Chapter 14:

Throughout the rest of the night Hanna couldn't stop smiling. The more she thought about Lucas the more she thought about her conversation with Emily. Maybe Emily's right, maybe I shouldn't care what people think, but then again I did work hard to get to the top of the popularity ladder.

She realized this was shallow thinking, especially if it meant her being happy or not, however, she remembered a time when she was "Hefty Hanna" and she hated it. She completely understood what he was going through because she had gone through the same thing. The tormenting and the name calling and all the evil comments about her on the Internet had really gotten to her.

"Hey Hanna would you rather be a Playboy or be a stripper?" Aria asked as she pulled her blanket closer around her body. The girls were all in Emily's room playing games and watching the sky grow darker as night was almost upon them.

"Hmm tough choice! But I'm gonna have to go with the first choice, much classier," Hanna laughed and turned to Spencer, who seemed much more relaxed than when she had first come in.

"Spencer, would you rather have sex again with Alex or with Wren?"
Spence gasped when she heard the question, it was totally unexpected. She had to think about the answer for a few seconds and everyone stared at her. Hanna giggled; she was very proud of her question.

"Do I really have to answer?" Aria and Emily both said "Yes!" and Hanna nodded. "Okay then, I would rather have sex with Alex again! There are you happy?" Aria and Emily high fived and Hanna couldn't contain her laughter anymore.

Anxious to get off of the subject Spencer ran over to the window. "Hey look its starting to rain!" For the next few minutes the girls stared at the rain and watched as it became heavier and heavier.

"Hey, when is your mom supposed to get home?" Hanna asked looking over at Emily.

"That's a good question I'm going to call her," Emily said and picked up her phone to dial her mom's number and when she didn't answer she tried calling again. Again it went to voicemail. "Hey mom, just wanted to know when you are going to be home, by the way everyone's over for the night, love you bye." When she hung up she looked around the group and finally asked, "Anyone want a cup of hot chocolate?"

"Yeah, I could totally use fresh steaming cup of hot coco right now," Hanna said.

"Me too!"

"Me three!"

The girls made their way down to the kitchen and Emily began to get the ingredients for the hot chocolate. "Hey Em, why don't you make some popcorn too, it's my favorite thing to eat with hot chocolate," Hanna suggested and everybody else agreed.

Twenty minutes later, the girls were still downstairs in the kitchen laughing, eating, and drinking when Emily's phone rang. "Oh hi Mom. Really? That bad? Well are you okay? Uh-uh, I'll make sure, be careful. Bye Mom." She then turned to the rest of the girls and repeated what her mom had just said. "She said it's to flooded over there to come home, she's going to have to spend the night over there."

"Sooo..we're going to be here all alone?" Hanna asked with a mischievous gleam in her eye.

"Yep sure looks that way, what are you up to Hanna?" Emily asked as she saw Hanna going through her bag which she had thrown on the couch.

"I thought we could have a dance party," Hanna smiled and made her way back to the kitchen with her Ipod and put it in the dock sitting by the microwave. She then blasted the volume and started dancing and gestured for the other girls to join in with her.

One by the one everyone looked at each other and started dancing, pretty soon they were dancing all throughout the kitchen. All of a sudden Circus by Britney Spears came on and everybody froze. They each looked at each other knowing full and well that this was Alison's favorite song.

Just as Hanna jumped off the counter to change the song all the power turned completely off. "It's okay guys," Emily said as she tried to feel her way around for any kind of light source.

"Yeah, I'm sure the lightning just made it go off it should be back on anytime," Spencer added.

As soon as she said this they heard a really obnoxious squeaking noise, a noise that only Emily's window made when opened. Emily was the only one who knew how to open it without that squeaking, for the purposes of sneaking out.

"Em, is your window being opened?" Aria, who usually hid her emotions, sounded very freaked out.

"I'm sure it's not being opened maybe it's just the-" Just then there was a loud noise upstairs and the shattering of glass.

A/N: Funny story! My school was actually cancelled today because of flooding and weather so this and the episode The Perfect Storm were my inspiration. Like it? Hate it? Let me know! :)