CHAPTER 21
SPENCER POV
I swear now half my stuff is at Toby's loft. I said to him if he wants me to take some stuff home I can, but he told me that this is much my home as it is his, I found that really sweet. I keep looking at Emily's ultrasound picture. Wow, I wonder if Toby and I will ever have a kid. I get so lost in thought I don' even here Toby come up behind me. "Are you thinking about the baby thing again?" He asks, sitting down next to me and handing me a cup of coffee. "Thanks and yeah I am. I just keep wondering if we'll ever have one, if it'll be a boy or a girl, what will they name be, just that sort of stuff." I smile spreads across Toby's face. "Of course we will Spence, we just need all of this to be over." He says. "I know."
ARIA POV
I've been locking my door and windows for weeks at night, even if someone is home. I'm not taking any chances, I hope the girls are doing the same. Whenever I'm at Ezra's or staying over at the girls I'm always double checking everything. I hear a noise in the hallway and my ears prick up. "Mum, dad, Mike!" I yell out but I don't get an answer. I shrug it off, all houses make noise or maybe it's just something outside. I go to pull back the doona to go to bed and I hear it again. I walk over to my door and slowly unlock it. I take a step back and breathe for a second. Suddenly it starts to turn and I'm not holding it, it swings open and reveals Redcoat or CeCe. She yanks me into the hallway and holds me there. I see Charles or Wren, whatever, holding my baby brother with a knife to his throat. "Leave him alone." I command but he doesn't let go. "Surely you would've learned by now," he tells me. "Come on Aria, think!" He yells at me. "What are you talking about?" I yell. "Too late." He slits me brother's throat. "No!" I cry.
Suddenly I was back in Ezra's apartment. I look over and see he's wide awake with a look of concern on his face. Suddenly a wave of nausea comes over me, I scramble out of bed but because of it being so sudden I fall to the floor. "Aria, are you ok?" I hear Ezra ask but I don't answer. I frantically scramble onto my feet and rush straight into the bathroom to vomit. As I do I hear footsteps and then I feel Ezra pull my hair back and rub small circles on my back. "Hey, what's going on?" He asks and I finish. I start to cry and he pulls me close. "Sorry, my breath must be really bad." I tell him, he laughs a little. "Its fine, do you want to talk about it?" He says in a more serious and concerned tone. "He slit Mike's throat in front of me." I whisper. "Oh baby, I'm sorry. Do you know what caused you to vomit?" He asks. "It's probably just the shock and the terror. It actually happened after I found out about the book. I was a mess, I was dreaming and I woke up and then vomited." I tell him. I see a look of hurt come across his face. "Ezra, its fine. I've forgiven you." I tell him. "I know. I just hated doing that to you." He tells me.
"I think my subconscious was trying to tell me something." I call out after I rinse my mouth out. "What makes you think that?" He replies as I come out of the bathroom. "In the dream, Wren yelled at me to remember something but I have no idea." I climb back into bed. "Well how about we wait until there's actually light outside and we'll investigate more." He suggests. "I like that idea." I whisper. I kiss him softly and close my eyes to go back asleep.
I just lie there while Ezra sleeps, I tried to sleep but it just isn't working for me. I start to think about everything, everything that's happened since Ali went missing. Then the trip to Iceland, I think about all the people I met there and everything that happened. Everything that happened. Oh my god. Stefan. No, it isn't possible, all the features were different. He had blonde hair, blue eyes and more tanned skin then he does. But there's such thing as hair dye, contacts and fake tan. I need to find that journal. "Ezra, Ezra get up." I shake awake violently. "What, what is it?" "I think I've met Wren before." I tell him.
We burst into my house and I'm rushing upstairs and into my room. "Aria, what are we looking for?" He asks. "A journal, it'll be brown with a soft leather cover." I tell him and we start to look. A few minutes later Mike appears. "Aria, what's going on? It's five in the morning." "Sorry if we woke you. We're looking for the journal I had in Iceland, have you seen it?" I ask him. "No sorry, I haven't" He tells me but Ezra quickly interrupts. "I think I've found it?" I turn around to see him holding it. "That's it." I say. I take it out of his hands and open it, flicking through the pages frantically until I find it. I take out the picture and almost scream at the sight of it. "Aria, what is it?" Mike asks. "We, we n...need to get down to the station, because we knew Wren in Iceland." I show them the picture. "I don't see it." Mike says. "Look harder." I say and then he sees it. "Go, now. I'll explain to mum and dad in the morning.
I rush into the station to find someone and then I see Toby. "Toby!" I call out and he looks up. "Hey, what are you guys doing here?" He asks coming over. "I need you to give this to Tanner." I hand him the picture and he looks confused. "What does this have to do with anything?" He asks. "Look at the man in the picture." I tell him, I watch his eyes widen and then he looks at me. "That looks exactly like," he starts. "It is him, he may have different features but they can be changed. He was in Iceland the same time I was." I say. "I'll get this to her, but you'll realise she'll ask questions?" He tells me before walking away. "I know, but I will do anything to get him in prison." I say.
FEW HOURS LATER
I told Ezra to head home and get some rest as soon as my family showed up, Toby must have called them. "Ezra, I'll be fine. My family is here, if I need anything I'll ring you." I stare into his eyes, my arms around his neck and his around my waist. "I'll be here in a heartbeat and I'll text the girls to tell them what's going on but not to come." He tells me. "You think of everything." I kiss him softly and watch him walk away. I feel a hand on my shoulder, my chest tightens until I turn around to see it was Toby. "Hey, um we need to ask you a few questions. We'll ask the rest of your family too but you first." He says and I nod. I follow him into a room and sit down. Tanner walks in and closes the door. "Hello Aria," she greets me. "Hi," I reply bluntly. "So Officer Cavanaugh tells me that you meet Mr Kingston Dilaurentis while overseas in Iceland?" She asks. "Yes, I believe I did." I tell her. "And how was he towards you?" She asks. "He was kind, um very sweet to me and my family. We did date for a little while but not very long, about 7-8 months maybe. I broke things off with him, I didn't feel that connection that I feel now with Ezra. He did seem very angry and after we broke up he sent a few you could say aggressive texts but that was it. I had never heard from him again." I answer truthfully. "And what was his name again, we need to find anything linked to him that could narrow down possible locations in Rosewood or anywhere close?" She asks. "It was James Dustin (A/N: sorry if I put a previous name for him I couldn't find it.) " I look at the floor, all the memories come back and I can't believe everything I did with him, I trusted him, I almost fell for him but then broke his heart. "Thank you Miss Montgomery, just go and wait in the foyer while we interview the rest of your family," She tells me. They need to find him.
NO ONE POV
The Montgomery's spent almost an hour at the station answering questions and giving as much detail as she can. Mike took the quickest because he didn't know much about the guy, he just played Play Station with him a few times and thought he was cool. Aria started to fall asleep on his shoulder and eventually she did.
Ezra texted the girls what had happened and they were all around there in a heartbeat, well Emily took a little longer due to her always needed to pee bladder. "So explain again what happened?" Ali asks. "She woke up from a nightmare about Charles, which then later on triggered a memory, so then we went to her house to look for a journal to find picture, I found it, we looked at the picture to see it was Charles just with fake features and then we went to the police station, I don't know anything else, after I left I haven't heard a thing." Ezra explained. "Well that's leaves us only one question?" Spencer announces. "What?" Hanna asks. "What happened in Iceland?"
Hey guys,
So sorry for not updating sooner. Um I'm going camping for about 2 weeks so there won't be another chapter for a while because once I get back I'll be writing the start of the chapter. So please review, PM me ideas, recommend to friends (you don't have to do that). MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Best of luck in 2016 because that's when the new chapter will be up.
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