Do A Little Dance
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AN: Sorry for the wait, but here's the new chapter! Enjoy!
"So, who's taking you to homecoming?" Hanna chirped, popping up next to Emily's locker and nearly scaring her half to death. It was a good question though.
"Oh, um I think Aria and I are going stag." Emily busied herself so she wouldn't have to look at Hanna.
"Wait, what, why? I thought you and Maya…?" Hanna sounded desperately confused. 'At least I'm not the only one.' Emily thought.
"Maya and I" "Are just friends, yea I got it the last 500 times you've told me." Hanna interrupted with a condescending sigh. "You can quit saying it."
Emily snapped her head toward her, "Evidently I can't seeing as you're clearly not comprehending the words." She glared at her friend.
Hanna just smirked and crossed her arms, "Oh don't try to play that, I comprehend the words just fine, and unlike you I see them for what they truly are. Bullshit." Emily glared even harder, if that was even possible. "Here let me lay the situation out for you…again. You like Maya, Maya likes you, you want Maya to take you to the dance, and Maya wants to take you to the dance, go to the dance with Maya."
"Are you finished?" Emily closed her locker and waited. Hanna nodded. "You have no idea what you're talking about Han, this isn't just a simple 'Guy wants the girl, guy gets the girl' type thing. Besides I've already made plans with Aria, we're going together." She took off down the hall.
Hanna chased after her, her heels clicking so loudly that in any other situation Emily would have laughed. This wasn't that type of situation though. "Ok first, who cares about the whole girl/girl thing, besides your parents? And second, going with Aria is just the same as going with Maya, you show up together, you dance together, you do all the lame activities together, you get each other drinks, and you leave together. The only difference is that, at the end of the night when you're getting dropped off at your doorstep, do you want it to end with a hug, or a kiss? Think about it, Em."
Emily rolled her eyes, growling to herself. Her friends, Hanna especially, just didn't get how hard and complicated this situation was. Ok, so maybe she was making it out to be way more complicated than it actually was. Everything was good between her and Maya though, at least she thought so after they had talked things out, but something had definitely changed between them.
Maya had been distant, not overly so, but just giving Emily space, thinking space. Though she was thankful for it, she'd rather just have things back to normal with the girl. In other words, she wanted Maya around her all the time, flirting with her like before the kiss…during the kiss.
'That was some kiss though.' Emily lost herself to her thoughts for a moment. Great, now she was dry in places that were supposed to be wet and wet in places she was supposed to be dry. She needed water, like right now.
She puts her money in the vending machine, pressing the button quietly of in her own world; she doesn't even notice that the girl she's desperately trying not to think about is standing right behind her. And yes, Maya was taking advantage of the view.
Grabbing the water from the dispenser, Emily straightens herself up and turns. 'Maya. She looks good, hell she looks hot.' Emily notices, but is that really such a surprise? "Hey." She smiles.
"Hey." Maya returns, her voice lower than usual, breathy. Emily blushes. "Haven't seen you in a while." The girl comments taking a step closer and bridging the gap inch by inch. She gives a smirk, noticing the blush.
"Yea…I wasn't ignoring you…again, I swear!" Emily's quick to stumble through her answer, kicking herself for sounding so desperate. Maya laughs making Emily chide herself just a little less. 'I guess making a fool of myself isn't so bad if I can hear that every time.' She's fawning, again.
Maya takes another step forward, "Oh, I know. It was totally me this time. Supply and demand." She brushes Emily's shoulder as she passes her, putting her own money into the machine.
"Supply and demand, I'm not sure I follow?" Emily frowns, but it falters as she catches Maya bending down to get her water. Hey, don't blame her she's almost positive she caught Maya doing the exact same thing just a few moments earlier.
Only difference is, Maya doesn't care if she gets caught, Emily does. "Oh you know that whole thing about if there's a constant supply then the demand goes down, but if the supply is limited than the demand rises." She smirks.
"So wait, you're limiting my time with you?" Emily catches herself mid whine, with wide eyes and a severe blush creeping up her neck. Maya raises an amused eyebrow, closing the gab completely, to where Emily can feel every painstaking breath that the girl takes blow out and caress her cheek. 'Fuck. I'm fucked. Completely an utterly fucked. Thoroughly fucked.'
Maya chuckles lowly into Emily's ear. "So you're saying, you have a demand for my time?" she squeezes Emily's side and pulls away, taking in the faster breathing and dazed look of the flushed girl in front of her. She smirks, "That's good to know."
Emily snaps back to reality as she feels Maya's presence leave her. She whips around, watching the girl's retreating form as she tries to catch her breath. "Catchya later, Hun!" and even though Maya didn't turn around, not even for a second, Emily knows that the girl knew that she was checking her out, again. Emily huffed and went to class.
Maya makes her way down the hall totally oblivious to the determined blonde marching her way, well that is until an arm locks with hers, the body attached to it now walking with Maya as well. "Maya!" Hanna chirps. "Just the girl I've been looking for, do you know how hard it's been to track you down?"
Maya's not afraid to admit to herself that she is in fact just a little frightened by the crazed look in the blonde's eyes or the too cheery tone of her voice. When she responds, she does so slowly still shaking out of the shock. "That's flattering and all, but you're not exactly my type. Thanks for the offer though."
Maya makes a move to detach herself, but Hanna is seriously channeling the Terminator or something here. Hanna laughs, oblivious to the girl's discomfort. "Oh Hunny no, I'm straight, besides I'm saving that particular experiment for college where my totally hot, fashionable but totally lesbo, Naya Rivera lookalike roommate will school me in all the fabulous ways of woman loving.
We'll have a semester of hot nakedness which will end rather abruptly after I find my dream guy, who I'll run into during finals week and then again two weeks later when he purposes because he couldn't stop thinking about me. And he'll whisk me away to his family's beach house in the Hamptons, and let me be the trophy wife I was born to be."
Maya stares at her with wide, disbelieving eyes, Hanna sighs contently. "Anyway, back to you. You need to take Emily to homecoming." She states rather bluntly, removing her arm from Maya's.
Maya grimaces, "I'm not exactly gaga for Gaga." Hanna scowls at the thought. "Besides I just talked with Emily, she didn't mention anything about the dance…or who she wanted to go with."
Hanna rolls her eyes, "That because she's going stag" Hanna gags a bit, "with Aria, but she really wants to go with you. She's just scared." The blonde leaves it at that, not wanting to reveal too much and have her best friend upset with her.
Maya catches on quickly though. "Alison really did a number on our girl huh?" she mumbles it, but Hanna catches it anyway, smiling broadly at the 'our' part. She knew Maya wanted Emily; I mean it was apparent wasn't it?
"Listen, I can't give you all the details, because it really isn't my place but yea, Alison really fucked with Emily's head." Hanna admitted quietly.
"It has to do with Jenna, doesn't it?" Maya asked.
Hanna balked, "You know about Jenna?" she didn't think Emily would mention that particular detail, hell they didn't even talk about it with Emily.
Maya shook her head, "No not really, it's just my first week here, Jenna kind of smirked at Emily. I didn't like it very much." Anger flared up within her as she remembered the incident in the hallway.
Hanna too remembered. She looked at her nails fondly. "Like I said, I can't really give you all the answers, only Emily can." Maya frowned. "And she will, just, ok I know you might think keeping your distant is a good thing, giving her space you know, but don't go too far away. I mean, Emily might not show it, but she wants to be around you." Hanna chuckles, "She looks for you in the halls, she checks her phone constantly, and my god she never shuts up about you either."
Maya smile bashfully, "So…" "So, go to the dance and sweep her off her heel clad feet." They smirk and part ways.
Meanwhile Emily's in Chemistry with Toby. "So are you going to the dance with Maya?" Toby asked plopping down onto his stool.
Emily heaved and irritated sigh, "What is it with everyone and my love life!"
Toby leaned away for the irate girl, his hands up in surrender, "Whoa, I just assumed she asked you since her and Hanna were talking about it in the hallway before class." He paused as she stared at him wide eyed and not breathing, "So, wait she didn't ask you yet? Did I just ruin the surprise or something? Because I don't even know if that's what they were talking about, I mean all I heard was Hanna telling Maya that she should go to the dance. That's it I swear. I just assumed the rest."
Emily cracked a smile, "Toby. Relax." He did as told, and cracked a smile back. "I'm going to the dance with Aria since we both don't have dates."
Emily turned toward the front of the class, "And what if Maya shows up?" he whispered. Emily smirked to herself as she took notes. Toby didn't need any other answer.
"Ok, so wait Aria and Emily aren't here yet?" Hanna was officially going to kill them.
Spencer looked mildly worried, "Um no, maybe they're just running late. Text them." She offered. Before Hanna could however, Maya walked up.
"Hey guys!" Hanna wasn't ashamed to admit that she did a double take; Maya St. Germaine looked good in a dress, still not as hot as Naya Rivera though.
"Hey Maya!" she responded cheerfully even though inside she was panicking because her plan was going to shit.
"Have you seen Emily?" Maya asked a cross between worried insecurity and dread. Maybe she shouldn't have taken Hanna's advice. This could be really bad if Emily showed up with an actual date.
Hanna forced a smile, "No, I was just about to text her." "Don't bother." Spencer cut in, her attention fully at the entrance where a stunning Emily stood with her arm through one Toby Cavanaugh's, Aria on the other side in the same pose.
Maya whipped around to see the threesome, not like that perves, and her breath caught in her throat. 'Could she get anymore gorgeous?' Maya didn't think so. With a smirk, Emily caught her eyes and winked.
Maya choked and spoke to Hanna, "I think I need a drink." She trailed off absently, and stumbled off. Hanna smirked, and petted herself on the back. 'Mission accomplished, now to just win Homecoming Queen.'
"Hey guys." Emily smiled as Aria, Toby and her approached Hanna and Spencer. The latter two still in shock and didn't respond. Toby shifted under their gazes, and excused himself to get drinks.
Aria pranced over to the girls' side, "So how's the dance been so far? Where's your dates?" she cheered, still no reply.
Emily rolled her eyes, "Ok, snap out of it! You'd think we just walked in with Hitler or something."
Spencer scoffed, "Hitler's brother maybe."
Emily glared, "You've got to be kidding right? You don't even know him!"
"We don't have to, he's Jenna's brother, enough said." Hanna sniped.
"Yea and I was Alison's girlfriend. You were all Alison's friends, so if you want to play the guilty by association card you might want to check your own standing first." Emily growled making everyone go silent.
Spencer sighed, "Ok, we get it. We're assholes." She paused looking to Hanna and a slightly miffed Aria as well. "We just worry about you Em; we don't want to see you hurt again."
Emily gave an exasperated smile, "Look I'm fine, ok?" All three girls gave her disbelieving looks, Emily chuckled. "Ok. I'm as fine as I can be after having my best friend and girlfriend cheat on me repeatedly with some bitch, having my heart ripped out and stomped into the ground and going back into the closet for a year. Other than that, I'm fine."
Hanna let a giggle slip, "Oh Hun, you need a drink."
"Or two." Aria chimed in.
"Or five." Spencer laughed as well.
Emily joined in. "Somehow I doubt drinking will fix all my problems."
"It won't, but it'll make you forget for the rest of tonight." Spencer smirked.
"Right. Anyways, just give Toby a chance; you know he had nothing to do with the whole Jenna/Alison thing. Besides, you guys haven't been the only ones pushing me to be myself." Emily smirked.
Hanna perked up, "Really? I think I like this kid. We could join forces!"
Everyone laughed at her enthusiasm, Emily especially. "Yea, he has something you could probably use a bit of Han."
Hanna frowned, "Um, like what?" she questioned Emily warily as the girl continued to smirk at her.
"Subtly." Hanna pouted, at the three laughing girls, but then smirked as she recognized Maya coming from behind Emily.
"Subtly is for pansies; why beat around the bush when you can say what you mean and get what you want. Something you could definitely work on, huh Emily." Hanna threw a smirk Maya's way.
Emily rolled her eyes, "What's that supposed to mean?"
The three shared a laugh, but Spencer spoke. "Well, you like Maya right?"
Emily sighed, "You already know the answer."
Aria rolled her eyes. "Then go ask her to dance! You are making things way too difficult."
"What, am I supposed to just walk up to her and be like, 'Oh hey Maya you want to dance?' that's not exactly easy for me!" Emily protested.
At this moment Maya choose to step up behind Emily, her hands gripping the girl's waist lightly, beaming as she whispered into the stiff girl's ear. "Why I'd love to, thank you so much for asking." She purred.
Emily stood gaping like a fish, "Um, uh, y-you don't have t-to, Maya. Seriously, uh, it's t-totally cool if you don't." She stuttered, mentally slapping herself. 'She just said she wanted to dance with you! What are you waiting for?'
Maya chuckled lowly, loving having this beautiful girl at her mercy. "Dance with me, Emily." She demanded, dragging the now blushing girl away and onto the dance floor. Her friends left behind feeling just a little bit stunned, but greatly humored all the same.
"Hey, not trying to interrupt but do you guys want to go play some games?" Aria pouted at the giggling pair.
"Actually that sounds great; I swear I can't feel my feet anymore." Maya giggled. "I'm just going to go get some air really quick, then I'll come find you." She said mostly to Emily.
"You sure, I can come with you if you want?" Emily smiled.
Maya nodded and kissed her cheek, "Positive, I'll be right back, besides I think I've stolen Aria's date enough for one night." She winked at Aria.
Aria laughed, "Please, I'm so over Emily. She's just a heartbreaker." She exclaimed dramatically.
"Oh don't I know it." Maya pulled away laughing.
Emily watched her go, before turning to her friend, "So games?"
Aria gave a solid nod, "Games!"
Emily and Aria are laughing and joking as Emily puts her name into win a car, when she catches a glimpse of Maya from the corner of her eyes. She turns to look and sees the girl smirking, quite seductively, at the entrance to the maze of mirrors.
Emily swallows, the heaviness she feels in her throat not disappearing at the action. Maya's smirk widens, her eyes flashing from across the room as she motion Emily to come over. The heaviness triples in weight.
"Hey Aria, I'm just going to go…" Emily points in the vague direction of the mirrors and walks off before her friend can truly respond. Emily watches and Maya waits until she's close, and then disappears inside the maze, daring the girl to follow her; Emily does without a second thought.
"Maya!" She calls out, only getting a mischievous giggle in return. Emily smiles, she feels ridiculously giddy for no reason at all. She just can't escape the feeling that if and when she catches this girl, something's going to happen.
She chases further into the maze, laughing when she finds herself lost, her reflection bouncing off each and every mirror as she spins around in silly attempt to find her way. "Boo." She screamed, just a little, as arms wrapped around her waist and held her from behind, a chin settling itself on her shoulders as the lips brushed her ear.
But it didn't last long as a smile took purchase upon her face when she recognized the soft crooning, almost seductive, voice that enveloped the word. "You scared me." Her laugh was light, more breath than anything.
The arms around her waist gave a slight squeeze, pulling Emily's body back into her own more fully. Emily's breathing hitched. "Sorry." Maya whispered just as theirs eyes locked through their reflections.
The position should have been slightly awkward given that Emily was the taller of the two, but with Maya in a higher heel, their heights evened out; allowing them to fit so perfectly together. Maya's eyes smirked at her as the girl tucked her head into the side of Emily's; dropping a light fluttering kiss to Emily's ear.
Emily shuttered and turned her face to Maya; their noses brushing ever so softly. Maya nudged hers more firmly, engaging Emily in an Eskimo kiss. Then, she pushed further, her breath ghosting over Emily's lips; Emily grasping her hands that much more firmly. They held their breaths.
"Well, well, well…isn't this just the cutest thing. Little Miss Doormat Emily Fields has found yet another girl who she won't be able to please." The moment shattered around them, Emily's eyes slamming shut at the sound of that falsely sweet voice she knew far too well.
'I guess everyone goes to homecoming.' Emily thought bitterly, turning as much as she could in Maya's now stiff and protective embrace to face the intruder. 'Well fuck me.'