Summer vacation was finally here. Next year would be Emily Fields' last year at Rosewood High. Two years... two years since a drunk driver hit her mom, two years since her best friend, who also happened to be the love of her life, moved to Georgia a...
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Emily's POV:
I have been sitting here studying this clock on the wall in the living room for a while now. Though it still seems like a cruel joke, I can't help but wonder if there is something to it. It has got to be the strangest thing I have ever laid eyes upon. Initially it did not work at all then the kiss Ali and I shared changed everything and this clock now spins in rapid reverse. Now that I have taken the time to pay closer attention to it I realize that the clock stops completely for four counts of 60 every other time it comes around to 4:40. None of it makes any sense to me whatsoever and it is so frusterating. I can not put any significance at all to 4:44 whether it be am or pm.
Who am I kidding though, nothing in this place seems to make any sense at all. I stand up and pace back and forth contemplating my next move. I have pretty much exhausted all of my options I am sure. No.. there has to be something more, something I have missed. There is a reason for all of this I know it. I just have to backtrack and figure out what is really going on here and how I get out of this place and to where I am supposed to be. I hear something upstairs and to be honest it makes me kind of nervous. I think it sounds like light footsteps, but I can't be sure so I am going to go check it out. I don't know which is worse, knowing I am here alone and hearing things that simply shouldn't be heard or finding out that I was wrong and I'm not here alone at all. I reach the room where the noise is coming from, my room. I take a deep breath and close my eyes, preparing for the worst as I open the door.
"AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Ali screams, making me lose my footing and fall to the ground. All I can do is stare at her in awe, wondering if this moment is actually real as I stand up from the floor. She just stands there and stares at me like she is seeing me for the first time. "Ali? Is that really you?"Ali does not respond, instead she runs over to me and our bodies clash in a loving embrace. After a few moments we pull away and make eye contact and I notice tears streaming down Ali's face. I gently wipe her tears away with my thumbs and say, "shh baby...Angels don't cry.." she chuckles a little and holds my waist tightly saying, "I never thought I would see you again.. I.. I even began to question whether or not I actually saw you in the first place. But I never gave up looking for a way back to you. I couldn't, my heart wouldn't allow it. I saw a woman that looked like your mom and broke the snow-globe and found this door and I'm not even sure how I opened it but i thought i was losing my mind because it only led back to your roo-" "Woah, slow down sweetheart.. It's alright, I'm right here, I've got you." I console her because the more she rambled the harder she began to cry.
Alison's POV:
"I'm sorry I scared you." Emily says as she caresses my cheek. I just shake my head and a smile forms on my lips."I just.. I can't believe this is happening. I never thought I would see you again. I thought that I had lost you for good and that my mind was going with you." "Well then you are as crazy as I am because I still have yet to figure any of this out. To be honest, I never thought I would see you again either. Like the last time was just some kind of fluke or something and it really would be the last time."she says as she begins to pace back and forth. "I am really glad you are here now because if anyone can help me make sense of any of this, it is you. There is no one in this place, human or otherwise. Every door and every window to every house except this one is completely sealed shut. There is some sort of connection to this clock downstairs and the number four and I can't make sense of anything." she continues.
I can tell that she is just as distraught over this whole situation as I am and that is when I realize that I need to keep it together and be strong for the both of us. Something inside me tells me that there may be more to this place than meets the eye. Emily grabs my arm and says, "Come on, there is something that I have to show you." She leads us downstairs and we make a right out of her front door. I can't help but notice how much different yet alike this world is from the real one. All the street signs and house numbers are written backwards just like Great Expectations and it is so dreary and dark outside. The streets are empty and the silence is deafening. There is a sad, lonely aura throughout this entire place. "Here we are. Look out there." I stand there speechless taking in the impossible yet memorizing sight before my eyes. The street, the town, everything seems to fade into darkness. But not total darkness. There is a fiery red glow below that meets the most beautiful shade of golden I have ever laid eyes upon glowing above with a swirl of stars throughout the entire scene.
"It's.. It's beautiful. But how is this possible?" I ask and blink my eyes several times to be sure that what i think i am seeing is in fact what i am seeing. "How is any of this possible, Ali? I have been four blocks in all directions from my door and each time The road ends like this." "The only thing that I know for sure is that you definitely should not cross the line leading into there, Em. The door that brought me here looked similar to this before I stepped through it. That door brought me to you, that probably means that crossing that line will definitely take you somewhere that is not here and I am not ready to lose you for good yet." "But maybe that is exactly the answer Ali. I can't believe I didn't think of it before. I can't just sit here, stuck in some sort of limbo forever. This place is unbearable. Granted, I'm not ready to lose you either but I need to go to where I belong and if crossing that line gets me there then maybe that is what I should be doing so that we can both move on."
Hearing her say those words makes my heart shatter into a trillion tiny shards. "I have no intention of moving on Emily." I mutter through tears. Suddenly a familiar voice breaks in and says, "As well you shouldn't, neither of you should intend on moving on from one another." Emily and I exchange glances and turn our attention to the voice behind us. "M-mom?" Emily asks questionably. Pam nods and gives Emily a soft, reassuring smile. Emily runs into her mothers embrace no longer able to fight back the tears that had been threatening to fall.
"Mom, I-" Emily starts but is quickly cut off by Mrs Fields. "Sweetheart I wish that I could give you all of the answers right now but I simply can't. All that I can tell you for now is that It will make sense in time. I have created this safe place for you in hopes of giving you a second chance. Everything about this place is the answer to all of your questions. All that you have to do is ask the question and locate the answer. Once you have all of the answers that you need you will be rewarded with a second chance at life. I have created a portal between your world and the world of the living that is only visible to the soul of your one true love so that she may help you find your way. It seems that my suspicions were correct all those years ago after all." she said with a smile as she nodded toward me, flickering her gaze between Emily and I briefly before continuing, "If either of you cross into the abyss your souls will be lost forever. That is the only real danger you will encounter during your time here. You may have already noticed some changes to this place in the time you have been here. The closer you get to where you need to be, the more things will change in this world. I hate to rush off because I know that this is all so much to take in and the more you uncover, the more frustrated you will become but please don't give up my darlings. I am risking it all for this one chance and all that I ask is for you to believe in me like I believe in you. I love you."
With that she was gone just as quickly as she appeared.
