10:00ish am - Hanna (test cancelled, due to weather condition students no allowed to leave)
Hanna stood in the hallway talking to her bestie Mona watching as her boyfriend Sean joked around with Noel and a few more of his buddies. So far, every attempt to lose her V-card had failed, Sean was adamant that he wanted to wait, he even drags her to Virginity Club meetings after school. They were totally lame, but Lucas made them a lot more entertaining. She couldn't stop the chuckle when she thought about that first meeting, the counselor had chosen her and Lucas to do an exercise together, at first Hanna had been annoyed and even slightly embarrassed at being paired up with the guy Alison had bullied relentlessly even dubbing him Hermie, short for hermaphrodite. She had barely put any effort into it or didn't even look at him, until the counselor scolded her when she looked at him she noticed Lucas was cute in a geeky sort of way. And she came on to him like she was supposed to and asked him if he wanted to sex with her. And he answered yes and she couldn't help giggling. The counselor the scolded him fir answering wrong. Lucas answered back that if a girl like Hanna ever asked any guy especially a guy like him if he wanted to have sex and he said no then the guy would have to be an idiot and that he was not an idiot, the counselor had never called on either of them since. Lucas had made Hanna feel confident and beautiful. It had never been his intentions but Sean's seemingly easy rejection had battered her already shaky confidence and low self-esteem. Sean never told her how hard saying no to her really was and the easy chemistry she had with Lucas was starting to make him insecure.
Sean turned to her and she smiled at him, other than the virginity thing he was a great boyfriend, unlike most of the other popular guys Sean was a nice guy and didn't pick on the guys like Lucas. He didn't try to make her feel dumb although the fact that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed may have contributed to that. Sean smiled back at her said something to his buddies and walked over to Hannah putting his arms around her shoulders and kissing her cheek. "Aw, look at the love birds." Mona said jokingly, only slightly jealous of her bestie having a boyfriend while she was currently single. Not that she said anything to Hanna, but she was annoyed that Hanna has set Aria up with Noel Kahn. Sean's best friend and the most sought after guy in school, it didn't matter that Sean asked Hanna to set Aria and Noel up. It felt like a betrayal of their friendship.
Hanna giggled and was getting ready to reply when she noticed Detective Wilden walking toward her. Ugh! It was bad enough they were stuck here, but being stuck her with him was torture, every time she looked up she noticed him watching one of them with a calculating gleam in his eye.
Why couldn't he just leave them alone, ever since the shop lifting incident with Mona, who hadn't got caught. It seemed like he has been turning up in her life every time she turned around and making life miserable, she barely contained a groan when she seen him heading toward her. ""Hanna, where's your friend Emily?" he asked as if he knew something she didn't.
"Gee Detective Wilden, I don't know, you're the detective so go detect her or something."
"You and you're friends might think your above the law, but someday." he told her in a threatening manner, "your luck will run out and I am going to be there to watch all of you fall." with that he walked away briskly in search of his next target, but before he got too far he turned to Hanna and said, "Your friend's," ugh she hated the way he put emphasis on the word friend as if they hadn't been Alison's friend at all, "memorial was vandalized last night, but maybe you and you girls already knew that?" then walked off.
Hanna had noticed Emily had been acting strange and she had noticed the other girl's shoes, but Emily had played it off as she had went jogging. "In the rain?" Hanna asked but Emily had already walked inside the school
"What was that all about?" Mona asked
Hanna shrugged "Who knows? Ever since our shopping expedition he turns up everywhere, even my house." still bothered that her mom had slept with him to keep Hanna out of trouble. She needed to go find the other girls now.
She had located Spencer and Aria, but Emily was still missing, "You guys, WIlden just told me Alison's memorial was vandalized last night, he thinks we did it. I hate to say it, but Emily has been acting strange and in case you missed it her shoes are covered in mud."
Before Aria or Spencer could answer there was Detective Wilden, "Well it looks like the gangs all her except Ms. Fields," he said with a smug smile, "trying to get your story straight I presume."
"Why would we vandalize Alison's memorial we helped put it together?" Spencer asked
"I don't know, but I intend to find out." He said before strolling away as if he won some competition.
"That guy gives me a serious case of the creeps." Hanna said as she watched him walk away.
"We need to find Emily now!" Spencer said and they eventually located her in the library sitting in the floor reading Great Expectations and sure enough her shoes had dried mud around the sides. "Emily?" She looked up absently "What are you doing?"
Emily told them about what happened that day a couple years earlier and showed them the letter. Spencer told her about the memorial being vandalized and much to their surprise Emily told them she already knew, "I couldn't get to sleep and deciding to go to the memorial to, talk to Alison. When I got there, it was already destroyed, it was like the person or persons hated Alison. It's been ripped apart and the word Bitch spray painted all over everything."
Spencer knew Wilden had this sights set on Emily and said they needed to something about her shoes. Hanna wore the same size and had tennis shoes in her gym locker they needed a plan to get them. Since they had cancelled the test and issued the warning stranded motorists had been directed to the school for emergency shelter and this provided some cover as Hanna and Emily went to her gym locker so Emily could change out of the muddy shoes.
Hanna had never realized how long it took to get to the gym locker before, when they finally made it back to the main hallway all four girls breathed a sigh of relief. Spencer went off to find Alex and Emily just wanted to be alone to think and found the most secluded spot she could find.
Aria and Hanna were joined by Mona, Sean and Noel. Hanna leaned against Sean once again preoccupied with figuring out how to move things forward in their relationship if Wilden didn't arrest her and the other girls before the day was over with.
