Chapter 10 – Photos and Poker and Blackmails

Bella pov

'Is his biological father part octopus?'

I wondered as I tried to untangle me from Jason in the morning. Seriously I try to move one arm only to find a leg holding me close. In the end I managed to get away by replacing my body heat with a pillow I shoved in his arms.

"finally"

I was eating my bagel while browsing the Liars' blogs. How they haven't figured out that they're detailing their lives for -A- on their blogs is beyond me!

"Hanna complains about having to toss all her creams, Aria complains of horny dreams and Spencer moans about missing pages. huh, so they're looking for the page too?"

Checking at oven clock I saw it was breakfast time. I pulled Ali's phone and composed a new text.

'Reminder: I own you. -A' and a picture of Emily's HGH panels.

Harsh, I know but one of the Liars must know about Ali's -A-. Otherwise they'd have gone straight to the cops by now. I heard a muffled curse and twirled around to see a frazzled Jason rush by and out the kitchen door within minutes of his first class. Maybe I should have woken him up? Nah...

Later I decided to go back to the hospital to see what the commotion about the missing page was. Why were both officer Smalldick and the liars so interested in it? So I donned my wig and a pair of large sunglasses and the candy striper tiny dress and was on my way. I snuck in the autopsy trying & failing to not picture zombies or vampires in transition as I opened the file cabinet. Garrett was browsing the fourth drawer. The one about the letter 'D'. The only name I recognized was Alison DiLaurentis. I read it fast and it didn't say anything Jason didn't know. Someone bashed her head and buried her alive. But there was one page missing. The one that described the murder weapon.

If I am the only one tormenting the Liars, who took the page, and why? Well I did see Garrett but why? Was he really the one who killed Ali's clone and became a cop to cover it up? Makes sense. I heard voices and quickly closed the cabinet before an elderly man came in.

"who are you?"

he asked me. Quickly I made up a story

"Hi, I left something here yesterday and I came to look for it but... I guess it's gone"

"I am the only one that comes in here, young lady. What did you lose?"

I thought frantically before remembering how Charlie always skirted around sex and the female cycle. I pulled the strap of my green bra to show the man letting myself blush. Thankfully he became seriously purple before nodding frantically and left the room to 'let me look for my garment'. I exhaled in relief and left quickly making sure to toss away both wig and dress when I got home. I shared an elevator with a nurse and the blind girl who was yapping about bandages and seeing the ocean again. I kept my face expressionless but... wasn't she the same one going through Aria's house? She definitely wasn't blind then...

I came home to find Jason and another guy working their way in the backyard.

"Hey"

"Hey, this is Larry. He's helping me out here"

"Hi Larry, I'm Marie"

I introduced myself choosing my middle name and decided to bring them some fresh OJ. I was just done squeezing the J out of the O, and bringing it out then I caught a flash of red in the untamed portion of the yard. My first thought was 'Victoria' then I realized it was sunny and that the red flash was Spencer.

"Boys!"

I handed them their glasses and whispered to Jason.

"Spencer was just checking you guys out"

"I saw her too. She was checking the darkroom out, help me spruce it up later?"

He whispered with an evil glint in his eye. I smirked and nodded.

"Emily has a visitor this evening. Saw her entry"

"Okie dokie"

I kissed him and let them work while deciding to drink my own juice in Ali's room. It had a great view of Hanna's house even though Hanna's was lower on the hill. I positioned the telescope to the right way and laid in Ali's bed. Five girls were playing cards in the dining room. I rolled my eyes at the Liars' never thinking of closing the curtains! The blond that looks like Klaus' sister from Vampire diaries is certainly more than a friend to Emily. Interesting...

'If Zoey leaves without your digits, your lab results go viral. -A'

"that should break those two up quickly"

I smirked at the girl that claimed to be in love with Ali and is still wearing their bracelet and yet has three girlfriend in less than six months. I saw her looking straight at me and I turned the telescope away stupidly thinking she could see me. Jason came into the room

"I wanna show you something"

we walked to the tool shed together. He had transformed it to a darkroom while he was fixing up the basement.

"What am I looking at?"

"these. I found a roll in ali's stuff today when i got back and developed it"

he showed me a series of about twenty or so frames with various people.

"Looks like a crowd"

"it is a crowd. but there's the same person in all of them"

he pointed to a person in sunglasses and a baseball cap. I leaned in trying to see closely in the red light

"who is this?"

"no idea. it could be anyone. You, me, Santa Klaus"

I chuckled.

"Are they done? can we work them on the computer perhaps?"

"yeah they are"

he went about picking them up and placed them in a manila folder.

"do you think Spencer will come by later to check the darkroom out?"

"probably. I made a show of hiding the key, why?"

"wanna set a surprise for her?"

we decided to make the darkroom look really naughty by placing photos of a sleeping Aria, Ali had taken in order to find a wig that would create Vivian and be almost identical to Aria, just in case she met someone she knew. we hid my cameraphone in the shed and ran home to see Emily waving goodbye to her friends. not sure if she had taken the bait I sent her another text

'Tick-tock, Em. -A'

this time she took the bait and hurried to hand her number to one of the girls, another one saw her.

"mission accompliced"

I said and I went to fix dinner. Dinner and a movie, the best date ever. Except when the movie is Underworld and you spend more time making fun of how inaccurate Hollywood's version of vampires and werewolves are.