A/N: This is a new story, all rights go to the author (Sara Shepard) and the only thing I own is my plotline. Hope you enjoy it:

Aria-

When she woke up, all she heard was silence, no Mike listening to music loudly or Byron and Ella arguing in the kitchen, just pure silence. After all, there was nothing in Aria's life. Well, there was her art, her crush on Noel Kahn, her hate for typical Rosewoods and of course, Alison DiLaurentis. She was the center of the school's attention.

Today was just another hot Saturday morning with nothing unexpected. After all, Ali D wasn't a part of her life anymore, until next week. As soon as the door slammed shut, Aria woke up from her bed, her neck all sweaty and her eyes droopy from the night before. Downstairs at the kitchen table, Ella was preparing coffee and Byron was reading his newspaper (as usual). Ever since Aria heard him talk on the phone with that mysterious woman, she couldn't help but notice how he had cheated on her mother and how she didn't notice it before. The way he was always rushing in the mornings to leave early, how he got home so late, but then he left again, never with a good reason, never bothering to think through an excuse.

"Aria, are you there?" Ella said, waving a mug in front of her.

"Huh, what?" Aria broke out from her pondering.

"How much milk do you want in your coffee?"

"I think I'll stick with orange juice for now, but thank you." She looked over at Byron, who was staring at his watch with a blank face, then a thought rushed over to him, and he stood up abruptly.

"Sorry girls, but I got to go. You know, meeting in an hour" Aria gave him a look and Byron met her eyes, knowing what he was going to do. Byron broke the tension and rushed up the stairs and soon enough, out the door to meet up with his mistress.

Hanna—

"Hanna!" Her mother screamed while looking through something on her Blackberry and drinking coffee at the same time. "You're going to be late for school!"

"Just a second mom!" Hanna was trying to fit into the two-sizes-too-small school uniform skirt. It was impossible. A tear spilled out of Hanna's eyes, she was too fat. So she gave up and put on the sports uniform sweatpants that had ROSEWOOD branded on the side like some kind of label.

As soon as she got to her classes, it was no better, all of the toothpick-thin girls were staring at her with judging faces. Hanna looked down at herself, with her fat thighs and greasy hands. I need to make a change to myself. She always said stuff like that, but deep down she knew it never worked, and it never will.

"Hey Hanna, over here!" Scott Chin was her only friend. He had moped black hair, dark brown eyes and an accent which made Hanna think he was gay (he was). But that was all Hanna had, she had no one else to talk to about the mysteries of life.

"Hey Scott. What's up?"

"I just heard a little some-some about Alison, she knows where her brother hid his part of the time-capsule flag." The time-capsule was a tradition at Rosewood Day School, every year, some high school seniors would hide a flag, and the people who found it got to leave their mark on it, later, they would put the flag back together and bury it on Campus.

"Wow!" Alison DiLaurentis had it all worked out. "I wish I had it all worked out like her." She whispered.

"What?" Scott Chin asked.

"Nothing, let's just get a slice of pizza, I'm starving." But she so badly wanted that one piece of Ali's time capsule flag.