Hello fellow amigos who read what I write! I decided to make another part to this story and see how it goes from there and if people want me to continue! enjoy! -lexus (I do not own anything PLL related) Also, this whole fanfic takes place in grade 11 and yes Emily is still shy and obviously there is no A! WARNING TRIGGER POSSIBILITY
Emily's POV.
It has been over a week since Ali kissed me at our sleepover. She doesn't even realize how much that kiss meant to me and so the morning afterwards, she pretended it didn't even happen. Her eye's begging me not to bring it up but foolishly I did. Her words still cut my heart in two. "It was an impulse. A pity kiss because of the whole Ben thing we talked about briefly. It didn't mean anything to me." Even just thinking about it makes me want to cry. I stayed though the rest of the day over at her house as we finished the other four harry potter movies and the kiss hasn't been mentioned since.
The final bell of class rings and my thoughts are disrupted by 26 other classmates getting out of English as fast as possible ready to start there weekend. I, unlike them, have a date with the pool. My head needed to be cleared, it is still full of hope and hurt but I needed to focus on the upcoming meet. It is against the Merlin's or biggest rival and their swim team this year is the best a private school can get. I leave my class, walking through the halls to get to my destination and bumping into Neanderthals as I get there. God the sooner I am out of this school and town the better. As I enter the change room, the familiar smell of chlorine fills my nose and a small smirk shows on my lips. This is where I belong, I think to myself as I change into my swim suit. Slipping on my cap and goggles, I walk into the pool before quickly diving into a lap.
Then another lap, and then another until I lose count, embracing the water that slickly pushes past my body. I forget all about that night, about her, about the stress of school and about anything else that is taking some part of my brains thoughts and just swim. For the first time in a long time I was swimming for no reason. It was usually all about winning but right at this second it was because I missed the water. As the minutes pass, my body continues to move up and down the lane and I only stop when the sound of a clap breaks the silence that enveloped me. Maybe it is Ali? I think as I near the end of my soon to be last lap. Looking up hopefully, I come to see Ben walking closer to the pools edge where I now treed water.
"Wow nice job babe! How long have you been here for?" He questions and I shrug in reply. "I've been swimming since school ended, needed to practice for the meet that's coming up." Ben nods before taking off his shoes and putting his feet in the water as he sits beside me.
"Well you seemed to be enjoying it. I just got here, looking for you actually. Don't forget though to sharpen your turns underwater when you finish a lap, the couple I saw were sloppy and so was your form near the end. You won't make a good anchor if you don't sharpen it." I nod at his criticism and hop out of the pool, walking towards the change rooms. "Thanks Ben, I'm going to be right out and then we can do whatever you want." I reply before closing the door behind me.
As I slip on my shirt to cover my bra, still having half my bathing suit cover my lower body, I feel two hands grab my shoulders and turn me around. Surprised my mouth hangs open and I see that it is just Ben smirking. "Ben I need to change and this is the girls change room, you aren't aloud in here." I state holding my partially removed bathing suit up as much as possible. "Or maybe you don't need to change at all, in fact I don't think we'll be needing clothes at all." I lower my head down to look at the ground and turn back to face my locker. "Ben I told you I'm not ready for that." I reply quietly, knowing his temper when it comes to stuff like this.
"Are you freaking kidding me babe, we've been dating for over 6 months and you've been teasing all week." He grabs both my shoulders again and turns me back around, smashing our lips together. His lips are chapped and I try to push him away as his hands land on my hips that are now barely covered. "Stop." I muffle out as hes hands rub my sides. "Ben stop." I say louder but he still continues. As his hands react up my shirt and throw it off, I begin to panic more so then before. He isn't stopping, this isn't the boy that I agreed to date. He would never do this, I think to myself while I thrash and cry trying to break out of his hold. His hands slide back down to my hips and as he is about to remove the remainder of my bathing suit, a punch to his back from behind him is heard. Ben halts and his hands drop as he turns around to reveal the blond haired girl that I love.
She pushed him away from me, her strength surprising Ben as he falls down and she stands above him swiftly, kicking his side. Alison leans down punching him in the nose and the sound of a snap emits from their fight. I just stand there, paralyzed in fear and panic as I watch Alison repeatedly punch Ben while he struggles to get back up. "Don't you ever touch her again, because if you so much as look at her the wrong way I will not hesitate to beat you this bad again."
As Ali turns around Ben trips her with his legs and she falls, her head hitting a locker hard and she yelps. This snaps me out of my daze and I grab him by his shirt pulling him up slightly and punching him in his teeth. My mind blurs at the thought of him hurting Alison as my fist begins to hurt as it collides with hit face still. A pair of hands around my bare stomach and I halt as I'm pried away from him. I turn around and leave him there as Ali grabs my hand and my clothes, pulling me away from the place that will never look the same to me. I see that it is almost dark outside and realize it has been 4 hours since school ended. "My mom..." I whisper and Ali just nods, "She called me awhile ago so I told her that I saw you go to the pool when school ended to practice and I asked if it was okay if you could sleep over tonight. She agreed." I just nod and walk through the empty halls and move the straps to my bathing suit back up my body. I'm not even wearing my shoes that are currently being held in Ali's grasp. We walk out the school and to Alison's car. I shiver as the cold November rosewood air hits my body that is barely covered.
As we finally make it to Alison's car, and I quickly get in, hoping somehow my brain is going to process what just almost happened. The drive to Ali's house is nearly silent, the only thing that is heard is the heater working furiously to keep the car warm. We pull up to her empty drive way and I mentally guess that her parents are away on another business trip somewhere. I jump out of her car and wait for her to unlock her front door. "I put aside some clothes for you on my bed Em, I'm just gonna go to the kitchen for a little bit." Ali states and I nod before going upstairs. As I enter her room, I already see the box set of harry potter on her bed and her lap top waiting for us to watch the movies that we have already seen more then enough of. Beside this is a pair of sweatpants that say Rosewood Sharks on the side and a baggy black t-shirt. These are my clothes but how she got them, I do not know. Grabbing them, I walk to the bathroom down the hall from her room. I look at myself in the mirror and can already see some bruises forming on my shoulders from his tight grip. I slowly strip out of my suit and more bruises begin to appear up and down my sides to my chest. I change into my sleeping clothes barely able to look at myself for another second and just as my shirt slips on, I break down. My breathing becomes shallow as the tears stream down my face and I sink to the ground. Rocking back and forth as I cry, my brain finally processes that he attacked me. That if it wasn't for Ali, I would still be helpless and with him.
I sob as I question why me and why in general. Why today, why there, why him, why now. I can't breath as the sobs just wrack my body over and over again and I hear the bathroom door open. Alison sits down beside me as a rock back and forth and she pulls me onto her lap, wrapping me in a hug. She holds me against her chest as I just keep repeating why and all she say's is "I don't know Em, I don't know." She holds me as my sobs become whimpers and my rocking stops. I stand up after an abundance of time has passed and look at myself in the mirror. My face is red and puffy and my cheeks are lines with tear stains. Alison stands up beside me and takes my hand, leading me just as she did at school after it almost happened. She takes me to her room, dropping my hand once we enter. I watch from the door as she takes the laptop and movies that are on her bed and outs them on her desk.
"I thought that maybe you wouldn't be up for a bunch of movies like last time now so I just thought um..." She pauses and looks at me before looking at the ground. It was weird to see her shy instead of me. "It's stupid but I thought instead we could cuddle, in like a friendly way." I giggle and nod, walking around to the far side of her bed and climbing in. She cautiously joins me, wincing when her head hits the pillow and I shuffle over to see how bad her head it. A thin line about an inch on the right side of her head is almost invisible along with a bump but to me there is practically a sign pointing to it. It is my fault she has this now, she shouldn't have been there. He could have hurt her so much worse then he did. "Em come back to me." I hear Ali say, her face just mere centimeters away from mine. "Em I'm okay. It's just a scratch and I would do it all over again just to make sure he doesn't touch you ever again. I don't know what I would do if he... if he actually like..." Ali drifted not knowing what to say and I look down at our now entangles legs. Ali turns to lay on her back but I just stare at the side of her face, admiring how stunning she is. It's as if I"m in a trance and nothing can break me from it. Her head turns to me and she smiles. "Come here," she say's softly and I shuffle into her, resting my head on her chest looking at the stars that glowed still on her ceiling.
Her heart beats are easily heard and beating fast. "Are you okay Ali?" I ask genuinely worried. I turn my head to look up at her and our eyes lock. "Ya just nervous I guess." I look at her smiling at the thought of her nervous because of me. "Oh. I can move back to my side of the bed if that helps." I state knowing I would but I didn't want to."NOO!" Ali replies urgently before her cheeks flush red. "I mean nah, it's okay." I smile and turn back to look at the stars. "Are you okay Em?" Ali whispers, afraid of the answer.
"Honestly, I think I will be but it's just processing right now and coming to terms with what almost happened. If you hadn't been there he would have... He probably, no he not probably, he would have raped me and I just don't know right now what I'm supposed to think or do about it." A single tear rolls down my cheek and falls.
"That thought alone makes me want to crawl into a little ball and cry because if he did that to you and I wasn't there like I was today, he... I can't fathom how much that would hurt me because he would have hurt you in the worst of way's. You mean the world to me Emily, you know that right?" I lay there cuddled into Alison's chest, feeling like I did this time last week after she kissed me and I feel rage because she told me it didn't mean anything. If kissing me doesn't mean anything neither do I. I move my head off of Ali's chest.
"No I don't Alison, remember what you said last week, it didn't mean anything to you, so neither do I." I turn my body away from Alison's because it physically hurt my heart to be so close to her right now and know how I feel but not be able to come out and say it. Or come out at all in fact.
"That kiss meant the world to me... You mean the world to me." I hear her whisper and my weak resolve breaks as sit up to turn back to see Ali. The first thing I see though isn't the confident Alison I know so well but the broken girl I've only seen once or twice in my life before. Her eyes are out of focus and watery, their sharp blue color is misty and silent tears fall from her eye's. She turns her head to me. "I... You... How can you be so oblivious to how much you matter to me. You are so stunning and unappreciated and when you smile at me, your dimples show and it is the cutest thing I've ever seen. And when you laugh it's such a beautiful sound and I'm so scared of what I feel for you Emily, so god damn scared because I've never felt this way before. And you see right through me to the person I've always wanted to be, to the person who you see when it is just us two. I love you Emily Fields and what happened today was the scariest thing I've ever witnessed. He had you and he was going to hurt you and I felt like I was going to be sick as soon as I saw him with you in that change room." Her tears stream down her face now as she sits up to look at me better. "I love you okay you mean that much to me."
She stops her speech and comes closer, caressing my cheek with her hand. "You are so beautiful Emily, you mean so much, and I love you." With that she slowly closes the gap between our lips. Putting my hands on her sides, I lift her onto my lap and she wraps her legs around my waist as her lips softly move against mine. Our tongues fight for dominance as I slowly turn us around and lay her down on the bed. My lips detach from her as I begin to kiss her neck, sucking on her pulse point and she moans. Realizing where this could be going, I instantly stop and sit back up, utterly breathless. She smiles up at me and moves over signaling to cuddle back, knowing that it was becoming to much to fast. Smiling I rest my head back on her chest and her arm wraps protectively around me. "I love you too Alison. I love you more then all the stars."
