Summary: "You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight." How would've Toby and Spencer's story have gone if it were Toby who went blind instead of Jenna that fateful night? Would Toby and Spencer's love conquer all? With the disappearance and murder of Alison DiLaurentis, and with the arrival of this mysterious A. What will happen?
Warning: Jenna doesn't rape Toby in this story; they actually get along in my story. From this point on everything will be off-canon. And A will be different from what we got from the television series.
Prologue: The Beginning
You know that one boy who can easily be spotted within a crowd? When you're with your friends at the mall gossiping about the cutest boys in your grade, and when you're about to gush about the HOTEST one, you'll catch a glimpse of him, just standing there. He'll randomly be mentioned during family conversations during dinner. He's the golden boy. The golden boy the entire town just simply loves. But, in this case he's the pariah. The Pariah-boy. Every town has one, and in Rosewood, his name is Toby Cavanaugh.
"Alison you're crazy she doesn't need blush, she doesn't need make-up. PERIOD." Said Spencer Hastings as she leaned back and examined one of her best friends, Emily Fields.
"I agree with Spencer on this Alison," piped out Aria Montgomery. Hanna Marin hummed in agreement as well.
Alison DiLaurentis pursed her lips together, almost resembling a small child. "Ugh! Whatever," she growled out.
Emily raised a black brow as she examined herself in the large mirror; they were all currently in Alison's bedroom. She tiled her face to the side, and then the other, and then smiled at her reflection. She was sporting an au naturale look, which to her surprise suited her. She was currently wearing a white sweetheart lace chiffon satin summer homecoming cocktail dress, which she shockingly fought Alison over, shocking her and their friends. She usually was the submissive friend when it came to Alison.
Alison's parents were at some business function, and Jason was at some stupid party, so they had the entire house to themselves.
Each of the girls were tossing different articles of clothing around, with Alison obviously stealing the best ones for herself, she was currently in a sour mood since Emily stole the dress she wanted.
Aria tried a rather risqué look which suited her perfectly since she was the rebellious one of the bunch, her fashion sense was more on the exotic side, hence her pink hair.
"Oh my gosh Hanna! Sean won't know what hit him," gushed Alison. Hanna blushed as she looked at herself, the cute top did a good job in concealing her belly and made her blue eyes pop.
"You really think so?" she asked as she looked at Alison.
Alison nodded, "Yes, I am positive. Now help me pick something out," she said playfully as she linked her arm with Hanna's.
Spencer held up a lime yellow cashmere cardigan, and tilted her head to the side.
Seeing her friend's inner conflict, Aria nodded in agreement, "Wear it it'll look cute on you," she said.
"Really?" inquired Spencer as she twirled around with the outfit.
"Yes," replied Aria.
The three girls had to suppress their amused smiles at the look of surprise on Spencer's face.
And of course the queen bee had to steal the spotlight from her when she decided to strike a daring pose in her pink mid-thigh summer dress. Hanna gaped at her friend, while Spencer rolled her eyes.
"Wow Ali you look hot!" squealed out Aria and Hanna at the same time.
Alison smirked at them both, "I know," she replied playfully.
The sweet and playful moment was ruined when something caught her eye while she was admiring her reflection. "Oh my god," she screeched out.
"I can see you, stupid pervert," she yelled as she pushed through Aria and Spencer in order to reach her bedroom window.
"What?" inquired Emily as she began to make her way towards the three girls.
"Oh my god he was just standing there spying on us," growled out Alison.
"Who?" questioned Spencer, there was no one in the backyard or in the tree.
"That perv Toby Cavanaugh," answered a very pissed off Alison.
When most people saw Toby, they would cross the street in order to avoid him. He literally had no friends; he was the town pariah. He was tall, skinny with blue eyes and a mop of brown hair. He was always wondering the neighborhood alone with his head held up high. He was brave and didn't care what others thought of him, which the popular school kids hated. The only person he talked to was his stepsister, Jenna Marshall. And she was a complete loser, there only difference? She actually did have friends. And Alison hated her because she was prettier than her. Jenna resembled Snow White; she had skin white as snow, hair black as night, and lips red as blood, and startling green eyes.
"I feel really, really violated," said Aria as she tried to cover herself with her arms.
Alison's face blazed red with fury, "We have to get that bitch back,"
Hanna's blue eyes widened with fear, "How?"
"We should give that punk a taste of his own medicine," Alison answered.
Her plan, which she explained, was to scare Toby shitless. When Toby wasn't wondering around their neighborhood he would be locked in his garage painting or drawing, or playing with his Gameboy. The poor boy spent every other waking second in there.
Alison tapped the bottom of her chin with her index finger as she thought, and then snapped her fingers when the light bulb in her head turned on. "We need fireworks and luckily for us, we know where to get some,"
It was no secret that her older brother Jason had a secret stash of them under his bed, he and his friends liked to blow shit up and scare the younger kids with them.
"We steal one from my brothers room, sneak on over and light one and throw it in the garage with him in it, it'll scare the crap out of him."
"I don't know about this Ali," said Spencer as she bit on her fingernail.
"Yeah I agree with Spencer, what if something goes wrong," agreed Emily.
"What if he gets hurts?" added Hanna.
Alison groaned as she ran a hand through her blond hair, "Fine I'll do it myself," she bit out as she walked out of her room and into her brothers room.
The girls scrambled after her and were off into the night, walking towards Toby's house, which was kitty corner to the DiLaurentis home. It wasn't as impressive as the rest of houses on the block; it was your typical two-story home with a driveway and garage. But, neither of the houses, even the DiLaurentis home wasn't as impressive as the Hastings home. The Hastings home even had their own windmill, eight bedrooms and their sauna and rocklined pool. And it bordered the DiLaurentis' backyard as well.
Alison and the girls ran around to the Cavanaugh's driveway that leads up to the garage, the four girls hid behind some bushes while Alison marched up towards the garage lighting up the firework with a match.
"Do you really think she's going to do this?" asked Aria as she twirled a strand of hair around her fingers.
"No," replied Spencer as she looked around.
"This is Alison we're talking about, she'll do it," said Hanna.
"This is stupid," said Emily.
Their eyes widened as they saw Alison silently opening the door and throwing the firework inside as she deemed the garage was clear.
Alison smirked as she ran towards the girls; she smiled triumphantly as she reached her crew, then they simultaneously screamed as the entire garage erupted in flames. They weren't expecting that to happen.
"Alison, what did you do?" The four girls yelled out in horror.
The queen bee looked as equally as scared as them. She was going to yell at them to make a run for it, but something made them pale and whimper in fear.
Amongst the crackling of the flames and breaking glass, they heard a scream, that scream will haunt them forever. It sounded like someone was being brutally murdered. Someone was in the garage.
They covered their mouths with their hands suppressing their screams when the kitchen door to the Cavanaugh house flung open and out ran out Jenna. "TOBY!" she screamed.
Luckily for the girls they were in the shadows, they couldn't be seen. They tensed when Noel Kahn the most popular boy in their grade jogged by. He stopped in his tracks when he saw the garage was in flames, he roughly yanked his ear buds out. He sprinted towards the burning garage when he heard Jenna's screams for help.
The girls took that as their queue and made a beeline towards Alison's house, which wasn't far and slammed the door shut.
If the girls stayed a little bit longer they would've seen Noel Kahn emerging out of the burning garage with a very unconscious Toby in his arms and a very hysterical Jenna behind him. Toby's body was covered in smoke patches, and he had deep cuts on his face, glass lodged into his eyes which gave off picture that he was crying tears of blood.
A/N: And here is the first chapter. I don't know a lot of fashion so; I hope the trying on clothes section wasn't horrible. And I tried to match their outfits to their personalities. I hate myself for hurting poor Toby, but there's a part of me that likes it when Toby's in pain. And I decided to add in Noel. He'll later become Toby's best friend in the later chapters. Toby needs some guy friends he can talk to.
So, should I continue?