AN: Hi guys, just a quick note to say that I hope you all enjoy this one, it took me all afternoon to write to I would seriously appreciate your reviews. Thank you all so much -Chloe :-)xx
Chapter 10- The Truth Is Revealed.
It was half past nine on a Tuesday morning; Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily were all sat in Trigonometry. They were all eager to get the day over with so they could prepare for the stake out they had planned the night before. All four girls had spent the morning trying to figure out how they were going to act when they got to the DiLaurentis' old house. While they were all in the middle of daydreaming about a life free of –A all of their phones vibrated causing them to be dragged back into the real world. After stealing a few glances at each other to confirm whether or not they all got the text.
"If you think you can fool me then I'd think again if I were you. I'm probably smarter than the 8 of you put together; especially when I get rid of Hastings; she's the real problem. Why didn't you go through with it Spence? You would have made it so much easier to break the rest of the group; especially your pathetic little boyfriend. I will get you all you haven't seen the last of me bitches. –A"
Aria, Emily and Hanna all looked at Spencer whose eyes were now filling with tears as she picked up all of her stuff and ran out of the class room followed by the eyes of the curious teenagers.
"We have to go with her; this could be –A's chance." Aria whispered to the other two as she picked up all of her things and chased after Spencer with the other two on her heels. "Em, ring Toby now. He needs to be here to protect her"
"Already on it" Emily was listening to the dial tone emanating from her phone. "Toby this shit just got a whole lot worse. Get to school ASAP it's an emergency" She hung up the phone on a confused Toby as they tried to find Spencer.
Toby had taken the day off work so he could make a plan of action for tonight's events when he got a phone call off of Emily. She sounded shaken up, like she was running. He knew Emily would only ring him during school if something had happened with Spencer so before he knew it he was slamming has foot down on the accelerator of the truck speeding off towards his old school.
"Emily I'm here; where are you?" He spoke rapidly into his phone "What the fuck happened?" After his friend told him their destination he broke into a sprint as he guided himself towards the auditorium. Stopping outside the double doors he listened to the muffled whispers that came from the four best friends.
"Spencer, I know that shook you up but you can't just run off by yourself" Aria was the first one he heard.
"What am I supposed to do; -A's going to fucking kill me Aria. It's not you they want dead."
"No it isn't at the moment. But you read the text if –A gets you then we're all dead even Ezra, Toby, Caleb and Jason. I knew we shouldn't have got them involved. This is getting redicu-" She was cut off by Toby barging through the doors after finally working out what they were talking about. Spencer's eyes quickly averted from the floor to her boyfriend that was stood a few feet away from her with rage filling his eyes.
"Show me the text Spencer." He demanded. She had never seen him like this before so all of the girls knew that this was the last straw for Toby. Spencer handed over her phone with the text open for him to read; his eyes were darting over the screen before he looked up his face had been drained of all colour. "This is it; I don't give a shit what the bitch does to me but this is the final time she threatens you. I'm going over there now to end this once and for all. You four stay here and please look after her. I'm going to call the guys and we'll deal with this." He ran out of the auditorium looking for the office where he could find out what lesson Caleb was in.
"Mr Cavanaugh, what are you doing here?" The older lady said from behind the desk "Do you need some sort of paper work?"
"No I need to know what lesson Caleb Rivers is in please; it's an emergency."
"Oh okay; he's in Trig. Are you okay making your own way there?"
"Yes thank you" He was now running through the halls of the school searching frantically for where Caleb would be. Finally he looked into the tiny window of one of the doors and saw Caleb sat there looking like he was about to fall asleep. He barged the door open and watched as the dozing teenager jumped and woke up to see his best friend stood in the door way.
"Excuse me; please can I take Caleb? It's an emergency."
"What, no I don't care what it is you don't just barge in here and demand to take one of my students" replied the middle aged man stood at the front of the class. Caleb cleared his throat to get Toby's attention as he mouthed –A to him. Toby nodded in response.
"Sir I have to go, my girlfriend is in danger and I need to help her." He picked up his bag and ran out of the classroom after Toby. "Man what the hell happened? You look furious"
"I am; the girls got a text about half an hour ago saying that they were going to take Spencer down because she's the smartest one so once she's gone we're all easy targets."
"Shit, what are we doing now then?"
"We're going to get Ezra and Jason while the girls are still safe then we're going to the house. I've got Spencer's phone so is there any chance you can track the text on the way?"
"Sure thing man; hand it over" He took Spencer's phone and pulled his own out of his pocket connecting them with a blue wire. "Looks like we're heading towards Spencer's lake house"
The lake house, why there? What's –A doing at the lake house?
It suddenly dawned on Toby about something Spencer had said when they themselves were at the lake house. He remembered her saying something about Melissa taking a new boyfriend there. If Melissa was –A then he needed Spencer; she would be the only one with the capability of talking her down.
They were now climbing into Toby's truck on their way to Jason's work so they could explain it all and take him off to Hollis and do the same with Ezra.
"We need Spencer; Caleb call Hanna and tell her to get all of the girls to meet us at Spencer's lake house. But get her to set off in about 10 minutes so that we'll be there before them; we can't risk them being alone with –A." Caleb already had his phone up to his ear waiting for his girlfriend to pick up.
"Han baby; we need the four of you to drive up to Spencer's lake house and meet us there. We're on our way to get Jason and Ezra but please wait about 10 minutes or a bit longer so that we know we'll be there by the time you arrive... No baby we're not taking a vacation it's where I traced the last text –A sent to. Please do me a favour Hanna... Just stay safe all of you need to protect each other; can you promise me that? Thank you so much. I love you." He hung up his phone as they parked up at the side of the road of Jason's office.
"JASON" Toby shouted before he was even at the door; he was about to push it open when Jason flung it open looking confused at Toby's urgency. "We need you. –A wants to get Spencer for the last time; we need to go to the lake house now." By the time he had chance to finish his sentence Jason had been in and out of the office with his coat and keys.
"I'll take my car; I take it we're going to get Ezra now?" Toby nodded as he ran over to the truck and started it up
Hanna put the phone down on Caleb and went over to the three curious girls and explained all she had been told.
"Why do we have to go?" Spencer asked still trying to get her head round what she had just been told.
"I don't know but I'm scared." Hanna was shaking so violently "I've been wishing for this for so long but now the concept of actually ending this scares me." The other girls nodded in agreement.
"It's been 10 minutes; if we head back to Spencer's house and leave all of our cars there then we'll all go up in Spence's car." Emily suggested.
"Sure" Aria answered before they all got up to walk through the empty corridors of the school to go get into their separate cars.
About an hour later all of the girls fell out of Spencer's car that was now parked on the drive of the family lake house. There were three other cars parked in front of hers; she recognised Toby's truck and Jason's car but the one in front wasn't familiar to her. She finally remembered that Melissa was here for the week with some guy; at least she thought it was some guy.
Spencer could hear Toby's voice shouting at someone it wasn't until the other guy spoke back that she knew who it was. Looking through the living room window her suspicions were proved to be true when Wren was stood in front of her boyfriend trying his best to square up to him despite being a whole lot shorter than him. She ran up the steps at the front of the house and pushed the door open; her legs wouldn't carry her into the family room quick enough as she heard a fist collide with someone's face. Wren had thrown the first punch and a smug look took over his face as Toby refused to retaliate physically and continued to taunt the Brit.
"So I'm guessing it's either you or your pretty little girlfriend that's –A. Right now my bets are on you; Spencer was the only girl that had ever turned down your charm which would explain why you were targeting our relationship. Mind you Melissa did have the excuse of being angry at her sister for always being more of a catch with her partners. So right now I'm thinking you were in it together." Toby's face was greeted with a slap from Melissa.
"You have no idea what you're talking about you stupid little boy" the entire group could see just how scared she was in her eyes. Spencer stepped forward from her friends grasp and walking right into her sister's line of vision.
"Oh no, I think he's got it bang on. You never dropped the whole Wren thing then when Ian was killed you still had some weird connection with him. You've always been a pretty good actress Melissa and bravo you had us fooled. But how about you tell us now how you killed Ali; why did you do it Mel? Was it because he loved her more than you? You've always been a jealous person haven't you? Everything's just one giant competition. I wonder what mom and dad would think if they found out that their little girl was responsible for the death of her own husband and his bit on the side."
"I swear Spencer it's not what you think" Spencer could see that as hard as she tried her sister couldn't stop the tears falling down her cheeks. "I had nothing to do with Ali. I don't know who killed Ali. But I knew about –A because Wren told me; he was already part of it. I needed to get back at you but I only wanted to scare you; I would never have killed you Spence you're my little sister and I love you." She tried inching forward to pull her sister into a hug but instead was greeted by Jason pushing her away.
"You stay the hell away from my sister" His teeth were gritted teeth "You're no sister of mine"
"Oh shut up Jason; you don't have the right to play protective big brother you're not even our real brother" Melissa retorted.
"He has more of a right that you do." Spencer pushed her sister away from the pair.
"You have two minutes to tell me what you know about –A" Hanna was the first one of the other girls to speak as she pinned Wren up against the wall. The look of complete shock that had spread across his face was soon met with Caleb pushing Hanna out of the way and punching straight him in the nose.
"You heard what she said so fucking talk!" silence filled the room as everyone stared at Caleb in astonishment and snigger from Toby soon broke the silence. Blood was pouring out of Wren's broken nose which pleased Toby even more.
"I-I probably know about as much as Toby. He was in there longer than I was." There was a menacing look in his eye as he glanced towards Toby. "He was in it from the start, I only joined when I found out that Toby was part of it and was using Spencer."
Everyone turned to look at Toby who looked absolutely furious.
"You lying bastard." He was running towards Wren to finish off what Caleb had started but was pushed aside by Spencer who was now laying into Wren now.
"How DARE you accuse him of being in it from the start; you know as well as I do that Toby was only a part of it to keep me safe. This is all just some jealous attempt for you to get me isn't it? You pathetic little man." Wren was on the floor clutching his ribs and Spencer continued to kick him in the stomach. As much as Jason and Toby were enjoying seeing the man who had threatened to kill the one girl that meant so much to them both they knew they had to do something. Glancing at each other and nodding; they both moved forward and each grabbed one of the girl's arms so that she was flailing angrily in mid air. Once they placed her back on the ground Jason let go and left Toby to hold his broken little sister. Wren was trying to get back up off of the ground still clutching at his ribs when Jason pressed his foot in his chest pushing him back down to the floor so that he could kneel down beside him and whisper in his ear.
"Your wasted attempted on getting my sister is the last attempt you will ever make and I will make sure of it. If you go anywhere near her again you're a dead man. I think we all stand by that you sick twisted excuse of a man." When he picked himself up off the floor he turned to look at the rest of the group; Melissa was trying to get past Aria near the door so she could escape but was met with a swift slap from the tiny girl.
"That's what you get for threatening my best friend" She then continued to knee her in the stomach "and that's what you get for pretending to be –A"
Melissa tried to retaliate by straightening herself up and reaching out to grab a clump of Aria's long brown hair but was intercepted by Hanna's lightning reflexes.
"You NEVER go for the hair. That's a low shot." Using the advantage of having hold of Melissa's hand to her advantage she twisted it around so that it met to small of her back and used her own free hand to grab at the root of her opponents curly hair dragging her head back so that it was resting on her shoulder. "Now drop the phone"
No one else had seen the phone that Melissa had been clutching in her white knuckled fingers but Hanna drew all of their attention to it.
"Before I make you." She pulled a little harder on the grasp she had causing the phone to tumble to the ground. Hanna let go of her vice like grip on Melissa and picked the phone up passing it to Caleb so that he could get a head start of hacking it.
"You do know we could get the two of you arrested right? Breaking and entering; impersonating someone else and for sending death threats." Spencer spoke up confidently breaking out of Toby's grasp "But there's something that tells me you two don't want to be in that situation so I suggest you both go back to the hole you came from and continue your sick twisted life together. If anyone asks what happened to that pathetic excuse of a human over there you tell them he fell down the stairs. Are we clear?"
They couple nodded as Melissa ran over to her bleeding boyfriend so she could help him out to his car in the drive. They soon heard the car speed off into the distance as they finally all let themselves relax.
"Well that's one –A down; still got however many more to go" Caleb broke the silence as he took his girlfriends hand and pulled her into him so that he could hug her. The other two couples proceeded to copy them. They were all soon distracted by the notifications from their phones.
"Who knew the 8 of you would be the ones to be helping me out. I owe you one. –A"
It wasn't over just yet.