ꗃ ﹕𝓓𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝓑𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝓜𝐄 . . . . . 𓈈 𓍢 ░
𝖯𝖱𝖤𝖳𝖳𝖸 𝖫𝖨𝖳𝖳𝖫𝖤 𝖫𝖨𝖠𝖱𝖲 ── ༅𓂃👜゛໒ ࣪˖˚

𝒊.    𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘       𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘,      𝖦𝖮𝖫𝖣𝖨𝖤 ‧₊˚📱✩
˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚ 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐓 ── 01𝗑01 ｡𖦹°‧
𝖨𝖭 𝖫𝖨𝖥𝖤 & 𝖣𝖤𝖠𝖳𝖧 𐙚𓏲⋆ ִֶָ ๋𓂃 ⋆ᡣ𐭩

𝘼 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙍

▐ 𝖱𝖮𝖲𝖤𝖶𝖮𝖮𝖣, 𝖯𝖤𝖭𝖭𝖲𝖸𝖫𝖵𝖠𝖭𝖨𝖠
      𝖡𝖤𝖠𝖴𝖬𝖮𝖭𝖳 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖨𝖣𝖤𝖭𝖢𝖤

𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 sigh leaves the lips of Sadie Beaumont as she walks up the front porch of the place that she had called home for years, just to be met with the grinning face of her brother as he pulled the door open.

     "There she is!" Will wrapped his arms around his sister's waist as he pulled her into a tight hug, lifting her feet off the ground, "I don't care what the circumstances are, you are not allowed to leave me again! And I'm never making the decision that you're going anywhere!"

    Sadie can't help the giggles that leave her lips as she hugs her brother back just as tightly as he was hugging her, "Will! You're crushing me!"

     "I don't care!" He grunts before sitting her back on the porch, moving around her to pull the two large suitcases into the house and closing the door behind the two of them. "I'm just happy to have someone else in this big ass house besides myself!"

     "I'm sure you've had plenty of women coming in and out of here since I've been gone." Sadie rolls her eyes at her brother playfully, "Or are you still hung up on Melissa's friend Cassie that works with you in the ER?"

     "Shut up." Will pushes her playfully, "How was Philadelphia?"

     "You sent me away from Rosewood to get away from all things Alison, only to end up with her grieving family." She tells him with a shrug, "It was....okay."

     "Hey, at least you and Jason had each other." Will shrugs his shoulder, "How is Jason doing?"

     "He's sober."

     "That's good." He nods before looking down at the watch on his wrist, "Shit! I have a late shift at the hospital tonight! Are you going to be okay here on your own?"

     "Go." Sadie chuckled, pushing her brother towards the front door, "Go be a hero and save some lives tonight."

     "Alright, alright, I'm going. I'll take the weekend off and we'll grab dinner and catch up, okay?" Will says before walking out the front door, only to stick his head back in a second later, "Hey, kid."

     "Yeah?" She turns her head to look at him since she had been making her way up the stairs.

     Will sends her a soft smile, "I love you."

     "I love you, too."

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"𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓! 𝐈'𝐌 gonna be late for school!" Sadie calls out to her brother as she rushes down the stairs, leather jacket in hand as she moves towards the front door, grabbing the keys to her car as she did so.

"Whoa! Hey, I need to tell you something!" Will comes out of the kitchen in a rush to catch up with his sister before she makes it out of the door.

"I didn't have time to have a conversation, Will! I have to go!"

"Yeah, but—,"

"Love you!" She quickly kisses his cheek before slamming the shut door behind her.

"—Ezra is gonna be your English teacher!" Will finishes with a sigh, hands resting on his hips as he shakes his head, "Well, she's gonna be in for a surprise when she gets there. And she'll probably try and cut my throat with a scalpel."

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"𝐒𝐎, 𝐈 hear the new teachers supposed to be hot." Emily tells Aria as the two of them walk into the nearly empty English classroom, both of them taking a seat next to each other.

Aria puts her bag on the back of her chair as she glances towards the blonde girl walking in the classroom, "Is that Hannah?"

Emily nods her head just as another girl walks in, "She's the "it" girl now. And where there's Hannah, there's Mona."

"That's Mona?" Aria questions in surprise.

"Can you believe it?"

"Wow, talk about a makeover."

Hanna, from where she stands with Mona, waves towards the two girls she use to be close to.

"What's up with her? You two fighting?" Aria asks.

"We didn't just fall out of touch with you and Sadie, Aria." Emily says, gaining a confused look from Aria at their older best friend's name, "We all fell out of touch with each other."

Spencer walks into the classroom next, shooting a small smile at Hanna as she takes a seat in front of the classroom.

"They're not so close anymore, either." Emily said.

"So, they're friendly, but not friends." Aria says with a nod, "So, where is Sadie?"

"About a month after you went to Iceland, Will thought it was a good idea for Sadie to leave too." Emily tells her, "So, he sent her to stay with Mr. and Mrs. DiLaurentis, and Jason. Jason's the one who picked her up when we went to say bye to her."

All of the students take their seats as the bell rings, and the teacher walks in with his back facing them as he writes his name across the chalk board in large letters.

Turning around to introduce himself, he lets his eyes fall on Aria, who had been writing in her binder, a coffee mug in his hands, "Holy crap."

Students turned in their seats to follow his line of vision, several pairs of eyes landing on her, but thankfully, something — rather someone — else had caught their attention as the door comes flying open.

"I am so sorry that I'm late! My alarm didn't go off, and I just got back yesterday from Ph—," A familiar teen rushes into the classroom, dressed in her signature leather jacket as she looks up and her eyes land on the man that would be her English teacher, "No. No, no! My ass is going back to Philadelphia. I can't deal with this."

A couple of gasps leave the students lips as the girls swears in front of their teacher, watching as she made her way back towards the exact door that she had just walked into.

"I'm going home!"

Ezra, or Mr. Fitz as they would call him, moved around his desk to lean against the front of it. After sitting his mug back down, he crosses his arms over his chest as he smirks at the rest of his students, his attention turned away from his situation to the girl that had walked out of his classroom.

"Watch this." Ezra holds a hand up with five fingers down, putting a finger down each time he counted, "Five, four, three...," He trails off as he silent counts one and two, putting both fingers down at Sadie walks back into the room with a scowl on her face, "Welcome back, Sadie James."

"I need this class to graduate." Sadie tells him as she glares at him, moving to sit in the empty seat behind Aria as she pulled out her notebook and a pen, "I'm only staying here because I have no other choice, and I hate the other English teacher they have here."

"I'm sure that's really why you're staying, Sades."

"Hush. And wipe that smug smirk off of your face." She points her pen in his direction, glare still clear on her face as the others look between the two in amusement. "You and Will both give me headaches. Also, I'm not calling your ass "Mr. Fitz". It's just not gonna happen."

Ezra lets out a chuckle, "I didn't think that you would. Anyway!" He claps his hands together, "As Sadie says my name is Mr. Fitz. And I'm your new English teacher."

The blonde lets out a huff of air as she writes her name onto the blank piece of paper in her notebook just as her cellphone buzzes.

Grabbing it out of the side pocket of her bag, a frown appears on her face as she reads the text message displayed on the screen.

❛ sᴇᴇᴍs ʟɪᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇɴ'ᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ
ᴏɴᴇ ᴏʙsᴇssᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴏʟᴅᴇʀ ᴍᴇɴ.
ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʜᴏᴍᴇ, ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ʀᴇᴅ. ❜—— ᴀ

     "What the hell?" She whispers under her breath as she looks around the room.

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"𝑺𝑯𝑯! 𝒀𝑶𝑼 need to be quiet!" Sadie hisses at the tall figure sneaking his way into her bedroom window, having climbed up the ladder that was always propped up against the wall next to her bedroom.

She was just thankful that her bedroom looked on into the backyard and they didn't have neighbors staying behind them.

"Why? Will's car isn't even here. Besides, he likes me anyway." Jason shrugged his shoulder as his arms snake around her waist, pulling the sixteen year old girl closer to him.

"Okay, Will might like you, but your sister would flip the hell out if she found you in my bedroom right now." She tells him in a quiet voice, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Her and the girls are downstairs. We're supposed to be studying together."

"Well, I don't see you down there with them." Jason says, bumping his nose against hers as he leans down to be her height.

"Because I left my English book up here, so I had to run and grab it." Sadie tells him, "You need to go."

"Hmm, I think I should let them know that you have someone in your bedroom." A mischievous smile makes its way onto Jason's face, causing the blonde to look at him in confusion. "HEY! I'M UP HERE! IN SADIE'S BEDR—,"

"What are you doing?!" She quickly slaps a hand over her boyfriend's mouth, eyes wide as she quiets them both down, listening for any kind of movement from both downstairs and outside of her bedroom but didn't hear anything, "What the hell, Jason?!" She slaps his chest.

Jason laughs quietly, "I'm just playing around, baby. I'm not jeopardizing us for anything."

"That's what you said about Will finding out about us, too." She rolls her eyes.

"Hey, at least he still lets us be together." He shrugged, brushing his lips against hers. "Do you have to go back downstairs?"

"Yes. And no, I'm not kicking them out." She laughs, slapping his hands away from pushing her red leather skirt up her legs, "I need to get back to the girls, and you need to leave."

"Fine. But I'm coming back tonight." Jason tells her as he kisses her softly.

"Good. Will has the night shift at the hospital." A smirk makes it's way onto her face.

"Hmm, lucky me."

"Lucky you."

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𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐒 with her legs pulled up to her chest as she sat in the living room before the sound of sirens breaks her from the movie that she was watching, "What the hell?"

     She quickly stands up from the black leather couch, throwing on a pair of white converses before she rushed out of the front door, and towards the rest of her old friends that stood huddled together in front of the old DiLaurentis house.

     A gasp leaves her lips as she comes to a stop behind Aria and Spencer as a body bag was wheeled away on a stretcher.

     "I heard the cops took Hanna to the police station today." Aria tells both her and Spencer as they watch the scene in front of them.

     "Wait," Spencer turns to look at them, "You don't think she's ever talk about—,"

   "The Jenna Thing?" Hanna asks as she walks up to them.

     Sadie lets out a shaky breath as she reaches her hand up to play with the silver chair wrapped around her neck, tucked away into the t-shirt she wore, "We made a promise."

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"𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄 as soon as I heard!" Will rushes into his house, his lab coat still covering the maroon scrubs he always wore as he made his way towards his little sister, who sat curled up on the couch.

The second that his arms wrapped around her body, Sadie breaks down against her brother's chest, heavy and sad sobs racking through her body as her shoulders shake harshly, "She's gone! Ali's dead!"

"Shh, it's okay. It's gonna be alright." Will whispers as he rakes his fingers through her blonde hair, hair identical to his own, "Everything is gonna be okay, Sades. I got you."

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"𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 sure that you can do this?" Will questions softly, hand resting on her knee as the two of them sat in his chair in front of the church where Ali's funeral was being held. "We can go back home. We both know that Mrs. DiL—,"

"I have to do this." Sadie cuts him off, "I need to do this for all of them."

"Okay." He nods, "Let's do this."

Both siblings get out of the car, walking up to the church that the whole town of Rosewood had came to.

"Jessica." Will greets the grieving mother, pulling her into a quick hug, "I'm so sorry."

"Thank you, Will." Jessica gives him a soft smile before turning to Sadie, "Sadie, honey. I've asked the rest of the girls to sit at the front. Please, join them."

"Of course." Sadie nods, a frown resting on her lips as she makes her way to the front of the church, stopping for a moment as she stares ahead at the closed casket.

Coming out of her trance, she sits down next to the rest of the girls.

"Poor, Ali." Emily says.

"Can you believe what a scene this is?" Hanna asked with a smile.

"Ali would have loved it." Aria says, eyes fixated on the slick black coffin.

"Popular in life and death." Spencer and Lydia say in sync.

Hanna glances down at Emily who looked the most upset of the five girls, before reaching into her small black purse to pull out a phial with alcohol inside.

"No, thanks. I don't—,"

"Today, I think you do."

A ping sounds throughout the church as a few heads turn in their direction as Aria reaches for her cellphone, all five tensing up at the house.

"Anyone we know?" Hanna asked.

"No, it's just my mom sending me a text." Aria pauses as she watches her friends relax back into their seats. "Emily and I aren't the only ones who got messages from A, are we?"

Spencer turns her head to the entrance of the church as many people begin to talk among themselves, "Oh, my God. It's Jenna."

Four more heads turned in the direction that Spencer was looking to find Jenna Marshall walking into the church arm in arm with her stepbrother as he guided her to her seat.

Jessica sits down next to Sadie, the blonde woman intertwining her hand with the young girl, Kenneth and Will following on the other side of her, "Did you see that Jenna Marshall was here? I didn't realize she and Ali were friends."

"They weren't."

"The lord giveth and he lord taketh away."

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𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 service was over, the five girls walk out of the church, all planning to go to the Apple Rose Grille to talk about the anonymous text messages that they were getting from this "A" person.

"Emily, Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Sadie." A police officer with a deep voice stopped the five girls from going any further, looking at each of them with an intense gaze.

"Do we know you?" Spencer asked him, glancing at the girls.

"I'm Detective Wilden." He tells them as he reaches into his suit pocket to hand them his card, "I understand you were good friends with the victim."

"Yeah, we were."

"I'm gonna need to talk to each one of you." He tells them, hands stuffed in his pants pockets.

"We talked to the police when Alison went missing." Spencer cuts in as Sadie crosses her arms over her chest, looking around for any sign of her brother to help them.

Wilden nods his head, "And I intend to go over every one of your statements. This is no longer a missing persons case; it's a murder. And rest assured, I will find out what happened that summer."

"Wilden." A harsh hand comes down on the detective's shoulder as Will walks up behind him, "Why don't you leave my sister and her friends alone."

"I'm just letting them—,"

"I don't really care what you were just doing." Will cuts him off, pulling him away from the five girls, "That's my little sister that you're interrogating without an adult present, dick."

"Guys, do you think he knows about—,"

"No, how could he?"

The sound of the phones going off sounded in the air, each one of them reaching for their phones.

"Oh, my God."

"Son of a bitch."

"What the—,"

"It's from—,"

"I got one too."

❛ ɪ'ᴍ sᴛɪʟʟ ʜᴇʀᴇ, ʙɪᴛᴄʜᴇs. ᴀɴᴅ
ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ. ❜ —— ᴀ