Chapter 6 life as we don't like it..
DO NOT OWN PLL AND ITS CHARACTERS, THOUGH SOME CHARACTERS IN THE STORY ARE OF MY OWN CREATION.
Those following my story thank you it means a lot it being my first FANFIC. I still apologize for my errors I know I will get better.
The ride to the hospital was quite. No knew what to say. They were all tensed up. Praying in their hearts for paige to be alive and okay. As Wayne stop sat the emergency spot emily ran out the car. Shana was right behind her.
They got to the emergency desk emily hurriedly asks paige McCullers please?, but before the nurse could answer She saw Aria slightly to her right. She ran to Aria then saw Nicolas and a doctor attending to Evelyn. She just woken up, she had fainted. Emily just stops. Aria was sitting on the floor crying so hard. Shana ran to her crying as well in anticipation of what could possibly be a bad news, asking where is paige what did the doctors say.
Wayne had parked the car and was now standing next to emily who just stood watching the scene in front of her. As Nicolas turns and saw wayne with emily just standing in the middle of the hallway he spoke to the doctor to excuse him. Leaving Evelyn with the doctor he walks the longest walk of his life to emily and wayne.
He then stood right in front of them, looks at them both then look to wayne again with red eye and slowly shakes his head. To indicate paige didn't make it. Wayne's head dropped, his left hand which was already holding emily into him, held her tighter. Wayne spoke up.
"Am sorry emmy". Emily who was standing there ask for what is happening. She was still in denial. Just because Nicolas didn't say a word doesn't mean she didn't know what he meant.
For God's sake why will Evelyn of all people be sitting on the floor of a hospital. Wayne still said "Am sorry emmy". Emily who was already worked up screams. She was tired of her dad saying that.
"Stop saying that!". She looks straight at Nicolas.
"Mr McCullers please tell me where is paige?". He knew he had to say it out loud. She wanted him to say it out loud.
"AM SORRY EMILY, PAIGE IS DEAD!. She had an internally bleeding and she hit her head pretty bad. They doctors did all the could, but they weren't able to save her". Tears were already flowing from his eyes as he finished.
Emily's body was shaking, she was falling Wayne had to hold her and drags her to the nearest seat.
"Oh god!" Emily cried, "NO! Paige! NO!, Oh god!"
"I am sorry". wayne kept saying with some tears in his eyes.
"NO! She can't be…No!"
"Emmy"
"Tell me it's not true!" Emmy begged, "Please Dad! Someone I beg you, please tell me it's not true!". Tears fell out of Wayne's eyes, "I am so sorry Emmy". That's all he could master.
"No! Paige wouldn't leave me!" Emily sobbed. "She would never leave me!. I know paige, she will never leave me!". Evelyn who had earlier fainted cries some more. Aria and Shana were all crying in with so much pain.
Hanna and the marins rushed in.
"What is going on here?". Shana had earlier called her when emily didn't pick so she called hanna and told her about the accident.
As soon as hanna saw everyone she stopped.
"Oh my god" She whispers.
"Oh my god!". She ran to Emily and wraps her arms around her holding her tightly.
"Oh my god!".
"She wouldn't leave me han, paige will never leave me!" Emily kept saying crying. Tears ran down Emily 's cheeks as she cries and cries. Hanna and her mum started crying too.
"Dad? Why do they all leave me?"
Wayne looks up to Look at Emily who was looking like Emily of ten years ago. He looks away.
For the first time ever he didn't give his daughter an answer, instead he just cries. He knew a lot of work has been caught up for him all over again.
Emily refused to go see paige in that state. She wanted to remember her as she knew her. Full of life, always smiling and looking at her like she was the only thing that mattered with her gorgeous brown eyes looking back at her.
Wayne left emily with hanna he went and saw paige. He prayed for her. He cried while he watched her lifeless body. He felt like he had lost a daughter. He truly loved and admired paige. She was so sweet, humble and respectful. Not just emily, paige had genuinely made him happy too.
Later that night Wayne had to ask a doctor to give something to Emily. The doctor did. That night they all slept at the McCullers. The Marins, Evelyn's staffs and wayne helped Nicolas to make calls and plans for the funeral. Evelyn, Aria, Shana, hanna and emily didn't talk nor did any contributions toward the funeral arrangements, they were all still in shock. they were all like zombies.
Toby who also loved paige came to the house the next day. He made sure he was involved in the case. He had told them paige was causally standing waiting for green light to walk some few blocks to her apartment when a drunkard driver who was trying to avoid a group of tourist that just got on the road without Waiting for a green light. He avoided them and he hits her. He had turned the head of the car to avoid crushing them but ran over paige and two others standing beside her. None of the three survived. The other two were married with kids. It was sad. Emily wondered how the spouses and the kids felt. She wasn't married yet, yet she felt so much pain losing her fiancée.
FIVE DAYS LATER
Breathe, just breathe. Emily kept saying repeatedly in her head continuously.
Don't cry. Do not cry.
She told herself as she stared at her reflection in the mirror. Her eyes were red and tired; it was like she had been crying for months not just five days. She continued to to look at her reflection, she was thinner, paler, and her hair was quiet long and full.
The black dress she was wearing was beautiful. She looked stunning even though she wasn't in the best shapes at all. Emily felt her throat clench and her eyes suddenly begin to water. She continued looking at her reflection and she let out a sob.
Don't cry. Do not cry do this for paige.
Those words rang in her head but in all honesty they didn't matter. Paige was gone. She wasn't going to see her again ever.
Emily tried to take a deep breath to control her emotions, and it worked, but only for some few seconds. So she closed her eyes, to shut the tears as the spilled out.
Emily couldn't help but playback the last couple of months in her head. They were the best she'd ever been in like forever. How could this be true? how could this happen? Emily was heartbroken. she was broken once already when her mum died. can she survive losing her paige?.
"Em?" Emily immediately opened her eyes. there were knocks on the door.
Knock Knock
"Em?". Emily carefully wiped her tears and quickly put on powder around her eyes, trying to cover up her bags. She put her make up away and walks over towards the door. She unlocked it to find Hanna standing outside.
"It's time," Hanna said softly.
Emily nodded and handed Hanna her purse.
They both made their way back into the main lobby, they didn't say a word to each though. Emily's breath quicken as she got closer and closer to the main door. When they finally reached the main door Emily took a deep breath and watch Hanna open it.
"Go on," Emily said, "I just need a second…". Hanna nodded and went inside.
"You can do this," Emily whispered to herself, "You can do this, do this for paige."
She grabs onto the handle of the door and griped it tightly. It took her a few more seconds but she finally pulls the door open and enters the chapel.
Everyone was standing up, music was playing in the back ground. Emily stared down the aisle, where a huge Portrait of Paige with her beautiful smile was…right next to the grey and silver casket.
Emily took a deep breath and began walking down the aisle… but with every step she took her eyes began to water. She looked away from the portrait, she couldn't even look at it anymore . She could hear Aria, hanna Shana, and Lilian Paige's secretary sobbing and trying to control themselves. she also saw her dad, Nicolas and Evelyn, the marins, Toby, Evelyn's workers, invited guests, some of her university friends and those family and friend from her community. There were also some few reporters.
When she finally reached the casket she realized she was crying again and she began to sob. She went over to the casket and hugs it then sobbed.
"I am so sorry this happened to you". Emily cried, "Please come back to me."She cries as she fell to her knees, but her hands remained on the casket.
"I am so sorry" She sobbed, "Please come back to me paige". She shook her head and continued to cry.
"Please come back to me…I can't do this alone, please come back"
Emily then felt a pair of arms picks her up and she realized it was wayne. He had pulls her into an embrace.
"Why did she leave me?, why do they all leave dad?". Emily sobbed into him.
Wayne couldn't find his voice, this was heartbreaking, she was too young to get this hurt. He barely survived pam's death at his age what was he going to do about emmy. God knows this is too much for his emmy.
"I am so sorry emmy,". Wayne whispered, "I am so sorry". As tears drops from his eyes too. Evelyn and most of the rest watching the scene in front of them cried.
Evelyn wouldn't talk, so Nicolas, Shana, Aria spoke some few good words, they were all crying while talking. When it was Emily's turn she read a poem. She had to stop a few times because her voice wouldn't come out.
"Love can give you happiness then break the very heart it fills, leaving a hole that can never be fixed. Love is a lot of things. It is always a risk to love, but is a bigger risks not to. Paige my love, Thank you for loving me, for being the love of my life. I love you and I will love you forever".
After the funeral they went back to the mansion. there were a lot of people emily knew some that Evelyn or paige had introduced to her. She felt sick, but she had to be there. So she found a corner and sat. Still some people came greet her and left. They all pitied her. They knew paige she was the best part of that family. They knew she had lost a rare germ.
THREE MONTHS LATER.
Hanna was having a cup of tea in the morning with emily. She had to struggle the last three months for emily to eat even apples and tea. Wayne had done everything. They marins, the McCullers all were battling with themselves about emily. She was a pitied sight to look. Hanna who has been trying to talk about the situation with emily found it now. Wayne had gone to the antique shop to sign in some order that had arrived. So hanna sat to speak to Emily.
"Emily please talk to me, you haven't said anything in particular in three months. I know you are in pain em, but I need to hear you. Please".
Emily slightly shifted on her seat.
"Emmy please we all loved paige. This is not helping please say something". Emily eyes began to water.
"I miss her Han. I see her when I close my eyes. When I open them. Am trying Han, when I feel like I can live, an making progress I regress. I...l feel so much pain it hurts. I can't help think I might be cursed Han". Emily cried and turned to the window. Some few tears dropped from Hana's eyes fell. But She tries again.
"L feel we should go see that Hastings shrink I saw a few years back. You know the one that had asked you to go in with me some few times. She is nice you will like her". Emily didn't even look at her she just mouthed no. They stay in silent once again. As they were sitting in silence they heard the bell. Hanna stood up to go open it. She did it and it was Aria and Shana again. They had kept their grievance aside to be stronger for emily because of paige.
The three looks at each other then hugged. They cried again in silence. They had done that several times the past three months. Aria finally spoke up.
"How is she?". Hanna said the same. They then walked to the sitting room where emily sat. She didn't even turn. She didn't care who it was. Aria went and sat inches beside her trying to seems strong.
"How are we holding up today emmy?. Han says you haven't eaten much since the last time we were here five days ago". Emily didn't move. Come on em paige would have wanted you to move on. Tears just drops. Aria slightly turns Emily's face towards her. Aria looks a little like paige so emily didn't want to look. She manage to look a little as their eyes met funny enough it wasn't emily that turned away it was Aria. She saw so much pain she couldn't look. She stood up and went to the kitchen.
Shana who understood what just happened came and sat down near emily. Just were Aria stood.
"Em it has been three month, for God sakes we all lost paige. You can't continue like this. You are killing your self. Paige will never forgive us if we just stood and watch. So am gonna come back in two days time and take you to town. We will all go to Paige's apartment reminisce, drink and celebrate her life what do you say?". Emily just shifted, stood up and went to Khal. She has had enough talk for the day.
It has been like that. She has slept ten times the past three weeks with Khal. She had cried, yell, ate apples with him. Even Khal was at his best behaviors. He always stood near her making sounds as if talking to her. The marins talked to wayne he tried to make her go to the house in those days she refused. Even when he screams and shows his serious face emily was unaffected.
Nicolas had come five times even cried once with Emily, but she didn't really show any emotions. Evelyn came once. She was also battling with emotions. So she calls several times to greet emily, but emily didn't say much.
Evelyn was also fighting her demon She felt guilty for not being there more, for never really praising and showing emotions like paige had hoped one day she would. So many mistakes that were too late to rectify. She was paying the price for her selfishness. She cries most nights. Evelyn sometimes sat in her home office staring at the pictures of paige with regrets. Why didn't she do this?, do that?, why did she become this horrible person she is now?. it was late, too too late. she is too too late in in bringing everything to light. Damn them, they're too late...
THE NEXT DAY
Emily walks down the familiar path… like she did every Sunday. she hated this path, but this was for Paige.
She passes each grave stone until she finally reached the one she was looking for. She came to a stop right in front of it.
Paige. Nicolas .McCullers
Daughter
Sister
Fiancée
Friend
1/10/1985
To
2/12/2015
Tears ran down Emily's cheeks. She took the picture of herself, Khal and paige and place it on the tombstone along with the flowers she had in her hand. The picture was taken the day paige proposed.
"So…I…I still need you" Emily could barely whisper.
she cries.
And I cried too...
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Am sorry I killed paige, is all part of my story. please do keep reading to understand it further.
Cheers or not..