Finally: - Chapter 4

It had been a quite morning a week later, Emily and Ali decided to go out to breakfast and coffee at The Brew since they had a day off. As they sat at the back in a corner laughing and having a great time, they were unexpectedly interrupted.

"Hey." A voice said from behind Emily, as Ali looked up and Emily turned around they immediately noticed it was Paige.

"I wanted to apologise, I over reacted quite a bit and I shouldn't have. Alison, you made me realise that and I'm sorry to both of you. Ali, I wanted to talk to you in private as well for a minute." Paige said with what seemed like a fake smile.

"Sure, I guess." The blonde said as she stood up and gave Emily a confused expression.

Paige and Alison walked over to the empty side of The Brew and Paige begun.

"Did you like my performance? I think Emily actually believed me and I'm well on my to getting her back." She said with a smirk as started walking away before turning around again.

"Oh, and if you tell her about this conversation I will hurt her; trust me I'll find out if you tell."

"Paige, those are empty threats." Ali said seemingly unworried.

"I nearly drowned her once, remember?" She said with a wink and a smirk as she walked away. Ali couldn't risk it, she couldn't tell Emily; she wouldn't be able to live with herself if she let something happen to her.

Trying to compose herself she walked back over to Emily and sat down with a smile.

"What was that about?" Emily asked as soon as the blonde sat down.

"She... um wanted to thank me again. I don't know why in private but she just thanked me again." Ali said trying to sound as believable as she could.

"Wow, she's actually backed down." Emily said with a smile.

"Yeah." Ali said as the previous conversation played through in her head.

For the rest of the day Emily could feel something was off with Ali. She would zone out, stop listening and she'd reply bluntly every so often. As they were walking down the street Emily had to ask.

"Ali, what's wrong? You've been acting weird all day."

"I'm fine." Ali said with a reassuring smile.

"Please don't lie to me; I can tell when something is wrong." Ali huffed.

"It's just the chat with Paige, I found it quite strange but I'm fine."

"It's okay, everything will be fine from now on." Emily said as she pressed a kiss on Ali's forehead. Ali smiled and they continued to walk. Emily walked over to a food truck to grab some food and as she walked away Ali's phone buzzed.

'Good job on keeping your mouth shut, let's hope it stays that way or Emily might not stay in one piece.'

Ali read the text with a horrified expression, her head shot up as soon as she finished to see if Paige was around but she was nowhere to be seen. How the hell did she hear that? Ali wondered. She tried to remember if she saw anyone suspicious but nothing came to her mind. She was deep in thought when Emily walked over to the small table Ali was standing at.

"What you thinking about?" Emily said curiously.

"Just thinking about a vacation for us, I think we deserve one." Ali needed to get away from Rosewood, it just seemed as though Rosewood would not give her a break. Something or someone was always bothering her and trying to ruin her life.

"That sounds interesting, where to?"

"Sweet, sweet Paris. I still think you'd look great on top of the Eiffel Tower." Ali said with a smirk, and Emily slightly blushed.

"I definitely like the sound of that. When are we leaving and for how long?"

"Whenever you want and forever sounds pretty good to me right now." Emily loved all the little memories Ali was bringing back. It remined her of the good times before -A, who was luckily now gone, sadly took a large chunk of their lives and made it miserable.

"I really love the sound of that." Emily said with a big grin which Ali mirrored. And then suddenly Ali's phone buzzed again.

'Trying to run away I hear, don't know if that's a good idea; I prefer to keep my enemies close. Stay in Rosewood or Emily might get hurt.'

She couldn't believe it was happening again and certainly not by Paige; she never ever thought that she could be capable of such stuff.

"Everything okay?" Emily asked when she noticed Ali reaction to the text.

"Yeah fine, just some sort of weird advert." Ali said quickly saving herself.

Days had passed and the texts continued which meant Ali kept having to lie to Emily. It bothered her so much; the lies were keeping her awake at night but she had to protect Emily because Paige did not seem to be joking.

It was a quiet Saturday, Ali hadn't received a text since Thursday and so she had finally managed to sleep on Friday. It was getting close to 10am and Emily could no longer stay in bed, she quietly got out and went downstairs to make coffee. As she was waiting for it to brew Ali's phone began buzzing and so she walked over to switch it off however she saw the message which was sent to her phone;

Emily is still clueless, you're doing well. Carry on keeping your mouth shut and a single hair won't fall from her head.

Emily couldn't believe what she had just read. Who was this? What are they talking about? Were just a few of Emily's thoughts.

Half an hour later a sleepy Ali walked downstairs to find Emily sitting on the couch.

"I missed waking up next to you this morning." Ali said as she sat down. Emily returned a half-smile and the blonde knew straight away that something was wrong.

"Em, what's going on?"

"I found a text on your phone. It was buzzing in the kitchen so I went to switch it off and I found this." Emily said handing Ali her phone. She read the text in horror.

"No, no, no you can't have seen this. Oh, my god this is bad." The blonde said holding her hair back.

"Whoever sent that is…is threatening to hurt you if I tell you about their texts and something that happened a few days ago." Ali continued.

"What happened?"

"Emily, I want to tell you. I want to tell you so bad but I can't let anything happen to you; I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did."

"Have you been lying to me about stuff for the past few days?" Emily said clearly becoming agitated.

"Yes, but only to protect you." The blonde said truthfully.

"Ali, these texts are some sort of joke. I can't believe you believed them, hid them from me and then lied to me." Emily got up and left, slamming the door behind her.

She understood why Emily was mad at her; she hated it when someone lied to her even about the littlest things because of what happened with A but the texts weren't a joke. As she trailed off in her thoughts her phone buzzed again.

'Well damn, what a shame that such a pretty face is going to get ruined.'

Ali began to panic, she kept calling Emily but she wasn't picking up. She called Hanna, Aria and Spencer but none of them had a clue where she was. Ali grabbed her car keys and decided to drive around town to see if she could find Emily but she was nowhere to be seen.

Emily walked up to the door and hesitantly knocked.

"Hello?" Paige said as she opened the door.

"Hi." Emily said with a half-smile. "Can I come in?" Paige opened the door wider and let Emily in. As she closed the door a mischievous smile appeared on her face; her plan was working.

"What's going on, Em?" Paige quickly asked.

"Alison and I had an argument, I had no clue where to go."

"You can stay here as long as you want, Em. What happened?"

"She kept secrets and lied to me again." Emily said as she sat down on the couch.

"I knew she hadn't changed." Paige said as she sat beside her and grabbed her hand. Emily was shocked by the gesture. It actually made her feel a bit uncomfortable but she brushed it off.

"No, she has but…" Emily couldn't think of the but at the moment. They had been through so much because of texts like that and they both knew that the only way to get through them was to tell each other about them yet Ali still decided to keep them from her. Maybe it was to protect her but Emily didn't believe she was in danger.

"But what? You can't think of one, can you? She's always going to keep secrets from you, that's who she is." Emily didn't agree with that statement, it's not who Ali was; not anymore anyway.

"You know what I better go, she'll be getting worried." Emily didn't even wait for Paige to reply before she left. That angered Paige, she thought her plan was working but Emily still went back to Ali. She couldn't let this go.

As Ali continued to drive around town she still couldn't find her, after about half an hour an unknown number called her.

"Hello?" She answered with a confused tone.

"Is this Miss Alison DiLaurentis?" An unfamiliar voice said.

"Yes, speaking. What is this about?"

"Miss Emily Fields was in a serious car accident."