'Miranda's dead. What the fuck? Do I look to be such an idiot to you that you couldn't come up with a better excuse? Do you really think so low of me Caleb? Why are you lying? Why are you keeping things from me? Shit, Caleb and lying don't go well in that same sentence, he never lied to me... except for that one time regarding Jenna. And he knows I would never speak to him again if he'd ever started lying to me.
Caleb what's going on with you? I don't understand you. I can see that you are troubled by so many things and yet I cannot help you unless you tell me exactly what's wrong. Why are you keeping your distance from me? And more importantly if Miranda's dead why, just why on Earth would you still be here? Why didn't you came home to me?'
Hanna's confusion and shocked expressions were easy for Caleb to read, as he had always been attune to her mood changes and to her body language. He finally made the decision to tell her part of the truth, because at the end of the day anything else would have been an insult to the trust and faith they both had in each other after the year they had dated. 'She died in a car crash, a couple of days after we arrived here, she was dead when we spoke on the telephone before I came back to Rosewood.'
Hanna felt her world started spinning as she listened to just how much time had passed since Miranda's death until the moment she was told the truth. She silently realised that whatever it was that was keeping Caleb in Ravenswood, also meant that she never would've found out the truth about Miranda unless she had come here to see the girl herself. Which only brought so many more questions to her mind.
-"So Miranda was dead? When you came back to Rosewood and we broke up?" Hanna slowly put her arms around herself and walked to the door.
-"Yes", she heard Caleb's quiet answer just as she turned around to face him and ask some of the other questions going through her mind.
-"So why did you say that she needed you?" Hanna felt suffocated by the whole calmness of the situation. Both her and Caleb were acting out as two complete strangers instead of two people who had literally gone to hell and back together before. She watched as Caleb for some reason started acting as if they weren't alone in the room anymore. He looked as if he was avoiding someone's gaze and yet that made no sense seeing as how they were completely alone in the room. He finally turned his look back to her.
-"Miranda is dead, but she's not gone" Caleb gulped as he tried to explain to her some of the things that were going on in that town, "she's still here. She has unfinished business with her uncle and that is what i'm trying to help her with so that she could move on". Caleb continued his story being painfully aware that half through their conversation Miranda had shown up in the room unseen by Hanna and that she was now listening to what he was telling his ex-girlfriend about her.
-"Do you know what it sounds like what you're telling me?" Hanna's question didn't phase him, as he had been expecting it. "Yes I do know what it sound like". Caleb tried to keep his focus on Hanna as if it was just the two of them in the room. However Miranda's "She thinks that you're lying" only seem to make it worse to his ears so he decided to continue his conversation with Hanna, while also answering Miranda. "I'm telling you the truth", Hanna despite his best efforts seemed to have caught on the fact that they weren't alone in the room anymore.
She quickly looked around as if to check whether they were still alone in the room. Miranda's "She thinks that you're crazy", certainly didn't help things for him, and also put him in an awkward position where he wanted to protect Hanna from Miranda's comments. "You know for a while I thought that I might be crazy but I'm not." Caleb silently prayed that hanna would let him finnis his explanations before she stormed out the door thinking he was a great candidate for Radley Sanatorium.
-"Well if you can see her show her to me", Hanna seemed reluctant to hear what he had to say but she was also willing to at least hear him out before walking away. "Caleb, show her to me and I'll believe you." Hanna was definitely feeling as if she was trying to keep herself a float a stormy water by grasping anything that came her way.
-"It's not a magic trick, Hanna. I can't make her appear. You either see her or you don't" With those final words Hanna decided that she had had enough of the crap that Caleb had told her ever since she had arrived in Ravenswood and decided that she should probably just walk away while she still had her mind in one place. She clearly understood that either Caleb had lost his freaking mind by staying over in Ravenswood or he was really determined not to tell her what was going with him and Miranda.
Hanna grabbed her bags from the floor where Caleb had put them and started to walk towards the door. Her mind made up. She was decided to leave Ravenswood and go home where she would do everything she could to get her life back on normal track, if such a thing was even possible with A torturing her every move. As she made her way towards the door she heard Caleb plead with her "Hanna, wait! Just stay so we can talk about this..."
-"No. Look I need some fresh air and it's a little crowded in here right now." Hanna silently closed the door behind her doing everything that she could to calm herself and stop from breaking something or worse to start crying over a lost love. She slowly got back into her car and headed back to the small cafe where she had met Caleb's friends earlier that day.
She thought that a cup of coffee sounded great before she headed back to Rosewood. She slowly debated whether to tell the girls back home what was going on with Caleb but then she decided against it. Having a crazy ex-boyfriend is one thing... Telling other people that he's crazy? That's a complete blow bellow the belt. And despite everything that had happened between her and Caleb she still owed him that much, there would be no gossips about him coming out of her mouth.
Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Mrs. Grundwald, the elderly lady who had helped her and her friends get some answers regarding Alison's disappearance weeks ago, on the same night that she had asked Caleb to stay behind and help Miranda settle in living with her uncle.
As she talked with the elder woman, Hanna was suddenly reminded about her own previous experiences in the Collins mansion, or the two twin girls who had been creeping her out the entire evening. Listening to mrs Grundwald's pleads of staying and sorting things over with Caleb, Hanna slowly made her way back to her car to go search for Caleb.
She found him in the park sitting on bench inside a gazebo. It was clear to her that despite his best efforts to put out a brave front, Caleb was silently suffering about something. She finally walked towards him so that they could finish their conversation.