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Authors Note: Thank you so much for the feedback! *squeals* I expect the few next chapters to be short and mostly drama revolving around Alison\Courtney and who's body it actually was. I'm expecting a lot of Toby\Alison to be one-sided, like Alison was his crush for a little while but he hates her now but like Alison one sided, so she's in love with him. I'm sorry for date errors, etc, and timeline errors. I usually check it all out but sometimes mistakes are made, (a lot of the time).
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
It's lights, camera, action.
Snap.
Snap.
Snap.
What can you tell us, miss?
Where were you?
What happened to you Alison?
Snap.
Snap.
Snap.
"Nervous for your first day back at school?" Aria asks Alison, taking books out of her locker. The two of them had decided to arrive at school early, Alison shrugs as she looks around the halls.
"Why would I be?" She asks, her eyes narrow in on Spencer as she approaches the two of them. Hanna's close behind her, with Mona behind her. From what Alison could remember Hanna and Mona had become BFF's and then Mona turned out to be this 'A' figure.
"Alison, you're back." Those are the first words that slip out of Mona's mouth, a certain coldness etched into the words. Alison decides not to trust her, after all she's heard and from what she can see, she looks like bad news.
(But Alison doesn't trust anyone. Never has, never really will.)
"Do you know what must be great about having a twin, you two could like switch places. You wouldn't even need to go to school!" Hanna gushes, her mind wandering off to places where she could have someone take her spot and she could relax.
Alison sighed, if only it was that simple. Her sister could deal with all the reporter's questions, the girl seemed to know more than Alison and then her eyes land on some devastatingly handsome teacher. He looks like a teacher at least, her eyes flick back to Aria whose own eyes are trained on him.
"Is your secret boyfriend?" She says in a hushed voice. A light blush creeps over Aria's cheeks as she slams her locker door shut and shakes her head, her midnight black hair swashing around her face.
"No." She states, "But he was." She corrects, eyes trained on the floor, on her shoes.
Anywhere but at him.
Or Mona.
Or Alison.
"Alison, I didn't know you would come back today?" Emily questions as she meets up with everyone in front of Aria's locker, her hand intertwined with Paige's. Alison is so close to losing it.
Spencer is with Toby.
Aria got to date a teacher.
And Emily is with pigskin?
Did she teach these girls nothing?
(She's proud of Aria but jealous too, it's something she would do. A teacher. She wants to do that teacher but Aria's still pinning over him, so she'll have to wait.)
"You're with Paige? I'm gone for two years and then you all just go for whoever is single? Uh, desperate much?" Alison sneers, she rakes a hand through her hair and then sashays over to History.
"She's still the same bitch she was before she left, isn't she?" Hanna asks, voice quiet, eyes following her former blonde best friend.
"Yeah. She is." Emily agrees, her lips turned downwards in a frown. She holds onto Paige's hand tighter.
"Do you think she'll ever change?" Aria asks, she wants to know, needs to know.
Because Alison had just come back from the dead.
But her life, it was slightly better without her.
Even with this whole A drama.
Alison always manages to bring drama of her own, where ever she goes.
SEPTEMBER 1OTH 2OO9
"Will I ever be able to get out of this house?" Alison complains, stretching her legs forward and arching her shoulders backwards, letting the small amount of light that is slivering in via the curtains, onto her face.
"No." Courtney sharply replies, rummaging through drawers. Alison sighs but decides not to question it, there's something bigger than her.
She doesn't really want to get involved in that sort of mess.
Alison flicks the T.V. on, only to see her face staring back up at her.
Smiling, she looks happy. It's always been her favorite photo, Toby had said she had looked pretty in it.
She thought she looked like a goddess.
"I wonder if I'm missed yet," Alison muses, threading her fingers through her hair. Courtney sneers, flipping around to face her.
"Of course you're missed Alison. You're Alison DiLaurentis."
"Do I get like a phone call or something?" Alison asks after a few minutes.
"This isn't jail but I guess so," Courtney says wearily, throwing a phone in Alison's general direction. Her fingers press down on the buttons dialing Toby's number. It lands on voice mail.
"Toby, I'm sorry. Something's going on and I won't be back for a little while. I love you, don't forget that," She takes in a deep breath because she's never said those words before. She was just his crush, she was just obsessed with him. "Don't let, don't let Jenna get to you anymore." And then the beep goes and she has to say goodbye forever.
"Boyfriend?" Courtney asks curiously, falling onto the bed beside her sister. Alison's lip twist into a wry smile.
"Something like that," Alison brushes it off.
What did Toby and her have?
It wasn't a relationship, that much she knew.
She loves him. That's all she really knows and he doesn't love her back, not really. They had kissed, once, twice, three, four, five times (and always acted as if they hadn't.) and he had claimed that he had had a crush on her forever.
She had at first laughed it off because who wasn't in love with her, who didn't have a crush on her?
But she slowly found herself falling in love with him, every second she had spent with him.
And that was dangerous, so she blinded his step sister and let him take the blame.
"Can you tell me about why somebody wants to kill me?" And the laugh that escaped out of Courtney's mouth after the words had flowed out of Alison's mouth sent shivers down Alison's spine, there was something off about her twin sister. She would figure it out, she would die trying too.
She had after all been close to death before. It would be no problem, no biggie.
PRESENT
"Hi, I'm Alison." A hand is thrust out towards Caleb who takes it in his own cautiously, he had heard stories about her, about how much she damaged Hanna. He shook it softly, never taking his eyes off of her. He has this feeling, one he can't explain, that she's up too no good. That maybe she has something to do with the A team but he would keep all these thoughts to himself. Hanna was happy to have her back, that was the main thing.
"Caleb. I've heard quite a lot about you," He says wearily, letting his hand drop from out of hers. She leans in towards him, her breath on his ear.
"Good or bad?" She breathes into his ear, he pulls back slightly. Catching Hanna's eye from across the room. Alison had crossed a line.
"A bit of both." He states, his voice cold and unforgiving.
He decides that he hates Alison.
She had put Hanna through hell and back.
("Don't eat that, Hanna. You're already fat enough." Hanna places the cupcake back on the rack and turns towards Alison, she forces a smile on her face. It's alright, stay calm, she's right. Alison's always right when it comes to her weight, she walks over to the fridge and takes out a bottle of water instead.)
Hanna takes the seat next to Caleb, smiling brightly at Alison.
"So I see you've meet Caleb," She tries to keep the malice out of her voice. She could see from one simple look Caleb had spared Alison that he didn't trust her, she didn't blame him. She didn't trust Alison either. Spencer and Emily arrive at the table that the three of them are seated at, Mona hot on their heels. Mona slips her phone on the middle of the table, a text staring back up at their faces.
You aren't safe just because Alison's back.
Kisses -A!
Attached to the text is a video, the same video of Hanna running Wilden over. Hanna lets out a groan and grabs Mona's phone, throwing it on the ground. She watches it shatter into tiny little shards, Mona's jaw now lies on the floor, her eyes staring at the phone with horror. Hanna turns around to Mona and shrugs her shoulders.
"What? Do you want my mum to go to jail?" She asks in a hushed whisper. Mona shakes her head before sitting down, no, she loves Ashley and she doesn't want Hanna to have to deal with the aftermath of her mother in jail.
"I think we should all gather around at my house, tonight. Everyone." Spencer states, "Emily I think you should bring Paige. She's just as much apart of this as everyone else." Emily nods her head, her eyes searching the sea of people for her girlfriend. She assumes that Caleb and Toby will also be present tonight.
Alison decides to keep her mouth shut about Paige.
She has a feeling Toby will be included in this gathering, she's going to see Toby for the first time in two years. Her stomach is alive with butterflies, wings flapping wildly and making her feel dizzy.