Aria's POV

I was in Spencer's kitchen with her and Hanna. We were currently studying for the SAT. It was also raining heavily.

"How many of this do they really want us to learn?" Hanna asked.

"Stringent." I read.

"Tough or difficult." Spencer answered.

"Meretricious." I continued.

"Do you they expect us to go to college and talk like we swallowed a thesaurus?" Hanna asked.

"It's about getting into college." Spencer pointed out. Hanna probably was right. I didn't see how knowing a bunch of extemporaneous words would help us get into college. Okay, it doesn't really help using words like that prove my point. "Meretricious means superficial."

"Hanna, why are you still eating that?" I asked. She was having some kind of pasta. "Besotted."

"We are taking the SAT in less than 12 hours, can we focus?" Spencer requested. "Besotted means in love with."

"Spencer, you don't need to know any more big words." Hanna quipped before she took a sip of water. "You're already scary enough to anyone under fifty."

"I am not scary." Spencer argued before looking at me. "Am I scary?"

"You're a little scary." I agreed. I could tell that people wanted me to be honest.

"So, I saw Noel hug you like he didn't want to let go." Hanna told me.

"Talk about not wanting to let something go." I replied in annoyance.

"Why don't you give him a chance?" Hanna questioned. "He's smart, he's hot, and his dad owns half of Rhode Island. Aria, you and Noel could be the power couple of Rosewood."

"I'm not looking for anything more than a friend right now." I answered.

"You need something real. You deserve someone who makes you feel good." Hanna proposed. I was probably the only one out of all of us that had even had sex. There was another full moon coming soon and I would definitely be feeling the urges, but I wasn't going to screw a guy just for that. "I'm just trying to help out a friend. We don't all have smoking hot ball boys from the country club."

"How are things going with Alex anyway?" I inquired. "Did he finish that tournament?"

"Yeah he's back." Spencer replied.

"So did you have sex with him yet?" Hanna asked.

"No!" Spencer shouted. "Things are really good and I want things to last, but I'm afraid that I'm going to blow it."

"So, can we say that he's your boyfriend yet?" I questioned. At that point, Spencer's mom walked in. "Hi, Mrs. Hastings."

"Hey girls." She greeted. "What smells so good?"

"Rogelio's." Spencer answered. "Want some garlic bread?"

"I can't." Mrs. Hastings replied. "God, I miss food."

I wasn't sure why she was on whatever diet she was on. She didn't look like she needed to lose weight.

"God, I have so many messages." She continued.

"Hey, maybe you should ask Alex…" Hanna started.

"Stop. Not now." Spencer whispered to cut her off. Something told me that she hadn't told her family about her new boyfriend.

"Your mom doesn't know?" I whispered back.

"Like I said, I want it to last." Spencer replied. I didn't think she had a good reason not to tell them like when I was dating Ezra.

The next day, it was still raining. Emily had never come over. Maybe she felt more comfortable studying at home. I was wearing a Ouija board tank top with a matching planchette necklace over a baby blue sweater with a black fringe skirt with red heels and black nail polish with black glitter eyeshadow. Mrs. Hastings had come with us.

"Mom, you didn't need to come with us." Spencer declared. "They're not going to cancel the test."

At that point, she went up to a teacher and asked, but couldn't get an answer. At that point, I saw a surprise face.

"You didn't say Alex was taking the test here too." I commented.

"Why did you think that I wanted my mom to just drop us off?" Spencer challenged as Alex walked over.

"Hey." He greeted her before they proceeded to make out.

"Attention all students taking the SAT, please go to the library for room assignments." Someone on the PA said. If they went in alphabetical order, Hanna and I would probably be together.

"No one here can make a decision to save their life." Mrs. Hastings interrupted.

"Mom, this is Alex Santiago." Spencer introduced. She looked at him like she was supposed to know who he was, but didn't. "Alex that I went to Homecoming with."

"Of course. You work at the club." Mrs. Hastings declared. "It took a moment to remember. So, you're Alex?"

"I think I need to check in." Alex replied. Suddenly, I understood Spencer's reason for keeping it from her mother. It looked like it would come out now.

"The test is happening." A teacher declared.

"But half the school isn't here." Spencer remarked.

"And they might not make it." Her mom added. "It's raining heavily and a few roads are closed including York St."

"York St. isn't closed because of the weather." Detective Wilden interrupted. What was he doing here? "Someone decided to pay a visit to Alison's memorial last night and destroy it."

"What?" I asked.

"We had to close off the area considering it's an ongoing murder investigation." He replied.

"Well maybe you could spare them the details considering they're about to take their SATs." Mrs. Hastings stated.

"Right. Good luck on the test, Ladies." He told us. Only he could make it sound so creepy.

Emily's POV

I was at my locker, about to take the SAT. I was wearing a black and white Nike jacket zipped up over a pair of black leggings and tennis shoes with my hair up

"Hello Emily, still haven't heard from Jenna?" Wilden asked. I couldn't believe that they were having so much trouble finding a blind girl.

"No." I replied.

"Well let me know if you do." He declared. "Jenna was spotted at a gas station of the interstate just a few days ago. Do you have any idea where she might be staying?"

"You're acting like she is one of my friends." I replied. "Jenna and I aren't friends and I don't know anything about her."

Spencer's POV

We went to the library where some students were trying to use the downtime to cram a little more. I wore a brown jacket with a red and blue plaid shirt, a pearl necklace and a tan high-waisted miniskirt.

"It looks like Jenna decided that she had to kill Alison all over again." I remarked.

"I don't think Jenna is capable of doing that kind of damage." Hanna replied. "She wouldn't even know that it's there."

"She could have had someone do it for her like when she kidnapped Emily." I pointed out.

"I thought we agreed that Ali isn't dead." Hanna declared.

"No, it's just the two of you that believe it." I corrected. I wasn't sure why they believed it. We went to her funeral.

At that point, Emily walked into the room.

"Hey, where have you been?" I asked.

"Yeah, you weren't at Spencer's last night." Aria pointed out as she put her bag down.

"Sorry, I didn't get home until late, I just went to sleep." Emily declared. It sounded like she was lying. "So what did I miss?"

"Well we studied…they studied and I annoyed them." Hanna explained. "And Ali's memorial got destroyed." '

"I heard about that." She commented.

"Why is my mom here?" Aria asked. She always seemed to see and hear things before everyone else. She then walked out of the room.

Aria's POV

I walked to the front of the school and went over to her. I couldn't think of a reason she would be there.

"Mom, what are you doing here?" I asked.

"I tried calling you, but your phone must be turned off." She explained. That didn't answer the question. "They called and said that they needed proctors. I'm on the sub list."

"You are? Since when are you a sub?" I questioned. I knew she also had a degree in teaching, but it had been a while.

"Well they cut my hours at the gallery and I'm paying rent to live above it." She replied.

"You're going to be teaching again? Why didn't you tell me?" I asked her. I wasn't sure why I was so upset. Okay, I was. My emotions were messed up because of the impending full moon.

"Well I was going to at dinner on Monday, but you cancelled on me." She pointed out. "And you also cancelled the next two days."

"Okay, so it's been a bit of an intense week." I told her.

"I know, but I would just like to see you more." She declared. "But you don't plan on ever coming over, do you?"

"I can't. I'm not okay with you and Dad living apart and I'm not going to pretend that I am." I stated.

"But we are." She remarked.

"I know." I responded. "Just because you were ready for this doesn't mean that I was, Now I have to get back to the library."

Hanna's POV

We were in the library as the main teacher, who I had never seen before, started talking. Lucas was on his phone. I was wearing a grey turtleneck blouse a navy sleeveless dress over it. She then called Lucas out.

"Was she talking about me?" He questioned.

"You didn't miss anything." I explained. "Can I borrow your brain? I suck at math."

"I'm already your marketing manager." He replied. "You just got three new bids on your red leather jacket."

"Hello, Hanna, I see you're still hanging out with this nerd." Mona interrupted.

"I have a name." Lucas pointed out.

"Yeah, I know, but I don't care." Mona declared.

"You need to sign in." I replied.

"They know I'm here. You can leave now. This beauty doesn't need a beast." She told him.

I then took a seat with the other girls. I couldn't believe that they had us in the library instead of the classrooms in desks. The tables made it so much easier to cheat. If I didn't have morals, I would have.

Detective Pervert was still creeping around the school. I couldn't believe that they would just let him mess around when students were already nervous enough about the test.

"He's getting desperate." Spencer commented.

"Well Jason isn't making things easy for him." Aria declared.

"I'm sorry about the memorial." He interrupted. "It's shocking though that something like that could happen out in the open and no one saw anything."

"Considering that they probably were up late in a storm, it's not that shocking." I pointed out. Stupid and petty, yes, but not shocking.

"Yeah and everyone here was probably studying for this big test, so you go somewhere else." Spencer added.

"I take it you were all studying together last night?" He questioned.

"The only questions that we're going to answer now will be the ones on the test." I retorted. He then left.

"What if he finds out I wasn't there?" Emily asked. "I have to pee, so I'll be right back."

Emily's POV

I began to walk through the books. There was one book that I couldn't help but think of because of a dream I had. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I then saw something inside of the book. I couldn't believe that I had left it there and more importantly, no one had checked it out. It was a letter that I planned on giving to Alison, but didn't have the courage to give to her directly, or even put in her mailbox, so I put it in her favorite book, hoping she would check it out and see it, but she disappeared first and then she was killed.

Spencer's POV

I noticed Alex walking into the library. He had a book in his hand for the test.

"Alex, are you here to take the test too?" I asked.

"If we ever take it. Only eight kids from my school showed up." He told me.

"So, I don't know what happened between you and my mom at the club, but I'm sorry for whatever she did." I apologized.

"I need to look over this math. I can't talk now." He replied before he hastily exited.

Hanna's POV

I looked over to see Lucas laughing at Mona.

"Why is that nerd laughing at me?' She asked.

"Because he sold that bag for me on the internet and you bought it." I explained.

"I knew that." She lied. "What about you? You've befriended a dork and you're selling clothes. Are you poor now?"

"No, I just figured out that I could make money selling things I don't need anymore." I answered. "I'll give you your money back if you want."

"Or you can take my money and put it towards my birthday present. I registered it at Sachs." She replied.

Aria's POV

Since everyone else was getting up and I didn't want to hear any more of Mona's materialistic drivel, I got up too. I couldn't help but notice a picture of Ezra with the poetry club, which I didn't know existed.

"Do you need something?" The teacher asked.

"If this test isn't happening, can we leave the room?" I questioned.

"They just posted a tornado watch for Delaware County. You're not going anywhere." She said.

"Tell me you like basketball." Noel replied before I could head back to my seat.

"Do I look like someone who likes basketball?" I questioned. I definitely couldn't play it…okay I could play it, but people my height usually couldn't play.

"Noel that's really…" I said before he cut me off. He looked like he genuinely liked me.

"It's not a date, well it's a date, but it's not a date unless you want it to be." He rambled.

"I might already have plans." I replied.

"How about something else? Do you like hockey?" He questioned. It was cute seeing him get so flustered like that. "Never mind. No American likes hockey. I need to work on this."

"Where are you going? They said we couldn't leave." I remarked.

"There are other rooms in the school more fun and less smelly than this." He replied. The downside to having an enhanced sense of smell was that crowds could be unbearable at times. "Wanna come?"

We went to the music room where there was a guitar. He began to tune it by ear.

"I didn't know that you played." I commented. There was something sexy about a man who played guitar, as long as he wasn't whining about his ex-girlfriend.

"Don't tell anyone." He remarked.

"My parents have this nightmare that I'll become a starving artist." He replied. He then started to play a song.

"Hey. I know this." I replied. "My parents used to live to this. Well they did before everything with the…"

He started playing again and I started to sing a little.

If you don't know me by now, you will never never never know me
If you don't know me by now, you will never never never know me

Emily's POV

As I read the book, I couldn't help but think back to when I found out it was Ali's favorite book. She was sitting on the floor reading it. She talked about how she loved it so much. I wasn't even sure how she knew we were reading it. She read to me a little and that was when I kissed her. It was brief and only lasted for a few seconds, but she seemed like she enjoyed it.

Aria's POV

I sang the rest of the song and then the two of us kissed. We started making out. I knew I was really horny. It felt like I was about to start ripping his clothes off. However, before I could, we were interrupted. It was the person that I least expected to see.

"Mr. Fitz." I stammered.

"They want everyone in the library for safety reasons." He said. I blushed. At least it hadn't been worse and we were still wearing our clothes.

"Aria, are you coming?" Noel asked.

"Yeah, I just have to ask Mr. Fitz some questions about the test." I lied. This was going to be awkward.

"So you're back." I declared.

"I never left." He replied.

"Well you weren't here. Were you sick? I only ask because you didn't answer my calls." I responded.

"I went to New York to deal with family issues." He declared. I glared at him. "My issues. I needed to clear my head."

"Well do you know what you want?" I asked him. There was that temper coming out again.

"I interviewed at another school…" He started.

"So you don't want to be here at all." I finished.

"Will you please let me finish?" He asked in frustration.

"Well I'm used to filling in the blanks myself." I responded. "I thought about you. I was worried about you. I know we broke up, but that doesn't mean that I don't have a right to know if you're okay."

"Did your eyes just glow yellow?" He asked. Crap, I found that can happen when I get really angry.

"No." I lied. I couldn't tell him that I was a werewolf.

"I thought about all of the consequences. There are so many illegal things that we did. Things couldn't go on like that." He said.

"Well, for the record, I'm glad that you say that and if you weren't my teacher, I wish you had saw more." I declared.

Hanna's POV'

Eventually, the tornado watch got upgraded to a tornado warning and we were sent to the locker room.

"This sucks. I wanted to photograph a real tornado and now we're in a room without windows." Lucas complained.

"You don't want to see a real tornado." I told him. If he did, he wouldn't want to take a picture of it.

"Of course he does. He wants to go to Oz to be with all of his nerd friends." Mona quipped.

"Mona, why do you hate him so much? What he has her every done to you?" I questioned.

"He annoys me." She said.

"Well maybe you need to go to Oz and see if the wizard can find you a heart." I declared.

Spencer's POV

I sat next to Alex in the locker room.

"I don't think this test is going to happen today." I declared. "You can put that book down."

"Well I still need to study." He said.

"Are we ever going to get past what ever happened between you and my mom?" I inquired.

"Spencer, it's not my decision to tell you anything. It's your mother's." He responded.

Emily's POV

I thought about Ali some more. This time we were in the locker room together. She had just come out of the shower and didn't have a problem with showing me all of her body. She was tall and thin, but her body was so perfect. I helped her put her bra on and kissed her on the neck. Only that time, she freaked out. She told me that she didn't like me like that. I wasn't sure if it was hard denial, but it really hurt me, which led me to write the letter.

In the present, books started to fall from the shelves. I was freaking out. To make matters worse, the letter disappeared. I felt like I was in a horror movie.

Aria's POV

Noel came and found me in the locker. I could have escaped easily considering how agile I could be combined with how small I was. He probably wanted to talk about what happened.

"So, you have an incredible voice." He declared. "Maybe we should go out sometime."

Hanna's POV

Emily finally walked into the locker room. I couldn't believe that she was just getting there.

"Were you in the library the whole time?" I questioned.

"I didn't hear the announcement." She remarked.

"If you were hooking up with Maya last night you can tell Aria and Spencer." I stated.

"I wasn't." She declared.

"Well it doesn't have to be this huge secret or were you doing some sort of succubus thing?" I questioned. I didn't think what a succubus did, but there was probably something.

"Emily, we found something of yours." Detective Pervert interrupted.

He took her away and Aria, Spencer, and I followed them.

Emily's POV

"Is that your bag? Wilden asked.

"Where did you find that?" I questioned.

"It's not a very good idea to leave a bag unattended in a public place." He replied.

"What the hell is going on here?" Spencer interrupted as they came into the room.

"Well now we can all talk." Wilden declared. "I got these photos of you out by yourself last night at the Alison's memorial and I found this letter that you wrote to her."

"I found the memorial already destroyed and you had no right to read that letter." I told him.

"Well it's very interesting and very angry. Not something that I would write to a friend," He replied. I had doubts that he even had friends. "It's also dated three days before she disappeared."

"What is in that letter?" Spencer asked.

"Tell her how you wanted to punish Alison for rejecting you." He continued.

"I went back to the memorial to beg for forgiveness. There were horrible things in that letter." I cried. "I loved Ali as more than a friend. I just never had the chance to tell her that."

"Give her the letter back." Hanna demanded. "Give it back, or I'll tell everyone how you extorted my mom to be in a relationship with you."

"What's going on in here?" Mrs. Hastings interrupted. "Are you interrogating them without parents present? Anything that you heard was inadmissible. In fact, I'm going to call the chief of police of and have you taken off of this case."

Hanna's POV

We then went back to the locker room. I couldn't believe how badass Spencer's mom was. I wished that I had seen that when I was working for her.

"So do you think that he'll be kicked off the force?" I questioned.

"If he's smart, he'll resign before that." Mrs. Hastings declared.

Aria's POV

I went over to see Emily.

"You know Alison loved you. I think she was just scared." I replied. "It's not easy being different."

At that point, the teacher in charge told us that the tornado warning was over and the test was being rescheduled. That was met with cheers from the whole room. I couldn't help but wonder when it was going to happen.

Spencer's POV

I decided that it was a good time to talk to my mom.

"Mom, what happened between you and Alex?" I inquired.

"What did he say?" She questioned with a sigh.

"He said I should talk to you." I replied.

She motioned for me to follow her. We went to Mr. Fitz's classroom.

"Remember when your father took you and Melissa to DC and I stayed behind?" She asked.

"Yes…" I replied.

"I said that I wasn't feeling well. I was drunk most of Friday, hungover Sunday and I don't remember Saturday at all." She told me.

"I don't know if I want to know anymore." I stated.

"It started at the club. I had a lot of drinks. It was Alex's first week there." She explained. "He kindly listened to me spill my guts then got me into a cab."

"Why did you spill your guts to him?" I questioned.

"I had a doctor's appointment before I went there. They removed a lump from my breast. I later found out that it was benign. I felt overwhelmed and powerless After that, I avoided the club for months. The next time I saw Alex, I made him promise to never, ever bring it up."

"Why didn't you and Dad tell us?" I asked her.

"Who said that dad knows about this?" She responded. "The good news is that I'm fine. By the way, I'm perfectly okay with you dating him. He's a great kid."

Aria's POV

After the lights went on, I decided to go up to Noel.

"I want to go to that basketball game with you." I declared. "Well maybe not that specifically, but I want to go out with you on a date."

"Seriously? When?" He asked as I looked over to my mom. "How about I take you somewhere Friday?"

"I'm gonna do dinner at my mom's on Friday. How about Saturday?" I suggested.

"Works for me." He agreed before he walked away.

So Aria and Noel could actually become a thing in this story. Also Emily is out now. Please don't forget to review.