Dun dun dun! What is A talking about now? Any ideas? Will Spencer be able to tell her family herself? Or will someone do it for her? Review with your ideas and feedback! - A (you should know its me by now)


Weight Of The World

OR

Leading Of Many


Spencer rapped her knuckles on Aria's front door wildly, not stopping until Ella Montgomery opened the door, frowning at the racket she was making.

'Spencer!' She started, 'Are you ok?'

'I need to talk to Aria.' Spencer interrupted, not even looking at Ella properly.

'She upstairs with Emily and Paige. Is something wrong? You look like you've been crying.' Ella reached out to touch Spencer's arm but she flinched away, pushing past her and heading upstairs to Aria's room.

She was sitting on the floor, talking to Paige and Emily in hushed voices.

'… I don't know, something bad no doubt…'

'Should we say anything to her?'

'Maybe A already has…'

The conversation was cut short when Spencer decided she'd over heard enough and burst into the room.

'I need you to help me.' She said shortly, not bother to ask what they we talking about.

Emily and Paige shot to their feet quickly, looking guilty, and Aria jumped as though she had been electrified.

'God, Spencer you scared the hell out of us!' She cried, clambering to her feet to and closing to door so they wouldn't be over heard.

'What is it?' Paige asked worriedly. 'Did A do something?'

Spencer glared at Paige. They had never got on very well, but time was running out and it would take hours for Spencer to explain the real situation to Aria and Emily the way she would have liked.

'A has stolen something from me. It's very important, like life or death important and I have forty seven and a half hours to find it. I need your help.'

'I'll text Hanna!' Emily replied straight away and Spencer felt her eyes filling up with tears at how understanding her friends were.

'Don't worry, Spence. We'll find it!' Aria promised, hugging Spencer tight as Paige nodded in the background.

Spencer swallowed her tears and took a deep breath, pulling A's note out of her pocket.

'A sent this along with a timer. We need to find it fast or…' Spencer couldn't continue, her throat dry.

'Spencer, do you want to, umm, tell us what A stole?' Emily asked quietly, after the three girls had poured over Spencer's note.

'I'm not ready yet. I'm sorry.' Spencer shook her head.

'It's ok, we don't want to pry. But if it's this important we need to start looking right away!' Aria warned the others.

'Ok, shall we start in the most obvious place; your house?' Paige suggested calmly.

Spencer shook her head again. 'I looked everywhere in my house before I came here. A could have taken it back to their lair for all we know!'

'Let's not panic or jump to conclusions! We'll narrow it down, that'll save us time.' Emily said, grabbing one of Aria's note pads and writing the words 'Spencer's House' in pen, crossing it off straight away.

'Ok, where else?' Aria mumbled thoughtfully.

'The Brew?' Paige suggested.

'This house?'

'Toby's?'

'The barn?'

'Hanna's?'

'Emily's?'

'Paige's?'

'Mona's?'

'The church?'

'The school?'

'We're never going to find it in time!' Spencer cried, sinking to the floor in tears.

'Look, Spence, I promise we'll find it!' Aria said fiercely. 'We'll split up, you and I will look here and Paige and Emily can get Hanna and look at her house and we'll meet at the Brew to check there. Then we'll go to Emily's and Paige's, look around Mona's, Toby's and go to the barn, the church and the school!'

'I think we can rule out our houses.' Paige said suddenly.

The others turned to her confusedly. 'Why?'

'Well, this is A, right? And I mean, whoever it is has never made this easy on any of you. So putting it in one of houses is not an A move. Hiding it in the school, the church, the Brew or the barn is our best guess I think.' Paige explained.

'Ok, new plan! Hanna is at the church with her mom and Ted now. Aria can go meet her and look around. Spencer, Paige and I can look around the barn and we'll meet outside the school in two hours!' Emily suggested.

'Let's go!'


Spencer sobbed as the girls ran madly around the bushes outside the school, trying to find an open window. They had had no luck at the church or the barn, and even the Brew was clear of Spencer's missing possession. The school was their last hope, and Spencer was losing all faith in ever retrieving the test. What evil way could A have cooked up to break the new to her family and friends? It was bound to be to awful for Spencer to have even dreamt of it, and she was become hysterical with over thinking.

'Spencer please calm down!' Hanna called, hugging her frantic friend helplessly.

'God Hanna could you be at least a little sympathetic!' Spencer cried, wiping at her eyes furiously.

'I'm trying to help! If you keep crying like that people will notice us! Which is not helpful when you're trying to break into a freaking school!' Hanna snapped, giving the wall a frustrated kick.

'Wait…' Aria muttered suddenly.

'What, what is it?'

'There is a vent here…one of us could fit in and unlock the back door for the others!' Aria whispered excitedly.

'Ok, ok, umm… who's the skinniest?' Emily asked the five girls.

There was a very expectant pause.

'Well, Spencer.' Hanna mumbled, rubbing the back of her neck.

Spencer snapped. 'I'm not going in there!'

'I will!' Paige huffed, forcing open the vent and crawling in head first.

Emily turned on the flashlight of her phone and made sure Paige could see. As her legs disappeared, Aria turned to Spencer, rapping her arms around her sniffling friend and holding her tight. Hanna grabbed onto them both and Emily soon joined the hug, so all four of them were squashed together. They waited for a few minutes, glad to be in each other's company, until Spencer broke apart from the other three.

'We should wait by the back entrance for Paige.' She muttered. The others nodded, peering over their shoulders to check they weren't being followed.

Paige herself was still crawling through the vents, feeling glad there was enough space for her to be relatively comfortable with all the twists and turns. She carried on for a while until she'd lost track of where she'd come from and eventually found another grid, which seemed to be leading into one of the art rooms. She was just about to busted it open when she noticed a noise coming from somewhere in the class to the right.

She could hardly see but it sounded like someone else was in the school, moving things around. Paige felt chills running up her spine. A didn't know the girls were there, did they? Who was she kidding, A knew everything. Paige kept quiet, hoping the person hadn't seen her. It seemed they were too busy with what they were doing to notice her crouched in the vents. If they found her at least she would have the element of surprise.

The figure went into one of the cupboards and took out of a can of paint, red it seemed to Paige. They grabbed a brush from a nearby pot and fled the room. Paige waited a tense few minutes before careful clambering out of the vent and checking the person had gone from the corridor. They were nowhere to be seen.

'What the hell took you so long?' Aria snapped as soon as Paige opened the back entrance to reveal four shivering girls with glares on their faces. Paige didn't say anything. She was shaking herself, though not from the cold.

'Are you ok? You seem scared?' Emily asked, concerned. 'Did something happen?'

Paige told the girls what she had saw in a hushed voice, eyes still darting around for the shadowy figures return.

'Oh my god!' Emily gasped when Paige and finished, pulling her girlfriend into a tight embrace. 'You must have been terrified!'

The other girls weren't quite as sympathetic as Emily.

'If A is here we must be in the right place!' Spencer hissed, pushing past the hugging girls and stalking down the corridor.

'Spencer wait!' Hanna grabbed her friends arm. 'You can just go barging in there! Who knows what A has got planned? I mean, red paint? That doesn't sound good!'

'Hanna, we have two days to get this back and I'm not wasting a second!'

'Spencer, please wait!'

The others nodded, but Spencer was too desperate to listen. She shook her arm free and disappeared down the stairs to the art room, the rest of the girls hurrying nervously after her. It was nearing 6 o'clock now, and the school wasn't light, so it was eerily dim. There seemed to be a shadow waiting at every corner and noises that would have had a second thought in school time where making them jump in fright. Spencer was always a corridor ahead of them, and they began to worry they would lose her if they didn't hurry up, which result in them all sprinting down the hallways until they reached their destination.

'Where are they?' Spencer snapped in frustration, when they found the now empty classroom Paige had climbed into. No one answered, feeling unnerved by the silence absorbing the school.

'Ok, let's split up again, it'll be faster.' Aria suggested.

'I'll go with Paige and you three go look upstairs. Just…scream if anything goes wrong.' Emily told the girls, grabbing Paige's arm and hurrying off into the darkness.

'Come on…' Hanna muttered, leading the other two the opposite way.

They rushed down the corridors, peering into every classroom for A, hearts in their throats at the thought of catching a glimpse of a black hood. Every turn was followed by a sigh of disappointment laced with relief, clutching hold of each other at any noise, praying this would all be over soon. They occasionally thought they spotted a figure, in the corner of their eye, but it turned out to be a tree's shadow, or one of the others. After being scared by shadows and dogs barking for five minutes, they grabbed a hockey stick each from the Gym and continued their search more surely of themselves.

'Spence, what does A have on you that you're this scared of?' Aria asked worriedly, seeing Spencer gripped her stick so tightly her knuckles went white.

'Nothing, can we keep on looking?' Spencer answered disinterestedly.

'It can be nothing, we've searched half of Rosewood for it? Could you go to jail for it? Will it hurt your mom or Toby? Spence, we're worried!' Hanna told her friend earnestly, pulling her arm so she had to face them.

'Look, this isn't twenty questions, this is my life! And it could be over in 41 hours if you don't freaking help me!' Spencer snapped, storming down the corridor.

Aria and Hanna exchanged worried glances before chasing after her.

'I feel like we've been running around after her too many times today…' Hanna muttered to Aria, who nodded.

'Guys?!' Spencer cried from inside one of the science classrooms. 'Can you help me with something?'

'What's wrong?' Her friends hurried to her aid, finding her standing underneath a cupboard.

'I haven't seen this box before, help me get it down!'

Aria grabbed a table, pushing it across the floor to lean against the cupboard. Spencer hauled herself up onto it and snatched the box of the top quickly. All three girls leaned in expectantly as Hanna lifted off the lid anxiously.

'It's just a box of worksheets!' Hanna retorted, running her hands through her hair, frustrated.

Spencer swore at the top of her voice, kicking the leg of the table.

'Wait you guys! There's something written in red here!' Aria hissed, picking up a sheet and showing it to the others.

Paige and Emily are getting close! Hopefully not too close, we wouldn't want a death on our hands, now, would we? – A

As soon as they finished reading, they heard a chilling scream.

'Quick, it's coming from the canteen!' Spencer cried, dragging Aria and Hanna to their left.

They raced down the stair, jumping down them two at a time in their hurry to get to Emily and Paige. The canteen doors were wide open, and the temperate seemed to drop as soon as the girls ran in. Emily was standing with her hands over her mouth staring at the far wall, Paige doing the same. Both of them had a disgusted look on their faces.

'What, what is it?' Spencer shouted, a sick feeling swooping up in her stomach.

Emily raised a shaking hand and pointed ahead of her.

There, written on the wall in red paint was another message.

You're missing something. Reread the note. I'm still scheming! – A


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