Chapter One:

Emily is not usually the kind of girl you expect to make one night stands. She usually does not dance on bars, hook up with friends she hasn't seen in years, drink until the sun comes up, or forget what happened the night before. But, this week, all that seems to be going out the window.

She has woken up more nights than she can count, recently, not remembering what happened before. And, this morning was no exception.

Her mouth was dry and her eyes weren't open, but she could feel a heat on top of her. This heat felt achingly familiar as she struggled to open her eyes. The heat had a sick, sweetening smell of vanilla, a smell Emily had missed and hated equally much in the past six years. The heat was laying on top of her and she could tell by the soft legs and soft mumbles coming from it that this heat was a girl. A girl she must have hooked up with.

She groaned and began to open her eyes when all the sudden a loud knock came from the door. "Mommy! Audrey won't let me in the bathroom!" a tiny voice cried from outside the door, trying to get in. Emily gasped in surprise.

The heat that was on top of her, now sat straight up. Now, Emily could see that the heat had lots of blonde hair and was wearing barely any clothes. The sight was fairly familiar to Emily as she looked at the girl as she left. The blonde was up and out of the room in under five seconds. She threw on some shorts and a shirt and was gone. She didn't turn around as she left the room. This left Emily groaning as she fell back on the bed, wondering who she could have hooked up with that had kids.

Alison could not believe her luck! Instead of getting to spend the entire day with Emily and catching up with her, Elliott must've dropped the kids off early. He probably had "some important business matter to attend to" just like he always did when it is his turn to watch the twins.

Alison groaned as she made her way down the hall to the kids' bathroom. Emily was going to kill her. Not only did Alison fail to mention she had kids, when Emily came over, she slept with her! Dear god, Alison thought, I'm going to be murdered before I have the chance to explain myself.

She finally reached the bathroom and knocked softly on the door, "Audrey, baby, it's mommy. Can you open up the door?" Audrey always did this after going to her dad's. Laken silently sat there pulling on her hand trying not to pee. Alison usually lets him use her bathroom when this happens, but with someone in her room, she didn't want to explain who that is.

Audrey softly mumbled back, "Daddy doesn't love us, does he?"

Alison knew being Audrey wouldn't understand, because Alison didn't either. She didn't know how Elliott could leave his kids when Alison barely could let them go to daycare without her heart aching. Alison said, "Yes, he does, love. He's just busy."

"No, he doesn't… When you're busy, you don't leave us with daddy," Audrey softly said from behind the closed door.

Alison felt her heart break even more for her poor three-year-olds. She decided in that moment the next time Elliott complained about not being able to see the kids more, she would bring up this moment here. She slowly reached behind the pot and grabbed the key that was taped to it, not usually having to force her way in, but today was unlike normal days. She really didn't want to have to clean Laken's urine off the floor with Emily still in her room.

She pushed the key into its slot and turned the knob. "Come on, baby. Let's let Laken use the bathroom while we go fix breakfast, okay?" she said as Laken pushed past her to get to the toilet. Audrey nodded silently, her big bright blue eyes so alike her mothers in many ways. She closed the door and put the key back as Audrey and her began to walk down the hall.

"Audrey, I need to change some clothes rather quickly, do you mind waiting for a second?" Alison asked as they walked past her room.

Her eyes watered up at the idea of another parent abandoning her, but Audrey shook her head. Alison's heart clenched again for her beautiful little girl. She once again thought Elliott was going to pay for breaking her little girl's heart.

Right when, she began to open the door to her bedroom, she heard Laken's little feet padding down the hallway. She sighed and turned around, "Laken, how many times do I have to tell you? You don't run down the halls, you run outside."

His little head bobbed somberly, "But I had to tell you something!"

"Still no excuse to run, Babyboy, but what is it?"

He reached his hand into his pocket of his grey hoodie and pulled out a long, shiny white envelope. "Daddy's girlfriend wanted me to give you this."

Alison grimaced, once again seeing Audrey's little eyes water up. Alison took the note from his little hand and nodded. "Laken, will you take your sister down to the living room? You may watch TV. I'll be down right after I change some clothes."

He nodded again and grabbed his twin's hand. They walked down the hall to the stairs when Alison called out, "Grab onto the rails!" Slowly the sounds of their feet faded as they walked down the stairs.

Alison collapsed onto the bench where she would put on their socks. She waited until she heard the faint buzz of the television before slowly opening the note. Inside was a check and a note. She assumed the check was for child support and disregarded it for the second. She pulled out the note. It looked written fairly quickly.

It read:

"Alison DiLaurentis…

I am Elliott's new fiancé, Mona Vanderwaal, as I am sure you already know. Elliott and I have been engaged for months and we are planning a June wedding. I'm sure he's already told you that, as well. I'm assuming he's also told you that we were wanting to put Audrey and Laken in the wedding, but, recently, we decided the wedding would be better if his ex-fling and his kids from that fling weren't there.

It's nothing personal, we just thought a respectable, Rosewood wedding would be better off if the ex-ish was not there parading around with all of our family and friends there. I really hope you understand. I'm sure the kids would be happier this way, too. Between you and me, I don't think they actually like me.

Inside is a check for the dress and suit that the kids were supposed to wear, but now that they won't, I figured you'd want the money back."

Alison felt her heart throb again for her two babies. They were both so excited to be part of their daddy's wedding. Alison has a sinking suspicion that this was what upset Audrey this morning.

She sighed as she opened the door to see Emily's body turned away from her holding onto a picture frame. Alison smiled faintly at seeing Emily in here before grimacing at how stressed Emily looked. Alison sighed and called out, "Emily…"