EMILY FIELDS

Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) is a competitive swimmer. She befriends Maya St. Germain, the new resident of Alison's former home. Maya introduces Emily to marijuana, and the girls grow closer. A message from "A" reveals Emily to be curious about her sexuality, and hints that she had kissed Alison in the past or had been in a relationship with Alison. Emily's mother invites Maya to stay for a while, and she and Emily share a room and a bed. Emily's boyfriend becomes possessive and almost forces her to have sex with him, but she is saved by Toby. Emily breaks up with her boyfriend and kisses Maya in a photo booth at a party; someone steals the photograph and makes copies. Emily goes with Toby to Homecoming, much to the shock of her friends, who believe Toby is dangerous. Emily begins to feel the same way, but Toby brings her to the hospital after she is knocked out trying to flee from him. Emily eventually pursues a relationship with Maya after Toby runs away. During the mid-season 1 premiere, she reveals to her father that she is gay. When the season started again, it is revealed that someone has sent those photos to her mother, presumably the infamous "A" making things "Sub-zero' between the two. Recently, after Maya was sent away by her parents, Emily has returned to the swim team but makes an enemy with competitive swimmer Paige who sees Emily as a threat. But one night Paige shows up in the pouring rain at Emily's front door and gives a tearful apology to Emily before taking off. From there on out things are more cooled between the two. In the episode "The New Normal", Emily is getting into her car and Paige abruptly appears, kisses her, and says "Don't tell", before running back to wherever she came from. They secretly start going out but once Emily realizes that Paige is not willing to come out, she says to stay friends. Then Paige decides to be more open about her sexuality and agrees to meet a girl from some sort of faith group called Samara. She asks Emily to come along for support but Paige does not show up at the meeting. In the end Samara and Emily become friends and Paige is jealous of this. Samara and Emily eventually end up going out. Besides Aria, Spencer, and Hanna, Emily has told Samara about the fake Danby scholarship letter. Emily's mother Pam is thrilled about her daughter's "acceptance." However, due to stressing herself out with swimming, she collapses in school. Later, in the hospital, she finds out that "A" has been spiking her cream with human growth hormone, which has contributed to the ulcer that made her collapse. She begs Wren, who now works at the hospital to conceal this from her parents. Emily found out that "A" wrote Ian's suicide note, which is composed of all A's messages he/she sent to the Pretty Little Liars, now "A" is blackmailing Emily with her lab results. So if she doesn't cooperate her lab results go viral.