"Here you go. Now remember, I am not responsible if Paige finds out. I don't want her coming after me again. I am still paying the medical bills from last time." Tammy said as she handed Emily the bag. That should last you all week."
"Don't worry, she won't even know I have this. She is working a double, and she has more to lose now if she acts out again." Emily replied, getting out of the car and walking to her own.
It was about was about two in the afternoon, Emily getting ready to start her long weekend. She was a senior in college now in NYC. She had convinced Paige that was where they needed to go after graduating high school. Paige was in her third year working for the NYPD. She had decided when they got to New York that she didn't want to go to school, instead signing up for the police academy. They needed a steady income to pay for their scrappy little apartment anyway. Their scrappy little apartment that Emily had just walked into. They had actually managed to make it look decent after a few scrub downs and a few layers of paint. It was their home. Emily set the her bag on the living room table and walked into their bedroom to change.
"Em?" She heard after the door closed. Emily immediately remembered the bag she had left on the table and came running out to greet Paige.
"Hey! I thought you were working a double? What happened?" Emily asked.
"Chief said I had way to much overtime, sent me home. Did you go shopping? Did you get my cookies?" Paige asked moving over to pick up the bag. Emily put her head down at what she knew her girlfriend had found.
"Paige, it isn't what you think." She said.
"I feel like even you don't believe that! We talked about this Emily! My God, I am a cop! You are finally finishing up with school!" She was cut off by Emily before she could finish.
"It is really stressful Paige! You have no idea!" She yelled back, defending herself.
"Oh, I have no idea? What because I didn't go to school? I'm a fucking cop Emily. In a city with over a million people in it! I deal with murders on a daily basis, but no, I have no idea how stressful your day at school is!" Paige said watching Emily deflate at her words.
"Paige..." Emily said before Paige interupted.
"No Emily. I told you the last time I wasn't going to tolerate it. I can't stand by and watch you kill yourself with this shit. I love you too much to watch it. I gave you an ultimatum, drugs or me. And it seems you have made your choice." Paige said while moving to the bedroom. She took out her duffle bag from work and started throwing clothes into it. Emily followed her into the room, grabbing Paige's arms to still the girl. "Emily I can't do this again. I am going to go to Spencer's and stay for a while." Paige continued to pack.
"I love you Paige." Emily said as Paige reached for the door handle. Paige stood there for a few minutes before she said "I love you too" back to the girl.
Emily turned and looked at the bag the minute her front door had closed. For the first time in her life she and Paige started dating, Emily Fields felt lost. In all the times that Emily had really messed up, Paige had never once left. But after the last time that Paige came home to Emily passed out in the bathroom, from taking too many pills and drinking too much, she told Emily she was to chose her or the drugs.
But Paige didn't understand her addiction. She didn't understand her stress. Emily moved to the fridge and opened a beer bottle that she had bought earlier that day, almost finishing it in two gulps. She opened another and moved to the living room to sit on the couch. Opening the paper bag up she had gotten earlier, Emily took out the bottle of pain killers and popped two into her mouth, swallowing them with a swig of her beer. If she was going to get through a weekend alone, without Paige, she might as well party it up. Even if it was just her. She woke up three hours later to loud banging on the door and two voices she hadn't heard in years yelling to open the door.
On her way to Spencer's Paige called the girl ahead of time and gave her a heads up that she needed a place to crash for awhile. The girl told her she was welcome for as long as she needed without a second thought. When Spencer hung up her phone she called Aria and Hannah for backup. She knew that if Paige left Emily, it had to of been bad. She knew the two girls would come to NYC to help Emily and Paige in a heartbeat. And she was right, both girls were on a plane from L.A. in a matter of hours. They were all going to help the two girls.
Paige knocked on the door of Spencers loft. When spencer opened the door, Paige fell into her arms, letting out a sob as Spencer pulled her in, closing the door.
"I can't do it anymore, Spence. She is breaking my heart." The girl cried out.
"Don't worry Paige, I called the girls. We are going to get her and you through it. This will be the last time she falls off, ok? You guys will be ok." Spencer reassured the girl.
"I just can't trust her right now Spencer, and I am just so tired of it." Paige said.
"I know. But you are going to stay here, they are going to stay there. We will work through this, together. And you two will work through this together. You guys will be ok. I know it." Spencer said.
