Little White Lies
Emily, Dazed and Confused
"Dude, come here, you got see this!" Max Reitz shouted over to Joel Preston. A group of boys from the Rosewood High fifth period gym class gathered around to look at a phone and started giggling. When Joel Preston came over, he immediately looked displeased and angry.
"Delete it now." Joel demanded. Whatever was on the phone he didn't like it, not one little bit. His girlfriend, Emily Fields, came out from the girls' locker room in her gym uniform. A large group of the boys hollered when she walked by and made funny faces. They reminded her of chimps at the zoo. She saw her boyfriend pin some guy up against the wall in anger. "Give me the damn phone, or I'll crush your wind pipe!" He yelled with veins in his neck.
"Joel, what the hell are you doing? Let him go!" Emily tried to get her boyfriend to back off the poor guy but when she came over he just seemed even more upset. "You sent it didn't you?" Emily looked at him confused. "Oh, come on! Don't act like you don't want people knowing your a dirty little slut! Look here's proof!" Joel shoved the phone to Emily, who held it in her. Staring in horror.
She looked at the photo of her drunk, no, not drunk. Completely trashed. That's not the worst of it; she and another girl were both topless (no bras) making out, with a vodka bottle in one hand and her other hand cover the other girl's breast.
She barely remembered that night, and what she does remember she wishes she could forget. It was just many of the summer nights she wants erased from her mind.
The strobe lights, and music filled Amanda Stewart's mansion. Everyone was there, including nice, quiet freshman Emily Field.
Several people had come to her to say how sorry they were for her loss, and how bravely she had been handling Allison Dilaurentis' disappearance. Others, mostly girls, just gave her a dirty look. You know the look, the one that says 'how dare she be here' kind of look. "I really didn't want to come but Joel said it would be good for me to get out and socialize a little bit." Ems would respond.
"She probably doesn't even feel bad about Alison's disappearance , I mean what kind of friend goes to a party only a month after her friend has been missing?" Regina Umbridge, a notorious mean girl at school, said out loud. Of course Emily overheard this.
"Excuse me?" Emily shouted at the girl. "She was my best friend, of course I feel bad and upset!" Regina perked her lips like a succubus about to suck the life out of someone.
"Right. Then why are you here? Shouldn't you be at home, crying and holding your childhood teddy bear or something?" Regina was a mean girl, even the disappearance a student didn't stop her.
"I didn't want to come here! My boyfriend made me, and you know what bitch? Ali would have wanted me to go out, and party!" Emily picked up a jello shot someone had been serving and jugged it. "That's for you Ali! I'm your party girl tonight!" She shouted to the mountains as she took another shot, this time tossing them behind her hitting Regina in the forehead.
Before everyone knew it, Emily Fields was a good girl gone bad. She was completely trashed and the only person who was upset by it was her year long boyfriend, Joel. He tried to get her to leave, but after a ten minute fight he left the party in a huff. One of the guys at the party grab and equally drunk girl, and told them it would be awesome if they made out. The last thing Emily remembered of that night was passing out on the couch.
"How could you do this to me? Did you think about how this would make me look?" Joel shouted at Emily. She started to get teary eyed. Joel tried to apologize and give her a hug but Emily shoved him off and rushed into the girls' locker room. Her eyes teared up, and she felt a little dizzy.
"Hey are you alright?" A girl Emily had never seen before asked if she was alright. She must have been a senior or something, she looked older.
"Yea, I'm fine. Um, who are you?" Emily forced a smile at the curly hair, thin African-American girl.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a transfer student. My name is Maya. Nice to meet you." The two of them stared for a moment and gave a little hearted smile.