"I know you want to kiss me."

And that was one true statement that came out of Alison DiLaurentis's mouth. As Emily Fields leaned in for the kiss she found herself falling off her bed, knocking herself out of her deep sleep.

Emily groaned, climbed back in bed and turned her alarm off that had been blaring for the past five minutes.

One New Message blinked on the screen of Emily's phone.

Good Morning, Em. Walk me to school today? -Ali

That was enough to get Emily up and moving. After replying to Alison's text, Emily went downstairs to brew herself some coffee. She drank a cup as she got ready for her first day of senior year. She brushed out her hair leaving it wavy, brushed her teeth, put on a light amount of make up and put on her outfit, a plain white shirt with a red and white flannel over top and some jeans.

While Emily was sliding on her converse, Emily's mom, Pam walked into her bedroom. Pam was dressed in her pajamas still, hair looking quite messy, she folded her arms over her chest, "My little girl is all grown up."

Emily rolled her eyes, "Mom, stop I still have all year."

"You never have any sympathy for me" Pam laughed and hugged Emily as she stood up.

"Alright, I should probably go, I'm walking to school with Ali" Emily said as she flung her school bag over her shoulder.

"Ah Ali, my baby girls crush." Pam grabbed Emily's hands "Promise me you wont put her happiness before your own, and that this year you will try to focus on yourself."

Emily pulled her hands away slightly, she knew she could put herself first, but still have time for Ali, even if they weren't together, "Promise" she mumbled and scrambled out the front door.

Emily proceeded to walk down the sidewalk on her way to Alison's house. Emily has always cared deeply for Alison, and Alison knew that. Alison cared deeply for Emily as well, but she wasn't ready for the commitment, and Emily respected that, although it wasn't exactly what she wanted.

When Emily arrived at Alison's house, she sent her a text and waited out by the sidewalk,

"Hey Emily!"

Emily's head shot around and she saw one of her best friends Spencer Hastings climbing into her car. "Need a ride?" She asked.

"No thanks, I'm just waiting for Ali, we are walking together, kind of our tradition." Emily gestured to Alison's house.

"Alright, see you both at school" And with that Spencer shut her car door and drove out of her drive way.

"Em"

Emily's head shot back to the direction of Ali's front door. There she stood, blonde hair resting behind her back in curls, make up done like she was going to wedding, and she wore a pink and navy blue flowered top, with a matching navy blue skirt.

Emily swallowed the saliva that formed in her mouth as she looked at Ali. "Morning Ali, ready for the first day of senior year?"

As the two began to walk down the sidewalk, there hands kept brushing against each other, making goose bumps form on Emily.

"Definitely. I'm ready to make those loser freshman suffer." Alison and Emily both chuckled at that.

As the two girls make there way into the school, anyone could tell Alison ruled the school already. Emily and Alison made their way down the middle of the hallway and everyone else scrambled to the sides by the lockers.

Emily approached her locker and started putting in her locker combination, and she glanced down at Alison doing the same. Emily threw her books in her locker, not doing anything special to it as Alison started hanging up pictures from summer and a mirror on her locker door.

"Em! Ali!" Familiar faces shouted and Spencer, Aria and Hanna appeared. Alison gave them all hugs, "I have English with Mr. Fitz first period" Aria said while looking at her schedule. "Hey, me too" Alison and Spencer shouted and they linked arms and walked down the hallway.

"Well, I have Chem lab with Mrs. Glass" Hanna said.

"Me too, lets walk and talk. How's Caleb?" Emily asked. Caleb and Hanna have been dating since sophomore year and honestly Emily was really jealous of that relationship. She was happy for both of them, but she wanted that with Alison, and she couldn't have it.

"He's great" Hanna smiled, and almost like he heard his name Caleb appeared behind Hanna hugging her from the back. "There he is" she says and turns to face him, pecking him on the lips.

"Happy last first day of high school" he said to the both of them.

"I'm heading to computer science with Mr. Wilson, I'll walk you both to class" Caleb offered.

"So Em, how are you and Ali doing" Hanna asked

"You know, she doesn't want to be exclusive, and I respect that. It's just hard because I know we both have feelings for each other, but she thinks its a great idea to also see other people. I don't know." Emily sighed.

"Well, that's the way Ali is, alway accepting love from everyone, but rarely giving it" Hanna added and Emily knew she was right, but she didn't want to believe it quite yet.

Emily, Hanna and Caleb passed by Mr. Fitz's English classroom and Emily glanced in, seeing Alison leaned over her desk talking to Noel Kahn and his brother Eric. When Alison realized Emily was looking in, she gave her a small smile, and a little wave. Emily smirked back and then entered the chemistry lab room with Hanna when the bell rang.

...

At lunch all the girls met up at the same table they have sat at since freshman year.

"So Em are you ready to be the lead anchor on the swim team for two years in a row?" Aria asked, taking a bite of her salad.

"Definitely. We are going to have a great season this year" Emily replied after taking a sip of her water.

"When's your first meet Em, I'll be sure to come?" Alison asked while biting her lip softly.

"Oh, um it's this Friday at five"

"Awesome, oh and speaking of this Friday, Noel told me in English today about his back to school party he and Eric are having around ten, we all should go." Alison added.

"Oh, well count me out" Aria said "After his little crush for me last year, I cant even stand to be around that guy for more than ten minutes at a time"

"Oh well with me there he wont be bothering you, and I also think Mr. Fitz was checking you out today Aria." Alison added with a smirk.

Emily's cheeks filled with heat, and glanced up at Hanna, who had already been looking at her for a reaction.

"Oh, I don't think so-" Aria started to say, but Emily interrupted.

"I-I uh I have to go to the bathroom" Emily said and quickly stood up, not looking at her nearby surroundings and ran right into Paige McCullers. Paige's tray of food went all over herself and Emily.

"Hey! Watch it pigskin" Alison shouted.

"I uh I'm sorry" Paige frantically grabbed everything off the floor and put it back on her tray.

"It's okay, Paige it wasn't your fault, lets go to the bathroom to clean up" Emily offered and took Paige's tray and sat it at a nearby table. Emily and Paige were on the swim team together and hung out occasionally, so Emily definitely wasn't mad at her, but Alison never liked Paige.

"Be careful Em, you don't want to catch some disease" Alison shouted as they were exiting the cafeteria.

"The first day of school and Ali is still on my back" Paige says as they enter the girl's bathroom.

"Don't worry, Ali is like that to everyone she's secretly jealous of."

Then something clicked, Alison doesn't want to be exclusive, so even though Emily wasn't on board with that, maybe she could use Paige to make Alison jealous and maybe Alison could finally realize that what she needed in life was standing right in front of her this whole time.