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The girls drove quietly to Bucks County. They were on their way to see Toby. Melissa had asked them to talk to him. Her and her parents had called him several times but he hadn't answered. They weren't surprised. Her parents had finally put together the funeral for Spencer and they wanted to make sure he'd known about it. They were all surprised he hadn't talked to anyone since he talked to the police after Spencer had gone missing. They had all called and left messages. Emily pulled up to the construction site and parked. The three of them walked towards an old round guy with a clipboard.
"Hello" Emily said politely.
"What are you pretty little girls doing over here?" He asked.
"We are here to see Toby Cavanaugh" Hanna said firmly. She'd become more bossy since Spencer had been declared murdered.
"If he's not too busy" Emily amended.
"Cavanaugh, get down here, you got company" he barked into the walkie-talkie.
"Who is it" he asked.
"Three pretty girls" he replied.
"I don't want to see them" he said flatly.
The girls all sighed.
"Awww come on, there down here giving me puppy dog eyes, at least get down here and get them off my site" he ordered.
"Ok" he said in a monotone.
They barely recognized the man they saw walking toward them, it was definitely Toby. They could see his muscles underneath his tight tee. He had changed in the three months since they'd seen him when he visited Spencer. His hair had grown and he had grown a beard.
"What?!" He asked gruffly.
"We wanted to let you know the Hastings planned the funeral for Spencer." Emily said.
"Why?!" He asked irritatedly.
"So you can say goodbye" Emily said nearly in tears.
"Why should I?" He asked "she didn't"
"She was murdered!" Hanna yelled.
Toby rolled his eyes. "Yeah, she was murdered" he said putting air quotes around the word murdered.
"What are you talking about" Aria asked incensed.
He pulled his phone out he pressed a few buttons. They heard Spencer's voice, she was crying.
"Toby, I can't do this anymore, I lost my family, I lost my friends, I lost you" there was a long pause filled with sobbing "I have nothing left, I love you"
The click of Spencer hanging up was deafening.
"That was the day she disappeared" Toby said. "I was working, by the time I got it and called her back the phone was dead."
The girls hearts became heavy.
"I would have gone to get her" he said "I would've quit my fucking job to get her if I had to! Why didn't she wait for me?!"
"You think she killed herself?" Emily asked sobbing. Hanna and Aria covered their mouths.
"I have to get back to work" he said. He left before they had a chance to say anything else. They drove back to town, when they got there they sat in the car not getting out for a minute.
"He blames us doesn't he?" Hanna asked.
"I blame us" Emily said quietly.
"I blame us too" Aria added.
Emily got out of the car and Hanna put a finger up to Aria telling her to wait. Hanna got out of the car going around to the driver side.
"Emily get back in the car" Hanna said. Hanna drove over to the police station.
"We want to see Detective Wilden" Hanna said authoritatively.
They sat at a conference table. Wilden came in.
"What can I do for you ladies?" He said sitting down across for them.
"We were wondering" Hanna said hesitating. "If it was possible that Spencer committed suicide?"
"What makes you think that?" He asked sounding intrigued.
"It was a rumor someone started" Emily said.
Wilden sighed heavily.
"We haven't released this to the media but we dragged the river Spencer's clothes were found in, her body wasn't recovered."
"What does that mean?" Emily asked.
"We are positive that Spencer was murdered. The Rosewood PD doesn't declare a homicide with out solid evidence." Wilden said.
The girls left feeling even worse than before. That Saturday was the funeral. The entire town was there. Toby hadn't showed.
*6 months later*
"It's Caleb's birthday party and he's Caleb's best friend. I'm calling him!" Hanna yelled punching in Toby's phone number.
"Hello?" a breathy female voice answered.
"Who is this?!" Hanna barked.
"It's Daisy" the female voice said as if that should have been obvious.
"Uh, I think I must have the wrong number" Hanna said. "I was looking for Toby Cavanaugh"
"Oh, just a minute" she said cheerfully. "It's for you love"
"Hello?" She heard Toby's voice.
"Hey Toby, it's Hanna" she said.
"Hi Hanna" he sighed.
"I was just calling because it's Caleb's birthday party this Friday and it would mean a lot to all of us if you came" she said.
"Ok" he said "I guess I can make an appearance"
"Oh good!" She said excitedly. Her smile faded when she hung up the phone.
"What is it Hanna?" Aria asked.
"Toby has a new girlfriend" she said solemnly.
"He's moving on" Emily said "that's a good thing."
Caleb's party was small, the girls and their boyfriends. Mona and Noel. Lucas. Some of Caleb's friends from work. They'd all been hanging out when Toby and Daisy arrived. She was blonde and really pretty. The girls bombarded her with questions the second she walked through the door.
"So how did you and Toby meet?" Emily asked as Daisy unbuttoned her coat.
"Oh we met at a bar" Daisy said as she took her coat off. The baby bump was evident.
"You're pregnant?!" The girls yelled in unison.
"4 and a half months" she said with a smile.
"Couldn't even let the bed get cold could you?" Hanna said stalking off. Aria followed without a word. Emily smiled before turning away as well. Toby was at the punch bowl when Ezra and Caleb came up to him.
"So you're going to be a dad?" Caleb said.
"Yup" he said.
"You must be thrilled" Ezra said with as much fake enthusiasm as he could muster.
"I hate it" Toby said point blank. "She makes me want to bang my head against a wall. I was drunk and lonely and sad..." He said trailing off. "I hate myself for it everyday"
"Then why are you with her!" Ezra asked.
"Because she's having my baby and she loves me, only God knows why, like it or not that little girl and her unborn baby are my family, that's the life I've chosen for myself." He said.
After a couple of cups of punch Toby and Daisy left. Toby promised to keep in touch and visit. Another 6 months passed.
"We should invite Toby" the girls said planning their graduation party. It killed them to know that Spencer and Ali weren't there with them. Some people in town speculated the same person had killed both girls.
Emily pulled out her phone to call Toby.
"He can bring Daisy and the baby" she said dialing "we need to show him that we're supportive"
"The number you dialed is not in service" a recorded voice said. Emily tried again still getting the voice. Emily tried periodically for the next month always the same result.
*4 years later*
Hanna, Aria and Emily were headed home from college. They would be graduating at the end of the month. They were coming back at the request of Melissa and Veronica Hastings. Veronica and Peter had divorced shortly after Spencer's funeral. Veronica was finally selling the house. They had invited the girls to come take what they wanted from Spencer's room before they gave the rest away to good will.
Veronica hugged all three as they got there she motioned for them to sit on the couch. She had put out tea and cookies.
"You know" she started "for the longest time I was in denial. I thought any minute Spencer would walk through that door." She began sobbing softly.
"That it all would have been some giant misunderstanding" she continued. "Then as time went on I thought the police would call and tell me they found her. At a shelter or in somebody's basement" she sighed. "That's a horrible thing to think I know, but I was ready to accept anything that meant she wasn't gone."
"I've accepted it now. She's gone. Someone murdered her and she's never coming back."
It sounded to the girls like she was still trying to convince herself.
The girls headed up to Spencer's room. It was creepy how it was all the same. Hanna tackled Spencer's closet. Aria tackled her desk and Emily tackled her drawers. Emily called her dad to come pick up the rocking chair. She couldn't stand the thought of Spencer's mother giving it away. They'd been there four hours when they finally hauled out the rest of the boxes.
"I think that's everything." Aria said.
"Yeah, we really appreciate this Mrs. Hastings." Hanna said.
Veronica burst into tears out of nowhere and Melissa tried to comfort her.
"We'll take another look" Emily said as they slipped upstairs. They listened at the door until they heard Mrs. Hastings calm down. The girls looked around aimlessly. They had everything they wanted and even some stuff they didn't. Hanna was about to insist it was time to leave when Melissa came into Spencer's room closing the door.
"Spencer's alive" Melissa said ardently.
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