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After emily days at work finished,she made a quick stop to buy -what she thought was necessery for her right now-a voice machine for her landline, she hooked it up,and made a note on her agenda to check if it's working in the morning.
Next morning she woke up,had her breakfast,on her way to the bathroom still in her rope,she passed the machine only to stop her pace and looking around for her phone to make a call.
Dialing the number,she only waited a few seconds before she said''hey,spencer,it's me emily'',spencer was her bestfriend since junior high,they ran against eachother for persident of the student counsole,only to became best of friends,spencer also went to UPenn,and she has her own paractice.''can you check my machine,i think—''
''it's a machine,how hard can it be to -''spencer says,only to get cut off.
''no,it's a new one,i think i plugged—''emily says defensively,to get silenced by spencer once again,what is with us lawyers can't say a full sentence without getting cut off.
'' they all work the same way''spencer says smartly.
''will you just call me''emily feeling irritated replies.
''okay''spencer gives up.
''thank you''emily hang up the phone,to wait only a few seconds for it to ring,and only for the call to go to voice mail,she heard her voice greeting-hey,it's emily,please leave a message after the beep,thank you-it was short and sweet,nicely done.
''testing,one,two,three,i believe the malfunction is with the faculty of Alisons brain''came in spencers voice,full of sarcasm,as she was having breakfast with her husband Toby and thier daughter Milly,emily told her about her running into alison and how she can't wait for her to call.
''you can now cross,check machine on your list''damm she knows me too well,spencer says,while giving her husband a kiss on the cheek as his rushed to go to work and mothing an i love you to him.''get your bag,and go to work''she orders.
On the other line emily huffed and rolled her eyes,pressing endcall,and throwing the device on the couch,only to reach out for her agenda and cross the words check machine,so she can hurry up to work.
As she makes her way through the firmes doors,she is greeted by a lot of noises,and people walking around like chickens with their heads cutoff,and just chaos,she makes a beeline to the receptionist desk,who she hands her bunch of notes filled with messed calls and reschduled appointments,to finally hand her a half dozen of new cases that need reviewing.
Emily takes the documents and lets out a deep sight,why didn't i stuck to something more relaxing like painting,i used to love to paint,when i was a kid,she lookes up and smiles at the girl gratefully,and makes her way to her office,as she puts the files she realizes that to finish all of these will probably take the whole night,so she made a plan,getting some work done until dinner time,then go have dinner with dad,then come back again to finish things up for the MECNAMARA case,emily nodded her head as approval,and laid a file infront of her to begin her long long day.
At 8:30, emily arrived to her dadds place,and made a way to kitchen cuz that where she figured out her dad would be,making dimmer,she enters the kitchen, puts on her upron and gives her dad a kiss on the cheek who was standing infront of the stove adding ingreediens to his sauce, and says ''heyy''.
''heyy''he replies glancing at his dauther,who looked exhausted,''tough day''she guesses.
''i would love to say it's over,but i have to go back after dinner''she says,her tone laced with tieredness.
''no,you don't''wayen says trying not to sound bummed about their time together getting cut short,as he adjusts the heat of the stove .
''anyway,this case is the biggest opputunity of my career,i'm the youngest lawyer on it,so''emily finishes not sounding as thrilled as she hoped.
''that's great,right ?''her dad says noticing her changed demeanor.
''yeah''she answers looking down,avoiding her dads eyes.
'then 'why do you seem so blue''her dad says seriously worried.
''i do?!''she was trying to stall,as she turned around to open the fridge to take out a large lettuce for the salad,and puts it on the counter and starts cutting.
''hmmm''was her dads only response.
''well,there is this girl''looking to her dad as she removed the bad leafs of the vegtebal.''Alison''as she took the knif and started cutting''well,i don't know,just thought that we connected''she said as she cut the crap out of those poor lettuce leafs.''but, apparentelly we—''she stopped to see her dad standing still looking at her with an amused expression.
''why am i telling you, we should be worried about your love life,not mine''she asked trying to change the subject, she continues as her dad just ignores her and walks to the fridge''i'm serious,you know you need to be getting out a little bit more,i'm star—''begening to rant and sounds an awfully anoying,so her dads shuts her up with a pink post-it sticking it on her forhead,with a the word chill written on it,and the both start laughing.
Emily was invited to spencers house to have a rare relaxing afternoon,and for some needed relationship advices from her knowing all friend,but she almost couldn't make her way out from her appartment,she decided to swing by the bagel shop,and buy some bagels for her friends,thank god paige was off today,but she decided to do so roller blading,stupid it's a lot of fun, story short ,she tripped on a small rock,and lost her balance only to fell and scratch her elbow.
''maybe next time try to use an elbow pad,or a private instructor''toby jokes as he puts a band-aid on her cut,with the help of his daughter.
''can i come''the little girl says enthausiasticlly.
''no''both grown-up shouted.
''i was doing fine,my hands were full i had to protect the bagels,until i lost my balance''emily interjects and throwing a hit on tobys chest teasingly making their way to the living room,where spencer and her sister milessa were talking.
''oh,milessa you know what i realy need to ask you,would you ever consider going out with my bagel girl''she says holding up her agenda.''i mean i don't know her that well but she's pretty cute and she's the manager of the store,you can probably get free bagels''trying to bribe her.
''i'm not gay,and i'm already taken''says melissa chewing on her bagel.
''nice try there,em''says toby smiling.
Emily takes a seat next to spencer on the couch and crosses melissa's name from her list of potentiel girls for paige's date.
''alright,hand me the phone''says emily feeling like she should take the first step and call alison.
''no,no,you're not checking messeges again''says spencer holding the phone and hiding away from emily.''couldn't we have a civilised relaxing afternoon''.
''tomorrow, it'd be a week since i gave her my number''emily sounded like five yearold.
''ohh,oohhh''says both toby and melissa.
''a whole week''toby says finding it too amusing to not joke about it.
Meanwhile melissa makes her way to her sisters purse on the night stand and pulls out her cellphone,pulls it out,throw it torward toby. after spencer caught up with what was going on and launched her self on her sister but she was too late to finally get sandwiched between emily and her sister stoping her from getting to toby who hold the phone,and dialed emilys number.
''em,em,what's your code''he asked.
''1221''she answers fighting spencer not to get out of their hold.
''toby allen cavanaugh,you give me the phone''says spencer trying to sound pissed,but failed.
''is her name alison''he says confused.
Emilys eye get really wide,and her mouth opens in shock,and disbelief,as she runs torwards him and snatchs the phone,and runs to the other room.
On the studyroom emily was leanning on the desk,her friends by her side trying to prey on her conversation,and giving support and not making her screw things up as talked to alison.
''tonight,i can't''she answers''tuesday,hhmm,7 is a little early for me,i'll still be at the office.''she explaines.
''how about Friday''offers alison.
''friday i have plans''emily answers playing hard to get.
''well Saturday''a last chance to alison who is not usualy this patient,she must really like this girl.
''saturday would be great''emily agrees.''8 o'clock,it's fine'' starting to play with her hair,like a school girl.
''well,see you Saturday''says alison,looking forward to their date.
''okay,all right,thanks,bye'' emily ended the call,only to turn around and see her friends looking at her suspeciously waitting for her reaction,which was a hight pitched scream of excitment by the three of them,followed by a girl hug.
''why are playing hard to get''asked melissa after all the excitment died down.
''i'm not playing hard to get''she answers making her way out of the room,''it's just laundry night tonight'
''it's too soon to say yes,she waited a whole week to call me,in Friday i have dinner with dad''she shrugges.
''besides she can't be mentally prepared for a first date on such short notice''concludes spencer,giving the real reason why emily pshed her rendez-vous.
Emile clunched her hand at spence's way of reading her like an open book,and made groaning voice,shushing her up.
Saturday couldn't come any faster,as she put her final touches to make her self look extrapresentable,she took a look in the the mirror,adjusting the straps of her black dress,and fixing her hair that was flowing down her shoulders and back,she heard a door bell,looked down to her watch 8 sharp a ponctuel that's a plus for sure.
As she made her way to open the door,she stopped to give her self a last minute peptalk ''i will not ramble,i will not mention samara,i will not lose my cool''.then she goes to open the door.
''hi''says alison,looking gorgeous in her cocktail dress,that fit her perfectly,with highheels,that emily thought must cost quite a lot of money.
''hey''says emily leaning on the door,and taking the offered bouquet of red roses that she didn't see before,because she was busy ogling the girls outfit.
The dinner went,they got to know each other,and emily came to found that alison has one brother who lives in chicago,where her mother also lives after she divorced her father when she was 15,and that she went to stanford for college and had her bussines degree,and started working for this big firme,but she got a better offer here in Philly and couldn't pass out the opportunity,and she also needed a change of scenery.
Emily on her turn talked about her upringnings,her close relationship with her dad that grew stronger after her moms passing,how much stressing her work could get sometimes,and she couldn't but let her know about her timeline,-that alisons seemed surprisingly okay with-after being asked about why she chose law school and not any other major.she doesn't find my timeline crazy;another plus for her tought emily.
Now they were walking in the street after they decided to skip desert,and Alison asking the waiter to get their desert witch were chocolate covered strawberries to go in a plastic container.
''choclate strawberries,are like my favorites treats ever''emily she says with moan from the deliciousness of the strawberries.
''sometimes it's all the little things in life that means the most''alison says also agreeing.
''so what do you capitalist people do anyway''emily asks,still not getting the point of someone majored in finance and business may do for a living.
''i see a valuable oppurtunity,and i go for it''explains ali looking straight in emilys eyes.
''hmm''was emilys only answer,this girl is smooth.
They kept their banter talking and figuring new things about eachother,and sometimes just enjoy the comfortable silence,emily was surprised how well this date has been going,lost in her thought she didn't realize that they were already in front of alisons car,before they get in the car,they stand there facing eachother,not paying attention to people passing by,or the bunch of frat boys who sneaked into the street corner,holding a bunch of fireworks,just to have fun and fool around since that the 4th of july was only a couple months away.
Alison voice cut through the silence''i look at you,and i see this beautiful accomplished woman,that she doesn't know how unique she is,and how much she had yet to offer''.
Emily seeming very touched by the intensity of the other girls confession,and how honest and vulnerable she looked in that moment ,she leaned forward and pressed a soft kiss on her lips ,as an they kissed a huge explosion sounded from above,they cut the kiss only to look up and see firewoks twirkling in the night sky,at this emily looked to the girl beside her in wonder and amazement,she is the one,it only took a moment for those words to sink in, but as realization hit her,but she's only number six,noo nooo the one should be number seven.i can't do this,this is not how things were supposed to be.
so here is end of chapter three,if you guys want more just say so in the comments.
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