Chapter 12
Things between Emily and Alison began to heat up. Throughout the school week they took any opportunity to sneak off together and get caught up in their make out sessions. It always seemed like every time things started to go further someone interrupted them. Emily didn't want to rush things with Alison, so she was thankful for the interruptions. She knew if someone didn't stop her she wouldn't be able to control herself. Emily has never experienced anything like this. Yeah she had been with other girls before Alison but it was nothing serious to her. I think that's why people at her old school saw her as a player. She had no emotions for any of the girls she was with. But Alison, Alison did something to her. One look at the girl and Emily couldn't breath. One touch from Alison made Emily's body feel like it was on fire. And when Alison smiled at her, those dimples made her melt. Emily could definitely say she was deeply in love with Alison. She wants her first time with Alison to be special. It is going to be Alisons first time with a girl, so she doesn't want to pressure the girl into anything she isn't ready for. Emily and Alison haven't really talked about sex, if they've had it or how many partners they have had.
It was Wednesday and Alison had cheer practice during basketball practice. The cheerleaders always had practice during the girls basketball teams practice. Alison and the cheerleaders were off to the side stretching before they started.
Alison was bending over touching her toes. Then she leaned to her left leg and then to the right leg stretching her legs out. What she didn't realize was her ass was sticking out in a provocative manner. The blonde was wearing her tiny booty shorts that her ass nearly hangs out of with a white tank top. Her hair was pulled up into a pony tail showing her neck.
Some of the guys from the boys team were passing through the gym going to the weight room. The guy who made a scene the day Alison and Emily came into school as a couple was walking by the cheerleaders with some of his friends. The guys name was Matt. He was captain of the boys team and has always had a thing for Alison.
Emily was taking a water break when she saw what happened across the gym. While Alison was stretching, Matt walked up behind her and made thrusting motions before he grabbed her ass. Alison turned around and pushed him away.
Emily was lit up. Her jaw and fists were clenched. Spencer saw what happened and before she could stop Emily, the brunette was already sprinting across the gym.
"Come on Ali, you know you want me. Just let me have my way with you one night and I promise you will be more satisfied than what that girl can do for you." Matt said as he pushed her up against the bleachers.
Before Alison could respond, Emily was there and she shoved the guy away from Alison and into the bleachers. Emily punched the guy in the face, and with one blow he fell to the ground. He was holding his nose that was gushing blood.
"What did I tell you before. I said stay away from her and if you lay your hands on her again, I promise you that it will be more than your nose broken." Emily said standing in between Alison and the now standing Matt. Spencer and Matt's friends pushed the two away from each other before it escalated anymore.
"Its not over Fields." Shouted Matt as he left the gym with his friends.
Emily was standing tall with her fists and jaw still clenched. Alison has never seen this side of Emily before. She saw a glimpse of it with Matt at the start of their relationship, but nothing like this. She loved that Emily was so protective of her.
"Em, you are so lucky coach wasn't in here to see that. You probably wouldn't play this Saturday." Spencer said with a worried voice.
"I still would have done it if Coach was in here. Nobody lays their hands on what is mine. Hes lucky I didn't rip his face off. He needs to be taught a lesson, he doesn't even know how to treat a girl right." Emily said with her jaw still clenched. Shes debating whether or not to follow Matt and continue the beating.
Shes snapped out of her thoughts when someone touches her arm. She knows that touch. It's the touch that makes her feel like shes on fire but gives her goosebumps at the same time. Emily instantly relaxes and turns to face the blonde.
"Em, you're bleeding. Let me see your hand." Alison says as she takes Emily's hand into both of hers. Alison examines the brunettes hand. It's swollen and starting to bruise. Alison realizes its not Emily's blood, but Matts.
Alison touched Emily's hand and she winced at the touch. "Em, you need to get this in ice right away." Alison said with a concerned voice as she rubbed her hand up and down Emily's arm.
"Em, that's your shooting hand! What were you thinking," Spencer said with an annoyed tone.
Emily shot a glare at Spencer and said, "I don't care about my shooting hand Spencer. I care about how that douche bag thinks he can grope my girl friend right in front of my face. Or the fact that he thinks he can treat women like they are a piece of meat. I'm so sick of guys like him. I dealt enough with that shit at my old school. But they were smarter their, they knew not to mess with me. Hopefully dip shit gets the message loud and clear now."
Spencer realizes she crossed the line and immediately feels bad and she apologizes to Emily and Alison. "Its alright Spence, I'm gonna take Emily down to the athletic trainers room to get ice." Alison said as she lead Emily down the hallway.
Once they were in the room Emily took a seat on the bench while Alison went to the ice machine and grabbed a bag of ice. The blonde made her way back over to Emily and was standing in between her legs.
Alison put the ice on Emily's hand and said, "How does that feel, I know its cold but it should make the swelling go down."
Emily didn't speak she sat there with her jaw clenched. She can't get what Matt did to Alison out of her head. She keeps replaying it over and over again and it makes her blood boil. Alison notices the distance and places her hand on the brunettes cheek stroking her jaw.
"Em, babe, look at me." Alison said with a soft pleading tone. Emily brought her eyes to Alisons, she completely relaxed with the blondes touch. Emily stared into those ocean blue eyes that always cleared everything out of her mind.
Emily took a deep breath before speaking, "I just can't stand the way he touched you. How he treated you. It pisses me off so much."
Alison stroked the girls cheek once again before leaning in and placing a kiss on her girls lips. Emily kisses her back with love not anger. They pulled apart and Emily had a confused expression on her face.
"What was that for?" Emily's mouth turned into a smile. Alison loved seeing the brunettes smile. When Emily smiled she had one dimple on her left cheek and her smile could brighten anyones day.
Alison replied with a shy smile, "No one has ever done anything like that for me before. I am usually the only one who is there to defend myself."
Emily wrapped her arms around the blondes waist pulling her closer. The two are inches away from each others lips when Emily says looking directly into the blue orbs, "No one will ever treat you that way again. Not with me around, I promise."
Emily takes her left hand and cups the blondes face with it since her right hand is in ice. Alison sheds a small tear, shes never been taken care of like this before. Emily brushes the tear away and says, "I love you so much Alison."
Alison places her hands on the brunettes neck and kisses her. She kisses her with so much passion and love that it overwhelms her. A few more tears are shed while shes kissing Emily. Emily then pulls her in for a tight hug. The blonde rests her head on the brunettes shoulder. Emily runs her hand up and down the blondes back. Alison then pulls back and looks into those dark brown eyes. "I love you so much to Emily." They are both smiling at each other when Spencer comes into the room.
"Practice is over, I covered for you with Coach. I told her you landed on your hand wrong." Spencer says with a apolgetic voice.
"Thanks Spence, I'm sorry about jumping on you out there." Emily said nodding at the brunette.
"Its okay, I understand you were in the moment." Spencer smiles and says goodbye to the two.
Alison turns back around in Emily's arms and wraps her arms back around her neck. "Are you gonna be able to drive home?" Alison said as she was now removing the ice off of Emily's hand to take another look at it.
"Yeah, I can drive with my left hand." Emily says as she looks at her swollen and bruised right hand.
The two leave the trainers room and collect their things to go home. Emily walks Alison to her car and gives her a kiss goodbye.
Emily pulls into her driveway and grabs her bags before heading inside. She hears a familiar voice in the living room talking to her mother. A huge grin appears on her face as she drops her things and runs into the living room.
Their sits Emily's dad holding her mom as they watch TV. They both turn and realize Emily is home and they both have big smiles of their own.
"Dad, you're home! I didn't know you were coming home!" Emily says as she runs into her dads arms. Emily hadn't seen her dad for 3 months.
"It's good to see you too Emmy, I wanted to surprise you. What happened to your hand?" Wayne said as he looked over his daughters right hand.
Emily's mother now was looking at her hand too. "Emily, did you get into a fight?" Pam said with a worried tone.
Both of her parents sat down on the couch across from her. She told them what happened today at practice and what that guy did to Alison. She explained what he did to the two before.
"Emmy you know we don't condone violence, but I'm proud of you for protecting her. She sounds like a wonderful girl and I can't wait to meet her. Your mother has told me a lot about her."
After they finished talking about the fight, Emily told her dad about everything that was happening in her life. The three caught up until Emily decided she should head upstairs and go to bed because she had a long day.
Emily woke up the next morning with an aching hand. She looked at her hand and it was bruised and still slightly swollen. She got a shower and dressed for school. She threw on some Nike cotton sweatpants and a Nike T-shirt. Her hand was killing her so she wasn't trying to impress anyone today. She left her hair down and threw on her Sharks Basketball Sweatshirt that had her last name on the back.
She told her mother and father bye before she headed to school. Once she entered the school everyone was staring and congratulating her. She was confused at what was going on. She made it to her locker and put her books away when an underclassman girl approached her.
"I heard what you did to Matt. It's about time someone put him in his place." The young blonde said this with a seductive voice as she placed her hand on Emily's arm. The blonde was trying to flirt with Emily, but Emily just ignored her and pushed her hand away. She looked up and saw Alison giving the girl a glare that could kill her. Emily pushed the girl aside and made her way to the Alison.
"Hey baby, I have some news to tell you." Emily said as she wrapped her arms around her girlfriend before placing a kiss on her lips.
Alison relaxed with Emilys touch and kissed her back softly. 'Whats that, besides that knock off blonde who had her hands all over you." Alison said in a pissed off tone. She wasn't mad at Emily, she saw that Emily rejected the girls actions. She was mad because these girls think they can throw themselves at Emily right in front of her.
Emily pulled Alison closer into her body and placed her finger under the blondes chin so that they were staring into each others eyes.
"Baby you don't need to be jealous. I only have eyes for you, and you are the only girl I want." Emily said placing another kiss on Alison's lips.
Before the conversation could continue, their group of friends came rushing over.
"Em, I heard you punched Matt so hard he fell on his ass. Show us your hand." Noel said proud and excited for his friend.
"I saw Matt this morning and his nose is broken! That's my girl Em! I knew you could throw down." Hanna said with a cheerful voice. Everyone started to laugh at Hannas remark.
Once Emily pulled her sleeve back to reveal her hand everyone grimaced at the sight.
"Damn Em, that looks like it really hurts." Caleb said with a shriek in his voice.
"Yeah Em, maybe you should get that looked at. To make sure you didn't break anything," said a concerned Aria.
"Guys, I'm fine. No need to worry." Emily said brushing off everyones comments. Alison picked up her hand and kissed it. Emily flinched at the touch. Alison's eyes filled with worry.
"Em, it is not fine. I barely kissed it and you flinched. Promise me you will have the Athletic Trainer look at it?" Alison said with a worried voice.
Emily looked into the blondes eyes. She saw how worried Alison was, "Okay. I'll get it looked at before practice today." Emily kissed Alison's forehead and wrapped her arm around her waist.
The bell rang and it was time to go to class. Before they started walking Matt walked by with his friends. Emilys first instinct was to pull Alison behind her, she wanted to protect the blonde just in case he tried anything again. Emily and Matt locked eyes, Emily became tense and ready to throw down all over again. Until she felt Alison's hands on her arm. She knew that Matt would try something again, but she was going to be ready this time. Their was no way in hell she was going to let him touch Alison like that again. Emily would do anything to protect Alison, and at this point she knew that she would always protect the blonde at all costs. Emily gave Alison her heart for forever in this moment, she knew their was no turning back and she didn't want to turn back. Emily knew she would love and protect Alison for as long as the blonde would allow her. The one thing that mattered the most in Emily's life at this point was Alison Dilaurentis.
