'Miranda, Caleb, Caleb and Miranda, Me and Caleb, Us, Caleb leaving me for Ravenswood. Flirting with other people, feeling empty inside. I don't know who I am anymore. Nothing that A does surprises me or scares me anymore. I don't care about anything or anyone.
I wanna punch the living hell out of the person who took my reason of existence from me. I feel so stupid about asking Caleb to stay behind with her and yet the man that I know, the person that I dated for a year, wouldn't do that to me... Not with out a hell of a good reason. So what's going on in Ravenswood, Caleb? What are you hiding from me?
And you Miranda, you seemed like such a great girl. Just what type of person goes to throw herself at another girl boyfriend knowing hat the only reason he stayed behind to help you is because of said person's girlfriend's request? Was it just an act to you the whole I'm a little orphan girl who needs help and protection?
Nevermind I will get my answers and then I'll finally be able to get on with my life... Just as soon as I beat some sense into the person who destroyed my relationship in exchange for my trying to helping her...'
Hell hath no wrath as a scorned woman, especially i said woman was on determined Hanna Marin. She had left early that morning from her home town, Rosewood to go and find the person who took her boyfriend away from her, to the little hell place known as Ravenswood. As she mentally prepared herself for the shouting match that would follow her demands to see Miranda, knowing that Caleb wouldn't agree to the idea she spotted him inside a little cafe from Ravenswood. Hanna quickly parked her car and entered the small cafe where she saw her ex - boyfriend sitting at the table surrounded by other people. She silently gathered all her courage as she approached the table.
-"We need to figure out who he is and what he's trying to tell us" To Hanna's poor heart hearing Caleb speaking so close sounded like a dagger cutting repeatedly through her heart. However her decision being made she took the final steps towards Caleb's table.
-"Hello Caleb", Hanna's voice sounded stable despite her multitude of emotions going through her head and heart. She noted almost immediately that Miranda, the bane of her existence wasn't there with Caleb and that Caleb looked shocked to see her there and also a little terrified. Terrified for whom? Miranda? She decided not to go down that road as she introduced herself to the rest of the table. "Hy, I'm Hanna".
Caleb who had seemed at a momentarily loss of words quickly got his act together, seeing her there and yet hoping that she wasn't really there. He however knew with out another second thought that he had suddenly no more alternatives but to tell Hanna the truth about Miranda and her death, because no sooner had he introduced Hanna to Remy, Luke and Olivia that she asked the question he feared the most. "Where's Miranda?" Caleb silently kicked himself for underestimating Hanna's ability of always going out of her way to get answers, despite the fact that he had tried to make it look like he had fallen for another girl while being in Ravenswood.
He excused himself from the table and asked Hanna to go with him so that they could talk more privately. As they reached her car, they were both hit with a powerful deja vu sensation caused by all the times that they had shared a car together. Hanna opened her back passenger seat and let her bags inside the car and then silently offered Caleb the keys to her car as she opened the front door passenger seat. When Caleb arched his eyebrow to her she simply shrugged "We'll get there faster if you're driving. Besides i don't feel like having you nagging me for how I drive my car."
Caleb gave her a little smile before getting himself in the car and driving away to the place that he had been currently residing, but that he had yet to be able to call home. He wondered how exactly was he supposed to tell her just what was going on in Ravenswood and how much. And more importantly would she believe any of it? Could he convince her to get out of there so that she could be safe from everything related to the Pact?
-"Where exactly do you live now? You never told me this when you came back ho... to Rosewood a few weeks ago? And does Miranda live there with you?" Hanna's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts and for the first time in weeks Caleb was glad that Miranda's stuff had been stored in her mother's room at her uncle's place instead of his apartment.
As they reached the apartment's front door he quickly scooped away his keys from his pocket. "This place was lent to me by Miranda's uncle. I live here for free while I do stuff around the house. Mostly I'm helping out with the weeds around the cemetery. And Miranda doesn't live there with me". Caleb opened his front door and silently stepped aside to let her inside his house. He had to quietly pinch himself seeing her leave her bags in his house and going straight in front of his closet's door.
-"So you live right above a funeral parlor?" He heard Hanna ask him and had to silently sop himself from her obvious attempt at making a joke regarding his living place.
-"Across it" he softly corrected her before deciding that they should move on to other topics.
-"Close enough" and Caleb's urge to smile and laugh at Hanna's antiques was suddenly back. Making him wish he had never ended things with the stubborn woman in front of him, but also reminding him just why exactly he had done so.
-"Hanna why didn't you call me to tell me you were coming?" Caleb decided that it was time to start discussing more serious stuff.
-"I like surprises" Hanna shrugged at him bu seeing as how he gave her that look of seriously-why-are-you-here , she decided it as best to just be honest with him especially since she knew that he hated surprises. "I need to talk to Miranda". She then decided to allow herself indulge in the scorned dumped for another woman urges and went to open Caleb's closet's door to see whether Miranda's stuff was in there.
A sudden urge of reassurance hit her as she saw only Caleb's clothes in there. There was a time when she wouldn't have doubted his word but now she wasn't sure anymore. She slowly kicked herself mentally for exposing herself as still being jealous over Caleb, just as she heard him softly add "I told you, Miranda doesn't live here."
She decided that that however didn't answer any of her questions regarding the mysterious girl. "Which only brings me back to my original question : Where is she? " Hanna asked as she closed the closet's doors and silently walked to stand in fron of her ex-boyfriend, she decided to continue what she had on her mind "Look, Caleb, I mean this with all the love in my heart, but I will crack your skull with a hammer if you tell that it's complicated", she told him as she watched him shifting around his place as if he was unsure of what to tell her. However Hanna had had enough "it's complicated" to last her several life times, most of them having being told by the same person standing in front of her. "Just tell me where she is. I don't care. I won't hurt her... much" even to her own ears her words sounded insincere.
She watched as caleb practically stumbled through the words he was getting ready to say :"I think you should sit down." Caleb tried to mentally prepare Hanna for the shock that he knew was coming to her. "Maybe I should stay on my feet." Caleb decided that he was done stalling for time about his current situation. "Miranda's dead."
Hanna had been expecting a lot of things that she would hear on that day. That maybe Caleb and Miranda had fallen for each other quickly but that Caleb hadn't meant to hurt her. That maybe his overprotective instincts had been the reason behind his staying in Ravenswood. She had not been expecting to hear that said person she had come to argue with was dead. And if she was dead how did it happen? When? And more importantly what in the world was her boyfriend still doing in Ravenswood if Miranda was dead?