Madness – xAlessandriax
"No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth."
-Sara Shepard, Heartless
Prologue
They say ignorance is bliss.
Sweet, sweet bliss.
I wish that we had chosen to be ignorant and blissful and naive and young and dumb. I wish the past would have stayed locked in its cage. I wish a whole lot of things.
Seven years. Two thousand five hundred fifty-seven days of normality. An anniversary celebration became the start of a new, fresh threat. The same old performance, but directed by a brand new puppet master.
It's cute, thinking that we really had escaped the hand of the relentless stalker that terrorized us for years upon years. I guess we should have known better. We made so many twists and turns in the dark forest that was our lives, trying to throw them off our trail. But for every step we took, they were always two steps ahead of us.
Call it luck, call it fate, call it karma, but whatever it was; we finally nailed that bitch. For the first time in our lives for many years, we were finally able to breathe. We could go to sleep at night and not check our closets for hidden cameras or triple lock our doors and windows. We were caged birds with fractured wings who had finally broken free, fixed ourselves up, and learned to fly.
We soared and reached heights I never imagined were possible. But what goes up must come down. The winds grew turbulent and our wings were clamped yet again.
We were hopeless.
We were faithless.
We were restless.
They say ignorance is bliss.
Sweet, sweet bliss.
We didn't choose to be ignorant, or blissful, or naive or young or dumb.
We were thrown back in the ring, and the games began once more.
A/N
Hello readers!
My preferred name is Alessandria, and this is my first fanfiction, entitled Madness. Madness is a Pretty Little Liars fanfiction. A small plot summary is below that. If you do not want to know what the story is about at all, feel free to look out for Chapter 1!
I hope you all enjoy, and I hope to be posting the first chapter soon! Thanks!
**DISCLAIMER: I do not own Pretty Little Liars or ABC Family, and I am in no way affiliated with either.**
**WARNING: Due to the fanfiction containing profane language and containing some lemon scenes in the future, the rating on this fic is M.**
Summary
Seven years ago, five girls thought that they were done being stalked by the mysterious -A. The girls had unmasked the monster that had endlessly tortured them for years and fully believed in the notion that they were safe. The girls had remained the best of friends, through thick and thin, and are trying to lead normal lives. Between college, jobs, and other circumstances, the girls had not seen much of each other. They gathered at Spencer's house on the seventh anniversary of their win over -A, expecting just to drink a few glasses of wine, relax, and have a well-deserved girls' night. The girls were trying to find a show to use as background noise for their conversation when they stumbled across ABC Family. The channel was playing a trailer for a brand new show that would be airing that summer titled Pretty Little Liars. Each of the girls nervously laughed in unison at the name on the screen that they recognized all too well. It had to be a coincidence, right? If only. -A is back; and the bitch is more relentless than ever before.