Emison:Can I Trust You?

Chapter 14: Boxed Up Dolls

ALI

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We had only been asleep ten or fifteen minutes when Emily's phone began to rang. 

"Why?? Who the hell is ringing you at 4 in the morning?" I groaned. 

"It's Aria"

"Answer it,it must be important".

"Hey,Aria,is everything ok?" Emily asked,sitting up in the bed.Her facial expressions kept changing as I heard Aria's agitated murmurs through the phone.After a ten minute conversation which mostly consisted of "yes" and "no",Emily hung up the phone.

"Aria's absolutely terrified. CeCe showed up to her house about twenty minutes ago saying that Ezra wanted her to have something.It was a big black box with a message on the bottom of it saying,"I don't keep my dolls in their boxes.I'd much rather play with them".

"That's really creepy.What was in the box?"

"Doll heads.Our doll heads.Aria said the dolls had our faces on them with red scratches all over the face.Ezra's trying to show us that he can still get to us,even in jail.He has CeCe,he has Maya,and I'm sure they are not the only ones on his team.Maybe you were right,maybe we should just pack up our things and leave Rosewood behind.We could leave right now,we could go get Aria and drive".

"Emily,what's changed your mind?You were completely against us leaving not long ago".

"I'm really,really worried now,that's what changed my mind.I didn't think Ezra was serious about his threats,I thought he just wanted to keep us on our toes,but the fact that CeCe showed her face,the fact that she came to Aria's door,shows that Ezra is taking no prisoners.He will kill us and not even think twice about it.I'm not worried about myself,I stopped worrying about myself a long time ago.I'm worried about the people I love.I'm worried about my mom,I'm worried about Aria,about Spencer,about Hanna.But most of all I'm worried about you,Ali.I love you and I've always loved you and it's taken a long time for us to get to where we are now,and I will do anything it takes to keep us together".

I was so scared and angry and happy all at the same time.Ezra would try his hardest to get to every single one of us,but I was his end goal.I could feel my anger boiling up.This wasn't fair,it was all so unfair.Ezra couldn't play with us like we were his dolls,he couldn't just throw us away when he was done with us.But I was happy.Emily loved me and I loved her and that's all that we needed right now.

"I'm so scared Em.I'm so scared that I'm afraid to look out the window at night.I'm so scared that every single sound at night freezes me with fear.It's been two years since Ezra buried me alive and I escaped,but I didn't really.I still feel buried.I still can't breathe properly and I'm scared every day that I'm gonna die.I want to run every second of every day.Every one says I'm so strong,but I'm not Emily,you're the strong one,and you know that running may be the safe option but it's not the right option.I'm worried for everyone but we need to see this through.We need to look Ezra in the eye and say"Game Over".This needs to finish and I want to be here when it does".

Emily sighed deeply and stared intently at me.We both knew that the easiest thing in the world right now would be to run.But this time we couldn't take the easy option.We had spent too long running from a masked tormentor and now we knew their face.Ezra thought we were still his puppets.He hadn't yet realized that we were cutting the strings.