Against All Odds

Chapter 4 - The Liars

I know I'm Santana Lopez. Fearless, scared of nothing. But all of this is totally out of my league. Dealing with all of these threatening text messages? Emily went through all of this torture and horrible things for over a year. To me, she's the strongest woman I know. Both physically and mentally. This weekend, Emily had her first swim meet. It was just a pre season tournament. I had an important test coming up that Monday so she insisted that I stay home and study. Even though I didn't want to. I hated missing opportunities of seeing her in that swimsuit of hers. I could stare at her all day. I looked at the clock. 12:30. Her heat started in about 10 minutes. I grabbed my phone and texted her telling her good luck and that I hope she wins. Ding. My email tone went off. Unknown sender? I opened it, and immediately shut the message. What the fuck was that. My phone started ringing. The unexpected sound made me jump. Quinn Fabray. I pressed accept.

"Hey Quinn, whatsup?" I leaned back on my chair.

"I did what you asked, but I couldn't find anything online about the Rosewood killings or anything like that. Are you sure she was being serious and not just saying things because she was drunk?" I never questioned Emily's story one bit.

"No Q, she's telling the truth. You should've seen the look in her eyes. It was legit."

"Maybe it was just kept on the D.L. To not scare anyone." I could hear the worry in her voice. "I'll text you later though okay. I met someone. I'll tell you about her later okay? Love you San."

"Her? It's a her? Hello! Quinn!" But she had already hung up. A girl huh? It was bound to happen. I knew that I left an impression on her. I turned on my tv just for background noise. I was studying for about three hours so I decided to take a nap. I layed on my bed and fell fast asleep.

I woke up to a knocking on my room door.6:30. Holy shit. That was probably the longest nap I had ever taken. I got off of my bed and fixed my hair real quick. I opened the door and saw Emily standing there with a medal around her neck, and a huge smile on her face.

"I'm guessing you won, huh?" I smiled.

"Yeah! First place in the 200Mfreestyle. I also have one more thing." She grabbed my hand and brought me into our little living room. Three girls were sitting on the couch. "San, this is Hanna, Aria and Spencer. My friends from back home."

I suddenly got nervous. I didn't think that I was meeting her friends today. I never had to worry about meeting Britt's friends. All of her friends were already my friends too.

"It's nice to meet you all." I smiled.

"It's so nice to finally put a face to the name. Emily talks about you all the time." I turned to her and she started blushing. It was so cute.

"Shut up Hanna." She was giving her that shut the fuck up look. I just stood there and laughed. "I didn't know that they were coming into town."

"Em, where's your laptop? I wanna show you those emails I was talking about." She grabbed my hand. "Whatever you're gonna show me, you can show San too. I don't want her to be left out."

"No Em it's alright. You can go and just fill me in later okay? I'm hungry anyway. Do you guys want anything?" I started walking towards the kitchen. But I heard whispering.

"But I don't want anything to happen to her. You don't understand you didn't lose anyone, Spencer. I'm not going to lose her too." I sighed. I walked up behind her and hugged her. They smiled and walked away.

"I'm going to be fine. I promise. Do your thing with your friends and I'll be out here when you're finished okay?" I whispered in her ear. She turned around and hugged me, then kissed my cheek.