Meeting You Ch. 2

The next three days were hell on Emily. Between classes, working with Tina, and scheduling sorority things, she was making flash cards to quiz Sam and Aaron when they met up on Monday night.

"Hey, Em, are you going out to Toad's tonight?" Bianca asked as she sat down on Emily's bed.

"I wasn't planning on it. Why?" Emily asked as she looked at Bianca.

"Sam invited us to go and hang out with him and a few of his friends from Sigma Alpha Epsilon," Bianca said as she handed Emily a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.

"He's part of Sigma?" Emily asked as she began to change.

"Yea. It's going to be him, Aaron, Stephen, John, Joe, and Will," Bianca said as she watched Emily's face light up at hearing that Aaron was going to be there.

Bianca knew, from Sam, that Aaron was dating Haley but she had never seen Emily look at any guy the way she looked at Aaron. She knew that Emily was really standoffish when it came to guys because of what happened when she was fifteen; but Emily didn't have a problem with Aaron or Sam.

"Besides you can just put it off as setting up a crush party with the Sigma's," Bianca said as Emily pulled on her black boots.

"So is it just going to be us or did you get a group of the girls to come with us?" Emily asked as they headed for the kitchen.

"Jen's coming because she is the president and then just a few juniors and sophomores," Bianca said as Jen walked out of the kitchen.

"You guys ready?" Jen asked as she grabbed her coat. "Thanks for setting this up, Em. I didn't realize that you knew Sigma Alpha Epsilon's president so well."

"B, who is Sigma's president?" Emily asked as the group started walking towards Toad's.

"Aaron Hotchner is Sigma's president. I thought you noticed the ring on his hand when we met with him and Sam on Tuesday night," Bianca said as Emily stared at her.

"So did you, by any chance, tell the Sigma guys that I set this up as well as Jen?" Emily asked quietly just as the Sigma's joined their group.

"No, Sam did call and ask if we wanted to go to Toad's. I asked if Aaron was going to be there because Jen had been trying to get a hold of him to set up a crush party," Bianca said as they arrived at Toad's. "I just told Jen that it was your idea because you happen to have class with Sigma's President and Vice President."

"Emily, Bianca, glad that you could join in the party tonight," Sam said as Emily snickered when Jen latched onto Aaron. "He's going to kill me later for that one."

"Let's just say you probably won't be the only one in his sights tonight," Emily said as they commandeered four tables. "Bianca, here, told Jen that I set up this meeting. Come on, B, let's go get ourselves a drink."

Five minutes and four beers later, the girls were back at the table.

"Since when do you two drink beer?" Sam asked as Emily put a beer in front of him and Aaron. "What happened to the apple martini and pina colada?"

"We drink beer all the time actually," Emily said as she sat next to Aaron. "Tuesday was a bad day for me so I wanted the vodka without having to taste it."

"Sam, Miss Prentiss, can I speak to both of you quickly?" Aaron said as Jen went to get a drink.

"I told you," Emily said as she followed Sam and Aaron outside the club.

"Seriously Sam?" Aaron asked as they stood outside. "As if I didn't have enough to deal with right now, I am now planning a crush party with the Theta's. And you, Miss Prentiss, setting up this get together to ambush me into meeting with your President for a crush party."

SMACK!

"How dare you," Emily said after slapping Aaron across the face. "For one thing, I didn't even know that you were President of Sigma until I left the house this evening."

"Aaron, she had no idea. Hell, she wasn't even going to come to Toad's tonight," Sam said as he helped Aaron off the ground. "I called Bianca to see if the girls wanted to get together tonight. Jen was in the room and asked if there was any way you were going to be here to talk about the crush party."

"She had no idea?" Aaron asked as they headed back towards the club.

"None at all. Now you'd better find a way to apologize to her or else we are both screwed for developmental psychopathology," Sam said as he headed towards the group of Theta's and Sigma's. "Where did Emily go?"

"She left. What the hell did Aaron say to her?" Bianca asked before taking a drink of her beer.

"He accused her of setting this night up as an ambush to get him to meet your President for a crush party," Sam said as he watched Jen catch Aaron again.

"No wonder she's pissed off," Bianca said as they watched Aaron try and get away from Jen. "Is that a handprint starting to show up on his face?"

"Yea, Emily has one hell of a backhand," Sam said.

"She smacked him?" Bianca asked as she remembered the look on Emily's face as she came back into grab her stuff. "You are both screwed if he can't find a way to apologize to her by Monday night. You two are the first guys that she's even let into her space as friends."

"Yea, she smacked him pretty good," Sam said as he looked at the handprint on Aaron's face. "Why's that?"

"She had some shit go wrong for her when she was younger and she's never really trusted any guys until you two," Bianca said as she stood to go get another drink. "I'm going to go get myself another drink and try and get Jen away from Aaron so that he can go and save both your asses for your class."

Emily's POV

Emily sat on the stairs of the Theta house remembering why she refused to trust guys.

Flashback

Six Years Ago

"Come on, Em. It'll be fun," John Cooley said as they laid next to each other on her bed in Italy.

"Seriously, Cooley, I get that your horny but that isn't going to happen," Emily said as she looked at the clock. "Besides I have to go and meet Matt in twenty minutes."

"What's up with you and him?" John asked as he stood up.

"He's my best friend and one of the few friends that I actually have in this godforsaken country," Emily said as she put her tennis shoes on.

Three weeks later

John, Matthew, and Emily were all sitting out in the courtyard of the Ambassador's mansion doing tequila shots and smoking hashish.

"I can't believe it," Matt said as he looked at Emily. "Your mother just signed up for another year here without even thinking to talk to you about it."

"Yea, I know, but that's always how Elizabeth Prentiss does things," Emily said. "I just can't wait until I can go to college and get away from her and all the politics."

"Mr. Benton, you parents just rang. They would like you to head home," the housekeeper called.

"I'll see you at school tomorrow, Em," Matt said before giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Later, Cooley.

"Bye, Matt," Emily said as he headed for the gate.

An hour and another bottle of tequila later, Emily was thoroughly wasted. John knew this was his only chance of getting into Emily Prentiss' pants before he left next week.

"Em, come on, let's get you upstairs," John said as he picked her up in his arms.

After ten minutes of struggling, he had both of their clothes off and was working her up.

Twenty minutes later, John had cum and was gone.

When Emily woke up, she noticed that she was naked and that there was blood staining her sheets. She had no idea what the hell had happened after Matt had left her and John alone.

It wasn't until a month and a half later, when Matt brought her her morning coffee, that Emily knew something was wrong. The smell of coffee turned her stomach so much that she ran directly to the women's room.

"Em, is there any way in hell that you might be pregnant?" Matt asked as he handed her a glass of water.

"Maybe. There is one night that John stayed later than you and I don't remember much after you left," Emily said as she put her head between her knees. "I woke up naked with blood staining my sheets."

"Jesus Christ Emily. He most likely raped you and got you pregnant," Matt said as he grabbed her hand. "We are going to go and have you checked out, then we'll decide what to do after we know for sure."

Seven days later, Emily had been told that she was in fact just over a month pregnant.

"So what did the doctor say?" Matt asked as he handed her a sandwich for lunch.

"I'm pregnant. Matt, what am I supposed to do?" Emily asked as she laid her head down on the table top. "I'm way to fucking young to have a baby."

"I did some checking into certain things. It's all up to you," Matt said as he rubbed her back. "We can give this baby a life, give it up for adoption, or you can have an abortion."

"I can't ask you to give up everything you have planned in life to help me with this baby," Emily said as she picked at her sandwich. "And there is no way for me to go nine months without showing. So that just leaves me with getting an abortion."

"We are going to have to go to Milan," Matt said as he gathered Emily into a hug.

Three days later, Matt and Emily were on the train to Milan. After a three hour train ride and a twenty minute taxi ride, they arrived at the clinic.

"Em, I'll be right out here waiting for you," Matt said as the nurse waited to take Emily back to the examination room.

Three hours later, Emily and Matt were back on the train headed back to Rome.

"Miss Prentiss?" Aaron said as he sat down next to her on the stairs of Theta house.

"My name is Emily," Emily said as she looked up at Aaron. "Now what can I do for you, Aaron?"