ALL RIGHTS GO TO MARLENE KING
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov
(I re-uploaded this because the other chapter 8 wasn't working for some strange reason, read this chapter instead of the actual chapter 8)
Chapter 8: Who's the birthday girl?
Alison's POV:
The movie ended and I stood up to stretch. My arms still fell down limply to my sides and I fell back down on the couch next to Emily.
"Does Emily know?" Hanna blurts out. Crap.
Emily furrowed her eyebrows and looked over at me nervously.
"What do you mean, what don't I know?"
"Em, you know when you got hit?" I grab her hand and squeeze it gently. She nods her head and made eye contact with me. Her deep brown orbs flowed into mine and it was intoxicating.
"Well, um it was.. A." I mutter. I didn't want her to worry about anything right now since she just got out of the hospital but I couldn't lie to her. I've done enough lying for a life time.
"A? How do you know?" Emily frantically asks.
"She got a text." Hanna blurts out again.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Emily asks, getting slightly irritated.
"I couldn't, A said he would hurt you." I say.
"Well then why did he do this?" Emily motioned her bruised body with her hands.
"I got lost in the moment when I kissed you and the threat completely slipped away from my mind. I promise you that I didn't mean to hurt you, I understand if you're mad and don't want anything to do with m-" I was cut off by Emily's lips crashing onto mine. I was in complete chock. Emily just kissed me. In front of the girls.
I think she realized what she just did because she had wide eyes and an open mouth, gaping like a fish out of water.
"I'm sorry." She said and ran up the stairs and into her room.
"Are you guys.. Together?" Spencer whispers, incase Emily can hear.
"I- I don't know, we haven't officially said we were." I stutter, looking up the stairs.
"You should talk to her, tell her that we support you guys and that we won't judge." Aria says, smiling.
I nod and just when I was about to walk up the stairs Hanna grabs my elbow.
"But if you break her heart again, i'll break you in half." Hanna half teases, half being deadly serious. I ignore her comment and rush up the stairs. Her door is closed so I knock.
One knock. No answer.
Two knocks. No answer.
Three knocks. Still no answer.
"Emily?" I ask, slowly opening the door.
Emily's lying on her bed, her head buried in a bunch of pillows. She groans when she hears my voice and somehow buries her head deeper into the mountain of pillows.
"Emily, look at me." I say, walking up to her bed. Emily sits up and avoids making eye contact.
"I'm sorry for kissing you."
"Hey," I gently tilt her head up to meet my gaze, "You have nothing to be sorry for, remember that I did the same in the car?"
Emily cracks a small smile that melts my heart.
I lay down on her bed and she stares at me, clearly confused.
"Come here." I say, stretching out my arms widely.
"What are you doing?" She says, raising her eyebrows.
"You need to rest, come on." I grab her wrist gently and place her head on my lap. Emily lets out a soft sigh as I play with her beautiful hair.
"Ali?" Emily mumbles, closing her eyes.
"Yeah?" I run a few fingers down the tips of her curls and repeat the process.
"What are we? Like, are we a couple?" Emily stutters.
"No we're not a couple," Emily sits up, looking away from me, "I haven't asked you yet, have i?" I tease.
Emily turns around towards me and stares at me with wide eyes. As if it somehow was a miracle that I was even thinking about the idea of us being a couple.
"Emily Fields, will you do me the greatest honor of becoming my girlfriend?" I ask with a fake british accent.
Emily giggles her beautiful laugh and kisses me.
"I take that as a yes." I murmur in between kisses. After our short make out session I grab her hand and we walk down the stairs. Surprisingly, the girls are still here.
"We have some news." I say, lacing our fingers together.
"We're a couple now." Emily finishes and the girls all give us big hugs.
Emily's POV:
Later that night we order in some pizza. Damn, I've missed pizza.
Ali and I sit next to each other at the table with the other girls in front of us. Ali takes a bite out of her slice and a mushroom falls off her pizza. I pick it up and pop it into her mouth. She giggles at me and I lean in to kiss her.
"Em, I have garlic breath." Ali says, trying to pry her way away from our kiss.
I grip her face gently, looking into her eyes, "I don't care." Ali smiles at me and we share a passionate kiss before being interrupted by Spencer clearing her throat.
"I'm so jealous of Emily's love life." Hanna says, letting out a long sigh.
"You want to join the party, Han?" Spencer smirked and playfully nudging her.
"God no, Caleb beats any lesbian action I could ever get. One time we used whip scream to-"
"We don't need those details." Aria says, letting out a short laugh.
"Well, he was a very tasty desert." Hanna replies, taking a sip of her water.
We all burst out laughing and my heart warms at the familiar sound.
I woke up to fluttering lips dancing across my neck, gently sucking behind my earlobe. I turn around to see a smiling blonde hovering over my body.
"Happy birthday beautiful." Ali says, giving me a quick peck.
"Birthday? I haven't even checked to see what date it was. After being in a coma for a couple of months, I guess i forgot.
"Good morning." I smile widely at her, accepting a bouquet of blood red roses.
"Thank you, these are beautiful," I stroke the rose peddles delicately, "Almost as beautiful as you." Ali blushed and let out a giggle.
"Oh please, mushy squash." She laughs.
"After you shower come downstairs, I have a surprise for you." Ali winks and I walk into the bathroom.
Alison's POV:
Emily's mom had called me, we decided to surprise Emily by bringing her here. Unfortunately her dad couldn't come but I know she'll be thrilled to see her mother again.
"Is she up yet?" Pam asks, flipping a pancake.
"Yeah, she's taking a shower." You can practically suffocate on the awkward silence filling the kitchen. Pam clears her throat and looks down at the pancakes.
"Are you and Emily a couple now? I saw you two sleeping in her bed last night." Oh no, please don't let this be an interrogation.
"Yeah, officially since yesterday." I answer nervously.
Pam just nods her head and flips another pancake onto the plate
"I know how it was before you disappeared, Emily told me. She said that she had feelings for you and you used her feelings for your benefit." So this is and interrogation. The swelling feeling of guilt washes over me as I remember the cruel things I said to Emily back then.
"I know how I treated Emily, and I regret every single bit of it, but I promise you that I'm not manipulating her in any way. I-" I want to say that I love her, but I feel like I should tell Emily that before I tell her mom.
"I believe you, but I won't let you hurt her again."
"I'll never hurt her, I promise."
Pam smiles at me before turning her attention back to the perfectly cooked pancakes that were ready now. I hear the faint sound of footsteps moving down the stairs.
"Ali it smells delicious, when did you learn to make so goo-" Emily stopped mid sentence when she saw her mom standing in the kitchen, arms stretched out waiting for a hug.
"Mom!" Emily shrieked and ran to her mom and they hugged for a good couple of minutes. I smiled at the sight.
"When did you get back? I thought you were in Texas with dad." Emily asks, smiling brightly.
"I got back late last night, you guys were already asleep," Pam wiped away some tears with her back palm.
"Are you alright?" Pam asks.
"Yeah, I feel much better." Emily smiles at her.
"Well, I'm going to take a shower, I'll leave you two alone." Pam walks out of the kitchen and I drag Emily up to her room.
I secretly text the girls to come over now.
Emily sits down on her bed.
"So, what are we doing today?" Emily asks excitedly.
"That's a surprise my darling." I smirk and walk over to her, sitting down in her lap.
Emily's arms wrap around my frame and she buries her face in the crock of my neck, leaving a trail of tender kisses up and down my neck, possibly leaving a hicky that I'll later have to cover up.
I spun around so I was straddling her and kissed her forcefully. Emily's hands traveled up and down my hips, sending shivers up my spine. I push her gently backwards and we collapse on top of the bed, still kissing hungrily. I felt her tongue explore inside of my mouth as I snaked my hand up the hem of her shirt, feeling her hot skin underneath my fingertips.
I move my lips from her mouth to her neck and start to leave a trail of kisses until I reach her lower stomach and then I went back up to her plump lips. Emily's hands fluttered up my spine underneath my shirt, just the feeling of her hands on my spine is sending me on an overdrive. I gently tug at the bottom of Emily's shirt, motioning her to take it off. Emily awkwardly shrugged her shirt off and I felt my jaw hit the floor. Even though Emily had a bra on, I started moving my fingers upwards.
Emily's POV:
Ali's bare hands creased my rips and with a strong kiss she gripped my breast, gently massaging them.
"Oh my god, Ali." I moan out.
I'm in to much of a daze to do anything. Let alone kiss her back but after a few seconds of practically being paralyzed by Ali's touch, I grip her shirt and quickly yank it over her head, revealing a sexy red lace bra. She's so beautiful. I start creasing her breast.
"Emily." The sound of her sighing my name is so..
so unreal.
Ali starts to unclasp my bra but I move her fingers away, planting sweet kisses on them instead.
"Ali, we should stop." I moan out.
"You don't want to?" Ali asks, a slight hurt expression on her face.
"No, no believe me, I want to but we should wait, this isn't the right time for it with my mom right downstairs." I say, twirling a lock of her hair around my finger.
"Yeah, and the girls will be here any minute now." The girls?
"When did you invite them?"
Right on que, someone knocked on my door.
Ali and I stare at each other for half a second before frantically picking up clothes and putting them on. I end up with Ali's shirt on backwards while she ends up with my shirt inside out. The door opens and we see a laughing Spencer, Hanna and Aria.
"What are you wearing, Em?" Spencer teases. I blush and nervously straighten out Ali's shirt.
"You don't have to tell us, we heard plenty." Aria laughs.
They think that we- Oh my god.
"We didn't have sex." Ali says, rolling her eyes.
"Really? It sure sounded like it." Spencer says, smirking.
Ali glared at her and I blushed. God this is embarrassing, what if we would have had sex and they had walked in on us?
"So what are we doing for my birthday?" I ask, trying to pry my way out of this conversation.
"As I said before, it's a surprise my darling." Ali says and motions me to follow her outside. The other girls all have big smiles plastered on their faces as we walk away and over to Ali's car.
The girls were already out of my room but i quickly grabbed Ali's elbow and threw off my shirt and she did the same. We quickly put the right shirts on and walk outside hand in hand.