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"Ginger ale, and three seasons of Saved By the Bell." I hear Hanna's voice from the back of the house as I walk through the front door. I walk over to the stairs and drop my basketball stuff by the wall. Then I start to walk to them.

"Thank you, Hanna." Aria says after.

"Are you sure you want to stay here by yourself?" Spencer asks.

"Guys I'm fine."

"You don't look fine." Spencer adds.

"So I've heard. But I'm not going to be by myself."

"Then when will Jessie be home?"Emily asks just as I'm walking through the study, "She had a game today. Away games can take awhile, and you said Mike is at your mom's tonight. You shouldn't be home by yourself when you're sick."

"I'm right here." I say as I get into the family room. Aria is laying on the couch with Hanna sitting beside her. Em and Spencer are both on armchairs on each side of the couch.

They all look at me and smile. "How was the game?" Hanna asks.

I sit over on the armrest of the chair Spencer is sitting in. "We lost. Varsity is so much more brutal than JV was. This is our fifth game and lost all of them."

"That's because you are in the big leagues now." Emily says, "Losing is bound to happen more often since the teams are better."

"Yea I know. That's what Mr. Brooks keeps remind me and the other girls who moved up to this team." I look to my right and smile at Aria, "How you feeling?"

She nods, "Good." I give her a look, it's only the second day of her having the flu and she looks worse than I did from when I had it. "Okay fine." She adds. "I feel like I'm dying."

I nod and slightly smile, "Been there, done that."

She laughs. "Yea I know. I had to clean up your vomit whenever you didn't make it to the bathroom that first day you were sick."

I give a disgusted look and then an apologetic one. "My bad."

She smiles, "What are friends for?"

I laugh, "You sure you don't want me to stay home from school tomorrow?"

She shakes her head, "No, it's okay. You have practice and I don't want you skipping school and not being able to play your next game for missing it."

For maybe another hour or so the girls stick around. We watch some Saved By the Bell on the DVDs Hanna brought for Aria and then they leave. Aria ended up falling asleep on the sofa but I decide to leave her there. She looked so exhausted before she knocked out that I don't want to move her.

The next morning I wake up and realize I completely over slept. I totally forgot to charge my phone last night and now I'm going to be late for school. So I ninja jump out of bed and put my phone to charge right away. From there I rush over to the bathroom and then storm back into my room to head to the closet when I get out. I grab whatever I find first and throw it on, then grab my barely charged phone and rush downstairs. I head to the family room to check on Aria and see that she is still asleep then I go back towards the front of the house to get to my car. I stick my phone on my phone charger when I get in and head to school as fast as I can without speeding.

"Jessie!" Aunt Ella's voice comes to my ears just as I'm running past her classroom, she has first period free.

I almost trip when I skid to a stop and look back as she walks out. "I can't talk right now, Aunt Ella, I'm…"

"Late, yea I see that."

"My phone died last night. I forgot to charge it. I have to go."

"Come here."

"But…"

"I'll give you a late pass." Normally if someone's late you gotta go to the main office to get one, which is where I was heading to. But this is better.

I check the time on my phone as I follow her into her room. I'm fifteen minutes late. "My phone is only on thirty percent. Can I leave it in here to charge and I'll come get it during second or third period?"

She looks up from the pad she is writing the pass on, smiles and nods, "Sure. Plug it over there where no one can see it." She points to a wall where the plug is near some books that I can hide my phone behind.

I walk over, taking out my charger from my backpack and plug it in. I make sure it is on silent so she doesn't kill me for disturbing her class if I don't come to get it right away. Then I walk back to her.

"Here you go." She raises her hand to give me the pass. "Try not to be late again."

"I know. I'm sorry."

She smiles, "How's Aria?"

I shrug, "I honestly don't know. I was in a rush to get here, but she was sleeping when I left. She looked bad yesterday though."

"I'll call her later on to see how she is doing then. Maybe you can go see her during lunch? I don't think I'll have time."

I nod, "That's no problem. I'll let you know if I do."

Sadly, I don't have time to go see her at lunch. Meredith asked me to come to her room during that time to make up a test from being over twenty minutes late for her class. Since I can't make it after school because of basketball I don't have much of a choice. So I have to get lunch from the caf and then head to her classroom right after.

"Have you talked to Aria?" She asks me.

I look up from my desk, her blond hair is dangling down her face as she's writing something while at hers. "No, she isn't answering her phone."

"She's just probably still recovering from the flu and sleeping off whatever symptoms are left. She was feeling better when I checked on her earlier. I wouldn't worry."

Of course I'm worried. I think to myself. A could have done something to her for all I know. However, I smile and nod. "Yea, maybe. Guess I'll have to make sure after practice."

She looks up and smiles, "If I have time I'll go check on her sometime after school. I'll give her the homework I have for her and take good care of her till you get home."

"Oh." I slightly smile, "That's nice of you."

Driving home from practice I feel in the pit of my stomach like something is seriously wrong. Normally when I get this feeling I'm right, but I can't think of what can go wrong besides maybe A getting the girls involved in something. But I put it to the back of my head because I'm driving through a massive amount of wind, thunder and lightning as a storm is starting to come, so all I want to do is get home as fast as I can.

When I pull into the driveway I take my phone off the car charger and stuff it into my pocket. Then I grab my backpack from the passenger's seat and head into the house as lightning lights up the night sky. I look to the right when I close the door and see that Aria isn't on the couch anymore. So I assume she is upstairs and make my way to the front of the house.

"Jessie."

I look down the hall, realizing that Meredith is standing near the front door. "Oh, hey. Didn't know you were here."

She smiles and walks towards me, "Yea, I was just getting ready to leave. Don't want to get caught in this storm. Aria is knocked out upstairs."

"How is she feeling?" I stop in the middle of the hall when she gets to me and lean up against the wall.

"She's better. I gave her some tea and the warmth seemed to help her fall asleep."

I nod, "That's good." I smile, "Well thanks for your help."

She smiles, "No problem. Do you want some tea before I leave?"

I smile a bit, "Thanks, but I don't like tea."

She nods, "Then I'll see you at school."

"Yea, get home safe." I walk past her so I can get to the stairs.

"Jessie." I turn back to her, she seems to be debating something. "Before I go I need to ask you something."

I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable now because she seems to be really agitated as she shifts from leg to leg for a few seconds, "About what?"

She watches me for a second, then gets a little closer. "I'm assuming Aria told you about the pages she found about your uncle and Alison?" she says a little low as if she doesn't want anyone to hear, but there's no one else in the house besides us and Aria.

My heart sinks a bit, but I nod. "Yea…why?"

"Has she said what she plans on doing with them? We never got to discuss a game plan to figure this out since she got sick."

According to what Aria told me the other day Meredith found Uncle Byron snooping around in our room. Meredith got into some argument with him about not liking that he was invading our privacy and he got upset with her. She took off and ended up at the Grille where Aria followed her and they had a chat. Meredith pulled out the pages, saying that she got suspicious when she not only caught him in our room but he was looking through her purse thinking it was Aria's and found them in his room when she decided to see what he was up to. Aria and Meredith agreed to talk about what they should do about all this when Uncle Byron left for his conference. But since she got sick that hasn't happened.

I shake my head, "I've been pretty busy with basketball and working since she found out. I haven't had much time to really do more than homework and sleep. So haven't talked about it."

She slowly nods, but her face kind of gets weird looking. She looks like she is thinking but it hurts her to do so. "Why don't I believe you?" she slightly smiles, in a very demented way.

"Uhhh." I back up a bit, knowing that same look from Mona. "Okay. You need to go now."

She follows me, "Jessie. I need to know where those pages are."

I back up some more, "I don't know where they are."

"Don't lie to me." Her voice is low and scary sounding now.

I trip over my own feet and fall backward onto my elbows, but I don't stop as I continue to back up as much as I can. She has a very disgusting look on her face, like she is going to attack me. "Aria!"

"She can't hear you right now." She smiles creepily at me.

I quickly take off my backpack and toss it at her. Then I roll to the side and get up, but she grabs my arm before I can run and pulls. "Ow!"

She turns me around to her, realizing that we are around the same height and can see the scary look in her eyes more clearly. "Where are the pages, Jessie!" she has a very tight grip on my arm and it hurts.

"I don't know!" I try to pull away but she tightens up her fingers, "Let go of me!"

Her smile brightens wider than before, and the sound of thunder crashes through the house with lightning following. "I have a better idea." She raises her hand up and swings something that hits me on the side of my head, making me fall to the floor.

My vision goes dark for a second, but when it comes back I put my hand to my head and groan in pain. Then I hear footsteps and I'm just able to make out Meredith walking away towards the kitchen when I look at her. She's gone for a few second as I try my best to get up, but when I attempt it she walks back to me and my vision starts to daze out again. I feel her grab my legs and drags me across the floor, the ceiling of the hallway coming in and out of focus. When she stops she grabs my hands and lifts me to my feet, putting my arm around her as she helps me down what seem to be stairs. She sets me back down and leans me up against the wall. The floor is hard and cold and I try my best to focus to see where she took me. I notice something lying across from me on the ground when my vision comes back more but I can't make it out.

There's light coming from somewhere above me that makes me able to see the insane look on her face. "Open up." She says as she grabs my face to look at her and tries to force my mouth open.

"No." I say weakly and pull my head away from her.

She grabs my face again, more forcefully this time and stuffs something in my mouth. It tastes like some type of pill as she quickly gets water in my mouth and slaps her hand over it so that I can't spit anything out. "Swallow." She says angrily.

"Mmmm!" I shake my head, trying to get away from her.

"Do it!" she yells, sitting on my legs to keep them from kicking at her and then pinches her fingers to my nose. This is a tactic I've seen on shows that forces someone to swallow in order to get the person to let them breathe.

"Mmm!" I raise my hands to hers as soon as I notice what she is doing, trying to get her to let go. I'm in such a panic as my lungs beg for air that my arms become weak quickly and go back to my sides. I watch her crazy eyes for a few seconds, doing everything I can not to swallow what she gave me, but my vision is starting to fade from lack of air.

"Swallow it!" she yells again, this time in a mix of being mad and worried that I won't listen.

I toss my head aside, but it's no use. Her grip is too much to do anything more and I have no choice but to swallow the water, because I can feel myself choking from both the water and not getting any air.

She seems to know that I finally did what she said and lets go. "Was that so hard?"

I cough and gasp for air multiple times as my vision starts to come back. "You're…crazy." I get out in between a big breath.

She smiles, "No, just desperate." She gets up and heads to the stairs that has me realize I'm in the basement.

I cough again, "Mer…" My eyes start to dim out and I can feel panic go through me as my heart sinks. I know this feeling all too well, she drugged me. Oh no. Not again. My body is completely too weak to move as I watch her close the door from upstairs and the light that shined on me is gone.

I look around in panic, my eyes making contact again with what I saw earlier. I have just enough vision left to see the silhouette of what is on the other side of me. Then lightning comes for a second and brightens the whole basement.

My heart races as I see an unconscious… "Ria." Then I pass out.