Picks up after the dreadful season one finale. This is mainly a tale about Lacey's feelings and interactions since ABC Family decided to destroy her character with a pathetic attempt of making her a lesbian, and really cutting her out from a good portion of the show's main storyline. Ehem, I'm not bitter though lol. Enjoy.
Mourning and distress filled the air along with confusion and resentment of a common but fallen enemy, Vikram Desai. The man took lives, he ruined them. There stood Charlie in arms of his newly discovered mother, who was also the mother of Jo Masterson. For five dreadful, menacing years, Charlie sought vengeance against the Desai family for killing the woman he once called mother. Even that was a lie; his life was a lie. Charlie dropped the knife which he held in his hand slowly and with caution. He had almost killed his sister. Everyone stood still in the abandoned old house, but Chief Masterson had yet to back down, his gun was pointed in Charlie's direction still. Jo was panting and breathless as she had just escaped death. She scurried to the corner of the room where she was met by the embrace of her friends Danny and Lacey. After one long, powerful reassuring hug between the three friends, who had endured so much disaster, Danny pulled Jo alone and hugged her amorously.
Lacey instinctively cut her eyes in their direction then bowed her head in embarrassment. Just a week ago, Danny had hugged her that way. She took in the scene of the entire room. Vikram Desai and his household of deceit, Tess Masterson who, along with Vikram, carried the secret that she bore a son eighteen years ago. Charlie stepped into the scene, not even a month ago and still he was more relevant in everyone's lives than Lacey. The whole situation, none of it concerned her. She had been isolated from the equation.
Lacey was the first to break the silence.
"I'm gonna- I think I'll go home now." She spoke softly as if to avoid disrupting the peace that dwelled among the two dysfunctional families.
"Do you want us to ride back with you?" Danny offered. "In case you get lost."
Lacey found it difficult to withhold a stream of tears that had already begun surface in the corners of her eyes. Everything in this town, every relationship, every person was bound by multiple lies.
"No, I think I just need to be alone."
She turned her back quickly away from the old abandoned building, away from the drama, cultivated by various persons' inability to elicit truth. She turned her back ultimately away from the two people she once loved the most, Jo and Danny.