Love is Endless

Happy Birthday

ALL RIGHTS GO TO MARLENE KING

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov

Chapter 8: Who's the birthday girl?

Alison's POV:

The movie ended and I stood up to stretch. My arms still fell down limply to my sides and I fell back down on the couch next to Emily.

"Does Emily know?" Hanna blurts out. Crap.

Emily furrowed her eyebrows and looked over at me nervously.

"What do you mean, what don't I know?"

"Em, you know when you got hit?" I grab her hand and squeeze it gently. She nods her head and made eye contact with me. Her deep brown orbs flowed into mine and it was intoxicating.

"Well, um it was.. A." I mutter. I didn't want her to worry about anything right now since she just got out of the hospital but I couldn't lie to her. I've done enough lying for a life time.

"A? How do you know?" Emily frantically asks.

"She got a text." Hanna blurts out again.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Emily asks, getting slightly irritated.

"I couldn't, A said he would hurt you." I say.

"Well then why did he do this?" Emily motioned her bruised body with her hands.

"I got lost in the moment when I kissed you and the threat completely slipped away from my mind. I promise you that I didn't mean to hurt you, I understand if you're mad and don't want anything to do with m-" I was cut off by Emily's lips crashing onto mine. I was in complete chock. Emily just kissed me. In front of the girls.

I think she realized what she just did because she had wide eyes and an open mouth, gaping like a fish out of water.

"I'm sorry." She said and ran up the stairs and into her room.

"Are you guys.. Together?" Spencer whispers, incase Emily can hear.

"I- I don't know, we haven't officially said we were." I stutter, looking up the stairs.

"You should talk to her, tell her that we support you guys and that we won't judge." Aria says, smiling.

I nod and just when I was about to walk up the stairs Hanna grabs my elbow.

"But if you break her heart again, i'll break you in half." Hanna half teases, half being deadly serious. I ignore her comment and rush up the stairs. Her door is closed so I knock.

One knock. No answer.

Two knocks. No answer.

Three knocks. Still no answer.

"Emily?" I ask, slowly opening the door.

Emily's lying on her bed, her head buried in a bunch of pillows. She groans when she hears my voice and somehow buries her head deeper into the mountain of pillows.

"Emily, look at me." I say, walking up to her bed. Emily sits up and avoids making eye contact.

"I'm sorry for kissing you."

"Hey," I gently tilt her head up to meet my gaze, "You have nothing to be sorry for, remember that I did the same in the car?"

Emily cracks a small smile that melts my heart.

I lay down on her bed and she stares at me, clearly confused.

"Come here." I say, stretching out my arms widely.