*Emily's side*
"Alison! Hey! Can we talk!" I shouted out to her as I saw her walking down the hall.
She turned around "not here, not now"
I looked at her upset. She smiled grimly and said "come to my house after school"
I walked in to her white peachy house, filled with furniture all the way to her bedroom.
"About yesterday…" I started to say.
"Oh yeah, my mom and dad were pretty mad" Alison said laughing nervously.
She knows what I'm talking about. Yesterday, Alison kissed my neck, in school. I don't know what triggered her to do that, but it felt so good, it felt so right. I started to kiss hers too. Her neck felt so smooth, so kissable. I never felt so alive. But then she stopped, and it was over. Before I could say anything she ran off and she was ignoring me for the last few days.
"But I can ask them if you can sleepover" Ali continued.
"Um, I meant…" Fuck it, there's no other way to say it "we kissed each other's necks Alison"
And it felt great, I wanted to say.
Alison did that face she does when she doesn't know what to say or think. She moved in her jaw and clamped her top teeth on her bottom teeth.
She laughed nervously and said "I don't know what/why that happened. I was just happy that you saved me from getting suspended. I'm sorry. Let's never talk about it again ok?"
"Ok" I said trying not to sound too sad. "I need to go home, my mom needs help cleaning" I lied.
Alison got up and opened her door. We gave each other and awkward hug before I walked down her wood stained stairs.
*Alison's side*
It's December. Emily and I haven't communicated for a week. It doesn't seem that long, but it feels like 2 whole years have passed by. Ever since the kiss, we've been distant.
"Ali!" Aria shouted coming down the stairs at school "wait up!"
I stopped walking and leaned up on a locker.
"Hey" I said smiling.
"You and Emily seem… Off? Did you have a fight?" She asked with a lot of curiosity.
I straightened up and started walking to the bathroom, motioning for her to follow me.
"It's nothing" I said sitting up on the bathrooms sink.
"Ali, you can trust me" she said.
I crossed my arms around myself and thought about telling her the truth. She leaned up against the wall and I hanged my head down looking at my moccasins boots rocking back and forth.
"We kissed" I said placidly.
I saw her open her mouth and I began to talk again "on each other's necks. It was really weird, but nice. We haven't talk much since, I don't know, it's so awkward"
"You guys are best friends and you two should talk it out or make out" Aria said giggling.
"Ha. Ha. Not funny" I sighed.
"Want me to see if she likes you?" Aria asked with a wicked grin on her face.
I jumped off the sink, hurting my feet, by pounding them to the tile floor "No! Never! What the fuck Aria!"
She came closer to me and twirled my hair.
"Okay, okay, calm down" she said, still twirling my hair.
"Ok" I said awkwardly pulling away from her but someone opened the door and already saw us.
"Oh" Emily said.
I twirled around and shifted uncomfortably.
"Hey Em!" Aria beamed.
She gave a nod and walked into the bathroom stall.
Aria kept nudging for me to go, I kept resisting but then we heard the toilet flush and she pushed me out of the bathroom.
Bitch.
*Emily's side*
I opened the bathroom stall door and Aria was right on top of me. She startled me and I backed back into the stall, almost bumping into the toilet.
"Oh sorry" she said moving back.
I stepped out and placed my hands under the sink. Through the mirror I could see her staring at me with a restless look on her face.
I rolled my eyes and spun around.
"Aria. What the fuck is it?"
"Nothing. Nothing" she said, changing her expression that read "I don't know what to do or say"
I watched her quickly walk out the bathroom and I felt genuinely confused.
Fourth period was brutal. Who really wants to spend 75 minutes listening to a teacher ramble on about ancient bullshit?
I guess I dozed off in the middle of the period because when Mr. Fitz called me, I jumped up my body in my seat.
"Emily Fields!" Mr. Fitz called out "your partner is Alison Dilaurentis"
Fuck.
I looked at Alison and we gave each other an awkward smile.
She walked over to me and pulled up a chair.
"I'm thinking that; I can be the one to gather the Internet sources and historical background" she said reaching for her MacBook Air.
"Huh? What are we even doing" I asked.
She pointed down at my paper that read
"Ancient Greek assignment"
I flipped through the papers and looked back up at Ali.
"Do you want to do the marriage topic or the death ceremony?" She asked me.
This felt weird. We usually never actually talk or do our homework until it's the day before we have to hand it in.
"Marriage. If you got the sources and the background, I guess that leaves me with the preparation and pictures for the wedding" I said naïvely.
Alison and I presented our assignment in front of the class a few weeks later and got our grade back today. B plus. Normally, I get in the 90s but ever since we started the assignment, Ali and I became close again, so we were off focus.
Ali and I did everything together during winter. We went to the formal dance together, and danced the night away. We built snowman's, skated, drink hot cocoa, sat by the fire, watched hockey, and went snowboarding a couple of times.
The snow started to fall of the trees, the sun melted the mushy brown snow off the ground, and just like that, it was spring.
Splash!
"ALI! What the fuck! I'm gonna kill you!"
She jumped into a huge puddle on the sidewalk and soaked me.
She started to laugh her heart out, I turned around and heard her fall silent.
I grinned.
"Em, I'm sorry. I won't do it again" she said sincerely.
I turned around and walked back up to her. I gave her a shy smile and stepped in for a hug right behind the puddle. I placed my hand on her stomach and yanked her back until she was halfway down beneath the puddle.
"No! Don't!" She yelled as I lightly let go off her.
Now I was the one laughing like a maniac.
"Not fair" she said getting up.
I couldn't help but stop laughing to admire how beautiful she looks even when her hair is soaking wet and all tangled.
She interrupted my thoughts as she approached me opening up her arms.
"Come here" she said with a wicked smile.
Hey, what the hell. I'd hug her even if she smelt like cow poo.
She embraced me in her arms and I squirmed.
"You're freezing!" I shrieked.
"I need to change" First one back to my place is the most fabulous person ever" she said starting to run.
Usually I beat her when it comes to running, but if there's anybody in this world that's fabulous, it's her.
