Aria POV
Why why why did my family have to move to Rosewood? If we would have just moved to some other town I wouldn't be best friends with Emily Fields, Alison DiLaurentis, Caleb Rivers, and Hanna Marin. I wouldn't be dating Spencer Hastings the rich girl who's always had everything handed to her on a silver platter while at the same time I'm still in love with Hanna. I love Spencer but she is just so difficult sometimes and I'm tired of trying with her but at the same time I love Hanna and I know she loves me too. I can see it her eyes but no matter how much she loves me its obvious she loves Caleb more and it will always be that way. Emily and Alison fight constantly because Emily is just so dang jealous of Noel Kahn but insist she trust Ali when its clear she doesn't. And lets not forget about -A. If I hadn't come here and gotten tangled up with Hanna Marin and her tight nit group of friends then -A wouldn't care about me. They wouldn't want anything to do with me. Of course I can't talk to any of my friends about this. It would kill them to know I feel this way. I love them to death and honestly they're the only family I really have but I wish I never would have met them. I'm just sitting there thinking in the kitchen of Caleb's parents house. I was so lost in my thoughts I didn't even realize I was crying. Hard. Claudia and Billy, Caleb's mom and stepdad, enter the kitchen carrying several bags of groceries when they notice me crying. They rush over to where I'm sitting and sit the bags down on the table. They both pull me into a warm, loving embrace, and try to calm me down. After a few minutes I stop crying.
"Whats wrong sweetie? You can talk to us about anything. We love Caleb and Caleb loves you so we're here for you no matter what you need." Billy tells me
I don't say anything. I try to avoid looking at them because it only makes me want to cry again.
"If you don't want to talk to us thats fine honey. Do you want me to go find Spencer or maybe Hanna? Would you rather talk to one of them?" Claudia asks
"I can't talk to Spencer or any of my friends. If I tell them what I need to say it will kill them." I say as I quietly begin to sob into Billy's chest
"Aria what's going on?" Claudia asks
I take a deep breath and I tell them. Everything. I felt so much better to get it all out in the open but they both kept encouraging me to tell my friends how I feel. I could never tell them that stuff it would break their hearts. Only if they had hearts. Maybe I could just tell Ali and make her swear not to tell the others. Spencer is always saying how heartless Ali can be and maybe thats true. But then again Ali has always been there for me and she's always got my back. I don't know what to do.
After thinking about it for several minutes I decide not to say anything for now. I walk upstairs to the guest room where Emily and I had been staying. The door was closed so I figured Ali and Emily wanted some ''alone time'' while Caleb's parents weren't home. I approach the bedroom door and lift up my hand to knock. I stop when I realize what I hear from behind the door. Its Spencer, Emily, Hanna, Ali, and Caleb talking. About me. I try to open the dorr but its locked.
"Emily Fields open this damn door right now!" I scream while pounding on the door
"Geez Aria break down the door why don't ya?" Caleb laughs
"Shut up Caleb. Spencer start talking. I wanna what the hell is going on here." I demand
"Relax Aria. We've all noticed how weird you've been lately and we were just talking, trying to figure out what might be going on." Spencer explains
"You wanna know whats going on? I'll tell you whats going. My stupid girlfriend won't stop whining and complaing and acting like poor little rich girl only she's not so rich anymore. I'm still in love with my best friend and I know she's in love with me too only she's even more in love with her boyfriend and thats the way its always gonne be. Two of best friends will not stop fighting because someone can't admit to being jealous or learn how to be a little more trusting of her girlfriend not that said girlfriend deserves it because I have a feeling she's hiding something big and my best guy friend who happens to be they guy that Hanna loves more then me has the most amazing parents and little brothers and I am incredibly jealous because he has pratcially everything I want. The one thing that is really driving me crazy is that if my stupid family would have never moved to Rosewood I wouldn't be here feeling like this or have some pysco stalker after me. I wouldn't be in this mess at all if I had never met Hanna Marin and her stupid friends yet I love them all so much thats it was killing me inside. It was killing me inside because I had all these awful feelings towards you I kept inside because I knew how much it would hurt you if you ever knew the truth. Thats whats going on. Ok the truth hurts. Like a bitch." I say with tears pouring down my face
"Look Aria I know not very much good has ever come from being friends with me but being friends with you wasn't always exactly sunshine and rainbows. But you know what you should be glad you moved to Rosewood because if you hadn't you whould have never met Spencer and we all know you two would be lost without each other and you probably wouldn't have found friends that were as messed up as you were and willing to be the family you never had. You can think of being friends with me as having ruined your life or you could think of it as giving you a crappy life but filled with people you'd be nowhere without." Hanna says with hurt in her eyes
"Don't you get it? As much as I wanna hate you, all of you, I can't because I love you all so much and I'd be nothing without any of you." I say wiping my tears away
"Ok look I think that whoever this -A person is, is just trying to tear us apart because there's stregthen in numbers and they know that. We just need to stick together and everything will be alright. We may say and do some hurtful things but thats gotta stop or else -A wins. This is exactly what -A wants, for us to tear each other down until we're broken and left with nothing and they don't even have to lift a finger. We're feeding into what -A wants." Caleb says
"I think he's right. And also Aria was right about something. I am hiding something big and Emily your gonna wanna hate me so bad but I'm begging you not to." Ali says
"I knew it. I knew you were hiding something but Alison I could never hate you." Emily says
"Even if I slept with Noel then asked you to marry me a week later and then found a few days ago that I'm pregnant because I did." Ali says trying to avoid looking Emily in the eye
"I knew it. Emily I told you that she couldn't be trusted. I knew her and Noel had done something but I never thought they would actually have sex and she would actually get pregnant." Hanna a little too excitedly
"You know what Hanna I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that. I don't even care that they had sex and that now she's pregnant. I don't care as long as she doesn't go back him." Emily says more to Alison then to Hanna
"Emily-" Alison starts
"Don't tell me you'd seriously go back to him. Why would you wanna go back to him?" Emily asks taken aback
"Emily he's the father of my baby. He said he loves me and he wants to be apart of the baby's life and I want him to be apart of the baby's life I just don't know if I wanna be with him." Alison says this time looking Emily in the eye
"I need some air. I'm going for a run." Emily says as reaches for her jacket on the dresser next to the door
"Can I come too because I don't wanna be here with your girlfriend or mine right now." Spencer says
"Yeah sure. I miss our morning runs together. Besides we both got girlfriends who've betrayed us and well we could both use someone to talk to." Emily says as the two of them begin to walk out the door
"Of course Hanna is the only who hasn't ruined her relationship because she chose Caleb and took the easy way out." Ali says
"You know what Alison I would slap you right now but that would be considered animal abuse!" Hanna shouts "And not to mention your poor child. Hopefully you two idiots will come to your senses and give the child up for adoption so he or she doesn't get stuck with two terrible excuses for parents like the rest of us did. Maybe Caleb's parents are great now but it took a lot of years and a lot of hurt for Caleb for them to get here."
"Maybe I don't know Noel like the rest of you do but I think at least Ali could make a good mom to her baby and if she stays with Emily then the baby would have her too and I think she'd make a great mom. You see you have to want to be a good parent to actually be one. As long as want to be a good parent and try to make it happen then you can be." I admit
"Look Ali I'm really sorry I snapped at you like that I just never picture my life would be this way and I'm just so mad at my parents I guess I just think everyone will make bad parents because thats all we've ever known." Hanna apologizes
"Its ok Han. I said some stupid stuff too." Alison apologizes back
Spencer POV
"Do you really wanna stay with her and help her and Noel Kahn raise their baby?" I ask Emily as we stop for a break
"I love Ali. Crazy as it sounds I do and I wanna be with her and if it means having Noel Kahn as a part of our lives I guess thats ok." She admits
"But Em he's not gonna be apart of your life you'll be apart of theirs. Think about. Its gonna be Alison and Noel together rasing their child when they used to be in love and then there's gonna be you, Alison girlfriend, thats gets in the way of them being a real family. Emily if you really love her I think you should back off. You and I both know thats its in that baby's best intrest for the two of them to be together and its what they both want she just doesn't want to hurt you." I tell her seriously
"Your probably right but Spencer I have to fight for her."
"Emily no you don't. Your gonna hurt her, your gonna hurt Noel, your gonna hurt that baby, and most of all your gonna hurt yourself. Emily I'm only telling you this because I'm your friend and I don't wanna see you get hurt."
"Yeah well I got hurt the second my girlfriend decided to climb into bed with Noel Kahn. They both knew what they were getting into. Ali was with a girl so she didn't need birth control and he probably was using any protectionbecause knowing them they both wanted to do the most stupid and irresponsible thing possible."
"Maybe thats true but now they are trying to do the responsible thing and be good parents to their baby but your getting in the way of that."
"Why don't we talk about you. Aria went on and on about how much you annoyed her and how much she loved Hanna but would never get to have her. How does that make you feel?"
"It makes me feel like I let go of the most amazing guy that I loved and who loved me back all for some girl I barely knew who was not only in love with me but with the best friend she's know her whole life. I feel like an idiot. Ever since I met Aria I've just trown my life away. I'm going to UCLA for her next semester. I broke up with Toby for her. I didn't even try to work out the differences I had with my family because of her. She encouraged me not to. I've made a mess of my life all for a girl who doesn't even want to be with me. Apparently I'm just not good enough."
"Spencer you are the most amazing girl I've ever met and if Aria can't see that then its her loss. Any girl or guy would be beyond lucky to have you."
"I think you might have mistaken me for Hanna. She's the one who both you and Aria used to want and the one only Caleb was lucky enough to get."
"Hanna's great and all Spencer but so are you. Spencer don't let anyone ever make you feel like your anything less then perferction because you are."
"Thanks Emily."
"Even too perfect for me." Emily mumbles thinking I couldn't hear her. It brings a small smile to face to think my best friend is the one who makes me feel like I might actually deserve the world and nothing short of it.
Hanna POV
After Emily and Spencer return from their run we all decided to watch a movie and have some dinner like we used to do all the time before we left for college. Spencer and Aria worked out their differences and Emily and Ali decided to give it one more shot but I just have this weird feeling that I can't shake. A feeling that something isn't right. Caleb is out getting pizza and the girls and I are trying to decide what movie to watch. I decide to ignore the feeling and enjoy this moment with me and my family. No not my friends but my family.
"Hey where's Caleb? He should be back by now. Its been nearly two hours. It doesn't take that long to get a pizza." Emily says
Suddenly I realize what the feeling was. I knew something wasn't right and I figured it out. Its Caleb. Something terrible has happened but I don't know but what but I know it can only because of one person. -A. I'm too distracted by my thoughts to even here my phone ringing."
"Hanna! Answer your phone it might be Caleb!" Alison shouts trying to get my attention
I pick up my phone and look at the caller I.D. Its not him its the. Its the. Police.
"H-hello?" I answer the phone nervously
"Hanna Marin?"
"Y-yes?"
"I'm Officer Johnson with the LAPD. Your boyfriend Caleb Rivers has been invovled in a hit and run outside of Joe's Pizza. He didn't make it."
After that everyhting else he said just sounded like a bunch of noise. My brain couldn't even make the rest of the words because all I think about was Caleb and how I'd lost him. Forever. The iPhone slips from my hand and falls onto the hardwood floor shattering my screen.
"Hanna! Hanna what happened? Hanna talk to us! Hanna say something please!" all four girls shout
"-A killed him." Is all I can manage
"Hanna what are you talking about?" Aria asks
"He was in his car outside of Joe's when -A ran into him with his, her, its car! -A killed my boyfriend!" I scream with tears streaming down my face. My face is just covered in mascara and tears and I don't even care.
They all exchange confused and shocked looks between each other until Aria grabs and holds me tightly while try to fight her off. Finally I give up and cry into her chest.
"Its gonna be ok Han. I will hunt that bitch down and kill her with my bare hands." Aria says agrily while trying to comfort me at the same time
"No! You can't leave me here with Ali, Emily, Noel, and their baby and Spencer. I need you Aria. I don't care about -A I care about Caleb." I continute to cry into her chest but I still can't put help but notice the jealously painted all across Spencer face as she stares at me and Aria. "Spencer jealously is a terrible color on you. I need you to get over yourself a be a friend to me. I just found out that my boyfriend is dead!'' I say angrily
"I'm sorry what? Say that again." Claudia says with all the color completely drained from her face as she walks into the room with a tray of drinks
"Hanna just got a call saying Caleb was killed in a hit and run outside of Joe's." Aria tells Claudia and Billy
I see Claudia begin to break down and I know that my life would never be the same again. Apart of me refused to believe he was really gone but seeing Claudia break down like that, I just couldn't lie to that last little part of myself for a second longer. My whole world should be falling apart right now but strangely a feeling of peace slowly begins to wash over me. I pull away from Aria and wipe my tears. I pause for a moment and then I do the single handedly most stupid thing I've ever done in my entire life. Everyone's jaw drops to the floor when they see the stupid thing I've done. I can't believe I just did that. I just kissed my best friend after finding out my boyfriend is dead. To top it all of it wasn't Aria, the best fried I'm in love with, that I kissed. I just kissed...
To be continued! After hitting you with the news of Ali's pregnancy and Caleb's death what better way to end the chapter then when a cliffhangeeeeeeeer. Haha I'm sorry for the long wait and I'm also sorry because it's most likely gonna be a few weeks before you find out who Hanna kissed. Maybe. Until next time bitches. Review and don't forget to ~Stay Weird Bitches