A/N: Hey guys! Here is chapter 2. I have worked hard on this and I hope you enjoy! Anyway, I have just started spring break so updates may come a little faster. Don't forget to review, favorite, and follow! Until next time... Kisses, -H
I OWN NOTHING. (Although, I wish I did...)
I believed it for about two more class periods. I was sitting in Trig, trying to concentrate on the problems in front of me, when Emily tapped me on the shoulder.
"Hey, Spencer?" She asked, looking kind of guilty when I jumped.
"Yeah, what's up?" I asked, regaining my composure.
"Sorry to bother you, I was just wondering if you could help me with number seven..?" She looked hesitant to ask me for help.
"Sure, what are you having trouble with?" I looked at her paper, immediately spying the error.
"Just the answer. I know it's incorrect, I just can't figure out where I went wrong." She said, furrowing her brow at the paper.
"Oh! See, right here." I pointed to her work. "You just added wrong."
"Oh my god! I cannot believe I made such a stupid mistake!" She exclaimed, covering her face in embarrassment.
"It's alright, Emily. It happens to everyone. I've done it plenty of times." I reassured her, chuckling at her actions.
"Yeah, well math definitely isn't my best subject. If it involved water, I could do it so easily." She joked.
"Well, that doesn't mean you aren't good at it. You really do use math every day. Take swimming, for example. Every time you time how fast you swim, you calculate either, how many seconds you beat your last time by, or how many you still have to go to beat it. So I would say that you are able to do math just fine." I explained.
"Wow, Spencer. I never thought of it that way. You really do know how to show things in a different light." Emily said, grinning at me.
Oh no. There it was again. That fluttering sensation in my stomach. There was no denying it this time. Emily was the cause of these feelings.
"Hey, Spence…are you alright? You zoned out for a second." She waved a hand in front of my face, snapping me back to reality.
"Oh, sorry. I was just…thinking." I explained. "Wait, did you just call me 'Spence'?" I was surprised that she was so comfortable around me after less than a day of knowing each other.
"Um…yeah. Does that bother you? Because I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable." She rambled on, with what sounded like guilt in her voice.
"Emily, calm down. Its fine, I was just surprised to hear you call me that so soon after meeting you. Hanna and Aria call me that, so you can too. We are friends, right?" I wondered, not really sure if she considered us to be friends or not.
"I think so. Do you want to be friends?" She gave me a curious look.
"Well, yeah. I think you're pretty awesome. And we are roommates, after all." I reasoned, giving her my best, 'Hastings Winning Smile'.
"Then I guess that settles it. We are officially friends." Emily finalized, returning my smile with a grin of her own. The same grin that made my stomach flutter with thousands of butterflies.
"O. M. G!" I exclaimed, enunciating each letter. "I cannot believe this! Emily Fields just agreed to be my friend! I hope all you suckers are jealous!" I shouted, pointing to a few of the other students that were around us.
"Spencer! You're making a scene!" Emily scolded, covering her face, once again, her cheeks rapidly reddening.
"Awe! Am I embarrassing wittle Emily?" I mocked in a baby voice.
"Yes! Stop it!" She pleaded, but I could see that she was having a hard time holding in her laughter.
"If you are going to be my friend, you'll have to get used to my craziness and need for attention. Aria and Hanna did. Although, now that I think about it, Hanna's weirdness and Aria's fashion choices kind of took some of the attention away from me. Like a perfect balance of attention for each of us…" I rambled, laughing to myself about some of the stupid things that Hanna has said and done over the years.
"Okay, but please stop! We are going to get in trouble." Emily begged.
"It's okay, Mrs. Collins loves me." I reassured her, chuckling at her face that resembled a ripened tomato.
"You are so difficult!" She exclaimed, laughing and smacking my arm, lightly.
"You'll get used to it, Fields." I replied, turning around and finishing the problem that I had been working on, acting like nothing ever happened.
"Whatever you say, Hastings." She answered, and I knew that this was going to be a great friendship.
Later that afternoon, we were walking back to our dorm when we heard someone call our names.
"Spencer! Emily! Wait up!" We turned around and saw Hanna and Aria jogging to catch up with us.
"Hey guys, what's up?" We fell into step together, walking towards the dorms.
"We were gonna head over to The Brew and grab some coffees. Do you guys want to come?" Aria asked us.
"I'm in. What about you Em?" She smiled at the nickname.
"Sure, I'll go." She agreed and we changed directions, and headed over to The Brew instead.
"How was your first day Emily?" Hanna asked once we all sat down at a table in the corner of the café.
"It was great! Spencer really helped me out today. We even made our friendship official." She answered, nudging my arm with her elbow.
"Oh really? I guess that means you're our friend too." Aria stated, gesturing between herself and Hanna.
"So, tell me a little bit about yourselves. I mean, since we're friends now we should get to know each other." Emily explained.
"Okay, my mom is the girls' dorm director, so she is a little more lenient towards my friends. I love shopping and fashion. I have a boyfriend, Caleb, but I don't get to see him very often because he goes to the public high school. Oh! I really dislike school. I don't see the point of waking up early to go to classes and learn things that no one is going to actually use when they are adults." Hanna rolled her eyes as she explained her hatred for school.
"Those are some interesting thoughts…" Emily said.
"Yeah she is a weird child. Anyway, I love literature and poetry. I really love to draw, paint, sculpt, write, stuff like that. I have a little brother who is a freshman. I have my own fashion sense, if you couldn't tell. I also have a boyfriend, but our relationship is a little complicated…" Aria looked hesitant to share the identity of her boyfriend.
"Why is it complicated?" Emily asked, completely oblivious to the significance of the relationship.
"Well, you see…I'm dating Mr. Fitz. We call him Ezra though. Just, not in class." Aria admitted.
"You're dating Mr. Fitz? The English teacher?" Emily asked in amazement.
"Yeah. I met him in a bar over summer break. We started talking about college and he thought that I was a college student as well. We ended up making out in the bathroom…and the rest is history." She explained.
"That's really…not what I was expecting." Emily said, still in a state of shock.
"Yeah, it doesn't only happen on television." Aria said.
"You should have seen Spencer's face when Aria told her. It was priceless! I was the one high fiving her for actually doing something that was against the rules and Spencer was just sitting there going on and on about how much trouble Aria was going to be in." Hanna was laughing so hard that she was crying. I, on the other hand, was scowling at Hanna the entire time she told the story.
"Oh lighten up Spence. I was just having a little fun." Hanna had stopped laughing at this point and was trying to get me to stop glaring.
"Well now I sound like an unsupportive friend." I complained.
"No you don't. We all know how supportive you are. You love Ezria." Hanna reassured me.
"What the heck in Ezria?" Emily asked with a confused expression.
"Its Aria and Ezra's ship name. Mine and Caleb's is Haleb. You can also ship friendships too. Spencer and Aria are team Sparia. Oh! Yours and Spencer's can be team Spemily!" Hanna exclaimed and high fived Aria.
"I've gotta admit, that is a good one, Han." I said.
"I am the queen of ship names!" Hanna declared excitedly.
"Oh god. We better go before she starts getting cocky." I teased, getting up and grabbing my bag.
"Yeah, we still have to do the homework that you said you would help me with." Emily agreed.
"Okay, well I guess we'll see you later then." Aria waved and stood up as well.
"Definitely." I agreed and led Emily out the door.