Here is the last chapter, finally marking the end of this story after a few years. Thank you for everyone who read it, commented it and added it to their favorites.


CHAPTER 8

Five weeks had passed since Hanna had moved away. Emily woke up on the morning of Hanna's move and found out that the blonde wasn't in bed anymore. She got up so fast it made her head spin. She closed her eyes a few seconds to stop the room from turning and she got dressed as fast as she could. She ran out of Spencer's house and felt sick at the idea that she let Hanna leave without at least trying the idea of a distance relationship. She ran to Hanna's house but saw that their car was no longer in the driveway. She sat down on the curb and felt the tears run down her cheeks. After a while she went back home and spent a week in bed crying. It's Spencer and Aria that made her get up, but their friend was not the same after that. It was still true five weeks after the blonde left.

"Hi Emily, I wanted to know what you are doing Friday night?" asked a girl as she stopped by Emily's locker.

Spencer and Aria looked at each other, wondering if Emily would accept that offer. She always used to before Hanna came along.

"I'm sorry. I'm not interested, but I'm flattered that you asked" replied Emily, never looking away from her locker.

The girl left with a sad and embarrassed look on her face.

"I get that you're hurt Emily, but don't you think it's time for you to put yourself back out there? You haven't even talk to Hanna since she left" Spencer tried to tell the swimmer.

Emily shut her locker door loudly and turned to glare at Spencer.

"Shut up, Spencer. You have no right!" Warned Emily as she left.

"I don't know what to do anymore..." Said Spencer sadly.

"I don't think there is much we can do..." Replied Aria.

The girls walked to their classroom and saw that Emily had decided to skip this class too. It wasn't unusual behavior for her in the last five weeks, but this time, they were worried. As soon as the bell rang to announce the end of the class, they bolted from their seat and made their way to the natatorium, where they were sure to find the swimmer. The only positive thing since Hanna had left was that Emily didn't stop swimming and she actually became better with all the time she spent in the pool. When the brunettes walked into the natatorium, they were surprised to see that Emily wasn't in the water. They stopped dead in their tracks and looked around. They heard what sounded like muffled crying coming from the locker room. Aria didn't have to think twice about it and she started fast walking toward the sound. When she opened the door, she saw Emily sitting on the floor in her bathing suit, hugging her knees and crying. She sat down next to her and hugged her.

"It's going to be okay, sweetie" said the smaller girl as Spencer sat on the other side of them.

"I messed up, Ar" Emily said, finally looking up after a few minutes. "She asked me not to end things but I did because I thought it would be easier for us. I'm stupid! Now she probably moved on and I'm stuck here like an idiot. I can't get over her. I love her. My heart aches for her. I don't ever want to love anyone who's not her."

Her friends let her speak, knowing that she needed to get everything off of her chest after holding it in for five weeks.

"We'll figure something out I promise, but for now let's get you home" said Spencer as she looked through the girl's locker for clothes for her to wear.

She handed the clothes to Emily who had trouble finding the strength to put them over her bathing suit. Spencer took her bag and close the locker as Emily hang to Aria's arm for support. They made their way to Spencer's car and she drove them to Emily's house. They helped her upstairs and Aria helped her lay down in her bed. She took off the swimmer's shoes as she kept crying her eyes out. Aria laid down next to her and Emily curled up to her side as Aria played in her hair. Spencer took the opportunity to rummage through Emily's bag in order to find her phone. Once she found it, she excused herself and went downstairs. She looked through the phone hoping that the swimmer hadn't deleted her ex-girlfriend's number. She hadn't. Spencer sat down on the couch and nervously pressed the call button and put the phone to her ear. It took a while before somebody answered.

"Emily!? Are you okay?" asked the blonde in a voice that seemed filled with panic.

"It's Spencer"

"Spencer? What's going on? Is she alright?"

"Physically yes. But she's a mess. She misses you. A lot"

The line fell silent.

"I'm sorry I called, Hanna. I guess I shouldn't have. I just couldn't bare to see Emily like that. I hope you're doing fine. Bye, Han"

"Wait! Don't hang up! I… I miss her too, Spence. I can't forget her. I still love her."

The blonde and the brunette spent a lot of time on the phone, planning a trip for the three Rosewood girls to visit Hanna in her new city. Once the details were sorted out, Spencer hang up the phone and erased the call from Emily's phone history. Spencer then called her parents and asked them to get permission from Aria's and Emily's parents to leave the next day for the whole weekend. She then made her way upstairs while she waited for an answer from her parents. Aria was still playing in Emily's hair but the taller girl seemed to be fast asleep.

"What were you doing with her phone?" asked Aria worried about Spencer's intentions.

Spencer waited a while to answer making sure that Emily was in fact asleep.

"I called Hanna. Emily was too stubborn and scared to do it herself but it had to be done" as she finished her sentence, her phone light up and she looked down to see the all clear from her parents. "In fact, you should go home and pack, we are leaving tomorrow for the weekend."

"Where are we going?" asked Aria suspiciously.

"Miami. Hanna wants to see Emily"

Aria broke out in a smile and hugged Emily tighter.

"Sleep tight. Tomorrow everything will be okay" whispered Aria in the sleeping girl.

The next day, the girls were in a plane and getting closer to their destination.

"Oh my god!? Are you serious Spencer!? Miami? You knew I wanted to go one day!" Emily said excitedly, almost crushing Aria with her body, leaning over her to look out the window.

"We figured that you needed a distraction" said Aria laughing at Emily's antics.

The swimmer sat down in her seat and kept radiating happiness all through the plane landing. Once they finally landed and made it through security, Spencer and Aria kept looking around, trying to spot the blonde. Emily didn't realize something was happening since she was in her own bubble of excitement. Spencer and Aria stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Hanna a few feet away, a smile appeared on their face. Emily still hadn't seen her but when she did, she stopped moving all at once. She didn't know what to do, she didn't know what her ex-girlfriend was doing here.

Hanna started fast-walking toward her and wrapped her arms around her. It took a few seconds for Emily to hug her back.

"I'm so sorry, I was stupid. I love you, Hanna. It's impossible to stop hurting when I'm not with you"

"I love you too, Emily"

The girls loosen their embrace a little bit in order to kiss. They only stopped when Spencer interrupted them.

The weekend was spent discovering the city and reconnecting with each other. After that, three of the liars went back to Rosewood in order to finish high school. Emily and Hanna talked on the phone everyday and texted each other all the time. Hanna came back to Rosewood to see her girlfriend a few times as the year went by. At the end of high school, the liars decided to move together to New-York. They shared an apartment together and Emily and Hanna couldn't be happier to share a bedroom and not have to use the phone to talk to each other.

The four girls' friendship started in Rosewood, resisted Miami and lived on in New-York. Emily never thought that she could love someone as much and that the girl would fit in so well in her circle of friends that was pretty exclusive. Hanna never thought that someone would fill her heart the way Emily kept doing everyday and that not seeing her mother anymore wouldn't bother her. She had found the family she needed.