• E •
Present time
« Alison! Ali, please open the door! »
Silence.
« Please... just open... »
For the last hour, Emily had been on the other side of the hotel room where Alison had checked in after the fight at the park. After the blonde said what she wanted to say to Aria, she left as fast as she could from that place.
All the other girls tried to talk to her, Spencer had said that maybe she just needed some time, but Emily knew Alison better than she knew herself. Or at least that's what she thought.
She waited nervously on the other side of the door, a silence that Emily prayed to be filled with Ali's words. The silence that was like the suspended moment before a falling glass shatters on the ground, it lingered in the air, thick and heavy, like a blanket.
Emily knew that Alison probably didn't want to see her at the moment, but for as irritating as it would be for the blonde to see Emily right now, at least she wouldn't be alone. And the brunette knew that Ali's worst enemy right now was the blonde herself.
« Look, if you don't want to open the door, fine. But just give me a sign, just let me know that you're fin-... Just do somthing. » The last words left the brunette's lips in a low whisper. She hadn't heard a single noise form the outside of the hotel room since she had gotten there an hour ago.
« I won't leave until you talk to me, and you'll eventually have to leave this room and when you do, I'm going to be right here. » And with that, the brunette sat down on a small bench in the middle of the hallway, close to Ali's door.
Inside of the room was Alison sitting in her bed, her cheeks wet of all the tears she had cried since the moment she left the park. The revelation of what Aria had done, had passed through Ali like a hurricane. The blonde couldn't help but think how betrayed she felt, the friend she'd give her life for, was the cause to the blonde's deepest pain. And now their friendship laid there in ruins.
Eventually even the most kind hearted person will turn cold, that's when you know they've been pushed too far. And this feeling Alison had inside wasn't sadness or hurt anymore, it was pure anger. She could feel her mind becoming an icy wasteland and her heart being wrapped by icy tentacules so tightly that it almost stopped beating.
She could hear Emily on the other side of the door, but she just kept still in her bed, staring at nothingness as the conversation at the park kept playing in her mind. As the words of confession passed through Aria's guilty lips, as her hand collided with the girl's cheek, and how her heart broke into a million pieces after being betrayed by her bestfriend.
Alison eventually let the tiredness take control of her body. She closed her eyes and slowly laid down, hoping that when she'd wake up, it had all just been a really bad dream.
• A •
8 years ago
« Hey, Ali. »
The blonde sighed and closed the door of her locker, already knowing whose voice it was talking.
She didn't bother to say a word to the brunette standing in front of her with an apologetic smile. Alison wanted to go all bitchy on the girl and just turn away but she couldn't, for as much as her brain told her to go, her heart made here stay in place.
« What, Emily? » She asked annoyed.
« You have been ignoring me for the past few days. Basically after we saw each other at the Café. » Emily said nervously.
« And you're going to pretend you don't know the reason why? » The blonde asked with an eyebrow raised.
Emily looked down at the floor and bit her lip,
« Let me make it up to you. »
Alison crossed her arms,
« Sure, tell me what made you so nervous the other day when we went to the cemetery. »
