A/N: So...this came to me while I was driving. I have no idea. lol I whipped this one up real fast, so any errors I apologize for ahead of time, but I hope that you all still enjoy it nonetheless. Also, I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful day ahead. :)

Emily's POV

It was a pleasant feeling lying in bed and knowing that Paige would be coming through the bedroom door any moment. Things have really changed between us recently and I really couldn't be happier for those changes because of how close they've brought us together. It was the type of closeness that had us spending almost every night talking about the things we wanted out of life before we fell asleep. There was a future somewhere out there for the both of us, and I could only hope that our paths would somehow realign so that we could be together for a very long time. Maybe it was a little disheartening that I wasn't completely sure of everything that involved both of our parts, but I believed wholeheartedly that Paige loves me. She has told me more than enough times, and I had felt more comforted knowing she did. But I just sometimes get the feeling that I wanted her more. It was a feeling I simply couldn't shake off even if I wanted to.

The door suddenly creaked open and I turned over on my side to see Paige carefully closing the door behind her as she toweled her wet hair. Paige looked over to me and saw me staring, and she smiled at me as she set the towel on the chair at my study desk before climbing into bed with me. Paige stayed sitting on her side of the bed with her legs crossed, and I turned onto my other side to watch her as she ran her fingers through her hair. Her auburn tresses had grown longer and were now almost halfway down her back. She looked so pretty with long hair, and I lifted my head up to lean my temple into my palm as my elbow supported my head's weight. We stared at each other in silence, having a silent conversation the world probably wouldn't understand, and in that moment, I realized how settled down we were already. She was my safety.

"What are you thinking about?" Paige spoke softly as she continued to run her fingers through her hair. I looked up from her hands and found her eyes not more than a second after. She was staring at me with an intense gaze, almost curious, but the strands in her eyes had colored them wonderful to suddenly steal my breath away.

"Tell me." I said emotionally. I had no idea why I was saying what I did, but it had come out beyond my own control. Paige now looked at me half confused and half curious as to what I meant to say, but I just stared passionately into her brown eyes and was expecting for her to understand what was going on in my mind. She looked almost lost in me, seeing that I wasn't revealing the meaning behind my own words.

"Tell you what exactly?" Paige hesitantly asked as she stopped combing her hair with her slender fingers. I slowly sat up and then inched forward towards her, bringing her lips to mine as I outright tackled her with fervor. I pulled away abruptly and Paige groaned as I did while I begin to look into her eyes, searching for whatever it is I was looking for. I didn't know what exactly it is that I was seeking for, but I had tried to find it anyway. I brought up a hand to caress the side of her face while I straddled her hips and then I stared longingly into her eyes, wondering how naïve she was sitting there without a clue of the thoughts running through my mind.

"Tell me that we belong together." I whispered before I leaned in and kissed her lips. She melted into me without a second's hesitation and I found myself grinding down into her as she moaned into my mouth. She tried to turn us around and switched our positions, but I held onto her shoulders and kept her where she was before I startlingly pulled back once more. I looked searchingly into her eyes and Paige seemed to have gotten the message now, because she brought her hands to my lower back and pulled me towards her, the motion grinding both our pelvises together.

"I want to find you there in every day of my life, Emily." she leaned in and kissed my lips with a strong burst of emotion before pulling away slightly. "Every day from right now, I want to be caught in-between all you wish for and all that you need." she breathed my breath. "There's really nothing else I can say, but there's time. I can show you." Paige said against my lips before I let go and allowed myself to be completely consumed by her in our throes of passion that followed.

Sometimes, starving for the truth and desperately chasing after it helps give me some direction. Some kind of clarity.

It always led me back into her arms.

I love waking up to the feeling of the sun rising high into the sky as the rays of sunlight gleamed radiantly towards me. It felt like I was riding the high myself as I slowly opened my eyes. I was then greeted with a head of hair lying on the pillow next to me. I turned my head slightly and saw that Paige had her back to me and her naked body was completely hidden away by the covers that had rose all the way up past her shoulder. I moved in towards her and got under the covers as well, circling my left arm around her waist as I pulled her into my body. She felt so warm beneath my touch, and I buried my nose in her hair as I breathed in her wonderful scent of faint vanilla and a little bit of lavender from my shampoo that she had used last night. I heard Paige moan slightly in her sleep and I smiled into her hair as I pressed butterfly kisses onto the back of her neck, brushing some hair aside so that I could brush my lips against the delicate skin on her shoulder as well.

Slowly but surely, I felt her move beneath my arm and Paige turned around and was now facing me as our chests were pressed together rather intimately. Paige tried to hide her face away into the crooked of my neck as soon as she realized that the sunlight was shining brilliantly in her direction. I cooed at the small early morning sounds she made as I brush the strands of hair out of her face, so that I could admire her angelic features. We had our arms wrapped around one another's bodies so closely that it felt like we were made to be molded into each other's frames. It felt like a joy one couldn't keep for long, and I almost sighed out loud at how right I was when I heard my phone beeping on the night table.

"Paige, can you grab that for me?" I asked her before she tried to reach for it, pushing me onto my back and then my breath hitched slightly as her breasts pressed intimately against mine. My carnal desires apparently never stopped when it came to Paige. Every little thing she did could turn me on easily, almost like a light switch. It was like finding a dress with pockets. One couldn't help but be amaze by the clever design, and at the same time it brought a special kind of happiness from the new discovery. It stirred a feeling inside that one couldn't really explain.

"Wow, my brain is weirdly channeling Hanna this morning." I whispered before I started chuckling softly.

"Well, she is texting you this early in the morning." Paige remarked as she handed me my phone and plopped back down on the pillow beside me, lying on her back this time around. I looked at the screen of my phone to find that Paige was not kidding when she mentioned Hanna had just texted me, and I found it even more odd that Hanna needed me to distract Caleb while she was out shopping with Paige.

"What did she say?" Paige said sleepily as she cuddled into my side and wrapped her arm around my middle.

"She wants me to take Caleb to The Brew for coffee. I feel like we just swapped places." I said as I finished typing a response agreeing with Hanna's request before I placed the phone back onto the table. I turned over and watched as Paige's eyes slowly wander over my semi-covered body and then back up to my eyes.

"Just make sure he knows his place and forget about trying to get fresh with my girlfriend." Paige said with slightly narrowed eyes before breaking into a smile. I sighed and brought my fingers up to trace her delicate features, wondering how I'd gotten so lucky.

"He wouldn't." I said back even though Paige was simply joking. She fairly often liked to point out how I attracted all the guys wherever we went. Although it may be true, I only had eyes for her.

"I know." Paige said as her eyes twinkled with amusement before leaning in to kiss my lips briefly. "I'll have to remind him to fend off the guys though, just to be safe." Paige added before throwing the covers off and picking up her sleeping shirt and shorts from the floor and putting them on quickly. She walked over to the study desk and grabbed her phone and began typing a message, to Caleb I assumed, before looking over to me.

"She told him about his plans with you today already, right?" Paige quirked an eyebrow as she questioned me. I nodded my head and bit down on my bottom lip as my eyes travelled down to her long good-looking legs. God, I really need to get a grip. I breathed out a bit unevenly as I brought my gaze back up to her face. Paige was still typing away on her phone and about a few seconds later, she set the cellular device back onto the table before crossing the room to my closet. I raised my eyebrows at this and I watched as Paige threw a glance back over her shoulder once she was at the entrance of the small walk-in closet.

"Hey Em, is it alright if I borrow your denim skirt?" she asked. I propped myself up on my elbows and stared at her curiously as I nodded, and I watched as she went in and almost a minute later came out with the skirt that she had been asking for.

"If I didn't know any better, I would think that you're trying to seduce my best friend, or possibly trying to pick up other girls." I teased as she went to her bag and grabbed some undergarments and a black semi-open side tank top that would've gone nicely with a lacey bra or bandeau top. Yeah, that was certainly going to show a lot of skin.

"And if I did know any better, I'd say you were jealous." Paige teased me before she quickly strode out of the bedroom, leaving me in bed with my naked self. I let go of the weight on my forearms and fell back into bed thinking about the day ahead and sighed.

Caleb had better be good company.

"So…" Caleb started as I took a sip from the cup of skinny vanilla latte that he had bought for me before I showed up. I looked up from the cup and tried not to laugh at his attempt to make conversations. I've barely sat down for five minutes while he had went to get our coffees and then come back with more condiments than I could ever imagine. It was completely unnecessary but I didn't have the heart to tell him to go put them back.

"Hanna borrowed my girlfriend for the hour, so it was only fair that I stole her boyfriend." I teased as I watch a smile touch his features. He really is a handsome guy, I observed.

"Ah…" he nodded as he looked around the café. It wasn't very busy for a Saturday morning and I could see how not many things have changed since I've last worked here during high school. Some things just never change.

"You're not usually this awkward with Paige, are you?" I smiled curiously as he chuckled embarrassingly.

"No, I'm not. Actually, I just realized that this is the first time you and I are alone without company." Caleb added as he stroke the rim of his mug. I looked on interestingly and tried to think back to the times where we have hung out without the girls and found that he was right, we hadn't spoken over coffee before. Ever.

"You're right." I grinned shyly as we stared amusedly into one another's eyes.

"So, how are you and Paige doing, if you don't mind me asking?" Caleb suddenly put forward. I was slightly thrown off at his straightforwardness. Maybe Hanna had influenced him more than I had previously thought.

"In love and couldn't be any happier." I admitted after a few seconds, while smiling like a lovesick fool.

"Is that so? My source is surely getting wrong details then." Caleb wore a thoughtful expression as he said this.

"This source…" I began as I looked at him suspiciously.

"It's Hanna." he chuckled as he took a sip from his coffee. I quirked an eyebrow his way before rewinding yesterday and today's events inside my head.

"Did she send you here to talk to me? Is this what it's about?" I asked as he sent me a curious glance.

"What exactly is it that she wanted me to talk to you about?" Caleb vaguely asked.

"I don't know! You're sitting there…with your thinking expression on, and you're telling me in the least subtle way that – "

"Whoa Emily, slow down." Caleb motioned with his hands as he smiled concernedly my way. "I only got a text this morning to come here at one-thirty and meet with you. That was all there was to the message. Oh, and I got Paige's warning as well." he smiled and confirmed with me what my girlfriend had told me this morning.

"Oh." I barely managed to say as I realized how I almost screwed up Hanna's surprise for him. That was a close call.

"Yeah, so no need to get worked up over nothing." Caleb slowly nodded as the tension gradually went away.

"Sorry, that was totally uncalled for." I apologized, suddenly filled with embarrassment.

"No, I get it. Well, from what Hanna says…" Caleb went off again.

"What exactly did she tell you?" I finally decided to ask him.

"Um…" Caleb laughed awkwardly as he reached behind and scratched his head. I knew immediately what it was that Hanna had told him then.

"That was months ago, Caleb. Paige and I… We're very happy now." I was hoping to come across much clearer than my words had. Caleb's eyes widened a little in surprise but he smiled anyway.

"Oh, I see." Caleb said as he looked elsewhere to regain his straight face.

"Look, we don't have to talk about this. Why can't we have a normal conversation like everyone else?" I asked forthrightly. Caleb turned his attention to me again as he cleared his throat and then decided to speak first.

"You're right. Um, so how's…" Caleb suddenly threw his hands in the air and then dropped them onto his lap. "Ah, I give up!" he sighed with frustration.

"Sorry. I swear, it's not like I'm trying to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong, but all Paige and I ever talk about when we hang out are…you and Hanna." he smiled shyly as he rolled his eyes.

"Really?" I found myself uttering.

"Really." Caleb looked at me with a dreadfully earnest expression. That's sweet.

"Wow." I let out a breath as I looked away.

"She really loves you, Emily. It…gets pretty ridiculous sometimes how we're both talking about our girlfriends and not even listening to each other talk." Caleb laughed as he said this and I joined in and then looked at him gratefully.

"Thanks, Caleb." I smiled before I looked down at my hands.

"Thank her. She's a fighter, that girl." I heard Caleb sigh again and I looked up to see him staring at the coffee mug in-between his hands.

"That, she is." I agreed as we both then looked at each other. It hadn't occurred to me how much importance she was to other people as well. I'd been so wrapped up in my own emotions, I had completely ignored everyone else's. I'm such an idiot.

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives." Caleb spoke with so much faith in the words he had said a moment ago. "I just wish I'd known what she was talking about when she told me that during our final year in high school. I understand it now. I really do." he said, and it seemed like he was speaking more to himself than to me.

"Nothing's going to happen to her, Caleb." I heard myself say, not really sure if I was trying to convince him or myself. "She belongs with us." I whispered softly as I stared at the patterns carved into the wooden table. I then heard him chuckle across from me, and I looked up to see his mirth-filled his eyes. This guy's ridiculously cheery all the time, no wonder Hanna's so in love with him.

"Lovers, they'll hold on. They always do." Caleb winked my way before bringing the coffee mug up to his lips to take another sip. I did the same, and we basked in the quietness of each other's company, not caring that we were having a fulfilling silent moment to recognize the wondrous truth.

"Love is magical." I finally uttered after holding out for what I don't know.

Disclaimers: I do not own Pretty Little Liars.