Later that night, when Spencer and Emily arrived back at Emily's apartment, Emily parked her car next to Spencer's. They spent a few minutes sitting in Emily's car before getting out.

"Thank you for everything today." Spencer said, closing Emily's car door behind her. "I had an amazing time."

"Me too."

Spencer wrapped her arms around Emily and hugged her tight. When they separated Emily gently brushed Spencer's hair away from her face and leaned down to kiss the brunette. Emily's hands planted themselves on Spencer's hips and Spencer draped her arms over Emily's shoulders as the architect deepened the kiss.

Once the kiss was broken, Spencer pulled back and stared lovingly up into Emily's eyes as she took the architect's hand. They spent a few long moments not speaking.

"You should get home." Emily said, softly. "It's getting late. I don't want your mom to worry."

Spencer just nodded.

"Wait, I almost forgot." Spencer opened the passenger door of Emily's car and pulled out her stuffed giraffe from the seat.

"You definitely wouldn't want to forget that little guy." Emily smiled. "Drive safely and text me as soon as you get home."

Emily opened Spencer's car door for her.

"It's only across town, Em." Spencer said.

"I know. But, it's important that I always know you're safe when you're not with me. Okay?"

"I love you."

"I love you, too." Emily leaned forward and kissed her girlfriend on the cheek. "Goodnight, Spence."

"Night." Spencer smiled and got into her car.

Emily closed the car door and watched Spencer drive away before turning and heading into her own apartment.

When Spencer arrived home, she pulled her phone from her pocket and texted Emily before getting out of the car. Spencer then walked across the driveway and up the porch steps. She opened the front door and walked into the living room, where she saw her mother sitting at the kitchen island, typing on her cell phone, with a cup of coffee near by.

"Hi, mom."

"Hi, honey." Veronica looked up. "How was your day?"

"It was great. Emily and I spent the whole day together."

"What did you do?"

"Well...first, we had lunch together in Love Park, then we went to the zoo and Emily bought me this adorable giraffe and then we went to a movie. Thank you for giving Emily the day off. We had the best time."

"You're welcome. Emily deserved a day off. I'm glad you two had a nice time."

"Thanks for being so supportive of us. It means a lot to both Emily and I."

"As long as you two are happy together, then I'm happy for you."

"Thanks, mom." Spencer walked over to her mother and hugged her.

"You want some coffee or anything, sweetheart?"

"No thanks. I think I'm just gonna head upstairs."

"Okay. Goodnight."

"Night, mom."

As Spencer slept, her mind was flooded with thoughts of Emily. It was early the next morning when Spencer's overactive mind took her to Emily's apartment, or more specifically Emily's bedroom.

"Listen, Spencer, are you sure about this?" Emily asked in a serious tone of voice. "We don't have to…"

"I'm sure." Spencer nodded. "I want to."

"Okay."

Spencer watched intently, her eyes never leaving Emily's body as the architect unbuttoned her own shirt and tossed it aside. Emily then pressed her lips to Spencer's as she gently laid the brunette down on the bed and climbed on top of her. As they kissed Emily's hands very slowly began undoing the buttons on Spencer's shirt.

"Em..." Spencer moaned into the kiss.

Spencer sat up, just enough for Emily to slid the shirt off of her shoulders and toss it away. Spencer shuddered at the feeling of Emily's hard, well-developed abdominal muscles, pressed against her skin.

Spencer suddenly became even more nervous as she felt Emily's hands slowly slide down her stomach and grasp the button of her pants. Spencer felt a sudden rush of heat flood over her cheeks, she knew that by this time her underwear would be soaked all the way through and she didn't want Emily to think that she was too anxious.

"Are you okay?" Emily asked, feeling Spencer's body tense underneath her. "Do you want me to stop?"

"No, Em. Please don't stop."

Emily smiled and made quick work of ridding the brunette of her pants. Spencer pulled Emily back down for a kiss. After a few minutes, Emily began kissing and lightly nipping at Spencer's neck as a hand made its way underneath the brunette's back. Spencer's hands slid up Emily's back, leaving random nail marks all over the area as Emily unhooked Spencer's bra and slid it off, quickly tossing it off of the bed. Spencer could see Emily's eyes wandering all over her body. Emily placed a few gentle kisses over Spencer's chest before slowly making her way down Spencer's abdomen, to the hem of her panties. Spencer silently cursed herself for not choosing a sexier pair of underwear this morning, but at the same time she knew Emily didn't care. Emily hooked her fingers into the waistband of Spencer's panties and slowly began pulling them downward. It was at that moment that Spencer's eyes snapped open. She was lying on her back clutching the stuffed giraffe Emily had given her, tightly to her chest.

"God damn it." Spencer groaned as she reached up and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

She set her giraffe on the bed next to her and closed her eyes again. Spencer replayed the dream over in her head. This wasn't the first time in recent weeks that Spencer had woken up completely unsatisfied after a dream about Emily. Over the past couple of weeks, Spencer had been finding herself thinking more and more about Emily and sex-whether she had been awake or asleep didn't matter, it seemed as though sex was a frequent subject on Spencer's mind. Of course she loved Emily, but that didn't make her any less nervous about her first time.

Spencer shifted her position on the bed as she felt a very familiar, uncomfortable throbbing sensation radiate between her legs. Spencer reached underneath her blanket and slipped her shorts off. She then slowly slid her right hand inside of her underwear. Spencer closed her eyes as she tentatively slipped two fingers into her own center and began rubbing herself in a slow circular motion, picking up speed as her arousal intensified. After a few minutes, Spencer began slightly thrusting her hips upward as she rubbed herself even harder. She was just about on the edge of climaxing when she was interrupted by the sound of the door knob turning, which served as the only warning to Melissa walking into the room a moment later.

Spencer immediately stopped moving and laid still, hoping that Melissa hadn't noticed any movement underneath the blanket. Spencer slowly slipped her hand out of her panties, rolled onto her side and pulled her blanket up over her shoulders. She yawed as if she had just woken up.

"Good, you're awake. Mom wants to know if you want to come to the club for breakfast with us. You can bring Emily if you want to."

"No thanks. I've got some homework I need to get done. Besides, I think taking Emily to the club before dad knows about us is a bad idea. There are way too many people who could accidentally blow our cover to him."

"Maybe you're right...I guess mom and I will get going then."

"Okay. I'll see you later." Melissa turned and walked out of the room.

Spencer then heard her phone chime. She reached over to the nightstand and picked up her phone to see that she had a text from Hanna.

Hey. Wanna hang out?

Sure. I've got some homework to do though, so come over later this afternoon.

Okay. See you then.

Spencer set her phone back down on her nightstand and let out a loud sigh. By now, having lost absolutely all of her previous state of arousal, Spencer decided to get up and take a shower.

Later that afternoon.

Spencer was sitting on her bed, reading something on her laptop when Hanna walked in.

"Hey, Spence."

"Oh, hey Han." Spencer said, obviously startled by Hanna's presence.

Spencer quickly shut her laptop and stood up, the movement knocking her stuffed giraffe off of the bed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Hanna said. "Your mom let me in."

Hanna walked over to the bed and picked up the giraffe.

"Where'd you get this?" Hanna asked, giving the animal back to Spencer.

"Emily got it for me. We went to the zoo yesterday."

"Aw. That's sweet."

"Yeah. We had a great time. You should have seen Emily bottle-feed this little lamb...it was adorable...hold on I have a picture."

Spencer pulled out her phone, found the picture and showed it to Hanna.

"Aw. How cute is she?"

"I know. She's amazing." Spencer smiled.

"What else did you guys do yesterday?"

"After we left the zoo, we went to a super lame movie and spent practically the whole hour and a half making out in the back row. I'm surprised we didn't get kicked out."

"Hot. Is Emily a good kisser?"

"Yeah. Really good, actually."

"Somehow that doesn't surprise me...so how did the whole quality time hockey outing between Emily and your mom go?" Hanna sat down on the bed.

"It was great. We all went to dinner after the game. Emily was, of course, sweet and charming, she was still a little nervous around my mom, though."

"But, your mom likes her and everything, right?"

"Yeah. She seems to. And Emily didn't have any complaints at all about Melissa or my mom, so I assume everything went well between them during the game."

"I don't really know how anyone couldn't like Emily. She's so nice."

"I know. My mom's been so supportive since the minute I came out to her. Even Melissa's been pretty cool. I can't believe I waited so long to tell my mom about Emily and I."

"You were trying to protect Emily. Just in case for some reason your mom wouldn't have been so chill about you and Ms. Fix it dating, but it looks like everyone's on team Spemily, you just have to get your dad on board."

"Team what?" Spencer said.

"Spemily. Spencer plus Emily equals Spemily, that's your couple nickname. Duh, Spence."

"We have a couple name." Spencer smiled.

"So...have you thought about how you're gonna tell your dad?"

"I've thought about it, but I still don't know what to say. I think I should probably just sit him down and tell him the truth, but I don't know if I should like tell him I'm gay first, let that sink in, then tell him about Emily…"

"You told your mom everything all at once, right?"

"Yeah. I came out to her and she was cool with it, then I couldn't stop myself, everything about Emily just sort of spilled out."

"I think you should tell your dad the same way. Just rip the Band-aid off. Get it over with as fast as possible and deal with everything all at once. I think it'll be easier."

"Maybe you're right. I'll have to think about it. I just don't want my dad to end up being mad at Emily. She didn't do anything wrong."

"You can always just blame your dad for hiring a hot architect. If he had hired an ugly one, nothing would have ever happened." Hanna laughed.

"I'm not sure if that'll work, but I'll keep it in mind for a defense tactic." Spencer laughed. "So...how was your date with Caleb last night?"

"Pretty good. We just went to dinner at The Grille and a movie with Noel and Aria. I'm surprised we didn't run into you guys at the theater."

"We were in Philly most of the evening. When we left the zoo, since we were already in the city we decided to just go to a movie there before heading back to Rosewood."

"Aria and I should have tagged along with you and Emily. Caleb and Noel were so embarrassing at the movies, they like took these really geeky pictures of each other with one of the Iron Man displays…like those cardboard cut out things."

"Oh my God." Spencer laughed.

"Yeah so Aria and I just went into the theater by ourselves so they had to come find us and we made them buy us extra snacks for being embarrassing. Oh and then this morning I saw Caleb changed his Facebook profile picture from one of me and him to the one Noel took of him and stupid Iron Man. Seriously, what the hell?"

"I wanna see it." Spencer laughed.

"Can I use your computer?"

"Sure." Spencer picked up her laptop and gave it to Hanna.

"I'll have to bitch at him later to change his picture back. I'm way cuter than some super hero in a metal suit."

Hanna opened the laptop and the screen came to life. Spencer then realized that she hadn't closed the webpage that she had been looking at when Hanna had walked in. Spencer quickly reached for the keyboard to close the tab, but Hanna had already seen what was on the screen. The page happened to be an article about various lesbian sexual techniques.

"Spence. You and Emily haven't done it, yet...have you?" Hanna asked, looking over at Spencer.

Spencer's face turned bright red as she put her head down.

"No. Don't you think I would have told you if we had?"

"Well...it seems like you're thinking about it."

"Yeah. I'd be lying if I said it hasn't been on my mind a lot, lately. Like this morning, I had a dream about Emily and I in bed together. I mean I used to have dreams like that a lot when I first met Emily, then they kind of tapered off, but now it's been happening again…like a lot and I always wake up just before the best part."

"Don't you hate that? Then you have to take care of "the situation." Hanna made air quotes. "Before you can get up and do anything else. Or at least I always need to."

"Yeah well, Melissa almost walked in on me "taking care" of that situation this morning."

"Awkward. Did she say anything to you?"

"No. I stopped before she saw anything."

"So...if you're having a lot of wet dreams about Emily, maybe it means you actually want to do it with her for real."

"I'm pretty sure I want to...I'm just really nervous, you know? What if I'm bad? What if Emily doesn't like it?"

"Nobody doesn't like it, Spence." Hanna laughed. "Besides, I think you'll probably find yourself on the receiving end of things to start. Just let Emily take control and use what ever she does as a guide. Oh and don't be a starfish. No one likes a starfish."

"What's a starfish?" Spencer asked.

"Someone who just lays there and doesn't move or do anything during sex. It's boring."

"Great. I have to think about whether or not I'm moving enough? I don't want Emily to think I'm boring...Now, I'm even more nervous."

"Relax. I think everyone is at least a little bit nervous about losing their virginity."

"I know, but Emily has so much more experience and I don't even know where to start, so I have to read stuff on the internet. It's embarrassing."

"No, it's not. You're just a perfectionist and a planner. You want to be prepared. There's nothing wrong with that. You want me to talk to Emily? I could try to find out what she likes to do in bed..."

"Oh God, no." Spencer answered quickly. "That's way too awkward, but thanks."

"Okay. I understand."

"Han...how do I know if I'm like really ready for this? I mean I'm eighteen now, I feel like I should be..."

"Age doesn't have anything to do with it, but I don't think anyone really knows that they're one hundred percent ready. It kind of just happens."

"I guess..."

"Listen, Spence, I think it's so awesome that you've held out for true love, I know it's not easy and I know you've been waiting for your knight in shining armor and honestly, I think Emily's it. She's perfect for you. She's so sweet. I don't know that you could find a better girl."

"I know. I love Emily. She's everything I've ever wanted and she's been so patient with me and my wanting to wait."

"She obviously loves and respects you a lot. I'm not trying to tell you want to do. It's completely up to you, but no one will judge you if you decide to sleep with her. You guys love each other, there's nothing wrong with expressing that, physically. Besides, it's not like whole world has to know if and when you do it. It should be between you and Emily. You don't even have to talk to me or Aria or Alison about it, if you don't want to. Try not to worry so much about everything. Just relax and go with the flow, when the right time comes, you'll know. But, definitely expect for things to be a little bit awkward. First times pretty much always are."

"Thanks, Han. I feel a lot better."

"Glad I could help."

Later that evening.

Spencer went downstairs and walked into the kitchen where her mother was cooking dinner.

"Spencer, honey, can you set the table for me, please?"
Veronica asked.

"Sure…is dad going to be home for dinner?"

"No. I just got off the phone with him." Veronica said. "It looks like they're having some bad storms up in New York and his flight got cancelled. The next available flight back to Pennsylvania is for tomorrow at seven p.m. So I guess he'll be stuck in New York until tomorrow night."

"What's he going to do until tomorrow?" Spencer asked, pulling some dishes out of the cabinet.

"Probably just find a hotel and spend the night watching sports on TV and ordering one of everything from the room service menu." Veronica said.

"Well…I guess when you put it that way, it doesn't sound quite so bad." Spencer laughed.

"I'm sure he's secretly glad." Veronica chuckled.

"Probably…what are we eating anyway?" Spencer asked.

"I made chicken. Can you go to the barn and tell your sister and Wren that dinner's just about ready?"

"Can I just text Melissa?"

"Why? Are your legs broken?" Veronica asked, pulling a pan of chicken from the oven.

"No…but what if they're like…doing it or something. I don't want to see that."

"That's why we should knock first." Veronica said. "Especially with five people living here."

"Yeah? Someone should really tell Melissa that." Spencer mumbled.

"What was that, sweetheart?"

"Nothing, mom. I'll be right back."

"Okay. Thank you."