"It felt as though I was carrying the weight of the world upon my chest. I was certain my arms had anchors tied to them forbidding me to raise them, giving any kind of sign that I was still alive. I couldn't yell or scream or do anything to let you know I was still breathing. I was clinging on to each tiny breath the way a child clings onto their favorite doll. With every passing second my tomb became darker. I was being buried alive, and your precious, little secrets we're being buried with me." Ali began to cry as she told her story for the first time. Spencer, Hanna, Emily, and Aria we're supposed to be her best friends, but none of them were there when she needed them the most.
"Oh my god…" was the only thing Spencer could say. Tears poured down Emily's face, leaving streaks behind as she choked on her words. Hanna looked at the ground, trying desperately to avoid any eye contact.
"It was so dark. I prayed that you would come, Aria, because I knew there would be a reflection of light as the spikes on your jacket glimmered in the moonlight. Or just maybe you would lower one of your feather earrings down to me so that I could use it as a rope to climb out of my own grave." Alison continued.
"What?" Aria asked as she looked up at her friend.
"Wow! I'm just kidding. You guys really believed all of that?" Alison answered.
"What the fuck, Ali? Of course we're going to believe that's what happened! We went to your funeral!" Spencer shouted.
"We all thought you were dead." Emily said wiping away the tears from her cheeks.
"Thought I was dead or secretly hoped I was dead?" Alison said as she looked at Spencer. "Admit it, you wanted me gone. I could see it in your eyes as you stood over me, shoveling the dirt on top of my body. You thought you had found an out. Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead, right Spence?"
"God, Alison! That's not true at all, well maybe a little true. I don't know! I was strung out on adderall that entire summer. It was so bad, you would have thought that I had become the kingpin for meow-meow the way I was popping no-doz." Spencer explained.