Emily's POV

"This is going to be so unbelievably hard for me Em. I still want to keep in touch with you, so if you have anything, a letter, package, whatever it may be, address it to:

A.D. Incorporated

P.O. Box 537

Wallingford PA

If there's a huge emergency log into this account:

BarileVolante

mammagabusi is the password to get in.

Send the email to: gye21975

For now I'm staying in an apartment in Manhattan, it's over this tiny coffee shop/pastry place called The Mockingbird. I oversee the business for the owner. I love you and hopefully all of this can be over soon.

xoxo

Ali"

I must have gone over this a billion times. Ali trusts me enough to know what to do with this in case of emergencies. I won't mess this up. I thought to myself.

It's been a month since I had last seen Alison. I've never been so in love with anyone in the whole world. I fear for her safety every moment of each passing day. Time goes by so slowly when you miss someone, it actually feels like forever. There are no longer any secrets between us, only the truth. It's like a new territory with Alison. It's nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time.

Paige understood that we aren't ever going to be together as a couple again, but she still wanted to be friends. So I agreed to be friends and nothing more. Nobody is about to come between Alison and I again.

I had saved a little bit of money out of my paycheck each week in case she needed any money if she was in a crisis. I was going to drop it off in her P.O. Box right after school. I didn't realize how much money I actually put aside for Ali. Going to school with this much cash on me while I was at school made me very anxious. I didn't wanna mess this up. I even lied to Paige, telling her my grandmother sent it to me as a late birthday present and I was going to deposit it into my bank account after school.

Get it together Em I told myself. I approached Spencer at her locker, she was looking terrified as I noticed something in her hands.

Curious I walked up to her . "What's that?"

"A gift" she replied.

I took the bottle from her hands realizing it was the prescription medication Spencer is addicted to. With a frown on my face I rolled it over in my hands, realizing that it was indeed a gift from -A.

"At least it's better than a needle in the arm." I responded

"Don't give -A any ideas" she said with a mortified look on her face.

"I'll take these and throw them away" I offered.

"No, I better. I wanna toss it far from this place" she said as she slipped the bottle into her bag. "You still up for operation money drop later?" She asked while closing her locker.

I nodded. "I can't let Ali down...again." Ugh I hate lying to Spence. As far as she knows she ruined my moment with Ali and I haven't seen her since then.

Hanna walked up to us with an expression of worry on her face. "Hey have you talked to Aria?"

"I texted her a while ago but I haven't heard back. Why?"

"Well I went to her house and lunch and she's not there and she's not answering her cell phone." Hanna replied.

"I think I have an idea of where she might be" Spencer answered.

We left school and went to Mr. Fitz's apartment. Hanna opened the door, as we all walked in, we saw that the place was trashed. Sitting in the rubble In a fetal position was Aria.

"What the hell happened in here?" Hanna asked

"Oh my god, Aria"

"Are you okay?" Spencer asked.

Aria was just silent as we huddled around her.

"Every secret I told him about Ali, about me and about you guys he wrote it down, it was all for his book" she replied sadly.

"Aria if it were me I would have burned this whole place down" said Hanna.

"Come on we can get you out of here okay?" I offered. "Come on"

With that we left the place. Hanna calling back to telling Spence to come on.

I was at the post office addressing the envelope to the address Ali gave to me. I put the money I had into the envelope. As I was waiting in line, I heard a voice I knew too well behind me.

"Depositing the money in your bank account huh?"

I turned around. "Paige? What are you doing here?" I looked at her for a moment "you followed me."

"I knew you were lying about your grandma and her coffee cans. What is -A making you do now?" She questioned.

"This has nothing to do with -A" I countered.

"Then who is the money for?" She asked persistently.

I looked around for a moment.

"I wish I could tell you, okay? But I can't."

"Can't or won't?" she almost yelled.

People turned around to stare at us.

"Can we not talk about this here?" I said rhetorically.

She just shook her head and followed me outside.

"I told you I'm going through something."

"You've been going through something for weeks now. There's a lot of money in that envelope Emily. What don't you want me to know?" She said as she snatched the envelope out of my hands. She turned it around so she could read it "What is A.D. Incorporated?" she asked.

"Give it back, Paige" as I reached for the envelope.

"Not until you answer my question."

"I told you I can't!"

"Well I can't let -A continue to control you like this! If you don't tell me what A.D. Incorporated is maybe the police will."

"No, you can't take that back to the police, Paige"

"Why not?"

I huffed and looked around me, making sure no one else was listening "Because somebody needs that money"

"Who? Last chance Emily, I'm serious."

She nodded her head and started to walk away.

"Wait!"

She turned around.

"The money is for Ali...she's alive," I blurted. DAMN IT! "If anything happens to Ali I'd never forgive myself...or you." I said.

"Fine, I won't say anything."

THE NEXT DAY

Emily's POV

"Look somebody else knows Ali's alive and they told the cops," Hanna explained.

"Does Holbrook know who it's from? Did he say if it was from a guy or a girl?"

"It's anonymous!" she exclaimed "and they're still trying to figure it out"

LATER THAT DAY

Emily's POV

"So you think that Mona left an anonymous tip?" Spencer asked.

"Well if she was upset that she had to dump Mike maybe she was trying to make Fitz pay" Hanna responded.

"Well, it could all lead back to Ezra." Spencer admitted. Might stop him from publishing while they investigate"

Hanna was pacing around my room since she got here. "Em? How long has this been here?"

"W-what what are you talking about?"

"That blue envelope"

"It's a note from Paige. Why?"

Aria came and announced Ezra thinks Mrs. D is -A. Hanna and I found it ridiculous. Hanna didn't even believe Mrs. D knows what a text is. Spencer confessed she was on drugs that summer. She doesn't remember a lot of what happened but went off on a tangent, believing she was the one who hurt Ali. It was too much to take in right now, so I excused myself to get a snack and Hanna followed me.

"Hey Em can I ask you something?" She asked after she shut my door.

"We don't have any cheesy puffs. My mom says the orange powder has chemicals in it that make you break out."

"No, it's..look it's important and I need you to tell me the truth." She took a deep breath.

I crossed my arms nervously waiting on Hanna's question.

"You told Paige that Alison's alive didn't you."