2 consecutive updates because i thought i'd updated this a while ago...sorry guys. Enjoy and review :)

We woke at 10am, to give us an hour to prepare for our brunch. I looked around to find Emily staring at me. She looked like she'd been doing it for a while. I don't think she realised I was awake since she was the one who turned the alarm off.

"Good morning beautiful" I whispered to her. Somehow she'd ended up with her arm just above my head, on my pillow. She was running her fingers through my hair when suddenly my mom knocked on the door. Shit, we better untangle. Em quickly went to shower. I wanted to join her.

"Morning Ms Marin" I heard Emily say as my mom opened the door.

"Good morning Emily, Hanna" She eyed the bed suspiciously. Emily never left hers un-made. "Emily. Please, it's Ashley." Mom said as Emily closed the door. I think she realised Em was in a rush. "Do you girls have any plans today?" She asked me.

"Just brunch at a little cafe with Spence and Aria, why?" She'd asked as though she had plans for us.

"Oh, that's fine. I just need you here tonight because, well" she look slightly humiliated. "Your Dad wants to come over."

"Mom, no. I don't want to talk to dad right now. There's too much going on, I don't need him back in my life to cause problems"

"Hanna, I think he wants to, possibly, apologise." After everything he'd done, why was mom so willing to have him come over here? We both hated him. He would only try and control me, the last thing I wanted right now. "I suppose I could cancel, tell him you're busy"

"Yes mom, thank you, thank you!" I really hope she doesn't change her mind. "What are you doing today? Since I was think about asking the girls if they want to come over after we've eaten." I made sure I sounded like I was merely suggesting it, rather than having already made the plans.

"Oh sure, you know I don't mind your friends being over. I have to go run some errands so if you want anything I'll be running around, I could pick up some snacks or a movie." Mom always treated my friends almost better than she treats me.

"Oh ok, well I'll text you if we want anything, I think we might just go sit in the garden, since it's a nice day again" I began to hunt for clothes. I decided on white cut off jeans and a light blue blouse, Emily always seemed to perk up a bit when I wore blue-something about my eyes. I took the clothes with me into the bathroom and showered as quickly as I could, it must have been coming up aroung 10:30 when we were both finally done with getting ready. I walked into my room and Emily smiled at me. She took in the color I was wearing, walked over to me and gave me a kiss. I ran my hands through her hair as we kissed and lost myself in her eyes. Em was wearing a short denim skirt and an Aeropostale T-shirt, it was orange with pink writing across the chest. I'd told her to buy it because it looked so good on her. But so did everything else, and nothing else. She bit her lip as she pulled away and looked at me quizzically.

"So, are we going to be official? Because you know my deal, I don't like hiding in closets, but I would rather your mom didn't find out." She had asked exactly what I was thinking.

"Yeah, we can tell the girls at the cafe, or maybe when they come over, it'll be a bit more relaxed. Did I tell you they're coming over?" Emily looked kind of disheartened. I guess she wanted us to be alone again.

"No, you didn't. But it's fine. We hardly talk to them out of school unless A's bothering us" I could tell she wasn't too pleased, but I'd rather be in my own home rather than a cafe to tell them. "Really Hanna, I want you to be comfortable. It's fine. Just make up for it tonight, ok?" She gave me a quick smile and a wink. My heart pounded so hard it felt like it was going to fall out of my chest. If they're true friends they should be understanding.

Emily and I got in my car and drove into town. We were just parking up when we saw Spencer and Aria walk into the cafe we had chosen for a change.

"So, should we even hint at it?" I asked Emily, I thought we might as well make this fun. "We could be very flirty?" Emily giggled. It made me smile.

"Ok, but if they ask, we tell." That was straight forward enough. We got out of my car and walked into the cafe, I nearly forgot to let go of Em's hand. We sat with the girls and ordered. I asked for a BLT and a side of fries for us to share. Emily went with French toast. Aria and Spencer had already ordered.

"So guys, what have you been getting up to?" Aria asked

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Emily nudged my foot with hers. "We've been pretty busy actually." Em and I were sat next to each other, opposite Spencer and Aria, so Emily held my hand under the table. She stroked my palm with her thumb, my heart was beating faster than usual. I wondered if they could see it in my face.

"Oh yeah?" Aria tried to tease our activities out of us. But Emily squeezed my hand in a 'don't tell' kind of way. "Well, I've been pretty busy myself" We all turned to her. "I stayed at Ezra's last night, and well, we sorta didn't do any sleeping" No one was shocked by this, in fact, I thought they'd had sex a while back, but no one really asked. Still, we all pretended to be shocked. But Spencer couldn't be bothered pretending.

"Aria, the way you're headed you might as well tell your parents. I'm getting kind of sick of not being allowed to mention him at your house, it's hard." Oh no, maybe we shouldn't tell them if Spencer doesn't want to hide anything. Emily squeezed my hand again in realisation of this too. Hmmm, so we might have to convince Spencer not to tell.

"Oh, Emily, how's Samara doing?" Aria asked, although I thought Spencer would have told her about the break up. "I heard she wasn't too badly hurt" I wondered whether Aria meant hurt from the break up or the car. Probably the latter but you can never quite tell what Aria means.

"Yeah, I got a text from her this morning, she's home. I broke it off with her though" I put my hand on her back as a support, to make it look like we'd talked about it and Emily was still hurting. We were pretty good at cover ups.

"Oh Em, that must have been hard" Aria clearly hadn't been informed.

"It was for the best" Em smiled. I went back to holding her hand. We got our food-My BLT, Em's French Toast, Aria had ordered a blueberry muffin and as usual, Spencer went for the healthy option; a fruit salad with Greek Yoghurt. We finished up and asked for our bill-my turn to pay. "Hey guys, do you want to come back to Hanna's? It seems like forever since the 4 of us just hung out" Em asked while I payed the bill.

"sure" they answered together. We got in our cars and drove over to my house. I found a bottle of vodka mom had been saving, and mixed it with some lemonade.

"I have never, anyone?" I thought this might be the best way, providing Aria and Spence asked the right questions. I have never made out with my best friend. Not exactly likely to be said by anyone.