"Hey babe…miss me?" Paige said as she pulled Emily in for a kiss.

"Paige? Wow…hi…I wasn't expecting you to be back tonight…" Emily responded cutting the kiss short, hoping Hanna hadn't seen their embrace.

Paige noticed that Emily was more startled than she expected, but she blamed it on the late hour. Perhaps she had just woken Emily up, after all, she was dressed like she had been in bed and her hair was awfully messy.

"I know, I'm sorry, I just too excited to see you that I couldn't wait. I took an earlier flight." Paige responded as she walked past Emily into the loft.

Emily quickly spun around to make sure that Hanna wasn't standing almost naked in the living room. She was thankful that Hanna was out of sight, but there was a large pit growing in her stomach. It was a mixture of guilt and disappointment.

"Wow, this place is amazing. It's nice of Hanna to let you stay here while she's in New York." Paige said as she walked further into the apartment.

"Actually, Hanna isn't in New York. Um, she ended up changing her plans. She's been staying here the last couple of nights too." Emily confessed. She didn't want Paige accidently finding out later and getting suspicious, considering she was just technically
cheating on her.

"Oh? Well, I guess that would explain the wedding dresses all over the place. Did they finally set a date for this summer?" Paige asked as she chuckled to herself. She didn't love the idea of them under the same room but at least it was a two-bedroom
unit and Hanna was clearly moving forward with wedding planning.

"Umm... I'm not exactly sure. We've been on different schedules the last couple days so I haven't really had time to talk with her." Emily responded honestly. They really hadn't done much talking at all tonight and before that, she hadn't seen her since
the egg hunt at The Radley.

"Fair enough. I'm more interested in you and how you've holding up anyway. Are you OK? I can't believe it about the malfunction at the clinic…" Paige asked, feeling horrible that she had been out of town when all of this was happening to Emily.

"I'm ok, just tired. Is it okay, if we just go to bed?" Emily asked, not wanting to keep piling on the lies that she was telling Paige. She needed some time to think about what happened between her and Hanna.

"Of course." Paige responded with a wink, wrapping an arm around her waist and moving forward to close the distance between them.

Emily knew what Paige was hinting at, but wasn't in the mood. Actually she was still fairly worked up, but the simple fact that she had gotten worked up with someone other than her girlfriend, someone who she had a very complicated past with, was only
making her feel worse. She shifted slightly away from Paige sighing softly.

"It's been a long day Paige." Emily said softly avoiding Paige's eyes.

Paige was disappointed, but understanding. She was hoping her homecoming would have been more memorable, but Emily was exhausted. After all, Emily had been through a lot over the last several days, it was probably taking a large toll on her.

Emily tried to cuddle against Paige, but couldn't find the right spot to get comfortable. She couldn't help but thinking about how perfectly Hanna fit against her. Dismissing these thoughts, she eventually gave up and turned over so that her back was
to Paige.

She was exhausted, but she knew she wouldn't sleep. She kept thinking about the moments before Paige arrived and what could have, or would have, happened if she hadn't come back early.

Emily closed her eyes tightly trying to will the thoughts away, but that only seemed to make it worse. Kissing Hanna, touching her, things had escalated quickly so Emily was pretty sure they would have ended up having sex. But what that would have meant,
she didn't know. She didn't know how Hanna was feeling or if she regretted it.

Emily felt horrible about cheating on Paige and lying in bed with her right now wasn't helping matters. Emily sighed and tried to readjust herself yet again. She kept thinking about all the complications in her life. Hanna and Jordan, Paige and her...
Yes, Paige and Emily had only been together a couple weeks. But, Hanna had been with Jordan for years and they were engaged. As in married. And soon.

Oh god…what did I just do?

[The next morning]

Neither of the girls got much sleep, but neither wanted to be the first ones to come out of their rooms the next morning. Hanna wasn't looking forward to the conversation she had to have with Emily. She wasn't quite sure how to tell Emily that Jordan
now knew about them and that he didn't want Emily staying at the apartment. Hanna didn't want to kick Emily out, but she didn't want to lose Jordan either. This was a lose-lose situation.

Plus, if she was being honest with herself, she wasn't super excited about sharing her morning coffee across the table from Emily and Paige either, especially after last night.

Paige was actually the first one up that morning, anxious about her parents flying in that morning. One of Paige's Aunts, who still lived in the Philadelphia area was turning 50 and the whole family had been working on a surprise birthday party for her.
Emily was thankful that Paige hadn't asked her to come to the party and had slipped out early that morning to stay in Philadelphia for the next few nights. She didn't want to run the risk of Paige catching on to the weirdness between her and Hanna.

As Paige left the apartment, she ran into Spencer, Aria, and Hanna's mom outside. They were all heading to the loft set up for Hanna's bridal shower. Given everything on their mind, both Hanna and Emily were lying in their beds and had forgotten that
everyone was coming over and were surprised when they heard the doorbell buzz.

At the sound of the buzzer, both girls pulled themselves out of bed with a groan. They both moved out of their bedrooms and made their way toward the door. The buzzer sound had brought back flashbacks from the night before and both girls were visibly
flushed and tired by the time they made their way to the living room. For the briefest of moments, their eyes locked, but when the doorbell buzzed again, Hanna broke away from the gaze to open the door.

"Good morning ladies! Don't worry…we brought coffee…" Spencer announced as she handed both Hanna and Emily cups from The Brew.

Not enough coffee in the world would have prepared Hanna for the cheeriness that entered the apartment. It always amazed her how everyone seemed to thrive when they got up early. She always preferred to sleep until at least 10am, but maybe that's because
she was always out so late the night before.

Emily gladly accepted the cup from Spencer and tried to avoid future eye contact with Hanna. She wasn't ready to talk about whatever that was last night or what it meant.

"I'm so excited for you Han! So much love is in their air lately with you and Jordan, my parents, and I think even Alison is hooking up with that doctor guy." Aria chirped, unaware of the tension that formed between Hanna and Emily at the mention of the
word "love".

"Aria, I'm really happy for your parents. I just heard from Hanna they are tying that knot again in just a few weeks!" Hanna's mom chimed in.

"You know what Aria, maybe your parents have the right idea. If you plan a quickie wedding, no one tries to throw you bridal shower and wakes you up at the crack of dawn!" Hanna said, only half joking.

"Since when do you not like bridal showers? Attention, gifts, cake. That's all up your alley." Spencer mocked, at Hanna's expense.

Hanna shot Spencer a fake glare, or at least she was pretending it was fake. Her pending nuptials were not something she wanted to be celebrating right now. Jordan may still love her but he hasn't exactly forgiven her for lying to him. Plus whatever was
going on between her and Emily only complicated matters further.

Hanna did her best to pretend to be a better mood, but couldn't shake the horrible feeling in her stomach and the fact that Emily refused to look her in the eye again.

The final straw was broken though when her mom held up a board game: Are you naughty or nice?

"Is this too risqué for the party?" Ashley asked the girls, causing Spencer and Aria burst out laughing, but Hanna and Emily stayed stone faced even though both were mortified on the inside. Emily tried to play it cool by getting up and pretending to
root around in the fridge for something to drink. But Hanna couldn't take it anymore, she needed this to stop.

"You know maybe we should cancel? Reschedule for another time?" Hanna offered, desperately hoping to delay this "celebration" until she was on better terms with Jordan and things weren't so horribly awkward with Emily.

"The party is tomorrow, Hanna. We can't reschedule. You have friends coming in from New York. You need this. All of you do, it'll be a good distraction." Ashley responded, annoyed that Hanna was trying to delay yet another piece of the wedding planning
process.

Hanna huffed to herself, quietly accepting the fact that the shower was happening, whether she liked it or not.

The rest of the morning went on fairly uneventfully. The girls finished decorating the loft. Emily avoided having to speak directly to Hanna and successfully hid her emotions from the other girls. To her knowledge, none of them suspected anything was
going on between her and Hanna.

When Spencer and Aria left, Emily decided to go with them. She knew Aria was headed back to The Brew to see Ezra, so she tagged along and figured some time away from Hanna would do her good.

Hanna's mom stayed behind. She had noticed the awkwardness between the girls and wanted to talk to Hanna about it privately.

"So…what is going on between you and Emily?" Ashley tried to ask casually, as she was finishing the last of the party trimmings.

"What are you talking about?" Hanna asked, trying to control the panic that was washing over her. Was she that obvious? Was it obvious? She thought they did a good job of avoiding each other that morning.

"I don't know. Something just seemed off with you both this morning." Ashley added tentatively. She was not trying not to start a fight with her daughter the day before her bridal shower.

"I can't speak for Emily, but I was just in a bad mood because Jordan told me last night that he couldn't make it to the shower. I mean, it will be awkward opening gifts by myself." Hanna responded quickly. It was technically true, she was just omitting
a few key details.

"Oh, well if that's all...I wouldn't worry about it." Ashley replied, trying to re-assure Hanna that it wasn't a big deal. A lot of guys don't go to the bridal shower at all.

"That's all? So, you are all concerned about Emily but don't even care that Jordan isn't coming to my wedding shower?" Hanna responded, feeling the irritation with her mother rising up to her face. "Just admit it, you like Emily more than you like Jordan!
You have never given Jordan a real chance!"

Ashley held up her hand to cut Hanna off, "Hanna, that's crazy! I think Jordan is great. I just don't know him as well as I know Emily."

She did think Jordan was a great guy, but she hadn't really seen them together as a couple all that much. The only significantly relationship she had exposure to was when she was with Emily. Emily lived with them the majority of their time together and
she had known the girl since she and Hanna were little kids together.

"Well…how could you? You've never tried to get to get to know him or spend time with him." Hanna spat back at Ashley. She knew her mother didn't dislike Jordan, but she was in a bad mood and it was far easier being mad at her mom than at herself or the
situation she had gotten herself into with Emily.

"That's not fair. I have invited you both back here on multiple occasions." Ashley snapped. "You just never came until the courts forced you to." Ashley shot back at Hanna, now growing tired of being her punching bag.

"Whatever…I don't want to talk about this…" Hanna finished as she grabbed the keys to Lucas's Jaguar and headed for the door.