Lily's POV.
"Oh. My. God. I'm sorry. They can be so annoying." I sighed slamming the door behind me, obviously frustrated due to the previous events.
"They didn't seem to be that bad." Aria gave me a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, they seemed okay." Spencer agreed.
Emily just blushed and Hanna just smirked.
"Whatever." I rolled my eyes playfully. "Make yourself at home." I gestured, looking around my room.
"Your room is massive…" Emily spoke out seeming stunned once she had finally actually scanned around my room. I just laughed in response. I must admit it was big. I got the second biggest bedroom in the house; my parents got the largest of course.
I quickly made my way to my joint on bathroom to get my cosmetic bag and put all the essentials inside when I felt my phone vibrate, I quickly pulled it out and noticed that it was Mike and with that I let a smile grow on my face but then I seen I also had a text from a blocked number and I raised my eyebrows in confusion. First I opened Mike's text.
From: Mike.
I'll figure it out sooner or later. ;)
To: Mike.
Hahaha, okay then. ;)
Once I had finished replying to Mike I decided to open up the text from the blocked number only to read;
From: Blocked Number.
Your four new 'friends' are already keeping a secret from you. Why don't you ask them about this girl? - A
Attached was a newspaper article picture that read, 'Murdered: Alison DiLairentis'. Who the fuck is this 'A' person?
I immediately yelped at this and Spencer must've heard me as she came running to the bathroom, I quickly shoved my phone into my bra.
"What happened?" Spencer questioned looking concerned.
"Ohhh… Nothing." I smiled, attempting to reassure her.
"Are you sure?" She raised her eye brows.
"100%" I lied with a smile.
Great. I finally make friends and there's already something shady.
"Go back with the other girls. I'll finish getting ready." I told her.
"Sure." She gave me a smile and began to walk away.
I guess it's not the best thing to bring up at the moment. I sighed as I had this thought. I guess I'll try to bring it up later.
I put all my supplies in my cosmetic bag and then immediately walked into my bedroom, walking straight towards my wardrobe, avoiding any eye contact with any of the girls. I put everything I needed in there and then told the girls I was ready to leave but in all honesty I wasn't sure if I was all too keen to go, but I better give them a chance to explain themselves. I can't just go running around making assumptions.
We made our way down the stairs and on the way I heard Ben wolf whistle at one of the girls which only made me roll my eyes although I was curious which girl he was whistling at and Grace's scream music blaring throughout the house. Mega irritating.
Before I even got past the kitchen door I heard a little familiar voice yell out my name from behind me, it was Laura. As she reached me I immediately picked her up and gave her a big kiss on her cheek. I heard all girls make an 'Awwwwweh' sound. Even Hanna. Wow.
That was when I heard Brooklyn yell out my name from the kitchen. I put Laura down to interact with the girls and then I walk into the room while she's cleaning up the kitchen.
"Why weren't you here for dinner? You're never late home." She scolded and questioned in a disapproving tone.
"Because I made some friends, and I was hanging out with them." I replied, feeling irritated.
"Very funny, Lillian. What were you actually doing?" She replied with a frustrated look on her face.
I must admit that comment stung and fired me up a bit. Just because I haven't really made friends in the past doesn't mean I'm not capable of it. I was about to snap at her when my father walked in.
"She's not lying, love." He said, still sounding impressed at the fact that I actually had friends.
"Are you really in on this too?" She said getting even more frustrated which only made me more angry.
I was really getting pissed off about the way everyone was acting. I was really fed up with it.
"Fuck you. I'm leaving." Was all I said as I walked out, gesturing for the girls to follow mw, so they did.
"What was that all about?" Hanna questioned without thinking. Emily gave her a disapproving look.
"It's cool." I responded with a sigh. "I haven't exactly had an actual friend since I left Rosewood those many years ago. So my step mum didn't exactly believe that I actually made friends today."
"Oh…" Hanna responded quietly. "Why?..." She questioned further.
"HANNA!" The three other girls gave her a disapproving look and scolded her.
"Once again, it's cool. I probably would have told you guys sooner or later anyway. Once my mother died and I had moved from Rosewood I became a closed soul, I wouldn't even talk to my family; I gave up on all contact with anyone. I didn't want to get close to anyone, because when they love me, they leave me. I didn't want it to happen all over again so I protected myself from the pain and built a wall around myself. I locked myself in my room, became incredibly depressed. I didn't even speak for like a year I became by choice mute. After that year I finally got out of the house properly, I decided to speak again but I still chose not get close to anyone." I explained really quickly letting a few tears fall from my eyes along the way.
Their reactions, you ask?
Hanna: She looked like she had immediately regretted asking me with a sympathetic look on her face. You could see the guilt. After a bit she just faced her head down, looking at the ground knowing that it was wrong for her to ask.
Aria: She had more of a shocked look on her face and it looked like her eyes were watering up at this, it clearly hit a few heart strings.
Spencer: She had a sympathetic look on her face, you could clearly tell that she felt bad for me. She also had a hand over her mouth. She looked like she had no idea what to say.
Emily: Clearly the most emotional out of all the girls, she always seemed to have the strongest showing of feelings and I couldn't help but to admire that.
She came over to me and gave me a hug, she managed to have signs of a few tears that had run down her face due to the fact that you could see the very few tear stains on her face.
I didn't stop her hugging me and I cried into her shoulder, giving in to the tears that have been building up inside of my eyes, giving them freedom to rush down my face.
Once I had calmed down a bit I removed my head from Emily's shoulder and then Spencer and Aria came and gave me a hug. Hanna just continued standing in the spot, still looking down where I had seen her before.
"Hanna?" I asked her, waiting for her to respond and look up at me, but she didn't. She managed to let out a sentence though.
"I'm sorry, Lily. I feel bad. I shouldn't have gone that far. God damn it." She apologised.
"It's fine, you had no idea. As I said, you girls would've had to find out sooner or later. It wasn't going to stay a secret forever. In a way you made it easier, I didn't have to bring it up in a conversation." I forgave her and laughed, trying to brighten up the mood because it was pretty god damn depressing at the moment. Hanna then came up and did something I honestly didn't expect; she came up and gave me a hug. I hugged her back, smiling. She obviously felt really bad to do that. She was always so closed up and distant, well what I've seen from her anyway. I've never seen her just around the other girls around so I really had no idea.
She pulled away with a smile and shouted out, "Let's go get our drink on!" Obviously not caring about the people that could be sleeping in the houses around where we were standing. We all laughed at this, while Emily was containing her laugh she let out a mocking, "Shhhh!" Which made us only laugh more?
I then felt my phone vibrate again, I pulled it out and seen it was from the blocked number again, my stomach sunk from what I had read earlier but quickly shook it off. I would read the messages later. Tonight is going to be a good night and I wouldn't let anything stop it.
We all continued laughing as we continued walking back towards Aria's house.
I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter, but yeah. Review, favourite and follow pleeeeease!
Nara – Out!