"Troi?" Ashley sniffled into her iPhone 6s.
"Ashley? What's wrong?" The brunettes voice was groggy and drawn out.
"C-can I stay w-with you tonight? I don't w-want to be alone..."
"Of course you can, but it's two in the morning, shouldn't you be with Tyler?"
"We um, I... I didn't feel well and I just really wanted to be with a friend tonight..."
"Okay, well where are you? Let Patrick or me come get you."
"No, that's okay, I'm almost to your place anyways, I just wanted to call and make sure it was okay," she sniffled again, her red nose frost bitten in the cold, September air.
"Alright... Be careful okay? Call me when you're here and I'll open the gate," Troian sighed as she let her eyes slowly close again.
"I'll see you in a few," the blonde piped and clicked the little red button on her screen to end the call.
She wandered through the streets, turning left on every corner until she was a street away from Troian's house. A small black car lurked behind her, yet she had t seemed to notice as she was too caught up in her own disorderly thoughts. A loud whistle behind her pulled her out of her own head, looking back only to see pitch black darkness and a tiny streetlight in the corner. She turned around so quickly, that one of her bracelets flew off her hand, and as she bent down to retrieve it, a figure popped out from behind the bush. She barely had time to process the situation before the attacker pushed a black cloth bag over her head and tied a rope around her hands.
"Mhm! Mhmhmhhhm," her cries for help distorted and panicked as she felt her body being pushed in a direction.
In the suddenness of it all, Ashley's phone had fallen out of her back pocket, shattering on the ground next to her golden bangle bracelet. The tall figure pushed her towards their car, shoving her into the back seat and speeding off.
x-x-x
"Shit!" Troian cursed as her alarm clock woke her from her restful sleep.
The events from last night came flooding back into her memory, including the phone call with Ashley. She shot straight out of bed, immediately going into her living room and calling the blondes name.
"Ashley? Benzo where are you?" She asked out into the open air.
After a few moments with no response, she started to panic and wandered through all the rooms in her house. Her mind raced when she didn't see any sign of the girl.
"Okay, maybe she went back to Tyler's, o-or one of the other girls, and forgot to tell me..." She mumbled.
She quickly sent out a group text to everyone in the cast asking if they had seen Ashley.
Last I knew she was with Ty -Lucy
Same -Shay
Haven't heard from her -Keegan
Me neither -Sasha
No, sorry I have not. -Ian
She's not with me, she left last night. Why? Is everything okay? -Tyler
"This cannot be happening, I lost Ashley. I freaking lost Ashley Benson," she muttered, pacing in her kitchen.
"Babe, what's going on?" Patrick emerged from their bedroom, tiredly walking over to his fiancé.
"Uh, nothing," she smiled while she grabbed her coat, "I'm just gonna go for a walk. I'll see you tonight."
Get your ass over to my house right now
And with that text to Tyler, Troian left her house with no idea where Ashley was or what she would find.
x-x-x
"What the hell do you want?!" Ashley spat as her kidnapper took the bag off of her head to let her take in the pitch black surroundings.
"Nothing much, just everything you have," the figure lifted off their ski mask revealing something that almost made Ashley fall straight out of the chair she was tied to.
"Oh my god," she whispered.
The girl in front of her was her. A tall, blonde, blue eyed girl who looked exactly like her. They could be twins.
"W-who are you?"
"Oh me? I'm no one yet, but starting today, I'm you." The girl smirked.
Ashley shook her head in disbelief, "No, no you can't be me. They won't believe you."
The doppelgänger laughed, "I think they will," the smile on her face turned to a pout, "I'm Ashley Benson, I saw my boyfriend kissing some whore, none of my friends like me, and I can barely act."
"That's not what I sound like."
"Please, it is, and no ones going to even notice the difference between us. You'll be locked away here while I go party and destroy your career for everything it's worth."
"Fine, do whatever you want," there was no way in hell she was getting away with this.
"Great, glad you feel that way," she untied Ashley's hands and put them into metal cuffs that were built into the table, "now we're going to play a little game."
"What game."
"I'm gonna ask you a question, and every time you lie or refuse to answer, I'll hurt you or someone you love."
Ashley gave the blonde a deadpan look, already wishing the game was over, "Fine."
(AN: to make this less confusing, the twin will now be referred to as Ashley)
x-x-x
"You what?! Tyler how stupid are you!" Troian slapped his arm.
"She kissed me! I pulled back, but I don't think Ashley saw that, I tried to go after her but she just ran," he argued.
"Ashley's missing and you kissed another girl, great."
"She kissed me!"
"I don't care. One of my best friends didn't show up when they said they were going to and no one can find her so you better shut up before I hurt you for hurting her and causing all this. You better hope she just forgot to tell one of us she's visiting family or something," she warned, glaring at the brunette boy in front of her.
She was about to continue verbally jabbing at the boy when her phone buzzed with a new text.
Sorry I didn't show last night. Fell and broke my phone and went to my moms, talk more on set later -Ash
She let out a sigh of relief, "It's Ashley, she's okay."
"See? I told you, she's fine," he smiled.
"Aren't you supposed to be on set right now?" She rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, so are you."
"Right, I am, let's go."
The two didn't mutter a single word to each other on the way there. The air cut be cut with a knife it the tension was so thick.
"Ashley said she's okay," Tyler commented as he noticed how the girls knuckles were white from gripping the steering wheel so harshly.
"We haven't physically seen her yet Tyler, she could be lying," the tall brunette mumbled as she turned the corner into the Warner Brother Studios parking lot.
"I'm sure she's fine, she just had a bad night," he went on with his eyes rolled.
Troian pulled up into her parking spot, turned the car off, and turned to look at Tyler, "Yeah, no thanks to you."
Tyler once again rolled his eyes, she was being so dramatic. Of course Ashley was fine, she had to be. If she wasn't, it would be all his fault. How would he live with that guilt? The two got out of the car, a small wave of relief came over them as they walked past Ashley's car.
"See, she's here, she's okay," the brown haired boy concluded.
Troian didn't say anything in response, she just stalked on further and left the boy far behind. He muttered a comment to himself under his breath then grumpily walked into the large building.
"Ashley!" He heard someone squeal, guessing it was most likely Troian.
The brunette bit turned the corner to craft services to see Lucy, Shay, and Troian all hugging Ashley and huddling around her. All he could hear was faint "What happened?"'s and "Why didn't you tell me?"'s through the girls' low talking. He bit his lip, mentally debating on whether to go over and talk to her now, but decided it was best to let the girls catch up and he could get a moment alone with her later. Tyler continued walking to his dressing room and went over his lines with Keegan until his first scene with Ashley had been called up.
"Here goes nothing," he murmured to himself as he walked to the set of Hanna's house.
Ashley was looking down at her script, sitting on the couch in Hanna's living room as she waited for Tyler to come and Norman to yell action. The boy carefully sat down on the couch next to her while absentmindedly playing with the rip in his jeans. Ashley looked up at him, giving him a look he couldn't miss. A look of regret and remorse, of disgust and anger towards him. He watched her go back to reviewing her lines and gave himself a minute to mentally prepare what he was going to say.
"Ashley look, I'm really sorry about what happened the other night. I didn't invite her over and if I had known all that was going to happen, I wouldn't have opened the door, let alone let her in," Tyler confessed, stumbling over the words as he tried to force them out of his mouth as quickly as he could.
The blonde looked up at him, processing everything he had just said, "It's okay, I know you didn't mean it."
"What?"
She turned to face him on the couch and let out an exaggerated sigh.
"Last night, what happened shouldn't have. I get it. We both made mistakes but I think we can move on from it."
"Right, yeah..."
Tyler looked at the girl slightly confused. This wasn't the reaction he thought he would get after how she had reacted just hours earlier.
"Do you want to come over to my place later? We should talk and rehearse, I'm having trouble on the next Haleb scene," her eyes nervously darted from him to the floor then back up to him as she ran a hand through her blonde hair.
"Uh yeah, of course," he smiled slightly.
"Alright guys, you ready?" Norman interrupted the conversation in order to start the scene.
Both actors nodded and proceeded to immerse themselves into their characters as their scene started.
x-x-x
"Cast meeting in ten minutes! Everyone in the writers room!" A crew member yelled to the dressing rooms and everyone in the soundstage.
A chorus of "okay"'s and "thank you"'s followed. Soon you could hear shuffling, footsteps, and doors closing all around the studio as all the actors made their ways to the writers room. They took their seats one by one at the rectangular arrangement of tables which they usually used for table reads. Tyler sat in his usual spot, never once noticing how Cassie had slipped into the seat next left of him, but turned and smiled as Ashley room the seat to his right.
"Hey," he whispered to bed with a small and warming smile on his face.
She didn't smile back, but instead arranged her things and gave a quick "Hey" back. Tyler turned back to look at Marlene and Norman who stood in the middle of the tables, wondering if he had done or said something wrong to cause Ashley's coldness all of a sudden. He shook his thoughts to the back of his mind and willed himself to pay attention to what was happening.
"We just wanted to say great job to everyone. We know these last few weeks have been difficult for someone of you, but your hard work and commitment definitely show. Once we finish next weeks episode, we will hopefully be moving locations for a small flashback for the girls. We're hoping it will be in either London or Ireland," Marlene announced earning some cheers and excited looks from everyone in the cast.
Norman laughed and continued what Marlene had been saying, "Everyone will be going, but not everyone will have a scene. Room assignments are up to you to discuss but there can be no more than three people to a room so choose wisely."
Cassie smirked, slightly nudging Tyler with her elbow, "Hear that Ty? We could be sharing a room."
The brunette rolled his eyes and ignored her. He noticed out of the corner of his eyes he Ashley hadn't reacted to Cassie's remark, which was strange. The blonde sat there half listening, half on her phone being as unsocial as she could be. Every time Tyler tried to talk to her, she would pretend like she didn't hear him and stay on her phone or turn to talk to Lucy who sat besides her. This was so not like her. No matter what Tyler had done, she had never treated him this way...
After the meeting was over, they were all wrapped for the day, and some decided to go out and grab a bite to eat together.
"Ash! Are you coming with us to get some food? I'm starving," Shay asked as she ran to catch up with the girl.
"No, not hungry." Ashley snarked in a straightforward tone.
"Oh, okay. Is everything alright?"
"Yeah everything's fine. I just don't want to eat right now."
"Do you wanna just come and talk with us? We might go to Sunset afterwards."
"Shay I have a life outside of this, I have to be somewhere."
"Okay fine," the tan brunette looked slightly hurt by her friends harshness, "Well um, call me later?"
"Sure." Ashley said, never once looking up to see Shay.
The girl sighed and walked off, towards Keegan, Tyler, Troian, Ian, and Sasha, who were all joining her to eat. Once she found her group, everyone immediately picked up on her change in mood from her usually bubbly self.
"Buttah, is everything okay?" Troian asked, wrapping her arm around the girls shoulders.
"Yeah, Ashley's just a little off today. I've never seen her like that..." She replied.
"She was weird with me too, but that's a given for what happened," Tyler mentioned.
"She had a rough week, I'm sure it's just catching up to her," Ian commented, his smile making everyone feel a little better.
"Yeah, I guess." She mumbled as they walked off of Warner Brother Studios to continue their day.
x-x-x
"Your friends are so annoying, God," the twin complained as she walked into the cabin and over to the real Ashley.
The tied up blonde rolled her eyes and continues to struggle against her restraints. The twin laughed, sitting directly in front of her.
"They'll realize it's not me, you won't get away with this," the blonde piped.
"Really? They didn't seem to notice anything too off today. Matter of fact, I believe a certain co-star is coming over later to..chat," the twin smirked, "and you won't be able to help him. This is my life now."
"What did I do to you that made you hate me so much? I don't even know you!" Real Ashley cried.
"Right, well I guess I should start from the beginning," the kidnapped stood up and started walking in a line in front of Ashley as though she was pacing, "My name is Chloe, I'm twenty six, and as you know, I'm your twin."
Chloe paused and looked over at Ashley in her restraints.
"You don't remember, but we grew up together for a few years, up until we were about five. Then, you started your interest in film and acting, and our mom decided that one of us was enough, she couldn't handle the other, so she passed me off to some family member and I never saw you again."
"That had nothing to do with me," Ashley sniped.
"If you hadn't become so successful, maybe our mom would've kept me! You have the life I should've had. You have it so easy. Perfect job, perfect friends, perfect boyfriend, perfect life!"
"You don't know anything about that."
"Please. I've been following you for long enough to know. You got in some silly little fight with Tyler last night, you hate that Cassie girl, and Ryan has been on your mind just ever so often."
"Which is all you know. They'll figure out you're not me, you don't know everything."
"You're right, I don't. Which is where our little game comes in handy. Whatever I don't know, you're going to tell me. If you lie, I hurt someone. If you don't tell me, I hurt someone. If you tell me the truth, everyone gets to see another day, including you."
"I'm tied up, how am I going to tell you anything?"
"Using these," Chloe brought out a pair of wireless blue tooth earphones, "We'll be continuously talking and if you do anything to mess anything up, well you know the consequences."
Ashley starred up at the girl hovering above her and gave her a deadpan look of anger.
"Fine."
"Good, now I have to go meet some people. If you're good, maybe I'll let you talk to that boy you like."
"Leave Tyler out of this," Ashley squirmed.
"He's so sweet, I'd hate to see anything happen to him," Chloe smirked as she saw fear flood her twins bright blue eyes.
"Leave him alone," Ashley managed to whisper out.
"We'll see. I might just have some fun with him tonight."
With that, she left to go meet the brunette boy who had was completely unaware of what he had gotten himself into.
x-x-x
Part two coming later this week because I've been a terrible person and not updated. But you don't want to hear my excuses, y'all probably just want to hear that I'll be updating again this week, hopefully twice after this, so triple the reading and the Tyshley! All of your reviews made me push myself to write no matter how busy I got or what was happening so please leave a comment, I love reading them :). Hope everyone has a wonderful day. -K