"Go away" Emily yelled from her spot on the couch, finishing her second beer. She got up and moved to the bathroom. It the tank of the toilet Emma kept a bottle of vodka. Removing it from the tank, wiping it dry with a towel, Emily made her way back to the living room.
"Em, open the door now!" She heard Hannah yell.
"Open it yourself." She mumbled to herself, laughing lightly. She took the lid of the bottle and took a few swigs of the vodka.
"Ok, fine!" She heard footsteps moving outside, assuming the girls decided to leave her alone, as requested. Then she heard someone walking faster to the door and a loud bang before her front door was flying open. The three women just starred at each other for what felt like hour.
Hannah and Aria couldn't believe how bad Emily looked, sitting on the couch holding a vodka bottle. She had lost weight, some of her color and she had dark circles under her bloodshot eyes. Aria walked over to the girl and kneeled down in front of her.
"Oh Em." She whispered taking the bottle from Emily. Tears filled Emily's eyes.
"She left me. Paige actually left me." Emily couldn't hold back the tears now.
"Well that would be your fault." Hannah said after she let the girl cry for a little bit.
"Hannah!" Aria snapped.
"What, it is? A little tough love is what she needs right now. I am not sugar coating this." Hannah said, making her way to the table.
"She is right. I really fucked up this time, and now she is gone." Emily said. Aria sat down beside the girl and pulled her into her, noticing that the girls body was as cold as ice.
"How many of these did you take?" Hannah said, turning around showing Emily a baggie of pills. "How many Emily?"
"A...few..." Emily said, head hanging lowly and her body flinching a little from trying to stay awake.
"Hannah, she is really cold." Aria said, voice filled with fear. Hannah walked over to the girl and put her hand on her forehead, feeling herself that Emily was very cold. She pulled Emily's face up and saw that the girl was passed out. She opened Emily's eyes and saw that she was not lucid at all. The mixture of too much alcohol and a "few" pills taking its effect. The desire that Emily had wanted, that neither girl knew.
"We need to get her to the hospital now. She needs her stomach pumped. I don't even know how many pills she took!." Hannah said scooping Emily up, noticing that the girl was very light, she had lost a lot of weight since they last saw her.
Spencer pulled Paige down into the couch and went to get her bags and close the door. Once inside she got the girl a glass of water. Handing it to Paige, Spencer took a seat beside her.
"So what happened?" Spencer asked.
"I was supposed to work a double. Chief sent me home. When I got there Emily must have just gotten home. She had the bag sitting on the table in the living room. It had a baggie of pills in it. When I asked her about it she said that I didn't understand how stressed she was. That school was too much. It's always the same argument Spence, I just don't understand how stressed she is. She always brings it back to me not going to school. I work for the NYPD! I'm a goddamn cop working twelve or eighteen hour shifts to put her through school and to pay for our apartment, yet I don't know stress?" Paige said, getting more angry. "I'm stressed too, but coming home to her was how I chose to deal with it. Being with her and making her happy was my stress relief."
Spencer didn't know what to say to Paige. Since moving to NYC, the two had gotten close. Paige was one of the strongest people that she had ever met. But right now, looking at her best friend, so broken and run down, really scared her.
"I just want Emily back. I want the love of my life to come home. Because the girl I left at our apartment, isn't the girl I gave up so much for to be with." Paige said.
"What do you mean gave up?" Spencer asked.
"I had a full to ride scholarship to CU. But when Emily said her dream school was in New York, I gave up th he scholarship to be with her. I would follow that girl anywhere." Paige said, sadness lacing her tone.
"Paige I didn't know that." Spencer said in shock.
"No one but my parents did. Mom understood, but dad didn't. That is why I don't speak to him anymore. He never understood how I could give up something I worked so hard for, for a girl." Paige said.
"But it wasn't any girl." Spencer said.
"No it wasn't." A few minutes passed between the few before Paige spoke again. "Leaving that apartment was the hardest thing I ever did."
"It needed done Paige. She needs to know that she can't keep doing this to you. Maybe it's time to tell her the whole truth. What you just told me about CU." Spencer said. Before Paige could answer her phone began to ring. "Hello, yes. What? No. No, we are on our way Hannah. We need to go now, their taking Emily to the hospital."
The two women scrambled out the door and rushed to Spencer's car. The whole time Paige thinking that she made a mistake in leaving the girl alone, that if anything happens to get, it's her fault.