Why didn’t Emily console Paige after the shooting?
Marlene King: Paige knows these girls are four best friends and the show is really about the friendship and their unconditional bond. So, Paige made the sacrifice in that moment. She saw that Emily and Hanna really needed each other, so her doing the body block and getting the police’s attention was her way of saying, “I get it, I understand,” And Spencer’s look in subtext was, “We’re so sorry.”

i’m gonna raise the stakes, i’m gonna smoke you out // dark!spencer
seven devils, florence and the machine; see i was dead when i woke up this morning, i’ll be dead before the day is done. // lounge, regina spektor; you think you are alive, but you are dead, you keep, on driving in your car asleep. // bones, ms mr; boy with a broken soul, heart with a gaping hole. // the end, my chemical romance; you might wake up and notice, you’re someone you’re not. // numb, linkin park; i’ve become so numb, can’t feel you there. // lana del ray, video games; it’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you.