Chapter 7: The Fourth Child

1982

"Stop holding your breath!" said Constance "Damn it I'm warning you missy!"

"Mommy, what's wrong with her?" asked Tate

"Tate honey, go play with your truck now. Mama's gotta take care of a bad little girl!" said Constance "So you wanna play that game? Remember how I told you I wouldn't take this behavior? I meant it!"

She grabbed the girl and dropped her off at a social services firm. The office tried reasoning with Constance but shortly found a home for little Catherine. This girl was actually Tate's twin sister and would go through many foster homes until Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where she would assume the name, Alison Dilaurentis.

Present Day – Hanna, Spencer and Emily at the Dilaurentis home

"Thank you so much for coming over ladies." Said Jessica

"No problem, Mrs. D. What's up?" asked Emily

"I have a confession to make." Jessica replied

"What confession?" asked Spencer

"My daughter was someone I loved very deeply. Like any mother would love their child." Said Jessica

"Of course" said Hanna "What this about?"

"Well, Alison was adopted." Said Jessica

The three girls jaw's dropped.

"We adopted her after my first daughter got sick. Courtney was her name, and she passed before we got Alison." Explained Jessica "You girls had become friends shortly after the adoption. And the reason I'm telling you this is that I found out something horrible about everything."

"About Alison?" asked Spencer "Was she not who you thought she was?"

"That is precisely right." Said Jessica "After she disappeared, I looked into her background, or at least as much as I could. Apparently the daughter I was supposed to have adopted was not her! Alison isn't a child. When you guys last saw her, she was 34 years old."

"How could that be!" asked Emily "She always looked and acted mature for her age but…"

"She had a disorder that made her look younger." Said Jessica "To boot, she was classified as a sociopath. I contacted the institution she was in. Her birth mother lives in California. Constance Langdon is her name."

"Wait a minute." Said Hanna "Isn't that the woman who owned that house?

"What house?" asked Jessica

"Aria's family were given a house by their late relatives." Said Spencer "More or less forced to take ownership of it anyway. Constance used to live there. She lives next door to it now."

"Oh, that's why the Montgomery's have been gone." Asked Jessica

"You didn't know why?" asked Emily

"Not at all, I don't really speak to them that much." Jessica replied "I'm happy though that they have a place to stay at least. Considering what happened."

"Why are you telling us this?" asked Spencer

"Because, you girls cared so much about her, like I did. I thought that she was my second chance." Said Jessica "After everything our families have been through, and now, finding out about this secret is too much."

"So do you think Alison is actually alive?" asked Spencer

"No." said Jessica "I wanted to for so long, but there's no way. That girl whom I thought I knew lies to rest at the cemetery."

California, 2009, one week after Alison disappeared from Rosewood

Constance Langdon was watching tv. She had a long day of dealing with Adelaide and the dogs she was watching, so evenings after she put Addy to bed were her only time of relaxation. The doorbell rang unexpectedly.

"Can I help you?" asked Constance as she opened the door.

"Mrs. Langdon I presume?" asked the blonde girl

"In the flesh." Constance replied

"You might not recognize me, I'm formerly known as Catherine." Said the girl

"I know no one of that name." said Constance

"Yes you do." The girl insisted

Suddenly Constance remembered everything in detail. She had never forgotten her fourth child but she had tried to block out most of what she could.

"Wait a minute now." Said Constance "You're that missing girl from Pennsylvania aren't you? What on earth are you doing here now?"

"I wanted to know where I came from." Said Alison

"I thought they would've have found you a family." Said Constance

"They did. But I knew that I didn't belong there. I acted out so they decided to lock me up. Radley Sanitarium." Replied Alison

"Well then why the teenage girl charade?" asked Constance "You don't look it, but I know enough that if you're really my daughter you would be in your thirties by now."

"I have a genetic disorder." Said Alison

"Apparently more than one." Said Constance "What do you want?"

"Why did you give me up!" screamed Alison "I dreamed of you, dreamed that I was with my real family, we were happy but you didn't want me!"

"Because I told you and I don't know if you remember but I wasn't going to have another failure. I gave you up in hopes that Tate would rise up and become somebody. But I was denied any form of happiness!" yelled Constance "I came here with dreams that I knew wouldn't be fulfilled so when that happened I told myself I would be a mother, a housewife! Someone that would be fit for a home and garden or cooking magazine cover. But no, everything I've known has been utter shit!"

"Well maybe you shouldn't have given me up and we could've had that!" said Alison

"It doesn't matter now." Said Constance "My family is in shambles and that house next door is only a bad memory."

"Why did you move next door?" asked Alison

"So I could see Beau and Tate." Said Constance

"See them?" asked Alison

"You wouldn't understand." Replied Constance

"I know Tate is dead. I saw the news when it happened. I was still with a family then." Said Alison

"How did you convince people you were a teenager anyway?" asked Constance

"Radley was a wonderful place for me really. After doing the right things to the right people I was able to get a false identity report about me created. Documents, identification that would make me a teenager." Said Alison

"All that for this?" asked Constance "I'd say I'm flattered but knowing you grew up to be a psychotic whore ruins it for me."

"I'm sorry mom." Said Alison "I won't bother you, but could I just stay with you and Adelaide…"

"Come in goddamn it." Said Constance "Sit, we'll continue this in a moment I need to make a phone call."

Constance sat in her dining room phone in hand, while Alison watched the show that was on TV.

"Larry, it's Constance." She whispered

"What do you want?" he replied gruffly.

"I need a favor. That is if you still care for me." Said Constance softly.

"What is it?" he asked

"I have a pest that needs to be taken care of." She replied smugly

After explaining the situation to Larry, Constance prepared a meal for Alison. She poured some drug in it to knock her out. Larry came and picked her up, threw her in the trunk of his car. Constance promised him many things if he would dispose of this girl. So he spent days driving her to Rosewood, where he would get rid of her once and for all. He hit her with a wrench that he had in his car, and dumped her body where it would be a year until she was found by the Rosewood Police.

Present Day

"Hey Aria, you won't believe this!" said Spencer

"I don't know Spence, I'm pretty open to believing anything nowadays. What's up?" Aria replied

"Alison was adopted by Jessica Dilaurentis." Replied Spencer

"What! When!" exclaimed Aria

"Apparently she had another daughter who got sick, so she adopted Alison in hopes to replace her." Said Spencer "That's not all, Constance Langdon, who lives next door to you is her birth mother. Apparently Tate and Ali were twins, she had a disorder that made her look younger than she was, and she was a diagnosed psychopath from Radley, and not the girl Mrs. D was supposed to have adopted."

"That still doesn't explain everything." Replied Aria "I met Constance, she is not someone I'd want to piss off but we didn't even know who she was. So that means someone else had to have been involved in Ali's disappearance who is sending us the texts and screwing with our lives."

"I don't know. But you need to come back soon so we can work together and figure this out. Aren't you supposed to be back by now." Said Spencer

"Well I didn't get a chance to tell you, but I'm actually back now. We're heading to Emily's house now, her mom came back to deal with us renting the place." Said Aria

"Can we meet up later then? I'll get Emily and Hannah." Said Spencer

"Yeah, I'll text you when." Said Aria

"Great!" said Spencer

The two hung up and moments later a text was sent to Spencer's phone.

You think the four bitches being reunited will stop me. More is in store – A