Emily's POV
I woke up later that night from a nightmare and looked at the clock. 2:34 AM, great I thought. I stood up and walked over to my desk and sat down on the chair. I hated having nightmares, especially when my dad was involved. He has been in Texas for about 1 year now and I really miss him. I looked out the window and tried to see if any lights were on at the DiLaurenti's house. I look up to Alison's room and I see a small hint of light peeking out through the blinds. So I decide to text her.
Hey, Alison… I was just wondering if you were awake. I send the text and continue looking out the window. My phone vibrates and I look down at my phone.
Emily! Yes, I'm actually awake. All these boxes are covered in dust so they're making me sneeze every single minute :(. Do you need anything? I smile a little and text back.
Could we go to the park? I had a nightmare and I won't be able to sleep anytime soon…
The park? Are you insane it's like… 3 AM! Are you just saying that so you can drag me into the woods and rape me? I laughed.
Of course not! Who do you think I am? :(
Look up. ;) I look out the window again and I see Alison standing at her window. I smile and wave at her and she does the same.
Come on let's go. I say and start walking downstairs. I close the front door as quietly as I can and start heading towards Alison's house. Then I see her closing her front door just like I was, which made me smile.
''Hey!'' I yell at her. She gets startled and quickly covers my mouth.
''Emily… Are you insane? It's 3 AM! You can't be yelling at this time!'' She whisper-yells. I smiled and kissed her hand for forgiveness. She just removed her hand from my mouth and smiled at me.
''Let's go creeper.'' I say and turn around fast, even though I could see her mouth slightly open to form an OMG face. It's her fault that she put her name as creeper not me. After 3 seconds she runs up to me and starts walking with me. As we were walking the street-lights were shining on us, there was no car in sight, no birds singing, nothing but silence.
Alison's POV
I love how Emily's hair reflects in the street-light. Her hair was long and a shade between dark and light brown. I thought that I should make a bold move, so I slid my hand into hers and intertwined our fingers. She looked at me and smiled, I smiled right back at her. As we reached the park she started drifting away from my hand, so I pulled her back a little. She started laughing and turned around to face me.
''You don't want to let go of my hand?'' She says in a child voice. I just huff and come up with an excuse.
''It's cold, your hands are warm, I have no gloves. So I'm using your hands as gloves, got it?'' I said in a slightly jokingly tone. She smiles.
''Yeah, my hands are kind of cold too anyway.'' She says and shrugs. I grab her other hand and intertwines our fingers. She looks up at me again. The street-lights were making it seem like she had sparkles in her eyes and I couldn't help but stare in her eyes.
''Are we supposed to start dancing like every cliché movie now?'' She says and I snap out of my thoughts. Maybe this is a movie? I thought to myself and pulled her closer to me. She looked a little bit shocked. I nuzzle my head into her chest.
''Why not…'' I say really quiet. We started swaying slowly back and forth. I could hear her heartbeat, it was beating really fast, kind of how my heart was beating like, right now. Emily removed one of her hands from my hand and slowly slided it down my body until it was on my waist. I could feel a shudder coming my way…
''I could stay like this forever.'' Emily says with a soft voice. Normally her voice I raspy, but this time it was soft and quiet. I smiled into her chest.
''So could I.'' I said as I started to remove my head from her chest. We just looked at each other, smiled and started walking home again. Emily followed me to my door, how cute of her I thought.
''I could've walked to my house alone.'' I said with a teasing voice. She smiled.
''These streets don't seem as reliable as they look.'' She said and looked out on the street.
''Well, you also didn't have to follow me to my door…'' I said yet again with a teasing voice. She looked back at me, but didn't say anything for a while.
''Yeah… I don't have an answer to why I followed you all the way to your door.'' She chuckled and looked down at her feet. I smiled. She looked back up again and our eyes met. She smiled back at me and started leaning forward. What? What is she doing? I'm not prepared for this right now! I start to freak out so I close my eyes.
Emily's POV
I start to lean forward and I can see her close her eyes. I smile and gently kiss her cheek. I knew she was smiling, because I felt her pretty dimple against my lips which made me melt a little bit. I start to lean back and I can see her opening her eyes again. She smiles at me.
''What was that for?'' She asks and moves her hand up to her cheek.
''For walking with me to a park at 3 AM in the morning.'' I said and smiled at her once again. My cheeks were hurting from all the smiling, I guess this is how it should feel when you have a crush on someone.
''Anytime.'' She says and turns around to walk into her house again. I take her arm and stop her. She looks back at me confused.
''I kind of wanted to ask you a q- …'' Crap, I shouldn't be doing this right now. I shake my head and give her an apologetic look. She just nods and smiles at me.
''Never mind, good night.'' I said, turned around and started walking home, fast. Somehow I knew what I did was going to look suspicious. Maybe I did it on purpose… Or maybe I just wasn't thinking this through clearly. Either way, I was too happy about the whole night to even worry my little mind about that for another second. I reach my front door and slowly get inside my house again. I slowly walk up the stairs to not wake my mom up. I walk into my room and that's the last thing I remember from that night.
1 week later.
Alison's POV
''Alison!'' Hanna yells at me.
''What?'' I say and look at Hanna with a questioning look.
''You just seem… Out of it.'' Hanna says with a sad look on her face. I sigh and turn towards her and the other girls. Emily wasn't at my house right now because she was on her daily run.
''I need to ask you guys a question.'' I say with a serious tone as I look at all of them.
''Go on.'' Spencer and Aria say in unison. I couldn't help but laugh a little at that.
''So… Lately I've been getting these feelings for.'' I had to bite my lip in order to not give it all away.
''A person and I don't really know how to control these feelings that I have, because I've never been in love.'' All three girls looked at me completely in shock.
''What?'' I say worried.
''You're in love with someone and you didn't tell us?'' Spencer blurts out with a loud voice. I tell her to keep her voice down and she just looks at me and tells me that she's sorry. I accept her apology and look back at the other girls.
''How do you feel around this person?'' Aria asks curiously.
''Well… I get breathless, lots and lots of butterflies in my stomach. I smile a lot and I can't help but stare at those pretty chocolate brown eyes…'' I say the last sentence very quietly. I was kind of talking to myself, which made me realize that it was bad. Really, really bad. I tend to talk to myself sometimes when I feel nervous or if I like something very much.
''Damn girl, you've fallen in love and you've fallen hard.'' Hanna says in a weird accent. I just laughed at it because it sounded funny and so did the other girls.
Emily's POV
I head towards Alison's house and knock on the door. It only takes 5 seconds for Jessica to open up the door and invite me inside.
''Alison and your friends are upstairs.'' Jessica says and smiles at me. I just smile back at her and start walking upstairs. As I reach Alison's bedroom I hear Aria talk about something, so I stood back and started listening.
''So, who is this guy that you're crushing on?'' Aria asks in a happy voice. They're probably talking about Hanna's new love interest, since school was crawling with new guys.
''No one you know.'' That voice, it didn't belong to Hanna. It belonged to Alison. A shot of pain hit me right in the heart. Has Alison been in love with a guy all this time? Just like I thought, she didn't like me. I started to get tears in my eyes, but I quickly wipe them away before entering her room.
''Hey guys.'' I say without looking at Alison.
''Hey Emily.'' They all say in unison, except for Alison. As I look at Alison I see that she looks concerned, but I look away as soon as she looks at me.
''So, what are we going to do today?'' I ask and sit beside Spencer on the bed. They all looked at me confused, probably because I always sit next to Alison where ever we go.
''Eat fast food, swim and sit in that Jacuzzi.'' Spencer says with an uncertain voice and points to the backyard. I sigh.
''Guys, I'm fine. I just saw a dead squirrel on the road on my way back from the run.'' I lied quickly.
''EW! That's gross…'' Hanna says with a disgusted look. Aria kind of had the same look. Then I looked at Alison, she was just staring down at her hands. I couldn't believe I thought that she liked me… I shake my head and start listening to an argument Hanna and Spencer were having about squirrels. Great, now my heart and head has to ache.