𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘯𝘦, 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦
'𝘛𝘰 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘈 𝘔𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥'

"Whose idea was this again?" Hanna asked with slight irritation as the five girls walked through the forest. Aurora was getting very annoyed of hearing Hanna's voice every five seconds.

"Emily's mum" Spencer answered.

"The shed was me. My mum just said we should do something for us" Emily said while leading them through the woods.

"Well couldn't we do something without mosquitos?" Hanna asked, waving hands as she tried to keep the insects away from her.

"They are not mosquitos, they are gnats" Aria corrected the blonde.

"Whatever! They are small and annoying and they are flying up my nose" She complained.

"Maybe you shouldn't have put so much perfume on and that lipgloss you always wear" Aurora spoke, sending a sarcastic smile Hanna's way.

"So what are you saying? That I attract flies?" Hanna asked as Aurora smiled with a nod as she flung her arms Hanna's shoulders from behind.

Hanna smiled as she put her hands on top of Rory's.

"Gnats" Aria corrected her again.

"Why do I feel like this is the wrong way?" Emily asked, stopping to look around.

"No this is it, I remember that tree" Spencer said pointing at a large tree.

"Yeah and that's the halfway point leaving about one hundred and thirty six steps left to the shed" Rory finished, she was still stood next to Hanna.

"Wait, have you guys been here since Alison?" Emily asked, looking between the two siblings.

"Erm, are you forgetting we've been in the Dominican Republic and only got back a few days ago?" Aurora reminded Emily.

"But you remember that tree?" Aria pointed out.

Aurora frowned, what didn't they get about them being in the Dominican Republic "Oh yeah Aria, we just got a quick flight from the Caribbean all the way to Rosewood for a tree" She said sarcastically as Spencer and Hanna had to hold in their laugh.

"Guys, it's not even that weird" Hanna cut in, defending them both "I mean we came out here in eight grade, like every day. Even after"

"I think this is totally the wrong place to do this, whatever you call it, shrine" Spencer explained.

"It's not a shrine. It's just a place to remember Alison" Emily defended as she asked "What's wrong with that?"

"Doing it out here makes it look like we have something to hide" Spencer pointed out and Rory nodded, she did have a point but Emily didn't take it that way.

"You are worried what other people will think?" Emily asked.

"Aren't you?" Aurora retorted "Emily we now have a creepy detective on our back so the last thing we need is him finding us sneaking around in the woods"

Hanna then started to walk away as everyone started following the blonde "Hanna, why are you so quiet?" Emily asked her.

"I'm trying to keep the bugs in my nose and out my mouth" She said with irritation while continuing to walk.

"You are allowed to have an opinion on this, you know" Emily said again.

"Do you want my opinion?" She said, turning around to face the group "I say we hold off and not remember her until we know for sure that she is not still here"

"What?" The three exclaimed while Aurora stayed quiet "You think she's still alive?" Spencer said in disbelief.

"Hanna they found her body-" Spencer spoke again before Aurora cut her off.

"She's got a point" The three girls then looked over at the brunette in disbelief "I'm sorry but Ali was smart, too smart to let someone just kill her like that"

"Stop!" Aria said "I'm officially scared, can we just not-"

"You know what? You asked for my opinion and I don't believe she's really gone" Hanna snapped.

"We went to her funeral" Spencer yelled after Hanna and Aurora to had both turned around to walk away from them.

"Yes, and afterwards we all got a text from her" Hanna said while pushing away branches that got in her way and held them for Aurora.

"It wasn't her" Emily stated "Someone is messing with us"

"How do you know? And what about all those nasty messages? I mean, how does this A person know stuff only Ali knew?"

"Okay, this conversation is giving me hives" Aria said, not liking the fact they were talking about their dead friend and now some stalker on their tails.

"Spencer, have you gotten anymore messages?" Emily asked with a hint of curiosity.

"Haven't you?" Spencer said nervously when a sound of a twig snapping soon got all their attention.

"What was that? Did you hear that?" Emily asked, a little scared.

"Well yeah, we're standing right next to you em" Aurora said.

"Hello! Is anybody out there?" Hanna yelled out to the forest beyond her.

"It's probably just a rabbit" Spencer tried to calm everyone's nerves down but Hanna wasn't having it.

"Hello!" She yelled again.

"It's a rabbit Hanna, it's not gonna answer you" Spencer pointed out like that was obvious.

"Can we just go to the shed?" Emily asked when another twig snapped.

"Okay, that's defiantly not a rabbit. Someone is out there" Hanna said with a hint of panic in her voice.

"Yeah erm let's just turn around" Emily said and just when they about to walk off, all their phones rang out at the same time.

Aurora sighed as they all took out their phones, knowing who it was from while Aurora read out the message.

"Heads up, BFFs. It's open season on liars and I'm hunting. . ."

--A

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Aurora wished she didn't wake up that morning and walked into the kitchen because all she could hear was Spencer and Melissa shouting at each-other because Spencer had apparently kissed Wren. Well there goes the wedding.

Making some coffee as the girl watched Melissa dump all the wedding magazines in the bin before bumping her shoulder with Spencer before going back to sit down.

As they argued and argued before their mum told Spencer to get ready as Aurora shook her head "You need to grow the fuck up Melissa, that's your little sister too and instead of hearing her out your just jumping to conclusions of what you saw"

"Hold on, Rory. Who's side are you on here?" Aurora rolled her eyes as she took her coffee and walked out the kitchen where she saw Spencer sat on the stairs with dried tears on her cheeks.

"Thanks, you know for always having my back" Aurora gave her smile as Spencer stood up and Rory wrapped her left arm around her sisters shoulder.

"I'm your older sister Spenc it's what I do" She shrugged "Now cmon I wanna pick your outfit for school today" Spencer chuckled as the two of them went into Aurora's room and Spencer put on the song "Party In The U.S.A." By Miley Cyrus as they danced around like crazy people while trying on clothes.

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The outfit Aurora wore was some skin tight denim shorts with a long green top that had four small white buttons at the top with her green low top converse and her black satchel and of course her hair straightened{Outfit up above}.

Walking into school and towards their lockers the girls saw Aria by them as Spencer went and opened her locker when three books fell to the floor with quite a loud thud as Aria and Aurora bent down to help her pick them up.

"Russian history?" Aria read the cover as Spencer said "yeah" in the most quiet voice that you could nearly here as she was still quite stressed from this morning.

"How many AP classes does it take before your brain explodes?" Aria joked as Spencer thanked the two girls and put the books back in her locker.

"I'm already drowning in there" Spencer sighed while trying to find a way to keep the books in her already full locker.

"Me and you both" Aurora spoke up as she took a few books out her locker and put them in her bag.

"And what is drowning for you both? B+?" Aria said sarcastically, leaning against the lockers as she looked at the girls.

"The first paper is do Monday and I have written two words. My name" Spencer said with evident stress in her tone and body language as she slammed her locker door shut.

"Hey, we're twins" Aurora spoke again, sarcastically "I've just written no words" Also closing her locker as Aria then clicked on with how stressed the girls actually were.

"Wait, what's going on with you two?" She stopped the two sisters from walking away "You guys arn't still freaked out about what happened in the woods yesterday are you?"

Spencer shook her head in disagreement when Aria spoke again "Look we don't have to do this thing for Ali until we-"

"No, it's not that Aria. It's just everything" Aurora sighed "Is there any chance your family wants to adopt us?"

Before Aria could answer their eyes made their way to Jenna who was walking down the corridor with no other than Toby Cavanaugh; who they hadn't seen in over a year.

Aurora was shocked yes but she also felt the guilt hit her suddenly from when Toby had saved Jenna from the fire that they had started. Sending him a small smile which of course he didn't return and Aurora understood that completely.

Hanna then came walking over to the three girls and after a few seconds they were then joined by Emily when Toby and Jenna were out of ear shot "He is back too. When did that happen?" Aria whispered, a little panicked.

"Maybe she needs help sending radioactive emails?" Hanna offered.

"Yeah or maybe he is sending a few of his own" Spencer whispered to them as they looked down the corridor Toby had just disappeared down.

"Hanna" A voice catching the groups attention and making them jump as Detective Wilden came walking down the hallway in their direction.

"Are there cops on campus too, now?" Emily whispered, her arms crossed as she watched Wilden get closer and closer before he was right in front of them.

"I just spoke with your principal asking him if we could have a chat" Wilden said looking directly at the blonde girl.

"No! I have to get to class" Hanna tried to get out of it and Aurora could see that slight bit of panic in her best friends eyes. And she knew if any of the girls where left with that creep, they'd have the same look in their eyes.

"Don't worry, you've been excused" Wilden said "Let's go" Giving her no room to argue as the four girls watched them walk away just as the bell rang.

"What, what's going on? Why just her?" Aria asked, looking at the girls for some answers which they didn't know either.

"He probably thinks she's the easiest to crack" Emily shrugs.

"She is" Spencer confirmed, her gaze still fixated on the spot where Wilden and Hanna left as Aurora sighed.

"Whisper, whisper, whisper" Jenna taunted as she walked past them "Almost feels like Alison's still here"

"God I hate that bitch" Aurora mumbled but still loud enough that the girls could hear her.

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"What are you doing? Is that a new phone?" Spencer asked as curiosity got the better of her while the four girls were leant against some random lockers with any hope of Hanna replying to any of their messages.

"Yeah, I'm checking my Kin. I will just write on Hanna's wall from here" Aria said it like it was obvious as she started to type a message on her phone.

"She's not answering any of our texts so why would she be checking facebook, Aria?" Aurora asked confused.

"So? It's a worth a try" Aria shrugged as she continued to type.

"What's going on?" Hanna made the girls jumped as she had just popped up out of nowhere.

"We've been trying to get hold of you for like forever. What happened in there? Are you okay?" Aria asked as Hanna opened her locker, almost like she was trying to avoid their questions and Aurora noticed that.

"Nothing" Hanna said "Just the same old stupid questions"

"You were in there for over an hour Hanna, what else did he ask?" Spencer wasn't buying it as she tried to get more out of Hanna but she wasn't budging as she slammed her locker shut.

"Nothing Spencer. He just took a couple calls and I just sat there waiting for him to shut up" Hanna stared at her shoes as she spoke.

"So what is he gonna question all of us alone now?" Aria spoke again but still Hanna wasn't having any of it.

"Who knows? Look, let's talk about this at lunch okay? I have to hit the ladies before my next class" Hanna sent Aurora a smile before walking away.

"Is she acting weird?" Spencer frowned, watching the blonde walk further away.

Aurora nodded "Yeah but let's just give her some space for now and like she said we'll see her at lunch anyway"

"Right cmon Rory, we've got math" Emily said sarcastically as she grabbed Aurora's hand and dragged her away, smiles on both of their faces.

"See you guys" Emily yelled out to Spencer and Aria before they turned a corner.

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Aurora was now sat in front of her mirror at her vanity as she brushed her silky, straight hair before standing up and throwing on her dark grey denim jacket with a red lace V neck short dress and black heel boots with of course some jewellery{Outfit up above}.

Hanna was dragging all the girls to Noel Kahn's party and Aurora wasn't happy about it at all but she couldn't let Hanna down and to be honest it was nice to actually go out and do something normal teenagers do.

"Hey, you ready to go?" Looking over at Spencer who was in her doorway she nodded, grabbing her phone and looking at herself one more time in the mirror before walking downstairs with Spencer.

Grabbing her car keys off the kitchen island and walking out to her black 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback that the 17 year old had bought for not that much and even fixed it up herself. What could she say? She was a sucker for old cars.

"I'm regretting saying yes to this all ready" Spencer groaned as she got in the passenger seat as Aurora laughed.

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"He tackled ben? What was Toby even doing in the girls locker room?" Aria was surprised just like all the other girls were, except from Spencer, when they heard Toby had saved Emily from Ben when he tried to force himself on her.

"Why are you shocked? Toby is a pervert. We caught him peeping through the windows watching us undress" Spencer spoke judgmentally towards Toby.

"Actually it was Ali who "saw him" She said with quotation marks around the 'saw him' "And anyway who cares about Toby right now. I'm gonna beat Bens fucking ass for trying to force himself on Em and thinking he could just get away with it" Aurora was angry, well more than angry as she was about to walk away to find Ben when Emily grabbed her hand to stop her.

"What's going on?" Hanna asked, joining the four girls outside in the backyard of Noel's house.

"Toby Cavanaugh got into a fight with Ben over Emily" Aria summed it up pretty quickly before Emily quickly cut in.

"It wasn't over me, god" Emily cut in, feeling a bit uncomfortable "He just saved me"

"And now that fucker is gonna wish he never laid a hand on Em" But when Aurora attempted to leave once again, Hanna wrapped her arm around Rory's waist and pulled the brunette to her side as Aurora.

One thing is, you never ever mess with Aurora Hastings. And defiantly not her friends unless you've got a death wish.

"Well, if we hadn't asked you about Ben, would you have told us about this?" Aria asked Emily as she crossed her arms.

"Toby is not a good guy Emily" Spencer said going back to the topic about Toby "He could be seriously dangerous"

Emily tried to keep her mouth shut but she knew she couldn't "If he's such a bad guy Spencer, then why did he take the fall for us?" And that left Spencer with no words as Emily looked at the group.

"Exactly, Em's right. But you all believed Ali without any proof" Leaving Hanna, Aria, and her sister with nothing to say, it was then her chance as she got out of Hanna's grip and went straight towards Noel's house.

"Aurora!" Spencer shouted as she ran after her sister.

"So what? Is this some other secret? Something we don't know about?" Aria said, referring to Spencer and Aurora as Hanna sighed.

"Can we just chill and talk about this somewhere else, you know when we're alone" Hanna said, having enough of this conversation already.

"I don't even know what 'just us' means anymore" Aria said before walking the way Spencer and Aurora did.

And just as Emily was also gonna follow Aria, Hanna then dragged her back "I kinda need you for something like distracting Noel so I can spend time with Sean something"

While Aurora went straight up to Ben who was already talking to another girl. Ben didn't even have time to register Aurora walking up to him before he got a punch to the jaw.

"What the fuck Aurora?!" He shouted as he held his hand to his now bleeding and throbbing jaw. The girl had one hell of a punch.

"That's for Emily you prick" As everyone gathered around some to help Ben and the others to pull their phones out and watch.

Squeezing through the crowd of people and to her car as she ignored the pain of her bleeding knuckles while hearing Emily and Spencer shouting her name.

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"Alison wanted us across the street so she could have it out with Toby" Spencer confessed to what she saw that night to the girls. That she heard Alison blackmailing Toby into staying quiet and taking the blame of what happened to Jenna that night.

"Ali had something on him?" Emily asked before looking over to Aurora who had a bandage wrapped round her knuckles "They feeling better?" She leaned nearer asking the girl while the others carried on with their conversation.

Aurora sent her a smile "Yeah, I iced it last night and the pain is almost gone now" She shrugged.

Emily nodded, sending a smile back "Thanks for having my back last night. I really appreciate it"

"Always Em" Tuning back into the conversation as they heard Spencer speak.

"Look, there's five of us and one freak sending messages. If we just talk to each other like this I feel like it makes it easier to deal with everything" By now the girls had started to walk back through the forest.

Aria nodded in agreement with Spencer "Spenc is right. There's too many secrets. We shouldn't do this in the middle of nowhere, we should do it where we and everyone else can see it everyday"

"Like somewhere in school?" Hanna asked.

"No that's probably not the best idea" Emily frowned "Maybe like in town and we could put a bench somewhere. And if the person who did this to her still is in Rosewood they will be forced to look at it everyday"

The four girls nodded in agreement except from the blonde "What? You hate the idea?" Spencer asked Hanna soon as she saw the expression on her face.

"No, I just. . .had a ruff night. That's all" Hanna quickly came up with some excuse while Emily frowned. She wondered what had happened between her and Sean after she had finished "distracting Noel".

The sound of twigs cracking and footsteps nearby caught all their attention as Aurora quickly dropped her bag and ran after it, the girls following. Coming to stop as Aurora sighed, they were too late as she looked around and all she could see was more branches and trees that looked like they went on for miles.

"Look" Hanna said shocked and also out of breath as they all looked down at the ground where Hanna was pointing, to see a purple bracelet lying on the ground and surrounded by leaves.

"Is that yours?" Aurora whispered to Emily, the only girl who still wore her bracelet.

But as the girls got closer, the name on the bracelet did too.

Alison.