05, CHAOTIC
act two: the end of A
(BLIND DATES)
(season two, episodes four)

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"This place is skeevy" Aria said, looking around the alley as the four liars stand outside the pawn shop Spencer had pawned off her sister's wedding ring in order to buy Toby a truck so he doesn't work at Jason's anymore.

"She pawned her sister's wedding ring" Sabrina tells her cousin."You're not gonna go to Tiffany's".

"So, Wren and Melissa?" Emily asked, crossing her arms.

"Weird, right? Hanna asked.

"Could you tell what he gave her?" Emily asked curiously.

"No, she didn't seem happy about it" Aria replied.

"I'm wondering if lan will be" Hanna said.

"I wonder if Ian will be" Hanna says as Sabrina rolls his eyes.

"Honestly she should the dude weed and he would be back to his perverted self" Sabrina snarked.

"How are you holding up?" Aria asks, turning to the Felids girl.

"Great" Emily said, sarcasm evident in her voice, "Ever since I got that fake scholarship letter my mom thinks I can do no wrong, I'm living a lie I didn't even tell"

"Leave it to A to make you feel bad about your mom feeling good" Hanna said

"What's wrong?" Sabrina asked as a furious Spencer stormed out of the pawn shop.

"I can't believe that it's gone". Spencer whispers to her friends as Spencer told them Melissa's ring is gone.

"At least you got your money back" Hanna said, pointing to the money in Spencer's hand.

"Am I supposed to give her this?" Spencer asked, holding the horseshoe.

"Horseshoe are a symbol of good luck and protection but I doubt it will protect you when Melissa gives you a concussion when she throws it at you." Sabrina said ignoring Spencer's death glare.

"I stole it, I actually stole my sister's wedding ring". Spencer says, sadly before all five girls phone started beeping at the same time

"You have got to be kidding me" Sabrina groans as they take their phones out.

"Just my luck diamonds are a girl's best friend - A". Aria reads out loud.

"Thank you Marilyn Monroe" Sabrina sarcastically replied as the girls started looking around, all feeling extremely paranoid about A currently watching them, their eyes then landed on a billboard sign that said, Someone's Watching You So Look Your Best, and had two massive eyes painted on it.

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Sabrina groans as she runs around her bedroom packing her bag for school when her aunt entered her room.

"Coffee is made, newspaper is in and your uncle is putting breakfast on the table" Ella informed, "Double-berry pancakes"

"Double-berry pancakes? Those haven't been made in the house since Mom died". Sabrina tells her aunt.

"I know," Ella said sadly to her niece at the memory of Ella and Mia creating the recipe "It sort of feels like everything's finally getting back to normal around here"

"Maybe's for you" Sabrina says, putting her books in her bag.

"What does that mean?" Ella asked, having heard her niece.

"It means that it may be normal for you but Alison is still dead and Spencer is still a suspect for her death, Jason moving back, Ian and it doesn't help that mom's birthday is tomorrow"Sabrina explained grabbing her daughter's car seat.

"You know maybe it's a good thing that you have a session with Dr. Sullivan" Ella reminded her niece as she was grabbing her school bag and baby bag.

"Let's hope so I've got to go Everly starts daycare today" Sabrina said, walking past the woman as Mike came out of his room.

"Mike, breakfast" Ella called out.

"I'm going with Sabrina we'll grab something" Mike said, running down the stairs.

"Oh, good luck today on first day of teaching" Sabrina says kissing her aunt cheek, following her cousin down the stairs.

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"I'm going this afternoon, right after school" Spencer informed her friends about going to the hospital to meet Wren, as they walked out their class.

"Are you sure that's safe?" Emily asked

"No" Spencer replied.

"Sabrina" Ella called out, coming out of the classroom.

"Yes" Sabrina says, as she turns to her aunt.

"Uh, can I talk to you for a second?" Ella asked her niece as she glanced between the girls.

"We were just saying goodbye" Sabrina quickly defended.

"Yeah, that's not what I want to talk to you two about" Ella assured and Sabrina turned to her friends sending them a look to leave.

Spencer, Emily and Hanna, who nodded and walked away in separate directions.

"Oh, okay, um, well, I would say you had really good mastery of the material, excellent eye contact with the students but your handwriting could use some improvement, though" Sabrina blurts at as Ella stares at the girl.

"Yeah, that's not it either, but thanks" Ella said sarcastically tells the girl who smiles sheepishly "Um, Mike left his keys at home today and l've got a faculty meeting after school  Can one of you please take these by his pickup game at the park after school? I can ask Aria if I need to"

"I'm can do it, I'm dropping Eve off with Jason at the courts before my therapy session". Sabrina said, taking Mike's keys from Ella.

"Oh, is that a good idea?, I mean it's public place" Ella says shocked by her niece.

"Yeah if anyone asks he offered to babysit for his sister's best friend plus last week me and Jason workout a schedule for Everly" Sabrina responds shrugging.

"Okay, if you're sure, oh and now that you mention it, uh, the whole not seeing your friends thing should probably extend to the school hallways as well" Ella told her niece.

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After the dropping Everly's off with Jason who agreed to lie and say he was just babysitting for the girl as the drop off was in public since Jason was playing basketball. Sabrina now sat in Dr. Sullivans office for her one on one session.

"So, Tell me about yourself" Anne voiced out, sitting in front of the teen.

"What do you wanna know?" Sabrina asks, leaning back in the couch.

"Well let's start with family" Anne's suggested, shrugging.

"Uhh my birth father in prison for murder, my mom and dad are dead, car crash. I have a step brother who I haven't seen in two years"

"Okay let's start with your father" Anne suggested to the Diaz girl who sighed.

"What about him?" Sabrina asks, glaring at the woman.

"What do you remember about him?" Anne asks, crossing her legs.

"Nothing much, I know his name but can't remember what he looks like he was arrested when I was two" Sabrina recalled. "I haven't seen the man since before the arrest"

"When did your mom meet your stepdad?" Anne asks, writing on her pad of paper.

"When I was nine, my mom was a nurse at the hospital my dad worked at and from there they fell in love" Sabrina smiled at the story.

"And you mentioned your step brother" Anne recalled, looking at the girl who smile dropped.

"Yeah, Derek he uhh left town after our parents died" Sabrina says, playing with your hands.

"How did they make you feel?" Anne smiles but her eyes say a different story.

"Mad?" Sabrina tells her.

"Are you asking or telling" Anne raises an eyebrow.

"Telling" Sabrina responds, confused.

"And why did it make you mad?" Anne asks and Sabrina looks up as tears fill the girls eyes.

"Because he left me when I needed him but he chosen drugs more" Sabrina shrugged.

"When was the last time you heard from him?" Dr.Sullivan asks, handing the girl a tissue.

"Almost a year" Sabrina responded, wiping her eyes.

"Okay, our times almost over so do you have any hobbies?" The woman asks the black haired teen.

"I write music" Sabrina responds as Anne stands walks to a closet grabbing a book before walking over to the girl handing her the empty book.

"Your homework from me is I want you to write me a song about everything you've felt from your parent's death to now" Anne tells the girl who nods.

"Thank Dr. Sullivan" the teen tells her standing to leave.

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Later that night Sabrina sits at her desk before she moves to the piano and plays the instrumental music she mad.

"I have this paralyzing fear that I'll maybe go nowhere but god forbid me ever admitting I could be scared" Sabrina sings, pressing the key board as she remembers finding out she was pregnant as was scared.

"And I can't stand my friends right now, we got nothing in common but being lonely's worse than just having friends that don't care" Sabrina sing the rest of the first verse as she remembers her friends from Europe.

"You said it looks like I've been going through hell how did you know? How could you tell? ask me to explain myself, well" She sings the pre chorus not noticing Ella walk into the girls room.

"I'm trying my best here to be brutally honest nobody said changing would be this exhausting a foot on the brake 'cause it's been making me carsick how could you blame me? Growing up is chaotic" Sabrina sings as Aria stops in front of her cousins room.

"Don't wanna say it but I really think that I miss him It might seem stupid but I still look through all of our texts sho knew that wanting someonе could ever make mе this desperate don't think I'll do that again, no" Sabrina sings, remembering every time she thought about Jason.

"You said it looks like I've been going through hell How did you know? How could you tell? You ask me to explain myself, well" Sabrina sings the pre chorus again as Ella wipes the tears that fell down her face.

"I'm trying my best here to be brutally honest nobody said changing would be this exhausting a foot on the brake 'cause it's been making me carsick how could you blame me? Growing up is chaotic" Sabrina sings the chorus as Aria joins her mom on the bed.

"And maybe I'm just blowing all this shit up in my head but I can't help it, no, I can't help it fooling myself thinking that I'll never love again Goddamn, I felt it, I really felt it" Sabrina sings the bridge.

"Maybe I'm just blowing all this shit up in my head but I can't help it, no, I can't help it spending too much time on things I know that I'll forget but damn, I felt it" She finished the bridge as she plays.

"I'm trying my best here to be brutally honest nobody said changing could be this exhausting a foot on the brake cause it's making me carsick how could you blame me?" Sabrina finished the song before she started to cry.

In frustration Sabrina grabs the notebook and tossed it across who as a son leaves the girl's mouth as she slides to the floor, jumping when she feels two pairs of arms wrapping around the girl.

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"Do we have a plan?" Hanna asked as they all sat in Spencer's car.

After Sabrina's breakdown, Spencer after speaking with Wren they had found out that Melissa was going to meet up with lan. Which was why they were currently following her.

"Working on it" Spencer said.

"Should we call Garrett?" Emily asked them "Tell him about lan?"

"No! The last thing we should do is get more people involved in another mystery we can't explain." Sabrina denies, she might have been friends with the dude before Alison disappeared but she doesn't trust him anymore.

"Well, that's what happens with the girls who cried wolf" Hanna said "Don't you get it? We're screwed."

"They are stopping." Aria said, quickly changing the subject as Spencer stopped behind some bushes and they stepped out of the car.

Melissa and Wren had done the same while walking towards some kind of barn.

"There is no turning back now, right?" Spencer asked them as they walk their way over to the fence, hiding behind bushes and trees

"I've got 911 on speed dial" Aria announced.

"I've only got one bar Crap! No bars"
Hanna told them while looking at her phone.

"We should take a photo of lan" Emily said "To prove we haven't been making this all up."

"Well, you go ahead and do that while I try not to get killed" Hanna said sarcastically which earned her glares from her friends "Sorry."

"I'm just worried about Melissa" Spencer admitted "No one knows what lan's thinking."

"What if he has a gun?" Aria asked making them all stop "He's the bad guy, right?"

No one said anything, they just walked the last yards until they reached the fence. Melissa and Wren stood talking outside the barn and then Melissa walked in.

The five climbed through the fence carefully but stopped as a gut wrenching scream cut through the air.

"MELISSA!"

The girls ran inside the barn, following the sound of loud sobs to find Wren, who had ran in before them hugging a crying Melissa but they gasped at the sight of lan's dead body.