OK all this is one of my new stories I have been wanting to write. I hope you like it and please review.
Warning: Suicide
"Do you ever wish you could have a do-over? One chance to change things, to change all our lives"
*FIVE YEARS AGO*
Lightning strikes across the sky over the center of Rosewood.
"Noooooo!" Spencer screamed as her best friends Aria, Hanna, Ali, and Emily kept her from collapsing onto the already soaked pavement. Melissa had confessed on tape to Spencer that she had killed Charlotte to keep Spencer safe. Spencer told Melissa about AD and that she needed to turn herself in before AD caught her. She was supposed to meet her outside the court house when she received a text from Melissa.
All I ever wanted to do was protect you. I love you.
Spencer looked around the town square and finally saw Melissa getting out of her car. She was parked over by the church, which didn't make sense until she saw her go inside. The girls ran after Melissa as quickly as they could but the ground was too wet and they were too far away. They were about 100 feet away when Melissa leapt to her death.
"Melissa!?" Spencer screamed falling when she reached her sisters disfigured body. She was still alive.
"Call 911" she yelled at the girls.
"They won't get here in time, Spence" Melissa gasped. She was fading fast. "I'm going to be with Ian and Taylor now" she said closing her eyes as the life went out of her body.
Spencer sobbed loudly as the girls pulled her up and held her upright as they walked to the police station. They all one by one gave statements. All except Spencer. She was still in shock and refused to talk to anybody from Lorenzo, to Marco, even the chief of police didn't get a word out of her. Toby had taken two weeks off from work as he and Yvonne were getting married at the end of the week and then going on the honeymoon.
"Hello?" Toby answered the phone when Lorenzo called him.
"Hi, Toby" he started.
"Uh-oh what's the matter, you only call me Toby when you got bad news."
"It's Spencer" he said quietly incase Yvonne was in earshot.
"Is sh-she ok?" Toby asked trying to hide his panic.
"Physically, yes" Lorenzo started. "Melissa Hastings committed suicide. Spencer was there, and she hasn't said a word since it happened. I was wondering if you could come take her statement if you can"
"Yeah, sure, be right down" he replied.
Toby sat down in a chair next to Spencer.
"Spence can you tell me what happened?" he said gently.
"Melissa killed Charlotte, she confessed it to me, and then she jumped from the church bell tower" she sobbed.
Toby wiped a tear off her cheek and was ready to suggest he take her home when Caleb came rushing in. Spencer leapt into his arms when she saw him. Toby filed the statement and went home to Yvonne. He told her the truth.
"Spencer's sister committed suicide" he said "Spencer's really shook up about it"
"She must be devastated the poor thing" she said "we'll go over tomorrow and see if there is anything we can do for her or her family."
"That is a great idea" he said putting an arm around her and giving her a light kiss on the cheek.
Toby and Yvonne went over to the Hastings the next morning and Spencer of course was already flitting around organizing the arrangements. He knew how she loved to delve into work when she was upset.
As fate would have it Melissa's funeral was the same day as Toby and Yvonne's rehearsal dinner.
Toby had kindly asked Yvonne if they could push it back an hour so that he would be able to pay his respects and be there for Spencer and her family.
"Absolutely not" she said mad he had even asked. "I have family coming in from all over the country! You are marrying me, not Spencer. The family you need to be there for this Friday will be here at the rehearsal dinner."
"You're right" he said merely to get her to calm down.
On the day of their rehearsal dinner Toby was pretty sour. He greeted everyone with a thin veil of politeness but was over all distracted and fidgety.
"Ok, I can't take this anymore" Yvonne said finally. "You can go to the funeral on the grounds that when you come back you will be a model groom-to-be"
"I will Yvonne, Thank you so much" he said kissing her before dashing out.
It was a somber affair over at the Hastings. All the girls were there, Ezra and Caleb too, of course. Wren and Spencer's parents. Some family he recognized and some he didn't.
He shook Mr. Hastings hand and had a drink with him. Little did he know, Peter had already had 6. He hugged Veronica. It seemed Spencer was nowhere in sight.
"Bill!" Peter yelled drunkenly as he slapped a hand on Toby's shoulder. This is Toby, the man my daughter Spencer was supposed to marry"
Finally he caught a glimpse of Spencer and Caleb coming downstairs. Spencer was fixing her dress.
Yeah, she likes to do that when she is upset too.
Toby pulled Spencer off to an empty room.
"Hey, I have to go back to my rehearsal dinner in a minute but I just had to see you." He hugged her tightly and she hugged him back.
"Tell me not to do it" he said. While he was still hugging her.
"What?" she asked pulling away.
"Tell me not to marry Yvonne, tell me there's hope for us and that we can figure this whole mess out and just live happily ever." He said in a rush while he still had some liquid courage.
"I'm sorry Toby, I can't do that" she said solemnly.
"Goodbye Spencer" he said as he walked away.
Two days later Toby married Yvonne. Hanna and Jordan married shortly after. The girls found out through a tabloid magazine that Aria and Ezra had eloped in Tuscany. Caleb proposed a year later when the strip turned pink. They got married when Spencer was six months pregnant with their first child, a son to be named Caleb James Doyle Rivers. They call him CJ for short.
*NOW*
It was just after midnight when Caleb's cell rang. It was probably one of the women he had been screwing on the side. That was ok with Spencer because she went to yoga three times a week and hadn't done yoga in six months. The loving part of their marriage had ended roughly around three years ago when their second child, Melissa Taylor Rivers was born. They call her Maytay for short. Caleb handed the phone to Spencer.
"It's for you" he said sleepily.
"Hello?" she said sitting up. Anyone looking for her at midnight probably had something serious to tell her.
"Hey Spence" a semi familiar voice said "It's Emily"
"Hey Em, what's wrong" she asked pretty sure she heard sobbing in the background.
"Jordan's dead" she said. "Hanna is a wreck…..and…I guess I'm sending out an S.O.S." she halfway chuckled.
"We'll be on the first plane out tomorrow" Spencer said hanging up.
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