CHAPTER FOUR

Later, after her parents got home with Mike, Aria went over to Spencer's house. Emily had called all of them together, so they could talk and tell Aria something. She wasn't sure what she meant, but apparently it was important. Aria got to Spencer's house at 8:30pm. Hanna, Emily, and Spencer were waiting for her in Spencer's bedroom. It was almost like old times when they would all get together for sleepovers, minus Alison.

Aria tossed her overnight bag on the floor and sat on the bed beside Emily.

"Okay, now what's going on?" Aria asked, "Emily said you had something to tell me."

"There is actually a lot to tell you," Spencer said, "You have been gone for two years and we didn't want to stress you out. We figured that was the whole reason you stated away."

"Pretty much," Aria said, "But I'm here now, so I should probably know what's going on."

Aria's friends proceeded to tell her what had happened since they found Alison's funeral. About the texts from 'A'. They told her about Ian and the bell tower. They told her everything she had missed since she left Rosewood. She was baffled. She knew they had found Alison's remains, which is why she didn't come back with her family, but she had no idea about the texts. How could she? She wasn't exactly talking to her friends at that point. And then her year in Germany was them trying to find whoever killed Alison. And he tried to kill Spencer. Whoever this 'A' person is pushed Ian off the bell tower in the church and they thought he was dead, but he wasn't. Later, he confessed, in a letter, to killing Ali and killed himself. But they don't think he did, because the letter was made up of 'A' texts. Aria's head was spinning at that point. Now, they were thinking that Jason had something to do with it and that he killed his sister, which Aria did not believe for one second. He and Alison may not have gotten along well most of the time, but he wouldn't kill her.

"I got a text from 'A' a couple days ago," Aria said, "My parents weren't home, and I was with Jason," she told them.

"What did it say?" Spencer asked ignoring the 'Jason' part of what Aria had said. Aria took her phone from her pocket to read the text.

"It would still be illegal, you know," Aria read the text out loud, so all three girls could hear.

"What does that even mean?" Hanna asked.

"Does that mean anything to you?" Emily asked, "Most of the texts we get are personal. Things only we would know."

"Yeah," Aria said, "It's something only Alison would have known," she told them, "A conversation we had the night she went missing."

"This is the only one you've gotten so far?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah," Aria said, "You mean I'm gonna get more?" she asked.

"Being in Rosewood and being a former friend of Alison, yes, you will be getting more texts," Emily told her, "Sorry."

"Damn. Maybe I should have stayed in Germany then," Aria said. Her friends didn't disagree.


"Do we really have to watch this?" Hanna asked, "I hate horror movies," she was stuck in the middle of all four girls. Aria was beside her with Emily and Spencer on the ends. Emily had picked out the movie, of course. She loved horror films. Spencer didn't mind either way and like Hanna, Aria was not a fan. But they were already halfway through and she wanted to know the ending, although it was very predictable what was going to happen.

"Come on, Han, let's go get something to eat. Let these two finish this movie," Spencer said. Hanna didn't hesitate to get out of the bed and follow Spencer out of the room. Aria and Spencer now had more room on the bed, which Aria was happy about.

"This movie is really stupid," Aria said to Emily.

"I know, but I like to scare Hanna sometimes. It's fun," she said, "It's only a movie."

"Let's just turn it off and go with them," Aria said, and Emily agreed. They walked downstairs to find Hanna and Spencer in the kitchen eating ice cream in the living room. They were watching some game show on TV. Aria couldn't help but laugh.

"You guys are big babies," Emily said getting herself a bowl of ice cream. Aria didn't want any, so she went and sat on the couch beside Hanna. Emily sat on the chair adjacent to the couch.

While they were watching TV and eating their ice cream the doorbell rang. The other three girls looked at Aria.

"Could you get that?" Spencer asked, "We're eating," she said. Aria rolled her eyes and stood up to answer the door.

"Spence, did you order a pizza?" Aria asked after a few seconds.

"No, but I'll take one if it's free," she said. Aria took the pizza from the delivery guy and walked to the kitchen counter. Hanna, Spencer, and Emily followed her. She opened the box and the letter 'A' was spelled out in different pizza toppings, "On second thought, I'm not really that hungry," she said.

"Yeah, me neither," Hanna said. Emily and Aria agreed as well. Aria picked up the receipt which had fallen to the floor and noticed it didn't have the usual prices on it, but a note of sorts.

Welcome home Aria. -A

Aria looked at the pizza again and after the giant 'A' the rest of her name was spelled out in tiny, chopped up, vegetables. If one wasn't staring at the giant 'A' they would have noticed the smaller 'RIA' beside it.

"Guys, I'm pretty sure this pizza was for me," Aria told her friends who had gone back to watching TV, "It says my name on here. You can barely see it, but it's there," Spencer walked over and looked at the pizza again seeing what Aria was talking about.

"How would 'A' even know you're here?" Hanna asked, "Did you tell anyone you were coming over?"

"Just my parents and Emily," Aria told her, "But you said whoever this person is seems to be everywhere, so this really isn't surprising, is it?" she asked.

"No, it's not," Spencer said, "But now you know, they aren't messing around. This is just a pizza, Aria, which we 100% should not eat no matter how amazing it looks. How far do you think they are willing to go if you make them mad somehow? You have only been back for two days."

"I'll be fine," Aria said, "You guys have been fine so far. We will protect each other and find out who this person is and make them rot in hell."

"But you're new around here. They're probably tired of us and you're a new plaything," Hanna said.

"I can take it," Aria said.

"You say that now," Emily said, "But when 'A' gets bored they get creative and makes you think you're going crazy and eventually you kind of start to believe it."

"Well, we all know none of us are crazy…for the most part," Aria said, "We can't let this person take us down. And if it gets too bad we can get one-way tickets to Antarctica."

"'A' would probably follow us, but nice try," Spencer said.

"Why didn't they bother me in Germany, then?" Aria asked, "Maybe they don't like Europe. We can go there," she said.

"Let's just see how everything plays out before we go leaving the country," Emily says.

"I vote for that," Hanna agreed.

"I'll go with that as well," Aria said, "Just planning ahead. I thought Spencer would be all for planning ahead."

"You can't plan ahead when someone is already ahead of you," Spencer said.

"True," Aria replied.

"Can we finish 'Wheel of Fortune' please. It's almost over and I would like to see who wins. It's a very close game," Emily interrupted.

"Fine," Hanna said, "But then I'm going to sleep. We have to meet Mrs. DiLaurentis for lunch tomorrow and I'm not exactly looking forward to it. Lucky Aria doesn't have to go."

"Mrs. D didn't know she was back, so she doesn't have to," Spencer said, "I'm sure she would have if she knew. I can e-mail her if-"

"I'll pass," Aria said quickly interrupting Spencer, "But you can tell me how it goes, "I've never really been a fan of the fashion show anyway. We only did it because Ali pretty much forced us, "Plus, I think I have plans with my mother tomorrow," Aria lied.

"Okay, well, we'll let you know how it goes," Spencer said.

"Alright, it's time for me to go to bed. I don't think I've slept since I got back," Aria said.

"Okay, goodnight," Spencer said. Hanna and Emily said the same and Aria went up to Spencer's room to go to bed for the night.


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