September 2, 2009

Rosewood, Pennsylvania

10:40 AM

Rosewood Police Station

Interrogation Room 1

Aria POV

I looked at two cops trying to prove that I wanted Allison dead, trying to prove that I was somehow in the wrong here. "Didn't you get into a fight with Allison just yesterday? According to Mrs. Fields you jumped her." One of the cops said as he looked at me.

"Of course that bitch would say that." I mumbled as I looked at my dad, who was sitting next to me. I looked down at the table before I looked up at the officers. "Look, I am no fan of Allison or her little want-to-be followers." I said as I looked at them. I noticed the older of the two started to write something down. "Write this down I don't care. That bitch has spent the last year making my life more of a hell then it already was." I said as I looked at him. "Meow, here comes the kitty cat. That's what she said as I walked down the hallways of school. Or my favorite was when she would look at me and then say 'call the psych ward the town loon escaped.'" I said as I looked at my dad. "She would put pictures of firecrackers on my locker. Everyone in this damn town thinks I told him to do it or that I threw it and he covered for me." I said as I looked at them.

"No one thinks that sweetie." My dad said as he looked at me.

"Everyone does." I said as I looked at the cops. "So, yes I drew devil horns on her homecoming court flyers and I was the one who accidently lost her yearbook picture and put on of a donkey. But, I have nothing to do with this. I don't care enough about this bitch to ruin my life." I said as I looked at the cops.

"What about the incident in the school bathroom when one of Allison's friends said you tried to take a knife to her?" The younger cop asked me. I thought back to that day. God, how they had the story wrong.

I was sitting on the bathroom floor, the bathroom up on the second floor by the entrance to the roof. No one ever goes up there. I had to get away. Jenna came back to school for the first time since the accident. That just took me over the edge. Seeing him help her. I had forgave him or at least I was trying to, but he has to help her. I couldn't get passed the fact he was put on Jenna duty. The way she was smiling when he walked up to me this morning. She thought she had won. She didn't … I know that know. But, with my mother leaving things just got to me easier. It was like I was a bridge with twenty semi-trucks on me and my foundation was cracking. I had got the knife from the art room. Slipped it in my bag during homeroom. No one noticed. The first cut was relieving in a way no one could understand. The second was even better. I heard before that getting high made you feel like you were looking down at yourself. That's what cutting did for me. The marks went up and down my arms, you're more likely to die that way. I was on the third cut when Allison's friend Hanna came in. I was a mess of tears and blood on the floor. She just looked at me for a moment before she sat down next to me. "Nothing can hurt this bad." She said as she took her hoodie off. I was shocked when she ripped part of her hoodie away from the rest. She wrapped up my arm to stop the bleeding.

"Hanna what is taking so long!" Allison yelled as she came busting in. "What are you doing?"

"Helping." Hanna said as she helped me up.

"Hanna darling we don't help losers like kitty cat here." Allison said as she looked at me.

"Apparently we aren't as much alike as you think." Hanna said as she looked at Allison. Hanna was the one who knocked the knife out of my other hand. It dropped in front of Allison and that's how it became all about Allison. Like always. She told the principal I was trying to cut her and Hanna knocked the knife away then. Hanna tried to tell the truth, but Allison wouldn't let her.

"That's why I can stand Hanna." I finished my story. My sleeve was rolled up to show the faint scars that were on my left arm.

"Are we done here?" My dad asked as he looked at the officers. "She answered all your questions."

"You can go for now." The younger officer said as he looked at me. They led us out to the lobby. All of Allison's friends were standing together. They looked scared. Like they were looking right at the gates of hell.

"Why are they letting her go?" One of the moms asked as they looked at me.

"We have nothing to hold her on." One of the cops said as they looked at the woman.

"She didn't do anything." Hanna said as she looked at me. "What I have a feeling?" She said as her friends looked at her shocked. "Sorry." She mouthed to me as my dad led me to the door. Like I said to the cops I didn't hate Hanna. She seemed to have a heart. I walked out the doors of the police station into the sunlight. The first thing I saw was Toby and Lucas sitting on a bench across the road from me.

"Sweets!" I squealed as I ran to meet him. I jumped to his arms as soon as I met him. My dad was trailing behind me. "Thank you for coming." I said as I let go of him. "You too, Lucas." I said as I hugged Lucas. "I shouldn't have been so mean about you and Jenna." I said as I let go of him. "I wasn't acting like a true friend."

"Do you three always have to be together?" My dad asked with a laugh as he caught up to me.

"Yes." I said as I smiled at him. As we walked away from the police station I put the whole experience behind me. Why wouldn't I? Allison probably just ran off with some guy the only reason the town was in a frenzy was because she was the Mayors daughter.