**Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to update. I'll hopefully be able to get back into this and update weekly, but if not, sorry. This is partially because I am very busy and am still trying to figure out how to continue this story. I'm thinking there will be at least 2 more chapters, but possibly more or less.

Chapter 5

Instead of delivering the news in the living room where everyone was, Spencer thought it would be best if they did it in a more secluded place. So the four girls and Caleb headed upstairs into Hanna's room where they all stood in a disfigured circle with arms crossed.

"Well?" said Hanna being impatient as always.

"Mona's been sneaking out of Radley's!" blurted Emily. She didn't want to keep this burden of a secret anymore. She knew Hanna needed to know and she wanted to be straight forward and not beat around the bush like the other girls would have. The sooner Hanna knew, the sooner they could find answers because Hanna is the only one that Mona would truly listen to.

Everyone, including Caleb, turned to Hanna to see her reaction to the words that just came out of Emily's mouth. It was a delicate subject considering Hanna was the only one who seemed to understand Mona or at least understood her.

"Why is everyone staring at me?" said Hanna while trying to hide her shock.

"How long?" asked Caleb trying divert the attention away from Hanna even if it only was for a couple of seconds.

The three girls looked at each other and Spencer answered, "Couple of weeks."

"And you've been keeping this from me for this long?" Hanna said, mildly shouting.

"We just found out about it today from Spencer….Speaking of Spencer," Aria turned to Spencer. "who'd you even hear this from?"

Spencer lowered her head avoiding any eye contact. "Well….Um….About that…." Spencer bit her lip trying to put off telling even a bigger reveal than what was told to Hanna a couple of minutes ago. "Toby-"

Suddenly the lights turned off along with the power of the entire house. The room was pitch black except for a trickle of moonlight coming through the window. Hanna walked over slowly to her light switch, flicking it up and down hoping for the lights to come back on.

"Hanna, you're going to break it." Spencer said without offering another alternative.

Hanna then went to the door and began to open it when Aria asked her what she was doing.

"I'm going to turn on the damn power!" Hanna was being more irrational then usual but it was understandable after hearing that her ex-best friend might be the face of the new A.

"Hanna! Wait!" Caleb screamed in a whisper and went after her. She was already halfway down the hallway with Caleb only a few feet behind her. She was about to turn the corner to go down the stairs when Caleb noticed a dark, hooded figure reflecting off of the mirror coming up the stairs slowly. As Hanna was just starting to turn the corner, Caleb pulled her back. He pinned himself up against the wall with Hanna right in front of him, pressing against each other tightly. His right hand covered her mouth while his left hand held hers against the wall to prevent any sudden movement. Hanna soon realized why he did this when she looked at the mirror herself.

He slowly let Hanna go when he realized that she knew what was happening. The hooded figure made its way up the stairs when Caleb quietly reached for the lamp that was across the hallway, lying on a glass table. He gently removed the cover and then the light bulb. Just as he got the object into position, the figure was reaching the finale stair. With a small, but powerful force, he hit the figure with the base of the lamp causing the person to fall back down the stairs.

"Stay behind me." Caleb demanded and she listened and slowly followed Caleb down the stairs. The figure was now facing the ground, crawling away while wincing in pain. In one smooth motion, Caleb grabbed the person from behind and turned it to face him as he pulled off the hood covering a face that has been haunting his girlfriend and her three friends for a year.

Taken aback from what he saw, Caleb took a step back. Hanna was just as shocked as Caleb was with her jaw literally dropped. A couple seconds afterwards the three other girls ran for the stairs to see what was going on.

"Toby?" Screamed a distraught Spencer from the top of the stairs wondering why her boyfriend was laying on the ground, clutching his stomach in pain. Spencer ran down the stairs and pushed past Hanna and Caleb to give aid to her injured boyfriend.

"How? Are you? No…" Hanna said trying to figure out what was happening. Emily and Aria were just as confused looking down at the situation unfolding. Spencer however seemed to be more concerned about the well being of Toby to notice how bad the image looked to her friends. Toby was wearing a black hoodie with black gloves, just the items "A" would wear.

"I was going to tell you. Toby…" Spencer was too scared to hear the reactions of her friends to finish the sentence.

"I'm "A". Well I'm not "A", but I've been working for him or her." Toby finished.

"Oh my god." Aria said, not really knowing what else to say.

"You have to hear him out. He's the one who told me about Mona." Spencer pleaded.

"What? You expect us to listen to him after all that "A" has done? You can, but I'm not going to." Hanna crossed her arms across her chest. Spencer then turned to look at Aria for reassurance.

"Don't look at me, I'm with Hanna." Aria said.

Turning to Emily as Spencer's last resort Emily began, "I know "A" has done really horrible things, but I think we should hear him out."

While Toby was registering the fact that Emily is actually giving him a chance to tell his side of the story, Aria was getting impatient. "Go on." She demanded waiting for the punch line to this whole ordeal.

"A while ago when I was still working in Rosewood, I noticed a lot of fishy things going on. With the whole story about Mona going around I couldn't help but think that maybe there was still someone like her around because Spencer was still jumping every time her phone rang. When I asked her to tell me what was going on, she refused to tell me so I figured it out myself. Mona knew I was trying to find answers so I thought the best way to find out what was going on was to get to the source and my only way to do that was through Mona. She recruited me for the "A" team and I have been," putting quotations with his fingers around the next three words, "helping them out."

After Toby told the girls and Caleb about his escapade to find the true culprit behind "A", the girls told him to leave so they could process the information. Not only did they just find out about Mona sneaking out of Radley, but now they know Toby is working with "A". Each girl already formulated different opinions regarding Toby. Hanna is refusing to believe a word out of Toby's mouth, Aria is just about the same except she is giving him some benefit of the doubt, Emily is understanding and accepting his story, and Spencer is completely on his side. After an hour of sitting in Hanna's room thinking about the day's events, Emily, Aria, and Spencer left leaving Hanna with Caleb.