Just a new story to entertain any Pretty Little Liars fan. Whether from the books or just the show. Most of the info is from the show or will just be made up because I haven't really read the books. I just know bits and pieces of info from the books but not much.

It is not in any of the characters point of view. It's a completely knew person I made up who are friends with the characters from the show/books.

I don't own anything taken from this series.

Credit to ABC Family and Sara Shepard.

Hope you enjoy and review.

PS...I appreciate feedback but if it's harsh feedback I would prefer not to hear it. Telling me if there's something wrong or something you don't like is one thing but to be mean about it is another. I got it on one of my other stories and I didn't like it. So please try to keep the negativity to yourself. Thank you!

"Did you hear?" I roll my eyes as I hear these words.

First day of Junior year and it feels as if time has stood still from the previous year. Like nothing has changed. Because here I am again, sitting in the back of my first period English class with an earphone in one of my ears. About to hear drama cook up from the preppy girls. Is school over yet?

At this point I'm waiting for someone to notice my broken wrist, stitched up eyebrow and bruise under my eye when I missed a jump on my skateboard yesterday, just to see what story they think of to spread around school. Here in Rosewood Pennsylvania, no matter what the case, stories always end up going from the truth to a lie in a blink of an eye. Can't wait to hear what they come up with.

As I look around though I realize, of course everything has changed. We are a year and grade older than we were from the last time we were in this school. But things couldn't be more the same.

"Hear what?" Someone answers.

I try to ignore them. Honestly, can't they give it a break? At least till everyone's awake. But of course being human it's only natural to be curious about what they are going to say. So I just kept myself half busy as I looked over to see who was talking.

It was the Carrie twins with their two friends Naomi and Riley. Those four together were the second best popular group of girls in the school. Mona Vanderwaal and Hanna Marin being in front as the most popular pair. Riley and Naomi hung out with them too, so they have twice the popularity.

I looked away. Anything they had to say wasn't worth my time. They weren't nice people. Even being on the softball and basketball teams they like to remind me that I would never be one of them.

I moved from Jersey to Pennsylvania when I was around three. So the only friends I had made by the time school started was the kids who lived next door to me. Also I was shy, so I wasn't able to make many friends. But the ones I did make became targets of the twins, as well as myself as we got older. I mean, my sense of style didn't help much either. I was a short skinny girl with glasses, eventually ended up with braces and have acne. That's nerd written all over me. Eventually I started playing sports and that helped a bit. But coming up from being someone who kept to myself to someone who played sports didn't change their view of me.

The only ones who don't have a problem with me are Hanna and Mona. They went through a lot to get to the position of popularity they are now. They were below the popular people and now they are at the very top. So the fact that they talk to me at all when most of the popular kids don't like me is a miracle.

Hanna has never had a problem with me. She has her moments where she can be mean but she also has a soft spot. Mona only talked to me because of Hanna. But eventually she considered me as a friend when I saved her "precious face" from getting hit with a volleyball last year during gym. Naomi and Riley are iffy with me, but tolerate me for the sake of Mona and Hanna.

Things are different being in high school in Rosewood. I left to go back to Jersey in seventh grade because my dad's mom was sick and he wanted to be there for her. Did I hate the idea of moving? Of course. But it was my grandma so I had to go. Never thought we'd be gone for as long as we were. She died and we stuck around longer to be with the family. We got back last summer to start Sophomore year.

I forgot how normal this town has to be. Different is practically not in their vocabulary. Just being Hispanic is enough to give you a second look. When I came back though I picked up some slang words from where I was living that is considered weird here. The popular kids especially gave me looks when I slipped up as if I had two heads. Honestly, get over it.

I was just about to put my other earphone in when Stacy Carrie answers the question. "That girl who used to be part of Alison DiLaurentis's group is back."

I paused mid way from putting it in my ear "You mean her?" Her sister Maddie says.

Now this got my attention because I knew who they were talking about but I couldn't believe it to be true till I saw her. Aria Montgomery was walking into class behind Emily Fields. I was in a bit of shock as I saw my childhood best friend (next door neighbor) walking into my life for the first time in almost four years. Besides the fact I moved, her parents had picked up and moved them to Iceland three years ago. This is when her friend Alison (who was the then Queen Bee) disappeared at the end of the summer just before eighth grade was about to start. It was like their get away from all the mess. I haven't seen or talked to her for awhile.

My mouth completely drops. I see Emily smile at me as she got closer. She's on the swim team and became one of my good friends when I came back. She knows how close me and Aria were before Alison practically recruited her into the group. I mean we were so close that we called each other's parents our aunt and uncle.

She scoots out of her view so she would notice me but when I looked, Aria wasn't paying attention "Is that Hanna?" She says. Hanna was a chubby kid when they became friends. She practically ate nonstop. Before Alison got her into her group she wasn't very noticed either.

Emily looks "Oh. Yea. Her and Mona are the "it" girls now."

"Wait...that's Mona?" Emily nods. "I didn't even recognize her." Mona used to be a nerd back in the day. She had glasses and wore nerdy clothes. Queen Bee Alison used to pick on her so bad that she'd end up in the bathroom for hours.

Emily turns around and gives me a nudge on the leg as she sat down in the seat in front of me. I get up and clear my throat. "Clearly you haven't recognized me either."

She slowly turns around and her face goes from confusion to lighting up like a lightbulb in a matter of seconds. "Jessie!" She gets around the desk and almost tackles me to the floor.

I hear Emily laughing and a lot of people turned our way to look. "Whoa. Chill out." I start to laugh myself.

She let's go. "Sorry. Just took me off guard."

"Took you off guard? At least you knew you were coming back."

She laughs "Hey. You've been gone too."

I smile and nod. "Good point."

"When did you get back?"

"Last summer." I couldn't help but smile "Good to know that you still remember me."

She laughs. "Well with the way you're looking right now I'm surprised myself." I laugh a bit. "What happened?"

"She completely wiped out on her skateboard." Emily had been riding her bike next to me when it happened.

"Hey. I almost made that jump."

"Yea...but you didn't." She starts smiling.

I shrug and laugh "Close enough." I look back to Aria. "So...it's been awhile."

"Hasn't been that long." She says.

"It's been almost four years."

"Exactly. Hasn't been that long." She smiles.

I smile back "Well the last time I saw you, you had pink in your hair."

She starts to laugh then looks me up and down. "And the last time I saw you, you were shorter than me. You got taller."

I sit down. "Yes. That tends to happen when you get older." Emily laughs and I smile at her. "You've grown too."

"Now you're just lying. I've grown like two inches since the last time you saw me. You shot up like a rocket."

I start laughing "It didn't happen all at once. And give me a brake. I was a short kid." She laughs. "Besides, I'm barely more than probably an inch or two taller than you."

"Still got taller."

"Well...in my defense I'm older. So I get the rights to be taller."

She laughs. "You're like two weeks older. Don't get all wise on me." I start to smile.

She sits down and looks back at Hanna. She waves and then sees her give Emily a weird look. "You guys in a fight or something?"

"Things have changed Aria. We didn't just drift from you. We all drifted from each other." Spencer Hastings then walks in. "Not even they are close anymore." Hanna and Spencer exchange an awkward hello as she sits down at the front of the class.

Spencer's that know it all, who has to get good grades type of person. She's not exactly popular but she's one of the most known girls in school. She used to be popular though when Alison recruited her into the group with Aria, Hanna and Emily, but that's not why she's well known. The Hastings name goes a long way in this town.

She's actually one of my close friends. Our moms were part of anything that had to do with meetings for Rosewood. So we have been friends for a long time. A lot of people think just because she's a Hastings she lives up to the stereotypes of their family. It's a yes and a no.

According to others the Hastings are snobs who have to be the best at everything and think they are better than everyone else just because they are rich and have good jobs to match. That is annoying to hear because Spencer has never made herself out to be like that. Besides hoping to get the best grades, she isn't too bad. She acts as normal as a brainiac can be. As for the rest of her family. It's a bit hard to pass by the stereotypes, because they are like that.

Everyone is now starting to pile into the class and take their seats. I'm in the middle of having a conversation with Aria as I put my iPod away and the teacher walks in. When I look back over, Aria is pulling out a book. Nice to know she hasn't changed much.

When I see what it is I curse to myself cause I notice it happens to be the summer reading book. Which I just realized I didn't finish reading. I shake it off and watch as the teacher writes his name on the board. "Mr. Fitz" it said.

When he turns to his desk I tap Emily's shoulder and she turns around. "Does he look familiar to you?"

She looks back at him then nods "He's substituted a few times last year."

"Oh yea!" I say in a loud but hushed voice. She starts cracking up. I keep looking at him. "I swear I know him from somewhere else other than school though."

She shrugs. "He probably lives around town."

I nod. "Yea. Must be it."

We turn back and see him scanning the room. Then his face goes from excited to shocked, or even scared in an instant "Holy crap." He says in a low but audible tone.

Everyone starts to turn their heads to whatever he was looking at. I noticed he was staring in our directing but it wasn't at me or Emily, it was Aria. I turned to her as well and her face was just as shocked as Mr. Fitz.

We then hear him clear his throat "My name is Mr. Fitz." We all stare at him. "Some of you may already know me from substituting your classes last year. For those of you who don't, well...hello." Some people put on a smile. "I will make it clear now. I can either be the cool teacher and we can have a good school year, with minor strictness. Or I can be the bad guy and be extremely strict. This all depends on how you guys want to act in my class." He searches our faces and smiles "Now. Please take out your summer reading books." We start to. "Who actually read the book?" At first everyone starts to put their hand up and he laughs. "No...really. Who read it?" Now only less than half the class put their hands up. He nods. "That's what I thought. No problem. I think I'm going to take the first week or two to go over it for whoever didn't read it."

"Really?" Spencer says.

He smiles. "It wasn't that long ago that I was sitting in the students desk. I know how it feels." He passes out paper that has the things we need for the class and what he was going to be teaching us this year. Then he goes over to his desk, takes out his copy of the book and goes on with his lesson.

It felt like forever but finally the bell rings and we leave class. "I have Chem next. It's upstairs." Emily says. "What do you guys have?"

"Algebra Two." Aria says. "Also upstairs."

"I have Geometry on this floor." I say.

"Isn't that a Sophomore class?" Aria asks.

"Yea. But when I took my placement test in eighth grade for high school I didn't pass the Math section. So even though grading isn't the same here as in Jersey there was nothing they could do to put me back in the right classes."

"Oh." I nod. "Well that sucks."

I nod. "Math is not my thing."

"Never was." She smiles.

"Well..." Emily says. "I'll see you guys later." We both nod and smile.

She takes off and I look over at Aria. She watches me for awhile and half smiles. "So I'm gonna go."

She starts to leave and I finally get out. "What was that all about?"

"What?" She says, turning back.

I give her a look "For once in your life could you not act like you have no idea what I'm talking about." She gives me a look and I roll my eyes. "Why were you looking at Mr. Fitz like that?"

Her face goes pale. "Like what?"

"Like you guys know each other?"

She hesitates then clears her throat. "He just looked familiar."

"Yea. That's what I thought too but I didn't go looking like I had just seen a ghost."

"How have you seen him before?"

"He substituted last year. But don't change the subject."

"Jessie?" I turn around and see Arias brother Mike. He smiles and walks over. "Wow." He says as he gives me a hug.

I start laughing and we pull away. "Wow what?"

"Well first off. You look like shit."

I laugh. "Skateboarding."

He starts laughing and nods. "Only you."

I nod in agreement. "Always me."

He laughs. "You got tall."

I look at Aria who starts laughing. "Yea we just went through that." He laughs. "But so did you. What are you. Like six feet now?"

He laughs. "No. I'm five six."

"Well I got taller. But my growth spurt clearly didn't make me tall enough."

He laughs "You'll get there." He looks around. "Your brother still have it with the girls?" I half smile but it wasn't believable. "What?"

"It's kind of a long story." I say.

"What do you mean?" Aria asks.

I look at my watch. "Later. Bells about to ring." I take off without another word.

Was I hiding something from them? Oh yea. It was going to take more than a few laughs, jokes and going down memory lane to be able to slip it in there that I have been an orphan and only child since the middle of last school year. How do you tell the two people who have been like family since diapers that important people in their lives are all of a sudden gone?