The girls agreed to meet up at The Brew. It was practically a second home for them during high school and Emily was all too eager to agree to avoid her home, even if just for a few more hours.

Hanna arrived first, followed shortly by Aria. The girls immediately hugged and Aria caught her first glimpse of Hanna's engagement ring. She grabbed Hanna's hand to admire it. Aria began gushing as Hanna recounted the details of the romantic proposal. Both so distracted that neither noticed Emily or Spencer enter the café.

Hanna finally spotted them, she abruptly stopped talking. When she caught Emily's eyes, a strange sensation of guilt and embarrassment crept over her, causing her to look away quickly.

Emily had immediately stiffened at the sight of the ring and the beautiful blonde who had been showing it off, just moments before, but tried the best she could to pretend she was unaffected.

"It looked bigger in the photo you posted…" Spencer teased as they approached, trying to diffuse any tension between the reunion.

Hanna just laughed and pulled Spencer in for a hug, as Aria hugged Emily. Then they pulled away and Spencer turned to hug Aria. Hanna and Emily paused for a split second to look at one another, as if each trying to silently assess the situation, before both smiling softly and tentatively embracing in a brief hug.

Emily pulled away quickly; afraid that the electricity she felt from her proximity to Hanna would be detected. If she hadn't known better, she could have sworn that Hanna felt it too. But Hanna hadn't let anything show on her face to make Emily think it wasn't just wishful thinking on her own part.

The girls hadn't all been in one place in almost four years, so they had a lot of catching up to do. They spent the majority of the afternoon drinking coffee and talking about their lives. They seemed to fall back into the comfortable familiarity with each othe,r as they discussed their lives. Spencer talked about Washington and her fast rising political career. Aria, who worked for a publishing house told them all about her job as a Jr. Editor and her new boyfriend.

Emily told the girls about her sports medicine degree from Pepperdine and how she had qualified for the Rio Summer Olympics. She had made the team for the London Olympics but was sidelined with a minor shoulder injury that made her have to give up her spot on the team.

When the topic of love lives came up, Aria couldn't help but ask Hanna about her pending nuptials. Hanna kept her voice as even and calm as possible, even though she was nervous talking about it in front of Emily. While they had broken up years ago, they had never really talked about their break-up or cleared the air. It didn't help that they hadn't kept in touch the way she had with the other girls, Hanna had been unsure where Emily was in her own life, before today. But when Emily made a joke about dating an Italian girl once when Hanna talked about Italy as a potential location for the wedding, she felt a sense of relief, knowing she wasn't hurting Emily by talking about Jordan.

The rest of the afternoon went by quickly. Hanna, Spencer, and Aria, all seemed to be on the same page again and clicked, like they hadn't ever been apart. Things felt different for Emily though. She was happy for all of her friends and the lives they were leading, but that only made her feel that much worse about lying to all of them.

She had hoped her story was believable enough to make it through these next few days before she would leave Rosewood again. It was too hard on Emily to lie to her friend's faces rather than hiding between texts and emails. She knew it wasn't going to be easy, but it was especially hard seeing Hanna.

It had been a long time since they had been together, but if she was honest with herself, a part of her would always love her. She had dated others throughout the years, but had ever let herself fall in love. Hanna still owned a piece of Emily's heart, and that fact haunted Emily every day.

Emily was thankful to have her thoughts interrupted when Hanna announced that she had to leave to meet with her mother. Hanna said goodbye to them and Emily watched her leave the Brew with a mixture of longing and guilt. She looked away quickly, hoping that Spencer and Aria hadn't noticed.

Hanna went to Rosewood's newest hotel, the Radley Sanitarium, where her mother worked as the General Manager, for dinner. They shared a bottle of wine and waited for their meals, as Hanna updated her mother on all of the girls' lives. While her mother loved each of the girls, she had always had a special spot for Emily, even before they had become a couple. She kept in touch with Emily's mom, so she had probably known more about Emily's life than Hanna had in recent years, and was so proud of the woman Emily had become, and her many accomplishments.

Still though, a part of her never quite understood why the girls broke up in the first place. She had seen how strong their love was and had thought they could and would get through anything. Hanna often confided in her mother, but had never really shared much about what happened that summer or why they ultimately broke up. Ashley tried to bring up it sometimes, figuring those wounds were long healed, but Hanna never discussed it with her, or with anyone.