A/N: It feels like forever since I updated this, but it's only been two days?! Agh! At least I've got a longer chapter for you my loves! I hope you guys like it, I wasn't as confident with this one...

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Alison collapsed onto her bed, a smile plastered on her face. That date had gone way better than she thought it would. She'd half expected Emily to think she was totally lame for taking her to that stupid rock, or for her to get freaked out by being in the woods that late. Honestly, it'd gone perfectly.

She got changed into her pajamas, and wiped off her makeup and brushed out her now sort of tangled hair. She'd take a shower in the morning. Crawling back into her bed, she closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep.

Half an hour later, she was still just laying there with her eyes forced closed. Why couldn't she fall asleep? Then she realized, she couldn't stop thinking about Emily. Her every thought was about Emily. How sweet she was, what the two of them could become... and some not so innocent thoughts as well.

If Emily was laying here with her, Ali knew that she would be able to sleep. With Emily's soft skin pressed against her back, or her front. Their legs intertwining. Emily's intoxicating smell that Alison wouldn't ever be able to describe. She hadn't even noticed it until that night, when she was kissing Emily on the rock. She expected everything to just sort of smell like outdoors, but being so close to Emily, she was enveloped with a sweet scent that came radiating off of the brunette. It could only be described as Emily.

Alison shook her head. She wasn't helping herself sleep by thinking of Emily, and what it would be like to cuddle up with her in bed, even in the innocent way.

She blocked out all of her thoughts as best as she could, and closed her eyes gain. Finally, sleep came to her and lulled her into a world of dreams.

Alison woke up at around nine in the morning. She and her friends usually met up at noon. They always switched which apartment they were meeting at. This week was Spencer's. Unfortunately for Spencer, Toby had to work his construction job on Sundays, so he wouldn't be at her apartment during their girls time.

Alison decided that she would take Emily over to Spencer's to make things easier, even though she hadn't informed her neighbor of this yet.

Ali checked her phone for messages and, finding none, then hopped into the shower. She was in a great mood, what with the date that she had the previous night, and the fact that she was hanging out with all of her friends and Emily today.

She was in the middle of washing her hair when she suddenly heard her front door open. She did a mental overview of everyone who had a key to her apartment. That was Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily.

"Ali?" Emily called suddenly.

Alison held her breath for a moment, and then she called, "I'm in the shower!" Emily must've texted her after she got in the shower.

"O-oh," Emily sounded nervous all of the sudden. Even though she was in the middle of washing her hair, Ali turned of the water for a moment.

"Do you need something?" she called.

"I was actually gonna ask to use the shower," Emily admitted, sounding like she was standing right outside the bathroom door.

"I'll be done in a few minutes. You're welcome to sit down for a second or raid my fridge until I'm done," Alison suggested.

"Cool, thanks," Emily said. Ali smiled.

"No problem." She turned back on the water and quickly finished washing out her hair. When she was done, she turned off the water and stepped out of the shower onto the shower rug. She went and opened the cupboard under the sink to grab a towel, and then gaped at it. It was empty.

She had plenty more towels in her bedroom, but Emily was somewhere in between the bathroom door and the bedroom door. And that's where Ali's clothes were, too.

Groaning, she looked at herself in the mirror for a moment. Water was dripping off of her, and she sighed. She wrung her hair out over the sink, and shook off some of the water. Then, feeling very uncomfortable, she cracked open the bathroom door.

"Em?" she asked.

"Yeah?" she heard Emily asking. It sounded like she was sitting on the couch.

"Could you do me a favor and like... close your eyes for a second?" Alison asked awkwardly.

She heard a stifled laugh, and then, "Sure. They're closed."

"You swear?" Ali demanded, because it would be more than a little awkward if she walked out there thinking Em couldn't see her, and she could

"Why would I lie to you?" Emily asked with a laugh.

"So you could see me naked?" Alison said, laughing as well as she opened the door wider and peered out. Emily was sitting on the couch with her eyes squeezed shut for emphasis. She seemed to have just woken up, yet she was beautiful.

Realizing that Emily was waiting to be able to open her eyes, Alison hurried into her bedroom. Once the door was shut and locked, she called, "Alright, it's safe to look. You can use the bathroom now!"

She heard Emily laugh, and the sound caused her heart to swell. "Thanks!"

"You're welcome," Ali called back, smiling to herself. Sighing a happy sigh, Ali grabbed a towel and finished drying off, before dressing herself in a cute, casual outfit. Once she was dressed, she unlocked and opened the door, in case Emily happened to want to see her before she went back to her own apartment.

Ali was sitting in front of her vanity, finishing up her makeup, when she heard Emily come out of the bathroom. A second later, she heard Emily at her bedroom door. "Hey."

Alison turned her head to look at the door, and smiled. "Hey you."

"What time are we going... where are we going?" Emily asked, chuckling as she realized that she didn't even know what they were doing. Alison smiled, because Emily was like... super cute.

She turned back to her vanity and started to finish her eye makeup. "We'll leave around eleven-thirty. We're going to Spencer's, it's her turn to host the girl's day."

"Okay, I don't know where that is," Emily reminded her.

"Don't worry about it. I can drive you," Ali suggested.

"Okay," Emily agreed, and Ali thought she could hear the smile in the brunette's voice, which of course, made her smile as well. "I'm going to go finish getting ready."

"Okay," Alison acknowledged, turning her head again and giving Emily a wide smile. Emily returned it, and then she turned and started out of the apartment. Just after Emily left, Ali's phone started ringing. It was Spencer. Huffing, because she was still trying to finish her makeup, the blonde answered the call. "What?"

"Chill out, I was just calling to ask how your second date went last night," Spencer told her.

"It went fine," Alison replied simply, but she couldn't help the smile that her lips turned up into.

"Just fine?" Spencer asked, knowingly.

"It went great, alright?" Ali said, knowing that Spencer was going to start teasing her if she talked about it in detail.

"Are you going to tell me where you took her?" Spencer asked. "Aria and Hanna said you didn't tell them either."

"Yeah, because it's none of your business," Alison snapped. No way was she going to tell her friends that she took Emily to that rock. That would be way too embarrassing.

"Whatever you say, Ali," Spencer retorted. "I'll see you at noon?"

"Yep," Ali replied.

"I'll let you get ready then," Spencer said, "bye!"

"Bye," Alison returned, before hanging up and setting her phone down. She hated being put on the spot about her relationship with Emily. She wasn't exactly sure why... maybe because it just felt really personal? It wasn't that she was embarrassed, at least not about Emily. Maybe she was embarrassed about how sweet and mushy she got around Emily.

At eleven-thirty, there was a knock at Ali's door. She had already been about to leave, so she just grabbed her stuff and went to the door. It was Emily.

"Hey," Ali greeted with a smile, stepping out of her apartment and locking it behind her.

A few minutes later, they were in Alison's car and they were heading to Spencer's. "Oh hey," Emily said suddenly, "I talked to the landlord, and he said that the water in my apartment probably isn't going to be working anytime soon."

Ali frowned, but she wasn't really upset about it. If Emily was going to be coming over every day to take a shower, Ali was not going to complain. "That sucks. You know you can still use my stuff whenever you need to."

"I know, thanks so much for that." Emily gave Alison a grateful smile that Ali couldn't help but return.

"You know it's no problem," Ali insisted.

They made small talk until they got to Spencer's a little before noon, and got out of the car. Alison led Emily into the building and up to Spencer's apartment. She knocked on the door, and the two of them stood there silently until Spencer opened the door. "Hey Ali! And hi, Emily!"

"Hi," Emily answered, smiling.

Alison stepped into the apartment and saw Hanna sitting on Spencer's couch flipping through TV channels. "Looks like Aria's buying. Did someone already call her?"

"No," Hanna answered. Ali took her phone out of her pocket and called Aria.

When she answered, the girl on the other end of the line asked, "I'm buying?"

"That's what happens when you leave ten minutes before noon," Ali informed her with a smirk.

"Alright, what does everyone want?" Aria asked.

Alison looked around the room. "Does the usual from the Grille sound good?" Spencer and Hanna nodded, and Emily just gave Ali a confused look. Alison gave her a reassuring smile. Talking to Aria again, she said, "The usual from the Grille."

"What about Emily?"

"Just get her what I'm getting," Alison replied.

"Okay. I'll be there soon," Aria said.

"See you then," Ali said, before hanging up.

Emily raised an eyebrow. "Last person has to buy food?"

"Yep. It's great for me, because my building is just up the street," Hanna piped up.

Alison shrugged. "It's usually me or Aria who buys. One of us usually wakes up late, so."

"If Emily's permanently joining our girls' day, then she's going to have to start driving herself so that she can pay every now and then," Spencer decided.

"Don't bully the new girl, Spence," Hanna scolded. Spencer rolled her eyes.

"Is anything good on TV?" Ali asked, sitting down on the love seat couch that was next to the couch that Hanna was sitting on. She gave Emily a look that she hoped told the brunette that she could come sit next to her. Luckily, the message seemed to send, and Emily came and sat next to her. She could tell that Emily didn't really know how she should be acting, so Ali decided that she was going to stay next to her all day. Of course, that was just her excuse. She didn't want to seem clingy for no reason, even though that was the truth.

"No," Hanna replied. "Can someone explain to me why this town always has so many black and white TV shows?"

"Because Rosewood is creepy," Spencer answered, moving over to the shelf next to her TV that held a bunch of movies. "We can put something in."

"We should let Em pick," Hanna piped up.

Emily blinked. "Uh no, it's fine. I'm cool with whatever."

"Just get up and go pick a movie," Alison insisted, nudging the brunette. Emily turned her head and looked at her, and Ali just smiled. It was weird seeing Emily so shy, because she'd finally started to not be shy around Alison.

Emily went to the movie shelf and picked one. Mean Girls. If Ali had to guess, she picked it simply because she knew that everyone loved Mean Girls, and there was no way that anyone would be mad at her for picking it.

Spencer put the movie in and they all sat on the couch watching it as they talked, and waited for their lunch. "Are you glad Toby's back, Spence?" Ali asked.

"Yes, I hate it when he leaves," Spencer replied.

"Where was he, anyway?" Hanna asked.

"He was visiting someone he used to work with, who now lives in New York. I wanted to go with him... but you know, school and stuff," Spencer said with a shrug.

"The perks of law school, huh?" Ali asked sarcastically.

Spencer just groaned. They were all quiet for a minute, and Ali could feel how tense Emily was next to her. She really didn't know why Emily was so nervous around Hanna and Spencer. Alison had to guess that it was because of Spencer. Emily had hung out with Hanna alone before, so that had to be it.

"So Emily," Hanna finally spoke, probably wanting to get Emily comfortable, "did you look into the summer classes?"

"Yeah," Emily answered. "I was talking to Aria about them yesterday, and then I signed up for the ones I need to be a Bio teacher at Rosewood High."

"You wanna teach?" Spencer asked curiously.

"I want to coach," Emily corrected, "but I have to teach, too."

"What do you want to coach?"

"Swimming," Emily answered.

Spencer nodded. "Awesome, I used to do some sports in high school, but they were never something I wanted to do with my life."

"Spencer played weird sports," Ali butted in. "She played field hockey."

"Hey, I also played tennis," Spencer piped up. Emily laughed.

"I tried some other sports, but swimming had always been my thing," she explained.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Spencer jumped up to open it up for Aria. She was carrying five labeled paper bags as well as her purse. Basically, her hands were pretty full. Spencer grabbed a couple of the bags. "Alright I have Hanna," she said, handing one bag to Hanna. "Ooh, and mine!"

Aria handed two of the remaining backs to Alison and Emily. "Hey Em!" Aria greeted.

"Hey," Emily returned, smiling at her. They all started opening their bags. As Alison started to open hers up on her lap, she felt Emily nudge her. She turned an gave her a questioning look. "What am I eating?' she asked with a chuckle.

Ali laughed, forgetting that she had just ordered for the brunette. "It's like that chicken I made you the other day," she answered. "Only better, because I'm not a real cook."

Emily took a bite of the chicken, and then she shook her head. "I think yours was better."

"We've been over this, Em," Alison started, smirking. "Flattery will get you nowhere."

Emily rolled her eyes at the blonde. "I still think that eventually, flattery will get me everywhere."

Alison blushed at that comment, because no matter how Emily meant it, Ali immediately took it in the least innocent way possible. "What are you blushing about over there?" Hanna asked teasingly.

Ali snapped her head around to look at Hanna. "Nothing," she insisted, before taking another bite of her chicken. She heard Emily stifling a laugh next to her. Ali tried to send her a glare, but it turned into a smile and she rolled her eyes.

"You two are cute," Aria commented.

"I agree. I've never met anyone who could make Ali smile like that," Spencer piped up. Ali saw Emily blush out of the corner of her eye, and Ali just bit back a grin and took another bite of her food.

While they all ate, they all just talked about their everyday lives and things that were going on. After Spencer's comment about how Emily could make Ali smile, the new addition to the group finally started to seem at ease with being around all of these girls. She joined in the conversation, and it felt as though they'd all known each other forever, even if they'd just met Emily six days before.

They continued just talking for a quite a while, and then at around five, they all decided to order pizza. Emily was probably catching on to the fact that all they ever ate was takeout or order-ins.

"Any special requests?" Hanna asked as she dialed the pizza place. Ali shook her head, but Spencer and Aria immediately started saying all the specifics they wanted on their pizza.

Alison turned so that she was facing Emily on the love seat couch they were on. Emily turned a little as well, so that they were both facing each other, and their feet met in the middle. "Are you having fun?" Ali asked, hoping that the answer would be yes.

Emily smiled. "Yeah. It's nice to have people to hang out with. When I moved back here, I thought it was going to be just as lonely as it'd always been."

"I wonder what it would've been like if I met you in high school," Alison said thoughtfully. Emily just tilted her head, like she was wondering what Ali was thinking. "I probably would've adopted you into our friend group."

"Adopted me?" Emily asked, quirking up an eyebrow and letting out a small laugh.

Ali laughed as well and just shrugged. "We were almost as tight knit back then as we are now."

"Yeah, you all seem pretty close," Emily commented.

"I've known them since middle school," Ali reasoned.

"The friends I had in high school drifted away from me when I left for Philly. And now the friends I had in Philly are drifting away from me now," Emily admitted. "I've never really made a tight knit friendship."

"Well, you're welcome to join ours," Ali offered, smiling sweetly. Then she added in a quieter voice. "Well, except I want you as more than a friend."

Emily blushed and looked away from the blonde, and Ali smiled proudly. "Hey you two, come back down to earth," Spencer snapped.

EEE

Their two pizzas came an hour later, which was too late, so they got the whole delivery for free. "Hey, Spence, you got any liquor?" Ali called.

"Obviously," Spencer answered, getting up and grabbing some stuff while everyone else started to dig into the pizza. Spencer came back with five cups and something that Emily recognized as vodka.

"Do you want any, Em?" Ali asked as she poured herself some.

"No thanks," Emily refused.

"Suit yourself," the blonde said, taking a drink from her glass. The other girls all got themselves some of the drink as well, but Emily didn't really want any. She was afraid that she'd get too sloppy or something, and completely embarrass herself.

The night progressed pretty simply. Ali didn't seem to be drinking very much, and Emily couldn't help but wonder if it was because Emily wasn't drinking. Maybe Ali had the same idea about making a fool of herself.

They all continued just making conversation until around nine, when Hanna was the first to decide that she probably shouldn't stay up too late, because she had to work in the morning. After Hanna left, Ali decided that she should probably leave as well, and Emily agreed.

They said bye to Aria and Spencer and then they headed out. "You had fun, right?" Ali asked, looking concerned.

"Yes, I did," Emily promised. "I just had to get used to Spencer."

"Spencer's a handful," Ali replied, chuckling. Emily smiled, and she reached out and grabbed Alison's hand. Ali flashed her a smile and laced their fingers together as they took the elevator down to the lobby of the building.

They got to the car, and Emily suggested, "Maybe I should drive."

"I didn't drink very much," Alison insisted.

"Yeah, but I didn't drink at all," Emily countered.

Ali raised an eyebrow. "Don't you trust me?"

"Don't you trust me?" Emily asked, giving Alison a challenging look. Ali rolled her eyes, smiling, and tossed Emily her keys. Emily climbed into the driver side of the car while Ali slipped into the passenger side.

"I hate driving anyway," Ali declared.

"So how come you always offer to drive me?" Emily asked.

"Because I've been the one to take you out, remember?" Alison reminded the brunette. "Maybe you just need to grow a pair and ask me out this time."

"Well, I definitely won't be growing a pair anytime soon," Emily said, laughing. Alison laughed as well.

"Good," she said, making Emily smile.

"But, since you're so insistent that I take you, how about Tuesday?" Emily asked. "Like, for dinner and a movie?"

Alison smiled happily. "Sounds like a plan," she agreed.

Emily smiled as she navigated the car back to their apartment building.

They said goodnight, gave each other a quick goodnight kiss, and then split up to their separate apartments.

Emily set down her purse and slipped off her shoes, before collapsing onto her couch. Thoughts were swirling around her mind. Questions, wants, fears... but one thing was bothering her above all of them. When was a good time for her to ask Alison to be her girlfriend?

She knew that's who she wanted Alison to be in her life, and she was pretty sure that Alison would agree. She just had no idea when to ask her. She knew that she had to figure it out soon, though, because she really wanted to be the one to ask it first.

AWH MY EMISON FEELS.

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