Spencer:

Waking up, Spencer found herself in a bed she didn't recognize but turning her head, she realized that it was Aria's room she was laying in. Spencer sat up in the bed, yawning. The sun was already shining through the window, she must have slept for hours.
As she stood up, Spencer reached for her temples. She had a bad headache and slowly began to remember parts of what had happened last night.

Walking downstairs, she could already hear Aria's and Toby's voices in the kitchen, they were sitting at the table when she entered it.

"Spencer." Aria said, obviously glad to see her. "How are you?"
"Good morning." Spencer answered. "I'm better but would you have an aspirin or something?" Toby had to laugh and stood up to kiss his girlfriend's forehead. His fingers stroke her messy hair as he considered her face. "I'm really happy that you're over it. Do you remember what happened last night?"
"Parts of it." Spencer admitted. "I think we were at this party and oh my god…Wren…" she blushed embarrassed.

"He kissed you, I know. I'm not mad at you, Spence. You were drunk."
"I thought you were." Spencer answered relieved. "I throw up a couple of times but then…I don't remember what happened then."
"Aria and Emily got you into her car and she drove you hear but couldn't get you upstairs, so she phoned me."
"I'm sorry for all of this trouble, I'm so sorry." She said, when Aria returned with an aspirin in the one and a glass of water in the other hand. "It's okay, it really is." Said Aria, handling her the water. "Wren gave you coke which was mixed with vodka and you didn't know that."
"He did?"
"Yes, we think so. At least the glass smelled alike."
"Still, thank you so much for everything, you know like calming me down after having thrown up and not telling my mum."
"That's what friends are there for, Spencer."
Considering Aria, Spencer wondered: "Hey, why are you wearing your pajamas? I must admit you look pretty tired additionally."
"Um, yeah. I haven't slept much, neither has Toby. I think it hasn't been more than one hour because at first, we had to take care of you and then…"
"What then?"
"I couldn't sleep after having phoned Emily because she asked me to and I also was kinda wasted which made me remember how long I hadn't talked to Ezra."
"Oh. Are you okay?" Spencer asked worried.

"Yes, yes. I am, don't worry." Aria said and even meant it because now that she had talked about it with Toby, she already felt way better.

Hanna:

Having had breakfast, Hanna checked her phone. When she was about to call Aria, who had phoned her last night, back, she received a call. Alison? She picked up hesitantly, not knowing what she had to expect.

"It's Hanna."
"Hey, it's Alison and Emily."
"Oh, okay. What's up you guys?"
"Nothing particular but we were talking about the investigation and Wren and everything till late last night." Said Alison.

"I just think he isn't the good boy we always thought he would be and deserves a legitimate punishment for his behavior."
"What are you trying to tell me?"
Hanna could hear Alison taking a deep breath before continuing to talk. "It just took me some time to realize that I made a mistake by lying for somebody who doesn't even learn from his mistakes or regrets what he has done. I'm not even sure if he knows what he has done."
"I totally think that's right, I was against lying about it from the beginning but what do you mean with making the same mistakes?"
"He made Spencer drink alcohol last night without letting her know and then kissed her. Didn't you know that yet?" asked Emily surprised.

"No. No, I didn't. It was a long night yesterday and I didn't check my phone but I was about to call Aria back when you phoned me. How is Spencer doing?"
"Fine again, although she had to vomit yesterday but what we actually wanted to say was that I decided on going to the police and change my statement."
"You are? Ali, that's such a big step and I really appreciate you doing that because although it needs to be done, it's still brave to do so. I'm just asking but do you know what the consequences would be? Would you have to go to jail?"
"Um." Ali mumbled. "That's what I'm afraid of but I did what I did and can't change it now."
"With being honest you also mean revealing the A-thing?"
"Yeah, I do."
"Listen, do whatever needs to be done and we are all gonna support you as good as we can."
"Thanks, Han." Alison hung up, leaving an upset Hanna alone.

Not knowing whether to feel good or bad about Alison revealing everything to the police, Hanna sat down in the kitchen. Of course, telling the truth was better in the end but now all she could think of was literally inviting A to threaten them.

Days later:

Emily:

Trying to get to see something, Emily was staring at the milky window which Alison's silhouette was behind, hopefully everything went well. At least this time. It felt like an infinity, when she was sitting here wanting Alison to finally appear but of course it took long.

Emily grabbed her phone, wanting to feel as if she had something to do.

"Han? I'm at the station. Can u come over? -Em"

"Sorry, I'd love 2. But I'm with Caleb and a friend of him. -Han"
"Which friend? -Em?"

"Lucas, yes Hermy but he's cool actually. -Han."
"Oh, have fun. Can u still call me later? -Em"
"Of coz, go for it! -Han"

So, Hanna was hanging up with Caleb and Lucas and she? She sat here at the police station and was about to reveal rosewood's biggest secret. Emily's fingers tapped nervously on the table, as an officer suddenly appeared.

"Are you Ms. Emily Fields?" he asked, considering her.

"Yes. Yes I am."

"My name is Garret Reynolds and I've been interrogating Alison, we're finished now but her parents have to come because there's so much to talk about. I'd also like to talk to you; would you follow me?"
"Um." She mumbled. "Okay."

Emily followed the officer into a room, Alison was sitting in and she sat down next to her. Alison's hand directly reached after her's and held it tight. "I'm so glad you're here." She whispered.

"So, I think you're already aware of what Alison told us but the protocol asks me to read it out again." And so he did.

"I've got some questions. So, a person that texts and threatens you is after you?"
"Yes, it's been alike for a long time. We're five girls and the person is after all of us."
"Okay, am I the first person you're telling that?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you come earlier?"
"We…We were afraid, A seemed to be everywhere. All the time. We thought we'd just make everything worse and didn't know what to do. It wasn't just messages, A hit me with a car and threatened Alison to kill her. She also hurt another friend of us."
"That's exactly what Alison told me too. Okay, the night Alison disappeared, why did you lie about that?"
"For the same reason. If there is somebody who can hurt you- physically or mentally and this person is always there, you drive crazy. I couldn't sleep for nights, lock all of my windows and still can't."
He asked them some more questions, until Alison's parents arrived. They were rather worried than angry and she had to answer more questions.

Aria, Spencer, Hanna and their parents had to come to the station too and were interrogated. It was late at night when they finally got to go.

The girls were waiting outside for their parents finishing the formalities.

"What do you think will happen next?" asked Spencer, starring at the stars.

"I don't know. Wren will have a process." Alison answered.
"Why don't you?"
"They see him as responsible because he was the grown-up."
"I'm afraid." Admitted Aria. "Of all these questions and A and just everything."
Hanna wrapped one arm around her. "We all are."

"Have you checked your phones yet?" Asked Spencer.

"They took mine." Meant Alison.

Spencer grabbed her phone and checked it.

"And?"
"You stayed alive because you chose to play after my rules. No guarantee anymore, bitches. -A"

"Of course, that was foreseeable." She added.

"It still frightening me." Meant Emily. Just then, the girl's parents walked out the building.

Spencer's mum was the first one to talk. "You should've told us but I think you all know that. The officer says if anything further is going to happen, you all are going to be under police protection wherever you are. At first they keep the change in the case secret, to protect you."
"Thank you." Said Aria, blushing and added a "I'm sorry." Looking at her parents.

Aria:

On their way home, the silence in the car was unbearable. Nobody knew what to say because the situation was more than just weird.

"Don't you trust us?" her mum asked, trying to understand her.

"I do and I love you, that's why I didn't tell you because I was afraid of that something could happen to you."
"Why would a person do something alike to you? What have you done?"
"I don't know, we have no idea who could be A. It just got worse and worse and we thought that keeping it secret was no option anymore."
"That's right, you finally did the right thing. Keeping secrets never leads to good things, Aria. You know that."
"I do."
She was happy that her parents neither shouted at her nor blamed her for anything because that was the last thing, she needed right now.

Hanna:

Her mum and she had been talking for hours and Hanna was really relieved when her mum finally decided to go to bed. She sat in the kitchen, an almost cold Latte in front of her as somebody knocked the door.

The first thought that came to her mind was A but the second was, since when did A knock? She still took a knife and hided it behind her back, as she risked a glance through the space between door frame and door.
"Caleb?" she asked surprised. "What are you doing here?" Although she already knew the answer, she waited for him to say something and opened the door.

"I was worried because I knew where you have been."
"How did you?"
"Um." He mumbled. "You were talking to Emily and I heard it, when you left, I knew where you would go. I'm sorry."
"You're the last one to apologize, it's me keeping things secret I wish you'd know. I'm happy you're here."
Hanna closed the door carefully behind her, to not wake her mum up. They sat down outside on the stairs in front of the door and Caleb considered her from the side, when she started to talk.

"There's so much you don't know about me and I have to tell you because I want you to know me. Better. You probably know everything about Alison's disappearance, don't you?"
He nodded his head, afraid of what would be next.

"You don't. She lied to the police because she wanted to protect us. Me. Somebody is after us and that for a long time. A person who texts us and knows all of our secrets."
"What?"
"I know it sounds weird but it's true." Hanna said and continued, in the next minutes she tried to explain everything to Caleb: The Jenna-thing, A, Alison's disappearance and what they had done at the police today.

As she had finished, all Caleb could hear was her loud and fast breath. He knew how difficult it must have been to tell him these things and he appreciated her being brave enough to do so. What he didn't know, was if he should be angry about her not having told him directly although he wasn't.

Hanna turned her head away from him, crying silently. Her voice was shaking, as she said:
"You must think, I'm a horrible person because of what we did to Jenna and I always lied to you and…" her voice broke. "But I want you to know that I'm sorry. I regret having done it, I regret it so much."
Caleb approached right up to her, carefully stroking her back. "I'd never think you're a horrible person because I know you aren't. Look at me."

Hanna kept her head where it was- turned away.

"Hanna." He said. "Look at me." She slowly turned her head. Her cheeks were covered with a mixture of tears and mascara, her eyes full of pain. Caleb gently took her face in both of his hands.

"I love you, Hanna Marin. All I could be angry about is you not telling me, what you're going through. But I'm not. I wanna be there for you as much as I can and I will if you want me to. The cops are gonna get this freak and all of this will be over."
"Caleb." She whispered, her eyes filling with tears again.

"Don't cry." He responded just as quiet and leaned forward to kiss her soft and warm lips. He could feel that her face was wet but kept kissing her.
"I love you too." She said, as they had finished. "More than I could ever tell you."

Caleb and Hanna kept sitting there for a while and watched the night sky, watched the clouds coming and going, watched the darkness disappearing and the sun rising.

Hey guys, I'm happy to finally have written the chapter in which the liars tell the truth. Hope you like it. DM me if you have any suggestions for upcoming chapters and also already the end of the story. I would really like to adjust the story to your wishes. :)

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