I do not own PLL, blah blah, I know but hey I'm gonna just drench my OCness all up here. Yeah okay, bye xx

Hidden Treasures

Chapter 1 : A for Awkward.

It was one of the rare days in the town where the liars had a break and the town seemed eerily quiet. But, all is never completely serene for the liars, no day is ever completely normal is it? So as a car pulled up to the Montgomery house, no one should have really been surprised, but it is certain no one expected it. When the raven haired petite girl exited the vehicle no one who passed could immediately recognize her face. But they would note the similarities between herself and another liar they all knew. She had the stature, and the style to match. But their faces just weren't quite the same. This one had eyes too light, and hair too dark. One thing was certain, she was about to make a lot of things complicated. The raven-haired girl got her luggage out the back of the car, and watched as the taxi drove away. Taking a breath or two, she picked up the bags and walked up the driveway. A lot of things had happened since she was gone. She wanted to know how things were.

Walking up the steps she balled her hand into a fist and knocked on the door. She hoped she looked presentable, after all this was her family and their opinion meant a lot to her. Stepping back she waited. It was her father who opened the door.

"Amara?" It was a tone of disbelief at first, then later his smile brightened and he pulled her into a tight hug. "Amara." She had missed such an embrace...it was nice to be held by her father again, even after what her sister had told her.

"You and mom gonna be okay now?" She felt him tense and pulled away, smiling at him lightly. "It's prudent to ask, I haven't exactly missed everything you know?" It was the truth, her sister hadn't kept her in the dark about most things, and she was pretty well informed...or so she thought, but lately they're calls had become short and few in between, Amara naively blamed it on family angst. "I don't resent you for it, we're all human after all." Amara shrugged and he gave her another hug. He didn't seem to be able to answer her but smiled regardless.

Not completely letting her go, her led her into the house, but not before forgetting her bags. It was an all out house meeting when she arrived. Her mother was there, as her older sister, and younger brother, Mike. Surprisingly enough, inside the house the welcome was much colder. From Aria especially, she seemed to be in shock that her sister was back, her brother was dismissive, and her mother simply had a hand over her mouth. "Well thank you all for the warm welcome." Amara muttered, her shoulders suddenly slumped. Her and Aria used to be pretty close and yet, they were reduced to this...whatever it is it was.


"Aria, why don't you show Amara the new sights in town?" Their father asked, sensing the tension.

Aria nodded, and Amara was sure she heard a 'Oh sure why ever not' escape her lips. Amara sighed, followed Aria out the door. Her luggage a foreign thought now. The two sisters walked in step, and Amara had the urge to ask so many things. 'We used to be able to tell each other anything. You would have jumped up and hugged me if this was another time. Why the rip?' But as usual, all of her thoughts were not once voiced. That was simply the way Amara was. Aria had changed over the years, her style had refined much more than Amara's herself, her hair was short in contrast to Amara's long locks, and there was something behind her eyes. She seemed to have these invisible battle scars.

There was silence during there walk into town, but it wasn't comfortable at all. It was that kind of silence that screamed profanities at Amara for being too much of a coward to not attempt to talk to her sister. The silence screamed to be ended, but Amara kept to herself, trying to remember a better time. A time when both sisters would stay up all night just to be able to talk to each other, and yet their relationship had reduced to this. Amara cleared her throat, trying to clear the air.

"So, how are you and that Ezra guy?" Right after the words left her mouth she felt she had stepped on a land mine.

"We don't go out anymore, I'm with Jake now." Amara's lips were sit in a straight line.

"Oh." Amara gulped, "How are the girls?"

Aria sighed. "They're alright."

They fell into silence again, Amara didn't want to make things any worse than they were. But hey, it just wasn't her lucky day today.