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Here is my take on a Pretty Little Liars story. I hope you bare with me on my other stories. I'm having a really bad writers block on them. I rather take my time on writing them rather than give you all a boring story. I own nothing except my character Irina Moretti and her family. Everything else belongs to there rightful owners.

It was just another stormy summer night in Rosewood. All of us were spending the night in Spencer's families barn. We were passing around a plastic cup filled with alcohol when the lights went out. Aria turned on her flashlight.

"Something's out there." she informed us then the door to the bar opened making us all turn and face it.

We all got up and moved towards the door not knowing what we would find out. We all huddled around Aria since she had the flashlight. We took another step to the door when we heard a crash and we all gasped. Then Alison jumped out from behind the door making us all scream.

"AH!"

"Gotcha!" she said while laughing at how scared we were being.

"That's so not funny Alison!" I said to her as I tried to slow my heart rate down.

"I thought it was hilarious, girls." we were all laughing and began to walk back to our seats. So that we could enjoy the rest of the night.

"Hey Alli have you downloaded the new Beyonce?" Hanna asked

"No not yet."

"I'm loving her new video."
"Maybe a little to much Em." Alison said snidely to Emily. I didn't like it when Alison would make those kind of comments to Emily. Maybe not everyone knows that Emily is struggling with either being straight or gay, but Alli shouldn't rub it in her face. Alison then handed the glass of alcohol to Aria's direction.

"Careful Aria, drink to much and you'll tell us all your secrets." Spencer said. This caused me to laugh .

"Friends share secrets, that's what keeps us close. Drink up." Alison said. For some strange reason when ever she told us to do something we all went along with it, she just had this thing about her that just hypnotized us to follow her ever word. We all fell asleep after hours of sharing funny jokes and memories about the whole summer. I was fast asleep when I was woken up by Emily.

"Irina, wake up."
"Ugh what, what's wrong?" I said rubbing my eyes trying to find what time it was.

"Alli's missing." I sat straight up to this news.

"What! What do you mean she's missing. Where did she go?"
"Spencer said she saw her leaving the barn and followed her out but lost her?"
"Well did anyone call the police."

"Yes there on their way, but here's the thing. Spencer thinks she heard Alli scream." I stood there looking at Emily with so much shock that I could hardly believe what I was hearing.

One year later.

"Irina! Hurry breakfast is ready!" my mom yelled from the kitchen.

"I'm coming!" I looked at myself in the mirror for the last time making sure that no hair was out of place. Today was the first day of a new year at school, it also marks the one year anniversary of Alison's disappearance. Every time that I begin to think about it I feels like it was just yesterday when we all realized that she was missing. Things have defiantly changed since that day. Not wanting to think about it anymore I decided to head down stairs before my mother lost it. Walking into the kitchen I saw my mom serving breakfast to my younger brother Joey. Today was his first day of freshman year.

"Good morning mom, Joe." I ruffled my little brothers hair knowing that it really bugs him when I do that.

"Hey! Mom tell Irina not to mess with my hair."

"Irina come on stop messing with your brother and eat your cheese omelet and take your brother and you to school." I smiled sweetly at my mom and began to eat my breakfast.

"So where's dad this morning? Did he need to go into work early or something?"

"Yes your father had an emergency call at the hospital one of his patients went into cardiac arrest and they needed him there as soon as possible." I looked at the time and realized that I was going to be late to school if we didn't leave in the next ten minutes.

"o crap come on Joe we need to get to school." Joe grabbed his bag and placed a kiss on our moms cheek and I went to grab my bag and car keys.

"Bye mom have a good at work!" I said as I closed the front door to our house.

The ride to school consisted of Joe being stupid and trying to get on my nerves by changing the channel a hundred times. Once I parked the car Joe ran so far away that I didn't even have time to buckle. I didn't care though because that was just Joey being Joey. I grabbed my bag and started to head to my first period class which happened to be English. I walked into the class room to see someone that I never thought I would see again. There she was Aria Montgomery, back from Iceland. Aria was sitting next to Emily. It was weird to see the two of them talking to one another especially since we all lost touch with each other in the past year. I sat down near the window wanting to save a seat for Spencer. Out of everyone Spencer was the only friend out of our group that I stayed close to. It mostly had to do with the fact that my mom and her mom are close childhood friends and that they have the same family values. Succeed at everything you do and don't fail no matter what. Reputation is everything to them.

Aria POV

I was just getting out my binder when I saw the familiar thing of long wavy brown hair enter the room. I looked up to see Irina Moretti. She used to be one of my closest friends in the whole world she knew exactly how to cheer me up when I was down and she was always there for me when I needed her. But now just seeing her after a year I feel like I'm seeing a complete stranger. Something about the way she carried herself made me feel that she has changed since a year ago. She was no longer the same shy person that I once called my best friend. She walked in with this air of confidence about her. I turned to Emily wanting to know what all changed since I went to Iceland.

"So what happened to Irina. I mean Hanna changed into the it girl. So what happened to Irina. Did she change at all since I was gone?"

"Well for one thing she and Spencer are best friends."
"Really because from what I recall they couldn't stand being in the same room with one another and Alli was always the one to separate them before they went at each other."
"Well things change and Irina defiantly changed. she isn't the same shy timed girl that she once was. She is more head strong than she ever was."
"Wow I never thought I would see Irina come out of her shell. She just always kept to her self and Alli."

Irina's POV

I placed my bag in my seat and my binder on the seat next to me so that Spencer would have a seat. I walked back to where Aria and Emily were sitting.

Hello Aria, Emily!"

"Hey Irina, wow I love your outfit.!"

"Thank you, so Aria when did you get back. Last time I checked you were still living in Iceland."
"Yea well I just got back yesterday and its good to see you Irina, how are you doing?"
"Good well I'll talk to you two latter." before I left I turned around to face Aria and Emily.

"By the way, I hear that the new teacher is hot!" I walked back to my seat in the front where Spencer was already getting ready to right down notes.

"Wow Spence, the bell hasn't even rung for first period and you're already in the school mood." Spencer looked up long enough from writing to smile at me.

"Irina you know very well that I have to be on top of everything if I'm going to survive living with my family." I placed my hand on Spencer shoulder

"Trust me Spence I know exactly what you're feeling." the bell rang and our teacher entered the room writing his name on the chalk board. I reached into my bag to grab a notebook and pen, when I heard him say holy crap. I looked up to see what he was looking at. I saw that he was looking at Aria's direction. I thought it was strange about the way they both looked at each other. I wondered rather there was something going on between them, but I decided no to elaborate on it.

After the whole meeting Mr. Fitz and his weird reaction to seeing Aria. The rest of the day went by in a blur. After school let out I went straight home wanting to get an early start on my homework. I was sitting in my room when I heard a knock at my door. I got up and raced down stairs to see who it was. I came to face a very frazzled Spencer. She pushed her way through my front door still having the frazzled look on her face.

"Wow Spence! What's wrong?"
"What's wrong! Mellissa is what's wrong!" we were both in the kitchen now and I was trying to calm Spencer down before she did anything drastic.

"What did your sister do?"
"Well you know how I gave up my whole summer and studied my ass off for so that I could renovate the barn for junior year."
"Please don't tell me that Mellissa is now taking the barn all for her self now." I was getting two bottled waters for us to drink while Spencer vented about how Melissa is moving into the barn with her new fiancé."
"Spence I know she's your sister and all, but she is so conceited and your parents let her get away with everything just because that don't want to deal with one of her many tantrums."

"I know but what else can I do. My parents already agreed to letting her move in and I just have to sit back and let her enjoy all of my hard work."

"You know you're welcomed to come and hang or sleep here right. I know it might be a little different from the Hasting house hold but the Moretti family is here for you when ever you need it."

Spencer smiled and laughed at me.

"Thanks Rina. I really need this venting session."
"Any time Spence."

Spencer left to get ready for the family diner she was going to have to meet Melissa's new fiancé, who I came to find out was a medical student. I was watching one of my favorite shows of all time How I meet your mother when I received an email. I looked to see who it was from but it read unknown. I clicked on it see who would be emailing me.

All look how much you have everyone fooled. They all think you're the perfect daughter and friend. Maybe they should know that you're far from it. What would happen if they knew what you did.

Sincerely A

My mouth was gaping open once I finished reading the email and the memory of that summer came flooding back in my mind.

Flashback

It was one summer day and Spencer, Hanna, Alison, and I we're all working on our tans. We came inside to grab a drink before we spent more time gossiping and having fun with one another. Hanna was about to eat a chocolate chip cookie that was on a cookie sheet but Alli had to comment on it and make Hanna self conscious about to the point that she rethought the whole cookie thing. Melissa waltzed in with her boyfriend at the time Ian Thomas.

"Aren't you supposed to be at Alison's?"

"Hi girls."
"Hey Ian we all said."

"You still need help with your scoop Spence, I've got my stick in the car.:
"Ian, what are you, her babysitter?" I just rolled my eyes at Melissa and grabbed a cookie and offered one to Hanna while Alison wasn't looking. Then Alison made a comment to Spencer that she needed to tell Melissa something. From what I could tell it was something big, because I didn't even know about anything. Then Ali and Spencer went outside to talk in private. I didn't want ease drop so I went to find something to drink while Hanna watched them argue. At that moment I received a text from someone who I wasn't suppose to speaking with. Ali's older brother Jason. I knew it was wrong but when ever I was with him I felt I could break down that perfect daughter act and just be myself. It was a good thing that both Spencer and I lived right next to Alison. I snuck away from the girls and headed over to Alison's house to say hello to Jason. I didn't need to knock on the door because he was there to greet me with a huge grin on his face.

"Hey look at you looking so cute in your little swim suit." I pushed him lightly in his arm and placed a light kiss on his lips, telling him to shut up.
"Come on I don't have that much time before they wonder where I went. What is it that you wanted me to come over so badly when you know I was spending the day with your sister."
"Is it so wrong for me to want to spend time with my girlfriend. Plus I wanted to remind you not to make planes tomorrow."
"I know it's our date night and I wouldn't miss it for the world." I went to go in for another kiss, but I smelt something on Jason that made my noise tingle.

"What the hell Jason, is that pot that I smell on you?"

"What no! come on Irina, I told you I quite last week!"

"Really because when I saw you yesterday I didn't smell anything on you other than the collagen your mom buys you. And now today all I can smell is the pot!"
"Irina your over reacting. So what if I smoked a little pot. It's no big deal. I'm not as I high as I have been."

"It doesn't matter! Jason you lied to me about something that we both agreed was the one thing that was stopping me from fully being with you!"

"So what are you saying are you breaking up with me?" Jason asked with a hurt look in his eyes as he waited for my response.

"I don't know Jason. Can you honestly tell me that you wont get high anymore?" I waited for his answer and it never came. "Well then good bye Jason, I hope you have a better relationship with your pot than you did with me." I walked out of the DiLaurentis house never looking back.

End of flashback

I was brought out of my flashback when I heard the sound of an ambulance coming down my street. I ran to my window seeing something that I have been waiting for a whole year. The ambulance was heading to Alli's old house and this had to mean that she was coming home. Finally after a year of searching my best friend was coming back home were she belonged. I grabbed my jacket and shoes and ran out of the house to greet Alli as she came back home. When I got close enough I saw that Alli was no where to be found. I saw the new girl Maya standing out by the front of the house. I ran up to see what was going on.

"Maya! Hey it's Irina Moretti from next door. Uh so what's going on did they find Alison?" the look on her face told me everything that I needed to know. It wasn't Alison they found it was her body. It meant the whole year without her was because she wasn't lost, but that she was dead. Gone forever without any hope of coming back.

"I'm so sorry Irina, they found her body."
"No don't be sorry Maya, thank you for letting me know. I have to go tell Spencer. Thank you once again Maya for letting me know." I left Maya and went to where Spencer was standing watching the whole thing unfold before our eyes.

"Can you believe it Spence. A whole year of hoping that she would one day come home and this is how it has to end."
"Irina. I'm so glade that you're here with me, I don't know what I would do without you right now."

I nodded and saw Aria coming our way to stand with us as they took away Alison's body from the house.

"I heard the cops took Hanna to the police station today." both Spencer and I had a worried look on our face. I was the first one to speak.

"Wait you don't think she'd ever talk about.."

"The Jenna thing?" Hanna said now standing next to us.

"We made a promise." we all understood what it meant and just watched as more people gathered around the crime scene.

The day of Alison's funeral was hard day for everyone who knew her and even for those who just heard of her. I walked into the church with my parent's and Joe. I was trying to keep myself together so I wouldn't lose it in front of the whole town. Walking into the church I was meet by Alison's mom who was excited to see me and told me to sit upfront with the rest of the girls. I sat next to Spencer and then the rest of the girls came. We all looked at Alison's casket just wondering how just a year ago we were all best friends having the time of our lives with one another. Emily spoke up first to break the awkward silence.

"Poor Ali."

"Can you believe what a scene this is?"
"Alison would have loved it."
"Popular in life and death." then Aria's phone rang from the looks that we were all giving her it made sense that all of us were getting the strange messages from the A person.

"Anyone we know?" Hanna asked hoping there would be an answer to all of this madness.

"No it's just my mom sending me a text. Emily and I aren't the only ones who got messages from "A" are we?" we all shock are heads.

"Oh, my God!" Spencer said we all turned to see non other than Jenna. You could hear a pen drop with how silent the room became. We all held onto one another as we left the church.

"Emily, Spencer, Aria, Irina, and Hanna."

"Do we know you?"

"I'm detective Wilden. I understand you were all good friends of the victim."

"Yeah, we were."
"I'm going to need to talk each one of you."
"We talked to the police when Alison went missing."
"And I intend to go over everyone one of your statements. This is no longer a missing persons investigation. It's a murder. Rest assured I will find out what happened that summer."

Soon as Wilden left all five of our phones went off.

"O my god." Aria said looking down at her phone.

"It's from." Hanna was cut off by Emily saying she got one too. We all did. Spencer read the text out loud first.

"I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything, A." we all finished together.

A/N

Please review what you think about this story and anything I need to do to fix or improve it. Thanks for sticking with me through all of my stories. don't worry please don't give up on the other stories I will get back to them. I'm still on a writers block. I would rather give you quality work rather than just a random update that really means nothing to the story.

Thanks once again.