I was in the Spencer's barn. It was nice to have a sleepover with my friends. Even though none of us were really alike, we had one thing in common: Alison. We were all friends with Alison. It started with me. I was the first one that she reached out to. I was still pretty sure that I was the one that she was closest to. I knew some of her secrets that not even the other girls knew. I was the only one that knew that her mom cheated on her dad. She told me when we found out that my dad was cheating on my mom. I wanted to tell my mom, but at the same time. I didn't want to break up my family.
Once we were at the party, Alison gave us some liquor to drink. I didn't like alcohol, so I faked drinking it. It seemed that I was convincing because the other girls bought it.
"Careful, Aria, any more and you'll tell us all your secrets." Emily joked before I let the liquid go back into the cup. It was actually something that Ali had taught me. We had been to a party together without the other girls. She told me that it was a good way to tell if a guy really liked you. She told me that guys sometimes slipped rape drugs into drugs and I shouldn't take drinks from just anyone.
We played a game of truth or dare before we went to bed. I had chosen truth because we were allowed to choose it once.
"Okay, which Degrassi star would you rather date?" Alison asked. I tried to think of the names of the male actors. "Nina Dobrev or Shenae Grimes."
"Excuse me?" I responded in surprise. I couldn't believe that she had went there.
"Come on, every girl has some lesbian fantasies." Ali replied. "Which one do you think would be a better girlfriend?"
"Am I basing it off their characters or the actors?" I questioned.
"You can use whatever reasoning you'd like." Ali told me.
"Well if I'm basing it on the characters, I'd probably rather date Darcy but only if she came out of the closet. I wouldn't want to be anyone's secret girlfriend." I replied.
It wasn't too long before I noticed the other girls started feeling tired and we decided to go to bed. Spencer, Hanna, and Emily fell asleep before Ali and I did.
"You're not tired?" She asked in surprise.
"Not really. So how was visiting your grandma?" I replied.
"Boring. That woman doesn't know how to do anything fun." She stated. "I really think that you should tell your mom about what happened."
"I just don't want anything to change and I think it's over between him and that girl." I explained.
"Yeah, but how do you know that he won't cheat on her with another student?" She challenged.
"I want to believe in him." I admitted. "I know it might sound stupid, but I want to believe that he can change. Do you think my dad is a good person?"
She hesitated for a second.
"Ali, is there something that you know about him?" I asked.
"I don't know." She admitted. "It's hard for me to trust people and I can't tell if anyone is a good person right now."
"You can trust me." I assured her. I realized that I should have said us, but it was too late. "I'm your friend."
"Best friend." She corrected. "Just don't tell the others because it might make them jealous. I love all of you, but sometimes I wonder what it would be like if it was just the two of us."
I fell asleep before she did. I had some weird dreams and I couldn't help but wake up in the middle of the night. I checked the time and it was around 1:00. I couldn't help but notice that Ali wasn't in the barn. I thought about waking the others but I decided to just see if she went home. She lived next door after all. I went around the front and that was when I saw something truly bizarre across the street.
There was a hand sticking out of a patch of dirt. I then noticed that it was moving. Someone had been buried alive. I ran over, glad that no one seemed to be on the road at this time of night. I grabbed the hand and realized that it wasn't just anyone that had been buried. It was Alison. I hugged her tight as I noticed that she was still bleeding. I decided to rip part of my sweatshirt off and used it to cover the cut.
"Ali, what happened?" I asked. She was breathing heavily, but that could have been because she didn't have a lot of air.
"Someone attacked me. I didn't get to see who it was." She explained.
"Ali, you need to go to a hospital." I told her. "I'll call an ambulance."
"No, I can't stay here and wait. What if this person comes back?" She asked. "They could try to kill me again or us. I have to get out of here."
"If you don't want to wait for an ambulance, we can walk to the hospital." I suggested. "It'll get us some time to talk about why someone would want to kill you."
"Okay, but we need to go now. We can't go back and tell the girls." She stated. I nodded. Walking to the hospital would be difficult, but not impossible considering Rosewood was such a small town. "So over the past few months, someone has been sending me threatening messages. I don't know who it is. I've been trying to find out. I didn't expect any of you would be awake right now."
"Why not?" I inquired.
"I mixed some sleeping pills into that liquor I gave you." She admitted. "I just had to make sure that none of you were behind it, but I guess you didn't drink, did you?"
"How could you do that?" I challenged. I was hurt. I wasn't going to lie and say that I wasn't hurt.
"It was the best idea that I could come up with on short notice." She explained. "I told you that I have issues trusting people."
"Well I promise you that I had nothing to do with whatever was going on." I declared.
As we continued walking, we heard a siren. Ali quickly pulled me into the bushes as the police car drove by. I was very confused.
"Why did you do that?" She asked.
"Because Garrett was driving that car." She answered.
"Garrett as in your brother's friend?" I questioned.
"Yeah, he was one of the only people that I suspected that I couldn't meet with. For all I know, he's the one who tried to kill me. I can't go to the hospital. I have to get out of here."
"Ali, calm down." I told her.
"I have to leave Rosewood. I don't know who did it. I can't stay here while I try to find out." She remarked. "I have to leave tonight. I can't stay here."
"I'm not letting you go anywhere alone, especially when you're like this." I replied. I had never seen her so panicked before.
"Then you have to come with me. I have some money. We can go to the bus station and then to the airport." She proposed.
"But what about our families, our friends?" I challenged. "We can't just run away."
"We have to…I have to anyway. I can't stay here and it'll probably be easier if we stay together." She responded.
"Okay, but I don't want to go to the airport." I remarked. "I don't want to go too far away. And we're only going to be away until we can find out who did this to you."
"There's one more thing. We can't tell anyone where we are, not even your brother." She said. "We have to give up all direct contact with everyone and we can't let anyone find us either, but we won't be alone. We'll have each other."
"Okay." I agreed before I took her to the bus station. I hoped that I wasn't making a mistake, but at the moment, I knew that I wanted to do it. I was going on a journey with Ali.
So that was the prologue. What kind of adventures will Aria and Alison get into while they're on the run? Will their bond strengthen? Will anyone find them? Please don't forget to review.
