Chapter 41 – Welcome to Rosewood 2.0

2:35 a.m.

"Ugh Lauren! Lauren! Fuck!"

"God dammit, Em I can't take it anymore!" Ali rolled over, it was well into the night, all four girls having gone to bed several hours ago…well Em and Ali where finally settled into sleep just a few hours earlier, Ali keeping well on her deal with Em once they closed the door to the bedroom.

Ali rolled over to Em's side of the bed and snuggled deeper into Emily's side, brushing her hand along the bare skin of her back, tracing small circles in her wake. She would have to try a different approach.

"Em," Ali cooed softly, "c'mon Em, I know a way to drown them out."

"Aliiii," Em groaned, "I need my rest woman."

"Em, please, I know you can't be scared of a little competition."

"I know what you're doing Alison, no, just go to sleep."

"Em you're not being fair."

"Yes I am," Em finally rolled to her side, facing Ali and Alison took this new position to her advantage, running her fingerstips through the valley of Em's ample breasts and trailing it lower, daring herself to keep going…that is until Em grabbed hold of her wrist, "Ali, I don't think I have it in me."

Ali pouted and laid on her back, "fine, I'll do it myself."

Em laid her head back on the pillow before she shot up and looked her girlfriend in the eye, "you'll what?"

Ali ignored her and slipped her hand under the sheet, the movement visible for Em. Emily swallowed and shook her head, "Ali you know we have a flight in a few hours and I-"

"Should get some sleep, I know," Ali finished, "but I can't take hearing them any longer, and to be honest, I think it's hot how many times Lauren can bring her girlfriend to cum that loud and so many times. Uh, Camila is one lucky girl."

"Ali-"

"What? I'm not challenging you, now go to bed so I can hear them, if I time it right I think I might be able to- oh I know, I should take Lauren up on that offer instead." Ali reached her swollen bud and flicked it, releasing a moan at the same time, "maybe she'll let me join them for a threeso-"

"Shutup and get over here."

Em snapped, she couldn't take it anymore, she grabbed Ali and flipped herself over, straddling the blonde's waist. Em roughly latched onto Alison's neck, biting down on the sensitive skin in such a manner that would leave marks for all to see in the morning.

"I'll be damned if I let you walk out on me and go over there Ali…you're mine."

"Then take me."

Em growled and once her lips attached themselves to Ali's, Alison quickly forgot how they had gotten there, their friends sexcapades in the room across the hall forgotten to them both.

x-x-x-x

9:47 a.m.

In the morning, which came sooner than Em would've liked, Ali got up, unsteady from the exhaustion of the night before and started packing their suitcases.

"Em, Em, babe, c'mon, we have three hours to be at the airport in San Francisco, you have to get up."

"Five more minutes?"

"I gave you two more hours the last time you said five more minutes. C'mon." Ali smirked and walked over to the bed, pulling the sheet from her girlfriend's body.

Emily immediately missed the warmth and stood up, groaning in exhaustion and slight irritation.

"C'mon champ, why don't you go cook breakfast? I just heard Lauren and Camila head downstairs, you should go before Mila eats everything."

Em rubbed the sleep from her eyes and walked towards the bedroom door, "fine, but only because I want there to be some food for when my parents get back."

Em reached for the handle before Ali rushed over and pushed herself against the door, "uh, as hot as you look when you get up in the morning, I think only my eyes are allowed to see you naked like this Em."

Em looked at Ali in confusion before looking down at her naked body. She smiled and shrugged, "you seemed to not care of you joined Lauren and Camila last night, maybe I don't care if they see me naked, it's not like I'm ashamed of anything, should I be?"

Ali swallowed thickly and knew what angle Em was playing at, "are you still upset about that? Because I was thinking, you know I might have a small fantasy for you to fulfill while the two of them are still here, it involves-"

"Dammit, okay! Hand me some clothes."

"Gotcha."

"God, I hate you."

"God? Hmm, I seem to recall screaming his name along with yours last night, you two must be very close."

"Of all people, how did I end up with you?" Em laughed as she got dressed, watching Ali pack away their clothes for the week.

"Some might say fate, me? It's because you've been hot for me since we were kids."

"Ali," Em sighed.

"See, even now I have you moaning."

"Shutup!" Em couldn't take the teasing anymore and walked out the door, calling from the hall, "come down in 10 or else I'll let Mila eat your eggs!"

Ali laughed and finished packing up their things, making sure everything was in order.

Downstairs, Mila sat at the counter, watching Lauren rummage through the refridgerator.

"I see you two are looking for food?" Em surprised them both.

Camila nodded and yawned and Lauren closed the fridge to join her girlfriend, "thank god you're finally up, now I don't have to worry about cooking."

Em quirked an eyebrow, "what do you mean finally?"

Lauren shrugged, "nothing, just considering we all had a bit of a marathon going on last night, I assumed you'd sleep in a bit later, sounds like you did most of the work last night."

Em stopped, almost dropping the carton of milk in her hand, before coughing to clear her throat.

Mila hid her face in Lauren's shoulder while the raven-haired girl stifled laughs of her own, "it's okay Em no need to be ashamed, I bet it was all Ali's idea wasn't it?"

"Lauren!" Camila was still not as open about sharing as Lauren was and in that, she shared the same blush on Emily's face.

"You bet what was my idea?" Ali came down leaning casually against the counter by Em. She took one quick look at the her and Camila's flushed face and smirked at Lauren, "oooh, I see. Yeah, you're right, it was."

"I knew it. You just couldn't handle us being louder than you could you?"

Ali shrugged, "actually, I was handling it pretty fine, I was even this close," she said pinching her fingers together, "to joining you because Em wasn't having it."

"Well you two had a head start on us, I wouldn't blame her."

"Yeah, I guess but all it took was a little teasing and man, my mermaid sure did-"

"Okay! Mila, you want to whisk some eggs for me?" Em asked to abruptly change the subject.

Camila, immediately getting the cue, stood up and retrieved the eggs from the fridge.

"Aw look Ali, we're making them blush."

Ali laughed, "don't we always?"

"Haha, I kind of wish you did join us though, could've been one hell of a party."

"Hey!" Em and Camila warned in unison.

"Hmm, maybe. Hanna has been trying that with us for a while, maybe when we're all drunk we can slip in a kiss or two?"

It was all teasing in good fun, but Em looked between the two gorgeous women and laughed, "if you two keep that up, we're not going to feed you."

"Fine by me, I ate plenty last night, didn't I Mila?"

"Oh my god, you did not?" Ali was bursting into laughter and Camila quickly went over to smack her girlfriend on the arm.

"Lauren Michelle, I swear to god!"

"Babe, calm down, it was just a joke."

Em started laughing, surprising everyone in the room and soon Mila followed, settling back into the whisking of the eggs.

"God, what are we gonna do when you two come to Rosewood with us?"

Lauren shrugged and tilted her head, "as long as you don't kill us and leave us in the woods, anything goes."

"I'd choose my words more carefully if I was you Lauren," Em commented with her head in the pantry.

"Why Em, what's the worst that can happen?"

Em met Ali's eyes and both girls shook their heads.

"Truth or Dare."

"What? You're crazy, everyone's played Truth or Dare before, no big deal."

Emily shook her head, "but not the way Ali does it."

"Shit Lauren," Camila taunted, "what'd you do this time?"

Although her pride wouldn't let her admit it, Lauren was actually pretty nervous for the next week to come.

x-x-x-x

The girls flight left on time and they finally landed, took a train and one bus and got safely to Rosewood, it was sometime in the evening and Em called all the girls once the four of them had settled in.

Her parents moved with her to California but they had paid off the house back in Rosewood and left in under Emily's name for whatever she decided to do with it. But this wasn't just a house, it was Em's home and she could never sell it. So she kept it and now it would serve as her and all her friends' make-shift hotel for the week.

None of the girls' parents lived in Rosewood anymore but Rosewood seemed like the only appropriate place for all five of them to come back to, it was where everything had started, especially their friendship, and regardless of their happenings with –A, it just seemed right to come back.

"Em, Hanna just called, they're on their way, they just got back from the mall in Brentswood."

"Haha that figures, and what about Spence and Aria?"

"Um Toby is picking Spencer up from school after his shift which should be over," she checked her phone, "thirty minutes ago. So they'll be here I soon and Aria is-"

"Here!" The petite brunette walked into the entryway and held her hands up in surprise.

Em was the first to wrap her arms around her friend, Ali following suit.

"Guys! Uh, its so good to see you, I've missed you."

"We've missed you too Ar, how's everything?"

Aria smiled and held up her camera around her neck, "you know, the same old, same old."

"Oh that's not true," Ali called, "Hanna told me you got that internship with that magazine? How is it?"

Aria's smile widened, "okay I lied, it's not the same old, same old, this internship is great! I'm working with some amazing people and I have access to all this brand-new equipment, it's amazing."

Em nodded, "but what about Hollis? And isn't it really early to be getting an internship?"

"Yeah, it is but I'm only part-time at Hollis right now and the internship is great for accepting me so early, I couldn't pass it up."

"That's great Ar, and how's Ezra doing?"

"He's good too, business is steady and he and I just got a place….not to far from here actually, it's a really small house, but we're converting one of the rooms into a mini gallery for my work and there's a small shed in the back where I can develop my pictures….but enough about me, how's life in Cali? Oh, and where are your new friends?"

Alison tilted her head towards the stairs, "Lauren and Camila are upstairs showering, they'll be down in a few. Hey are you staying the night too?"

Aria looked between the two and shrugged, "I don't know, what are the other girls doing?"

"Well, you live with Ezra, Toby and Spencer have their apartment and Hanna and Caleb both live in California like us, so since they were gonna stay the night, we thought you and Spence would too, c'mon it'll be like old times and you get to hang with Lauren and Camila."

"Well yeah I can, we're all on break anyways. Wait, how long you guys in town for?"

"Just a week," Em answered.

"So Hanna and Caleb are gonna stay here that long too? And you're friends?"

"Yeah."

"Well then, I don't see why I can't spend more than one night here either, you've got plenty of space."

"Alright then, it's settled-"

"Wooo, Hanna in the house, now we can start the party!"

"Hanna!" Emily rushed over and was practically tackled by the shorter blonde and all her bags.

"Em! Finally, I missed you!" She dropped the bags and wrapped her hands around Em, "Ali get your ass over here!"

Ali was soon squished into the group hug and Aria joined and soon after, as if the timing gods were watching them, Spencer walked in and laughed, "uh, guys, what's going on?"

Spencer didn't receive an answer; instead she found hands on her shoulders, not even knowing who they belonged to, pulling her in.

It was only when a flash was seen and throats were cleared that the five friends and two boyfriends looked up to see where the flash had come from.

"Aw you guys are all super fucking adorable. Look Camz, they remind me of us and the girls back at home."

Emily cleared her throat and walked towards Lauren and Camila, laughing that they had yet again captured another moment of her life on camera.

"Girls, this is Lauren and her girlfriend Camila."

Ali walked beside Em and chuckled, "or Camila and her girlfriend Lauren, because that is sometimes topic for debate."

Lauren laughed and nodded, "that's very true."

And these are, Em turned to introduce but Lauren smiled and pushed past her-

"I got this."

"Show off," Camila muttered.

Lauren shook it off and walked towards the rest of the girls, "okay, well let's see, you walked in with Mr. Cop, have an athletic build and are tall, you must be Spencer?"

Spencer nodded and shook Lauren's hand, "hmm, I'm impressed."

Lauren smiled, "thank you."

"You, the camera, eccentric style and petite-ness, you are most definitely Aria?"

Aria laughed, "I feel like I'm on a cop show."

Lauren shrugged, "maybe you are," and turned to face Hanna.

"Hanna."

"Yes, I am, you're not going to access me first?"

"What's there to access, I heard that you and I might be more like each other than we may think. Plus, you're Ali and Em's best friends, I've seen dozens of pictures of you in their dorm."

Spencer started clapping, "I like her already."

"Yes, I have that effect on most people, isn't that right Camz?"

Camila groaned, "hello everyone."

The rest of the girls introduced themselves to Camila and after Toby offered Caleb a place to crash at his apartment, the two guys left, leaving the seven girls to catch up and start the night off right.

x-x-x-x

6 hours, 5 pizzas, and 4 movies later, the girls all sat crammed into Emily's living room, sleep a foreign concept to them all.

"Guys, I do not want to watch another movie, can we like, do something different?" Hanna complained from the couch. It was the only piece of furniture that could seat more than two people, but was being completely occupied by her.

"Yeah," Ali agreed, "who brought the alcohol?"

"You know technically speaking, we're all still underage." Spencer acknowledged while getting up with Hanna anyways to get the drinks from the fridge.

"Okay, Miss UPenn, but if you're gonna be here, you have to leave your 'technicalities' at school, we're on spring break, it's like a the right passage to drink and party when we're on spring break."

Lauren laughed, "isn't it right of passage?"

"Tomato, potato, who are you the grammar queen?"

Camila laughed and nodded her head vigorously, "actually our friends in Miami call Lauren that all the time."

"Really," Hanna asked, "wait, but aren't you like Ali," she directed towards Camila, "you're like into that English shit too right?"

"Yeah, I am."

"Huh, so why aren't you the grammar queen?"

Camila shrugged, "I pick and choose you know, can't win 'em all."

"Please, coming from the girl with a smoking hot girlfriend. You know I used to think Ali was the luckiest girl around, now I think you're giving her a run for her money."

"Hey, I heard that." Ali shouted from across the room.

"Hey, you were supposed to!"

"Hmm, Hanna, if I didn't know any better I'd think you were hitting on me." Lauren smiled smugly.

Hanna shook her head, "naw, if you two are as much alike as them," she pointed to Em and Ali, "as Emily says you two are, then, just take it as a compliment, I've been trying to have a little fun with them for a while."

Lauren smirked, "you don't say?"

"Oh god, you two are alike." Camila clapped her forehead while Spencer returned with glasses in her hand, "I told you. Camila, I think you and I will get along just fine."

Camila blushed and Hanna turned her attention to the brunette, "hmm, so, Lauren and Camila, Camila and Lauren-"

"Oh god, guys!" Aria called for Em and Ali, "she's doing it again!"

"Doing wha-" Camila began to ask.

"Laurmila!" Hanna exclaimed before scrunching her nose, "no I don't like that, how about…"

"Em, what is she talking about?"

"She making you guys a ship name."

"A ship name?" Lauren looked confused.

"Like what they do for-"

"Oh I have it, I have it! Camren! Yes Camren! Camila and Lauren, you two are Camren! Camren and Emison in the house!"

Em sighed and Ali walked in laughing, "well at least we're not the only one who have to suffer now."

Hanna laughed at both couples and sat back into the couch with her drink in hand, "damn guys, it feels good to be home. I mean who would've thought I'd feel this good? And in Rosewood, of all places."

"Not just Rosewood, Han," Ali corrected and smiled at Em, waiting for her to finish.

"Rosewood 2.0," Emily smiled and settled in next to Alison on the floor.

Ali nodded, kissing Em's cheek and pulling away to yell, "now let's play truth or dare bitches!"

Lauren froze and gulped down her drink, this would be interesting.

AN: truth or dare and other games, I wonder what'll happen and what secrets will be revealed? Dun dun dun….
As always, leave your reviews/comments and tell me what you thought, I hope I made some of you laugh? In the spirit of Lauren, was it too much *smirks*
…And don't worry, the liars are going to be in this next chapter a lot :)
Love always, Lina