Chapter Two
Okay guys, just clearing a few things up: Alison returned back to rosewood in September of their senior year and everything she did in the past still happened. Emily and Maya haven't met yet, and there are much more characters in the story besides the ones listed. Enjoy and Sorry for a kind of boring chapter one.
"You can't be serious, you're breaking up with me? I-I-I still can't understand why." Paige spoke into the phone to Emily while placing things in her backpack for school that morning.
"I told you Paige, it's just I feel like we should just see other people now. We've been dating for a long time now and things just don't feel right anymore…I'm sorry." Emily said sympathetically.
"See other people? So you just decided this!? I don't want to see other people Emily I want to be with you. And whatever the problem is I promise you Em we can work it out because I love you." Paige said this time trying to hold back tears.
Emily felt bad hearing the tone and desperation in Paige's voice, but what was she supposed to do? She had already gone far enough and asked Alison to be her girlfriend and that was something she most definitely did not want to take back. "Look Paige I love you too, as a friend, and I think there will be someone out there for you to be with for a longer time, and you will love her much more than me. Trust me, I will understand if you do, and I would hope you would understand as well if I found love somewhere else too."
Paige huffed into the phone and there was a moment of silence before Paige spoke up in a cold voice. "There's someone else isn't there?"
Emily's eyes got big at this question. "W-what? Why do you say that?'
Just tell me Emily! There's someone else isn't there?!" Paige yelled into the phone.
"Well kinda…we're just talking and I think I need to give this girl a try you know. I just didn't know how to tell you." Emily said quietly, not wanting to finish the conversation. She knew if Paige found out the girl was Ali, she would flip, something Emily was trying to avoid this morning before school.
"It's her isn't it?" Paige sneered into the phone.
"It's who?" Emily responded even though she had a clear idea of whom Paige was talking about.
"Alison. It's her that you're breaking up with me for? You barely know this girl anymore! After all she's done to you all! After all she's done to me!? Really!? " Even though Emily didn't answer yet, Paige could tell by her silence that her own accusation was correct. And indeed it was.
Finally Emily spoke in a low tone to Paige. "I do know her, I know her very well. Maybe she wasn't the nicest person in the past, but people change. And Alison has changed for the better."
"No, no, I don't believe that bi*ch has changed at all!" Paige said raising her voice.
"Oh really? Well I could say the same thing about you too! You're not so perfect yourself Paige! Can you forget that you're the same person that nearly drowned me? Huh? Huh? I still forgave you and we made things work in a relationship for a while at least. So don't be so judgmental of Ali, at least she never tried to kill me." Emily said with confidence in the hope that she made her point.
"Really? Are you really saying this to me right now Em? You're going to take her side? After I've been there for you longer? You don't even know if she's really gay or not. Since when has Alison liked girls!?" Paige was getting furious that Emily seemed so oblivious to these facts.
"Actually she told me she has feelings for me, and that she always had. She was just as scared as I was to come out and get into a relationship with me." Emily spat back getting annoyed with Paige's questions.
Paige laughed into the phone before sneering again, "Oh Emily, you're so naïve! Is that all she has to say for you to believe her and go running into her arms? You're in for a troubled road then. I can't let you make this decision and be with her. Not here not now in this lifetime. I swear I won't let you make this choice. I'm going to pick you up from your house Em, and on the way to school we'll talk about things and then I'll act like this conversation never—" Paige rambled on before she was cut off by Emily.
"PAIGE! JUST STOP!" Emily yelled. All the things Paige was saying now upset her. Was Paige implying that Alison did not really love her? She knew Ali did, she felt it and believed it. "Our love has run its course." Emily said firmly. A loud sob was heard from the other end of the phone and another one followed. Emily's heart began sinking as she heard this from Paige. Paige rarely cried, so if she did, her feelings had to be extremely hurt. Emily's intensions weren't to hurt Paige. "Hey, Paige, look—"
"After everything we've been through…you're throwing it all away for her…I don't understand." Paige managed to say through heavy sniffles and sobs. Her heart was breaking into a million pieces.
"I know I'm really sorry. But we can still be friends?" Emily said, hoping that would make up for the pain she caused Paige.
"Typical bullsh*t." Paige scoffed. "Don't come crying back to me when that slut plays you!" Paige crooked because of the tears and then she hung up.
Emily was surprised at that response as she looked at her phone's screen, it sinking in that Paige had hung up on her. Well at least that was over with and she could focus on Ali, who she said she was going to meet up with early at her locker. Emily grabbed her backpack and headed to her car to go to school. In the car, when she almost reached rosewood high, her phone started ringing. It was Paige. Why was Paige calling back so soon? She placed her phone back on the passenger's seat, deciding not to answer the phone. She wanted to talk to Paige, but now was too soon.
At school, Emily walked down the hall to her destination of Alison's locker. With each step closer, her heart started beating a little faster, this was the first day of the two dating at Emily was so excited to see Alison. Down the hall Alison came into view, leaned up against her locker with her arm. Her back was turned to Emily, and just by seeing those long, golden swirls running down Ali's back, the short black skirt that fell only a little below her knees, and her long black boots made Emily smile. Butterflies fluttered in Emily's belly as she walked up to the back of Ali, who was engrossed with something. "Good morning beautiful." Emily whispered into Ali's ear. Alison looked up abruptly from the book she was reading, and turned only her head to see who made the remark. Alison was used to these greetings from people at school and sometimes it got old to her. Realizing it was Emily; Alison immediately closed her book and smiled widely at Emily. She turned her body to face her and wrapped her arms around Emily's neck.
"Good morning Em." Ali said bringing her face close to Emily. Goosebumps crept up Emily's hand at the contact of Alison's hands on her neck and she was leaning in to give Ali a kiss. Alison stopped moving her head close to Emily's and Emily was thinking this was because Alison was not ready to let everyone know that was now dating a girl.
"Oh, I'm sorry Ali, did you want to give it more time before we actually told everyone that, you know, we're like an item now?"
"Alison removed her arms from Emily's neck. "No, they'll all figure it out soon, trust me, I don't have to say anything." Alison stated while flipping one of her locks behind her. Emily caught a whiff of a sweet smell from Ali's hair when she did this and she wanted to smell much more.
"Well I was planning on telling the other girls. I think they should know." Emily said examining Ali's outfit with admiration.
Alison raised her eyebrows. "Are you sure they won't be a little judgmental about it?"
"Of course they will at first, but they're our friends and they'll get used to it very soon. Plus, we'll be around them majority of the time so their bound to find out sooner than later like everyone else, so we might as well tell them."
"Okay." Alison said quietly. For some reason, she was more content with other people knowing she and Emily were dating than their friends. Maybe it was because her friends knew all that she put Emily through prior years and might convince Emily to step back from dating Ali for the moment. Yes, the other girls had forgiven her for all the things she's done in the past, but she knew that wouldn't stop them from questioning her motives of finally dating Emily. But she had no motives. She really did love Emily, and she wanted to be with her. Her cruelty toward Emily in the past was just a way for her to cover up her true feelings; something Alison was very good at. Ali looked into Emily's brown orbs before wrapping her arms around Emily's neck and drawing her close to her for a tight hug. Emily's stomach did a flip and she inhaled deep breaths of the scent from Alison's perfumed hair. As she looked over Ali's shoulder, she saw a red-faced Paige standing down the hallway, staring coldly at her and Alison. Good Alison's back was turned because she knew there would be an issue if Ali saw this. Paige's chest was heaving and even though Paige wasn't too close to her, Emily could see that her eyes were red from the obvious crying she was doing earlier. Emily looked down and tried to ignore what she saw, but being tempted, she looked up again and saw Paige being comforted by a girl on the swim team. Emily saw the girl's lips move in a form saying, "you don't need her". And with that, Paige stormed off, and the girl followed, turning around once to give Emily a glare.
Aria and Hannah stood at Spencer's locker, listening to her ramble about how she got a 92% on her AP physics test. Her excuse for this was that the teacher didn't like her because of her sharp tongue and the way she always tried to correct him. "I swear, there's nothing I could of done to get such a low grade on this test. He said I didn't show enough work. But I know the real reason is because he feels threatened by me, he knows I could teach his job better than him, so this is his revenge." Spencer said placing one of her binders in her locker.
"Well maybe you should stop being such a smarta*s Spence and let the old man do his job." Hannah said while doing something on her phone.
"Well excuse me for being an outspoken person." Spencer responded sarcastically. Aria was smirking at the comments said by both girls. "Maybe if you tried paying attention in class, you would catch his mistakes too, well maybe." Spencer topped off, turning, looking at Hannah smartly. Hannah just responded with the middle finger and a wide, sarcastic smile. All three girls started laughing and talking at once when they heard a loud slam next to them. All three jumped and faced the sound coming from the sound of clanging medal. It was Paige who had slammed her fist into Spencer's locker.
"Really!? So you guys are okay with your friend being so naïve?" Paige thundered. Her fist still placed on the locker.
"What the hell?" Aria said, with arched, angry brows.
"Apparently you guys care about Emily so much so why do you let her make dumb decisions. That's if you bimbos didn't help her with this one." Paige said, eyes still blood-shot red from the heavy crying earlier.
"First of all, don't ever close my locker like that again. Second of all, what are you even talking about?" Spencer said in annoyed but confused manner.
"Yea! If you're going to call us bimbos at least tell us what for." Hannah chipped in flinging her hands out.
Paige lowered her voice and sniffed up what was left of any remaining tears. "Emily broke up with me this morning for a complete bi*ch!" Paige's voice was getting higher and her eyes were getting watery.
"Whoah, Whoah, Whoah. Bi*ch? Which chick are you talking about?" Aria asked with squinted eyes.
"Yea, last time I checked Emily doesn't date girls that act like bi*tches." Hannah said.
"Well she's dating one now." Paige said shaking her head. The girls look at one another, still confused. Paige saw the girls' confusion and calmed down a little bit. Removing her fist from Spencer's locker, she sniffled again and continued speaking. " I thought you guys knew but Emily dumped me for Alison. Apparently they're seeing each other. They probably started seeing each other before Emily dumped me, and that's one of the things that hurts the most."
"I can promise you that we didn't know that. We would never encourage such a horrible decision. They're both better off as friends." Spencer said, looking at Paige sympathetically.
"I mean, I guess they do make a cute couple in a way…" Hannah trailed off.
"HANNAH!" Aria and Spencer called in unison. Paige looked at Hannah in disbelief.
Spencer turned back to Paige. "Don't worry it probably won't last long, I don't think Ali is into girls like that anyway. She's probably just playing games with Emily." Spencer said shaking her head.
"Typical Ali." Aria said staring off into space thinking of all the things all was typical of doing.
"That's exactly what I said to Emily and she completely shut me out. Ali is going to hurt her." Besides why does Ali get to just come out of the blue and take what's mine?" Paige said looking at the floor, her facial expression and even her voice showed all the hurt she was bottling up. Aria and Spencer looked at Paige with compassion.
Then Hannah asked, "No offense, have you been crying?"
"HANNAH!" Aria and Spencer called again at the same time. Paige looked up and glared at Hannah and was about to say something rude as a comeback, but stopped and looked behind the girls, her eyes catching something. Her facial expression dropped to an even more disgusted look, and the three girls followed her gaze. Alison and Emily were coming towards the girls, holding hands. The three girls' mouths hung open as they looked at how Emily and Ali's fingers were intertwined.
When Ali and Emily reached Spencer's locker, Emily glanced suspiciously at Paige and back at the girls before greeting them. "Hey guys." Emily said before looking at Paige again then at the ground. The awkwardness had become too obvious. Hannah looked from Ali and Emily to Paige repeatedly, Spencer stared at Ali curiously and Aria returned Emily's greeting with a warm smile. Alison smiled at the girls individually, but when she noticed how Spencer looked at her, she rolled her eyes and ignored the look. Then her eyes floated to Paige who was still standing there with her chest puffed up and eyes filling with tears. Alison scowled at her and grimed her with pure hate and disgust, almost if she was ready to spit in her face. Paige tried to hold the stare back, but what good would that do. She had Emily at this point and Paige felt helpless. Paige looked away and Alison saw the defeat in Paige's eyes and this boosted Alison's confidence. Ali started swinging the hand that her and Emily had laced together while she smirked evilly at Paige.
Paige started walking away down the hall, the tears nearly spilling out of her eyes. Alison chuckled and as Paige walked away she called after her, "Bye-bye pigskin! I'll see you later." This made Paige start running down the hall and into the bathroom. People around started laughing, except the four girls. Alison shook her head with the evil grin still planted on her face. "Maybe she'll cry in there." Spencer, Aria and Hannah looked at Emily, who looked back at them and bit her bottom lip.
It was almost time for class to start and the girls were ready to go their ways for first period. "Well I'll see you guys at lunch." Hannah said, walking off.
Spencer and Aria had the same first hour English together and they wanted to get the scoop on what was really going on with Alison and Emily. "Hey Em, walk us to class?" Spencer said.
"Sure. See you Ali." Emily said planting a kiss on Ali's cheek. Before turning to walk to class with the other girls. Before they got going, Emily felt a tight grab to her wrist as she was spun around only to be face to face with Alison again. Aria and Spencer turned around to see Ali grabbing Emily's wrist.
"No Em, walk me to m class." Ali said.
"Come on Ali, we asked her first we really need to talk to her." Spencer said jokingly at Ali.
"I'm sure you do, but I need her more. So…see you two later." Alison said sharply while she waved with her free hand at Aria and Spencer. "Let's go hun. Alison said looking at Emily.
"Emily, come on." Spencer said throwing her hand up and looking at Emily. Emily moved an inch toward the other two girls and Ali tightened her grip on Emily's wrist and grabbed her back. The hold on Emily's wrist was so tight that she looked down at Alison's hand and back to her face, which was hard and stern. Emily knew what that meant and she didn't want to make he new girlfriend mad.
Emily looked at the two other girls and said with a slight smile, "I'll see you guys at lunch, okay."
Spencer and Aria exchanged glances. Um okay." Aria said.
Before walking off Spencer walked up to Emily and whispered in her ear, "We're going to talk about this, seriously."
"I know. I have something to tell you guys." Emily whispered back quickly. Just then Alison released her harsh grasp on Emily's wrist, went arm in arm with her, smiled and they walked together done the hall. As they walked away, Spencer wondered if Ali and Emily was really officially a couple.
Hey guys, I know this chapter isn't the best, but can you please review and tell me how it is so far? I know it was really long, but once I get my ideas out I just keep going. I will try and post another chapter tonight though. And it will be more interesting.
