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Epilogue

Spencer's POV

-Two years later-

I still cannot believe that it's been two years since Emily and I hugged each other in Hanna's backyard. I knew at that time that things were going to get hard and intense, but I had no idea how much. Things were downright crazy. Even in my wildest dreams I had no idea, not even close. Actually, it made me realise how much I worried for nothing. I had a thousand scenarios in my head and not one of them was true. I have to say that I'm better at living in the moment now. I don't get anxious as much and I try not to plan too far ahead. I know now that it's not worth it. The only thing it does is to make you live an awful situation twice. I prefer to live it only once. I'm still prepared for things to happen, I mean, I'm still Spencer Hastings, but I try not to overanalyse everything. I don't want to be like -A; living in the past and two steps ahead in the future at the same time. It sucks not seeing your life passing by, not living it at all. -A… That bastard!

"Hey gorgeous, what's going on in your head?" My beautiful girlfriend asks me as she sits down next to me on the patio and looks at the sunset on the ocean too.

Living next to the beach is one of the best decisions I took in my life. Almost every evening I come out here to watch the sun sets on the water. It is simply breathtaking. Also falling asleep to the sound of the waves crashing on the shore and the breathing of my girlfriend is the most soothing thing in the world, hell in the universe even. Waking up to the smell of fresh coffee and salt water just starts the day beautifully. I'm less anxious because I choose to be, but I have to admit that living in a paradise like this one also helps a lot.

"I was just reminiscing, I guess. I'm so happy to be here."

"I'm happy to be here with you." She says as she lays her head on my shoulder.

I kiss the top of her head and close my eyes, taking in the amazing feeling of knowing I'm where I should be. Finally. We stay outside a bit longer. Even after it gets dark. The air is deliciously warm against our bodies. Another thing I like about this place. California. Another one of my best decisions. Once everything was over with -A, Rosewood just didn't feel right anymore. Well… To be honest, it never really did. So, moving to the other side of the continent seemed perfect. I'm sad that Hanna and Aria stayed behind, but at least they have each other.

"How about taking a bath before going to bed?" I suggest as I get up and offer my hand to her.

My girlfriend takes it lovingly and we walk inside. I lock the door behind us and double check it; thanks to the psychopath that almost killed us all in high school. I might be less anxious, but I guess that some things will stay with me forever. Like double checking every lock and the huge scar across my ribcage. I hear the bath running upstairs. She went up ahead of me, knowing that I had to make sure everything was secure on the bottom floor before being able to go up. As I walk in the bathroom, I stop dead in the doorframe.

"Did I ever tell you how glad I am for your swimming career?" I ask her as I admire her toned body.

"About a hundred time." She giggles.

"Well… Get ready to hear it a thousand more, Emily Fields." I tell her and I walk closer and wrap her in my arms.

"I won't argue with that." She expresses as she instigates a make out session.

I grab the back of her head and I bring her closer to me, making sure that there is absolutely no space between our lips. She moans softly and I'm amazed that that noise still drives me crazy after all that time. It always will. With my other hand, I hold on to her waist, making sure she's not going anywhere. She takes my ass into both of her hands and squeezes it lightly. She sneaks her knee between my legs at the same time and presses her thigh against my core, making me wet instantly. She knows my body entirely and can turn me on in seconds.

"Bath! Now!" I mumble against her lips as I start to walk her backward towards the bathtub.

"Easy there, tiger. Clothes off first." She laughs as she forces me to step away from her.

She is already in her underwear since she had started getting undressed before I walked in. She unbuttons my shirt very slowly.

"Em…" I warn her, already impatient to feel her fingers on my naked body.

She smirks at me and keeps her slow pace. Once the buttons are all undone, she slowly slides my shirt off my shoulders and lets it slide to the floor. I want to make her move faster, but I know her. She's in charge right now. And trust me, if you had someone like her that can make your body ignite in seconds, you'd let her be in charge too. I guess that this whole -A thing brought out the confidence in her. And I LOVE it.

Emily slides her hands down my body sensually until she reaches my pants. She undoes the button and the zipper and kneels to drag them off my legs. Once they are also on the floor, she starts to get up, but in her movement her nose touches my center lightly and it takes every power in me not to grab her head and keep her there. Where I need her the most right now. I can see her smirk again. Of course, it was planned.

We are now both only wearing our underwear. Emily doesn't move. She stands in front of me and plunges her eyes in mine. God, I love that girl. I'm head over heels and always will be.

"I love you." She says as she steps closer, getting ready to undress me completely.

"Wait!" I half scream, surprising myself.

"What's wrong?" Emily asks instantly, worry filling her eyes.

"I… I…"

"You're speechless? Did I do something wrong?"

As soon as I see the guilt in her eyes, my brain kicks back to life.

"No! Of course not!" I say as I walk towards her and grab her hands. "It's just…"

"What?"

"I had prepared something so romantic for this, but right now, in this moment, that's when it feels right."

"What feels right?" Emily asks getting nervous. "You do realise my panties are soaked and that I have to control myself not to jump you right now?"

At those words, I can't stop myself from laughing. The situation just seems ridiculous. Emily joins in the laughter. Once it dies down, I walk towards a drawer, the one where we put a bunch of stuff we never really use but keep just in case. I plunge my hand at the back of it and take out a small black box. I turn around towards Emily and I can see a mix of love, stress, curiosity and pure happiness on her face.

"Emily… I know that, right now, in our underwear in the middle of our bathroom seems like a weird time to ask you this… But I feel it's right. Because in this moment you've made me feel loved, desired, happy and safe. And that's how I've always felt with you. Even with all the crazy we've been through. There's no word to express how much I love you. You know my body, my heart and my soul more than I know them myself. And I know you from inside out too. I want us to spend our life together. I want to make you as happy and whole as you make me feel. I promise to do that for the rest of my life. Will you marry me?" I ask her as I open the box to show her the ring I picked out for her.

As I look up from the box and into her eyes, I can see tears gathering. She doesn't move or say anything and I'm not sure how to react. We stand there for what seems like hours, just looking at each other.

"I can't believe this…" She whispers.

"What? Why?" I ask worriedly.

She walks past me and I feel my heart stop. I turn to watch her walk away, but she stops in front of her pants discarded on the floor and bends down. She rummages in her pockets and once she finds what she wants she gets up and turns towards me. I look down at her hands and see an identical black box.

"I've been carrying this around in my pocket for days, trying to figure out when to ask you the exact same thing." She says as the most genuine and bright smile I've ever seen on her face takes place. "Will you marry me?"

Emily opens the box and I look down at the amazing and perfect ring she chose for me.

"Yes! A thousand times yes!" I say as I pick her up in my arms and start to spin us around.

Our laughs fill the room instantly. Once I put her down, she takes the ring out of the box and takes my left hand in hers. She looks at me lovingly as she slides the ring in the place where it will forever stay on my finger. I kiss her hand as I do the same gesture with her ring. She looks at her hand in awe before she grabs my face and kisses me like she's never done before. I wrap my arms around her and pull her closer to me, as close as is it physically possible. I think that my heart is going to beat out of my chest. I can't believe this just happened. I can't believe we'll get married.

As we kiss, we take off the rest of our clothes. Emily pushes me backward until my back rests against a wall. The coldness of the wall makes me shiver, but she pushes her body against mine and I can't seem to care anymore. She kisses down my neck, towards my breasts, as she slips her thigh between my legs. I moan at the contact of it with my center. Emily looks up at me with a satisfied smile as she sucks on my nipple, driving me crazy.

I grab her face with both of my hands, and I force her to look at me. I need to slow things down if I want to be able to take care of her too. I'm just so happy, in love and horny right now that I know it won't take me long to come. My fiancée… Wow! Fiancée! She looks at me with a knowing smirk. She knows my emotions are tightly connected with my sex drive. She seems to be better at controlling herself.

"Want to get in the bath?" She asks me lovingly.

"Yeah…" I say as she drags me toward the bathtub.

She gets in first and sit down with her back resting against the bathtub. She opens her legs and extends her hand to me to help me get in. I sit down between her legs and rest my back against her. I lay my head back on her shoulder and I sigh deeply. I feel so peaceful yet alive when we are cuddling. Emily wraps her arms around my shoulders and hugs me tight. I put my hands on her arms and hug her too. She kisses me on the side of my head. I am awfully aware of her hands resting so close to my boobs. I unconsciously clench my legs, trying to get a kind of friction to my core. My brunette notices it right away, of course. With one hand she turns my head sideways towards her and kisses me kind of awkwardly. She uses the distraction to slide the other hand to my nipple. She pinches it softly, making me moan into the kiss. She slides the hand that was resting on my cheek towards my center, making me shiver with need. She circles my clit as she keeps playing with my nipple. I push my head back against her shoulder, arching my back to get more friction to my core. Emily bites down on my earlobe as she plays with my clit with more pressure. I can already feel an orgasm building since I was already so worked up.

"Em… I… fuck! I won't… Oh god!" I am unable to form a coherent sentence.

"Shhhh… It's okay. I love you, Spence."

She slowly enters me with two of her fingers as she keeps stroking my clit.

"Ummmm! Emily!" I half scream as I can feel my walls clenching around her fingers. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! More! Please! I'm so close!"

Emily slides a third finger inside of me as she builds up a fast rhythm. I know that I'm so close. As she slides in and out of me, she presses down on my clit, pinches my nipple and licks my earlobe at the same time, bringing me over the edge. Everything gets dark and the only thing I see for a couple of seconds are so many colors exploding.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Fuck!" I scream as Emily helps me down from my high.

"I love how loud you are." Emily whispers in my ear as she still slides her fingers slowly inside of my vagina. It sends shivers down my spine, almost getting me worked up again.

She takes her fingers out and brings them to her lips to clean them off.

"Fuck, Em…" I whispers as I do everything in my power to keep my eyes open to watch her taste me for what must be the hundredth time.

Emily smiles at me and kisses me softly as she wraps her arms back around my shoulders.

"I love you" I mumble as I feel my eyes slowly closing.

I can feel Emily hugging me tighter as I drift off to sleep.

I am walking in the dark in Radley's empty and dirty hallways. Hanna and Aria are sitting in a car outside, making sure that -A can't escape us once again. Emily is following a few steps behind. We are hoping that -A doesn't know that I'm not alone. Or at least that she doesn't see Emily as a threat, even though our whole plan rest on her shoulders, to my displeasure.

It's been a few months since we have forgiven Hanna. I wanted to act faster, but we decided to work on a plan and to play into -A's game for a while before finally trying to bring her down. That bitch made us do so many things that I thought for sure we would end up in jail. Well… I guess after tonight we might… We waited that long because we wanted to make it believe that we had given up after what happened with Hanna. We did everything it asked as if we finally admitted that it had won. After a few weeks, we started planting mics and cameras in a few key places, while making sure that -A's attention was on at least one of us because of something big. It was starting to get restless, thinking that it could get us with bigger and bigger secrets. After so many hours of video watching, we were able to establish a pattern and find out where -A was doing all of her spying: Radley Sanitarium. There were so many hooded people coming in and out of there that we still could not find who was the leader. So we took a few more weeks trying to decide how to expose them.

Once we were able to find the time of the week when there were less people inside, we decided to act. We decided to let Hanna and Aria outside and act as though I was the one trying to bring -A down. Emily was the one carrying a crowbar, hoping that she wouldn't have to hurt anyone. We were planning on -A attacking me, and Emily surprising her from behind. We wanted to overpower her and bring her to the police with all the evidence we could find in their lair.

I turn a corner, hoping to finally be able to find the operation room, or whatever they called it. I hear voices being raised somewhere down the hall. I look quickly behind, trying to catch a glimpse of my girlfriend, but I don't. and I don't look too much, not wanting to draw attention to the fact that I'm not alone. I hurry up toward the source of the sound. As I turn another corner, I see someone running from a room farther along. I start to run too, but as she looks behind to see who is after her, I realise that it's Mona, and my guts tell me that she is not the one I need to catch. I run faster to reach the room she came out of and I open the door without trying to be subtle. As I come into the room, I find myself in front of a wall full of screens showing every place where the girls and I spend time. I stop dead in my tracks. I see movement to my right and as I look toward it, I freeze. My eyes meet the ones of my sister. I open my mouth to say something, but no words come out. I don't know what to do anymore.

"Spencer! Look out!" I hear coming from somewhere behind me.

I don't even have the time to react as I feel my sister slice into the skin of my ribcage with something really sharp. I fall to the floor in immense pain as I see a blur running past me and tackling my sister to the floor. I try to help, but I cannot find the strength. I watch in helplessness as Emily is trying to pin Melissa to the floor, without being stabbed. I bring my hands to the deep cut to my side and I try to stop the bleeding.

"Spencer! Honey, wake up. You're safe. It's over." Emily says in my ear as she moves in the bathtub to be able to draw my hands away from my scar and put hers instead, keeping me from trying to put pressure on my ribs to stop the bleeding that is no longer there.

I open my eyes and a tear escape as I realize that I am once again dreaming of the worst night in my life.

"It's okay, love. Everything will be okay." Emily says as she trails her finger along my scar, making me shiver. "This is just proof that you are the strongest person I know."

"You are the one who overpowered her singlehandedly. I just froze." I say as I look down.

"Maybe, but nobody was expecting to find your sister there… I only found the strength to bring her to the police because she had hurt you so bad."

"I can't believe my sister is the one who gave me that ugly scar…" I say as I watch her finger tracing it and trying not to cry.

"Let's get out. I need to wrap you in my arms more than this."

I get out of the bathtub and grab a towel. As soon as Emily is out too, I wrap the towel around her perfect body, before doing the same with mine. Emily dries herself and drops her towel, reaching out for her pajama. I grab her hand to stop her.

"You are definitely not wearing clothes tonight, fiancée."

"I am not?" She asks teasingly.

I drop my towel to the floor too.

"If you are, than so am I…"

"You're right! No clothes!" Emily says enthusiastically.

We walk to our bed and find comfort in each other's arms again as soon as we lay under the blankets. We hold each other for a while but being so close to her naked body does something to me. I look at her mischievously as I start to kiss down her body, getting ready to go down on her. As my tongue touches her clit, my name leaves her lips loudly.

"I love you, Spence!" She screams. "Always."

"Always." I echo.

There we are... The end... After all this time... Hope you enjoyed.

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