Chapter One: Hefty Hanna and the Stoner

Hanna Marin knew that out of all her friends she was the fat one. She was the fat one and she hated it. By being fat she felt that she was invisible to world, no one really wanted to get to know her and be her friend. Allison saw something in Hanna, she saw a fire in Hanna that intrigued her and had her befriending Hanna.

Jason DiLaurentis was beyond messed up. He partied hard with his friends with no real goals in life. He lived for the moment and didn't even bother to think about tomorrow. Allison loved to remind her older brother that he was a creepy screw up and no one would want him. Lucky for him he had learned to tune her out.

After becoming friends with Allison, Aria, Spencer and Emily, Hanna had changed. She didn't want to be the fat girl anymore who ate when she was hurting or mad at the world. Hanna wanted to prove to Allison that she too could be thin and beautiful just like her. She secretly started looking up information on fat camps and ways to lead a better healthier life. Hanna didn't know how she kept that secret from Allison considering she had some weird secret radar sense.

Jason didn't know how his sister did it. She brainwashed four girls to be practically worship her and hang on to her every word and action. He actually felt a little bad for them. He wondered if they were completely oblivious to how vicious and cruel she could be or if they just chose to ignore it.

Hanna had run away from her friends after a particularly cruel episode with Allison. They were trying on outfits for a party they were going to sneak out for when Allison chose that moment to pounce. Finding clothes that were stylish and appealing for a party was hard for Hanna, so when Alli made her disgust known with some of Hanna's lifestyle choices Hanna didn't know what to do or say. She surely couldn't tell Allison that she was going to the gym and working so hard to eat better because that would just add on more criticism and cruel words to Allison's already harsh treatment. Hanna looked to her other friends with pleading blue eyes for them to say something; anything but they just stood back and let her verbally beat her down. She could hear Alli's mocking laugh as she ran from her bedroom and out to the front steps of her friends house.

Jason had just returned home after an afternoon of getting high with his friends. The sight that greeted him was confusing his pot induced brain. What was one of Alli's friends doing sitting on the front porch face in her lap and not drooling over Queen Allison's every word. Jason slowly got out of the car and carefully walked over to the front steps.

"Uh, it's Hanley right?" Jason asked trying not to startle the poor girl.

"Huh?" Hanna said looking up at Allison's totally gorgeous older brother, but Hanna knew that he just saw her as Allison's fat friend. It wasn't a secret that Jason had a small crush on Aria.

"Your name is Hanley?" Jason asked again slowly considering he was high out of his mind.

"Uh, no it's Hanna," she said as more tears fell down her cheeks. Seriously? He didn't even know her name. He knew Aria's, Spencer's and Emily's, but not hers. Was she so easy to forget?

"Oh, sorry," Jason said lamely not sure if he should just go inside or attempt to comfort the crying girl.

Then suddenly before his eyes there was a blue fire in Hanna's eyes. "Look you don't have to stay here," Hanna said in a clear angry voice.

He doesn't know what possesses him to ask but it slips out before he can stop it. "Is everything okay?"

"Seriously? I'm crying on your front porch of course everything is okay," Hanna says sarcastically as more tears make their way down her cheeks.

"What did she do?" Jason asked seeing through her walls, which is a mystery even to him how he was able to do that.

"Why should I tell you, it's not like you even care," Hanna said bitterly.

"I know my sister," Jason said taking a seat next to the broken girl. "Maybe it will help to talk about it to someone?"

Hanna couldn't believe she was doing this but the dam broke when he sat next to her. "She kept calling me fat and saying how disgusting it was to look at me," Hanna said wiping viciously at her never ending tears.

"I'm sorry," Jason said knowing it wouldn't help.

"I'm trying so hard to lose the weight and be pretty like her, but no matter how hard I try nothing works," Hanna said sobbing now.

"Hanna, appearances aren't everything," Jason said not sure where he was going with this. He didn't know if it was the pot talking or if it was really him but he felt a need to fix the damage his sister had done. "Allison maybe thin and pretty on the outside, but on the inside she is just ugly."

"So? At least people notice her," Hanna said looking at Jason.

"Yes people notice her, but once they get past her appearance they see her for what she really is," Jason says now looking at Hanna too. "From what I've seen Aria, Spencer and Emily love you for who you are and not what you look like."

Letting his words sink in, Hanna dries her tears and smiles a truly genuine smile. "Thank you." she says before getting up and going back inside. Jason words ingrained in her mind provide a special armor as she goes back up to Alli's room. For now Allison can't hurt her.

Jason stays on the porch. After that unexpected pep talk his high is gone and he is left pondering Allison and her friends. Maybe they aren't blind to his sister's negativity but then why be friends with her at all if she is that cruel? All Jason knows in that one moment is that he helped a girl that Allison had truly hurt with her insensitive words. Jason lets out a breath and goes inside as well. All this thinking about Allison and her friends has him itching to get a small buzz going again.