As AcquiredMadness reads the latest reviews for her story, she leans back in her black computer chair. "Poor little happy souls…." AM starts off in the mocking tone of Ursula from The Little Mermaid, "What they don't know is as a writer, I love fluff and happiness and little cute bonding moments..." She describes.
"BUT...I also love angst." AM sits up straight in her chair and looks at the computer screen. "I hope y'all have your seat-belts on extremely tight because, soon, we're about to go through. some. shit." She throws down her hand in emphasis. "It might not be now...but it will come."She scoots her chair closer to the computer, opens up Microsoft word and begins to type. "Italics means thoughts, emphasized word or action…"
CHAPTER #7: Richmond, VA Part II
Italics means thoughts, emphasized word or action. Bolded is a flashback. (….) is an indication that time has passed.
"Alison?" Spencer's eyes widen as her voice jumps a few pitches in completely disbelief of what her eyes are presenting in front of her.
Immediately, Aria turns her head at such a speed and shoots a glare at Emily. If that glare could shoot daggers, Emily would be violently choking on her own blood right now.
Alison holds onto her purse and slowly makes her way through the crowd who parted themselves like the Red Sea as she walked past. Eyes gawk at her as she continues to look straight at Emily, trying not to make any eye contact with anyone else. When she finally reaches Emily, she applauds her, "You were absolutely phenomenal out there. I've never seen someone move that fast in water." She says with a face that has double emotions. Half of happiness, half of embarrassment.
Emily gives a closed mouth smile as she goes in to hug the blonde. At that split second, she realized Paige is still holding onto her, not intending to let go. Defeated, Emily puts out her hand to Alison for a handshake.
"How did you get here?" Spencer asks with stern voice, causing Toby to hold her hand to calm her down.
Alison turns from the handshake and faces the rest of the crowd. "By plane," she sarcastically remarks as she let her eyes wonder so she doesn't have to look directly at Spencer.
"She means who invited you?" Hanna responds on behalf of Spencer, with her arms crossed and eyes narrowed at Alison.
"Emily did."
Everyone shifts their sights from Alison to Emily, who is now beginning to become tense by the arising tension. "I-I met her earlier this month and she came to one of my meets. So I invited her to the c-championship."
Alison now feeling like a freak on display, starts to wring her hands in front of her, nervously.
Caleb heroically steps in to save the day as the lobby is now empty with them standing there, "Uhm, It's starting to get late. I think it's time we should drop you off at the hotel so you can get changed for the dinner tonight." Thank you, Caleb, for rescuing me. I love you.
"Yeah." Emily mutters to herself. She looks up at Alison,
"Why don't…" Don't say it. "Why don't you join us for the celebration dinner, A-Alison," Emily stutters over her words a bit, trying to extend the invitation.
As soon as those words left her mouth, everyone shifts their focus back to Emily. Including Paige who is still beside her. Emily starts feeling uncomfortable with the sudden focal changes every few seconds.
Alison turns to look at Emily, "Thanks…But I think I should turn it in for the day. I just came straight of the flight so-"
"We all came straight off the flight," Hanna remark loudly for Alison to hear, glaring at her, not caring that Emily just shot her a 'what are you doing?' look.
Alison slowly nods her head, "Yeah, I'm just gonna head back to my room." Alison doesn't look at Emily, "Besides, you should be celebrating with your family and friends."
"You came all this way to support me, you are also included in that circle." Emily responds in a tone to let Alison know that she's there to defend her.
Aria quickly cocks her head to the side and faces Ezra who opens his mouth and shrugs in shoulders in confusion.
Alison shakes her head at the floor, "Thanks but no thank you. I'll see you later," Alison looks up to give Emily a quick glance but hurriedly looks away to see that Paige is not giving her the most welcoming look.
Pam & Wayne, who are oblivious to the current situation, walks back to the group, just missing Alison.
"Ok, everyone, let's go ahead and hop in the car so we can let Em get ready for the dinner." Pam advises the group. Everyone slowly begin to disperse, including Paige who tightly grasps Emily's side as a 'see you later' gesture. While the group is making their way towards the door, Aria stays behind to talk to Emily.
"What the hell, Emily?" Aria starts off in a low rushed voice as she walks closer to the swimmer.
"What?" Emily responds annoyed, adjusting the bag on her shoulder.
"What? You brought Alison here?"
"I didn't bring her anywhere. I invited her and she came."
"You knew we all were coming and you decided to invite her? What? For a show?" Aria begins to rise her voice.
"No. I invited her because she came to my last meet. That was the right thing to do. I didn't even realize until after she left." Emily defends herself to Aria's accusations.
"And then you invite her to our dinner-" Aria makes a disapproving face as she starts off her sentence before Emily cuts her off.
"Aria. She came out here. Just like you, my parents, and everyone else. This wasn't a quick 15 minute drive where everyone and anyone could just pop up, Ok?" Emily voice starts to match her annoyed emotion. "She spent time and money to come and support me so of course I'm going to invite her to the dinner."
"Why?" Aria crosses her arms in front of her, "You were gonna invite her to the dinner, make things ten times more awkward then how things were just right now," she leans in closer to Emily, "Do you think she would of enjoyed that? Do you think any of us would have really enjoyed that?" Aria squints her eyes at Emily trying understand what in going in that brain of hers.
"Well, I certainly didn't enjoy this! It doesn't matter who I invite to my damn meet." She leans into Aria, "The way you guys just thrashed her, not giving her a chance to talk, making her feel unwelcomed. Why?! You didn't do that to Paige and I didn't even invite her!" Emily's voice now higher than before as she throws her hand up in defiance. "Alison didn't even do anything to-" Emily instantly shuts her mouth and closes her eyes, regretting even letting that sentence escape her mouth.
"Come again?!" Aria leans in as her eyes widen as wide as they could open. "She didn't even do anything to us?! Are you fucking kidding me, right now, Em?!" Aria baffled at the boldness Emily just displayed. "You must of swallowed too much of that chlorine to even form those words in a sentence!" Alison points her finger behind her towards the door, not leaving eye contact with Emily, "That was no random stranger. That was Alison. The same one who blackmailed me into my parents splitting up! Taunted Hanna's weight for months upon months, calling her "Hefty Hanna" in front of everyone! Was enemies with Spencer! Basically causing a huge rift with her relationship with Melissa!" Aria spits out, with aggression on her tongue. "Not to mention, she had Toby locked up! Made him out to be some criminal that he wasn't! Taunted Paige! Did you forget that?" Aria shakes her head at Emily, "How she made her life hell just because she liked you?" Emily sadly looks down at her shoes, forgetting how much pain Alison caused Paige back then.
"She blinded Jenna! Because of her, that girl will never see colors, nature, herself, or her family ever again and you have the fucking balls to tell me that she didn't do anything to anyone?" Aria now in Emily's face. "The entire fucking group was terrorized by that bitch and just because you didn't get any backlash, you want us to skip down the yellow brick road with her, hand in hand?!"
"She's changed, Aria. She's a different person now." Emily tries to defend Alison strongly but is becoming weak. Even though, in the times Emily has seen Alison, she does believe that Alison isn't the same girl from Rosewood. But the fact is, she doesn't entirely know that. "That was over three years ago and she-"
"I don't give a rat's ass if it was three years ago for fucking thirty years ago!" Aria cuts off Emily, unsympathetic to what she has to say to defend Alison. "She ruined people's lives. That'll stay with them forever!"
"Even if she didn't change, she wouldn't spend all that time and money to come out here if she had ill intentions."
"Yes she would!" Aria practically yells, "The grandmother from "Flowers in the Attic" spent time and money buying food for her grandkids! It wasn't until they started DROPPING DEAD from the rat poison that she put inside the food, for them to realize that she really didn't care about them!"
"Aria!" Emily begins to protest the over exaggerated comparison.
Aria changes her tone and starts to back away from Emily, "But do what you want," she says while she puts her hands up, "Don't come crying back to me or any of us when she decides to flip that switch on you." Aria hastily turns around with a flip of her hair and walks out the building, leaving Emily by herself. Emily breathes out a huge sigh before she slowly makes her way to the exit.
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Sitting at a large party table with Paige on her left and her dad on her left, at a Bar & Grill restaurant, Emily tries to be genuinely happy but cannot as she keeps replaying that fight at the center she had with Aria. She looks over at Aria who is smiling and laughing with Ezra. How can she just go back to normal? Like that fight didn't even happen? Emily questions herself. She is interrupted by Hanna's announcement.
"Ok, enough with the food and small talk. It's time for the gifts!" Hanna squeals as she reaches by her feet and grabs a medium sized white box wrapped in a red bow and hands it to Emily. Emily unwraps the bow, lifts the lid and moves the gifting paper to see what gift Hanna gave her.
"No you didn't."
"Fleur Du Mal." Hanna imitate, once again, in her French accent.
Emily holds up a red piece of lingerie, one of the three sets Hanna packaged for her. The table fills with assorted responses.
"Ok!" Paige laughs.
"Wooooah." Ezra comments with his eyes wide.
"Ummm…Why and who would you be wearing that for, young lady?" Wayne nearly chokes as he asks in his serious fatherly tone.
Aria notices a note that came with the gift, "Read the note!"
Emily looks at the note laying on top of the gifting paper.
"For knocked off socks and hard nipples ;)"
Emily quickly puts down the note, "Yeah, I rather not… Thank you, Han." She smiles at the blonde who has a knowing grin from Emily reading the note.
"Anything for you, my darling!" Hanna puts her hands over her heart.
Paige takes her hand and subtly rubs Emily's leg under the table. Emily, suddenly surprised, looks at Paige who is looking elsewhere, trying to be discrete. This is so not the place…
Everyone else gives Emily their gifts they brought for her whether she won or not.
Spencer and Toby brought Emily a Keurig Coffee Maker. "For those days when you really need it. You can never not need coffee." Spencer remarks.
Aria and Ezra brought her a rose gold, Michael Kors Baguette-Bezel Watch. "Don't worry about the price of it," Ezra shifted in his seat, "Trust me. Michael Kors isn't as expensive as people think he is."
Caleb brought a Pen Power World Pen Scanner. "So instead of hand typing your notes into your computer, just scan this bad boy and it will translate the information from the pen to the computer. Works in any foreign language." Caleb proudly describes the nifty gift.
Emily's parent's gift to their daughter is a Camera. "We know how much you liked to document everything when you were younger, so your mom and I brought you this Canon T5i camera. That way you can document your life from this point on and show your potential kids in the future." Wayne smiles as she hugs his wife with his arm around her.
Emily gives her mom and dad is big smile as she hugs her dad's side. "Thank you so much!"
Paige whips out her gift inside of a small white box. Opening it, Emily pulls out a beautiful white chained necklace with a blue topaz and diamond teardrop pendant. She gasps at the beauty of it as the table awes. "I-I-I can't accept this. This had to cost you a fortune."
"I got it at Macy's." She smiles at the surprised brunette. "14k White Gold."
"How much was it?" Hanna boldly asks.
"Hanna!" Aria and Spencer both call out. "That's not an appropriate question to ask." Aria tells Hanna.
"I just wanna know!" Hanna innocently responds. The table looks at Paige to see if she is going to answer.
"It was on sale, so I got it for about $380."
Ezra chokes on his water and Wayne clutches his chest as the rest of the table gasps at the price.
"Holy shit!" Hanna accidently says out loud before immediately apologizing to Emily's parents.
"Oh my god, Paige! You should have never paid this much!" Emily says with worry spreading across her face. It isn't that she isn't grateful, because she is, It's just it's been so long that she would never imagine that much money being coughed up on the first day of a reunion.
"If you won't take it, I'll happily have it! Thank you, Paige." Hanna says as she extends her hand towards Emily.
Emily shakes her head, "Of course I'm going to keep it." She says as she put the expensive necklace back into its box. "Thank you, Paige." She leans in to give Paige a hug as Paige kisses her on the cheek. When they break from their embrace, Paige continues to meticulously run her fingers up and down Emily's thigh. Emily sighs to herself as she smiles at everyone at the table.
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After everyone says their goodbyes to Emily and heads to their hotel rooms for the night, intending to leave in the morning, Paige drives Emily back to her hotel at around 9. Asking Emily for an opportunity to talk, Emily caves in and the operation of trying to sneak Paige into her hotel room commences. Standing causally behind a column in the lobby with Paige, Emily sees a couple of her teammates lingering around in the lobby towards the hallway leading to everyone's rooms. She knows if they see her walk in with Paige, there could be a big possibility that they could snitch. Emily turns to face Paige with a game plan.
"Ok, take this key and walk to room 134. It's a few doors away from the stairs." She whispers as she instructs Paige with the card in her hand.
"Wouldn't they know that's not my room?" Paige asks curiously, matching Emily's whisper.
"They know we're all on the same hall but don't know which room individually belongs to who. For all they know, you're just a random person. Take the key and wait inside the room by the door. I'm going to wait a few minutes and make my way to the room. That's when I'm going to pretend to unlock the door and you open it."
Paige nods and walks away from Emily, walking down the lobby and into the hall, passing the two teammates. They don't seem to notice her with their conversation still going. Two minutes later, Emily bends down to pick up her gifts and proceeds to walk down the lobby. As she casually passes the teammates, they take notice and offer their congratulations. Emily thanks them as she continues to walk her way down the hall.
"Do you need help getting that to your room?" A swimmer points at Emily's gifts.
"Oh no, I got it, thanks." She says as she drops one of the gifts. Both swimmers make their way to help Emily pick up her present.
"Here, I got this," The other swimmer grabs some of Emily's things out of her hands. "Which room is it?"
"Uh, 134." She points as her nerves begin to shake. Shitshitshit.
All three swimmers walk towards Emily's room as she prays that they won't try to walk inside. She quickly comes up of some kind of code to warn Paige if they do.
As they get to the room door, Emily quickly tries to get them to leave. "I got it from here."
"You sure?"
"Yep. Thank you guys." Emily says quickly.
With a wave, the two swimmers turn around and walk the opposite direction. Fumbling on the door, the door slowly opens as Paige stands behind it, so she won't be seen. Emily grabs the gifts and rushes inside to her dark room, closing the door behind her. She sets the gifts down as she lets out a sigh, leaning over the table. "That was too close."
Paige walks over to Emily and grabs her gift. She takes the necklace out and stands behind the leaning brunette.
"Hold your hair up?"
Emily stands straight as she lifts her hair up, Paige putting the necklace around her neck before hooking it together. Emily touches the front of her necklace before she turns around, face to face with Paige.
"Paige…This-this is beautiful…"
"Don't even mention it," Paige says softly as she reaches to grab both of Emily's hands. "You're beautiful, so it's only right that you have beautiful things." She leans in to plant kisses on Emily's neck.
The feeling of seeing Paige since senior year of high school is giving Emily mixed reactions. From seeing her, sneaking her into her room, the adrenaline rush, it made her want to go back to how things were and melt right into Paige's hands. But the other part of Emily, the confusion, the tears, that part of her was angry.
"Paige…" Emily quietly lets out. Paige continues to kiss along Emily's neck to her jawline and stops at her lips. She guides Emily's arm over her shoulder as she places her fingertips at Emily's waist, playing with her shirt fabric. She slowly leans in to kiss Emily, Emily frozen in place, not kissing back. "Paige." She says in-between the kisses Paige gives her.
"What?" Paige mutters as she continues.
Emily removes her arm from Paige's shoulder and places it on her chest. "Paige, we need to talk."
Paige looks up at Emily who has a serious look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? Paige… Where have you been? I haven't seen you in three years."
"I know, I know," Paige whispers as she nuzzles her head into Emily's neck. "I've been so busy with school and work, I haven't been able to see you how I wanted to," Paige's hands move from the corners of Emily's shirt to inside as she slowly climbs her hands up Emily's stomach.
"Paige, stop." Emily gently pushes Paige away from her. "If you came here, ultimately to have sex with me, I'm going to burst your bubble right now."
"Emily…" Paige starts off, confused. "Why are you doing this? You never pushed me away before…"
"Yeah, three years ago. Three years ago would I have wanted this?" She points between herself and Paige, "Yes! I would have pulled you down onto the bed with me as we tried not to make a lot of noise. But that's the thing. That was the feeling I would of had three years ago. Now we're three years later. Three years of horrible timing with texts, rare communication, nothing." Emily crosses her arms as sadness starts to creep into her tone. "You can't just waltz yourself back into my life like you've been gone for a weekend and think that we can just jump start back to where we were."
"Emily, I'm so sorry for the lack of everything," Paige apologizes, "That's why I took this trip all the way out here. Even though I haven't been there before, I wanted to be here now." Paige tries to uncross Emily's arms as she takes a hand into her own. She looks deep into Emily's eyes, "I knew this was going to be one of the biggest moments of your life and I wanted to be there for it."
Emily looks away from Paige, "Don't do that…"
"Do what?"
"That. give me that look." Emily says as she still avoids Paige's eyes.
"Em," Paige steps closer, "I'm sorry."
A tear escapes Emily's eye as she shakes her head, "Why did you leave me?" Her voice cracks as she looks down at their intertwined hands. "W-why did you go…and not want to even talk to me?"
"I really wish I did more, baby. It's just with school and-"
"Bullshit." Emily grits as she takes her hand away from Paige's. "Don't bullshit me, Paige." That moment of sadness and rejection is slowly being replaced by anger. "Don't tell me the reason you've kept away from me is because you were 'busy'. I go to class, swim and go to work until 2am and still talk to my friends. At least twice a week. Because that's what you do when you love and care about someone." She says as she points her finger in Paige's chest. "You make time for them. No matter how busy you are, you make time for them."
Paige hangs her head, knowing that three years was a long time to leave someone waiting.
"So, you better come up with a better excuse then school and work because that's not gonna cut it."
Paige stays silent unable to form an answer.
"Paige McCullers. You better answer me." Emily demands as she looks directly at her.
"I don't know, Emily." Paige finally answers. "There were so many times I wanted to talk to you but I couldn't. Like I physically couldn't bring myself to. I just felt so bad for leaving that I…I didn't know what to say…"
"How about a simple 'Hello', 'How was your day?', 'What are you doing?' Paige, I don't ask for much. I hardly ask for anything at all but you couldn't even just check on me? You would rather leave me in the dark then to just call me?" Emily questions as she tries to understand where Paige is coming from but she's making absolutely no connections.
"I wasn't asking for a full blown explanation why you left … I just needed to hear your voice." Emily looks down again as she feels tears starting to form. "There has been many days where I needed you and you weren't there. I was convinced that...that you didn't love me anymore…" Emily begins to choke on her words as the tears start to fall down her face.
"Emily, never. I would never feel that way." Paige reminds the crying brunette as she takes her hand and pulls up her chin. Emily wipes away her tears with the back of her hand.
"Who's Justine?"
"What?" Paige asks, taken back by the question.
"Who's Justine? You know, that girl that seems to be all over your Instagram. You didn't have time for me, your girlfriend or whatever I was to you, the fucking chick back home, but you certainly had enough time for her." Emily states as she stands straight, looking at Paige irritably. "You don't have time to text or call me but you have time to post your guys' text conversations." Emily cocks her head to the side, "Was the last one you posted a few days ago supposed to be funny? Because it wasn't."
"She's someone I go to school with. We shared classes together and I became friends with her." Paige testifies, not understanding where this sudden change came from. "She has nothing to do with you. Nothing to do with us, for that matter." Paige crosses her arms, "But if we're going to go down that road, why was Alison here?"
"She has nothing to do with you." Emily mocks Paige.
"Oh, really?"
"Yep." Emily answers dryly, hurt from Paige's 'She has nothing to do with you' statement.
"So you just so happened to run into her and become friends."
"Basically."
Paige nods her head in confirmation, "So you guys are friends."
"If that's the term you want to use, knock yourself out with it." Emily nonchalantly responds, making full eye contact with Paige.
"You know what she did to everyone and you're going to befriend her?"
"People change. And I believe she has changed. Yes, what she did in the past was cruel but she grew up and she's matur-You know what? I'm not gonna have this conversation with you. Not with you, not Aria, not anyone." Emily makes her way past Paige on her way to the bathroom. Paige moves quickly in front of her, blocking her way.
"Why are you getting so defensive? If anyone should be getting defensive, it's me." Points at herself, trying to keep her voice down. "She not only tortured your best friends but she tortured me as well. If someone did something bad to you, I would never become friends with that person. No matter how far down the line time has passed. Because that's what you do when you love and care about someone." Paige using Emily's line to drive her point home.
Emily looks towards the alarm clock set on the table by her bed. "I'm not supposed to have visitors here." She says in a low tone as she looks back at Paige, "You gotta go."
"Emily…" Paige begins to protest.
"If you don't leave and they knock at that door, they're gonna send me on the first flight out of here."
"It's not like you have any more races to do."
Emily squints at Paige, making a face of disbelief. "You want me to get kicked out? Just how you kicked me out of your life, you want me to go through that embarrassment?"
"No, Em, I-"
"Go, Paige." Emily looks towards the direction of the door.
Paige looks at Emily in sadness before making her way towards the door. She puts a hand on the door handle before turning around, "I hope you enjoy your gift. Wear it, don't wear it, sell it, do what the fuck you want with it…" She trails off as she proceeds to leave Emily's room.
When the door closes, Emily's tears instantly start streaming down her face as she plops herself on top of the bed, silently crying to herself. I guess that was the closure I needed…
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That next morning, instead of heading out with the team, she wanted to say her last goodbyes to her family and friends. Everyone collects around the front of Emily's hotel to say their final goodbyes. Everyone but Paige. Even though she knew there was a possibility that Paige wasn't gonna show, a tiny piece of her was waiting for her to pull up. To say goodbye, give her a hug and a kiss but she never did because she never showed. Two by two, as everyone headed to the airport, Emily sat in the lobby of her hotel and checked her phone. 10:45am. She opens a text conversation and begins texting away.
[Emily]: "Can you please come meet me at the front of my hotel? I need to see you before you go..." (10:45pm)
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As the wind starts to pick up, Emily stand outside with her hands in her hoodie pockets, waiting.
A car pulls up to the front of the hotel as Emily re-positions herself.
The driver gets out and slowly approaches Emily.
"Hi…" Emily starts out.
"Hi…" Alison responds back, not having much of anything to say.
"Look, I am so sorry for what happened yesterday. You didn't deserve that."
"Yes I did." Alison looks down at the ground. "I deserve all of that and more. I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to come. I should have known that I was going to run into someone from Rosewood…"
"But still, they shouldn't have been blatantly rude to you like that. They shouldn't care who I invite to my competitions."
"But they were right. I had no reasoning being there…" Alison avoids Emily's eye contact.
Emily reaches out to touch Alison's arm. "Yes you did! You came to support me. And I am very thankful of that. You came for me and that's all that matters." Emily says in a soothing tone.
Alison looks at the hand Emily placed on her arm as she breathes in and out. "You know, towards the end of senior year, I had to find myself out of there. Whether it was to another city, another state, or even another country; Things just got too heavy. Karma definitely made it her mission to make me feel how I made others feel and I doubt she's done." Alison looks past Emily as she starts to fidget with her fingers. "My mother dies, Jason becomes a drunk, can't stand to hear my name yet alone see my face. And my father…He doesn't know what to do with me. He sends me a check every month because he feels like he should but he has no idea how to handle me." Alison shakes her head, "I don't deserve anything nice. From anyone. I took that for granted and this is what I get."
"Alison. I see you, OK?" Emily steps closer to Alison as she holds both her arms, "I see you for who you are now. I know that you've changed. I know that you aren't the same Alison from Rosewood. I see that." Emily reassures her.
"Tomorrow we head back to Philly. You & I are going to celebrate since we didn't get the chance to last night. Tomorrow night, we're gonna do something. I dunno yet but I'll think of something. OK?" She looks into Alison's sad blue eyes, trying to convince her.
Alison nods her head looking down. "I should go ahead and make my way back to the airport before they charge me another day for this car." Alison looks back up at Emily.
"Yeah…yeah. You might want to do that," She gives the blonde a light smile.
Alison nods again, "Nice necklace, by the way."
"…Thanks" Emily sluggishly responds as she shoves her hands back inside of her pockets.
Alison begins to make her way back to her rental. Emily waves as Alison gets back inside the driver's side and puts the car in drive. She looks at Emily one last time then slowly drives out of the front parking of the hotel until she's out of sight.
"Tomorrow night…"
Good ol' Emily. Able to see the good in everyone. How would you have handled Aria and Paige attacking Alison if you were Emily? I believed out of all the girls, Aria would be the one to have something to say about Alison. After all, in the show, she's did just that with that rape whistle when Alison tried to talk to her and when Hanna tried to talk to her about Zach, Aria's mom's creep ex-fiancé. Aria is always the first one to point fingers. Why? *In Spencer's Voice* "Because she's freaking A!" But that's for another time…
One thing that makes it hard about updating these chapters is that I already have them written out. So whenever I update a chapter, I already have one or two of the following chapters done. The problem is timing. "When should I upload them?" Once a week? No, I'm way too impatient. Every other day? No, that's too fast. Once every three days? Yo no sé! IDK!
Alison gets a rude welcoming, Paige comes out of the blue to win back Emily's heart...I wonder what's going to happen tomorrow night…
