Season 3 episode 2
Mads was still at the cabin holding emma when she noticed that she cried herself to sleep. Mads was holding her friend tight and she saw the tear tracks and she knew she had to talk Ethan about this. She looked down at sutton's twin and even when she sleeping she could tell she was so broken. She was so tired herself that she decided to let herself fall asleep.
At the Mercer house 7 hours later-
Sutton was awake all night she just couldn't sleep knowing that her twin was in the cabin alone throughout the night. While sutton was thinking about her long lost twin laurel and her biological father had come down from their bedrooms.
" sutton what are u doing up before noon?"suttons hands were on her head when laurel asked so sutton looked up to her sister with tears in her eyes " oh sutton, what's wrong?"
" i just- i'm thinking about emma. She's most likely all alone in that cabin right now and i just want to tell mom about her" as laurel was about to reply when kristen came down.
"Tell me about who sutton?" sutton looks at ted and laurel.
" sutton just tell her. We can't keep this a secret anymore." laurel said to her with a desperate look on her face
" ok, Mom there's a few things that u don't know " silently praying that her mom doesn't want emma to leave.
" kristen when i had the affair with rebecca she did get pregnant with a baby. But i just found out a few days ago that she had twins. sutton .. a-and emma. "
" so emma is sutton's twin?"
" yes. Alec separated sutton and emma. Emma went with rebecca up until she was three and rebecca had left her at a daycare and then she ended up going into foster care. She had ran away from her foster family's home because travis, her foster brother set her up for stealing some money from her foster mother. Travis said he could make it go away if she gave him sex and she didn't realize that until a couple seconds later. So she grabbed her tennis racket,hit him and ran to the bus stop. Then I picked her up." said sutton trying not to show any emotion.
" so she ran here because she was going to get arrested? For not doing anything?" she paused and looked up at all of them. " take me to see my other daughter" sutton and laurel were overjoyed that their mother thought of emma as her own and that she didn't want emma to leave. They Made their way to the car and drove off to the cabin.
At the cabin-
Mads had just woken up from her sleep and she noticed that emma was still asleep on her. She decided against waking up her friend because of what had happened last night. As mads was thinking she was interrupted by a knock at the door. She didn't want to get up and wake emma so she just decided to say "come in."
" hey emm- oh hey mads." sutton says while looking at her best friend but a couple of seconds later she looked down at her twin and noticed tear tracks running down her face until her chin.
" mads what happened with emma? Didn't Ethan come by last night?" mads debated whether or not to tell them with kristen there but she decided to tell them anyways
" um, ya he did.." she paused for a second looking at emma and then back to sutton." Ethan came asked how I was doing i answered saying i was getting there. Ethan asked to talk to Emma alone so i left the room and i came back when i heard the door slam. Emma had her hands on her forehead and when i got closer i could she her body shaking and that she was silently crying. I walked up to her and hugged her and then i asked what happened and she said that ethan broke up and then he told her that he never loved her. She pauses again." she cried herself to sleep, god she seems so heartbroken guys."
" i bet, she's really fallen for him. I was hoping they would stay together" sutton said " so how long have you been here mads?" mads was about to answer when she had gotten cut off by emma
" she's been here since alec and rebecca fell through the roof" emma said while sitting up. Emma looks to sutton and sutton walks over to her and hugs emma for a few seconds " how are you doing sis?" instead of emma replying she looked sutton in the eyes and her eyes started to tear up… " um i just have to go to the bathroom" she looks up and see's kristen. "i'll be right back.." instead of her going to the bathroom she went into the main bedroom and broke down in tears just before sutton and mads had got to her. Sutton and mads run over to her and hug her while whispering sweet things into her ear.. Sutton and mads were holding her for about 10 minutes and when emma had calmed down fully sutton had asked emma if she wanted to go back out and they came out of the bedroom back into the main living area where they saw laurel and kristen talking.
"Emma," Kristen said coming over her and putting her hand on emma's shaky and wet hand, it only being wet because she had used it to wipe her tears." we don't have to talk about this now if you're not up to it."
" I'm actually really not Kristen, thank you for offering," she paused to wipe her tears, they all saw it in emma's eyes, she was truly broken up about this.
All of the others began to leave except for laurel, mads and sutton. they had all sat around emma on the couch and were all talking except for emma. she was just sitting there being silent in her own little world. Sutton,Mads and Laurel all noticed this and they tried to just leave emma be but they couldn't leave her be anymore when they saw tears slowly running down her cheeks. before any of them could help her she ran out of the room and into the bedroom and she had locked the door. Sutton had gone to the door and was knocking quickly and she was asking emma to let her in so she could help but emma just continued to ignore sutton so sutton took out her phone and called the one person who knew emma better than any of them. Lexi.
"Hey lexi"
" Hey Sutton, what's up? I thought i'd never hear from you again"
"We need some help, I can't go into much detail but i didn't know who else to call who knows emma as well as you do" sutton was nervous to see what her reaction would be but she knew that lexi would probably ask a hundred questions.
" Emma? what's going on Sutton?" Sutton could here the worry and concern in her voice
" She and ethan broke up, lexi she's so broken up about this and she isn't letting any of us in. i don't know what to do so I thought I would call you."
" i'll be on the first bus i can. Just keep knocking on the door she's behind to make sure she's still awake or crying, oh and sutton, she's so broken up about this because she had a boyfriend two years ago. He was nice at first but then he started to break her, he started to tell her that he never loved her and she would never be loved by a guy and he constantly abused her."
" lexi.." sutton paused thinking if she should add to her worries. " ethan told her that they needed to break up, Emma asked why and he said " i never loved you" she's a mess lexi, i think she really needs her best friend right now."
" oh my, i'll be there as soon as I can, just tell emma to hang on." lexi paused and sutton waited for her to continue " sutton after her boyfriend broke up with her she went into a deep depression that she didn't come out of until she had found you, sutton make sure you still hear noise coming from the bathroom, i'm scared she might do something. Please keep an eye on her."
" I will. lexi she never tried to kill herself did she? And i'll get laurel to come and pick you up, is that okay?"
" yeah, it's okay" she paused " and sutton? Thank you for calling me, and also, try to get the door open, i don't know how to tell you this so i'm just going to say it, sutton find a way to bring the door down, she's tried to kill herself before, i'll be there soon, bye sutton"
Lexi had hung up before sutton got a chance to say anything. As she was taking this new information in she slowly slid down the wall, she put her head into her hands and started crying hard, a couple seconds later Mads had came to where sutton was sitting and noticed that she was crying. Mads walked over to her without saying anything and just brought sutton into her arms. Mads had been holding onto her about half an hour and sutton was still sobbing. Laurel had thought it would be a good idea to just let sutton break down and cry to mads, but she also thought that mads could help her quickly, she could see clearly that sutton wasn't going to stop anytime soon so she walked over to sutton and told her she'd go and pick lexi up.
" sutton, i'm going to go and pick lexi up, mads should go and give ethan a piece of her mind, just stay with emma and don't worry about a thing, just stay ,call 911 if you can't hear anything anymore okay?" sutton doesn't say anything but she nods to laurel and silently tells mads that she'll be okay and that she can go yell at ethan. Laurel was the first to leave and mads had gone to the guest bedroom to grab a pillow, a blanket and to the kitchen for some water. After mads had gotten all that she had brought to sutton and put the pillow on the floor and guided sutton's head to the pillow and also covered her body with the blanket, as well as putting the water a few inches away so sutton doesn't knock it over. She gave sutton a quick kiss on her forehead and says she'll be back in 20 minutes then got her jacket and left.
