A/N: Hello all! First I want to apologize for the long wait on this chapter. I was going through a rough patch on figuring out the story and i also was writing my other story but it's back! Hope all enjoyed the PLL episode last night even without our Dear Paige =(
CiCi- I can hear the new wave of Profanities towards Maya already. She's in this Chapter and it's not pretty but I am glad that you think i got her right on point. During the show i always felt like she was rude and that she didn't like Em's friends. Yes Mrs. Mccullers interaction with everyone is interesting and you find something out about a couple of the characters during that interaction. I really had fun writing that Part with Paily on Spencer's bed and then Spencer's reaction. I'm glad you liked Paily's first time, and the hotness of it, I thought i wouldn't have done it justice but I suppose I did.=) Until next review!
Del- I'm glad you caught up, it is hard to keep track of stories though so I understand. Paige did give emily a really good Birthday present huh? ;) And you're welcome, like I said I had fun writing that scene and i just wanted it be like an Actual first time like getting into Paige's heaed about what she was feeling. and Yes she does know something and you can always leave it to Patrick to screw something up.
PamyNovaes- Sorry it took so long for you to find out what their mom knows! and I love Jessie J too and I just felt like that song was prefect for the moment. Enjoy!
sambam47- Well thank you I hope I didn't make you lose interest in the story by waiting to long! Enjoy!
Guest100- I understand where you were coming from and I didn't forget that Paige and Emily didn't deal with the whole Maya/sex tape thing at all. I know that once something is on the internet its there forever no matter how many times you delete it. But them having sex was a way for them to kindof forget that happen for just that moment. I'm sorry if you didn't like it's placement in the story, but I put in the order I did for a reason. In this chapter they are Dealing with the aftermath of that night so it's more drama.
Nae10- I'm glad you liked that Maya slap in the last chapter, you'll really enjoy some of the things in this chapter then. And yes the McCullers mom is making her presents known to the girls and i hope you like their conversations. I'm glad you like it and can't get enough of this story and the Paily Fluff! Enjoy!
Paily lover- Oh no worries, People are busy and i totally understand when some can't review.=). Yeah I glad Maya isn't one the show anymore never really liked her and she deserved to get slapped in here and on the show. I was smiling the whole time I was thinking about Em slapping her. Paige and Em are such nerds huh? but they are adorably cute nerds that love each other so much. I'm glad that those emotions came across during their first time, because that is exactly what I was going for. Until Next update!
Marmoreck- I hate that i can't say Maya is gone Forever...=/. But if you enjoyed the Maya Slap then you'll enjoy this chapter. I know I had a mix moments during the chapter. I hope i can make you proud and made this chapter better then the last butttt really what can top Paily's first time?lol. Have a good day. And until next update.
Guest- I think you're the same guest that reviewed twice, telling me to update soon so if you are... IT'S HERE. Sorry it took so long. But Getting your review the other day really lit a fire under me to finish writing it. So thank you for that and all your kind words with every chapter you review.
Thank you to all the new readers.
Thank you to everyone that is Reading, following and reviewing that story it means a lot to me and i really appreciate all your kind words and criticism. I read and response to all the reviews and try to incorporate some of the things you suggest into the Story, So reviews are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy Chapter 12...
Chapter 12: What the Hell?
Paige's POV
"Hello?" Emily walks over to our table with Hanna and their coffee. I can see that she is confused, but still has a smile on her face. Even though the greeting was meant for my mother, she's staring at me with the smile she had when she walked in the door.
"Sit girls, please." My mother says with a smile, and the two girls take their seats next to me still looking confused. I'm pretty confused myself, why did mom ask Patrick who Emily was? I look at Patrick again and he's trying to hold back a smile. "I'm sorry I guess my daughter AND son forgot their manners." She shoots Patrick and me a look, and it wipes the smile off Patrick's face and he begins to stare at the floor which makes me smile.
"Uh, right. Emily, Hanna, this is my Mom. Mom, this is Emily and Hanna." Both girls exchange a look, and my mother flashes both girls a smile; but she's mostly staring at Emily.
"I've heard so much about you two. It's nice to finally put a name to a face." Emily squeezes my hand under the table, and gives me a small smile. I barely see it out of the corner of my eye, because I'm still processing what my mother just said. My mom and I called each other every week and we would talk for a while, but I never went into details about any of my friends; especially about Emily. I still hadn't told my mom about Emily, I know that it wouldn't matter to her but that's still something big to tell someone important to you.
"Paige and Patrick talk about you all the time, but they didn't mention you would be visiting." Emily says politely to my mom, and they begin to talk and include Hanna in the conservation. I'm glad they are getting along; maybe it'll make it easier to tell her that I'm dating Emily. How could my mom not like Emily though? She's smart with a 3.9 GPA, she's athletic like me and she is just an all around good influence on me.
"I'm happy I finally get to meet the girl that's been making my sweetie smile like there's no tomorrow. I trust that Paige is treating you right?" I choke as I'm drinking my coffee when I hear my mother's words. She knew. She knew Emily was my girlfriend but how? The smirk that was plastered on Patrick's face suddenly makes sense now.
"You told mom about Emily?!" I almost yell as I stand up from my chair while staring at the stupid smirk on Patrick's face.
"Yes he did. And quite frankly, I'm surprised you didn't tell me Paige." My shoulders hunch forward as I retreat from my outburst. My blood is still boiling about Patrick opening his mouth. "We talk every week, and you neglect to mention the little detail of you having a girlfriend? I understand you not telling something like this to your father, but me?" All eyes are on me, and I can see the hurt in my mother's eyes. I don't dare look at Emily because she will have the same look, and I can only bear one disappointed person right now. "We will talk about this later." I'm surprised when she looks between both Patrick and I, and see that he's going to object but then quickly withdraws.
"Mrs. McCullers, Paige has been perfect since we started dating. You raised a great daughter." Emily smiles at my mom and they hold each other's gaze, it's as if my mother is looking for some doubt as to if she's telling the truth. I can sense that Hanna is feeling a bit awkward with all the staring that's going on, because she is just playing with a necklace she has and avoiding being dragged into this mess.
"Well that's good to know. You tell me when she isn't and I'll have a talk with her." I feel my mother's hand on top of mine, and I feel like I can breathe again. She has a warm smile and I know she has forgiven me for keeping Emily from her.
All of us talk for a while, and I'm surprised by how well Hanna and my mom are getting along. Eventually, Emily leans into me as the conversations go on and rests her head on my shoulder. I reach for her hand and intertwine our fingers together, and with my free hand I trace over the bracelet on her wrist; but see that she has a bruise on her wrist. As I keep staring at it, I feel my jaw clench and my grip on Emily's hand tightens. I'll ask about it later, even though I have an idea of who did it. For now, I just lightly trace over her bruise to not make a scene. Emily and I sit in silence as the other three begin to talk about San Diego or something along those lines. I pull out my phone and begin to type a message and show it to Emily.
Sorry I snuck out this morning, didn't want to wake you up.
It's okay I wish I could have woken up to your face tho.
Who says that you can't?
Well when I didn't see you this morning I figured you did want what happen last night to happen again.
Have you not seen my smile Em?
Emily reads the last thing I write before laughing at my text. When we look up, we're met with four pairs of eyes staring at us like we're crazy. When did Spencer get here?
"Hey Hastings." She takes a seat across from Patrick and they both look very awkward, trying very hard to not make any eye contact with each other. This will be interesting.
"Hey mom, since Patrick told you about my love life, I suppose he told you about his too right?" I swear if looks could kill, I would have been dead the second the question left my mouth. My mother looks at Patrick but his eyes don't leave me and I smirk. I got him. "Yeah, he's seeing a girl in his business class." I look at Patrick and I have never seen his face so red, you would think that he was the one with the anger problem. Spencer's eyes are wide as she sees our stare off.
"OH MY GOD!" Everyone's head turns over to Hanna as her words fill the café. Bingo. Hanna figured it out. "You two are dating!" Hanna motions at the two people with a beaming smile, and Spencer buries her face in her hands.
"Wait Spence, Patrick is the guy that you've been eyeing in your business class?" Emily looks at me to answer the question when they refuse to speak, and I just nod my head. Spencer's cream-colored cheeks are more of a bright red now, fittingly matching Patrick's complexion. I knew it was wrong to out their relationship, but he did the same for me.
Now that I see their embarrassed faces, I wish I could take it back. I was the only one that knew about their relationship, and they had asked me not say anything about it until they figured out what they wanted. I knew that something was going on between them after they first met, but it wasn't confirmed until two weeks ago. Spencer and I were on one of our morning runs when she confessed that they were seeing each other. Before she had told me, I had always teased her that she should be with Patrick so I could have her as a sister-in-law; but I never thought that they would ever get together.
"It's very nice to meet you, Spencer. Well I have some meetings to go as well, so I should be on my way; but hopefully we can all get together and talk some more, that's including you too Hanna." Mom smiles to everyone and gives each one of us a hug, but includes a kiss when it was mine and Patrick's turn. My mom leaves and all I feel all eyes on me. I look around to see a mix of emotions from rage to happiness to relief to confusion.
"Well as much as I love an awkward stare down, Emily and I have somewhere to be and so does Hanna so... We will leave you two to have a much-needed talk." I pull both girls hands and we run towards the door and out to the courtyard. The two girls interrogate me about what I know about the secret relationship. Of course I offer the information gladly, I was never one to keep a secret; and I'm surprised that I kept this secret in for so long. Patrick had to know that it was only a matter of time before I spilled. After they are both satisfied with my cooperation and my answers, Hanna breaks free from us to meet up with Caleb. Hanna leaves with a giant grin and with a hop in her step, and I feel proud of myself for helping her out the way that she helped me. I didn't think I had it in me to play Cupid like Hanna did, but I guess it worked out pretty well.
Emily and I head off to the Rec room that's in the dorms, and make our way to one of the couches. Usually the rec room is packed, but only a few people are here today. I guess most students were still in classes or sleeping in since it is Friday. I sink into the couch, and I find Emily next to me before deciding to lay her head down on my lap. While running my fingers through her beautiful raven colored hair, I see her relax and close her eyes. I remember how her hair was a dark brown when I had first met her, probably from being in the sun all summer. One of the many things that's different from then to now. Now the girl I once couldn't stop thinking about and didn't think I would ever see again, is lying on my lap and looking more beautiful than ever. I'm different myself; with the way that I act with people, I'm more outgoing, and I have Em, Spence and Hanna to thank for that. She's the reason I have more friends, and so that I don't rely on just Patrick anymore. He has his own life now, and I guess I always figured that even if we came to the same school, it wouldn't be like how it was back home. I tangle my fingers in Emily's hair, and stare at her with a smile on my face.
"I'm going to get something to drink. Do you want anything?" Her big warm brown eyes look up at me, as she slowly makes her way up.
"No I'm okay. But hurry back to me." I pull her into a kiss and all the emotions from our night together come back and I want more of her. More of the kiss, my tongue makes its way to Emily's lips but she lightly pushes me away and gets up. She walks away, and before she turns the corner I see her turn back and wink at me. God, I have it bad for her. If I didn't have it bad before last night, I do now. I don't think anything could really get me in a bad mood right now.
"Hey, Lady McCullers" Maybe I spoke too soon. I look up to see Nic's bright smile, and his semi curly hair being pushed back to reveal his always stunning hazel green eyes.
"Hey Nic. What are you doing here?"
"Oh I'm waiting for my girlfriend. She told me to wait for her here." I spend a lot of time with Nic and his girlfriend when I'm hanging out with Patrick. Both boys were attached at the hip since they were reunited on Move in day, until recently when Nic's girlfriend joined our little group. I think she's okay, but she is a bit of a flirt but then again so is Nic's. I was just glad he had someone, because he always made me uncomfortable when I was hanging with Patrick.
"How is My? I didn't see her at the party yesterday; then again I don't think you noticed since you were dancing with Spencer." I raise my eyebrow, when I saw them dancing yesterday it had bothered me for two reasons. One because Spencer is dating Patrick, secretly yes, but she could have still declined the dance from Nic. Two, because Nic was already dating My, and he knew that Patrick had a thing for Spencer. I'm not too fond of Nic, but I had to put up with him for Patrick since Nic was his best friend.
"Uh yeah I needed to tell Spencer something, and My was there last night but only for a little while." He move his hair out of his face again and I see that his avoiding making eye contact with me, and I see My coming towards him. We exchange hello's, and they were about to leave when Emily came back.
"Em, this is Nic's Girlfriend." She has a smile as she's walking towards us, but as she turns to face the two, her smile quickly falls. Her face shows anger and hurt, My's face also shows hurt and her eyes fall to the ground and she's tugging on Nic's arm to leave.
"What's going on?" I step next to Emily and hold her hand. I can see that she doesn't want to look at me, by the way she's focused on the girl in front of us.
"That's Maya." My head whips over to the girl standing next to Nic, and I feel anger rise in me when I finally put everything together. I feel my cheeks burn and my fists ball up while I step in front of Emily, and am face to face with Maya.
"You have some nerve. We hung out together and you knew that I was dating Emily and you even asked questions about our relationship; but you never said a word. Who does that? You put Emily through hell, and were a shitty girlfriend and you still have the nerve to ask about her." I'm pissed, I hung out with her numerous times in the past month that they have been going out, and nothing. I knew her name was Maya, but I didn't think anything of it because everyone else called her My so I didn't make the connection. I didn't know that I had been friends with Emily's Maya.
"I've already been slapped by your girlfriend over there Paige so I'm just going to go." She grabs Nic and turns to leave, but he isn't moving and I pull at her shoulder while he steps away.
"You deserve the slap she gave you and so much more, Maya. You're lucky that I didn't know who you were when we hung out." She takes a step closer to me and looks up; I have about five inches on her.
"Or what Paige? I doubt that you would have done anything. I was surprised Emily even had the guts to slap me. And did you ever think that it wasn't me who was the shitty girlfriend, but that it was Emily for not be able to keep her girlfriend satisfied?" She smirks and I just lose it.
"Hey Nic, you better watch out 'cause your girlfriend has a reputation of whoring around especially while being in a relationship." She slaps me across the face and I feel my cheeks redden and sting from the force of her slap. Before I could even think about it, my arm is brought back and makes contact with Maya's jaw. She falls back, but quickly restores her footing and lunges for me. During the fight, I could hear the distant pleading of Emily telling me to stop; and I could feel Nic's arms trying to pull us from each other but it's no use. Maya's pulling at my hair and trying to slap me but isn't successful. I kick her off of me while elbowing her stomach, and Nic grabs her holding her back from coming back towards me again.
"You want to know something Paige? Your girlfriend isn't so innocent." She looks over at Emily and I can see that Emily is on the verge of tears as she is kneeling next to me. "Em knew about me filming us. Want to know why? Because it was her idea." Maya's face is serious, and I study it and I even through her swollen eye and bruised face I can see that she isn't lying. As much as I wanted to believe that she was lying, she wasn't. She was looking right at me and not looking away.
I'm suddenly aware of Emily's hand on me, how long had she been touching me? I shrug her arm off and pull myself up. I begin to walk away without looking back, and in the distance I can hear Nic end things with Maya and Emily calling after me. I heard her footsteps for a while, but they soon stopped and were replaced with sobs. As I'm walking away, I try fighting back the tears but my eyes sting. After a minute of holding back tears, I can feel the hot liquid run down my cheeks. I wipe my tears with the sleeve of my sweater, and I see blood with my tears on my sleeve. I quickly make my way up to my room, and fall to the floor bringing my knees up to my chin and begin crying.
I stay there crying on the floor for so long that when I do lift my head up it's no longer bright outside. I take out my phone and I have 15 missed calls from Emily, 5 from Patrick and Nic, and 2 from my mom. With many text messages from all the above, including Hanna and Spencer. I need to get out of here before Spencer and the girls come in looking for me. I grab my duffle bag and stuff it with clothes; there's no way in hell that I'm coming back to this room this weekend. I go to the bathroom to get a few things, but what I see in the mirror catches my eye. I see my cut on bottom lip, and my eyes move up to the cut on my cheek with dry blood surrounding it. Above my cheek, I move to bruise right under my eye and when I move my fingers over it, I flinch. The bruise is right where the bone is and it hurts even with my feather light touch. I feel more tears start to form and before they fall, I shake it off and leave the room.
I throw the duffle bag over my shoulder and flip my hood over my head. I walk out of the dorms, and head to the one place I know none of them would be. I'm met with the friendly smile of Cara.
"Woah two coffees today Paige? The usu-. Ww-what the hell happened to you?" They were about to close, and it was the weekend so no one was really at the café. She moves to the side to get some ice, and puts it in a towel. She motions for me to sit down while placing the towel on my cheek. "Did Emily hit you?" I shake my head as I begin to cry, and I drop my face into my palms. The contact of my hand on my cheek stings; but I don't take my hand away.
Finally everything was coming out. We didn't talk yesterday about Maya and the tape; mostly because I didn't want to think about it. But today I was forced to think about it, and I let my anger get the better of me, and Maya put up a fight. Emily had already told me what happened with Maya yesterday, so why wouldn't she tell me the whole story? I think that's what pisses me off the most, the fact that Maya was the one that told me what Emily should have. I'm so happy I fought her, even though I came out with some cuts and bruises on my face. When I left Maya, she had a swollen eye, bruises and cuts on her face, and she would have a major bruise on her stomach from the kick and elbow it took.
"My shifts over, do you want to talk? Or do you want me to drop you off somewhere?" My lip is quivering by this point, and I nod my head. She rushes to the back to get her purse, and I hear her tell the other girl if she could close up because she had an emergency. Cara comes over and grabs my duffle bag and we walk out the door.
"Can you take me home?" She nods and I give her the address. The car ride is mostly silent. I'm surprised Cara is even doing this for me, other than our morning coffee exchange we have a class together and we make small talk but nothing too intimate. I'm grateful that Cara is taking me to Patrick's mom's Condo, and that she's not really asking me what happened; because truthfully I wouldn't know how to explain it all if I had to. My phone rings, and its Emily. Cara looks at me as she hands me the phone, and I decide to take her call.
"Paige! Where are you? Are you okay? Everyone has been calling you all day. Look, I'm really sorry for everything that happened but we really need to talk. So where are you? I'll come to you." She sounds frantic, and I don't blame her. If she was basically missing for the day I would be too, but I'm not giving in.
"Em, Please stop calling me. I don't want to talk and I don't want to listen right now." I hang up the phone without waiting for a response from Emily. Cara pulls up to the Condo and we sit in the car for a while.
"You know if you need to talk to someone about it, you can call me. I'll listen." She offers a piece of paper with a smile, and I gladly take it. Maybe I will call her this weekend, because who knows when I would want to see any of my friends or my brother. She gives me a hug and a weak smile with worry in her eyes.
I wave as she leaves, and when I see her at the light I decide to turn to walk up the steps to the condo. I pull out my keys to open the door, where I'm met with the peace and quiet I need to think about what the hell happened today.