𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘯𝘦, 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘰
'𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨'

The five girls were all sat down at the applerose grill for dinner to discuss the eventful day of having someone going by A on their backs plus the Rosewood P.D.

"Why the fuck was Jenna there?" Aurora asked as Spencer frowned "Language!"

"I guess she's back" Hanna whispered.

"That cop acted like we were some kind of suspects" Aurora spoke again.

"Do you think we look guilty?" Emily asked, nervously.

"Why would we be? We haven't done anything wrong" Aria said like she was almost trying to convince herself.

"Except lie about the Jenna thing" Hanna added as Aurora nodded "Except that"

"Hey, we promised we'd never bring up the Jenna thing again, remember? It never happened" Spencer told them while Aurora rolled her eyes.

"Easier said than done, Spencer" She retorted.

"I still wake up in the middle of the night" Aria let out.

"Aria, it was an accident" Spencer tried to reassure her.

"I don't get it. How does A know something about me that only Alison knew?" Emily asked.

"Ali" Aurora muttered under her breath "It's Ali" She then looked up at the girls "Ali didn't even know half of mine yet A does" She said.

"Alison knew all of our secrets but we never knew any of hers" Aria pointed out as everyone nodded in agreement apart from Spencer.

"I knew some" Spencer admitted.

"Well go on" Aria ushered her to continue "Talk" Hanna added.

"I can't" Aria sighed "No, you can't just drop a bomb like that and then just clam up"

"She'd so kill me if I told you" Spencer replied.

"Are you forgetting she's dead?" Hanna said it like it was normal.

"Alison was seeing someone that summer" Spencer said but she didn't know who.

"I knew she was keeping something from me. .from us" Emily quickly corrected herself.

"Well, why didn't she want us to know?" Aria asked, now a-bit intrigued.

"He was an older boy and he had a girlfriend" Spencer stated when she noticed that her sister had totally shut down.

"You okay?" She mouthed to her and got a little nod in reply. Secret is that Aurora did know a few of Ali's secrets but she wasn't willingly to share just yet.

"Who was it?" Emily asked but Spencer shrugged "She never said his name"

"Okay, that's only half a secret" Hanna sighed, expecting more.

"It's more than you ever got from her" Spencer quickly defended herself.

Hanna shrugged, guess she did have a point.

"How was it that Ali told us nothing and we told her everything?" Aria asked with a little anger laced in her voice.

"Because she made us feel like we were part of something special" Emily replied.

"We were" This was the first time Aurora had spoken up since like 10 minutes ago.

"I miss that" Hanna added, honestly.

"Me too" Spencer said.

"I miss Ali" Emily said while playing with the bracelet that Alison had got all the girls matching ones with their names on it.

"Can't believe you still wear that" Hanna said as she caught eye of Emily's bracelet.

"Ali still wears hers. . .wore" Emily responded, sadly. 

Rory sighed "When Ali didn't come home that night, I knew something terrible must've happened but there was always a part of me that thought she'd just show up one day, ya know?" Aurora went on. Aria nodded.

"Yeah, I used to think that maybe she'd just run off with some guy" Aria said.

"She was laying on a beach somewhere" Emily said with a small smile on her face.

"Or getting a tan by the pool with that hot lifeguard" Hanna smiled.

"Oh yeah. What was his name?" Emily asked.

"Who care. Save me!" Hanna said dramatically with her hand on her forehead as the girls all laughed. Like old times.

When the door to the grill opened and something on the tile clicked.

Aurora knew that noise from anywhere, they all did. Jenna fucking Marshall.

Watching as she walked past with her cane, the girls quickly but quietly stood up as they gathered their things before leaving the grill and heading home.

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The next day, Spencer was playing field hockey before school when Emily and Maya made their way over "Nice" Emily shouted as she watched Spencer take a perfect shot.

"So I hear your gunning for varsity captain"

Spencer smiled "Well I have a shot, so. . ."

"If a Hastings has a shot, she takes the shot" Emily was also expecting the other Hasting sibling to be here "Where's Rory?" She asked.

"She's already at school, learning a new cheer routine" Emily nodded, course she was.

"So is that like a drinking game?" Maya referred to Emily's sentence before she asked about Aurora as Spencer laughed slightly.

"It should be"

Emily then decided to make the introductions "Spencer, this is Maya" Spencer nodded immediately realising who the girl was "Oh-"

"Yeah, new girl who moved into dead girl's house" That's when everything went silent, awkward almost.

"I can't believe I just said that" Maya cringed "I can't believe you did either"

"I think Brad Pitt and I are missing the same sensitivity chip" But Spencer just cracked a warm smile.

"It's fine. We're all trying to find a way to deal with it" She continued before Emily stepped in, changing the subject which Spencer was grateful for.

"Maya and I are going for caffeine. Wanna join?" She asked.

"I'd kill for a latte but this is my only time to practice and if I don't meet Rory after this, she'll kill me"

Emily smiled as she nodded "We'll catch you later" Sending the girls a smile back she then focused back to her practice shots.

"She's intense" Maya said, the girls making their way to school.

"You haven't even met the other sibling yet but if you knew their parents, you'd understand"

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Spencer and Aurora were both at their lockers after coming from the gym when the man over the tannoy spoke.

"Will the following students please come to the office? Emily Fields, Aria Montgomery, Aurora Hastings, Spencer Hastings, and Hanna Marin" The halls cleared, leaving the five girls in the hallway.

They started to walk towards the office when Rory's phone beeped. She sighed knowing exactly who it was from.

"Dead girls walking"

--A

She read it aloud as they all just stared at each-other. This was bad like real bad.

They kept walking until arriving at the office where they were greeted with Wilden and another officer from the Rosewood Police.

Sitting down on the couch while waiting for whatever crap was about to come of Wildens mouth.

"So let's see. You thought you heard her scream" He said, pointing at Aurora.

"Yeah I said that" Aurora was always really calm in any situation so of course she did most of the talking.

"And when you four woke up in the barn, Alison was gone, and so was Aurora?"

Aria nodded "Yes. I woke up before them and I realised that Ali was missing so I went to-" But Aurora was cut off by Wilden.

"So you went looking for her" He finished the sentence off for her.

"That's what happened, officer" She replied, the last part sarcastically.

"I got that. So, what's up? Was this a slumber party or-"

But this time it was Aurora who cut him off "Hold on is this an interrogation because I don't see no parent or guardian in the room"

"No, just a routine follow up" Trying to keep his anger in as Aurora smiled knowing she was getting him riled up "Why did you guys fall asleep?" He asked.

"Well that's what happens when your tired, you sleep" She retorted.

"Tired? Really? Is that how you remember it, Hanna?" She just nodded "Yeah, you guys were tired" He asked again and looked down at his papers that were in his hand.

Just as Aurora was about to say something, Spencer quickly cut in "Look, we've told you everything that we know just like we did the night she went missing" Spencer said.

"I know, I know. You see the thing is, it's almost exactly what you said last year. Almost like it was rehearsed"

Aurora was really getting ready to yell at him but when she felt Spencer's hand grab hers, she calmed down immediately.

"Like Spencer said, we've told you everything we know" Aria said and he just smiled.

Soon as they were free it was lunch and they all met up again.

"He knows we're lying" Aria sighed.

"Lying isn't a crime" Hanna replied.

"It is when your giving false statements to the police. It's called obstruction of justice" Aurora smirked while Hanna just rolled her eyes playfully.

"Oh please. We lied about underage drinking. But the truth that matters is that we don't know anything about what happened to Ali that night" She replied back to Rory.

"We also know about someone who might have wanted to hurt her" Spencer added.

"We should've told the police the truth about Jenna's accident the night it happened" Emily said. 

"I wanted to, remember?" Emily spoke again.

"We had a chance to do more than just tell the truth. We had a chance to stop Ali" Aria said.

"But we didn't and telling the police now about what happened to Jenna isn't going to make her see again. It'll just ruin our lives" Spencer told us and Aurora had to admit she was right.

Not even a minute later, the girls heard the same cane tapping from last night.

"Speak of the devil" Aurora muttered while Hanna quietly yelled at her to shut up.

"So what she's back in school now too?" Emily asked, clearly annoyed.

Then all of sudden Aria just got up from the table and walked over to Jenna "Jenna? Hey, it's Aria. Do you. .wanna come sit with us?" She asked while Rory was ready to kill her.

"Sure" Jenna replied "Okay" Aria said before grabbing her arm to lead her to the rest of the girls.

"So you're going to be between Hanna and Emily and you'll be across from Aurora, Spencer, and I"

"So, this would be Alison's chair, right?" She asked which Aurora thought was just odd.

"No. We're not even sat at that table" Emily answered.

"You know she came to visit me at the hospital after the accident" Jenna said, shocking everyone because Ali wasn't one to visit people defiantly her enemies.

"Alison did?" Spencer questioned.

"Yes. You know everyone misunderstood Alison but I knew exactly who she was" Jenna said again.

"So when did you get back, Jenna?" Aurora asked "We heard you were in Philadelphia for the visually impaired"

"You can say blind, Rory. It's okay. It's not a dirty word" She said, taking a sip of her drink while the girls all went silent "Wow, it's so quiet. You guys used to be the fun table. What happened to you girls?" She laughed as Aurora just looked down at the table.

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𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤:

The girls were all at Emily's house trying on clothes and just having fun when all of a sudden Alison charged to the window.

"I can see you! Oh my god, I can't believe it" She yelled.

Aurora was applying mascara in the bathroom mirror when she heard Alison yelling "What's going on?" She asked, walking out the bathroom.

"That perv, Toby Cavanaugh was in that tree spying on us!"

"Are you sure?" Spencer asked.

"Yes I'm sure Spenc. He was right there! I bet he saw us all naked"

Aria then asked "Should we tell someone?"

"I mean we could. . .but I have a better idea" She replied with a smirk as Aurora frowned in confusion.

Walking out of the house they then creeped over to Toby's house. The girls not liking it one bit.

"Are we sure he's not in there?" Aria asked again in worry.

"He's not okay? You've got the lighter right, Spencer?" Alison asked.

"Wait, let's just think a second" Emily said quickly, grabbing Ali's hand.

"What, Emily?"

"I don't want to do this, Ali. None of us do"

"Fine, go back but the rest can speak for themselves. You're on your own"

"Em's right Ali. Let's just call the cops and they can deal with it" Aurora was defiantly not in the mood for this shit.

"Where's the fun in that, girls? Toby Cavanaugh is a freak and we need to teach him a lesson. If he thinks he can come in and spy on us while we're in your bedroom, Emily, then he needs to know that his little domain is no longer a safe little hideout. I mean, who knows what he does in there all day, the little freak" Alison snapped.

"Are you sure it was Toby?" Spencer asked again.

"Yes. And it's a stink bomb for gods sake. We're not nuking the place. Now, let's do it" Alison argued, asking for the lighter as she lit the stink bomb before throwing it into the place.

"Let's get out of here. Run!" Ali shouted, the girls doing as she said before they heard a massive bang with the place going up in flames.

A sting bomb my ass, Aurora thought "Ali. What the fuck did you do?"

"We have to get out of here" Emily ushered them as they all ran.

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𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭:

Suddenly, all the girls phones rang out at the same time, them knowing exactly who it was from.

"Aren't you gonna get that?" Jenna asked, picking up any phone that was in front of her which of course had to be Aurora's.

Taking her phone awkwardly as they all opened the message.

"If only she could see how guilty you look. . ."

--A

That's when Aurora looked around while thinking, were they in the same room as A right now?

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As the Hastings family were ordering drinks at this lovely restaurant with Melissa's fiancé, they were waiting on just one person; Aurora Hastings.

"Sorry I'm late" Aurora walked in with a total different dress she said she was wearing but Spencer loved it on her either way. The dress was black stopping at her thighs with purple straps and the same purple ribbon round her waist. And of course black heels with her hair down and straight{the dress up above}.

Wren couldn't believe his eyes, he'd never met the other Hasting face to face yet but he had to say she was stunning.

"No it's okay, Rory. Sit down" Melissa said, giving her a warm smile as Aurora gave her one back before taking a seat next to Spencer.

This was gonna be one long ass night.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲:

Aurora was exhausted to say the least from last night and maybe a little hungover. When no one was looking Wren would pass her his drink so she could take a few sips and lets just say, she drank more than just a few sips.

So she decided to go on a run, wake her up maybe. Putting her hair up in a messy ponytail she wore a long sleeved black top with blue shorts that had a bit of green and white on the sides. And matching trainers{outfit up above}.

Grabbing her earphones and plugging them into her phone, she grabbed her water bottle off her night stand. She was going to ask Spencer to come with her but when she walked past her room she was still asleep. Typical Spencer.

Turning the corner she slowed to a stop and took out her earphones when she saw Jenna sat on the bench just a bit in front of her.

She watched as Jenna's phone went off and she picked it up, putting the phone to her ear "Send text now"

Aurora couldn't believe it, was Jenna Marshall really A?