Alyssa's POV:
As I was walking up the sidewalk to my house, I sighed. Homework on top of everything else in my life. I missed the bus home and my mom was working so I had to walk home. I had the house to myself until six. Drama was at the top of my list right now, I don't need to pile an eighty page essay about the American revolution on top of that. Oh well.
I grabbed the keys from my purse and unlocked the front door. My parents were super careful about leaving the doors locked. When I was twelve, my Uncle Jason, used to break in to our house for food every week. Sometimes even twice. But, since my mom helped him find a job, he hasn't breaken in. But just to make sure, thy close it. My phone rang. everything started falling out of my bag onto the porch. Sighing, I bent down to pick them up.
"why are you so clumsy Alyssa?" I question myself.
I stuffed my books inside. I grabbed my phone and checked. It was Heather.
-hey girl, sleepover at my house tonight, my parents are out! you know wher I am! RSVP as soon as possible.
I roll my eyes. I text back.
-when are you're parents ever home! Be there at seven.
later that evening...
I had packed my bags and left for Heather's house. I knocked on the door and was invited in Selena pulling me by my wrist. She yanked it hard, and it cracked.
"ow!what was that for!" I yelped. She let go of my wrist.
"Sorry" she said apologetically.
we walked over to the stairs and went up. I stepped on a few loose boards that creaked. Shhhhh! She kept telling me. I just glared and kept walking.
we finally came to Heather's room. You can tell that it was her room because she put a little of Heather pizazz on the door with glitter and sparkles. Pink letters said HEATHER across the door.
Selena slowly opens the door.
"Quickly!" I say.
She just shushes me again and goes back to opening the door slowly.
when the door is finally open, I see Summer, Ariana, Heather, and Esther sitting in a circle, in the dark on the floor, with some sort of robes on. the only light was Heather's bedside lamp. A bowl of water is in the centre of the circle.
"Sit" says Heather. Selena walks over and sits in the empty spot beside her sister.
Confused, I flick on the light.
"what is going on?" I question.
"hisss!" They all scream.
"So what? You're all vampires now?" I say ignorantly. I throw my hands up in defeat. Flick the light back off and angrily plop into the last empty spot.
"you are all gathered here to talk about things" Heather says mysteriously.
"what mysterious things!?" I ask.
She ignores me and keeps talking.
"before we talk about things, we all have to swear that we will all stick together no matter what" Esther says.
"I don't swear" I tell her.
She rolls her eyes.
"What I'm saying, is that we have to promise to stick together no matter what" she repeats "And to know, that you will keep your promise, I have these".
She holds up these small purple leathered bracelets. Each bracelet has the names of everyone engraved on them. Alyssa(me), Summer, Selena, Ariana, Esther, and Heather.
She hand us each a bracelet and we put them on.
"It was my mom's idea" Esther replies after a while.
"Their beautiful" I say truthfully "Thanks".
"now, let's put our hand into the bowl of water" Selena continues.
"What? Why?" I demand.
"Just do it!" Summer tells me. I give up fighting for now, put my hair back so it doesnt get wet, then put my hand in the bowl.
"We are now family" Ariana says.
How do they know what to say but me?
"Ok, lets get down to business" Heather says.
Summer sighed and started to speak.
"You all know that we got a text message from this A person" Summer says.
We all nod.
"yeah so?" I ask.
"well I researched on the internet" Selena started.
"here we go about research!" I complain.
"Listen!" Ariana hisses at me. I growl back at her.
"And Heather's mom's friend, Mona Vanderwaal, was accused of being A when our parents were teenagers" Summer finished.
She moved the bowl full of water and she placed pieces of papers in the centre of the circle. Ariana snatched them from the centre, and scanned them very carefully.
"how did you guys know where to look?" She says, her eyes still glued on the papers.
"You know us, we always have a plan" the twins say in perfect unison.
"Did you rehears that? Or something?"
They just shrug.
"Wait? Mona Vanderwaal? That nut job!" Heather says.
"But Mona wasn't the only A" Ariana includes.
several footsteps are heard.
Eyes wide open, Heather calls out "Mom?bDad? Is that you? Are you home early?".
The lamp flickers off.
"Guys! I'm scared! This isn't funny!" I say, my lips trembling.
"this- this isn't us!" Ariana quivers.
"It's ok guys. It's ok" I say. They all come closer to me and we hug each other really tightly.
then I black out.
The sun rises up early and I wake up. It looks like nothing bad happened. Except, where are the papers? The ones that Selena and Summer had? Gone? How?
my friends all start to wake up now and realize what I was thinking. We get up and start to look around. I hear sirens outside. I rush to the window. Police cars were outside the house.
We all rush downstairs. All the furniture was ripped to shreds and the vases were broken. Everything was trashed.
Heather's parents rush through the door.
"Oh girls thank god your safe!" Hannah says, rushing over to us.
"Dad? What's going on?" Heather questions her dad.
"Their has been a break in" he replies.
...Line break...
"wait what do you mean? We were here all night!" Heather argues.
"Well, the thief must have done it some how" he says.
"It's ok girls, but the police have some questions for you" Hannah tells us.
Come on! The police?!
our phones suddenly all ring at the same time. We pull them out of our pockets. Texts messages.
-well, well, well! All the little liars have secrets to be kept. But how long can you keep them for? This is too way easy bitches! -A