Chapter 2
When Emily had opened Mike's door she knew that she had to act fast or else. Judging by the state of the room and the picture of him and Mona she knew exactly what had happened.
A must have gotten to him first and told him everything before anyone else could get a chance to.
He was laid out on the bed and appeared to be sleeping.
Unfortunately, a closer inspection revealed a much more grim situation. Mike was sleeping on his stomach or so she thought. Emily had managed to roll him onto his back and was horrified at what she discovered.
Mike had stabbed himself in the stomach and then he twisted the long shard of broken glass to make the wound worse. To make matters worse he was unconscious due to the blood loss.
Luckily Emily knew what she had to do. Hopefully something in Mike's bathroom could stop the bleeding.
Hanna was hanging out with Aria and Alison at Alison's house and she appeared to be having a good time but she was nervous on the inside. Hanna wanted to go to him but couldn't sneak away without being followed.
Aria was another problem. After Hanna's fling with Mike ended she made it perfectly clear that she wouldn't be alone with her brother again. She might not be in this mess now if she never ended the fling.
Who knows? The fling could have turned into something more. This might be her final chance to be with Mike. She knew she got his attention once already so it would be simple to do so again.
Unlike Hanna, Alison was legitimately having a good time hanging out with her and Aria.
Also, from time to time she kept shooting glances at Hanna to gauge her reaction. She knew what was making Hanna nervous. If Alison was nicer she may have told Hanna about Emily getting there first.
Unfortunately for Hanna, Alison wasn't always a nice person. She was still mad about being manipulated and blackmailed into doing this. Alison had to give Hanna credit. She never thought Hanna would try something like this. Hanna made a mistake when she got Alison involved in this situation.
Normally if it involved lies, manipulation, and blackmail Alison would be the girl you went to. However, once she found out about what Hanna wanted to happen she tried to back out of it.
Hanna wouldn't lets this go and she knew enough about her to put her away for awhile even without the proof. With the proof she may as well have left Rosewood forever. Alison caught a lucky break when she managed to steal back all the proof Hanna possessed about Alison's less than legal activities.
Alison was going to teach Hanna a lesson she would never forget. You don't try to out manipulate the master and walk away scot free.
Emily considered herself lucky at this point. She managed to clean the wound, stop the bleeding, and bandage the wound.
She was extremely worried that she arrived too late but thankfully she wasn't. If it wasn't for A she was sure Mike would have succumbed to his wound. She was confused. Why would A warn her about something like this. A has made it her mission in life to make her and her friends miserable so why would she warn her about this.
If A wanted to torture the Liars she would have told Aria all of this. Maybe she drew the line at possible suicide attempt? That sounded like bullshit to Emily but now was definitely not the time to worry about A's intentions.
She texted Aria because as his sister she felt she had a right to know what happened.
Aria wasn't in the same room as her phone though. Alison was however and suddenly the guilt came flowing into her.
Why hadn't she seen this coming? She has hurt people because of her actions and she is well aware of this. Now someone tried to take their own life because of something that she did.
It made her feel absolutely horrible. She had went too far this time and she knew it deep in her soul. She almost started to cry. However she didn't cry and remain sad. This was a wake up call for her.
From now on she was going to work on being a better person. She needs to change before her actions cause someone to lose their life.
Aria had come back into the room looking for her phone and when she saw her text Aria, Hanna, and Alison had rushed out of there to Aria's house praying that no one was hurt.
Aria knew she hasn't been the best sister lately but if A killed her brother she would never forgive herself.
Emily is now watching over Mike just in case he wakes up and tries to kill himself again. This left Emily alone with her thoughts.
First, there was the odd behavior of A. A or rather whoever a was at the time has made it there mission to make the Liars absolutely miserable. A had definitely succeeded this time.
However, that was where it got confusing. A did send her the warning which in turn saved Mike's life. That part screamed good intentions. Then again A was the one responsible for hurting him in the first place.
The questions were driving Emily absolutely insane. Who was this A. What did they want? Could they be trusted? Will they try again?
The possibility of A trying to hurt Mike for what maybe a second time horrifies her. She had legitimate concern to be worried because if A intentionally came this close to killing him the first time then the odds of A failing a second time were slim to none.
If A intentionally did this then she will destroy A herself. If it turns out that this A is good then she might just have a way of ending the problems with all of the A's forever.
The biggest question was what were the intentions of A?
It seems the time for pondering the answer to the million dollar question was over because Mike had just opened his eyes.
Mike immediately tried to sit up and he felt sick. Right after he tried Emily gently pushed him back down onto the bed so he wouldn't hurt himself any worse than he already had.
Emily asked him " What happened?".
Mike looked at her for a few minutes before opening his mouth. He said " after seeing proof that my girlfriend cheated on me I smashed that picture you see on the desk."
He didn't say anything else but he did try to sit up again. Instead of gently pushing him down like last time Emily decided to do something different.
This time Emily grabbed both his arms and pinned him down to the bed to make sure he wouldn't try and get up again. Before he could ask why she was doing this Emily said " please stay down. I don't want the guy I lo... I like to hurt himself further."
You could see the tears in her eyes and it made Mike feel bad. She had saved his life and here he was making everything worse. He immediately laid down and motioned for Emily to do the same.
Mike asked her " would you just hold me like you did when I was recovering from what Mona did?" This made Emily happy. She enjoyed holding him and now he is admitting he likes it.
Emily laid her head on his chest and Mike put an arm around her and they drifted off to sleep.
Aria Montgomery was frantic with fear. She has no idea what A has done to her brother but she has a feeling it was bad.
Why would A do this? A has never really targeted Mike before. She had no reason to. He wasn't involved in any of A's plans or at least she thought he wasn't.
She was ashamed when she realized she doesn't know much about her own brother. He could have been involved with all of the A drama from the beginning and no one cared enough to find out.
All that time spent with Ezra didn't help either. If she wasn't spending her free time with her friends she was spending it with Ezra and vice versa.
Aria knew one thing for sure. A had taken this too far this time. Of course A had already crossed the line many times before but before now she would have settled for A going to jail or disappearing and never being heard from again.
That all changed when A pulled this stunt. She passed the point of no return and now instead of being tormented by A she was going to find away to fight back and end her.
Aria is not going to stop pursing A until she is 6 feet under.
She was relieved when she parked her car at her house. However that relief turned to horror when she reached the porch. On the porch there was a doll with a knife sticking through its chest.
This was a warning from A. It meant a knife through his heart.
Alison was horrified but for different reasons.
For one there was the doll. Alison may have caused part of this but she knew for a fact that she didn't put that doll there. That could only lead to one horrifying truth.
A really was here and hurt Mike herself.
She spotted an open window on the second floor and outside that window was an article of female clothing. Before Aria could go inside Alison pulled her over so she was looking at the same spot she was looking at.
" What the fuck" she started to say but then she saw exactly what Alison saw. Aria turned pale quick. This was worse than she thought. That open window was Mike's bedroom window and that clothing outside it meant someone used it to sneak in to get to Mike.
She ran inside and went straight up to Mike's room ignoring the package left from A.
However, Alison had indeed noticed the package. She had wrote the card. That part was never disputed. Someone else had opened the box and changed its contents before they got there. She had also spotted something else just outside Mike's bedroom window.
It was a broken piece of wood. Alison looked at it and came to the conclusion that it came from a wooden board. Now she was starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
All that was left was to see if the puzzle pieces fit the way Alison thought they did.
Aria had just dashed up the steps and with slight trepidation opened Mike's door and braced herself for the worst.
Aria was shocked at what she saw. A picture of Him and Mona smashed to pieces lay on his desk. There also was blood everywhere. It looked to her like a homicide staged to resemble suicide.
Then she turned her attention to the bed. Aria thought her heart was going to stop. Mike lay there next to Emily and there was also blood on the bed. A couldn't have killed them.
Just to prove that they were still alive Aria gently shook Emily awake. She was ecstatic that Emily wasn't dead.
After Emily woke up she told Aria the gruesome details of the suicide attempt but not what triggered it. You see Mona had hurt Mike badly and if anyone was going to give her what she deserved it was going to be Emily.
Aria asked " what do we do now?" Allison suggested that they go back out and search for clues about Mike's attempted killer. The criminal, whoever she was, could not have gotten very far. Someone could have seen the girl who tried to off Mike.
The question was who would stay here and watch over Mike and make sure A didn't come back and finish the job.
Emily would have loved to volunteer for this and she knew they would agree since she was the one who found him and saved his life.
However, Emily said she had to " take care of a problem" and that she would be back later. In the end they decided that Alison should definitely stay behind and look through the house since she was the one who pointed out the other stuff to everyone.
That meant Hanna would watch over Mike until his and Aria's dad came home. Now all they had to do was call Spencer and get her to help in this search for a killer.
Mona had just gotten back to her house. Things weren't going all that great. She had just come back from a date with her secret boyfriend.
The correct term now would be secret ex boyfriend. After this date she realized she fucked up big time. She had Mike who was there even when she kicked him in the nuts and treated her like a slave.
It made her feel extremely guilty. Mona decided that she was going to try and make things work. Would it be easy? no. Would she tell Mike what she was doing with a few other boys? no.
Mona was however not going to be seeing them ever again. She was going to make things right with Mike.
As she was laying on her bed she noticed her computer was gone and her email account was open. Now she was extremely worried. When she looked through her account she saw something that almost made her faint from shock.
A had hacked her account and sent evidence of her cheating on Mike to him.
She knew where this was headed. Once he found out others would find out. That meant Aria would be out for blood. This was not good to say the least. She looked out her bedroom window and saw Aria's car driving down past her house.
That meant she didn't know yet and she still had time.
Mona had to get out of there and fast before Aria or anyone else came. She managed to make it to the front door but when she opened it a familiar person was blocking her and they said in a chilling voice " Going somewhere Mona?".