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I woke up with my arm still wrapped protectively around Emily. Our clothed bodies were still pressed together, and I sighed contently. I was so happy with how the previous night had been. We hadn't talked about everything, but the fact that we had talked at all was good. Plus, we'd shared an incredible moment and I had succeeded in getting Emily to sleep soundly. I was feeling pretty proud of myself.

Carefully pulling away from the sleeping girl, I grabbed my phone from the side table next to Emily's bed. It was early, which explained why Emily's school alarm hadn't gone off yet. However, I had a text message that I'd missed.

I opened it, swallowing thickly as I saw who it was from.

From Blocked ID- You had better hold Emily close while you still can, because when I'm done with you, nobody will love you. -A

I bit my lip nervously and glanced over at Emily. I set my phone back down on the end table and carefully climbed out of her bed. I went to both of her windows, checking around for cameras or something. I hated that none of us knew how A could see us all of the damn time.

Once I was sure that I couldn't see any cameras, I made my way back to Emily's bed and laid back down next to her, wrapping my arm back around her and holding her close to me. I at least wanted her to wake up in a good way.

She woke up a few minutes later, letting out a "mm" noise as she shifted a little bit. "Ali?" she whispered after a minute, wondering if I was awake.

"I'm awake," I answered quietly.

"Are you okay?" she asked me softly, probably hearing the nerves in my voice. I pulled away from her and she turned around, concerned. I grabbed my phone again and opened the text message, before handing it to Emily.

"I got it last night, but I only saw it a few minutes ago," I told her as she read the message.

"What does A mean, 'when I'm done with you'?" Emily asked, sounding really worried. "What is A going to do to you?"

"I don't know," I answered in a whisper. "I'm scared, Em."

"So am I," she answered, biting her lip nervously. Before either of us could say anything else, my phone beeped, and we both started a little. I glanced at the new text, but it was only from Spencer.

"She said to make sure that we're waiting outside a little early, since we're walking not driving," I reminded Emily.

"Oh yeah, our attempt to catch A," she muttered.

"Maybe it'll work," I suggested, and Emily gave me a look that said she didn't think so.

She asked, "Do you really think so?"

I sighed, shaking my head. "There's nothing wrong with being optimistic, though."

"It's hard to be optimistic after that text message," Emily muttered. "Are you going to tell the others about it?"

"I have to," I answered, "but I… I can leave out the part about you if you want. Because we don't really know what this is."

"Yeah, maybe that's a good idea for now," Emily agreed, and I nodded. I climbed out of bed. I didn't have really any clothes to wear, because the other girls had all taken me to my place before school started so that I could change.

"Um, can I borrow something of yours?" I asked awkwardly. "I don't think we'll have time to stop at my place."

"Uh, sure," Emily answered, getting out of bed as well. "Grab whatever." I went to her closet and looked carefully through her clothes. I finally decided to go with some jeans and a simple blouse. Emily didn't have the fanciest clothes in the world, and most of her clothes really weren't my style, but that was one my favorite things about her.

Once I had the clothes, I slipped into Emily's bathroom to get changed. Once I started my makeup, there was a knock on the door and I opened it so that Emily could come in and do her makeup as well. Once we were both presentable, we went back into her room to grab our school stuff. I slipped my binder and journal into my backpack and we went downstairs. Emily grabbed us both a granola bar, and handed me mine. I decided to save it for later, because after seeing that text, I wasn't really hungry.

"Hey," the others greeted us as we walked out of Emily's house. I was a little surprised that they were all already there.

"Are you wearing Emily's clothes?" Spencer asked, looking at me suspiciously. I just shrugged, and I saw Hanna smirking. As we started down the street, I decided to change the topic.

"I got another A text," I stated.

"What did it say?" Aria demanded.

"A said that whenever he or she is done with me, no one will love me," I stated nervously. "I mean, I already know that most everyone hates me… but you guys? My dad? What could A do to make me even more easy to hate?"

"You know that we wouldn't turn against you, Ali," Emily stated, and I was glad for her reassurance, but it didn't really help me. I gave her a worried look.

"I don't know what A is going to make me do, or what he or she is going to do to make it look like I did something, but I promise that I'm changed, okay?" I said, looking at all of them. "I swear that I'm not the same insensitive bitch that you guys knew three years ago."

"We know, Ali," Aria insisted, but I wasn't really convinced. I felt Emily nudge me a little, and I looked at her next to me. She gave me a reassuring smile, and I felt myself calm down a little.

"Well, we can assume that A is either going to try to expose something about you or force you to do something," Spencer reasoned as we left the neighborhood.

"Yeah, but the question is what exactly is it going to be?" Hanna asked. No one answered, because no one knew.

EEE

"Can I see the whole text?" Spencer asked.

"Uh… no," Ali answered, biting her lip and glancing at me.

"Why not?" Spencer demanded, narrowing her eyes at the blonde.

Alison swallowed visibly before she answered with a simple, "There was something personal in the text, too."

"Come on Ali, if we don't know everything about you, then A has more to use against you," Hanna reminded her.

Now, Alison glanced obviously at me and I let out a light sigh, shrugging at her. The blonde carefully retrieved her phone and opened the text, before passing it over to Spencer.

"What was A talking about?" Spencer asked, looking at me and Ali suspiciously. Aria took the phone from Spencer and she and Hanna read the message as well. I caught Hanna with a smirk on her face, and Alison must have too, because she snatched back her phone.

"It doesn't matter," Ali stated.

"Is there something going on between you two?" Spencer asked. Of course she was the one late to the party.

"Can we not talk about me and Ali right now?" I piped up. "Please?"

"Fine," Spencer agreed, shaking her head slightly, like she was confused. "Anyway, did you have any journals or secrets locked up anywhere that A might have now?"

"I have some locked in my room, but they're either mostly empty or filled with just the same stuff the one you guys found was filled with. Plus, I have the key," Alison answered.

"And that's all?" Spencer asked. Both Hanna and Aria looked at Alison with a strange look that I didn't catch on to.

"That's all," Ali answered stiffly.

"Then A is probably going to make you do something or make it look like you did something," Spencer reasoned.

"Probably," Alison agreed, "but can we talk about this all later, please?" Spencer just nodded in response.

"Um, by the way guys, I have this thing to do tonight," Hanna brought up suddenly, giving me a bad feeling in my stomach. Tonight was Hanna's night to have Alison over.

"Well, so do I," Aria admitted.

"I'm going to be with Toby," Spencer added. Everyone looked to me, and I gave them all my best smile that I could muster.

"I don't have anything," I stated. "Perks to being single I guess. You can stay with me again tonight, Ali."

"Thanks, Em," Hanna said, "I totally forgot that I had plans tonight and I can't really cancel them…"

"Yeah, thanks, Em," Alison added.

"Don't worry about it," I answered. As we walked, the conversation changed, but all I could think about was tonight. Maybe I would be able to sleep again, but then maybe I wouldn't be able to. I thought about earlier, when I woke up in Ali's embrace. It was the most comfortable embrace I'd ever been in. I was starting to feel more and more comfortable around her again. Suddenly, my phone started ringing, and everyone looked at me, worried. I glanced down at it and before I answered it, I assured them, "It's Paige."

Everyone went back to their conversation as I answered the call, but Ali watched me curiously. I pretended not to see her doing that. "Hey, Em."

"Hey, Paige," I answered, "what's up?"

"Do you want to hang out tonight?" Paige asked. "Look, I know that you don't trust me anymore, but I figured that they only way you can find out if you can trust me is to trust me for a little bit, right? So maybe we can just go for dinner and talk. What do you think?"

"I can't tonight, Paige," I told her, feeling torn. Obviously, I had to be with Ali tonight, but if Hanna hadn't had plans tonight, would I have said yes to Paige?

"Tomorrow, then?" Paige pleaded on the other end of the line. I pretended like Alison wasn't staring at me intently.

"Sure, tomorrow."

"Great! See you then," Paige said.

"Wait, Paige," I interrupted, before she could hang up. "This isn't a date, okay? I think we really need to talk, but it's… it's not a date, alright?"

The silence on the other end of the line made me think that I must've caught Paige completely off guard. "Oh, alright. Well, see you tomorrow, then."

I hung up, and slipped my phone into my pocket. When I looked back at my friends, they were all staring at me. "Do you think you'll officially end it? Like… completely?" Aria asked. Though they were all looking at me intently, Alison looked the most curious, which only caught me be surprise a little bit.

"Probably," I admitted. "I made a deal with her and she promised me that she'd do her side of it, and I told her that if she didn't, I wouldn't ever be able to really forgive her. And I haven't forgiven her, and I can't have us both thinking that it's just going to roll by. Because it's not."

"Good for you, Em," Hanna said, nodding proudly. I gave Hanna a half smile in response. Ali gave me an encouraging smile, as if telling me that I could do it. Maybe she could sense that it was hard for me to think of completely saying goodbye to Paige. Honestly, I was a little surprised that she hadn't said anything bad about Paige the moment I got the call. She really was acting like a totally changed person. And really, I shouldn't be surprised that she was changed, like she said, especially after last night.

I gave her a grateful smile and we continued our walk to school.

We split up when we got to the school, but I stayed with Spencer while she called Toby. "Hey, did you see anything?" Spencer sighed. "Maybe you're right. Thanks again. I'll see you later."

"What'd he say?" I asked, frowning.

"He said that A probably watches us the most obviously when tons of people are around. Other times, for all we know, A might have hidden cameras everywhere," Spencer stated, shrugging. "Unfortunately, it's hardest to catch a villain hiding in plain sight."

"Sometimes," I agreed, nodding. "I've got to get to chem.. See you at lunch."

AAA

"Okay, spill," Aria and Hanna demanded when we got to lunch later. Where was Emily when I needed her?

"Spill about what?" I demanded.

"You and Emily!" Hanna exclaimed.

"Where is Emily, by the way?" I asked, trying to change the topic and looking around.

"Alison," Aria snapped, getting me to look at her with a glare. "Come on, you can trust us!"

"Look, I don't know what's going to happen with me and Emily, alright?" I whispered harshly at them. I didn't want to talk about this right now. Not without Emily.

"Fine, but you like her, right?" Hanna demanded.

"Hey guys, what are we talking about?" Emily asked, coming up and sitting next to me.

"Well, we were talking about—"

I quickly cut Hanna off by saying, "Hanna and Caleb." Hanna shot me a glare, and I returned it with a look that said, 'You don't talk about Emily yet, and I won't talk about Caleb yet'. I think she got the message.

"But, I don't want to talk about that anymore," Hanna stated, before Emily could say anything about the topic. Emily just gave us all a confused look.

"Okay," she muttered. "So where's Spencer?"

"Toby brought her lunch," Aria answered, smiling.

"Aw, that's sweet," Emily commented, smiling as well.

Hanna suddenly decided to ask Emily, "Have you talked to Paige?" Now she shot me a look that told me that she had one upped me. I narrowed my eyes evilly at her. I wasn't used to having Hanna be a challenge, but I had to get used to it now, because I wasn't the bitch that would try to bring her down to her place. I had to prove to all of my friends that I'd changed.

"No," Emily answered firmly, "I'm not going to talk to her about anything until tomorrow night."

"Sorry that I have plans tonight," Hanna apologized, "or else you could just get it over with tonight."

"It's fine," Emily insisted, "I'd rather not talk to Paige tonight anyway. You actually just saved me another day."

"How do you think she'll take it?" Aria asked Emily, a look of concern etched onto her face. I looked at Emily, wondering the same thing.

"Probably not too well," Emily answered, sighing. "I'll tell you all what happens on Wednesday I guess."

As lunch drew to an end, we all split up, and I headed to my next class. It was always weird going to classes without any of my friends. I had to deal with the weird stares from people, and I didn't talk to anyone. I did my work and stayed silent, and that was one of the new parts of Alison DiLaurentis.

Paige had this class with me, and since I started back at school, she hadn't said a thing to me. However, today, she came over to me as soon as I walked into the class. "Alison," she said, as if getting my attention, even though I had already stopped in my tracks and was staring at her.

"Paige," I greeted, avoiding using the term "Pigskin". Anything bad that I said to Paige would obviously be reported to Emily tomorrow, so I had to keep it polite.

"Whatever you're doing to break me and Emily up, stop," Paige growled. "You don't know me, and I love Emily."

"You're right. I don't know you. Also, I don't doubt that you love her. I'm sorry if I did something to make you think that I was trying to break you two up. I haven't said half a word about you since we talked before, I swear. I really am sorry for how I bullied you, Paige, whether you believe me or not. And I appreciate what you did for Em," I stated politely, referring to Paige giving Emily names.

Paige stared at me incredulously, like she didn't believe that I could be a decent person.

"Class is starting soon," I stated, before stepping around her and heading to my desk. I inhaled deeply and clenched my teeth. Everything inside of me wanted to attack that bitch and tell her to leave Emily the hell alone, but I couldn't. I wouldn't. I set my books down on my desk and let out the breath I'd just taken in.

Paige sat down in her own seat and looked across the room at me with a look of confusion on her face. I flashed her a sad smile, and the opened up my work for this class.

After school, I met up with Emily at her car. "Hey, you should've waited for me in front of the school."

"I didn't want to run into Paige," I admitted.

"What?" Emily asked, confused.

"She approached me after lunch, convinced that I was trying to break you two up," I told Emily.

"What did you say?" Emily asked carefully, unlocking the passenger door for me and moving over to the driver's entrance door.

"I told her that I wasn't and that I really was sorry for bullying her such a long time ago," I answered honestly. "I wasn't going to start another problem. We've got one too many. Although I am a little annoyed that she thought I would do that. Of course, it's just another wonderful eye opener to what a bitch I once was."

Emily gave me a smile, which I was a little surprised to receive. "You know, you really are a changed person."

"I'm trying to be the best side of me all the time. The side of me that you used to always be able to see," I corrected. "I'm not really that different, besides the fact that I've realized that everyone hated who I used to be."

"Well either way, I like this new Alison," Emily stated, and I felt my cheeks turn pink as I smiled. How was she already making me blush like this? Since when had Emily had this affect on me? I seemed to have always had it on her, but the other way around? "Do you want to go see a movie or go to the mall or something before we go back to my place? I'm starting to feel like I have no life with how much I stay home."

I chuckled. "Let's go see a movie. One of the old black and white ones," I suggested, and Emily smiled in response. She started driving off, and I smiled to myself. This was going perfectly.

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