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Chapter 7

Paige's POV

Paige felt soft lips on her cheek as she opened her eyes. Emily's beautiful face smiled down at her, her dark locks falling down gracefully. "Hey Paige," she said softly. Paige swallowed hard, trying to speak. She opened her mouth to say something and the other girl took the opportunity, quickly pressing her lips against Paige's. Emily put her hands on either side of Paige's body, slowly laying down on top of her. Emily sneaked her tongue into the other swimmer's mouth. Paige moaned the other girl's name and put her hands on Emily's waist. Slowly, Paige let her hands glide down until her hands were at Emily's upper thighs. Paige lightly squeezed to see Emily's reaction. The girl let out a quiet sigh which encouraged Paige to squeeze again. Emily's hand had drifted from Paige's side to where Paige's heart was beating rapidly. She slowly lowered her hand until she was grasping Paige's boo- "PAIGE!"

Paige McCullers woke up in a sweat to see Emily pacing at the foot of her bed. "Huh...?" Paige asked groggily.

"Thank god you're awake. You were scaring me." Emily grumbled to her. Maybe it was being abruptly awakened, but Paige was having a hard time processing her words. Was Emily worried about her? Why? Last time she had seen Emily, she had been running away from Paige.

"Um, why?" Paige slowly got out of bed, her voice raspy.

"You were...um...writhing in your bed." Emily awkwardly looked away, her face had traces of red. Paige was filled with dread. She had a feeling that she had said something else in her sleep that made Emily uncomfortable. And considering the dream that she had...it wasn't looking very good. She had to know.

"Was that all I said?" Paige asked tentatively.

The brunette looked nervously at her as if deciding whether to lie or not. "Well," Emily looked everywhere except Paige. "You said my name."

Paige immediately felt the blood rushing to her cheeks. She had said Emily's name out loud? Paige could hear the gears turning in her head as she tried to come up with a reasonable excuse for saying her roommate's name in her sleep. Maybe this could be a way to get Emily to slowly start trusting her. "Well, I actually did have a dream about you," Paige started, but quickly added, "not, like, a creepy dream." Emily nodded cautiously, looking a little curious as to why Paige was dreaming about her. Paige could feel her palms starting to sweat as she remembered the dream. "Yeah, so it was me trying to apologize to you for being an asshole during high school, but you didn't believe me and ran away." Paige hung her head as she recalled what she had done to Emily. "I know you probably won't believe me but...I really am sorry for what I did. I don't expect you to forgive me, but I do hope that you'll stop hating me."

Paige flinched back in surprise as she felt a hand on her arm. She raised her eyes to meet Emily's. "Paige, you put me through hell. But I would be lying if I said that I haven't done things that I've regretted. Everyone deserves to be forgiven." Emily said gently.

The other girl's words were swimming around in Paige's head. She was relieved and grateful that Emily was kind enough to forgive her even though Paige wasn't worthy of had Emily forgiven Paige so fast and so easily? Was Emily that nice of a person? Probably. "I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but why did you run away from me last night?" Paige questioned quietly.

It was Emily's turn to drop her head and study the floor intently. "I don't really know. I guess it was the first thing that came to my mind." Emily admitted. "After years of your tormenting, it probably got ingrained in my brain."

"What got ingrained in your brain?" Paige asked.

The swimmer shrugged half-heartedly. "Fear. I suppose I was so used to being in constant fear that you'd try to drown me again or something."

Paige felt guilt creep up on her and threaten to swallow her whole. She really was an asshole. "If it makes you feel any better...I wouldn't have drowned you. I did it to scare you. Not that it was a good thing."

Emily just nodded, biting her lip nervously. Paige, who was worried that Emily was nervous about her, couldn't help but think how cute Emily was. Everything Emily did would be cute to her. Paige inwardly winced at the creepy thought.

"Well, I actually have a class starting pretty soon, so I think I'm going to head off." Emily mentioned, slowly moving towards the door.

"Oh yeah. Me too." Paige quickly gave her teammate a tight-lipped smile and headed to their bathroom.

Emily's POV

Emily closed the dorm room door and started meandering to her class. The slow journey gave her time to think and process what had just happened. Paige had apologized and she had forgiven. That was basically it. The only question in her mind was why she had forgiven the swimmer so easily. Emily had been known to keep grudges, but for some odd reason, she had forgiven Paige's actions without a second thought. Emily had no explanation for why but maybe her gut was telling her that she and Paige could be good friends. She had a feeling that it was a little more than that.

For instance, why would Emily's pulse increase every time they locked eyes? That didn't normally happen with friends, did it? At least for her. Emily had never felt such a sensation when talking with Hanna, Aria, and Spencer. Weird. She had felt it with Maya, her ex-girlfriend. But she couldn't like Paige that way. She had spent all of high school being scared of Paige. How could she be attracted to Paige in such a short amount of time? Not to mention that she and Paige finally were sort of on good terms. She closed her eyes, attempting to banish all thoughts concerning Paige in her mind temporarily. After all, she had a big test today that she had just remembered. Oops.

Ah Emily XD. I can totally relate though. I've forgotten I have tests many times. Hopefully, this chapter wasn't too short. Sorry if it seems like Emily forgave Paige too easily, but once they become closer...the fun begins. *insert evil laugh here*