Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters.

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"Are you inviting me to sleep in your bed?"

"I can take the couch, if you want…"

"No, no, it's a king sized bed, we can share.

Walking past him, Emily stepped into his room, heading straight to the bathroom. Closing the door, Sasha heard the shower kick on.

This is going to be a long night, he thought.

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About 10 minutes later, Emily emerged from the bathroom. Not stopping, she headed straight to the big bed. Sasha kissed her goodnight before heading into the bathroom himself.

Soon after, he walked out, in his boxer shorts, and stopped short when he saw Emily sleeping peacefully and beautifully in his bed. He slowly climbed into the bed, careful not to wake her. After getting comfortable, he wrapped his strong arms around her thin body. I'll never leave you Emily,he thought.

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The next morning

Hearing the sound of the alarm clock blaring at the set time of 6:30am, Emily slowly got up to hit the stop button. Looking around, she remembered that she was in Sasha's room.

Turning, she noticed Sasha sleeping to her right. Deciding that they needed to get up, Emily trailed kisses down his jaw line.

Feeling the light kisses, Sasha slowly opened his eyes. When he noticed that it was Emily, he smiled.

"Good Morning Em."

"Morning, we need to get up, nationals are today."

Hearing that, Sasha got up so abruptly that Emily almost fell off the bed. Murmuring that he was sorry, Sasha quickly went into the bathroom, not once looking back at Emily.

Wondering what was going on, she followed him into the bathroom, finding him rinsing out his mouth.

"Sasha, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I need you to get dressed and quickly go back into your room."

"Okay….umm give me two minutes."

"Just hurry, I can't let anyone see you coming out from this room."

Hurt by that comment, Emily dressed as quickly as she could, not bothering to say goodbye to Sasha. Walking out the door, she made sure that she dried her face of her silent tears.

After knocking on the door three times, Lauren finally answered. Emily walked right past her, without saying anything.

"Well Hello to you to, Captain!"

'Sorry, this morning did not start off well for me."

"Whatever, no drama, remember?"

Ten minutes later, Emily was finishing up her hair when there was a knock on the door. Emily motioned for Lauren to get it since her hands were tied up. Rolling her eyes, Lauren opened the door, finding Sasha on the other side.

"Good Morning, Lauren, are you ready?"

"Yes I am."
"Good, everyone's down in the lobby. Why don't you go join them and I'll meet all of you down there in about two minutes to go over details for today."

"Sounds good to me."

Lauren grabbed her bag and left the room, leaving Emily sitting there awkwardly with Sasha.

Smiling, Sasha walked over to her.

"Are you ready for today, Em?'

"Yeah."

While Emily walked past him, heading in the direction of the door, he could see the sad look on her face. Quickly stopping her by grabbing her shoulders, he spun her around to face him.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing…" she said avoiding contact with his face.

"Damn it Emily, you have to talk to me about your feelings and not keep them bottled up like a child!"

Realizing that he should not have gotten so angry, he quickly apologized.

"Em, I'm sorry. Look, please just tell me what's wrong so that we can put everything behind us so that you can focus today."

"Why don't you want to be seen with me?"

"I don't understand…"

"You said for me to quickly leave your room so that no one would see us together this morning. How do you think that that made me feel?"

"I didn't mean it like that, I mean I did, but only because today is nationals and I don't want anything to cause drama. Everyone needs to focus and do their best today."

Sasha wrapped her in a tight hug, leaning back to kiss her with all of the passion he could muster. When he pulled away, Emily smiled.

"I'm good."

"Kick some ass today, Emily Kmetko, I know you are amazing."