Season 1 Episode 2

Morning Coffee

Recap: Maya find Emily on her front porch the day after Ali's funeral and they go for coffee stopping along the way to invite Spencer.

Maya and Emily followed the shortest route to the coffee shop, "What are the other girl's names?" Maya probed. "There is Spencer." Emily gestured behind them. Maya widened her eyes and stretch her mouth, "Ms. Decaf." Emily laughed, "Aria, she has the long brown wavy hair with big puppy dog eyes. And Hannah, the curly blonde with Prada tattooed on her butt." Maya widened her eyes at Emily's harsh description of her friend. Emily was upset that Hannah had turned into the ruthless Queen B of the school.

They were all friends once and Hannah acted as if she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth not like the chubby girl they had grown up with. "How did you guys become friends?" Maya play detective for information about the girl she was crushing on. "We were all friends because of Alison." Maya nodded her head.

"What about you Ms. Inquisitive, who are you best friends?" Emily asked. Maya looked up to meet Emily's eyes as they locked in on her face memorizing ever crease and line. "I don't have multiple best friends. I am more of a family person. I share a lot with my cousins since I don't have any siblings."

"Are you parents divorced?" Maya was unsure if she hit a sensitive subject so she looked over to check Emily's response. "No, my dad is in the military." Emily's face was overcome with a sadness remembering her father. She avoided the subject when he was away. "I'm sorry. I had no idea." Maya didn't expect the response. "I hadn't heard you talk about him I thought maybe he was just not in the picture."

"It's ok." Emily was trying to avoid any more painfully tales of her life to Maya. She looked up and realized they had lost their selves in conversation, "Oh." Emily stopped and turned around in the opposite direction. "What?" Maya stopped beside Emily following her lead. "We passed the coffee shop." A chuckle escaped Mia's lips, "good conversation does that."

The both exchanged suggestive glances and continued on their way to school. "So, what exactly does one do at a sleepover? Is it really like boys imagine?" Emily grinned and shook her head, "not all over them." Maya and Emily looked to each other at the realization of what was just said. Emily tried to cover her tracks, "I mean sometimes there is dress up but mostly it is gossip, food, and movies." "I like to cuddle and watch movies." Maya nudged Emily's arm. Emily's face formed a rose tint as Maya's skin grazed hers.

The girls reached the inside of school noted by the squeaky sound of their shoes on the freshly polished floor. "I will see you after school." Maya smiled and nodded at Emily's invitation. They part ways for their lockers down the crowded hallway.

Mid-Day Dreams-

Recap: After Det. Wilden interviews the girls in school and they gossip over lunch. They head to Mr. Fitz class.

Emily finished jotting down the answer to Mr. Fitz question. She dropped the pencil and looked over to Aria who was still steady writing her usual lengthy answer. Emily's mind began to drift. The cop from early had scared her.

They had all lied to the police a million times by now about Jenna and the night with Ali. It seemed as if there was more interest in us than anyone else. She felt guilty about lying and she knew that would show on her face much like it always does.

What would happen if she went to jail? Innocent people get sent to prison all the time, right? She recalled a CNN news cast she had seen on at Spencer's tv. What would happen to her in prison? She may be athletic but prison women are fierce. The image of the big, muscle, tattooed women flashed in her head from the show. Some of the women even had crew cuts and gold teeth.

Emily propped her elbows on the desk and brought her hands to support her face as she closed her eyes in disbelief of the situation. How did everything get so messed up? Everything was going fine.

But, then Maya moves in, Ali's dead, and her boyfriend keeps asking about Maya's undies. Emily's mind quickly ran with her last thought. She pictured Maya back in the hallway talking to the other girls. Her curly hair half pulled up and resting on her shoulders. The light blue tank hugged around her thin waist and emphases her chest while the airy white oversized long sleeve shirt drapes down her. Her pants defined every curve of her lower body.

Emily removed everyone from the hallway in her version of events. Maya made her way across the empty stretch over to her as she stood in front of her open locker door. "I love that shirt on you." Emily complimented. "I like yours better off." Maya pushed Emily back into the lockers by her hips hovering over her compromised body. Emily could feel Maya's breath on her as her face was only inches away. Maya slowly started moving her shirt up exposing her tummy while keeping locked into Emily's eyes.

Aria slapped Emily's elbow startling her back to reality. Emily's face flushed, "What's with you?" Emily shook her head noticing the papers being passed forward. Aria gave her a suspicious look as she recognized Emily's daydream symptoms.

Emily shrugged at Aria's suggestive expression. The bell chimed loudly, "Thank God for small miracles," she thought to herself gathering her things. She made her way out of the classroom to the over ran hallway. She looked up from zipping her bag to Ben and Maya standing outside her classroom.

These where the two people she wished she could keep away from each other but how could she accomplish this without looking even more suspect. Ben walked over draping his arm around Emily's shoulder. Emily flashed a disconcerted smile as she made swift eye contact with Maya. "So, apparently she wears briefs and tanks." Ben flashed a charmer smile.

Emily's mouth dropped in disbelief as she elbowed him in the side and pushed his arm off. "What?" He playful laughed and rubbed his damaged ribs. "Don't you have class?" Emily snapped. Ben did have class, on the other side of school. "Fine," he rushed off after checking the hall clock.

"I am so sorry." Emily pleaded with her new friend. "I'm not. I just hope you like them." She smiled and used her shoulder to push off the locker she had been leaning on and head off down the hallway without parting words. Emily smiled to herself, flattered as the warning bell rung for the next class.

Your Side of the Bed

Recap: Maya and Emily have a brief conversation about Ali and which side of the bed she prefers.

Emily slowly traced down Maya's elongated body as she was stretched across the bed. "Did you play sports in your old school?" Maya shook her head, "No. I am not a very "spirited" person" She sat up on the bed and quoted her words with her fingers. "So, Ben is very," Emily cut off Maya, "pig headed." Emily was still upset about the incident early.

"I was going to say the handsome jock type." Emily laughed at her pit bull tendencies. "Why do you like to him?" Maya furthered her integration. "He's good swimmer. My parents like him. He is popular." Emily rambles on a few more surface details. "Those are definitely one in a million." Maya acknowledge the generalness of her answer.

Emily somewhat frustrated by the intrusiveness of Maya's question, "Why do you like Justin?" She snapped back. "He has gentle soul. He tries to understand people even when his own opinions are different. He was full of life and wants to explore and find happiness." Emily's expression changed as she heard Maya continue to describe qualities in another person. "But, he also had qualities I didn't like that pull us apart."

Maya tried to redeem herself, "He did a lot more partying than I did. He loved the ladies too." Maya slide off the bed and walked over to the seat under the window and sat down staring out onto the night. "How would you define love?" Emily smiled set back by the question, "What?"

"How would you define love?" Maya repeated herself reading more into Emily's shock. "The person you spend the rest of your life with what qualities do they have?" Emily composed the many thoughts running through her head, "Um. Well, they would be patient. It is hard to come to terms with certain situations and sometimes it takes people longer. They are honest about everything regardless of how small. They would be reliable someone I can put faith into knowing they will always be there and know it isn't just for show. They don't boost about things that are private. They would be happy to be with me. They would never take for granted any of the moments we spend together. They would be able to forgive and move forward if something happened. They would keep their selves out of situation that would cause trouble. They would stand by me through really crappy times no matter how rough it is."

Emily realized she was rambling and remembering all the reason she didn't like Ben and all the wrong things she was doing here with Maya while she was with Ben. But, in her heart she didn't feel for Ben what she felt for Maya. She didn't understand why that was missing. Was it ever there? Did it leave?

Maya smiled at the details in her answer knowing she could offer them and agreed with them, "Is Ben all of that?" Emily heard Maya's questions above the voices in her head, "What?" She was uncomfortable with the question as is if Maya was stomping around in her head stirring up her secrets. "Of course he does." Emily lied. "Someone thus profess too much." Maya called Emily on her obvious lie. Excusing it because of the situation they were going into. Maya knew she wanted Emily and she knew she could have her it was just a matter of time. A matter of waiting for her to come around and come to terms with how she felt.

Emily was feeling cornered by the questions. "I am going to get ready for bed." She moved up from the chair walking to the dresser. Emily liked her sleep and since school started so early she didn't feel horrible about turning in early. This line of questioning was starting to hit a little too close to home for one night. Plus, it was late Emily had practice and tons of homework that day and by the time Maya had arrived at her house it was already 8.

Mrs. Field's had made them dinner. It was lean and health for Emily: baked fish, grilled asparagus, and roasted parmesan potatoes. Her mom pried about Maya's former life experiences making sure her daughter was in good hands with her new friend. After an hour and a half of pure torture and really good peach pie the girls gathered their plates and heading off to the kitchen. They rinsed them, stacked in the dishwasher, and headed up stairs.

"I'm really glad your mom let me stay over." She offered as she watched Emily pull a shirt and shorts from the dresser. Maya stood making a few quick steps to grab her bag. She sat it on Emily's chair and slipped off her shoes. She unbuttoned her pants and dropped them to the ground exposing her cotton candy colored lace panties.

Emily turned around pre-occupied with her night wear chose. She looked up flabbergasted and immediately aroused. "What are you doing?" She moved toward the open bedroom doors eyes wide and pushed it shut. "I'm just getting ready for bed." Maya excused her behavior, "Should I go to the bathroom?"

Emily shook her head moving her eyes away from the newly discovered inches of flesh, "No, of course not." It wasn't like she hadn't change in front of Hannah, Spencer, Aria, and Ali before. "You act like you've never seen a naked girl before." Maya maneuvered herself of out the white sheer long sleeve shirt and ripped the blue tank top off over her head.

Emily took quick peeks but once she was down to bra and panties she turned around and started to change trying to occupy her mind. "Maya is naked in my room." This is all her brain would say like a stratched CD.

Maya slowed her pace watching Emily pulling off her clothes going down the same amount of clothing. Emily reached behind herself and unsnapped her bra pushing the straps off her shoulders. Emily felt eyes on her back and peered over her shoulder.

Maya followed Emily's body back up to realize she had been caught. "I like those panties." She complimented on the all black boy shorts with girlie white skulls with bows. She smiled and turned back as they both finishing dressing.

Emily walked to the desk once she was finished turning the lamp off leaving only the table lamp on Maya's side on. "We will have to go shopping one day and model for each other." Maya suggested. Emily slide into bed, "I'd like that." Maya joined her turning off the light and both girls snuggled in.

The Awkward Kiss

Recap: The next morning Ben gives the girls a ride to school and Emily makes out with Ben in the parking lot. Hannah questions her about being comfortable with PDA.

Emily parted from Hannah as they entered into school. She hadn't been able to fall back asleep after the "A" text and Maya had curled up on her all night. She admitted to herself that she like that feeling but she wasn't happy about how awful she felt kissing Ben.

Ben's kisses were not as sweet and soft as she imagined Maya's were. His hands were rough and coarse when they road together not smooth like Maya's the night before. Emily's body did not react the way she thought it should when Ben and her would have their make out sessions.

She thought back to the daydream she had yesterday. The way her body changed when she pictured Maya pinning her to the locker. Her blood ran fast and hot through her throwing her stomach into knots. She felt things below she had only felt with Ali.

She walked through the hallway on auto pilot watching the boys and girls kiss and painfully depart for class stretching their arms to the breaking point. It dawned on her that they had never shared that before, Ben and her. She never felt that need for him. She leaned against her locker watching Hannah and her boyfriend.

It was not like that with her and Ben. She started listing all this that she was never interested in knowing about Ben that she knew about Maya or wanted to know. The things a person interested in you should know. "What's wrong with me?" She thought to herself as she kicked the locker with the back of her shoe and pushed off. She headed for her first classes completely unprepared and pre-occupied.

The first period flew by with comparisons of Ben & Maya and Maya & Ali floating through her head. She stared out the window the entire period wondering when this started. Had she been born like this? What this something that had always been there? Was this something that was supposed to be there? Was God angry with her? Was this her punishment for lying?

She knew where this was leading to, something was wrong with her. She examined her past interactions with boys and her stolen gazes at girls. The girls in summer camp as they showered and dressed after a sweaty day's practice.

She sat in the same position every class: legs crossed staring out the window. She sat silent through lunch pushing her food about while each girl questioned her 3 or more times about what was bothering her. She put it off on not feeling well and bad fish. But, she knew the only thing not well about her was her obvious attraction to the chocolate colored beauty she had in her bed the night before.

"Great, now I want chocolate!" She shoved herself back from the healthy lunch in front of her. "Em?" Hannah questioned the abrupt interruption, "What gives?" Emily stood up grabbing her backpack, "I want a Hershey. It's the one thing I can have!" She walked away from the group of girls to the vending machine. The girls exchange concerned looks at Emily's weird behavior.

Emily pulled the candy bar from the machine and sat on the empty bench to the left. She pulled open the wrapper, broke a piece off, and shoved it in her mouth. She started to make deals with God. "God, if you take this away. I will," her mind forming good bargains as she continued to eat, "I will never do drugs again. I will never drink again. I will clean my room EVERYDAY! I will help old ladies cross the streets, go to church every Sunday, stay a virgin until I'm married. I swear I will do anything you want just PLEASE make me normal." She said Amen and crossed herself then pulled the last piece of chocolate from the wrapper.

The bell rang to end the lunch period. Emily walked to the trash to discard the wrapper and left the lunch room. She was still adding to the list of deals with God as she made her way to the next class. She felt a smoothest silk like skin run up in between her arm and side and wrap itself around hers.

"Are you ok?" Maya interrupted, "I saw you praying at lunch and eating chocolate. I knew something was wrong but it felt wrong to interrupt." Emily closed her eyes and slowed her walk. The feelings rushed back over her warm blood, racing heart, wet panties, chills, the works. She knew she couldn't win. It didn't matter what she promised God this wasn't going anywhere.

These feelings she had inside her were there to stay. She broke apart from Maya's grasp, "I have to go to class." She walked away avoiding eye contact and good bye gestures. Maya stood still feeling defeated. There was no way she was giving up that easy.

"Ms. Fields you will be mine." Maya shoved her hands into her pockets, turned on both heels and walked away. She lost her confidence momentarily but nothing could keep her from what she wanted and she wanted Emily.

Solo in a Bar

Recap: Emily sits alone in the café remembering Ali after her failed attempt to confide in her mom.

She remembered the attraction she had for Ali. She remembered the same chills she now gets with Maya. She remembered the letter she had written Ali last year confessing her love. "I like girls." She whispered to herself as she looked out into the rain.

Emily fought back her tears and repeated it to herself one last time, "I like girls." "You like what sweetie?" The nice older lady filled her glass with water. "The way the rain whirls when it's this heavy." The lady shot her an unconvinced look and moved away from the table.

Emily hung her head relieved she didn't "come out" to the lady in the café because that wouldn't be weird at all. She imagined coming in with her mom and excusing herself to bathroom, getting the same waitress and her secret being out.

Emily had no idea where to go next with this thought. She didn't know how her mom would react. They hadn't really ever spoken about this in her house. But, does any parent ever take something like this good.

Emily followed with thoughts of her father. They had always been close but would this one thing that would tear them apart. She loved her family. She wasn't ready for anything to be sat in stone. She hadn't completely made up her own mind yet.

She shook her head putting off the subject and sipping the freshly poured water. She didn't have to do anything she wasn't ready for. This was her secret and hers alone now that Ali was gone. She could keep it inside as long as she wanted. But, did she want too?