After the end of the game Lindsey and Emily were both still sitting in the locker room, hand in hand. Lindsey was in so much pain that the heartbreak, from earlier that week, doesn't compare. Or maybe it did. Her head hurts too much she can't think of which hurt more. It was confusing.

"Lindsey any nausea?" The trainer asked once again

Lindsey shook her head no, not wanting to talk.

"Okay, you can go. Just monitor her symptoms closely. Come back tomorrow and we'll check you out again. Also try to keep her up for a little bit, to make sure she's really good. If any symptoms pop up, you should think about going to the hospital. "

She sat up slowly, grasping onto Emily's arm for support. Her first step made her dizzy causing her to step back and sit back on the table. The other girls made their way into the room just as the two blondes were about to leave.

"Lindsey, you good?" Mal asked

She nodded her head, which made Emily speak up to settle the worried faces of the other girls.

"She okay. No vomiting or nausea just some pain in her noggin" she tapped Lindsey's head lightly

"Linds, I'll walk you back" Sam spoke up

Emily touched Lindsey's arm, "No, it's cool Sammy I got her"

"You sure you won't try to take advantage of her. You and I both know she can't think straight" she raised her eyebrows

"Sam" Rose said the same time Mal joked, "she never did"

"Why would I do that?...it's just that she's in pain and I'm ready to go-" Emily removed her hand

"I want her to" Lindsey mumble out

"Linds you don't-"

"Sam" Rose pulled her away, "they're fine. I promise"

Over the few days that Rose and Emily were MIA from the rest of the group, Emily admitted that she still deeply cares and loves Lindsey and doesn't want her to leave. Ever. She made a commitment to do anything, just to get Lindsey back, even if it was as a friend.

"Come on Linds" Lindsey grabbed her hands and was being helped up.

Emily had a tight grip on her side to make sure that she wouldn't fall on the way back to her room. They made it to the door of the dorm, sitting down at the bench they first connected at. Lindsey rested her head again Emily's shoulder.

"I'm sorry" Emily whispered into the darkness

"Not now, please"

"I know I just need you to know how sorry I am. Seriously Linds, I'm the worse person ever. I don't know what to say because I can't imagine what I did to you-"

"Shh" Lindsey grabbed her hand intertwining their fingers

The two girls sat on the bench and waited in the dark until Lindsey was ready to walk upstairs. She made it up with no trouble and as they walked through the door Sarah popped up out of bed. Emily led Lindsey to her own bed helping her get under the covers.

"What happened?" Sarah asked

Emily took lead, "Lindsey got a concussion durning the game, she hit her head against another girls while going up for a header"

"Oh no, Linds you okay?" She asked her friend

"People really need to stop with that question" Lindsey said now facing the wall

"Her head hurts and she's dizzy...so no not really, but she could be worse" Emily pointed out

"Do you need anything?"

She shook her head and was about to close her eyes when Emily spoke up again.

"Linds, you should go take a shower. Remember the trainer said to not sleep for at least 3 hours it hasn't even been one" Lindsey groaned and rolled over now facing the smaller blonde

"I don't like that"

"You can get your shower done with and then after I'll sit next to you while you watch Netflix to make sure you don't fall asleep. It sounds like fun" Emily smile grew on her face hearing the sarcasm fall from her mouth.

"What if I fall?" She asked closing her eyes

"In the shower..?" Lindsey hummed back a response, "then I'll wait outside the door just incase"

"We're not...you know"

"I know, so you better not fall Ms. Horan" Lindsey smiled and got up again

They gathered her things for the shower and walked into the bathroom. Lindsey got into it completely fine, and just stood there and thought about this whole situation.

Did she make a mistake letting Emily back this fast and easily? She was pretty vulnerable, just wanting someone, anyone, there with her. Does she still love her, did the incident damage her emotions too much? She keep that one in mind all week. She now knows that she still loves Emily and always will, but what she did hurt bad. Did it hurt so bad that they are over? No, she knows they'll be okay. Or maybe she just hopes.

Emily said she still loves her and wants her. Lindsey wants the same, but she can't let her back in so easily. She can't let her in to do it again, to then destroy what they have.

"Linds you good in there?" She heard from the other side of the glass causing her to jump out of her head

"Yea" she weakly responded

"You take forever to shower..I forgot. Should have had Sarah come with you" Lindsey smiled at the joke

She finished the shower and walked out to her...girlfriend? Lindsey had no idea what she was at this point. Emily did mention friends, but they never broke up they just weren't talking.

"Em..."

"Yeah?"

"What are we?" She asked in a soft voice

Emily looked at her confused, "What do you mean?"

"Are we still girlfriends? Or not..you said something about being friends....are we done?" She asked again with a saddened tone

"No, Linds we aren't done. I hope we aren't done. I said that because you weren't talking to me and I just wanted to be here for you. I'm willing though to be your friend until we're able to talk about it all."

Lindsey thought about what she said, "I want to talk"

"Let's wait till you're in less pain..yeah?" Lindsey nodded her head and the two of them made their way back to the room

When they got inside Lindsey walked over to her bed and laid down. Her wet hair hit the pillow, which would normally bother her but she was in so much pain, she just needed to lay down. Emily brought over some pain medication which Lindsey quickly swallowed. She pulled a chair up next to her bed, pulling up Netflix and turning on The Office.

The brightness of the screen hurt her sys they ended up turning it off and talked for a bit until the three hours were up. They talked about a ton of different things, but no mention about the relationship, until the end of the hours.

"Need a kiss, it always makes me feel good, but if you're my friend I can't do that. I want to talk now" Lindsey mumbled out

Emily didn't necessarily want to talk incase this conversation could somehow turn directions and become something bad. She knows now that Lindsey wants to be okay and not give up, that boosted her confidence but that feeling that it would all go bad wouldn't leave. She could also tell how tired the younger girl was and just wanted her to get rest,

She brushed a piece of Lindsey's hair back, "Let's save it for the morning yeah?"

"Will you still be here?" her eyes started becoming heavier with sleep approaching

"I have to go back to my room, but I'll come early tomorrow and we can talk"

"Okay" she whispered starting to doze off

~~

The next day Emily arrived at her dorm around 10:30. She knocked on the door, which was answered shortly after by Sarah.

"She's still asleep" she opened the door wider letting Emily in

She walked over to her and shook Lindsey's arm trying to wake her up. She moved a bit while making a noise,

"Linds?" She grumbled and rolled over now facing the wall, "hey, why don't you get up. We can get breakfast then go see the trainer"

It took some more convincing to get the girl up. She sat up immediately asking for the windows to be closed due to the brightness. Emily told her that maybe it was a better idea to not go anywhere and just at the dorm, in the dark. Emily left to go get breakfast from downstairs and bring it back up.

When she returned the younger girl was on her phone,

"hey what are doing" she walked over and took the phone closing it, "that's going to give you a bigger headache, doofus" she teased

"My parents called me I was going to respond" she said, taking the muffin out of Emily's hand

"I call them now, you don't have to talk" Emily called her parents, they accepted in minutes

"Lindsey?" her mom asked

"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Horan, it's Emily"

Her father chimed in, "Oh hello dear! Is Lindsey okay, we saw what happened and she wasn't answering our calls last night"

"Yeah, it was rough but she's tough" she smiled at Lindsey, with her returning it. "It is a concussion, but she's doing good now back in her dorm."

"Oh that's good. Will you or one of the girls be there?"

"Yes, I'll be by her side the whole week and keep you guys updated" she confirmed

"Sounds good sweetie, thank you for being such a good girlfriend to our daughter. It's good to know she's with someone who cares this much about her"

"I will always care about her, she means the world to me" Lindsey's smile grew wider

She hung up and put the phone down, taking a seat on the same chair she pulled over the night before.

"You should stop smiling it will make your head hurt more" she said with a little laugh

"Stop Sonny, that was sweet" she turned her attention to the muffin in front of her

"It's true Linds" she reached over to the muffing brushing her hand against Lindsey's

"I know" she looked at the older girl, "I still love you" she whispered

She looked up, "I love you too"

"But what you did..hurt" her voice cracked at the end, "and the fact that you put Sam in that situation, made it worse"

"I know" her voice lowered

"I tired so hard to hate you. I wanted to hate you so much, but it was impossible"

**

Lindsey walked down the hall as fast as she could. Needing to get out of that room. When she reached her door it was locked. She fidgeted with the handle until Sarah opened it

"Lindsey? What wrong?" She asked

The blonde walked into the room. Her chest started becoming tighter, it was becoming harder to breath. Her vision was becoming darker and she was struggling to gather herself. Sarah walked over and placed her hand on the girls repeating, "you'll be okay, just breath"

Soon the young blonde was able to gather her breath and calm down. Sarah sat her on the bed and asked for the whole back story

"..and then I ran out" she finished, "I should have listened to you"

Sarah was confused, "What do you mean?"

"When you said she uses people. She got sex and then moved on" she started crying

Sarah sighed, "She does do that, but Linds you guys had something special. Something different. She cares about you, an emotion I've never seen out of her with any other girl"

"So she doesn't care about the people she uses?"

"Well no, that came out wrong. She's the sweetest most caring person, it just there is a big difference when it's just sex and when it's an actual relationship"

"You're making it hard for me to hate her" she rested her head against the brunettes shoulder

"You shouldn't, but I'm also not telling you to take her back. She really hurt you Linds, she needs to know that. She needs to know that this can't happen again, she can't do that to you"

"I know" she said weakly

**

"Fuck" she said under her breath, "Linds, I need you to forgive me. Even if it's to the point where we can't be together anymore than fine, I just need you as someone in my life. Preferable a girlfriend but if it's as a friend that would work too. I just need you Linds, please."

"Em stop. I told you I love you. I will always love you. I need you to know what you did was wrong, it hurt bad. You can't do that because I will leave then and I don't want to" she grabbed the girls hand

"So.."

"Come kiss me and cuddle with me already. I need to make this head ache go away" she pulled the older girl up, smashing their lips together in a kiss

"I'm sorry"

"You better stop saying that sometime soon" she pushed her back into the chair

Emily laughed and moved the half eaten muffin off of the bed. She crawled into it and laid beside her girlfriend, spooning her from behind. She brushed her fingers in between her hair causing her to wince at some point due to the pull on her head. Emily would stop until Lindsey forced her to continue.

Lindsey started to fall asleep until Emily whispered into her ear that they should go to the trainers room.

"Just to get a check out. It's the weekend so it won't be as busy" Lindsey hummed in confirmation and rolled out of bed

On the way down there, the taller girl had sun glasses on and a hood making her look like a vampire of some sort. they were holding hands and they walked there.

"You need to apologize to Sam" Lindsey told her

"Yeah, I will"

"Seriously Em, like today"

"I will Linds, I promise" she squeezed her hand

They entered the room and Lindsey made her way to the table siting down. The trainer confirmed it for sure is s concussion, she told them that Lindsey was clear to hang out in her dorm for the week. No reason to go to the hospital.

Emily asked her a few questions and then the two were on their way back to the room.

"What are you going to do?"

"Show up at her door and ask for forgiveness" she laughed

"So the same thing you did to me?" Lindsey raised her eyebrows

"Eh something like that"

That night she did just that, knocking at Sam and Mal's door. Sam opened it, not impressed to see the short blonde.

"Sam, listen I know you hate me. I'd hate myself too. I put you in a terrible situation, and the fact that I was going to lie to Lindsey was fucked up. I'm glad you told her, I'm thankful you told her. I want you to know we figured out her problem and that I didn't go and help her so that I could do that. She wanted to. Anyways, I hope you could maybe forgive me?" Emily finished

"I understand, but I'm not as easy as Lindsey to win me back over. You're going to have to work for it. I specifically told you I didn't want that to happen and it did and then I had to clean up after you" Sam explained

"I know. I know" she looked at the ground

Sam said in a sincere voice "I'm glad you were able to work things out, Son. I didn't want it to go south, I just couldn't lie"

"Totally understandable" she agreed

"Have a good night Sonny. See you tomorrow"

"See you Sammy" she turned around and walked down the hallway with a smile.

Now that she had all her friends back, she knew she couldn't fuck up again. Never.

"Hello Rosie!" She said in an excited voice

Rose closed her computer, "Hi Em, what's up?"

"Well me and Linds are good now, while Sam and I are able to have a conversation with out me getting the death stare" she jumped on her bed

"Progress" she pointed out

"A lot"

"I'm happy for you Sonny. I knew you would be able to do it" she threw a pillow at her

"Thanks Rose" she smiled

Finally it was all back to normal. She had her friends, but most importantly her girl.