Endless Summer (emison)

5

Over the next two days, Alison barely saw Emily, who stayed at her house and didn't want to be bothered no matter how many times that Alison asked her to go to various events. Emily missed a party and a trip to the mini golf course, both significantly boring due to her absence. On the third day, Alison saw Emily at church on Sunday morning, accompanied by her family. She was walking into church, an older man, who Alison assumed to be her father was with her, giving her a tight side hug around her shoulder. She was wearing a white dress that stopped at her lower thigh, the sleeves stopped at the middle of her arm, about the area that a T-shirt sleeves would stop. Her hair was in soft curls and even though Ali was a good distance away, she could see Emily looked hot.

As she and her family approached the steps that lead up to the white church, Alison caught a glimpse of Emily's mother, who although older, looked like Emily. Alison didn't have a chance to talk to Emily since by the time she reached the church, Emily's family had already almost made it inside. They only stopped to talk to someone who was holding the door open.

"Nice dress." she heard someone say coming up next her. She turned her head to see Noel, his hair neatly parted and his dress shirt and tie creaseless. The church organ music was playing from the inside, as if it was beckoning the people who were chatting outside, into the church.

"She is wearing a nice dress, isn't she." Alison agreed, not tearing her eyes from Emily, who was talking to the man holding the door and smiling politely.

"What?" Noel asked, confused. Alison tore her eyes away in shock and looked up at Noel. "I was talking about your dress...who were you talking about?"

"No one." Alison said quickly. "Mom got me this dress a few weeks ago." she said, referring to the baby pink dress she was wearing. Behind her, she could hear her parents greeting Noel's, and she hoped no one else had heard what she said. Noel seemed to brush it off, since he nodded his head for her to follow him into the church.

Inside, Alison and Noel made their way to the 6th pew from the front on the left, one that the DiLaurentis family and the Kahn family had been sharing since they started coming to Cape May. As they walked the aisle towards their pew, people complimented both of them on how grown up they looked since the previous summer. Alison smiled and said thanks to each of them, even though she had no idea who half of these people were, but they seemed to know her. That wasn't surprising, everyone knew Alison DiLaurentis.

"Hey look who it is," Noel whispered and nodded his head towards the 8th pew from the front on the side of the right section of pews. It was Emily and her family, Emily on the left of both her parents who were chatting away. Emily however, remained quiet and was looking around the church and up at the beautiful painted scene of Adam and Eve on the ceiling of the church.

Noel waved his hand in Emily's direction until Emily saw him. He smiled and gave her a thumbs up. She returned by smiling and waving her hand casually. Alison smiled as well, winking before she has to stand up to let her parents and Noel's by. The six of them sat in the pew, chatting to the people who came up to them. To everyone looking at both families, they seemed like the typical golden family. Everyone looked perfect and everyone else wanted to be like them. Alison tried her best to seem polite and not to keep glancing back at Emily's pew, but she found both things quite difficult as her patience was running thin fast.

Soon enough, the people took their seats and the people in the owes stood up as the organ played the opening song. The priest and the deacon walked down the aisle and towards the front as people watched and sang along with the organ.

When the priest placed the large and old Bible at its place of honor, he turned around and motioned for everyone to sit down. Alison tried to pay attention as the priest went on about loving Jesus and giving back to the community, but Alison was having a hard time paying attention when she knew Emily was in the same church as her.