On Saturday afternoon Jason, Toby, Noel and I all decided to go for a group run. While we were out running, the girls were all going to hung out together, doing what I wasn't sure. Once we were all dressed, we began to lightly jog to the town center before making our way to the outskirts of town. On the outskirts of town, there is a running tracking which is where we were going, just the long away around.
"So, what's going on with you and Alison?" Jason asked as we slowed the pace. We had almost completed two laps of the running tack without even stopping, we deserved a slow pace for a bit.
I replied with "I'm not too sure. I think we are just trying to find the right pace for us. We've only been officially together for a few months."
Noel asked, "Has it only been a few months?"
"From my calculation yeah, it's only been a couple of months."
Toby said, "It's only been a couple of months because of her being kidnapped, it'd been longer if she hadn't."
I replied with "Well yeah. The day she was kidnapped, I had finally gotten Alison to agree to go on a date with me in public. Before then, our dates had been in the forests or our bedrooms; away from everyone."
"I didn't know that," Jason voiced.
"There's a lot about my relationship with Alison you don't know and that's because you're her brother, I'm not exactly telling you the ins and outs of my relationship."
Jason replied with "Fair point."
I asked "Can we please make this the last lap? I want to go to the brew before going home."
Noel asked, "What for?"
"Something for Alison, I haven't worked out what yet but there's plenty of time for that."
"Once again your making us guys look bad," Toby complained.
I replied with "That's not really my fault, you boys just need to step up," I laugh as I take off running to escape from the guys.
Walking into the DiLaurentis house after a long run, I laugh at the guys surprised face at me shutting the door in their face. Entering the living room, I found the girls were watching a movie but I couldn't tell what movie they were watching.
"That was rude," Noel shouts getting the girls attention.
I replied with "Not my fault you can't keep up, pretty boy." I lightly tapped Noel's cheek in a joke before making my way over towards Alison.
"Hey Beautiful, this is for you," I say handing her a paper bag which held a sprinkle doughnut.
"Thank-you sweetie but you didn't have too," Alison reached up to peck my lips.
I replied with "I wanted too. Now I better go shower, I stink."
"Well, I was trying to be nice but yeah you do smell."
"That's babe," I say pecking her lips one more time before going upstairs to shower.
Once I had finished showering, I walked downstairs to find everyone just sitting around talking about random things. Walking into the room, I went straight to where Alison was sitting but instead of sitting next to her I sat down on the ground; in between her legs.
I asked, "What are we talking about?"
Noel explained "We thought we could all go see a movie and have dinner."
"Sounds good, I'm in if Ali's in."
Alison replied with "Told you that's what she'd say. I already told them you'd go."
"Cool, thanks babe," I say pecking Alison jean clad knee.
Mona asked "What are we going to see?"
"That new Marvel movie looks good," Toby said hopefully.
"No," Hanna and Mona said at the same time.
Noel spoke "Well, I aint sitting through another chick-flick," I smiled when he immediately got slapped by Mona.
Spencer asked, "There's a French movie out, I've been dying to see."
"No," we all said crushing Spencer's dream of educating us all.
Aria suggested "How about a rom-com?"
"That could work," Alison agreed.
"It has to be funny, really funny," Noel states.
Mona asked "What do you think Emily?"
I replied with "I'll see whatever Alison wants to see."
Toby asked "What if Alison wants to see a princess movie?"
"That'd be cool, I'd buy us a large popcorn to share," I state not fazed by anytime type of movie Alison would want to see.
"See Noel, that's the answer you give," Mona said making me laugh at Noel's face.
Alison spoke while wrapping her arms around me "Your such a sweetheart."
"Only for you babe," I smiled up at Alison.
Spencer spoke "If it was anyone but you two I'd find this level of PDA gross. However, because it's you, I find it ridiculously cute."
"Completely agreed," Aria agreed along with Hanna.
Noel asked "Hey, with the move how is Jenna going to watch?"
"Just the same as she always does," Toby said.
I explained "Jenna gets special headphones which block out other voices, so she can just hear the movie."
"Oh cool," Noel said while Jenna directed a smile towards me.
Spencer then suggested "Why don't we all go home for a bit and meet at the movies around five?"
"Sounds good," Aria said standing up and collects her stuff.
I asked "Does anyone need to picked up?" everyone shook their heads saying they were okay to get there by themselves.
"Well thanks for coming over last night and I'm sorry for waking you all up," Alison said as we stood to hug everyone. When everyone left, Alison and I headed upstairs to her room to spend some time together and acting like no one was around.
Alison asked, "So, should we talk?"
"I don't know. Do you think we are spending too much time together?"
"Well I think it's like Spence said, we've spent a lot of time away from each other and now that we are together, it's almost natural to want to spend this much time together."
I asked "You remember how every Saturday, I would hung with Noel and the other guys while you hung with the girls?"
"Yeah, I remember."
"What if we start doing that again but I'll just hung with Noel and Toby?"
"I guess it wouldn't hurt to try that again."
I replied with "I just don't want us to start fighting because we are getting annoyed with each other."
"I don't think that could happen to us."
"True but just in case, we could prevent it."
"Good idea Em," Alison said pecking my cheek.
"I'll talk to Noel and Toby about it tonight."
"You can still hung out with the basketball team, just because you're not on the team anymore doesn't mean you stop being friends."
"I'll get Noel to arrange something."
"Good girl," Alison said making us both laugh.
I then asked "But for now, can we make out?"
"Another good idea Em," Alison said getting into a better precision to make out.
"I love you Emily."
"And I love you too Alison," I reply before leaning forward and connect my lips to Alison's lips.
Opening the door for Alison to enter the cinema and me following behind her. Noel waved us over to the group, when he saw us walk in and we walked over to them hand in hand together. Heading over to the group, I couldn't help but notice how well they all looked. Jenna was wearing a pale pink shirt, with a white pair of pants and white slip-ons. Toby wore a white t-shirt, with a black jacket over top, hooked into a belt was a pair of black denim jeans and black shoes.
Spencer wore a maroon shirt, with a brown jacket, which was matched with a brown pair of pants and red heel boots. Aria was wearing a black and white stripy dress with yellow high heels. Hanna had on this beautiful red dress with a black belt around her waist, and black high heels. Noel was wearing a fully black suite with blue tie and blue shoes. Mona is wearing the same colour blue shirt as Noel's shoes and tie, which matched with black long pants and blue high heels.
"Look at you two, you are hot," Mona said when she saw us together. Alison was wearing a bright yellow dress that dipped just below the knee, with a white sandal shoes and white headband. Matching into what Alison was wearing, I wore a fully black suit with black shoes and a white tie.
"You clean up well Noel," Alison smiling at Noel dressed in a suit.
Noel replied with "Well I can't keep letting Emily show me up."
Smiling, I say "Yeah good luck with that one, mate."
"We are a good-looking group of people," Hanna said making us all laugh.
Spencer then asked "Now, what are we going to see?" We all turned around to look at all the movie times and what was going to see.
Aria asked, "How about Despicable Me 2?"
"A cartoon, really?" Mona asked.
Aria replied with "It looks funny, we did agree on a rom-com."
Spencer states "But that's more comedy then romance."
Alison suggested "What about Grease? It's the special for tonight."
"I'm in," Aria, Hanna, Spencer and Mona all said immediately.
Jenna added in "Musicals are easier to watch."
Noel said, "But it's a musical, musicals aren't cool."
"Yeah, I agree with Noel," Toby said.
Mona asked, "What do you think Emily? You haven't voiced an opinion."
I sing towards Alison "I'm hopelessly devoted to you."
"Such a cute answer," Alison said leaning across to kiss me upon the lips.
Hanna said, "Sorry boys but you're out voted," the two boys complained but stopped immediately at my glare.
I then state, "Let's go get tickets before we are too late."
"Good point," Aria said leading the way towards the ticket line.
Walking out of the cinema together, laughing at the ending song and the made-up words in the song; as well as the catchy tune stuck in our hands. As we leave the cinema we agree to meet outside the apple rose grill, we are going separate ways in separate cars.
"That was fun," Alison said resting her head back.
"I'm glad you're having fun, babe."
"I can't remember the last time, I had this much fun with everyone."
"That's great," I say smiling across at Alison.
"I'm so glad you girls are getting along now, it makes everything better. Doesn't that make it better?"
I asked, "Are you happy?"
"Yes, I'm happy."
"Then it does make it better. All I want is for you to be happy and I want to make you happy. So, if me getting along with the girls now makes you happy, then I'll keep doing it."
"I'm happy Em, I'm happy with you."
"Good," I say reaching my hand and placing it lightly on Alison's thigh.
Alison asked, "Are you happy Em?"
"Of course I'm happy, I've gotten everything I could possibly want."
"You deserve to be happy Em, after everything I put you through."
"It wasn't you Ali. You didn't want to be away from me, if you had the chance to escape you would've and you did. You came back to me when it matters, you came back and that's all I needed to make me happy."
"I'll never leave you again Emily, I promise."
"I love you Alison," I say pulling the car into the first car park I saw.
"I love you too Emily," Alison spoke when I turned to look at her and leant forward to peck her on the lips. Opening the car door, I hop out of the car and walk around to Alison car door.
"Thanks," Alison said slipping out of the car while holding my hand.
"You're welcome." Walking down to the front of the apple rose grill, we join Aria, Spencer and Hanna who are already their waiting for others.
"Hello again," Aria said smiling at us.
"Hi," we replied at the same time.
Spencer then states "That was creepy."
"Well that's Emily for you," Noel said walking into the group with Mona on his arm.
"Shut up, you idiot," I say while laughing and then flicking his ear.
"Ow that hurt," Noel replied flicking my ear back. This started a flicking of the ear war, which was just plain funny.
"Such children," Toby spoke walking up with Jenna. Noel and I glanced at each other before moving towards Toby and flicking his ears. The three of us moved away from Jenna before beginning the flick war, but ears weren't the only thing up for grabs anything was.
Hanna then yells "Hey!"
We stop mid flick to look across at Hanna, who continues to say, "We are all here, so if you children are ready we can head in."
"Sorry," the three of us immediately say. Toby moves to Jenna side, Noel moves to Mona sides and I move to Alison side. Walking into the restaurant as a group, we are immediately sitted and I notice Kylie is working while Zeke and Mason sit together eating and talking.
"I've got them Angel," Kylie spoke walking over to us and excusing the waitress.
"Hi," Noel said as we both gave her hug, it had been a while since I had seen them all.
Kylie replied with "You two are very dressed up, don't tell me you've been to court."
"Very funny," I say laughing with Noel.
Noel said "Mason, Zeke, you should come join us."
"Really?" Zeke asked.
"Yeah, come on," I say standing to help move their table to join ours.
Noel asked, "Has everyone met Zeke, Mason and Kyle?"
Mona replied with "Yeah during the play."
"That's right," I say thinking that seemed so long ago.
Kylie then asked, "What can I get you guys to drink?" We all order our drink, I just order a water, not really wanted anything to drink.
"I'll go get them and come back to take your orders," Kylie said walking away.
Looking at Mason and Zeke, I asked, "How are you two doing?"
Mason replied with "I am good, Kylie and I are going great."
"That's great, what about you Zeke?" Noel asked looking up from the menu, when I see Zeke's face change I know somethings happened.
Zeke answered, "Not so good, my parents kicked me out and I'm living with Mason's family."
"Dude," Noel said instantly feeling bad.
"Don't worry, it's fine. I'd rather be somewhere people accept me, then be miserable," Zeke explained.
I asked, "Did you do what I think you did?"
Zeke smiled at me before answering "Yeah, I did."
"Oh my god Zeke, that's amazing. You should've told me, I'm so happy for you."
"You seemed busy and it never seemed the right time," Zeke said.
Noel asked, "What's going on?"
Mason said, "You should tell him."
"Tell me what?" Noel asked confused looking at the three of us.
I watched as Zeke took a breath before saying "I'm gay," I cheered when he finished speaking and didn't hesitates. Standing up, I move over to Zeke who stands up and accepts my hug.
"Dude," Noel said making us turn to look at him as he walked over to us.
Noel said, "That's awesome Zeke, I'm so happy for you," he wrapped his arms around us for a big group hug.
The three of us sat back down and Alison said "I'm happy for you too Zeke."
"Thanks Alison," Zeke said with a smile.
"It must feel so good to finally say it out loud," I say to which Zeke nod his head agreeing with me.
"Here we go," Kylie said walking over with a tray full of drinks and began handing them out to each other.
"Thanks Kylie," we all said after she gave us our drinks.
Kylie asked "Now what can I get you to eat?" Spencer, Aria and Hanna decided it was cheaper to spilt a pizza and chips, they ordered a supreme pizza. Noel and Toby ordered a 400g rump steak with chips, both trying to outdo the other. Mona and Toby went with a burger with the lot and chips. Jenna ordered a tuna wrap with lettuce, tomato and aioli. Alison decided to have carbonara with fettuccine.
I decided to order two hot dogs with chips, one hot dog would have tomato sauce and the other was going to have mustard. Mason and Zeke had already put in their order, they were currently waiting for a pizza to share. Kylie smiled at us before leaving to go place our order in and serve other tables. Hanna, Mona and Alison excused themselves to the bathroom, I had given Mona a look and she nodded her head.
I asked, "Hey would you guys be up to starting the basketball games every Saturday again?"
"I'm in," Mason said with a smile.
"Yeah, I'd be up to starting it up again. Is this yours and Alison's way of spending less time together?" Noel asked.
I replied with "We just figured it worked last time, it might again this time. However, I'd only go if I knew someone I trusted was looking out for her," I looked across at Spencer, Aria and Jenna.
Spencer spoke up "You know you can trust us."
"We wouldn't let anyone hurt her," Aria added.
I state "I do trust you guys. I just don't know if your willing to give up Saturday's to spend with Alison."
Spencer said, "Are you forgetting we used to hang out every Saturday."
"That may be true but that was then, this is now."
"And nothing's changed Emily," Aria said.
Noel asked, "Zeke, you up to playing basketball every Saturday again?"
Zeke asked back, "Do you think the other guys still want me to play?"
"If they have a problem with it, I'll deal with them. However, I don't think they will because they are fine with me being gay. You coming out, shouldn't affect them."
"Plus we've got your back," Toby spoke up.
Noel asked "Toby, you're in?"
"Yeah, if I'm allowed," he looked at us for an answer.
I replied with "I need my right side wing. So, you better be there."
Toby said, "I'm there."
