Today was an ordinary day, well only as ordinary as it could get in Rosewood. Alison was still missing- I thought she was hiding in Philly like the text had said, but for all I know A could've got hold of her.

Everyday since then we have all pretended that she was on vacation- we just haven't been told when she was coming back. Life had been quiet, no one's taken a dig at us for being friends with her; they all thought it was wierd with no queen bee, even I did.

Me and Hanna walked into school, walking straight to our lockers everybody was silent. There was obviously some news that we haven't heard yet, we ALWAYS knew the news first-hand.

'Why's everyone so quiet?' Hanna asked quietly.

'Beats me' Emily shrugged.

'I know Ali's not here but this is creepy' I said, 'Wait, check the paper' I urged.

We all opened our lockers, the Rosewood Times fell out of all the lockers and fell straight to the floor. Attached to it was a post-it note that read:

Best friend's gone bye bye bitches! -A

On the front of the paper, the headline article read : MISSING GIRL DEAD!

A picture of Alison was plastered on the front page, I quickly picked up one of the papers and quickly read through the article, shocked at what I was reading, along with Hanna- With that, we rushed past everybody after slamming our lockers shut. We stopped at where Mona was standing.

'How many people do you have to kill before you're satisfied!' I screamed at her.

'I'd watch your back if I were you' She said in a patronising tone.

'Don't talk to me let that!' I shouted back, 'You have the nerves to call us bitches, when you're no better, just because you don't like somebody, you don't kill them! That's really shallow!'.

Mona just stood there, overwhelmed by what I was saying (or, rather shouting) to her about. Finally the bell went for first period.

'Also wierd enough to blackmail us and send threatening texts to us, that IS shallow!' Hanna added.

Matt was watching from a distance, this was a time when I needed someone like him to fall back on. The anger from inside of me had dissapeared from shouting at Mona, now I was just upset. I wanted to cry, staying strong didn't work.

Everyone was walking off to their classes now, my class had free lessons all morning; we usually headed out to the field. I just walked past everybody and headed straight for Matt, I needed him now. He had found out about Alison from everyone else in school, he had also heard what I had said to Mona; like I mentioned earlier. It felt assuring to know that he was there for me.

'It's okay' he murmured as he pulled me into a tight hug, I shut my eyes to try and stop the tears, but it didn't work.

'Tell me lies' I urged.

'Don't cry' He said.

'I can't help it, Ali's dead!' I carried on crying.

'Things like this happen' Matt said as he looked down at me, I still had tears in my eyes.

'Usually you know who killed them' I replied.

'Come on, let's get out to the field' He said as he put his arm around me,'We'll find things out eventually, I promise'.

We walked out of the building, Matt had made it his challenge to chear me up and try and make me laugh. He was making me smile and laugh at some points, but the mood had been changed as soon as we sat with everybody else.

'The article said Ali was last seen in the cemetery' Spencer informed us all.

'Way to change the mood' Hanna retorted.

'I am NOT going there- you can but I wanna stay safe' I looked at Spencer.

'We don't have to go there, I was just saying' Spencer smiled.

'It's only gonna creep you out at night' Matt shrugged, 'You're only gonna get answers during the night'.

'Do you know how wierd my dad's got since Halloween' I exclaimed, 'He would kick me out if I did something like that'.

'My dad would do that too' Aria shrugged, 'I guess that's me and Lex out'.

'We'll be there for Ali's funeral anyway' Emily said.

Ali's Funeral:

Nobody was looking forward to this; funerals weren't fun, saying that though, weddings aren't always fun either. We were looking at the bright side of things; I could wear my Halloween dress again.

The teachers had organised this quickly, it had been two days since we had found out the news, I would say that it was out of the blue as well, but Ali knew she was gonna be killed. A had warned her and kept the promise, they weren't kidding.

I was getting ready in my room with Hanna, we had become closer since Ali's disappearance. I was wearing my deep purple halloween dress and Hanna was wearing a deep blue bandage dress. My dad drove me and Hanna to the church; my mom couldn't get time off of work and my brother was suffocating in coursework for college. So it was only me and my dad. Nobody would talk in the car, but my dad being him couldn't help with break the silence.

'So you'll be at Aria's after this?' Dad asked.

'Yeah, we'll probably be there all afternoon' I shrugged as a smiled at him in the mirror. We had arrived outside the church, me and Hanna got out as my dad went to the parking lot.

'Hey Guys' Spencer said as she offered a weak smile.

'Halloween dress' Aria nodded.

'Yeah, good times with Ali' I replied, 'God, I sound so old'.

We walked into the front of the church.

Jason walked over to us, 'The priest won't turn up, so I guess we should start' he offered a weak smile, 'Do you wanna start with the talking and stuff?'.

'Yeah, I guess' I shrugged. Jason nodded, with that he walked up to the front.

'Thankyou for coming to my sister's funeral, it means a lot to my family' he cleared his throat, 'Unfortunately the priest hasn't turned up, so I guess we're gonna have to do this thing without them' he said, 'So, you girls wanna go first?' he looked at us. I nodded.

Hanna walked up first, my nerves were getting the better of me at the moment so she had offered to go first.

'I might not have said this enough to Alison- but she was a great friend, you could trust her with anything and you knew that, she might've had her own views, but you would know that she wouldn't judge you. That's sometimes hard to find in people' Hanna cleared her throat, 'We had some great times, some better than others, but it was always a great time no matter what. I will miss her, and I can't express enough that she was an amazing friend' She finished.

Oh geez, I was up next, somehow the nerves had melted away, I walked up to the front and looked up at everyone, aiming it mostly at my dad. He nodded, which gave me the confidence.

'I didn't really know Alison as well as other people did, but she was special' I gleamed, ' Special because she was the first person that had actually stopped and said hi to me at school when I first moved here, I did become friends with her because she made me feel like I could be a somebody, I soon realised that I could practically say anything and she wouldn't judge me. You don't get people like that these days, they're really hard to find' I glanced down at my shoes, 'I will always remember her, I'm still wonderstruck that she can't be here to hear these amazing things we're saying about her'.

I rapidly walked back down to my seat, I was shaking violently, not entirely whether I was red or not. Hanna smiled at me, and I smiled back as Aria, Spencer and Emily went up to the front together and simply said:

'We would come up separately,but you would hear the exact same things from all of us' Aria smiled.

'We just wanted to say that Ali was an amazing person and she will always live on in our memories' Spencer added.

'She'll be truely missed' Emily said.

Alexis Dad's POV:

The funeral was over now, I guess it was okay compared to other funerals I have been to and had turned out to be. Alexis isn't really one to stand up in crowds and talk about her dead best friends; but she did well, I was talking to Byron now.

'How's Alexis taking this?' he asked.

'Okay I guess, but I don't think she's taking well' I replied, 'She did lose one of her best friends'.

'Yeah, Aria's shur herself out from the rest of us, but if that's her way of getting over this whole thing, that's fine' Byron explained.

Aria's house, Alexis POV:

'I can tell you how much fun that wasn't' Hanna said as we all sat in Aria's room.

'Now I remember why I don't go to funerals' Aria sighed.

'It was Ali's, so we kinda had to go' I looked at Aria.

'I thought it was wierd with no priest' Spencer thought aloud.

Spencer was right, I was thinking it had something to do with a certain someone not wanting Ali to have a proper and official funeral. I didn't dare say anything though; it wasn't realy something to say after a funeral.

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