So this is actually the last chapter of this story. I just have been stuck in a dead end on this one for a long time, so I finished it off instead of dragging it out further. Thank you so much for all the support! Enjoy this last chapter!
Emily was sitting at home working on her homework when her phone vibrated.
Your girlfriend has quite the attitude problem. You might want to keep her in check.
-A
Emily frowned at it before chucking her phone onto the bed. A few minutes later, Emily had been too distracted to do anymore homework because of how much that text was bothering her, so she went and picked her phone back up.
"Yes." She whispered hopefully as she noticed that the top of the message had a number attached to it, instead of its usual 'Unknown.'
She quickly sent a text to both Hanna and Aria, choosing to leave Spencer out of it so she was safe.
S.O.S. Get here, NOW.
-Em
She typed out frantically, letting out a deep breath as soon as she got 'on my way' messages from both of the girls.
"Em, what's the big rush?" Aria asked as she rushed into the room after Hanna.
"I got a message from A-" She started out.
"So? We've been getting messages for a long time." Hanna interrupted the tanned girl to point that out.
"I'm aware of that, Hanna. I wasn't done talking yet. This message has a number attached to it."
"Wait, what? It doesn't say 'Unknown?'" Aria asked frantically, stretching her arm out to grab Emily's phone to see.
After both Hanna and Aria saw it, Hanna looked up at the two.
"Where's your school directory?" Hanna asked Emily as both Aria and Emily looked at her in shock.
"That's a really good idea, Han!" Emily said excitedly as she ran downstairs, followed by the two girls.
"Do you recognize that number at all, Em?" Aria asked as she watched Emily rifle through one of the drawers in her kitchen, looking for the directory.
"I do. It looks vaguely familiar, but I can't place whose number it is." She said simply.
The tanned girl looked through the directory cover to cover twice before she looked back up at the girls.
"Damn it. I really thought we were getting somewhere." She said picking up the directory full of names and numbers of parents, as well as students.
Emily was just about to put it back when a piece of paper fell out and onto the floor.
"What's that?" Aria asked as Emily bent down to pick up the paper.
"Oh, it's a swim team list. It must've fallen out of this pocket in the book." Emily said as she scanned over it, setting the book down in the process.
"Does it have any phone numbers on there?" Hanna asked as she inched forward slightly.
"You guys." Emily said slowly as she looked up at her friends with huge eyes, "It's Paige's number."
"What! Are you serious?" Aria shouted, grabbing the list out of Emily's hand and comparing it to the one of Emily's phone. "It really is."
"Wait, so she's officially a psycho bitch?" Hanna asked as the two girls semi-glared at her.
"Did we finally figure out something huge?" Aria asked the other two girls who nodded slowly.
"I think so." Emily said as she looked back and forth between the blonde and brunette. "So what do we do now?"
"I say we go to this bitch's house and get some answers. And then suggest she turn herself in." Hanna said roughly, going over and grabbing her purse off of its spot on the couch.
"I don't think that will work, Hanna." Aria said skeptically.
"No, you know what? I'm pissed off enough for this to work. She has been hurting Spencer and us for who knows how long! We need to end this!" Emily said, slamming down the sheet of paper on her kitchen table.
"Let's go then. Should we call Spencer from the car?" Aria asked as she followed the girls to the front door.
"Hell no. She's not getting injured again, she's fine at home." Emily decided quickly as Hanna and Aria shared a knowing look.
"You know that she's going to be really pissed when she finds out, right?" Hanna pointed out slowly.
"I don't care. At least she'll be alive and healthy for once." Emily said, not budging on her stance.
The girls knocked on Paige's door for the fifth time with no answer.
"Hey, isn't that Toby's car?" Aria asked as she looked over to Toby's truck that was parked under a tree slightly down the street.
"Interesting. Why don't we check the back?" Hanna asked as she started walking towards the side of Paige's house.
"Hanna!" Emily whispered harshly, "Oh, whatever!" She said, running over there after the blonde.
"Come on you guys, this is not a good idea!" Aria whispered after them before she ran to follow them as well.
She ran into Emily at the corner of Paige's house and crouched down immediately.
"What the hell were you thinking, Paige?" Toby yelled angrily as Hanna whipped out her phone and started recording this.
"I wasn't apparently! It was a mistake and I'm sorry!" Paige yelled back, just as angrily.
"You better pray that Emily does not figure out who sent her that message, otherwise we are screwed!" Toby added in a somewhat lower voice.
"No, there's no way she'll find out. She won't tell Spencer and my name isn't in the directory." She said surely as Toby nodded.
"Look, you got ahead of yourself, but it can't happen again, are we clear?" He demanded an answer.
"Yes."
"Just stick with the plan, Paige. Soon enough, Spencer and Emily will break up." He said as Emily grew more and more angry from where she was crouched behind a bush on the side of Paige's house.
"I know. Then I'll finally be able to be with Emily and you can be with Spencer." Paige said seriously, sticking her hands in her pockets.
"I can't believe that we have almost pulled this off." Toby said with a smirk.
"I know, it's been a long time in the making." Paige responded with a smile.
"I'm glad CeCe has had this whole thing planned for years." Toby said as the girls gasped as quietly as they could.
"I know, it was brilliant how she pinned it on other people. I can't believe the girls suspected Melissa at one point, that bitch was just trying to figure out who was behind it all so she could have Spencer's back. And Mona-I mean, who knew that girl was as smart as she is. Her ability to concoct the perfect plan is astounding." Paige said amazedly.
"We definitely got lucky that they approached us with the offers that we got. I think it'll work out perfectly. Just a few more weeks, I suspect, and then Spencer or Emily will crack. And we'll be good to go." Toby assured the auburn haired girl.
"Damn right, we will. You should go before my parents get home, but we'll talk soon?" Paige asked as Toby looked down at the pool.
"Definitely. We have an 'A' meeting tomorrow at noon, in the storage unit, #132." Toby said before he walked towards Paige to give her a hug.
Hanna quickly stopped the video and turned around as quickly as she could, ushering the girls to run to Emily's car.
They got in and started it up, driving away as soon as they could.
"Holy shit." Aria said as she other two girls just nodded dumbly, not knowing what else to say.
"Did we really just learn all of that?" Emily asked as Hanna looked back at her phone, smiling when she saw the video that had successfully recorded on her phone.
"We did. But what do we do with it?" Hanna asked curiously as all of the girls thought about it separately for a minute.
"You guys, I don't want to test our luck. I really think we should give this video to the police." Aria said nervously from the back.
"I agree. Too much has happened for us to be able to take care of this ourselves." Hanna agreed as Emily nodded her head.
"Alright. Do we take it in, or put it on a disc and leave it for someone without them knowing who it's from?" Emily asked when she stopped at a stop sign.
"Leave it on a disc?" Hanna asked.
"Yeah, I don't think any of the cops trust us anymore. Let's go do this at Em's and then be done with it." Aria suggested as the two girls nodded and headed for Emily's house.
"We did the right thing, right?" Hanna asked after she just dropped off the disc at the police station without being stopped or seen by anyone. It was late at night, so it wasn't buzzing with as many cops as it was during the day.
"That's all we could do. And hopefully it was enough." Emily replied with a smile.
"Just think, this time tomorrow we could officially be free." Aria said as she put her hands on both Hanna and Emily's shoulders, squeezing lightly.
"It doesn't even feel real right now. I mean, I can't believe that people our age, who we trusted, or somewhat trusted would do this to us." Hanna said, tearing up slightly.
"I know. I don't understand it either, Han." Both Emily and Aria agreed with sad smiles.
Emily was about to say something when her phone rang and she signaled the girls to be quiet.
"Hello?"
"Hi babe. I just finished my homework and wanted to call you before I go to bed." Spencer's voice floated through the phone, calming Emily down significantly.
"Well thank you. It's nice to hear your voice." She said with a smile. "Can I offer you breakfast tomorrow with the girls?"
It was a Friday night, but Spencer had opted to stay home and finish most of her homework before the weekend started so she could spend the rest of her time with Emily. It worked out nicely for all of the girls though.
"That would be great. Do you all want to come to mine at 10?" Spencer asked.
"Perfect, I'll see you then, okay?" Emily asked with a smile as Hanna and Aria both smiled.
"Sounds good. I love you, Em."
"Love you too, Spence." Emily said sincerely before she hung up the phone.
The next morning, the girls were all having a great time visiting with each other. They had finished breakfast and were just nearing the end of a movie they put on when Veronica Hastings walked in through the back door.
"Hi mom." Spencer said with a smile.
"Hi girls. I'm glad that you're all here together." She said as she set down her briefcase, causing Spencer to pause the movie.
"What's up, mom?" She asked with a confused look on her face as the other girls paled significantly.
"Apparently a video got dropped off last night at the police station. It showed two people having a meeting and in it, they spoke about you and Emily, among other things. They also mentioned a meeting and the police were able to intercept it this afternoon and arrest all the parties in attendance."
"Mom, what exactly are you saying?" Spencer asked sharply.
"I'm saying that CeCe Drake has been arrested for the murder of Alison DiLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal, Toby Cavanaugh, and Paige McCullers have all been arrested as accomplices." Veronica said seriously as the girls all breathed out heavily.
"Are you serious?" Spencer asked shakily.
"I am. And we have some pretty rock solid evidence on all of them. I'm so sorry, girls."
"Don't be. We finally know now." Emily said as she rubbed Spencer's back.
That night, Hanna was with Caleb, Aria with Ezra, and Emily was still at Spencer's. The two girls had mostly just sat and watched movies all day, trying to wrap their minds around everything that had happened.
"We're free, Em. We're actually free. I never thought this day would come." Spencer admitted as Emily looked at her with tears in her eyes.
"I'm so glad that this day came, because now I don't have to worry about losing you anymore." Emily answered seriously as Spencer wiped the fallen tears off of her cheeks.
"I love you so much." Spencer said, bringing her forward for a kiss.
"I love you, too. More than you know." Emily responded with another kiss.
"Now what do should we do?" The brunette asked, feeling incredibly free without the thought of 'A' looming over them.
"How about I go home and get Mr. Riley, then the three of us can cuddle in front of some movies." Emily suggested as Spencer smiled brightly.
"That sounds perfect." She said, kissing Emily's neck.
"Alright, I'll grab some ice cream too while I'm out. I should be back in less than an hour." Emily said as she stood up.
Before she could take another step though, Spencer pulled the tanned girl onto her lap with a big smirk.
"Don't leave just yet." Spencer said quietly.
"And why not, Miss Hastings?" Emily asked cheekily.
"Because I'm not done kissing you yet." She replied, leaning forward to kiss her girlfriend, tangling her hands in Emily's hair along the way.
"I love you, you dork." Emily said affectionately as she responded to Spencer's kiss with another, deeper kiss.
"I love you, too." Spencer sighed happily as she started kissing and sucking on Emily's neck.
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing! Thanks so much for sticking with this story, it means everything! I'm sorry that I forced an ending, but I just lost motivation for this story. I hope you enjoyed it along the way though. Thanks again!