Hanna wished that if it was a dream, it wouldn't end…ever. The moan, the smiles in between, it was what Hanna had imagined a perfect kiss would be. What she didn't expect was it to happen with Emily. After what seemed like an eternity to Hanna, they both pulled away from each other.

"We have a biter right here" Emily pointed proudly at Hanna with a huge grin on her face. She gave her hand for Hanna to hi 5.

"Was I too aggressive? Sorry" She apologized giving Emily a hi 5. Spencer and Aria found what happened all too funny. What they, excluding Hanna, failed to notice was Emily tracing the outline of her lips and silently whispering 'wow'. Hanna became prouder of herself.

Spencer tried to convince Aria to do it with either Hanna or Emily but she won't budge. So they decided to watch a movie instead, not that they were gonna finish it til the end anyway. Spencer lied down with Aria on the floor since they were seated there in the first place while Hanna stiffly sat at the other end of the couch with Emily sprawling her tall legs beside her. Emily's foot was just centimeters away from her but the close proximity of the other girl's skin gave her a chill. From her peripheral view she could see Emily looking at her. To give herself an excuse to look at her she turned to Emily's side to pick up the pillow beside Emily's leg and threw it to Spencer.

"What the hell?" Spencer lousily exclaimed. The tiredness of her voice gave away that she was already falling asleep. Hanna was nervous again for some unknown reasons.

'Come on I don't bite' The character of the movie they were watching said. Emily giggled.

"What?" Hanna gave her a confused look.

"But you do" Emily teased her. Even in the dark, tints of Hanna's now red cheek could be noticed.

"I'm Carmilla after all" she threw in some humor.

"Yeah. My Carmilla" Emily replied back casually before turning back to the movie they were watching.

If Hanna was unsure before, now she wasn't. That very night, her realization hit her like a hard brick.

Hanna finds Emily charming. Hanna finds Emily fun. Hanna finds Emily attractive. Hanna finds Emily interesting…interesting in some other way. That kiss, her kissing Emily, it was a glimpse heaven and never had she ever badly wanted anything to happen again.