Title: Secrets and Lies
Summary: "I hate my sister." "What a surprise, me too." If only they were talking about the same sister, then maybe things would have turned out differently. But then again, maybe it was for the best. Meet Madeline, the long lost Hastings daughter. What happens when she suddenly appears in Rosewood? What secrets does she have? What secrets will she tell? And more importantly, how dangerous is she?
AN: Hi everybody! This is my first PLL fic, so I hope it turns out well. Maddie is my OC and is a Hastings, but she hadn't lived with them before. This is sort of my version of Season 3, so all Season 1&2 events happened. And some things might be like Season 3. So the first chapter takes place after That Night. Time period is summer of 2012 (so Maddie is 13 when she meets them).
*This is the prologue. I will continue this if you like it.*
Disclaimer: Pretty Little Liars is not mine!
Prologue
The Story of Madeline Hastings
Madeline Hastings was born on September 13, 1998. She, being a Hastings, had that overachiever and competitive gene in her. But her older sisters- Spencer and Melissa- didn't have to worry about her being better than them. Why? Because Madeline never met them.
You see, Veronica Hastings did something horrible the night her third daughter was born. Late at night, she snuck out of the hospital and drove away from Rosewood. She drove to a faraway area. Madeline was left on a random family's porch. All she was left with was a carrier, a baby bag with some clothes, and a note saying her D.O.B and name.
The door opened just in time to see the car drive into the moonlight. The defenseless newborn was safely inside with the Mastersons as her birth mother made it back to the hospital without getting caught.
Well, make that birth mother and guest.
What? You actually thought Veronica Hastings was capable of all that?
Madeline was raised by the Mastersons. They were a loving family and she had one older brother and one older sister. Her brother was five years older than her and named Christopher. Her sister was three years older than her and named Jenylynn.
When Madeline started school, she immediately befriended three girls named Sophie, Brooklyn, and Virginia. The four ruled the kindergarten class of Aquamarine Day- a private school in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. They always got the best crayons and chose the best spot on the rug. In first grade, a new girl, Caitlyn, came and automatically joined the group, becoming best friends with Madeline. So as they got older, their tricks on fellow students got better. But at the end of the day, the other students would continue to praise the ground they walked on, despite the troubles they had caused them. When seventh grade came, they began doing pranks in secret. Madeline was most afraid of being caught because of her overt skills and for the sake of her positions as a field hockey captain and being a member of the elite gymnastics team.
"Come on, Mad. You have to loosen up," Caitlyn said to her one day.
"Yeah, M. C is on the field hockey team too and doesn't care if she gets caught," Sophie added. Brooklyn and Virginia stayed silent.
"But she's not a captain," Madeline muttered, fidgeting with her hair and squirming in her seat.
"Fine then. I'll just do it. But cover for me when you run drills at practice," Caitlyn snapped.
The great scheme the girls were doing? Putting itchy powder in Laila Connor's clothes. And super gluing her science project-which she worked so hard on- on the bottom of a trashcan in the girl's changing room. A little prank was Laila's initiation into their group, but Caitlyn hated her. So she left an invitation in her bag to an abandoned warehouse, where Caitlyn was going to place a stink bomb. Let's just say, Madeline caught her before she could add that to the prank.
Academically, Madeline was at the top of her class, probably even smarter than students in the grades above her. Remember, she still had that Hastings gene. Socially, however, she was timid. Within her group, she was the one that caused the least amount of drama and who teased other girls least. Because of her kind nature, Madeline was the favorite of the group among the other students.
One day, her perfect little life would be turned upside down.
"Jenylynn? I heard that Brad broke up with you. I'm really sorry you had to go through that," Madeline timidly said as she entered her older sister's room.
"Go away, brat. I never want to see you again."
Madeline was taken aback, considering her sister had loved her to death. Their bond was really strong. The twelve year old blinked and the fifteen year old rolled her eyes.
"Don't even try to play innocent with me. You know that you're the one who told Principal Monroe about the drugs when she came to the middle school. Now, thanks to you, Brad's expelled and broke up with me."
The story behind the drugs was simple: Brad's friend, Roger, had trusted him to hide some heroin from the principal during locker inspection. He told Jenylynn, who told Madeline, so now she thinks that her younger sister had spilled the beans.
Really, it wasn't Madeline. But on Madeline's thirteenth birthday, she found out who ruined her relationship with her sister. And she got revenge. Big time.
On the day of their quarrel, Jenny revealed to Madeline out of fury the truth- that she wasn't her blood sister and just some helpless little girl they had found abandoned on their porch. That got Madeline thinking. So she did her research- and being the genius she is, she not just learned but located where her true family was. And then she plotted on how she was going to get to them.
Near the end of summer, she left the Masterson's. And a couple of weeks before her fourteenth birthday, she arrived at her destination. The journey from Berkeley Springs to Rosewood was long and uncomfortable. Lucky for Madeline, her 'adopted' family was almost as wealthy as her bio-family, so she didn't have to sleep on the streets but in motels, using her mother's credit card.
She slowly walked up to the big house. Some lights in the house were on, but most of them were off. The storm was raging like a war, and the lightning sent shivers up Madeline's spine. Right before she was about to knock on the door, she couldn't help but feel out of place. But yet, she somehow belonged. Because Rosewood was a mysterious place filled with secrets and lies.
And nobody would think to look behind Madeline's innocent face, but if they did, everybody would learn all her secrets.
Like how Madeline Masterson-Hastings committed murder.
Timidly, she knocked on the door. Footsteps were heard approaching the door. A teenage girl with a panicked look on her face answered the door. Madeline looked up and locked eye with her long lost sister's.
Spencer Hastings.
AN: How was it? Please tell me your feedback so I can know whether or not I should I continue this. It would mean the world to me. I'm hoping that you like this. Remember, this is just the little backstory. If I continue this, there will be much action going on soon.
Thank you all so much!
xxxLizxxx