I know I'm Santana Lopez. Fearless, scared of nothing. But all of this is totally out of my league. Dealing with all of these threatening text messages? Emily went through all of this torture and horrible things for over a year. To me, she's the strongest woman I know. Both physically and mentally. This weekend, Emily had her first swim meet. It was just a pre season tournament. I had an important test coming up that Monday so she insisted that I stay home and study. Even though I didn't want to. I hated missing opportunities of seeing her in that swimsuit of hers. I could stare at her all day. I looked at the clock. 12:30. Her heat started in about 10 minutes. I grabbed my phone and texted her telling her good luck and that I hope she wins. Ding. My email tone went off. Unknown sender? I opened it, and immediately shut the message. What the fuck was that. My phone started ringing. The unexpected sound made me jump. Quinn Fabray. I pressed accept.
"Hey Quinn, whatsup?" I leaned back on my chair.
"I did what you asked, but I couldn't find anything online about the Rosewood killings or anything like that. Are you sure she was being serious and not just saying things because she was drunk?" I never questioned Emily's story one bit.
"No Q, she's telling the truth. You should've seen the look in her eyes. It was legit."
"Maybe it was just kept on the D.L. To not scare anyone." I could hear the worry in her voice. "I'll text you later though okay. I met someone. I'll tell you about her later okay? Love you San."
"Her? It's a her? Hello! Quinn!" But she had already hung up. A girl huh? It was bound to happen. I knew that I left an impression on her. I turned on my tv just for background noise. I was studying for about three hours so I decided to take a nap. I layed on my bed and fell fast asleep.
I woke up to a knocking on my room door.6:30. Holy shit. That was probably the longest nap I had ever taken. I got off of my bed and fixed my hair real quick. I opened the door and saw Emily standing there with a medal around her neck, and a huge smile on her face.
"I'm guessing you won, huh?" I smiled.
"Yeah! First place in the 200Mfreestyle. I also have one more thing." She grabbed my hand and brought me into our little living room. Three girls were sitting on the couch. "San, this is Hanna, Aria and Spencer. My friends from back home."
I suddenly got nervous. I didn't think that I was meeting her friends today. I never had to worry about meeting Britt's friends. All of her friends were already my friends too.
"It's nice to meet you all." I smiled.
"It's so nice to finally put a face to the name. Emily talks about you all the time." I turned to her and she started blushing. It was so cute.
"Shut up Hanna." She was giving her that shut the fuck up look. I just stood there and laughed. "I didn't know that they were coming into town."
"Em, where's your laptop? I wanna show you those emails I was talking about." She grabbed my hand. "Whatever you're gonna show me, you can show San too. I don't want her to be left out."
"No Em it's alright. You can go and just fill me in later okay? I'm hungry anyway. Do you guys want anything?" I started walking towards the kitchen. But I heard whispering.
"But I don't want anything to happen to her. You don't understand you didn't lose anyone, Spencer. I'm not going to lose her too." I sighed. I walked up behind her and hugged her. They smiled and walked away.
"I'm going to be fine. I promise. Do your thing with your friends and I'll be out here when you're finished okay?" I whispered in her ear. She turned around and hugged me, then kissed my cheek.
"I won't be long." She turned around and walked into the room.
"You like her a lot don't you?" Hanna startled me. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
"It's alright. I just thought you went into the room with them." She smiled. I walked back into the kitchen and grabbed ingredients to make my salad.
"I can tell you're falling in love with her. The vibes I get from the two of you, are crazy. Sort of what Caleb and I had before we broke up." I stopped cutting my cucumbers for my salad.
"Can I ask you something, Hanna?" She nodded. "Emily.. She's been through a lot huh?" I could tell that there was hesitation in her voice.
"Listen. That's why I wanted to talk to you one on one. I was the closest to Emily. She's got the biggest heart, but can be too trusting, and vulnerable. She's so fragile. Out of all of us? I feel that she's the one that went through the most. Her first love was Allison, and by now you know that she was murdered. Maya, who was her first real relationship, was murdered also. Then Em was kidnapped, and almost killed by Maya's stalker. Then she fell in love with Paige. Their relationship was deep. Paige was one of the best things that ever happened to her. She always looked out for not only Em, but all of us. And now, she's gone. I can only imagine how distraught she is right now. I could barely understand her when we were on the phone the other day. We were worried about her. That's why we came out this weekend. But it's obvious that she's well taken cared of." I couldn't even begin to imagine the pain and heartache that Emily had been through. "I know it's a lot to take in, but I know she wouldn't have went into details. But I felt that you needed to know. Just to, understand.. What she's been through. And why she's gonna act the way she does. Just, don't keep secrets from her okay? It's the worse possible thing that you can do at this moment. You're coming home with her for Paige's funeral right?"
"She mentioned it the other day. But I'm not too sure." She grabbed a apple.
"I think you should, you know. It'd be good if someone other than us was there for her. And you, being the girl she's practically falling in love with, would be perfect. Just come okay? It won't be weird or anything." With the end of the sentence, she took a bite the fruit. And with that, the door opened up and the three girls walked out of Emily's room.
"We have to get going, Han. It's late, and my mom doesn't know that we drove all the way out here." Aria came up to me and hugged me. "It was great meeting you Santana. We're all glad that Emily has you in her life."
"She's right. Em is the only one out of all of us that left Rosewood. And we're happy that she isn't alone." Spencer hugged me as well. They started walked towards the door.
"We'll see you two at Paige's funeral." Hanna followed to two girls out the door. They hugged Emily and left. She turned around and faced me. I walked over to her.
"I'm sorry about that, I hope Hanna wasn't giving you a hard time." She wrapped her arms around me. The butterflies were back.
"Don't worry she wasn't. We had a good conversation." I smiled. Hanna really opened my eyes. I never knew that someone could take so much pain, and still be this caring, passionate woman. It doesn't even seem like she went through anything that Hanna said. But why would she lie?
"I'm going to shower now, okay? We'll talk about everything they told me when I'm done okay?" She proceeded to take her shirt off and walk towards the bathroom. I went into the kitchen to grab my salad and sat down on the couch and turned on the tv. I felt my phone vibrate.
Hey. Don't forget about what I told you. No secrets. See you at Paige's service.
-Hanna
She probably stole my number from Emily's phone. I replied back.
Don't worry, no secrets. And see you there.
-S
I finished up my salad and started washing my dishes. The shower turned off, and I heard the door open. I walked out and saw her standing in her underwear and bra.
"Em I need to show you something." She nodded.
"Let me just get a shirt real quick." And she walked into my room. I smiled.
"Oh really now?" I followed her into the door and saw her grab my favorite Cheerios shirt.
"I figured you wouldn't mind." I shook my head. "Now what is it that you want to show me?"
"Well, I don't want to keep anything from you. I figured it'd be the best thing with everything that's happened." I opened my laptop and went into my email.
"You got a email from –A, didn't you."
"I got it while you were at your swim meet." The email opened and she rubbed my back.
"As I have taken away from Emily, I will take away from you. Kisses, A." She stopped and pointed to the picture attatched. "Is that.."
"Yeah." I sighed. "That's Brittany."
