Prompted by bauerfanstraten: Star Swan; "I'm only here to establish an alibi."
Emma woke up to sudden knocking at her door. Rolling out of bed, she threw on her robe and stumbled down the stairs, throwing the door open. The last person she expected to see was her ex-girlfriend, Lily. She raised an eyebrow, rubbing furiously at her eyes.
"Lily? What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I'm only here to establish an alibi," Lily replied, pushing her way in, shrugging off her oversized parka.
Emma let out a groan. "What did you do now?"
Throughout their entire relationship, Lily had been getting into trouble and constantly asking Emma to bail her out, if the latter wasn't already involved in the process. When Lily was sent off to juvie, she assumed it was the end of things. Apparently not. Lily was just lucky that Mary Margaret and David were out of town visiting friends.
"I was seeing this guy." Lily rolled her eyes. "Big mistake, a fucking douchebag if I've ever seen one."
"You never did pick right."
"I picked you, didn't I?"
Emma shifted uncomfortably. "Douchey guy, go on."
"Anyway, we broke up but I realized I forgot my necklace in my house." She frowned. "You know how much that thing means to me. It's all I have left…"
"Of your father," Emma whispered. The death of Lily's dad had been almost too much for her to bare and had caused the downward spiral she was on.
"Yeah. So, I tried asking him to get it back, but he never let me. Claimed he didn't have it. So, I waited until I knew he'd be out and snuck into his house to grab it."
Emma had a feeling this wasn't going to end well. "Lil…"
"I found it in his room, like I knew I would. I was almost in the clear, but then I got carried away. I started fucking with his stuff, swirling his toothbrush in the toilet. I didn't realize how much time was passing and then his car pulled up."
"Oh geez."
"I hopped out the window and high tailed it out of there, but I felt like I was being followed."
"So you came here."
"You're the sheriff's daughter. Everyone will believe you, say we're having a sleepover or something."
Emma bit her lip. She had swore she was done helping Lily, but it was a lot harder looking into those big green eyes and saying no. "What does your mom think?"
"That I'm spending the night here…"
"Have I always been your alibi?"
"For her. Come on, I know your parents are out, their car's not here."
Emma considered it for a bit. She knew Lily was right. If Graham showed up, he'd believe her and Lily could avoid ending up in juvie yet again.
"Alright," she said with a sigh.
Lily beamed. "Really?"
"Just this once. Next time, you're on your own. Let's just get to my room."
Lily followed her up the stairs and the two collapsed onto her bed. "How have you been?"
"Surviving."
"I thought about writing you from the inside…didn't know what to say."
"You've been out for a while."
There were a few beats of silence. "I missed you."
"Yeah."
"You didn't miss me?"
"Did I miss constantly getting in trouble because of you? No."
Another beat of silence and then Emma smiled to herself.
"But yeah…I did miss you."