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▐ 𝖡𝖤𝖠𝖴𝖬𝖮𝖭𝖳 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖨𝖣𝖤𝖭𝖢𝖤
      𝖪𝖨𝖳𝖢𝖧𝖤𝖭

          𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐃 as spoon full of cereal into her mouth as Will rushed around the kitchen, both of them having gotten up late and both late for work and school, "I'll clean this up when I get home!"

"Okay! Hey, uh, don't make plans for tomorrow night. Cassie's parents are coming over for dinner."

Sadie stops, turning around to face her brother with a smirk on her face, "It's been a couple months, you and Cass seem to be getting serious. Plus she's here almost every night, might as well ask her to move in with us."

"Would that...would that bother you?" Will nervously asked his little sister, "If I asked Cassie to move in with us, would you be okay with it?"

"Why are you asking me? It's your house." She shrugged.

"No, it's our house and your opinion on moving someone in matters to me."

"Will, you and Jesse took me in when you guys didn't have to. You raised me while going through college and residency, and Jesse watched me while going to the police academy. The two of you put your social lives aside for me, and you let me get emancipated and married at sixteen to the brother of my dead best friend." Sadie lists off some of the things that her brothers had done for her over the years, "It's time for you to do something that makes you happy...and if that's asking your girlfriend of a few months to move in with us, go ahead."

Will smiles softly, walking over to his sister and kissing the top of her head, "You're the best, you know that?"

"Yeah, I know."

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          ❝ 𝐈'𝐌 𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐘. ❞

Sadie turns to Spencer with a confused look on her face, "You're sorry? For?"

"Jumping down your throat about Toby being guilty."

"Wow, this bracelet thing has really gotten to you, huh?" Sadie laughed, "I guess you heard about his mailbox?"

"I was at Emily's this morning and I saw it from her window." Spencer sighed, "What made you think he didn't do it?"

"Spence, he's not a bad person, he means well. Alison had a lot of enemies, enemies that could've done a lot worse than what she had done to her." Sadie tells her, holding her math textbook close to her chest, "Besides, I'm not the one you need to apologize for. Look, I have to get his homework for him, why don't you take it to him yourself?"

"Wh — I'm not sure that's a good idea." Spencer denied.

"No, it's a good idea." Sadie tells her, going to walk away from her friend but stopping, "By the way, if anything comes out of that between the two of you, Jesse owes me thirty because I said that the two of you would look good together."

"We would not look good together!"

Sadie smirked, "I can see it now, "Spoby."

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          ❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 the point of a swim-off? ❞ Spencer walks down the hallway with Emily and Sadie, the blonde tapping away at her phone screen. "Why would the coach pit you against each other before a meet?"

"She's using our combined times to choose anchor and right now, we're tied."

Sadie shrugged, finally looking up from her phone, "You can change that."

"Maybe not, she wants it more."

"Emily..you want it more." Spencer steps in front of her, "And it is okay to admit that."

"You know who that's for, don't you?" Emily asked after noticing the look on Spencer's face as she eyed a poster on the wall for a peer tutor in French for a home schooled student.

"Toby?"

"Yep." Sadie nodded, "He texted and asked me, but I didn't take French."

Emily looks at Spencer confused as she pulled one of the papers off, "What are you doing?"

"I might be interested."

"Spencer, don't." Emily shakes her head, "You can't."

"Why not?" Spencer looks between the two girls standing with her.

"Because you'd be going there for the wrong reason." She tells her.

"Really? Well, what if the same person who gave my name to the bead lady is the one who framed Toby? What if that was A?"

"Can't you find that out some other way? Without asking him?"

"Let her do it." Sadie waved Emily off, "I'm getting my thirty bucks."

Spencer ignored the blonde's words, "Who else knows what he knows, Emily? If I can get him to talk—,"

"You won't even get him to look at you." Emily said, "He doesn't trust us, he doesn't trust anyone anymore."

"He trust me."

"Maybe, but...if I have one piece of the puzzle and he has another, then we can put it together and maybe help each other.

Emily and Sadie share a look with one another as Spencer rips the paper from the wall and walks away from them.

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          ❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 the two of you doing? ❞ Will stands with his hands resting on his hips, looking down at both his little sister and girlfriend, both of them laying on their stomachs in the living room floor, magazine's spread out around them. "And why are you laying on the floor?"

"Cassie told me you asked her about moving in." Sadie flipped the page in the magazine, "So, we're looking at magazines because this place could use a woman's touch."

"This place does not need a woman's touch more than it has since you came back home." Will scoffed.

"Please, Will, you still have expired food in the pantry and the living room couch doesn't even match the rug." Cassie looks up at her boyfriend, "And you have a whole bedroom that's nothing but boxes and trash."

"We're thinking about turning that into a game room." Sadie smirked, "Pool table, bar, the whole nine-yards."

"I'm totally going to regret letting the two of you live in the same place together." Will shakes his head in disbelief, "I'm gonna be surrounded by pink glitter and rainbows."

Both girls look up at him with a look of disgust on their faces, "We don't even like pink."

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          ❝ 𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 you? Any better? ❞  Aria holds out a paper towel to Caleb, the two of them sitting in the school hallway with Hanna after the blonde sprayed him in the eye with the hairspray that she kept in her purse.

"It's still burning." Caleb pats his eye with the paper, looking at Hanna, "You want a sharp stick for the other one?"

"Okay, you know what? It was just hairspray. It was light hold." Hanna tells him, tired of his attitude towards her, "What are you doing in there anyway?"

"I'm sort of, um...I'm crashing here." Caleb reluctantly tells the two of them.

"You are? Why?" Aria sends him a look, "Does Sadie know you're living at the school?"

"What do you care?" Caleb asked before tilting his head in question, "What does Sadie have to do with it?"

"We've seen the two of you talking in the halls before, picking on each other in classes we all share." Hanna says, feeling a twist in her gut at the thought of the other blonde in their small group of friends having a crush on the boy next to them. "And don't snap that her like that, I have more."

"Fire away. Just give me my money back first." He told his hand out.

"I mean, where do your parents think you are?" Aria questioned.

Caleb chuckled, wiping at his eye again, "My foster parents don't care where I am. As long as they keep getting their checks."

"Wait, I thought all that stuff about the social worker was a joke." Hanna looks at him.

"Believe me, my social worker is a joke, but yeah, I do have one."

"This is crazy. You know, you can't keep staying here."

"Why? There's hot water, vending machines. The principal's couch is pretty comfortable."

"Well, they know someone was here last night." Hanna tells him.

Caleb sighed, "Yeah...I got sloppy."

"Where are you going?" Aria asked as he stands up.

"Grab some dinner, then back to bed." He holds his hand out for the money that Hanna had taken, but pauses as he goes to walk away, "Can you not tell Sadie about this? I told her I had an actual place to sleep. I...I don't want her to worry. She's already helped me enough."

"We won't tell her." Hanna nodded, ignoring the look Aria sent to her.

"You know your way out, right?"

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          𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐒 down next to the girls at Emily's swim meet, Caleb sitting down next to Hanna which kind of surprised the taller blonde.

"When's Emily gonna jump in?" Hanna asked.

"She's the anchor, she swims last 'cause she's the fastest." Aria explained to the blonde that really didn't get sports.

"Hey, remind me, which one's Lindsay and which one's Bridget?"

"Bridget's the one drinking from her purse." Sadie points out even though he was talking to Hanna, both blondes chuckling as they watch her.

"Thanks. I'll be right back." Caleb says before getting up and going over to Bridget, but not before messing up the top of Sadie's hair.

"I can't stand you sometimes!"

"That's a lie!" He called back with a laugh.

"Why are we sitting with Caleb?" Aria questioned after her was gone.

"Why not?"

"Hanna, I like stray dogs too but sometimes they bite." Spencer tells her.

"Okay, well, he's had his shots." Hanna bite back, "Sadie, likes him, why can't you guys?"

"Sadie knows him." Sadie says her name in third person, "Sadie also wants to ring his neck at time because he owes me fifty bucks and I still haven't gotten it back."

Spencer chuckled.

"Go, Emily!" Hanna calls out with a bright smile on her face.

"She's not swimming yet."

"Now, she's going. Let's go, Emily!" Sadie called out for the Fields girl with a wide smile on her face, jumping up once Emily back it both ways of the pool first, "That's how you do it, baby!"

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          ❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 the two of you doing now? ❞ Will watches on in disbelief as his sister and girlfriend move the furniture around in the living room, "Why are you moving my living room around?!"

"Because it feels more roomy." Cassie grinned, moving over to her boyfriend as Sadie lays on the living room floor, "Don't you think?"

"I think I need to invest in more hours at the hospital because the two of you are gonna make my hair turn grey if you keep on changing my house around." Will tells them, "I may even check myself into a nursing home."

"You love us!" Sadie's voice is muffled by her arms.

"It's debatable."