Walking down the hallways of Rosewood High towards her first class of the day and year Blair couldn't help but remember where she was this time last year. Alison had just gone missing and her dad thought it was best for Blair to go to school, to distract her whilst the police got on with looking for her friend. Blair could remember this time last year walking into the building and having everyone pointing and starting at her because of Alison's disappearance and how she was one of the last people to see Ali before she went missing. Blair ended up having a panic attack in the bathroom minutes prior to her first class because she couldn't deal with it, most of her life she had been invisible and people only ever saw her because she was with. Be it her famous father or Alison, the former it girl of Rosewood High but other than that Blair was invisible which she liked in an odd kind of way. She didn't like being the centre of attention like Alison; she'd rather be in the background. As she made her towards her English class Blair ran into her boyfriend Robert, who for some reason had recently become the last person she wanted to actually see.

"Hey I thought that was you." Robert began gently tapping Blair's elbow and she forced herself to smile, she wasn't sure why she was acting so weird towards him as it wasn't like he had done anything wrong. It was her who had suggested they take a break after all and really there was no reason for her to actually suggest such a thing. One day she had just said it and Rob had agreed to it and they had gone their separate ways.

"How was Cabo?" Blair asked in an effort to make conversation.

"Great I had an amazing time despite being with my folks for the majority of the summer, but what about you? How was Rosewood this summer?" Robert questioned.

"Very boring and uneventful as per usual, just got up to the usual. Went to Maine for two weeks with my grandfather whilst my dad was busy which was fun. He's teaching me how to sail…" Blair honestly said as Rosewood was one of those kind of towns where never nothing usually happened but every so often something big did happen. So Blair had been glad to escape for a while.

"So how's your dad?"

"Good, busy with work like always but happy as Larry and you know what he's like when he's got a new book coming out, so I'm just letting him to his thing." Blair replied and then it came, the awkward silence that she had been so desperately trying to avoid. She knew that her and Robert needed to talk about this summer, the break and where they stood right now but honestly Blair didn't want to.

"I really missed you this summer Blair." Robert admitted.

"Yeah I missed you too." Blair replied after a moment, trying to sound as convincing as possible but no matter how hard she tried she just didn't sound like she meant it in the same way that Robert had meant it. A welcome distraction arrived for Blair via her phone, it was a text no doubt from her day wishing her good luck on her first day. As well as pretending to complain about whatever tv show he had to go on to promote his latest book. But the text wasn't from her dad and as soon as Blair saw who sent it her stomach dropped to the floor…

Blair, I still remember what you did last summer or rather who you kissed and it wasn't that pretty boy boyfriend of yours. I always remember. – A.

"Blair you okay? You've gone all white…" Robert asked and Blair honestly didn't know what to say because this text had freaked her out. There was only one person who knew about what happened last summer because Blair had only told this one person and that was Alison. She was the only person who knew which meant that Alison had sent her the text, which was impossible.

"Yeah I've just got to run, um… I'll talk to you later Rob." Blair wearily said before walking away, this had to be a cruel joke someone was playing on her as there was no way that Alison had just text her after all this time. Most of the town presumed that she was dead as did her family. Whoever was behind this made Blair feel sick as it was such a disgusting thing to do but she couldn't help but wonder about the possibility that this could be Ali given that Blair had told no one else about what happened and the other person involved wouldn't have said a word to anyone.

"Blair?"

Looking up Blair saw Aria with Emily both of whom were looking at her with concerned looks on their faces. "Hey guys…"

"You okay Blair? You seem kind of shaken up…" Aria noted and Blair forced herself to smile, the biggest smile that she could muster. There was no way she could tell them about this text from A, as Blair didn't want to get their hopes up if this was really a prank and there was no way she could tell them about last summer especially Aria.

"I'm fine, I just ran into Rob and it was a bit weird seeing each other after all this time apart." Blair replied, partially telling Emily and Aria the truth about what had majorly freaked her out.

"I heard you guys were on a break." Emily tentatively said as the three of them began walking together, it was almost like the old days.

"Yeah, I don't know what I want at the moment but my dad says that the upside of being a teenager you can blame everyone on not knowing what your doing and the hormones on not knowing what you want. I don't know what's wrong with me a Rob is a very nice guy, he's handsome but I really don't have any idea what I'm doing at the moment or if I still want to be with him. But I know I'm going to have to talk to Rob eventually, can't avoid him forever especially in a small town like Rosewood…" Blair wearily noted.

"So, I hear the new teacher's really hot." Emily said in an effort to distract Blair as the two of them along with Aria walked into their English class.

"And by hot do you mean 45, still living with his mom and starting to go bald?" Blair joked which caused them all to laugh as they took their seats near the back of the class. With Emily and Aria sitting in front of Blair as she preferred sitting in the back of the class.

"Is that Hanna?" Aria asked as their former friend Hanna causally breezed into class looking like she didn't have a care in the world.

"She's the "it" girl now." Emily explained to Aria, as she wasn't in the loop about how Hanna ascended to popularity and greatness during the time that she was away. Far cry from her role as Alison's lackey as people used to refer to her as.

"And where there's Hanna, there's also Mona." Blair added as Hanna's current best friend Mona walked into the class. Those two were like two peas in a bloody pod, and they were rarely ever seen without each other the past year.

"Mona?"

Emily turned back to share an amused look with Blair before she turned back to Aria. "Can you believe it?

"Wow… Talk about a makeover." Aria slowly said in shock and Blair couldn't help but chuckle, unfortunately she laughed a bit too loudly which attracted the attention of Hanna who turned and briefly waved at them before going back to her conversation with Mona. What's up with her? You guys fighting?"

"We didn't just fall out of touch with you, Aria. We all fell out of touch with each other." Emily slowly began.

"Em's right, we all kind of went our separate ways… Emily and I see each other probably the most out of all of us and even then it's not much. We occasionally grab lunch and we've been on a couple of double dates with Ben and Rob. I rarely see Hanna and Spencer is always busy, me and my dad have had brunch with her and the rest of the Hastings' a couple of times and that's about it. Speak of the devil, here she is…" Blair explained as Spencer walked into the classroom and shyly smiled at Hanna.

"They're not so close anymore either." Emily told Aria.

"So they're friendly, but not friends…" Aria figured just as the bell went and their new English teacher walked into the room and although Blair hadn't got a good look at him as began writing on the blackboard with his back turned to the class. He definitely didn't look 45 with a bald patch from behind so perhaps Emily was right… And then he turned around and Blair could see that Emily was indeed very correct as their new teacher was not only very good looking but he had a name to match; Mr. Fitz.

"Holy crap." Mr. Fitz said louder then he clearly intended for it to be and he seemed to have been addressing Aria when he said that and the entire class looked over at Aria. Which was made even more worse when her phone went ff which made the entire thing even more embarrassing.

"Sorry." Aria said as quietly fumbled around in her bag to get her phone and shut it off. Blair was honestly entertained by the entire thing, she thought that this was going to be a typical boring first day of school but apparently it wasn't.

"Uh, I'm Mr. Fitz, your new English teacher." Mr. Fitz began a she addressed the class although he didn't seem to notice when Emily turned around in her chair to address Blair.

"I'll take that apology now Blair."