Author's note: Hello Readers! Happy Valentine's day! I wanted to finish this chapter as a Valentine's gift to everyone who is reading. I know that it's been two weeks since I've updated and I am really sorry but like I've said before I do go to University and have to focus on studying before I can write. That being said I have this chapter for you guys. It might not be what you guys expected but hopefully I'll make up for it in the next chapter.

MindFullofStories: Lil! you're oh so very welcome. I meant what I said you do have great ideas. I wonder why you don't write a story of your own, I'm sure it wouldn't be any problem for you. Well this chapter focuses on Emily. So not many Mchastings scenes. Spentrick? I love the name I thought it would be Patcer but Spentick is more catchy. Well that is, if there is a Spentrick? You never know. ;)

Cici: Glad that you liked that chapter so much. I like that you Used the chapter title in the case of a possible Spentrick. Love that you and Lil came up with that by the way. But I'm still working on the details buttt all I can say is that i do find the ship name catchy, so maybe that will influence my decision on Spentrick. Yes The Mchastings scene did remind me of a proposal scene when i wrote it and it's funny 'cause I think that would be a good twist but it is a Paily Story. I really enjoyed writing the kissing scene because I just felt like Paige should prove to Emily that she is serious about being with a girl, that's why I had Paige take the lead. You'll get more back story I promise. Chapter 11 will give more backstory and will Introduce someone else into the story. Hmmm?

PamyNovaes: I know I'm taking a while to update but I'm trying to balance everything so please bear with me. I'm glad you love the story hope i don't disappoint you. There will be drama soon, ass much as I love happy Paily I know that there has to be some drama. This chapter kind of surfaces some things that can possibly be drama starters. You just have to figure out which one it'll be.

Del: I'm glad I could clear that up for you, sorry for not including that in the previous chapter though. Hanna and Spencer do love Emily and they are just looking out for her but even though they have their ups and downs they stick together. Through Spying and all. =). Patrick is Very important to Paige and his blessing really did mean alot to her, It means she doesn't have to hide who she is from someone who is so important to her. Until next update =)

Marmoreck: Drama will come I promise. This chapter isn't as happy as the past chapters have been so this is a start. Paily is adorably sweet together and I love writing their scenes, especially their first kiss.

glorymania: Hey Gloria! I'm happy i was one of the fics you caught up on. Hm interesting, if you don't mind me asking how did you think the story would go? I debated with myself about so many aspects of this story, I started it with the intention of it going one way and when i was writing it kind of just went the opposite. You know I know how you feel about Patrick, I mean I know he's my character and everything but I do feel that he is overshadowing the Paily Story. I've already plan to incorporate Patrick less into the story because me feeling exactly how you feel about him. He will still be in it, since many readers do like him, but not as much as he has been. Thank you. It's nice to know that I'm actually improving in my writing and to hear it from you is even better. Til next time =)

Nae10: Thank you clarification of your review. I'm happy that this chapter was full of laughter and Paily fluff for you. I love the McHastings friendship too. You'll see one Mchasting scene in this chapter but more to come on their friendship. Thank you for your support on this story, like I said you reviewing my story when it first came out, made me continue with the story so thank you again for being the first review. =)

Guest: Your got it dude, your wish is my command. Here's chapter 9

Again thank you to everyone reading, following and favoriting(?) the story it means alot to me to have your support and it keeps the story going. Please bear with me on the updates. Enjoy this chapter. Happy Valentine's Day!


Chapter 9: Trouble in Paradise?

Emily's POV

It's been two months since Paige and I had our first date, and every time I'm with her it feels like that day. I still have butterflies every time she kisses me. I'm still in awe about that night and how she kissed me; I had wanted to kiss her the whole night, but I thought that I would have moved too fast especially since this was her first time with a girl. She surprised me when she literally swept me off my feet that night. I had lost myself in her kiss so much that I forgot my legs existed and I fell back and hit the door. I felt like such an idiot. But of course Paige's smile wiped that thought away from me, and I lost myself in her beautiful eyes.

I get lost in the thought of Paige's smile that night as Hanna and I are walking to Paige and Spencer's room. As we approach the door, the butterflies come back to my stomach. Yeah, I don't think that I will ever get use to that either but it's not a bad thing.

(Their first date)

The first thing I see is Hanna grinning from ear to ear when I stumbled into the room; I closed the door and lean against it while I slid down. My smile was never-ending even with Hanna sitting next to me, and it was as if she had been on the date with Paige because her smile was matching mine.

"Em I'm so happy for you, it's good to see you happy." I tilted my head and rested it on her shoulder, and I began to breathe normally again. My smile grew as the whole date went through my mind again, it really was perfect. "I'm glad she's nothing like Maya." And with that, my smile left and the pain of my former girlfriend flooded my entire body.

"Hanna did you really have to bring up Maya?"I got up, kicked my shoes off, and dropped myself on my bed.

"Sorry Em I was just happy that you're finally happy again. Have you told Paige about what happened with Maya?"My eyes slowly creep up to meet her gaze and I shake my head to her question.

"I'm not going to tell her about Maya just yet."

"Em, you can't hide that from her." Hanna flopped on to my bed and leaned against the wall. I really hated that Hanna had already killed a kiss with Paige, and now just killed the high I had about the rest of the date. If I would have known that she was going to kill my night yet again, I would have slept in the lounge. Or maybe Paige would have let me sleep in her room…

"Han, she knows about Maya, but not everything. It was our first date; I didn't want to ruin it before it started. Can we just go back to smiling like idiots like how it was when I first walked in?" I grin as I see Hanna taking the hint and wiping away the serious look from her face. She replaces it with a smirk.

"So details, now. Who paid? What'd you do after the movies? Did you guys kiss? Did she try anything? When are you guys going to get married? Where you guys going to… "

"Hanna."I laugh as I look at one of best friends, she knew what to do to get my mind off of Maya and back on to Paige. I know it was only our first date, but I can see Paige and I working out in the long run. I get lost in my thoughts and when I look up I see Hanna impatiently looking at me, I completely forgot about her questions. "She kissed me and it was amazing. No she didn't try anything she was a perfect gentlemen, she wouldn't let me pay for anything and opened the car door for me. We went to get some frozen yogurt after you guys left."I think back to the frozen yogurt shop and I remember Dominic, and how he looked at Paige. I didn't like it especially how Paige reacted when she saw him, what was the deal with them?

Hanna and I were up all night talking about Paige and the date. It was great and I kept telling Hanna how adorable Paige was and how she was a perfect gentleman. "Awe Em I'm so happy for you" Hanna embraces me in a tight hug. As I'm hugging Hanna I realize that she's right. I have to tell Paige about Maya sooner or later, but right now I'll let myself be happy with what happened tonight.


I was knocked back into the reality when we reach their room and Hanna just walks into the room and flops on to Paige's bed. I smile as I shake my head and walk over to Paige.

"Well make yourself comfortable Han." Paige flashes both of us a smile and leans in to kiss me. "Hey babe." Our lips press together and it ends way too quickly when the door flies open.

"Hello ladies, I got lunch" Spencer walks in with her cheerful smile and sets the bags on her computer desk. Hanna hops off Paige's bed when a phone falls from to the floor.

"Hanna you drop your phone." I pick up the iPhone and hand it to Hanna but her facial expression says she's confused. She pats her pocket and shakes her head. The phone lights up and signaling a text from…Spencer.

"Actually that's my phone" Paige takes the phone out of my hand and she registers the puzzled look on my face. "My dad sent me and Patrick iPhones so that we can Facetime with our mom; well that's what he said in his letter." She takes out a letter from her top drawer and hands me it. I read the letter and it seems like her dad was heartfelt, but obviously Paige didn't think so. "Personally I think he's still trying to buy us. I do miss my mom though but she's not very technological."

She gives me a smile and sits on the floor joining Spencer and Hanna. I take a look at my friends laughing with Paige; and how they interact with each other is great. God, could she be more perfect? I see her laughing and talking and actually wanting to hang out with my friends. I know that Spencer is her roommate, but still she loves hanging out with Hanna too. I stand there in awe looking at my girlfriend; her laugh was music to my ears as I close my eyes and just listen to her voice and smile to myself.

"Babe what are you thinking about?" Paige whispers to me as her lips brush up against my ear. I soak in her voice even though I wasn't expecting her. "Must be something pretty special if you're smiling." I open my eyes to see Spencer and Hanna giggling and whispering to each other like little schoolgirls as they are staring at me; but immediately look away when they see me looking at them. I turn around and wrap my arm around Paige's neck and pull her into a kiss. Yup, she still takes my breath away, as I take in the faint scent of citrus and something else; sweat. I inhaled her scent once again and a smile spread across my lips as they were still pressed against hers and I pull away.

"I was just thinking of my beautiful girlfriend." She presses her lips against mine for a quick kiss and reaches for my hand; pulling me to the floor to join the two girls.

"I think I should be the one saying that to you, Fields." She leans in and kisses my cheek and grabs our Chinese food. She begins to stuff her face, guess she was hungry after her workout.

Hanna begins talking about boys who she thinks are cute, and I hear her asking Spencer if she was still eyeing the guy in one of her business classes. Hanna just kept talking, and I see Paige looking at Spencer with a smirk on her face. She keeps her eyes on Spencer and she finally looks away from her and smiles at her phone. What the hell is going on between them?

"Who are you texting Spence?" Spencer and Paige's head shot up from their phones as I asked the question. The smile that Spencer had on her face quickly faded and I could see that her cream-colored cheeks began to turn a rosy red. I've never seen her act like that, and she desperately looked at Paige for something to say. Seriously what's going on?

Spencer jumps as she hears her phone ring. "Mom, Hi. Hold on." She gets up and waves to us and heads to the door. "Mom slow down I can't understand what you're-" Spencer leaves and Hanna excuses herself to the bathroom.

"Paige what was that about?" I finish chewing my chicken and put a serious look on my face. We haven't been going out for that long, and what happened with Spencer earlier was just weird, and I didn't like not being in the loop. She didn't say anything and picked at her Chow Mein noodles.

"What was what about?"

"What's going on with you and Spencer?" I slam my plate down on the floor and she looks up at me, now I have her attention. Paige and I have been open with each other since we've met and it hurt that she was being secretive.

"Nothing is going on Em." She says in a low voice and goes back to picking at her Chow Mein again. Hanna walks out of the bathroom and she picks up on the awkwardness between me and Paige. But before Hanna can say anything Paige springs up. "I've got to shower." She grabs some clothes and heads to the bathroom but before she reaches the door she turns and walks back towards us. "You guys don't have to leave." She kneels down next to me so that our faces were at the same level. "Emily it's really nothing. Will you please be here when I get out?" When I look in her eyes I can feel myself melting with every second that passes. I nodded at her question, and completely forget why I'm upset and lean up to kiss her.

"I have to go, and do this thing for a project for a class." Hanna said awkwardly as she hugged both of us and gave me a wink. Okay what was up with everyone today? Why was everyone acting all weird?

I lay on Paige's bed while grabbing her iPod, might as well listen to music while I'm waiting for her. I scroll through all her playlists and damn she had a lot of different playlists, I knew that Paige loved music but she had more than 7,000 songs on her iPod. I love music too but I could never have that many songs, I always just delete them after I get tired of them. I looked through all her playlist to find something interesting to listen to.

80's jam. Wasn't in the mood for the 80's right now so I keep scrolling.

Workout. No not that either.

POPpy crap. I laughed at the name of the playlist but decided against selecting the playlist. I kept scrolling when one playlist name caught my eye and I noticed that Paige had listened to it last. I press the playlist and my ears were filled with the soft sound of a guitar. I closed my eyes and just listened to the lyrics as they flooded my mind.

'I know that I had sworn I'd never trust anyone again but I didn't have to
You had me at hello.
I've never seen a smile that can light the room like yours
It's simply radiant, I see it more with everyday that goes by
I watch the clock to make my timing just right
Would it be okay,
Would it be okay if I took your breath away?'

I smile into Paige's pillow as I keep listening to the lyrics; the song was perfect in describing how I feel about her. The song ended and I almost replayed the song when I heard the beginning of the next song. It sounded so familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on it, then it hits me, Teenage Dream. It was a piano cover that was sung by a guy, I could really hear the lyrics and he made them sound so much better than Katy Perry.

I really loved her choices in love songs but god she was complicated, she was so easy to talk to but she wasn't very good with talking about how she felt. I mean we would flirt and be cute around each other, but I don't really know how she is feeling most of the time. These songs are giving me some sort of insight on how she feels about me. The next song comes up, and I feel my eyelids become heavy and my breathing slowing evens out. The last thing I feel before I fall into deep sleep, is a hand resting over my stomach and lips brushing up against my cheek. The corners of my lips turn when I smell citrus and I feel her body pressed up against my back. The music is slowly drowning out when eventually I can't hear it anymore.

I don't know how long I was asleep for, but when I wake I hear Paige whispering. "No. Em is still here but when she leaves I'll meet you." My ears perk up as I hear her say my name. "Yeah I can't wait either. See you." I can hear the smile in her voice, and my heart stops as I replay her words again, Paige is meeting up with someone behind my back. She hangs up the phone and comes back to the bed with her hand over my stomach and nuzzling her head in the crevice of my neck. This is beyond wrong, how can she just make plans like that and come and spoon me right after? I feel a tear roll down my cheek and I shift away from her touch as I begin to get up. "Hey babe you're up" She leans in to kiss me and I can't do this, I knew the universe wouldn't let me be happy. If I don't kiss her she'll know something is up, so I put my best poker face and give Paige a peck on the lips.

"I have to go, but I'll talk to you later." I force a smile and leave, as soon as I make it out the door tears start to leave my eyes. I can't deal with this right now, I want to confront her about all the weird things that I picked up today but I just really hope that it's not true. I walk over to my room and thankfully no one is there and I fall to my bed, try to fight back tears as my head hits the pillow.

The rest of the week I tried to spend time with Paige to get to the bottom of whatever happened on Sunday but she's blown me off all week. I have spent a lot of time with Hanna though, which is great; but I wish that Paige would just answer her phone and stop being so secretive. It's Thursday morning, and my classes are cancelled for the day. I think Hanna turned my alarm clock off, because when I woke up I see that its noon. Well, there goes me swimming during open swim this morning. I walk over to the bathroom, and I stop and backtrack to my desk where there is a vase of flowers and balloons and a card.

Happy Birthday Em. I wish I could spend the entire day with you but Patrick needs my help with things. But I'll make it up to you. I promise.-Paigey

It's my birthday today… how can I forget my own birthday? I didn't even realize what today was, November 15th. With everything going on this week, I forgot my own birthday. Well this is depressing, spending my birthday without my girlfriend, guess it won't be that bad with my friends with me. Speaking of friends, where the hell are they? Hanna's not in her bed, and I haven't really talked or seen Spencer all week. Just when I'm about to call Hanna, I hear a beep and my phones alert light is flashing.

Em! Happy birthday! I have a study date with a guy in my class but I'll see you tonight. We'll have a movie night or something. Love you! -Hanna

Really? Guess I'll spend the majority of the day alone; I really need to swim, maybe my coach will be there and I actually can swim. Thankfully, no one else was at the pool besides coach and she's happy to let me swim. I strip off my baggy UPenn sweater and my sweatpants revealing my swimsuit. I grab my swim cap and goggles and jump in the pool. The water hitting my entire body gave me the chills. I hadn't been in the water in months and it felt good to finally be surrounded by the chlorine filled water. After two hours in the pool, I decided to take a shower in the locker rooms. When I'm walking back to my dorm I spot Patrick walking across the courtyard and I run towards him. "Patrick wait!"

"Oh hey Em. Happy birthday." He gives me a warm smile and slumps down to give a bear hug. I always love that Patrick had a smile on his face.

"Thanks, you're the first person to actually say it in person. Hanna texted, my parents called and Paige left flowers with a card"

"Wait why would Paige not say it in person?" Patrick and I start to walk to the dining hall and he has a very confused look on his face.

"Um actually in the card she said that she was helping you out with some things today..." I just caught Paige in a lie, maybe all the worrying that I had done all week was for a good reason.

"Oh yeah... She's at the apartment." He gives me a nervous smile and avoids my gaze. "I had to come back to the dorms to get something, and thought I would eat before going back. But I should be getting back." He gets up and gives me another nervous smile and starts to walk away.


After Patrick left, I walked over to my dorm to sleep. I rather be asleep right now then be awake and aware that I'm alone on my birthday. I'm rudely awakened by Hanna and Spencer hours later, they are semi dressed-up and I wake up confused.

"Em get up, were going to the movies and then dinner tonight." Hanna goes to my closet and picks a semi causal outfit and throws it to me.

"Happy birthday Em." Spencer shyly comes forward and sits on my bed next to me. I grab the clothes that Hanna is throwing at me, and start to change.

"Thanks Spence. I've missed you this week." I take off my shirt and look at Spencer who is refusing to look at me.

"Come on, let's go. I don't want to miss the beginning of the movie!" Hanna pulls me and Spencer towards the door and we are off to the old movie theater. The ride there was silent on my part, but Hanna couldn't stop talking if her life depended on it. We pull up to the theater and walk into the lobby and it was unusually dark.

"What the hell? Why is it pitch black in here..?" As I finish my sentence lights turn on and I hear a lobby full of people yell Surprise! I get startled at the sight of everyone, but one face calms me down. Paige walks up to me with a smile, and I can't help but notice that she's wearing a more feminine version of a suit and she looked really sexy. "I thought I wasn't going to see you today."

"Come on Em. It's your birthday; of course you were going to see me. I just had to set everything up, silly." She presses her lips on mine and can taste the traces of candy on her lips, I miss this, I can't believe I went almost a week without her lips on mine. "Happy birthday Emily."

"Thank you." I look around at all my friends dancing around the beautifully decorated lobby of the theater. "For all of this." I gesture to the whole lobby and I look at her and she's dipping her head while trying to hide a smile. "What?"

"I couldn't have done it without those two. We were sneaking around the whole week getting everything ready." That's why everyone was acting all weird this week…Paige was meeting up with Spencer and Hanna that day I thought she was cheating on me. She went through all this trouble for me…god she was so amazing I couldn't ask for anyone better. I lean in to kiss her and it felt like the world around us didn't exist, like we were infinite.


The songs feature in this chapter:

You Had Me Hello by A Day to Remember

Teenage Dream by Darren Criss (Glee acoustic version)