Ashley and Michaela are in a local restraunt, talking over lunch. Ashley ordered a salad with no dressing and Michaela ordered a cheese burger with french fries.
Ashley: "Aren't you worried about your waist line?"
Michaela: "Seriously. I'm unemployed, Hollywood doesn't want me anymore. Every other soap opera is getting canceled from left to right. First All My Children & One Life To Live. Next thing you know, Days Of Our Lives is gone, too."
Ashley: "I didn't mean it like that...Have you talked to your father?"
Michaela: "No. The last i've heard of him, he requested my friend approval online and I denied."
Ashley smiles and looks at her.
Ashley: "He's engaged. Her name's Isabel and she has a daughter around Hanna's age."
Michaela: "Seriously. You know i'm sorry right..."
Michaela says slyly changing the subject.
Ashley: "What's there to be sorry about? Everyone leaves eventually."
Michaela: "I never said goodbye. I didn't want to leave without a goodbye."
Ashley: "It's alright, I understand. Your father wants to see you, tough. I told him i'd tell you. You don't have to see him, that's up to you."
Michaela: "I'll think about it. Did the cops ever find out who hit Hanna?"
They both are picking at their food while talking, Michaela takes a bite out of her burger.
Ashley: "These dumb police officers can't find a damn clue to who did it. And Hanna doesn't remember if she saw anyone."
Michaela: "Wow."
Ashley: "Ian's back in town and you wouldn't believe what he did. Weren't you two an item back in high school?"
Michaela: "Mom, we did date, I thought it was serious. When did he get back?"
Ashley: "A week or so ago."
Michaela: "What did he do?"
She says taking a sip of her drink.
Ashley: "He married Melissa."
Michaela spits her drink back into her glass.
Ashley: "Are you alright?"
Michaela: "I'm fine."
She says putting the glass down and looks at her mother.
Michaela: "He married Melissa? Melissa Hastings?"
Ashley: "Your bestfriend in high school."
Michaela: "We were never best friends. Melissa always had to have things her way."
Ashley: "It's true, Melissa Hastings has always been that girl. Spencer is Melissa's sister, if you couldn't tell."
Michaela: "Wait..I knew she looked fimiliar. Mrs. Hastings would always get me to babysit her. I think I liked Spencer more than Melissa."
Ashley: "Everyone does, honey, she's friendlier."
Mother and daughter share a moment, even if its a small one, but Michaela's also hiding a secret from her mother, that if she knew, she's be more upset about.
Back at the hospital, Mona had to leave to get a mani-pedi but promised to be back later. Hanna told the girls about Noel Kahn being A, but they are still in awe with the whole secret sister thing like its the Easter Bunny being an actually bunny instead of parents.
Spencer: "Your sister looks fimiliar. Your sure I haven't seen her anywhere."
Hanna: "Probably on TV or in the tabloids. My sister's a soap star..."
She says with enthusiasm. They all look puzzeled.
Hanna: "You've never seen One Beautiful World. It's totally amazing, i've been watching it since I was in my mom's uterus. It's insanely good, but they're canceling it."
Aria: "Oh my god, my mom used to love watching that show."
Emily: "My mom's never watched a soap a day in her life."
Spencer: "I don't think that's where I know her from. But i've seen Melissa watching that show a few times and smirking at the Tv."
Emily: "Smirking."
Aria: "Why would she smirk at the TV?"
Spencer: "I don't know maybe the story line was stupid. I'd always hear her murmur under her breath stupid bitch all the time, tough."
Hanna: "Really?"
Spencer: "Yeah. It's getting late, I should be heading home to get my homework done."
Hanna: "Are you guys staying?"
She says looking at Emily and Aria, Aria's sitting on the bed by her broken leg and Emily's at the end of the bed. They both start fidgiting with something.
Emily: "I should get my assingment done for McAdams, its due Friday."
Aria: "Me, too. You know how Squidward gets if your assignments aren't due on time."
Hanna: "But i'm going to be bored."
Spencer: "Call your mom, your sister. Call Mona or Lucas. You have tons of friends to call."
Hanna: "I know."
Hanna says sulking as the girls leave. We then see Spencer walking into her house, she calls out to see if anyone's home.
Spencer: "Mom. Dad. Melissa."
No answer. She walks to the couch and sees a tabloid laying on the coffee table.
Spencer: "Melissa was here."
Spencer grabs up the mag and browses through it. She then lands on page where a girls face has been blacked out with a permanet marker. In the picture she's shopping in Los Angeles with a friend of hers. Spencer looks at the name of the woman, Michaela Marin. Spencer is curious to why Melissa would decapitate someone. Michaela's from Rosewood, did Melissa know her? Spencer ask herself. Just then Melissa walks in with Mrs. Hastings, Spencer holds up the magazine.
Spencer: "I was browsing through this and I saw Melissa disfigured a picture. I can't even tell who this person is anymore."
Mrs. Hastings: "I haven't even finished reading that. You know I need my little weekly fix on the rich and fabulous."
Melissa: "Does it matter it was just a picture?"
Mrs. Hastings: "How am I suppose to know who the celebrity is?"
Melissa: "I don't, read the description box."
Spencer thinks to herself, there's a way to find out if she knows Michaela.
Spencer: "Mom. Guess who's back in town. Do you remember Michaela Marin?"
Mrs. Hastings tries to remember the name and Melissa flinches when Spencer mentions it.
Mrs. Hastings: "Cayla Marin. She's Ashley's daughter. She used to baby sit you. And her and Melissa were friends in high school."
Melissa: "We weren't friends mother. She was a pirahna."
Mrs. Hastings: "Wait...doesn't Michaela play on One Beautiful World?"
Melissa: "Played the shows getting canceled and I know why, the bad acting."
She says and heads off to the barn in the back, Spencer walks by her mother by the island. Her mother is getting ingrediants out to make a salad.
Spencer: "What's up Melissa's butt?"
Mrs. Hastings: "Melissa and Michaela were friends back in middle school and high school. After that I don't know what happened."
Spencer: "Something had to come between them. Why don't I remember her baby sitting me?"
Mrs. Hastings: "You don't remember, you used to beg for Cayla to watch you instead of Melissa when me and your father went out."
Spencer: "Now I remember, Michaela actually used to play with me instead of ignoring me like Melissa did. No wonder everyone likes her better than Melissa."
Mrs. Hastings: "Hey, thats not nice to say about your sister."
Spencer: "Sorry."
Spencer apologizes. Beep. New Text Message. Spencer picks up her phone and opens it away from her mother.
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