This is my first story so I hope at least someone likes it. I don't exactly know how long it will be as of right now but I'm guessing at least 10 chapters, probably more. I love Spemily and think they would be perfect together but don't worry there will be no Toby or Paige bashing because I like them too. I just think Spencer and Emily would be perfect together. Sorry if people find this a little long winded, if they are I'll try and fix it.

I do not own Pretty Little Liars or any of the characters, I am simply borrowing them for my own selfish, sordid gains.

Soooooo…I hope you enjoy.

Prologue:

The liars are half way through their first semester at college. The -A team had disbanded as the mystery of Red Coat was finally solved, there had been no more texts or emails or creepy messages of any kind since then. But that didn't mean it was completely over, it never could be. Everyone who had been involved had to live everyday with the ramifications of all the things that had happened to them over the past few years, it felt like they were all waiting for the other shoe to drop and to find themselves back in that nightmare. An experience like they had lived through was bound to leave scars. But finally, with time, they had all stopped flinching whenever their phones went off and jumping every time there was a loud bang although none of them could forget the horrors the world was capable of throwing at them.

The demise of the- A team saw some relationships, that had been forged and strengthened by the drama, fall apart. The most surprising was Spencer and Toby's; everyone thought they would stand the test of time, how could they not when they had survived so much together? But after they had spent so much time protecting and looking out for one another, at 18 it became too much. When they looked at each other they couldn't help but be reminded of all of the times they had put themselves in danger and all of the times they pulled each other back from the brink. They needed a clean break and to put this part of their life behind them and unfortunately that meant leaving the other behind too. Both of them knew there would be a part of their hearts that would always belong to the other, you couldn't fight for each other the way that they had and lose that love entirely. Toby had taken himself off traveling, paying his way around the world doing odd jobs and Spencer ended up at an Ivy League school like everyone had always predicted she would. She was studying Law at UPenn and although she understood the prestige of this it didn't quite have the shine for her that she had expected it would. Spencer didn't believe she was studying law for the same reasons as the people surrounding her; not like her parents who craved success or her sister who wanted recognition or the idealised freshmen that thought they could change the world. She studied law because she had been caught on the wrong side of it too many times. In true Hasting's fashion she had to understand everything, she had to have all of the knowledge; she needed to understand her foe from the inside out. Beyond passing her degree she had no plan and that terrified her beyond all recognition.

Caleb and Hannah, who were still going strong, had both moved to New York. Hannah was studying Fashion Marketing at Parsons and Caleb was studying Computer Science at NYU. They had decided to live separately for the first year so that they could both forge lives for themselves in a new place, they wanted to makes sure that they didn't make their worlds too small. Despite this they didn't ever spend a night apart and seemed to be as in love as they always were, but how could they not be when no two people seemed to get each other quite as much as they did.

Aria and Ezra had broken up during senior year, the list of reasons had got pretty long. He had been suspected of being -A for a while, it had come to light that he had been in a relationship with Ali when he was younger, she had discovered that he was writing a book about her the whole time they were dating and not to mention the small detail of the child he had hidden from her. It was safe to say the trust was entirely gone, they had flitted back to each other now and then but both knew that it would never work in the long run. Everyone expected Aria to follow the other liars as far away from Rosewood as possible but she had shocked everyone by deciding to stay and study Art and English at Hollis, she felt as though there was still unfinished business for her there.

Emily had dealt the biggest shock, although she had made big plans to go to California with Paige, she had ended up staying a little bit closer to home. As it had crept nearer to the time for Emily to apply for college she had begun to question who she was making her decisions for, was she really living for her? Was she trying to desperately keep hold of Paige? Or was she simply running away? She was tired of running, she had done enough running to last her a lifetime. She had to start to live for her, she had to push herself out of her comfort zone. That meant no more relying on Paige to hold her together if she started to fall apart and no more relying on swimming to define her. So she hadn't gone to California on a swimming scholarship. Instead she had stayed in Pennsylvania to study Criminology at UPenn, she continued to swim but now she got to do it for herself. No one expected it from her, but it felt right, it was the first thing that had in a long time. Criminology allowed Emily the opportunity to get inside the head of the kind of people that had terrorised her for so long. She hoped it would help get one step or even half a step closer the answering the question that plagued her…. why? Just why? People had questioned her and tried to talk her out of it but this was the closest she would ever come to knowing why all of the -A drama had happened to her and that was all the motivation she needed. Paige had been hurt by Emily's decision not to head East with her but ultimately, after a lot of tears and all night conversations, she had understood. This was Paige after all, she always understood. They had promised to try to make things work, they had something too special to throw away. But both of them were struggling at the moment with a distance that begun to feel both physical and emotional now.

I know it wasn't very long but I wanted to set the scene. So here is the first real chapter too :)