Author's Note: This is an AU with some fun with Spencer, Emily and Paige. Originally this was going to just be about Paige and Emily, but I got stuck on the idea that actually Spencer and Paige would be a better couple, but I wanted some sexual tension so Emily got some fun too. This takes place in the 5 year flash forward time frame with one major difference Emily & Spencer never met Paige in high school. Everybody is still who they are and Paige still had to overcome her life challenges without her relationship with Emily. Paige is out and proud, confidant but never had an Emily. Spencer after her big breakup with Toby had a few flings with women in college and rethought her sexuality and is Bisexual. Oh also Caleb and Spencer is so not a thing. So same personalities just slightly tweaked pasts.
NOTE: No sex yet but trust me we are working up to it give me a couple of chapters will ya!
Chapter 2 -Wanna Ruin a Friendship?
At the Radley bar Emily sat sipping a pink drink that was the house special, a pink lemonade with some vodka tossed in for good measure. She didn't know completely what she was going to say when Spencer got there but she knew she had to say something. Spencer was one of her oldest and closest friends. Did she really wanna ruin the dynamic by trying to what... date her? What about all the AD, Alison Charlotte mess, what would the other girls say? Was Spencer even into this? She'd never really shown an interest in women around Emily even though they all knew Spencer went through a few ladies in college after her and Toby split, but that was college. Emily had known many a girl who fooled around with girls but weren't really into girls to like date, but then Emily thought she wasn't sure what she wanted. A relationship with Spencer? A make out with Spencer? Sex with Spencer? They all had their own merits for sure, Spencer was drop dead beautiful, intensely smart and just as intensely loyal as a friend and from what she knew of her and Toby's relationship a passionate lover. But what happened between them herself and Spencer she didn't know. She just wasn't sure and getting into Spencer's head had always vexed Emily. So she took another large sip of her drink and waited. Spencer arrived about 5 min late which was totally unusual for Spencer and she seemed slightly out of it, like blissed out relaxed state of being.
"Hey Em," she said as she sat down next to her leaning in to bump Emily's shoulder with hers. "That was an amazing massage! I'm still on cloud 9 from it. Sorry I'm late I had to run home to shower off the oils and get dressed again." She seemed almost drunk, almost high like her coordination was off. "Hey Spencer, you didn't drive here did you? Cause you seem wasted!" Emily said slightly propping up Spencer and laughing. "Haha no I'm fine just more relaxed then I've felt since being back to Rosewood." Spencer sat up a bit more and waived the waiter over, "Sea Breeze please, I need something fruity & breezy to go with my chill mood." The waiter bustled off to make the drink returning with it in lightening like speed. "Ok Spence glad you liked it and that you're so relaxed!" Emily said clinking cups with Spencer when her drink arrived. They sipped in companionable silence for a few then Spencer not being able to take the lead up said, "Ok so we should talk about that hot almost kiss huh?" Emily nearly spit her drink out from the blatant-ness, but hey that was Spencer. "Um yes sure, if you want." Emily said regaining control, "I just um didn't want you to think I was trying to like make some kind of move on you or get creepy or anything," Emily said all of this with an increasingly higher pitched voice and the last word was something only cats could hear. Spencer leaned back and laughed then, "Ha, yeah I mean Emily I did want to kiss you. In that moment it seemed really right, then stupid Aria had to ruin it with life or death info about our new arch enemy and Alison," she trailed off laughing at their impending doom. Emily had to laugh too because when she said it like that it all seemed so odd and strange and ridiculous not to mention too big to even handle.
"Got ya yeah that Aria needs to work on her timing, totally sure the looming disasters could wait, at least for one good kiss!" Emily joined in on the joke and now everything seemed far less awkward than it was before. "Good kiss?" Spencer questioned after a bit more laughter, "who knows if it would have been good, could have been horrible or worse just mediocre. How would we know we've never kissed?" Spencer said all this with a bit of a flourish totally flirting and playing with Emily. "I mean you've kissed Alison but not me. In all this time you've never tried to kiss me, maybe I should be offended it took you this long." Spencer's eyes were smiling and Emily knew she was being teased and flirted with and it felt good. "God I am never gonna live down the Alison thing am I?" she said rolling her eyes towards the heavens. "Oh how could we let that go, I mean really we all did so much for Alison and am still doing tons for Ali, but you lip locked with her!" Spencer nudge her in the ribs just s bit as the Sea Breeze was starting to kick in, "Jesus they make strong drinks here," Spencer thought. "Oh well we did way more than lock lips!" Emily accidently blurted out, to a shocked faced Spencer. "Wait what, you did what with Ali? No, no freaking way, when, where?" Spencer was thunder struck this convo was going off on its own and she was confused. "No really, you didn't, did you?" Spencer said eye brows raised as high as they could go and seeing Emily's sheepish grin and nodding head she said, "OMG you did! WOW what the F Em? You and Alison WOW!" Spencer was stunned shocked into silence for a min or two.
"Ok ok it was in high school after she came back and we just sort of fell into it, but I thought afterward that she was using me and now I dunno maybe she was maybe she meant it at the time and then used it to play me later who the fuck knows with Alison. Well… I'll tell you one thing it was pretty hot though" Emily said in starts and stammers but finishing strongly. "Em she was totally using you, that's like Ali's MO but yeah at the same time it was kind of something you always wanted from her in a way and she was like giving you want you wanted. Totally an Alison thing to do. AHHH Alison, no more talking about her. Can we talk about us?" Spencer said in her definitive Spencer way. "Um yes, well that's sort of why I wanted you here…but now I do not know what to say." There was a pause for some drink sipping to gear up. "Ok so I guess Spence I just wondered if you felt that moment we had and what it meant or if we wanted to have another one or a 1st one or wait, I've lost what I was saying…help Spence" Emily got so flustered it all came out as gibberish. Spencer put her hand on Emily's leg and sort of forced Em's attention to her face. "Em I get what you are trying to say. Please believe me I wanted to kiss you too, but the moment escaped and now I don't really know what to do or what I want." Emily brightened at this a bit, but Spencer had only paused and she forced herself to go on. "I don't know what to do or what I want…especially after today." Emily looked confused, "Wait what happened today?" Spencer looked directly into Emily's eyes and said, "Well I met someone and I have a date with her tonight in about 20 mins."
Emily felt a weight drop on her chest, and didn't know what to say so she just kept quite looking into Spencer's eyes. "Em, it's just a date I mean who knows what will happen, but I just thought I should tell you. I mean I just met her today so it could be nothing, but…" Spencer tried to explain though somewhere in her she knew, it wasn't nothing. It felt like a real beginning of something big, but also whatever was here with Emily felt like something big too. Emily was still silent. "Em please say something I don't know what to do here," Spencer looked at her and around the room sort of helpless. "So you are just as confused as I am, wait maybe more cause of your date," Emily started then paused then said, "but ok you made a date with someone, but you've been here flirting with me telling me you wanted to kiss me. I don't know what to think, why are you here if you made a date?" Emily questioned. "Em I'm here because I want to be here, I want to see you, I want to flirt with you, & yes I wanted to kiss you, I still do, I just don't know what that means because I also want to go on my date tonight. I mean it has literally been a year since I went on a date with anyone and it just feels like time, but also I had a moment with her too and I don't know what that means." Spencer said sheepishly, "It doesn't negate the moment we had and it doesn't change it really." Another long pause and then Emily spoke again, "So you want to kiss me but don't know what that means and you want to go on this date because you aren't sure what that could mean either? Ok I got that, but I guess what I wanna know is well…would you wanna go on a date with me?" Again Emily's voice went up a couple of octaves on the last word, but she got her message out.
Spencer laughed, "Yes, Em, Yes I totally I do," Spencer said as she kissed Emily passionately on the lips feeling a new moment well up between them. As Emily pushed into the kiss deepening it they both felt a rush of something like excitement flash over them. They pulled back smiling at each other. Emily spoke 1st, "Well should we down one more drink before you go off for your rendezvous!" Emily cracked a smile and Spencer chuckled they knew that no matter what that their friendship would remain intact. "Oh yes I want one of those pink drinks you got, I hear it's what all the real lesbians drink!" Spencer said laughing putting her arm around Emily and calling the waiter over again. The two drank and giggled for a 15 mins and talked about where they should go on their date and when it was time for Spencer to go meet Paige they said goodbye with a subtle kiss that was filled with friendship and possibility but no hurt feelings.