Pretty Little Lovers Untamed

Author's Note: Okay.. Now things are about to get interesting. Please review!

Chapter 22

Hanna and Aria stood in the Marin kitchen popping extra butter popcorn.

"So what movies are you up for?" Hanna asked, watching the bag inflate in the microwave.

"Not romance," Aria said and tapped her fingernails on the counter top. "I am seriously not feeling romance."

Hanna laughed lightly, maybe ironically. "Yeah me neither. Maybe we should watch something scary."

"Scary would be okay." Aria really didn't care what movie they watched as long as it didn't have too many people kissing in it. She didn't want to imagine her and Spencer as the couple on the screen, and so she just didn't want to see kissing at all.

There was a knock at the door as the microwave dinged and Hanna looked at Aria curiously. "Who could that be? My mom won't be home 'til later and I didn't invite anyone else."

Aria avoided her eyes. "Well, I kinda invited Em. I didn't think you'd mind."

Hanna's face paled. "You what? I thought this was you and me night!"

Not expecting her friend's response, Aria's eyes widened. "I'm sorry! I didn't know you'd get upset. I can tell her to leave.."

Of course Hanna didn't want that. How would that look? If she had Aria tell Emily to go home, Emily would for sure know how badly she was hurting. And she definitely didn't want her to know. She sighed. "No, just go let her in. We're just having a..fight. Sort of. But if she wants to be here, I guess she's over it." She turned around to get the popcorn out and left Aria to answer the door.

Aria felt light. She may have just touched on a sensitive subject with Hanna, but she was still glad to be there. She was glad to be doing anything but laying around overthinking everything that had been going on. She put her hand on the doorknob and put on her best smile. She was looking forward to talking to Emily, but she didn't want to give her friend the impression that she was overly upset or anything.

But the smile melted the second she had the door open. It wasn't Emily standing there on the door mat- it was Spencer Hastings.

"What are you doing here?" Aria asked, dumbfounded.

Spencer looked her friend up and down. She looked incredibly nice. "Can I not be here? Emily invited me."

At that, Emily came in too and hugged Aria quickly. "Hey, Spence was going to stay at my house so I just brought her along," she explained. To her it wasn't even an issue, but Aria was seriously freaking out. Spencer looked good too- really good. Her hair was curled and hanging around her face beautifully. She swallowed uneasily and nodded at Emily, at the same time doing her very best to keep her eyes off of Spencer's face.

Hanna walked in then too and saw the three of them standing in the living room. It was totally awkward. She could tell that something was up between Aria and Spencer, and when Emily saw her face, her stomach flipped about a dozen times. And she nearly gave in, walked right up to her, threw her arms around her shoulder and begged her to explain what was going on.

Only she didn't because her phone went off at that moment and she pulled it out of her pocket instead. It was a terrible distraction because the second she saw Caleb's name on the screen, she forgot all about Emily for a moment. She opened the text and read his three word message: "I miss you."

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