Hey, guys! I am so sorry it has been so long but I promise I will update at least once every two or three weeks.

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By the way, this chapter contains my first intimate scene ever! Please don´t be too hard on me :)

Hope you like this one.

Emily looked over the computer's screen and stared at Paige who had just received the message Emily had just sent her and smirked teasingly, rising her eyebrows and looking back to the screen, typing something else.

Guest: Hope you have a wonderful present for me ;)

Emily smiled knowingly and started tapping the floor with her foot as she wrote something else.

You: trust me, I do.

Guest: YOU BETTER BE TELLING THE TRUTH!

You: Just wait and see. Emily tried to hide the smile that was tugging on her lips.

Paige bit her lip and looked at Emily again winking and smiling. Emily smiled back shyly, still looking at her. She made sure nobody was looking at them and pointed with her finger at herself, making Paige look at her curiously. Then she pointed at Paige and then at herself again; at her heart. She looked away, smiling and looked at Paige from the corner of her eye; she was moving her hands. She pointed at herself, then at Emily and then raised two fingers. Emily's heart fluttered and she felt the electrical shockwaves all over her body. She bit her lip and looked down at the keyboard again, trying to avoid Paige's burning stare.

You: You could've just written it here, you know?

Guest: So did you ;)

Emily smiled widely and felt another burning stare against her; it was Connor's menacing stare right from the door, warning her once again like he had been doing since what happened with the two of them.

Connor caught Paige's smile when Emily wrote something… They are texting to each other. (Wow, Connor, you're such a genius!) But certainly… he was; he was genius in a completely stupid way.

It was later that day and Emily rode her bike towards Paige's place with her heart beating fast. She arrived to Paige's home and made sure that her mother's car wasn't there before she walked towards the door, climbed the stairs and knocked doubtfully and nervously. She didn't hear anything and raised her hand to knock again when a voice startled her. "You look beautiful," the smooth voice said right behind her making her shiver as she felt Paige's hands tangling around her waist slightly meeting Emily's skin with her own. It was so Paige to do that… and it was so Emily to

Paige turned Emily around slowly and looked at her eyes for what seemed like ages. She smiled incredulously. How did I get so lucky? She caressed her way down Emily's arms and took her hand, lacing their finger together, still not able to believe that Emily was right there and then. She took out the keys from her pocket and opened the door, letting Emily in.

"How long is your mom going to be out?" Emily asked, breaking the comfortable silence.

Paige shook her head, looking at the floor with her eyes closing before she frowned in pain. "I don't think you should stay long, Em," she added as her head rose up yet her gaze stayed fixed on the floor.

Emily nodded knowingly and placed her hand under Paige's chin forcing her to look at her.

"That's why I will keep it brief," she smiled trying to soothe the other girl because she knew that was theonly

"Okay." Paige said, smiling at her love's words.

Emily gestured Paige to follow her into the living room and they settled down on the couch. She felt nervousness increasing as she opened the bag she had been carrying and looked for the little box. When she felt the top of it beneath her hand, she looked at Paige with hesitation and the girl gave her a reassuring smile, which was enough to encourage her to go on. She took hold of Paige's hand and put the box over her hand. Paige frowned curiously and Emily looked like an anxious puppy as she waited for Paige's reaction. Paige removed the cover and saw blue gift paper seeping through another piece of cardboard. She finished unpacking the gift and her eyes opened wide.

"Oh my goodness," Paige said, not believing what her eyes saw. "You booked an appointment?" she took out the card and read it over and over again.

"He will be waiting for you in his office on Monday's afternoon to see when you can show him your piano performance." Emily said and her smile grew wider as Paige started talking so crazily fast that she could barely understand a word she said. "So you liked it," Emily uttered.

"I loved it, Emily!" said Paige excitedly before she closed the gap between them with a short lingering kiss and hugged her tightly, leaving Emily eye-closed and breathless with a smile tugging on her lips. Paige kissed her again this, time soft and slowly before she rested her forehead against Emily's. She put her hands on Emily's neck and moved closer to her. They remained like that until a knock on the door made them frown annoyed.

"It must be Connor," she whispered and Emily's jaw clenched as she pulled away slowly, thinking about the lockers' incident. That image was never going to disappear. She saw the pain on Paige's face and cursed herself for making her feel like that. She stood up, took her bag and turned to walk to the back of the house but Paige stopped her by taking her hand. "Wait…" said she. "Will I see you later?" she asked full of hope.

"I don't know," Emily said, seeing as every inch of Paige's facial expression dropped. She walked out and heard the front door opening, and then closing. She picture what could be happening. Connor was probably leaning down to kiss Paige and the girl probably would respond… just as she responded to Emily's.

When she got out, she heard an excited Paige and she poked her head over the fence. Her heart shattered when she saw Paige jumping into Connor's arms and kissing him… she had kissed him. Emily just froze and felt that her heart had stopped beating. Connor had given Paige a car and that was way much better than an appointment with a fucking pianist and a fucking piano necklace. Oh my god! She had forgotten about telling her that the necklace was under the other piece of box. But she looked at Paige again and changed her mind. She is never going to be happy with me. Emily knew she couldn't give Paige what Connor could; a family, a relationship she wouldn't be ashamed to be involved with, a big house wherever she wanted…

"Maybe I shouldn't keep holding her back," she thought when she saw Paige so happy in his arms.

Emily walked home but didn't feel like moving. She stopped right in the middle of the way when she saw the bench. That bench meant the world to her… well not the chair itself but the things that had happened there.

"Emily?" a quiet voice said behind her when she felt someone tapping on her shoulder. Emily turned her head around and smiled at the girl that was standing behind her.

"Hi, Paige," she said. "What's up?"

Paige just lowered her gaze and frowned. "I need to tell you something," she looked back at Emily who was staring at her confused.

They noticed that the park was completely deserted.

"What is it?" said Emily.

"May I?" Paige said, pointing at the bench questioningly.

"Sure," Emily nodded.

Paige sat awkwardly next to Emily and she began fidgeting with her own hands, dipping her head once again.

"Is anything wrong?" Emily asked worried.

Paige looked at her and stared for a while. Her eyes traveled all over Emily's perfect features, taking in each one of them. She looked at Emily's lips and then met her eyes again. Paige's breathing hitched as she moved closer to the girl until they were just inches apart and she made sure that Emily was not going to move away with what she was just about to do. She moved fast and caught Emily's lips with her own in a soft and lingering kiss. Emily tried to hold her right there and keep their lips connected but Paige cut the kiss abruptly when Emily had started to raise her hand. Paige looked at her with a mix of fear, need and confusion before she looked around and stormed away from Emily, leaving the other girl completely breathless.

Emily blinked, a few tears escaping her eyes and kept walking to her house, leaving the bench behind.

Emily opened her front door and walked slowly towards the kitchen, looking for her mother.

"Mom!" she called but got no reply from the woman.

Emily walked out of the kitchen and looked everywhere for her mother before she walked inside her room closing the door as she did so. She took her pajamas out of the closet while she hummed a random song-whose title she couldn't remember at the moment- she just knew it made her think of Paige… God, what didn't?

"I hoped you would stay for a while longer," Emily jumped in horror when Paige's voice dragged her out of the daze she had been constructing.

"What the hell!" She shouted, punching Paige's arm harder than she attempted to. "Oh my god, you scared me to death."

"You were singing last night's song," Paige said joyfully making Emily feel guilty that she didn't remember the song. "The one Dorothea played yesterday for the play… the one in which…" She tangled her arms around Emily's waist. "I did this…" She rested her chin on Emily's shoulder and buried her nose in the crook of Emily's neck, taking her in and closing her eyes as soon as her scent filled her lungs, making electric shocks run through her bloodstream as her heart beat faster once Emily filled her body completely. She kissed the skin there, biting back a moan and Emily closed her eyes before she crooked her neck to the opposite side, leaving the way clear for Paige to keep kissing her. "Paige," she moaned. "Please wait," she turned around slightly pulling Paige away from her but taking her hands so that she didn't get it wrong. "I don't know if I can do this," she whispered, her gaze dropping.

"Why?" Paige asked and her face dropped. What do you mean you can't do this?

"Because I don't think you actually want to…" She said hesitantly, looking at Paige again.

Paige looked back at her with desperate eyes. "What? Why would you think that?" Paige said with tears in her eyes and a cracking voice that made Emily's heart shatter into a billion pieces.

"I saw how happy you were with Connor earlier," she admitted more to herself than Paige. "And I wondered if…"

"Emily," Paige said. "Would I be here right now if I wasn't happy? Why do you think I keep looking for you?"

"Because you want to make sure…"

"Shut up, Emily," She said, her tone of voice increasing and Emily starting to feel hurt. She couldn't quite believe the girl sometimes but she knew what she meant. She knew that Emily still felt unsure when she saw Paige with someone who could make her happier- what wasn't even possible- or with someone that could make her feel free to be who… society wanted her to be. "I love you!" she said, choosing that she didn't want to be that person; she wanted to be herself. She wanted to love who she fell in love with.

"But…"

"But nothing!" she said. "Don't you understand you are the reason I wake up every morning and have the will to fight? If it weren't for you, why would I wake up? I have no reason to live over looking at your eyes even if it is just for a fucking second," she cried. "I love you, Emily, and I don't care if I wake up tomorrow and everyone thinks I'm sick, or wrong, or confused, or if the world hates me, because," she swallowed. "I get to have you loving me… and I get to love you over everything else," she lowered her gaze, tears welling up in her eyes. "Over anyone else," she whispered and felt Emily pulling her hastily against her body, her eyes just few inches away from hers.

She looked into that dark orbs and closed her eyes, enjoying the feeling of Emily's warm breath over her lips and Emily moved further towards the wall with Paige's hands laced with her own until her back touched the wall behind her. She moved Paige's hands up the wall while she kissed the way down her neck, sighing.

Paige shivered and crooked her neck, her head pressed against the wall with her eyes closed and her lips biting back moans as she tried to convince herself that she was really there, that the girl wanted her as much as she had always wanted Emily.

Paige took Emily's hands with her own and left those resting on her shoulders as they made their way down through Emily's sides and the other girl let out soft moans. She rested her hands on Emily's hips, kissed her cheek and all the way down her jawline meeting the tanned girl's neck with her lips. Paige sucked down her neck biting the skin lightly and going down. Emily pulled away slowly, opened her eyes and looked at Paige's eyes, sealing the promise with a passionate kiss.

Paige placed her hands on Emily's neck, then her waist, then back on her hips and slid them under Emily's shirt, placing them on her waist once again without their lips detaching.

Emily smiled against Paige's lips and placed her hands in front of her in order to start unbuttoning Paige's shirt and opened it. She stared at Paige for a while before sliding her hands under it, the shirt falling down at the floor

Paige's hands were like ice cubes traveling all over Emily's body yet ignited her skin wherever they touched.

Paige slid Emily's shirt over her head and kept the girl as close as she could to keep her warm without stopping the kisses over the girl's half naked torso.

Paige put her hands under Emily's tights and she tangled them around her waist as Emily tangled her own hands around her neck.

Paige kissed her softly and walked towards the bed, lying over it with Emily amid her legs and her own back touching the bed.

Emily's hands went down Paige's body as she kissed every inch of it on her way down.

She unbuttoned Paige's jeans-not without taking off Paige's and her own shoes- and went back to kiss Paige on the lips while her hands traveled to the other girl's back in order to unclasp her bra and throwing it to the floor as well as the rest of the clothes.

They undressed each other slowly, this time memorizing every inch of one another's bodies and enjoying every stare, every bolt of electricity and every time their hearts beat together.

Both naked bodies lied tangled under the sheets after they both had melted into each other, without want taking over their heads or love fading in a single moment.