Finding out who A is was a big thing for us, even for the people who hadn't been affected by A's constant tormenting. After we got out of the doll house, things were hard, really hard. I had my best friends by my side as usual but I could hardly bare to look them in the eye, never mind be around them, same went for them too I guess. It's just we had been through so much together the past couple of years, fought against so much, but one thing that we could rely on, we always lost against A. After escaping from the dollhouse, I think we finally realised that. Don't get me wrong we never gave up. We had one more friend to consider now, Sara Young. She has been in the doll house with us all along and we'd never seen her, that alone was strange. How did she end up there? Why did she end up there? Was she connected to us? Was she connected to Ali? These were all questions that ran through my mind everyday, questions I never got the answers too. Anyone that knows me knows I hate being out of the loop, I hate not knowing all of the information possible and that's when I start to dig, which is probably what gets me Into trouble most of the time. We searched for more clues, getting ourselves into more trouble until finally something clicked. For a while me and Sara both thought Sara was Bethany. I know Bethany is dead but Ali was meant to be dead and look at her. If there's anything the people of rosewood was good at it was lying. So me and Aria did some digging and we started with my dad. I knew he wasn't shy to a lie either but we had to at least try, because me and Aria figured something out. What if Charles wasn't a boy? Jason remembered Charles as 'Charlie' and Charlie was a unisex name. So what if Charlie was actually Jason and Ali's sister not brother? And what if that said girl was Sara? We knew it was a long shot but it could totally work and it would be such a genius cover up. We couldn't include Emily, she was really close friends with Sara since escaping the doll house and I think Hannah found it too hard to be around us at the moment.

Flashback

"Okay, so I have to play dumb?" Aria asked me.

"Yeah, you know? Just pretend you don't know what I'm talking about" I told her. "Just follow my lead Aria" I told her when I saw her looking worried.

"Spence" Aria said, fiddling with her fingers. "I don't know if I can lie to your dad, he's like all professional and scary" she admitted.

I laughed at her. "Come on, we're team sparia, we've got this in the bag" I said.

"Yeah" she smiled back.

We got out of my car and I took lead to the house. As I walked through the back door, my dad was in the kitchen going through some paperwork, he slammed a folder shut when he saw me.

"Spencer, you're home early" he said.

"Yeah the police want to talk to me, Aria, Emily, Sara and Hannah" I said, that wasn't a lie, it just wasn't the only reason I was home. "Are you looking at Mom's case files?" I asked.

"Hello Aria" dad smiled, politely.

"Hi, Mr Hastings" Aria smiled back.

"Dad, don't change the subject" I said.

"Spencer, I don't think Aria wants to listen to us argue" he said, putting Moms files back in her bag.

"Hey, maybe I should wait outside" Aria said.

"No it's okay, I've got to head back to work now anyway" he told us.

"Why're you looking through moms files?" I asked him again.

"Spencer!" He warned. I glared at him until he gave in, it worked like it usually did.

"Okay, I was just looking to see if there was any update on your case, seeing if I recognised any names" he told us.

I nodded at him. "Can I ask you a question?"

"If I say no, will you forget it?" He asked.

I raised an eyebrow at him, I hoped he was joking.

"I thought not, go ahead" he said.

"When you were having an affair with Ali's mom..."

"Spencer!" Aria said, shocked. She was as good at this as me.

"It's alright Aria, I have nothing to hide" my dad told us.

"Did Ali's mom have any other children while you were around... Before Jason?"

"No, she didn't" my dad said.

"No son?"

"No, why are you asking me this?" He said.

"Jason thought he could remember an older brother when he was little that's all" I said.

"No, there was no boy. Wait there was a little girl Charlie, she used to babysit a few days a week for her friend while she was at work" he told us.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, look Spencer I gotta go" dad said, before leaving.

"Oh my god!" Aria said.

"Charlie was a girl! Do you think it's Sara?" I asked.

"I dunno, maybe" Aria said.

End of flashback

We went to re police with our information but they dismissed it, we argued with them a lot but it turns out the only reason they were coming around that day was to place ha in witness protection, apparently A had left them notes at the police station and the only thing to keep us safe was witness protection. So here I am now, I'm Devon, living with an older couple, far far away from rosewood and even further away from my family and friends.

We weren't allowed to stay in touch with each other because it could jeopardise everything. We played hell to stay in rosewood but our parents and the police disagreed with us. All I knew was Hannah was in Scotland which was rather funny because I know she would hate the cold weather and the non exciting fashion sense. Aria ended back in Iceland because she knew the area well and Emily was in London. We had been apart just over a year now and I had stopped answering all texts and calls.

Just like that I got a text.

"Happy 19th Spence! Love you lots, hope your doing well:) please answer my calls, I miss you. Remember were team sparia! Love Aria xo

I rolled over in bed, not before deleting the text, what was the point in staying in touch when all that would happen is we'd hurt each other with all the A drama, I was beginning to think this was actually for the best.

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