"Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit." Emily thought to herself. She slowly moved the nad that was over her waist off of her. The body beside her grunted and turned over away from her. It was dark in the room, and Emily could only make out the shawdow if the girl beside her. She squinted her eyes but couldn't make out who the figure was.
Moving slowly out of the bed, she found her clothes beside the bed and put them on, making her way to the door. She walked out of the room and downstairs, recognizing the house as Becky's, she knew it enough to get her to the front door. Walking out of the house she looked around the front yard, tears filling her eyes at the thought that she had betrayed Paige's trust. She knew the moment that she saw Paige dancing with someone else, getting attention from someone else, that she didn't want to feel what she felt in that moment again.
"What happened last night?" Emily asked as she walked down the street. A car horn in the distance broke her out of her thoughts as she turned and saw a car coming in her direction. It was Aria's, the girl pulling over for Emily to get in.
"Hey!" Aria said.
"Hey." Emily mumbled.
"Not having a good morning there, hungover?" Aria laughed out as she handed Emily her own coffee.
"Thanks. And no. I think I just made one of the biggest mistakes of my life." Emily said.
"Uh oh. What happened?" Aria asked.
"Can you keep a secret?" Emily asked.
"Em, come on. You told me you were gay before you told anyone else." Aria said as she rolled her eyes.
""I think I slept with someone else last night." Emily admitted. Aria slammed on the cars breaks and turned to look at Emily.
"What?" she yelled out.
"I woke up at Becky's, naked, with someone in the bed with me. At least it was a girl." Emily laughed sarcastiacally at her last comment.
"Whoa." Aria said.
"I know. And now.." Emily started.
"Do you still want Paige?" Aria asked.
"More than anything." Emily said.
"Then you have to tell her." Aria said. "Let her know it was a mistake."
"I know I have to tell her, but I don't think I can." Emily said. As Emily said the words, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She opened her messages to see that she had several from Hanna and Spencer. She skipped over those and opened the last one she received. Her heart stopped when she saw that it was from Sydney and that it said, "had a great time last night ;)". "Oh no."
"What?" Aria asked.
"I think I just found out who I spent the night with." Emily said as she showed Aria the texts.
"Oh boy. Hey look, Paige just text you." Aria said. Emily opened the text from Paige, "Morning Em. I think we should meet up and talk this afternoon." "Are you going to respond?" Aria asked after Emily sat frozen for a few minutes.
"Yea." Emily said, but made no move to text anything. "Em, we need to talk about last night. Please." The next message from Paige read. "She knows! She already knows!"
"Calm down, you don't know that." Aria tried to reason.
"What could she want to talk about? You were at the party. Can you piece together the night for me? The last thing I remember was Paige and Caleb going off to play beer pong, and us sitting on the couch." Emily said.
"Well, you watched Paige the entire evening and kept drinking. I left before the outcome of the game. I left you with Hanna and Spencer. Maybe we should call one of them." Aria suggested.
"I'll call Hanna and Spencer and ask them to meet us at the coffee shop." After getting off the phone with both girls, Emily received another text from Paige. "Just meet me tonight at my place for dinner. Be there at 6."
"Are you going to go?" Aria asked as they waited for the other two girls.
"I guess I have to." Emily said.
"Hello you two." Hanna chirped as she walked in with Spencer. The other girl made a bee line for the counter to get coffee.
"Hello." Aria said.
"Hey Em. I didn't think we would be seeing you so early." Hanna laughed.
"Why?" Emily asked.
"Well, before I left last night, you were completely shit face." Hanna said.
"Shitfaced is putting it mildly." Spencer added as she sat down on a stool.
"What happened last night after the game Paige and Caleb were playing?" Emily asked.
"They lost." Hanna frowned.
"Not really what I was asking Han." Emily said.
"Well, Lisa came over and asked if me and Caleb could give a few of the girls rides home, so we left." Hanna said.
"What about you Spence?" Emily asked.
"Well, Paige started dancing with Sarah Miller. That girl was all over Paige too." Spencer added, to which Emily groaned and put her head on the table. "What is it Em?"
"No more drinking." Emily said. "I think I slept with someone, that wasn't Paige."
"Uh oh." Hanna said.
"Yea, uh oh. And I don't remember and I couldn't see who it was this morning." Emily said.
"Well, Sydney was getting pretty touchy feely with you last night." Spencer said. Emily showed them the messages that Sydney wrote her this morning.
"What did I do?" Emily said as tears rolled down her face.
"Hey, Em. Just tell Paige the truth. That you fucked up." Hanna said as she rubbed small circles on Emily's back.
"I have to go. I have to go home and get ready to go have dinner with her. Probably our last dinner." Emily said as she stood and walked out of the shop. She walked all the way back to her house with her head hung low. When her mother asked her what was wring at the door, she said nothing and continued to her room to get ready. She didn't bother getting too dressed up. Her clothes a reflection of how she was feeling. And at 5:30 she headed to Paige's house to tell the girl the truth. To tell her that she has soiled their relationship, and that she can't even remember it happening.
"Emily, hi. Paige is in the kitchen cooking. I'm heading in to work." Lisa said before she gave the girl a hug and walked out. Emily enterned the house and made her way to the kitchen, standing in the doorway and leaning against it as she watched Paige work. The girl moved flawlessly across the kitchen, preparing dinner.
"Ah!" Paige screamed when she turned around and saw Emily standing in the doorway. "You scared the hell out of me."
"I have to tell you something, before we go any further." Emily said.
"What is it?" Paige asked.
"I slept with someone else last night." Emily said, looking to the floor.
