After visiting Alison, Emily doesn't feel like hanging around anymore waiting for school to end so she won't have to explain to her mother, because she feels horrible for doing this to the blonde.

''I'm such a terrible girlfriend.'' Emily murmurs under her breath while she's still walking home.

''What did you just say?'' Emily's head shoots up in panic, knowing that someone has just heard her. And when she recognizes the voice, she feels lost, because she thought it would take more time to get where she is.

''Mom!'' The brunette says clearly surprised. First of all, because no one was supposed to hear what she said and, second of all she wasn't expecting to find her mother home. She just assumed she would be shopping.

''What are you doing home so early? School ends in 45 minutes.'' Mrs. Fields clarifies while getting up from the swing on the porch.

''No! I mean yes, it's true. But, um, the Spanish teacher wasn't feeling well so she didn't come today. And the principal told us to go home.'' She lies.

By the look Pam gives her, she knows her mother finds it hard to believe it but she can't do anything else, can she?

''So…'' Pam starts to say ''if I asked you to call any of the other girls right now, they would answer the phone, right? Because they are in Spanish class with you.''

Emily's face goes completely white and she prays it was just a hypothetical statement. So she slightly nods, hoping her mother won't oblige her to do it. Because she knows her friends are in class right now, and Alison just… she'll be lucky if she only answered the phone, even if it meant she would scream at her.

Pam is about to say something when Emily's phone rings. And the brunette doesn't know if she should be relieved or scared to death, because it could either be any of the girls asking her anything, or it could be Alison sending terrible curses at her. And she isn't quite sure how she's going to explain to her mom if the text is from Alison. So, while she holds her breath she sees her mother glancing at her phone, waiting for her to open the text.

''Aria and Hanna have already agreed, wanna meet us at my house at 6PM? Alison isn't answering my texts, could you tell her to come too? – Spencer''

As soon as she finishes reading the text, she looks at her mom, hoping the text sounded like they were all at their houses and not in school. Pam nods approvingly and tells her daughter that she has permission to meet at Spencer's. Emily smiles widely and thanks her before sending a reply to the other brunette.

Once she's done, she heads upstairs and lies in bed, seeing as she has nothing better to do.

She must have fallen asleep because next thing she's aware of is her phone vibrating like crazy. When she takes a look, she sees she's got 4 missed calls from Spencer and 6 new messages: 3 from Spencer, 1 from Aria and 2 more from Hanna.

''Emily come to my house right now, you've got to see this. – Spencer''

''Emily move your ass up here right now! – Spencer''

''What the hell are you doing? Come to Spencer's place! – Hanna''

''You won't believe us if we tell you, so come here and see it yourself. – Spencer''

''Emily, what's up with you? We're all at Spencer's waiting for you to come. – Aria''

''I swear if you don't get here right now I'm gonna crush your ass – Hanna''

The more she reads, the more confused she feels. But she does as told, seeing that the last message was sent 10 minutes ago. When she reaches her front door, she curses herself for leaving her car parked at school so she has to walk. She decides to get her car before she goes to Spencer's, in case they have to follow someone or run from something, like old times. You never know. On her way to school, she decides to call Spencer so she can get more information because she's nothing else but confused.

''Hey'' she says as soon as Spencer answers. ''What were….?''

''Where are you?!'' The other brunette interrupts.

''Going to get my car, but that's not what I was going to say.'' Emily says a little bit mad because she didn't get to finish her sentence. ''What's this thing you…?''

''Get your damn ass over here, NOW!'' another voice screams. She identifies it as Hanna's.

''If you just let me…''

''Emily.'' Spencer says once again cutting her off. Only this time is in a so much calmer tone. ''This is about Alison.''

As soon as Emily hears her name she feels her whole body tense. Her friends are all alarmed because of something to do with Alison, but they haven't mentioned the blonde was with them any time. Was she in some kind of danger?

As more and more questions pop, Emily realizes she's in front of her car already, so she rushes inside and drives as fast as she can, being careful not to kill herself first.

When she finally reaches the Spencer's front door, the door flies open and Emily's dragged inside by a pair of impatient hands. And before she realizes what's happening or who's holding her, she's already up in Spencer's room. She's met by six eyes that look at her with worried expressions. She looks at them expectantly, not wanting to be the first one to talk. She has to admit that she's a little bit scared.

''Emily...'' Hanna starts to say really gently, nothing to do with the screams she used to get Emily to rush to Spencer's.

''Hanna.'' Aria says firmly but yet calmly. When Hanna's head snaps towards her direction the shortest girls speaks again, so much softer this time. ''I think Spencer is the one who should talk.''

Hanna nods in agreement and takes a step backwards so all the attention can be on Spencer.

Emily can feel it's difficult for either of them to talk, so she just waits and prays nothing bad has happened to her girlfriend.

Spencer shoots one last glare at Hanna and Aria to make sure they have still an agreement. Once they both nod, the brunette swallows and starts to talk while the other two eye her carefully and Emily gets more impatient as time passes.

''When I got home'' Spencer starts to say as calm as she can ''I heard some strange noises. ''She pauses here and looks at Aria and Hanna who are gripping each other's hands in anticipation. ''I didn't know where those noises came from so I remained silent for a couple of minutes before I realized where they… were created from.''

Emily was listening to Spencer as if her life depended on it, and, if Alison had to do something with that, her life certainly did depend on it.

''And as I opened the window to hear better, I saw it'' She rectifies. ''Her.''

The three girls look at Emily expectantly before Spencer moves away from her spot and points at her closed curtains.

''Watch it yourself.''

Emily feels a sharp wind on the back of her neck because she knows exactly what she'll be able to see once she opens the curtains. Alison's bedroom. What she doesn't know is what she'll find inside.

And her breath dies inside her throat when she sees it. Emily does see it, but her brain can't process what it means.

Soon, her friends move to stand beside her and look outside Spencer's window, although they're very familiar with the view. They've been watching since they first call Emily.

The brunette now understands why Spencer said: 'you won't believe us if we tell you.' And she was right, she wouldn't have believed them if she hadn't seen it.

Alison's bedroom is completely trashed. The chair is lying on the floor; the table which is usually full of makeup now is empty, and the makeup is, instead, scattered on the floor; the bed sheets are in a complete mess; the only light that comes inside the bedroom is the natural light that comes from the window. And in a tiny corner between one side of the bed and the wall, is lying a tiny blonde. A blonde that Emily soon recognizes and her heart melts inside her chest because she has never seen Alison like that. Her knees are pressed hard against her chest, her hands are holding her legs really tightly and her head is buried between her legs and even though Emily can't see her face, she is 100% sure her makeup is more destroyed that when she came to visit her.

''What's this?'' After a long silence, Emily speaks up with cracked voice.

''She's been in the same exact position when Aria and I arrived. She hasn't moved an inch since then'' Hanna says pausing. ''Emily, we've been here for an hour.''

''Spencer'' Emily says firmly without taking her gaze away from the window. ''You're the one who was witnessed this longer. What's happened?''

Emily then spins around to face Spencer and listen carefully. Spencer sighs and by the look on her face, Emily can tell she's trying to find the right words to say.

''When I told you I first heard strange noises… those were Alison crying and screaming. She was really mad at something. And, a few minutes later, she received a couple of texts and…'' Spencer makes a pause to look into Emily's eyes. ''… then she lost it. Then Hanna and Aria arrived. She started to smash and hit things while groaning and crying really hard. When the entire place was trashed, she sat on that spot where she still is and hasn't moved since then.''

''I'm going in there.'' Emily says firmly. ''I'm her girlfriend and I have to know what's happening.''

The other three just nod and make no move to stop the swimmer, who is determined to know what's been bothering the little blonde.

And, as she reaches the porch, she thinks she may know.