A/N:Sorry I for the wait, I've been kind of busy with school, but to make it up to you all, I give you this long chapter, full of love. I love all of your reviews and some of you even PM me, which just warmed my heart. Also I will be writing a new story soon, don't worry I'll continue this story til the very end, I promise.
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So without further ado….
PPOV:
It's Saturday, and I'm on my way to pick up Emily for our date. Yesterday was so perfect; I couldn't stop smiling when I got home. I pull up in front of her house and I start to feel nervous. It's 6:50, I'm 10 minutes early. I'm kind of anxious to meet Emily's mom, so I take deep breaths and count to ten. Nothings really working, so I start to hum a tune of a song. Music always helps me relax, so I keep humming as I make my way out of my car and to Emily's porch. I ring the doorbell, keeping the cookies, and flowers behind my back. The door opens, and I greeted by an older version of Emily.
"Oh, hi you must be Paige, come on in, Emily's still getting ready," she says walking back into the house.
Here goes nothing, I sigh follow Mrs. Fields. I'm automatically hit with a sense of warmth, and home.
"Uh, um yeah I'm Paige McCullers. This is a really beautiful home you have, and I uh, got this for you. I hope you like chocolate chip, peanut butter cookies," I hold out the flowers, and cookies out to her.
"Oh, my, I haven't eaten these since I was a little girl. My mother use to always have a plate ready for me when I came home from school. Oh, and these flowers are amazing. Thank you so much." She smiles widely, taking the cookies and flowers.
"No problem, my mom use to make them for me too when I was younger. She had taught me one day after I was riding my bike and I fell. I came in sad because I messed up my favorite pants with blood, so she taught me how me how to make the cookies, and I forgot all about everything." I smile.
"Well, that your mother sounds like a wonderful person. Here, sit down. Would you like some tea?" She smiled warmly at me.
"Oh, no I'm fine thank you Mrs. Fields." There's something about Emily's mom and her home that just feels as if I'm coming home. It feels so familiar yet so new.
"Please, call me Pam." She walks to the bottom of the stairs, "Emily dear Paige is here!"
"I'll be down in a few minutes!" I hear Emily shout back, and my heart starts to race, and one of my knees start shaking showing my anxiety.
"So Paige, tell me about you." Pam says sitting next to me on the couch.
"Uh, well, there isn't much to tell actually. I just moved to Rosewood this summer. Um, I'm on the swim team with Emily."
"And, what about your family?" she asks with curious eyes.
I look down, and swallow air. I look back up and look into those eyes I that remind me a lot of Emily's. I release a soft breath, there's something about this woman that is so comforting. I relax, and lean back a little.
"Well, my brother is heading off to college Friday of next week actually. My dad well, he's always busy with business trips. And my mom, well s-she, died in a car accident on my 13th birthday." I look down at my hands, while my knee keeps shaking.
"Oh, Paige I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring that up." She touches the knee that's shaking and it stills. I look at her and her eyes are filled with sincerity.
"No it's fine. I seem as if I've been talking a lot about her lately actually." I give her a weak smile, and she nods.
"So, you're going to be in your house alone on the holidays?" She asks, and I nod.
"Yeah, well my brother Patrick said he'd try to check up on me as much as he can. And he said he'd try to make it home, but there's no guarantee. And its fine, I'm actually used to being alone."
"Well that's simply no excuse. If you ever feel lonely, or you just need someone you are always welcome to come to join us here." She gives me a warm smile again.
"Well I wouldn't want to intrude, or anything." I shake my head.
"Nonsense, in fact you're going to join us for dinner next Saturday." She states.
"But-"
"No I will hear none of it. You're coming and that's final. Do I make myself clear young lady?" She raises one eyebrow, as if she's daring me to decline.
"Uh, crystal," I say, and she gives me a satisfied smile.
I just shake my head a little, and she's about to say something else, when we both hear footsteps.
I stand up, dusting imaginary dust of my close while I follow Pam to the bottom of the staircase. I look up and my heart leaps at the sight of none other than Emily Fields. I feel my breathe hitch as our eyes meet, and I frown looking down a little in shock as I felt my heart skip a beat when she smiled. I look up, and am face to face with the dark-haired goddess.
"Hey," I say breathlessly.
"Hi," she says with a small smile.
"You look absolutely stunning." I say taking in her baby blue button up shirt, which has 2 buttons unbuttoned. Her skin-tight white jeans that have little rips on them at her thighs, exposing her tan skin a little.
"Yeah, but you look hot Paigey!" I hear, and look behind her to find Hanna looking at me.
I chuckle a little, "why thank you Blondie, but what are you doing here? I was unaware that I was taking you on the date with us."
"Oh, my gosh, can you totally do that? Can I go too, Em pleaseee?" Hanna begs, and starts to give me her puppy eyes.
I'm weak to her puppy eyes, just she looks so cute. I'm about open my mouth, and say yes, when Emily pecks me on the lips and turns to face Hanna.
"No. Not happening." She says to Hanna who pouts.
"But Paigey was about to say yes." Hanna points out looking at me.
"Hanna, this is my date with my girlfriend," Emily states standing in front of me blocking Hanna's view.
"So," Hanna shrugs, "I can still come; I'll be like a ninja. You won't even know I'm there, I promise!"
I laugh a little and look to Pam who just smiles at me and shakes her head walking behind Hanna and up the stairs.
"Hanna the answer is no. Now will you please leave, I promise to give you all the details." Emily tries to reason and Hanna's phone chirps. She reads it, and then sighs.
"Ugh, fine, you're no fun. Bye Paigey!" she moves past Emily and gives me a tight hug.
I smile and wrap my arms around her, and whisper in her ear, "bye baby blues."
She pulls back, with a cheeky smile on her face, and look to Emily.
"Bye party pooper," she walks out the door, and Emily just shakes her head with a smile.
"That was…fun." I say as Emily turns to look at me squinting.
"You were really going to say yes to her weren't you," she playfully glares crossing her arms.
"Maybe…." I wrap my arms around her waist.
"We've got to train you to be able to say no to that puppy face." She shakes her head, dropping her arms around my waist.
I bite my lip a little and she see that she's staring at my lips in anticipation as she licks hers. I smirk giving her a kiss on the cheek, and grab her hand, "come on, let's go."
I hear a faint frustrated groan but I keep walking, opening the car door for her.
"You know Hanna was right about one thing." She says walking towards the passenger seat.
I look at her in confusion, and she leans over and whispers in my ear, "You do look hot."
She gets in and leans back in her seat with a satisfied smile, and I walk to the other side of the car blushing.
EPOV:
We sit in a comfortable silence as Paige continues to drive to our destination for our date. The only sound is the sound of music coming from the radio. I study Paige for a minute, enjoying the view. When I came down the stairs it took me everything in me not to fall as I felt my knees go weak looking as I seen her standing there. Paige is wearing a fitted white V-neck shirt that outlined her abs perfectly, and gives a better view of her breast. She wore black skin-tight jeans that hugged her ass deliciously. It was so simple, but it looked so sexy. I keep watching Paige until I hear her clear her throat.
"You do realize that I can feel you staring right?"
I feel my cheeks go warm, and I turn to look out the window when I hear a familiar tune from the radio. I look to Paige and my suspicions are confirmed when I see a small smile start to form on her lips. P!nk "So What" plays on the radio, and I hear Paige start to sing along. She glances at me quickly still smiling and I can't help but join in and sing with her. By the end of the song Paige pulls the car up near a building, a building that I've drove past a lot when I was like 5 miles from Rosewood. I take off my seatbelt and my hand touches the door when I feel Paige's hand hold it still. I look to her with furrow eyebrows and she just gives me a lop-sided smile and holds up her finger saying one minute. She gets out the car and rushes over to my side and opens the door for me. I smile and shake my head a little at the gesture.
"And I thought that I was the chivalrous one," I get out the car and she grins.
I intertwine our fingers together following her into the building. I walk inside and gasp at the sight. There are candles nearly everywhere, helping to illuminate the giant pool inside of it. There was a medium size table with food that's covered, and glasses with drinks on the side. I turn to Paige, to see her looking nervously at the ground.
"You did all of this by yourself?" I asked amazed.
"I, uh, well, yeah. Do you like it?" she asks anxiously.
"Are you kidding? I love it. No one has ever done anything more than a fancy dinner at a restaurant for me. But this is way more special. It's quite ironic that the girl who hates surprises is really good at giving them." I smile, and she gives me a relieved smile.
"Yeah, I guess. I just wanted to do something different, not the whole take out to a fancy restaurant thing. I feel like all that's trying to do is woo a person with money, and the whole dinner and a movie thing aren't really all that well since you can't really talk or get to know someone in a movie theatre. And I-I just wanted to do something unique so you could never forget it." She takes my hand and leads me to the table.
"Well I promise I'll never forget this." I say sitting in the chair she pulled out for me.
She sits down and smiles at me, "so, I couldn't decide what to make for dinner so I decided I'd make pasta with parmesan chicken, garlic bread, and I made something for dessert."
She takes off the lids, and covers and steam flies freely around, and I breathe in the aroma of the pasta. "It smells really good."
"Thank you," she smiles and piles food on my plate first then hers. My mouth waters and I take a fork full of the noodles and let out a moan as I chew.
"Oh my god," I moan again, closing my eyes. "This tastes like heaven."
I hear Paige chuckle a little and I open my eyes to look at her, "That good huh?" I nod in response. "Well, just leave room dessert," she grins.
"Who taught you how to cook?" I ask before taking another delicious forkful of the pasta.
"Well, my mom, when I was little, and my grandma when I'd spend weekends over her house, and well when you're alone in the house a lot of times, and sick of eating takeout, you teach yourself a few things." She shrugs.
Most of the meal we eat in comfortable silence, with little conversations here and there. When I'm done, Paige takes my hand and walks me to the side of the pool. She takes her shoes and socks off, rolls up her black jeans and sits down putting her feet in the water. I follow her sitting next to her, leaning my head against her shoulder watching the beautiful blue water. I sigh in contentment as Paige wraps her arm around my shoulder.
"Je pense que je suis tomber en amour avec vous," she whispers, and I snap my head over to look at her in shock.
"You speak French?" I ask, and she looks a little nervous.
"I, uh…yeah I do. Do you?" she asks anxiously.
"Oh, no, but Spencer speaks a little." I shrug and she relaxes a little. I look at her curiously and I'm about to question what she said in French, but before I can get the words out Paige stands up.
"I almost forgot. I was going to sing you a song," she starts walking towards a corner, and I hear faint shuffling before she walks toward me, guitar in hand. "You see I'm not really good with words, I prefer speaking through music so I wanted to sing you a song to somehow express the way I feel." She sit down beside me again only this time she doesn't put her feet in the water.
"Paige, you don't-"
"No, Em. It's just, you see, ever since my mom died, the only time I'd ever sing, or play my guitar was so I could feel like she's still here with me. Every time, I've play I always feel like she's here with me, like right next to me. I've only played the guitar in public twice in my life and that was in Rosewood. Music for me is special, and it's a part of me. And tonight, I-I want to give you a piece of me. I want to sing to you, for you." With that she looks me in the eyes and starts to play her guitar.
"Oh Oh, Oh No….
There's a place, that I know
It's not pretty there and few have ever gone,
And if I show it to you now, will it make you run away
Will you stay even if it hurts?
Even if I try to push you out will you return?
And remind me who I really am, please remind me who I really am"
As, she sang the song, I felt cool air whip around us. I glance at the door, but the door was closed. So, how could I have felt that breeze? I just shake my head clear, and look back to Paige singing.
"Everybody's got a dark side
Do you love me?
Can you love mine?
Nobody's a picture perfect
But were worth it
You know that were worth it
Will you love me?
Even with my dark side
Like a diamond from black dust
It's hard to know I can become if you give up
So don't give up on me
Please remind me who I really am
Everybody's got a dark side
Do you love me?
Can you love mine?
Nobody's a picture perfect
But were worth it
You know that were worth it
Will you love me?
Even with my dark side
Don't run away, don't run away
Just tell me that you will stay
Promise me you will stay
Yeaah ,yeaah
Don't run away, don't run away
Just promise me you will stay, promise me you will stay
Will you love me?
With my dark side
Everybody's got a dark side
Do you love me?
Can you love mine?
Nobody's a picture perfect
But were worth it, you know that were worth it
Will you love me?
Even with my dark side
Don't run away, don't run away" (Kelly Clarkson- "Dark Side")
By the time she's finished, my vision is blurred with tears. I look away to try and wipe them away. I look to the pool, and my eyes widen a little as looks like a woman's face was created by the water. I gasp a little, and see the woman appears to have smiled and wave, and then, just like that she disappears. My eyes start to form tears again, as I look to Paige, in amazement as I noticed the woman looks very similar to Paige. Paige sees my tears and wipes them away, keeping her hand on my cheek. I lean into the soft touch, closing my eyes, and taking a breath for a moment. She rubs my cheek with her thumb, and I open my eyes. My breathe hitches at the vulnerability I see in her golden brown eyes.
Soon, I lean and kiss her, closing my eyes once again. I'll never get tired of those soft lips. There's so much emotions, and passion, in the kiss that, that alone leaves me breathless. When we break apart, we keep our foreheads together breathing heavily.
"Come on, this is only part 1 of this date," she says after a moment, moving to get up, holding guitar with her.
She holds her hand out and I take it, but not without feeling the familiar sparks I've always felt when we touch. I smile a little and go to wipe my feet dry with a towel Paige had in a bag somewhere. After I put my shoes on we start to walk towards the exit.
"Wait, what about all of this?" I stop point to the area behind me.
"Don't worry about it. It'll get cleaned up," she grabs my hand opening the door for me. I smile, and we walk out, entering her car.
"So, where are we going?" I ask, as she puts the guitar in the back, and starts to drive off.
"Well, we are going to eat dessert. And if you want to know who taught me how to bake and create desserts it was totally my grandma. She's the exact reason I have a serious sweet tooth. I love junk food," she says.
"Yeah, well I can't tell. You're have killer abs," I looking at her body
"Thanks," she blushes a little.
She drives into the woods following a pathway, and stops the car, getting out. She opens the car door for me I get out. She opens a door to the backseat of the car and takes a bag.
"Follow me," she smiles softly holding out her hand. I take it and we walk a little further into the woods, where we're greeted with an open field.
We walk a little further, until we reach a picnic table that has what looks to be a newly clean blanket over it. She puts the bag on the table, and the turns to me with a charming grin, as she lifts me effortlessly off the ground and on to the table.
"Whoa," I breathe out looking to Paige who shrugs, still grinning.
She sits next to me and opens the bag pulling out a box. "Okay, so for dessert I decided on warm gooey, cinnamon rolls, with caramel," and my mouth drops.
"You can make cinnamon rolls?" I asked shocked.
She nods her head, "Told ya, serious sweet tooth."
She hands me a fork from the bag, and we start to eat. I moan, as the I taste the caramel and cinnamon blend in perfectly. "I totally, think you should have your own restaurant."
She chuckles, "Well, that the plan actually. When I get older I want to have my own restaurant."
"Really? No way, what are you going to name it?" I ask excitedly.
"Um, I want to name it Maria's after my mom. When I was younger, I once told her I wanted to own my own restaurant and she said that it was her dream to own a restaurant too. She wasn't able to because my dad felt as though she didn't need a job, if he was working already at a place where he already made a lot of money. But she said that I should never let anyone stop me from my dreams. Then on some days when I just couldn't sleep, she'd tell me to imagine myself in my very own restaurant. I told her that I wanted to share the restaurant with her, and then we'd talk about everything we wanted in it. How it would look, what we'd cook. Everything," she smiled a little at the memory, and then we noticed that there was still more cinnamon rolls in the box.
"I'm so full," I groan a bit, and she laughs.
"Yeah, me too. I didn't even realize how much we'd eaten." She says, closing the box and putting it back in the bag, closing that too.
I lied back, into the soft blanket and she followed, joining me to look up at the stars. I cuddle into her, putting my head on her chest and intertwining our legs. She strokes my hair, and I breathe in her scent, smiling.
That's when I felt it. A drop of water, I frowned sitting up. I look up at the sky, and I can no longer see the stars. Paige looks at me curiously, and then a moment later it's pouring down raining.
"Holy shit!" I yell getting up, and Paige just laughs. "Come on Paige, we should go."
She shakes her head, and gets off the table, "no way. I love the rain!"
"Paige!" I yell feeling the cold water dampen my clothes.
"Oh, come on Em, dance with me." She says and starts to dance around, lifting her face up to the rain, holding her arms open wide.
"There isn't even any music," I smile watching her as the rain starts to pour. "And, you'll get sick." She looks such like a little kid.
She just shrugs, walking up to me, "I might get sick, I won't die from a little rain." She takes my hand, "and as for music, just follow the beat of your heart."
She pulls me close holding me with her arms around my waist, forehead on my shoulder and she starts humming. I just wrap my arms around her neck with my forehead on her shoulder, as we start to sway.
"This is crazy," I whisper closing my eyes, feeling my close soaked.
"Yeah," she whispers back softly.
I pull my head up and kiss her on the lips. I moan tasting, the caramel from our dessert. I go to deepen the kiss, but then I hear thunder. Paige pulls away, and takes my hand.
"Okay, we should go now," she smiles, and we run to her car laughing, and jumping in the rain.
As soon as we get in her car, she turns the heat on.
"You cold?" she asks, reaching into the back, pulling out a hoodie. I just nod.
"Take off your, shirt and u can wear this," she hands me the hoodie.
"This wasn't a plot just to try and get me naked in your car was it," I ask smirking, taking my shirt off.
"Well…" she teases glancing down at my body and I hit her on her arm playfully, "hey, I was just joking."
As, I pull the hoodie over my head, he takes off her white shirt and pulls out a black jacket. I watch her put the jacket on not zipping it up. I start to breathe unevenly, as I look at the newly exposed skin. She catches me and raises an eyebrow.
"Okay, peeping Tom, let's get you home." She starts the car and starts backing up slowly.
30 minutes later she pulls up to my house. She looks over at me smiling. I give her a quick kiss, and smile back at her.
"This date was the best date of my life," I whisper.
"Mm, I mine too. But I think I the karaoke one comes pretty close." She whispers back, and then reaches into the back pulling out the bag with the cinnamon rolls. "Here you take the rest, oh and I baked some cookies for your mom earlier so you will have plenty of sweets." She winks, and my heart flutters.
I take the bag, "Paige you didn't have to do that."
"I know, I just wanted to, Em." She gets out the car, and it stops raining as she opens the door for me to get out. I take my wet shirt and the bag of cinnamon rolls and get out of the car.
She walks me to my door, and I kiss her goodnight.
"Wait, what about your hoodie?" I question.
"Just give back another time," she shrugs.
I give her one more kiss, and then open the door to my house. I go inside, and close the door leaning against it with a huge smile on my face. A few minutes later, I hear the sound of her car driving away. I sigh, going to walk up the stairs when I hear a knock on the door.
I turn and look at it wondering if Paige forgot something. I open the door, and look suspiciously at the 3 figures standing in front of me only one of them smiling.
"Guys, what are you doing here?" I groan walking away from the door, knowing they'll follow.
"Well…we followed you guys on your date," Spencer says, looking guilty.
"You what!" I whisper yell, knowing my mom is asleep upstairs.
"Yeah, and I really need Paige, to give Caleb some pointers, because damn," Hanna smiles widely grinning.
A/N:So there it is guys hope you like, review and let me know your opinions J:P ;) XP
