Pretty Little Lovers Untamed

Author's Note: But yeah.. What's up? Hahaha.

Chapter 23

Hanna and Emily sat on the couch together almost as if nothing was going on between them. Well, except Aria sat in the middle and no one spoke at all. Hanna had chosen a scary movie about some family being possessed and everyone being brutally murdered by demons. So for the most part, the girls kept their hands in front of their eyes and their knees to their chests. Every now and then Aria would burrow her face in Emily or Hanna's shoulders.

Meanwhile, Spencer sat in the chair alone. But it was better that way, she decided. Ever since she'd arrived, Aria had avoided her. They'd barely even made eye contact. But she'd told herself she would stay away from Emily so she couldn't bemoan the situation. It was for the best right?

Aria seriously felt the tension between Emily and Hanna as she huddled between them. At one point, she clutched both of their arms and they both stiffened. Was it that bad? Was it bad enough that they couldn't even be touched by the same person at the same time? She desperately wanted to talk to Emily alone and she thought hard about how on Earth she could get her away from the others without it seeming weird or secretive. Finally she decided to just go upstairs to the bathroom and then text Emily and asking for some water or something, claiming she was sick.

So Aria squeezed out from between her two friends and headed up the stairs. All of her friends must have assumed where she was going, because no one stopped her. And once she got into the bathroom, and she stood splashing water on her face, mostly because it felt good, but because she seriously needed to wake up too, she heard a knock at the door. And she hadn't even texted Emily yet. It was Hanna.

When Aria let her in, Hanna sat on the sink. She looked lost and she sat playing with her hair and said, "Ar, I'm freaking out. I need your help."

Aria leaned against the wall, to the left of the clothes hamper and said, "Well, go ahead."

Hanna nodded and then took a deep breath. "Me and Caleb are on a break," she revealed.

"What?" Aria was totally shocked. She thought of any of them, Hanna had a stable relationship. But aparently not. "What happened?"

There was no turning back now, Hanna thought and so she just kept talking. "It's mostly due to the fact that I have a crush on someone else. But I don't know what to do about it beacuse I don't think the person I like wants to be with me. Or I don't know if..they do or not." She nearly said she and she was so glad she was able to catch herself before the word escaped her lips. She wasn't ready to admit to Aria that she.. wasn't exactly straight.

Aria realized quickly that Hanna's situation was pretty much identical to the one she was going through with Spencer. And so she quickly provided some advice, because even if she couldn't follow it herself, she didn't like to see Hanna hurt. "You should go after your crush," she said, "Try your best to get them. Give them a reason to choose you. Because if you want them as badly as you seem to, you should fight for it." Then Aria thought about what she'd just said and how she'd practically just ignored the fact that Caleb was the guy being jilted here. And in her own personal case, it was Ezra. "Sometimes things aren't simple," she added.

The two of them went back downstairs and found Emily alone in the living room. Instantly Aria started to worry.

"What's going on? Where's Spencer?" she asked Emily, already panicing.

Emily looked up, as if in a daze. "Oh, she went to take a walk. She said she needed some fresh air."

Aria decided right away that it was her that needed to go talk to Spencer. So she heaed out too, leaving Emily and Hanna alone.

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