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Chapter 30: Third Time's a Charm

Alison POV

I walk down the stairs to see my dad and Emily facing off in the living room. "Em? Dad?" They both turn to face me. "When did you get here?" I ask immediately sensing the tension in the room

"Just a couple minutes ago" she answers as she comes to stand next to me awkwardly and nervously

I look between her and my dad "Everything ok here?"

Emily glances at my dad and out of the corner of my eye I see her nodding slightly "Everything is fine. Just catching up with your dad" she smiles down to me and kisses my cheek softly

Yeah sure. As if I buy that. I just know he had a go at her but I decide not to press the issue further "If you say so..."

"Come on we should get going if we want to make our reservation" she offers her arm to me "Goodbye Sir"

"Bye dad" I give a stern look and turn to my date "Reservation?" I raise my eyebrows at her as I take her arm and walk out

"Yup"

She opens her car door for me and goes round to the driver's side. As she gets in, I can't help but stare at her expecting her to tell me what happened with my dad. She doesn't look at me and I can tell she wants to avoid discussing whatever what on. I won't push her on it, no good can come from this. Besides, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what was said. I understand where my parents are coming from, I do. But I didn't take this decision lightly, I am fully aware of the pain I went through last time but so is she. And maybe I'm a fool to give her another chance but up till the point of the cheating she had done everything right, perfectly even. We were 17 and a lot had happened. We were older now and I owed it to the both of us to see if we were truly meant to be. I owed it to our happy ending.

I stare out the car and notice we're leaving Rosewood and I look over to Emily surprised "Where are we going?"

"You'll see" she winks at me

"What do you have prepared?"

"You'll see" she smirks grabbing my hand

Emily POV

Thirty minutes later, we come across the 'Welcome to Ravenswood' sign and I look at Ali to see if she's clocked it yet. I see her eyebrows furrow and her nose scrunch up cutely, the way she always does when she's trying to figure something out.

A few minutes later she turns to me as I keep my eyes on the road "Em..."

"Yes Ali?" I try to hide the smile threatening to show on my face as she figures out where we're going

"You didn't..."

" I didn't what?" I try answering nonchalantly as I pull up to park

"Emily..."

"Alison" I answer as I face her and hold her gaze

"After all these years, you still think of this place?"

I get out and open her door, giving her my hand as she gets out "How could I not? I had my worst and best date of my life in this restaurant" I chuckle as she blushes. I pull her with me across the street.

"From Paris with Love" she whispers happily

"From Emily with Love" I say standing in front of the restaurant like I did 6 years ago

She shakes her head giggling and grabs me into an embrace before connecting our lips and kissing me passionately. Her arms wrap around my back as I cup her cheeks and deepen the kiss.

As she pulls away, she leans her forehead against mine whispering "Let's go have a great third first date!" she smiles

I take her hand and hold the door open for her.