A/N: Hi guys! I'm so excited about this new chapter, we delve deeper into the very touchy feely Spemily friendship and the girls learn some pretty shocking news. Special thanks to Danielle and Alice for their kind words, keep the reviews coming!
The glittering, Saturday morning sun shone through Spencer's window. Her arms were woven around Emily's strong, athletic shoulders, holding the girl gently. They were so exhausted from the night before, they had fallen asleep instantly on the bed, cuddled up like two bears in hibernation. Spencer turned to Emily, examining her exquisitely exotic features, her coal black eyelashes fluttered on her closed lids, she must have been thinking hard, or maybe she was dreaming. Emily's pale pink lips were pressed tightly together, Spencer noticed a stray, dark beauty mark under her plucked left eyebrow. It was strange the things you can notice about someone when you're completely alone with them, the tiny but beautiful things, she thought to herself. Emily stirred quietly and buried her face in Spencer's side, moaning slightly at the burningly bright sun. "Good morning, sleeping beauty." She leaned close to Emily's cheek, whispering softly in her ear, and playfully nudged her.
"Spencer, it's so early, do we have to get up?" Pressing her elbows atop the sheets, Emily threw her head back, rolling her neck in fatigue.
"Em, it's ten o'clock, we have obligations." Her classic Spencer tone crept through, half serious and half calculating math equations in her head, lost in her own head. Glancing down at her friend's peaceful state, the way Emily's arms were gracefully folded over her bedspread, she said the first thing that came to her mind, "As much as I would love to stay in bed and snuggle."
Slightly dumbfounded, Emily avoided eye contact, itching her knee nervously, a tick of hers Spencer knew incredibly well. Yet Spencer saw a shy smirk dance on her face, the tension in the room was immediately lifted. Something stuck in the pit of her stomach though, a unwieldy knot was slowly growing, being Spencer, she played it off in her brain as the fact that she hadn't been active enough in the day. "Also, we have to meet Hanna and Aria at the Brew in about an hour and a half, so you need to get off your little swimmer butt and get in the shower."
As Emily slowly rose from Spencer's incredibly cozy bed, her tenerife blue phone lit up. Her screen illuminated and read, " SOS! Emily, where are you? Turn on the news!" Furrowing her brow skeptically, she questioned and re-read Hanna's text from a few hours ago. "Spence," Emily called out from the closet door, "did you anything from Hanna last night?" Before she could even answer her own question, Spencer darted into the room, she looked like she had just saw the most bone chilling creature of all time, her skin was a ghostly white, and her hands were shaking uncontrollably.
Gulping seemingly a gallon of air, Spencer stammered, "The Brew, it was vandalized last night. Broken into, windows shattered, the whole nine yards. There was a message left on one of the outside walls, it was signed from… from A." Emily's heart nearly burst in that exact moment, the happiness and closure she had thought she found in that moment was completely ruined, A was back. Thinking of it, A had probably never left.