A couple of hours later we heard someone coming down the stairs and since everyone was downstairs including Mum, we came to the conclusion that it was Emily. The person walked in and it was defiantly Emily, she look like she had cried herself to sleep and now has woken up.

Emily said "Sorry guys, I kind of fell asleep," Spencer stood up and walks across to Emily.

She gave Emily a hug before saying "Its fine Em."

Alli stands up and said "Yeah it really is fine," Alli hugs Emily once Spencer had finished.

Aria then stands up saying "We're sorry about your parents Em; we're all here for you whenever you need us." Aria also hugs Emily once Alli had stopped.

Emily sighs and said "Thanks guys, it means a lot to me to know your all here for me."

We all smile, Emily then asked "What's the time?"

Aria looks at her phone and replied with "Just a bit after 7," Emily nods her head and looks a bit weird.

I ask "Is everything alright Em?"

Emily answered with "Yeah it's after 6."

Alli asked "Which means?"

Emily replied with "Which means all the news has been on meaning, everyone now knows about my parents."

Aria said "That sucks Em, but at least you don't have to hide it."

Spencer said "Yeah she has a point."

Emily replied with "True."

Just after Emily had finished talking the doorbell rang, Mum came in saying "I'll get it."

I say "Thanks Mum."

Emily P.O.V

Just as I had finished saying the word true, the doorbell rang I wonder who it could be at this time of night but I gave up.

Ashley came in saying "I'll get it."

Hanna had replied with "Thanks Mum," the conversation at the door was muffle so we couldn't hear it or who it was.

Ashley came walking back in and said "Emily it's for you."

I then hear a voice say "Hey Emily," I look behind her to see Mona standing there and she immediately brings a smile to my face.

I reply with "Thanks Ashley, hey Mona."

Mona smiles and said "Hey."

Hanna ruins it by remind me their all there by saying "Hey Mona, what are you doing here?"

Mona replied with "I watched the news and came to see if Emily was alright."

I say "Do you want to go talk outside?"

Mona answered with "Yeah if that's okay?"

I replied with "Yeah its fine, come on. I'll be back guys." I walked past both Ashley and Mona towards the front door with Mona then following behind me; I lead her out to Hanna's front step where we both sat down next to each other.

Mona asked "How are you?"

I replied with "Honestly I have no idea."

Mona said "Yeah well you know I'm always here for you."

I smiled and replied with "I do know, but it's nice to be reminded." We both smile at each other before turning to face forward but I can't help but look at her again, she is so beautiful and hard not to look at.

Mona then asked "So what are your plans now?"

I shrugged and answered with "I don't really know, I'm just going to take it all one day at a time."

Mona nodded and said "Sounds good."

I smile and reply with "I'm also moving into this joint," I say it while looking back at the house.

Mona said "Really."

I replied with "Yeah really, it's kind of what my parents wanted and it makes sense. The others all have siblings and probably don't need another mouth to feed; also Hanna is my best friend."

Mona said "When you put it like that it makes sense."

I replied with "It does, you cans still come over whenever you want."

Mona smiled and said "I think I will."

I smiled and asked "How are you doing?"

Mona replied with "Eh I'm okay."

I say "That's good."

Mona asked "Yeah, are you coming to school tomorrow?"

I replied with "I don't really know, I think I should. It just depends on if I wake tomorrow morning or not."

Mona said "Yeah that might help, does your hand hurt?"

I answered with "Nah I only punch it up against a brick wall a couple of times."

Mona smiled and said "Okay."

I say "Yeah also you can't text or ring me at phone but you can ring this places home phone number."

Mona replied with "Okay, what happened to yours?"

I say "It's in a million pieces on the ground at school near the library."

Mona gives me a confused look and I say "That phone call I got was from them, they hung up before I could hear anything of what happened and I got angry so I throw it at the wall."

Mona said "That would defiantly smash into a million pieces, but you shouldn't be angry at them. They were trying to protect you from hearing them in pain and not being able to do anything."

I nodded my head and reply with "Yeah it makes sense when you put it like that." We kind of sit in a silence, a nice silence where no one needs to speak; someone then opens the door, we turn to look to find Ashley standing there.

Ashley said "Sorry to interrupt I was just wondering if Mona was staying for dinner."

Mona goes to rely and I know she going to say no, so I cut in and say "You can stay if want to."

Mona asked "You won't mind?"

I replied with "Not at all."

Mona turns to Ashley and said "I would love to stay Ms Marin."

Ashley replied with "Good, but Mona please call me Ashley.

Mona smiled and said "Okay Ashley," I saw Ashley smiled after she heard her name being called by Mona.

I asked "What is for dinner?"

Ashley replied with "Pizza, I thought it was safer than me trying to cook."

I smiled and said "Yeah it does sound safer," Mona laughed while Ashley just glared at me; but it wasn't scary it just looks like Hanna when she trying to glare at me.

I say "Will be in soon Ashley."

Ashley said "Right, I'm going to go order what pizza do you want?"

I look at Mona to answer and she replied with "Just a cheese pizza will be fine," I nodded my head.

Ashley said "Cool that's easy thanks," Ashley then closes the door and goes to do who knows.

Mona asked "Are you sure it's alright for me to stay?"

I replied with "Yes it's alright."

Mona said "But don't you want to hang out with your friends."

I replied with "I am and your one of them."

Mona said "Won't the girls mind."

I replied with "Probably but I don't care."

Mona said "Okay."

I replied with "Yeah do you want to head in now?"

Mona said "Sure," we both stood up from where we were sitting and I lead her back into the house. We walked into the lounge room to find them all talking or really arguing over which movie to watch.

I asked "What's going on?"

Aria replied with "Spencer and Hanna are arguing over which movie to watch."

I said "Oh so the usual?"

Spencer replied with "Pretty much."

Hanna asked "Which movie do you want to watch?" Hanna held up two DVD which were Les Miserable and Pitch Perfect

Ashley walked in saying "Pizza is ordered should be here in 30 minutes, have we decided which movie were watching?"

Alli replied with "Emily choosing."

I say "Pitch Perfect, sorry Spence."

Spencer replied with "Its fine Em, hey Mona are you joining us?"

Mona answered with "Yeah is that okay?"

Aria said "It's totally fine."

I say "See I told you it would be fine," I watch as Mona rolls her eyes at me which makes me smile. I sit down next to Hanna who wraps her arm around me straight away, I can't help but lay my head down on her shoulder; she is really comfy. I look up at Mona to see this weird look on her face but when she realise I am looking at her she changes it straight away; I wish I knew that look was.

I was laying in my new bed, in my new bedroom, in my new soon to be house. I don't know if I could ever call this place home, it just wouldn't feel right with them not being here. I was trying to work out if I should go to school or not, I was thinking I probably should since they did say for me not to skip school. That was it I said in my head my parents want me to do well and that means going to school when I don't feel like it.
I looked over at the clock which read 6am; I have swim practice at 6:30am. I slapped my covers back from me and hopped out of bed, last night Hanna had given me some her clothes to sleep in and then she gave me an extra in case I went to school.
I walked out of my new room carrying the clothes Hanna gave me, I walked over to the cupboard where I knew they kept the towel and quietly grabbed on before heading into the bathroom and taking a really, nice hot shower.

After showering and getting dressed I head back into my room to see I had 10 minutes to get to school, I quickly grabbed my school bag before heading downstairs and out the door to my car. Before I had gotten into the shower I had to take the bandage off my hand and when it was unwrapped, it wasn't swollen at all which meant I could swim with it; I'm really glad I keep a spare swim suit in my locker.
I parked my car in the parking lot closes to the swimming building, looking down at the clock in my car I saw that it was 6:32am I was actually late for the first time ever. I quickly grabbed my bag before hopping out, locking the car and running into the swimming pool building. I walked into find all girls sitting on the bleacher with Coach talking, like we normally always do before we go practice.

Coach sees me and said "Emily hi."

I replied with "Hey sorry I'm late it won't happen again."

Coach said "No its okay, I kind of assumed you wouldn't be here."

I replied with "I take it you heard?"

Coach answered with "Yes I saw it on the news, I tried calling you but you didn't pick up."

I replied with "Sorry about that my phone is in a million pieces outside of the library on the floor."

I quickly say "Don't worry, I'm fine. I just want to swim."

Coach replied with "Okay, but are you sure?"

I nodded my head and Coach said "Alright go get changed while I finish up here and then I'll tell you." Again I nodded my head before walking around Coach and into the locker rooms, where I straight away got stuck into changing. When I had finished changing into my swim suit I grabbed my spare set of goggles and cap to then head out to see Coach. I walked out to see some girls diving into the pool while some others waited.

I walked over to Coach who said "Emily okay, I'm going to have you just do some laps in the pool."

I asked "Why?"

Coach replied with "I just want to see how many laps you can do at once."

I said "Okay, which lane?" Coach pointed to the lane on the far side of the pool, I nodded my head and walked off to it. Placing my cap over my hair which was tied up into a bun and pulling my goggles over my head and down onto my eyes. I stood up on the diving board where I got into place, count to three in my head and jumped in and just start swimming my fastest.

I heard a whistle being blown which means practices is over, I finished the lap I was swimming before pulling myself up out of the pool. I removed my cap and goggles to take a look around, to see all the girls heading to the locker room and I followed behind them. After having a quick shower to wash the pool chlorine off of me, I quickly dried myself down enough to get dressed into the clothes Hanna gave me. Coach had told me as I was leaving that I didn't need to come to this afternoons practices, normally I would have argued but I didn't have another swim suit. I head to my locker to grab my Maths, English and History books I thought I would focus on studying for those exams since they were my worst subject. When I arrived at my locker I found Mona standing there waiting for me; which made me smile a little.

I walked up to her and said "Hey Mona."

Mona replied with "Hey, I almost thought you weren't going to show up," she then gave me hug not sure why but I'm not going to turn down a hug from her.

I said "Yeah well I'm here, I went to training and was just able to swim and not concentrate on anything." I spin my locker combination in before looking around for all the books I need.

Mona replied with "That sounds good, what are you planning on studying in the library this morning?"

I answered with "I was thinking Maths, English and History, what about you?"

Mona said "Awesome, English I'm really bad at it."

I smiled and replied with "Cool, I'm sure you're not as bad as I am."

Mona laughed before saying "Yeah I'm probably a lot worse."

I nodded and said "Well maybe we can help each other out; we are in the same English class."

Mona replied with "Yeah I would like that."

I smiled and said "Cool, let's head to the library." I had found all the books I need and was now holding them as I closed my locker, to also lock it again.

Mona replied with "You lead the way I'll follow." I smiled at her before heading in the direction of the library with Mona now walking alongside of me.

On the way Mona asked "How's you hand?"

I replied with "A lot better it hasn't swollen or bruised which is really lucky, thanks for asking."

Mona smiled and said "Anytime," the rest of the journey to library was silent and it was a nice silence though. I held the door open for her and she smiled at me for, we walk into the library to see that Spencer and Aria are already there. I automatically head towards them but realise Mona isn't following and heading towards another table.

I asked "Hey Mona is something wrong?"

Mona replied with "No nothing's wrong, I just thought your friends would be getting annoyed with me by now."

I say "No there not, they really enjoyed hanging out with you last night and also Hanna's Mum likes you."

Mona asked "What does Hanna's Mum have to do with this?"

I replied with "She likes you and told me you could come over whenever you want."

Mona said "Okay but won't it bother them?"

I replied with "No not at all, seriously it's no problem I can ask them if you like."

Mona smiled and said "No it's alright, I'll believe you."

I smiled and replied with "Awesome, so will you come sit with us, we did say we would help each other out in English and that very hard to do with you sitting at
another table."

Mona nodded and said "Okay I'll come sit with you guys," I lead her over to the table where I pulled out a seat for her before taking the seat next to her.

I said "Hey Spencer, Aria."

Aria replied with "Hey Em, Mona."

Spencer replied with "Hey Em, Mona."

Mona smiled and said "Hi."

Spencer then said "I didn't think you would come."

I replied with "Yeah I wasn't going to but I was thinking about the phone call I had with them yesterday and they wanted me to keep up with school."

Aria said "That's amazing Em."

I just shrugged; Spencer said "I take it by the wet hair you went to practice."

I replied with "Yeah I did, it was really good to just swim."

Spencer said "Cool, are you going to this afternoons training?"

I answered with "Nah Coach gave me it off, besides I don't have another swimsuit."

Aria asked "Then how'd you swim today?"

I replied with "I keep a spare one in my locker but it won't be dry into swim."

Spencer asked "So what are you going to do instead?"

I answered with "I don't know maybe watch movies with Hanna." They both nodded their heads before we all got into studying.

I was working on a Maths problem when Hanna and Allison walked in and walked over to us.

Hanna slaps my shoulder and said "You could have left a note."

I replied with "Ow what do you mean?"

Hanna said "You gave me a heart attack; I woke up for school and went to go wake you up. To find you weren't there, along with your car it scared the hell out of me."

I replied with "I'm sorry, I thought you would have heard the shower running or maybe your Mum might of."

Hanna said "Well we didn't."

I replied with "Okay I'm sorry, I'll leave a note next time."

Hanna said "You better."

Aria said "Morning Han, Alli."

Alli replied with "Hey Aria, how are you doing?"

Aria said "I'm good thanks, how are you?"

Alli replied with "That's great and I am good too."

I asked "Hey Han, what are you doing after school?"

Hanna replied with "Nothing that I know of, why?"

I said "Do you want to watch movies?"

Hanna replied with "Hell yeah, though we should do some study."

Spencer asked "Hanna are you feeling well?" Spencer then places a hand on Hanna's forehead.

Hanna answered with "I'm fine thank-you, just we have big exams coming up which we need to study for."

I say "Yeah something's defiantly wrong with her."

We all laugh while Hanna said "I hate you all so much right now." We all go back to studying, I try really hard to focus on them but it's seriously hard when your mind is on some many other things.

I was doing really well, when someone tap my shoulder and said "Excuse me?" I look up to see the librarian standing there.

I reply with "Yes."

She said "I would just like to say, I am so sorry for your parents. No one especial at your age should lose their parents."

I smile and say "Well yeah but it does happen so what you going to do," by the look on her face she didn't seem to like that answer.

She said "A'ww weren't you close to your parents?"

I asked "What kind of a question is that? Yes of course I was, but stuff like this happens to a lot of people and I just have to deal with it." Again she didn't look like she liked that answer, because now she has walked off. I don't bother saying or looking at the girls I know what they would probably say or be looking like, I just go back to studying.