"Oh my God, you have to be kidding me!" Paige yelled from her spot in bed, buried under her pillows and blankets.

"No, I'm not. So get up, we got a lot to do on the first day!" Emily said, picking Parker up from Paige's bed and heading downstairs with him. It was the first thing she walked into when she went into Paige's room this morning. Paige was under the covers, except for her head, which Parker was laying on top of. It had been ten minutes and Paige still hadn't come downstairs. Emily walked over to her iPod station and started playing a song, that started playing music loudly throughout the house.

"What the hell is that?" Paige yelled as she came down the stairs. "What time is it?"

"It is five in the morning. And I placed speakers all through the house so I can listen to music wherever I am." Emily said, handing Paige a cup of coffee.

"I haven't gotten up this early since...since high school." Paige said, making a heaving noise after.

"Didn't like high school?" Emily asked, amused at the girl.

"Did anyone really like it? I was picked on after I came out. Really bad. It stopped in eleventh grade after the girl that did it moved away, and I joined the swim team. I try not to do things that remind me of it. Getting up early would be one of those things." Paige said.

"That sucks. But we will be getting up early everyday, so you will have to learn how to deal with that. Now go change, we are going for a run." Emily said pushing Paige in the direction of the stairs.

"Fine!" Paige returned five minutes later in her running shoes and a tank.

"Just in time, let's go." Emily said, putting Parker in his crate and making her way out the back door to the beach.

"I've never ran on the beach." Paige said as she followed Emily.

"It's more difficult than people think, so we will take it easy today." Emily said looking back at Paige who was already having difficulty with the sand. About twenty minutes into the run Emily came to a stop and looked out at the water. "Paige look."

"Whoa." Paige looked out at the water to see what Emily was looking at. Dolphins had started jumping in the water a few feet from them. "You know I've actually never been to the beach."

"What?" Emily turned to the girl. "Paige are you feeling ok? You look really pale." Emily noted the girl was sweaty and pale, dark circles under her eyes. She also noted that Paige was breathing really shallow.

"Yes. I'm fine. Let's not forget that I almost drown yesterday." Paige said with a laugh. The truth was Paige was really tired. Her chest was hurting, which was unusual for the athlete who usually ran everyday in the gym.

"Let's sit down for a little bit. Let you catch your breath." Emily said.

Paige lays down on the sand and lays her arms behind her head, resting her head on them and closing her eyes, concentrating on breathing so she didn't have a panic attack. A shadow over her face made her open her eyes. Emily was hovering over her.

"You're sure you are ok?" Emily asked.

"Yes." Paige said, but the girl didn't budge from her hovering over Paige. A strand of her hair fell down, Paige reaching up and tucking it back behind her ear. "I'm fine Emily." The two continued to stare before a voice broke their concentration.

"Emily Fields!" A female voice yelled. Emily turned and looked to a voice that she hadn't heard in over a year, her ex-girlfriend.

"Alison?" Emily questioned as she turned away from Paige to look at the girl. Sure enough there stood Emily's ex. She was just as Emily remembered, blonde and overly dressed. She was pretty, Emily thought, she just wasn't what she was looking for at the time that she broke it off. When Emily stood to greet the girl Paige got a good look at the girl, freezing in her tracks. She quickly stood up and turned away from the girl, hoping that she didn't see her face, she stood so that she was behind Emily.

"What are you doing back her Alison?" Emily asked.

"I'm thinking of moving back here, now that I don't need to be at the office for work, I can live where I want." Alison said.

"Oh. That is nice." Emily said, feeling awkward in the girls presence. "Um, Alison this is."

"Pig skin?" Alison cut Emily off after getting a good look at Paige's face. "I see you are still taking in hopeless strays." Venom laced the girls voice.

"I'll, um, see you back at the house." Paige stumbled over her words, not making sure contact with either girl, before she started running towards Emily's house.

"What the hell Alison!" Emily turned and yelled at the girl.

"Please, pig skin isn't worth your time." Alison said, stepping closer to Emily and taking her hand in her own.

"Her name is Paige, Alison. And this is the same shit that broke us up in the first place." Emily said, turning on her heels to go after Paige.

"Fine! I'll give you a few days, then I will swing by the house!" Alison called after the girl.

Paige had made it to the house before a full on panic attack happened. She was now pacing around her room, collecting random items of hers and throwing them into her suitcase. Nine years. That was how long it had been since Paige saw Alison. That girl made her life a living hell in high school for her first two years. Picking on the girl and threatening to tell her father that Paige was gay. Paige would go home after school, after being tortured by the girl, and cut the inside of her own thighs. One cut for every time that Alison would threaten to tell her secret. One day in gym, Alison walked over to the girl while she was changing.

"What are those marks on your thighs there, pig skin?" Alison said, laughing as a small crowd gathered around Paige.

"It's nothing." Paige said as she pulled her jeans back up, running from the room after slamming her locker shut.

Paige had somehow backed herself into the corner of her room furthest from the door, back against the wall she slid down. She pulled her knees up and wrapped her and around them. She was trying to control her breathing but was having a hard time when the events of that day kept paying over and over. What she had done that evening after she told her father she was gay. That scar would be with her forever. Paige was running her hand over it when Emily slowly walked in the room.