"Aria!" a voice called knocking on her door.

"Yeah," she smiled getting up to answer it.

"This came for you," her roommate Rose told her as she handed her an apple pie. She smiled. Ezra knew how much she loved apple pie, especially when she was away from home.

"Thanks," Aria smiled. She grabbed the dessert and walked down to the kitchen to grab a plate. She helped herself to a piece and took a small bite. Then she turned to Rose. "Do you want some."

"No thanks," Rose told her. "I'm allergic to walnuts."

"What?" Aria tried to spit it out but she could already feel her throat closing up. She clutched at her neck and suddenly felt the room start to spin.


Emily walked through the deserted college campus. She pulled her jacket around her tighter to ward off the cold winter wind. She was on her way to her favorite coffee shop near Danby's campus. The only thing that could warm her up was their famous double hot chocolate. She got to the door and instantly the warmth inside hit her windburn skin.

"Emily!" she looked up to see a familiar face.

"Erica?" Emily smiled giving her teammate a hug. "Hi."

"Look," Erica told her. "They messed up and made me two hot chocolates. Would you care to take this off my hands?"

"Uh sure," Emily replied touched by the gesture. "Thanks."

"I was going to go catch a movie," Erica told her. "Do you...maybe...want to come?"

"Yeah," Emily said. "That would be nice."

Erica took her hand and the two walked to the cinema located on the other side of the parking lot. Emily loved feeling Erica's skin against her but she waived the thought out of her head. She was here to swim. She didn't need any distractions or an excuse to get kicked off the team after she worked so hard to be there.


Spencer grabbed her red pea coat from the back seat and wrapped it around herself as she stepped out of the car. She hopped into the cold air and took a look at the front wheel. It was buried deep in the mud with no chance of slipping out. Spencer sighed and went back to the front seat to dial a tow truck.

"Yeah hello?" she said after she heard the operator who introduced herself as Alice. "My car is stuck in the mud."

"Can you tell us your location?" the Alice asked.

"I'm off highway six," she replied. "Just before the dropoff."

"I can have a tow for you in the next hour," Alice told her. "Just sit tight and keep your doors locked until we arrive."

"Thank you," Spencer replied. She locked the doors and blasted the heater to keep warm.


"All done," Caleb told Hanna handing her the phone.

"Thanks," she replied staring off into the window. The snow was starting to come down hard and she could barely see her car anymore.

"You might want to stay here for a while," he told her. "At least until the weather clears."

"I need to get back," she replied. "I'm meeting Spencer at the grill."

"Hanna," he said. "You'll get lost in the snow storm. Please, just think about it."

"I know what you're trying to pull," she answered, "but I really need to go."

She grabbed her purse and headed for the door dusting the snow off around her car. She climbed in and gave Caleb a waive goodbye making sure to keep her mother's fixed phone in a safe place.


"Ow!" Aria groaned feeling the sting from Rose's epi-pen.

"Sorry," Rose told her. "Are you okay now?"

"Yeah," Aria replied. "I'm fine."

"That A guy must not know you very well," Rose replied, "considering he nearly tried to poison you."

"What?" Aria was shocked. "A? Who brought the pie?"

"It was a delivery guy," Rose explained. "He said it was from your friend A."

"No wonder," Aria breathed. "We should probably just throw this away."

"Who's A?" Rose asked her.

"Just someone I used to know," Aria replied.


Emily sat in her theatre seat while Erica grazed her hand. She slipped her fingers in between Erica's and then they were holding hands as they watched the rest of the film. They sat like that through the remainder of the movie. For the life of her, Emily could not remember what it was even about. When it was over, they both sat there for a minute watching the credits roll.

"You have something," Erica said taking her free hand to dust an imaginary fleck off of Emily's face.

"Thanks," Emily smiled. Before she knew it, Erica was leaning in to kiss her. Emily instantly got butterflies in the pit of her stomach. She recognized this feeling. She knew it. She loved it.

"Wait!" Emily said pulling away quickly. "We can't..."

"What do you mean?" Erica asked her.

"We're teammates," Emily replied. "It's against the rules."

"Trust me," Erica told her. "It's only bad if we get caught."

"Oh," Emily breathed as a smile crept across her lips.


"It won't start," Hanna said standing at Caleb's front door. She hated the smile that was plastered to his face.

"Come in," he told her. "It's probably just too cold. The weather is dropping way below zero. You shouldn't be on the road anyway."

"How long do you think that's going to be?" she sighed.

"I don't know," he replied. "You're welcome to stay here in the meantime."

"Like I have a choice," she groaned leaning back against the couch.

I tried something new this time. I wrote short quick scenes from each of their stories. Let me know if you like that better or worse. Anyway, Shugar High Author guessed it: Emily is the little mermaid, Aria is Snow White, Hanna is the beauty from Beauty and the Beast, and Spencer is Little Red. Enjoy!