As Hanna stood frozen to the spot still in the bathroom under the burning gaze of Emily. How could she talk her way out of this situation.

"Hanna, I said why the hell is my ex girlfriend calling you?" Emily shouted at Hanna with her arms now folded across her chest, anger evident in her face.

"She heard I got engaged and text me congratulations, maybe she's just ringing for a catch up?" Hanna stuttered out, thinking of the first excuse that came to mind.

"Hanna, what did you do?" Emily barked, clearly not buying a word of Hanna's plea.

"Emily, please, just calm down and let me explain." Hanna begged, hoping to buy sometime and explain the situation to a calmer Emily.

"Explain what Hanna? You've been acting shady all evening, has it got to do with Paige?" Emily said as she started to jump to all kinds of assumptions.

"You've been so sad since you came home Em, and then telling us what a hard time you've been having in California. I just wanted to do something to make you happy." Hanna said grabbing Emily's hands begging her to look at her for a moment.

Emily stared at Hanna and could see the panic in her eyes. "And what exactly does Paige have to do with making me happy?" Emily said, her eyes narrowing at Hanna.

"Well, the other day at the Brew you were saying how you still loved her and it got me thinking and…."Hanna trailed off mid sentence, unsure of how to explain how her plans had gone horribly wrong.

"Don't tell me you've done what I think you've done!" Emily said as her forehead creased looking intensely at Hanna.

"Depends on what exactly you think I've done." Hanna said with a nervous laugh.

"Hanna spit it out!" Emily said, fearing that she already knew exactly what Hanna was after doing but needing to hear it from her mouth.

"Okay Em look, don't be mad. Yes I rang Paige, I invited her here to my engagement party, I just taught it would be nice for you too to get a chance to see each other." Hanna said nervously to a now pacing Emily.

As Emily paced the bathroom floor back and forth she verged on having a full blown panic attack as she taught this through. "I can't believe you Hanna, I told you to leave it alone. I told you that was in the past. But no you had to go and meddle." Emily said in a frantic state pacing a hole into the bathroom floor.

"Yeah but Em…" Hanna started before Emily cut her off still ranting.

"Is that who you were texting earlier when we were getting ready at your house? I knew you were acting weird." Emily said not even looking up at Hanna as she went on in a state of panic.

Hanna really didn't expect this kind of panic from Emily. "Yeah it was Em but she's.."

"So you just taught oh I won't tell Emily about my great idea to invite Paige here, no, I'll keep that little one a secret and then boom during the party Paige will show up and Emily and Paige will live happily ever after. Is that your genius plan Han?" Emily said, the panic still in full force as she tried to process the information out loud.

"Emily stop!" Hanna finally shouted as she watched a frantic Emily who stopped at Hanna's outburst and finally looked at her friend. "She's not here." Hanna said sadly.

"She's not here? But you just said you invited her?" Emily said, her panic now being replaced with what Hanna could swear was disappointment.

"I did, and she was coming. She rang me when we were getting ready and she said she couldn't make it." Hanna said bowing her head down feeling guilty for having arranged the whole plan in the first place. "So there was no point in telling you because she's not coming. I never meant for you to see her name on my phone and find out that she didn't want to come here."

"I see." Two words was all Emily was able to put together in that moment. Her mind was racing. From seeing Paige's name flash up on Hanna's phone her emotions went from rage, then panic, admittedly a small bit of excitement and now finding out that she wasn't coming, disappointment and heartbreak. God, how could Paige still have this effect on me Emily taught to herself.

Hanna stared at her best friend who eyes had glazed over as her mind drifted off. All she wanted was for Emily to be happy but of course Hanna succeeded in doing the opposite of that. Emily looked broken and Hanna didn't know what to do.

"I'm sorry Em." Hanna sighed as she grabbed Emily's hands in her own.

Shaking the taught from her head Emily looked up at Hanna and could see the regret in her eyes. "Hanna it's okay, I mean I told you that's in the past so her turning up here would have just ended in disaster. Everything happens for a reason right." Emily said in what she hoped was a convincing tone not meaning a single word of it.

Hanna eyed her friend sceptically. "Wait, so you're not mad?" Hanna asked confused.

"Well I wish you didn't go behind my back like that but no I'm not mad. There is no me and Paige, her being here would just drag up old wounds that are best left in the past. Clearly anyway she didn't want to see me or she would have been here." Emily said looking at her shoes trying to hide the disappointment she felt.

"Are you okay Em?" Hanna asked with concern noticing how deflated Emily was despite her trying to convince Hanna otherwise.

"Yeah I'm fine Han, I think the cocktails and all this information are just catching up with me. I'm going step out for some air." Emily said, turning and leaving before Hanna had a chance to say anymore.

As Emily stepped out into the cold night air she took a deep breath to steady herself. Her mind was still reeling at the prospect that she could have been about to bump into Paige after all this time, after she stormed off on her at the airport in temper. But then she had to remind herself that she was not about to bump into Paige, because she wasn't coming. Damn Paige and her dreadful timing, of course Emily had to have been there to see her name flash up on Hanna's phone. Had she called a few minutes later, Emily would not have seen her name and would be none the wiser about Hanna's awful plan. Emily sat outside the front of the Radley for some time, lost completely in her taught of the past. She could hear footsteps approaching behind her. She was wondering how long it would take for Hanna to come search for her.

"Hanna I'm fine I just need a few more minutes and I promise I'll come back inside and do shots with you." Emily said without turning around to look at Hanna.

"Emily."

Emily sat frozen to the spot, afraid to turn around. She was sure her mind, and the cocktails were starting to play tricks on her. All this talk of Paige and now she hearing things. She shook her head hoping to clear and confusion from it.

"Em." The voice spoke softly again as Emily now felt a familiar hand on her shoulder. Emily could feel her heart race in her chest and her throat began to close up as she struggled to find words. Slowly she turned to face her. Standing there wearing a fitted suit pants with a fitted red blouse that showed off her toned physic, with her long auburn hair and eyes wide as they searched deep into Emily's eyes, as if looking into her soul.

Emily finally finding her voice breathing out a shaky response. "Paige…"