Chapter Four

Alright guys so this from point is when A comes into the story and things start to pick up and get messy real quick. I've also decided to make it a bit more AU then I first planned, but this still only applies to the characters not the concept of PLL.

Disclaimer – Still don't own anything.

Chapter Four

They had decided to meet up tomorrow at his house to tell their friends and then to tell her parents on Monday after her doctors appointment, a fact she still wasn't looking forward to, but one she would get over seeing as she really didn't have a choice. Although that was the last thing on her mind as she made her way home.

You see earlier on in the day shortly before she did the six test (yes six, I mean she had to be sure right) Aria had found her mum sitting in the lounge holding a letter sent from A telling her all about her dads affair from the year past. However it turns out her mum didn't really have a problem with the whole cheating part, no what she had a problem with was the fact that her husband had asked their daughter to keep it from her and not because it had been for a long period off time, but that he asked at all was a big no-no.

So now she was on her way home to face the fall out of another secret revealed by A, could it get any worse?

Oh, so not a question you really wanna ask, because yes infact it can and did get worse and not just for Aria and her family, no the next secret to be let out the bag came not from A but from her mum and it just so happened to change the lives of Aria and her best friend Hanna Marin in a major way.

Aria really wished she could take back walking into her house just as her mum was telling her dad that she wasn't his daughter, to say that both Aria and Byron Montgomery were shocked by this news would be a complete understatement actually I'm pretty sure there were no words for what they were feeling in that moment.

Not wanting to stay and hear any more apart from who her real dad was, Aria turned and fled from the family (family? Yeah right) home, running as fast as she could the short distance to Hanna's house. As she reached the door the tears still hadn't come and so she was actually rather composed when her best friend answered the door, however that all went to hell when she opened her mouth to tell Hanna that their parents had a short affair resulting in them being half sisters. (God it was like this whole bloody town was related to each other, maybe Emily should ask if Toby's her brother)

Hanna's reaction was to first laugh – thinking it was all a joke – until she looked at Aria's face and realising she was being a 100% serious started to to curse the life out off her dad for being a cheating bastard, although she was kinda happy she got a sister out of it, she hated being an only child it got real lonely at times.

They were sat at the island in Hanna's kitchen telling the rest off their friends the news of their true parenting. Their logic for this was along the lines of the day has already gone to hell with secrets coming out, so why drag it out over a weekend. With this reasoning Aria decided to tell them the news of her pregnancy also. Turns out this subject went down better than the one off the new/old siblings, although she couldn't figure out why, however she had a feeling it had something to do with the former being a huge lie and the latter not.

After finding out that Ashley – Hanna's mum – had also known about the affair and there fore the end result, Hanna declared she could no longer stay in her house and so the group of eight choose to spend the night at Jason's.

The plan was for the group to watch movies and just chill for the rest of the evening after the emotional day they had, but being Rosewood there was no way that was happening and all eight of them received a message from A.

"8 little liars standing in row, all stood waiting.

Who's the first to go?"

Kisses

-A

Not having a clue what was going on the three boys and Maya first looked at each other and then turned to the girls, with in seconds they could tell that the four teenage girls held all the answers to their questions and they wanted them tonight. It was Toby to voice what the four wanted "Care to explain?"

Yes they did, finally after months of blackmail they could tell someone what had been going on with out the possibility of that someone getting hurt. A had already involved them, here was their chance – to lighten their load so to speak and maybe just maybe find out who A was and end this nightmare that was their life's – and they were going to grab it with both and hands and a firm hold.

It took nearly three hours to explain everything to their small audience, making sure no stone was left unturned they started from when they received the first messages from A and included as much as possible – which between the four of them meant nothing was left out – even that at one point or another the three males in the room had been on their suspect list to either of been involved with Ali's disappearance or to have been A.

Hanna told about being hit by A's car. Emily's story was about A putting something in her cream to make it look she was on steroids and Spencer and Aria, well they hadn't really had anything done to them at this point but they did have something that they knew would be used against them both sometime soon so Spencer told how she shared a kiss with her sister's ex fiancée and that's the reason why they split up and finally Aria shared about having a month and half relationship with her former English teacher, but she ended it two weeks ago.

The only thing the girls couldn't explain to the four was the last text and why A had now involved them.

It took awhile for Jason, Toby, Caleb and Maya to regain their senses, but when they did they had just one question, "Why didn't they tell anyone or get the police involved?"

Spencer took charge on this one which the other three were thankful for "The answers are simple really, 1) we didn't want to put anybody in danger and 2) the police are useless in this town plus we didn't really know who to trust.

The four looked to one another and nodded their heads in agreement of excepting the girls explanation. After telling the girls thank you for being so honest the eight friends decided to pick up the conversation of A's last text tomorrow morning and just go to bed as they were all exhausted, well that would have been the plan if eight cell phones hadn't gone off simultaneously.