After a long day of forcing herself to keep her eyes open and earning some looks from either Aria or Spencer, Hanna was happier than ever before as she finally got to leave the building. Hanna sat down in her car and sighed.

She had barely talked to her friends today because of a lack of time but also because she kinda had avoided to rush into another of these conversations with them.

Hanna started to drive and as she left the parking, she saw Emily walking on the side walk. Hanna stopped by and turned her window down, asking:
"Um, do you want me to give you a lift?"

"I really don't wanna take your time."
"It's okay, get in."

Emily led Hanna to her house and although she didn't remember ever having been here, Hanna felt familiar with it. Turning the engine off, Hanna looked at Emily and her curly hair. She looked athletic closer up, especially her shoulders.

"It…It was really nice of you to drive me home. My car is arriving this evening and I missed the bus."
"No problem. I anyway hadn't to do anything particular."
"Would you like to see my room maybe? I mean you needn't but if you want to."
Surprised by that, Hanna still nodded, and they got out.

"My mom is shopping because our fridge is sorta empty and I guess my dad isn't there yet."
"What is he working as?" Hanna asked although she knew. She didn't want to appear as a stalker.

"Oh, he is a soldier. He changed the navy base but actually that doesn't make much as a difference because he spends most of his working hours in foreign countries."

"Wait, he does fight?"
"Yes, unfortunately he does. On the one hand I'm proud of him doing this for our country but on the other hand I never know how to deal with him being gone. Well, we got some good news yesterday. He won't have to serve this year and is gonna work in the base."
"That's good, isn't it?"
"It is. It really is." Emily said, opening the front door. "Come in. I know it's messy because we didn't find the time to get everything in the right order and part of the furniture is still on its way from Cali. My room is upstairs."
"Should I get rid of my shoes?"
"No, crap. It's fine. Just follow me upstairs."

"It's nice." Hanna meant looking around. "Pretty big."
"Yes, it is much bigger than my old one. I actually like it, but I'm not used to it yet."
In a smaller room that was connected to Emily's, there was a door in the ceiling. A ladder was leant against it. Emily went over there, climbed up and opened the door.

"There is some sorta garden on the roof. We can go and see it."
Hanna wasn't that thrilled by the idea of climbing up a roof but still set her feet on the ladder and reached for it.

She climbed up slowly to Emily who was already standing on the top. The first thing Hanna saw as she reached it, were the chimneys of almost every house in rosewood.

"Up here you can literally see the whole town." Emily said smiling as she had an overlook. "And you're closer to the stars. All alone, I mean. I like the idea of that."
Hanna finally stood next to her and leaned her back against the chimney. Meanwhile Hanna forced herself to keep calm, Emily went to the edge and leaned forward to look at the people walking down there.

"Be careful." Hanna said, watching her lean over.

"Come over here and look. You can see so much better from here."
Hanna stepped forward although her legs were shaky and glanced down, directly staggering backwards.

"Hey, Are you okay? You look a little pale." Emily meant, considering Hanna.

"Um. I…I just don't really like height." Hanna admitted.

Emily reached for her hand. "You're shaking."
Not just because of the building Hanna thought but didn't say anything. "We better get down here." Emily said, walking Hanna back to the door.

This time it was Hanna to go first because Emily didn't want to leave her up here alone.

When both of them were back in the room, Hanna sighed relieved.

"Are you okay?" Emily asked, raising her eyebrows worriedly as she closed the door and jumped down the ladder.

"Uhu." Hanna nodded.

"Why didn't you tell me? You should have said something."
"I think I thought it was embarrassing not to be able to look down some feet."
"It's not at all." Emily answered. "Really."

"I have never in a lifetime held such sweaty hands." She added laughing which made Hanna blush.

"I'm sorry."
"You needn't be. It was me making you go up there."

Emily went downstairs and returned with some coffee. "Pay attention, it's hot." She said, handling it to Hanna who was looking at a picture on the desk.

"Can I ask something?"

"Sure."
"Is that your boyfriend on this picture?"
Emily started to laugh again. "No, no it's not. That's my dad when he was younger."
"Oh." Hanna started laughing too.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" Emily asked then.

"Um, no I don't."
"But have you ever been in love?" she continued.

"I'm not sure. Maybe once but it was rather a crush. What about you?"
Now it was Emily to blush.

"What's wrong? Did I say something?"
"No, it's just that I've never had a boyfriend because I'm gay."
Hanna didn't know what exactly to respond. After having taken a breath, she said. "Well, I don't mind. That's cool of you to tell me."
What she thought was a little different from that, especially when Emily asked: "Okay, cool. So, it doesn't change anything?"
Hanna's glance wandered down Emily's neck to her hip and up again. Her legs were just as athletic as her upper part. Hanna figured that she seemed to like athletic.