The only exception

Chapter six

THIS WAS NOT EDITED OKAY BYE (Ali's POV)

I walked into my house after a long day of school.

It's been a few days since Emily came over to 'study'. Since then, we haven't really talked much. Only at school.

I've been really busy with homework this week. I was behind on a few subjects and I couldn't have Emily come over to study again because we would get any studying done.

So today, I planned for all the girls and I to go to a movie.

I set my purse down and pulled my phone out to check the time.

Spencer would be here any minute to pick me up.

I sat down on my couch waiting for her to pick me up. As I was sitting down, I decided to text Emily to make sure she was coming.

Right as I pulled my phone out, there was a ring on my doorbell. I quickly sat up and answered it.

As I opened the door I saw Emily.

"Speak of the devil." I laughed letting her in.

"Huh?" she questioned confused by my statement.

"I was just about to text you. You're coming to the movie tonight with us right?" I asked her.

She nodded. "Yeah Spencer invited me last minute." She paused. "As in last minute I mean she just called me and told me that she'll pick me up at your house." She said.

There was a long silence before Emily and I both spoke up at the same time.

We stopped.

"You first." I laughed.

"No you first." She argued.

I figured there was no point in arguing with her about this so I spoke up.

"We didn't see each other a lot this week." I stated.

She looked at me. "See? mine was stupid now you go." I said putting my head down."

"I-" she simply said before she was interrupted by a loud honk.

I looked at her. "Go on, they can wait."

"I just wanted to say-" again, she was interrupted by a honk.

"Come on!" We could hear Hanna yell out the car window.

"Lets finish this later." She said as she walked towards the door.

I followed after her and made my way into Spencer's car.

"What took you guys so damn long?" Hanna said irritated, a bag of twizzlers in her hand.

Emily and I stayed silent.

"Okay?" Hanna muttered under her breath raising her eyebrows at us.

"Leave it Hanna it's not that big of a deal." Aria spoke up.

Of course Aria would say that. She's the only one who knows about my giant crush on Emily. She probably thinks we were making out in there.

Spencer cleared her throat

"So, are you guys ready?" Spencer spoke Up.

"Awe hell yah!" Hanna said a bit too enthusiastically causing all of us to laugh.

"Alright!" Spencer said pulling out of my driveway.

The ride there consisted of Hanna turing up the music too loud, Spencer then would turn it down, followed by Hanna turning it back up.

Aria Emily and I just stayed silent in the back, my thoughts taking over.

Before I knew it, we arrived at the theatre. When we walked in, Spencer went to go pay for our tickets.

We all waited by the concessions stand.

"Guys, ill be right back. I have to use the restroom." Emily said.

We all nodded. As she was walking away, she signaled for me to follow her.

"Umm, guys? I'll be right back." I stated following a few paces behind Emily to the bathroom.

Aria looked at me with a smirk. I rolled my eyes and walked in the bathroom.

"I'm sorry that we haven't seen each other all week." She said as I walked in.

I nodded. "It's okay." I quietly said.

"I brought you in here to tell you something." She began. Oh no this can't be good. "When I was sleeping over at your house a few weeks ago, Hanna had me go into your room to get some blankets, and I may or may not have seen your journal...in the entry for that day, it has something about..."

"A girl crush?" I interrupted her.

She nodded. "I didn't know what that was about so I shook it off. I figured that's why you didn't want to tell me who your crush was because it was a girl. But then, the other day when we...kissed, I kind of put two and two together and...." She drifted off.

I took a deep breath. "Yeah it...um, was about you." I said putting my head down.

She looked at me with a blank expression.

"Look, I know you don't feel the same, so can we just forget about all this." I asked her.

"I would say yes, if I didn't feel the same way." She said causing me to look up at her.

I looked up into her eyes, shocked. We held eye contact for a few seconds before the bathroom door burst open.

"Are you guys coming or-" Hanna said walking in the bathroom.

Emily and I stood there blankly.

Hanna looked at us with a flushed expression.

"Oh, um did I- did I interrupt something?" She asked standing there unable to move.

Emily looked at me giving me a questioning look as to what we should say.

"No, Emily and I were just heading out." I smiled faintly at Hanna.

"Okay...Spencer bought some popcorn for you two to share."

I must've had an odd reaction because she quickly added, "Because I wanted my own, and Spencer and Aria
decided to share so, um that leaves you and Em to share one."

"Y-yeah of course." I laughed.

We stood there awkwardly until I cleared my throat and quickly walked out of the bathroom and into our movie.