Disclaimer : I don't own Pretty Little Liars, so don't sue me!
Author's note : Thank you all for reading this. I was very busy at the moment to update this story, but i promise I wasn't abandoning it, because I still have a lot of idea to share.. :D
So excited about that episode of PLL tonight. But unfortunately no more Jaria. Jason isn't even around. So this story is just to satisfied my own addiction to this couple. :D enjoy!
The girls are continued their hang out session at Aria's room, because it is more private and they have a lot to talk about.
"So it is really over between you and Mr. Fitz?" Emily asked. Hanna rolled her eyes when Emily said Mr. Fitz.
"I think we have to call him Mr. Fitz now that his relationship with Aria is over. He is our ex teacher now." Hanna said. Hanna turned to Aria. "So it is official between you and Jason now?"
"Hanna!" Spencer nudges Hanna.
"Let her asked, Spence. It has been on the edge of her tongue since we saw them walked in with their join hands." Emily said. She is quite curious herself too.
Hanna nodded in agreement with her satisfied smirk because Emily supports her too. She turned to Aria again, waiting for her answer. Aria nodded. "I guess so." Aria looked at the girls. "But we're taking it slow." Aria added. "Jason will take me out on out first date tomorrow." Aria said.
Hanna just about to ask something again to Aria, but Spencer opened her mouth first. "The date is tomorrow. We can talk about it tomorrow." It isn't because Spencer isn't happy that Aria is with Jason now. She may not really fond of the guy yet, but she knows that Jason really is love Aria so much. So she is willing to give him a chance. "We have to talk about the urgent matter." Since Emily and Hanna talked to her about their realization, Spencer couldn't stop thinks about it. Emily's theory is making sense. And this is the first time they have new clue since they are broke into Garrett's apartment. Jason still doesn't remember anything.
Aria raised her eyebrows. She is the only one that they haven't told about this. And earlier with all the drama that happened, they couldn't really talk about this with Aria. "Emily has a theory." Spencer said.
Emily turned to Aria and tells her everything. "Seriously? You really thinks that Ali knows A?" Aria asked with a shock expression.
"She might not realized that he is A. But she knows him. That is the only thing that makes sense why A could knows all of our secrets. Ali is the only one that knows." Hanna said.
Aria thinks about it for a moment. Emily's theory did make sense in her mind. This is the one time that they can make sense something about A. Suddenly it hits her. "Ian!" Aria shouted. The others looked at her. "She dated him. It makes sense that she told him everything."
"But Ian is dead. There is no way that he is A." Spencer said.
Hanna thinks about Ian. Ian is the only one that stands out for their suspect. "Then Ian must have told someone else."
"Melissa." Emily suddenly said.
"What?" Spencer immediately turned to Emily with her widened eyes. She can't believe that Emily even considering that.
"Think about it, Spence. She was with him that time. They were broke up when Ali went missing. And they got back together again not long after we started receiving those texts from A." Emily said.
Spencer glared at Emily. "You can't be serious about this. She is my sister."
"I'm not saying that Emily is right. But we should consider that. What Emily said is make sense." Hanna also said.
"You all are out your minds. My sister isn't A! She can't be. I'm not going to stay here and listening to this nonsense." Spencer reached for her bag and just walked away.
They all are looking at each other. "I feel horrible." Emily said.
"You should be. It's her sister." Aria said.
Hanna nodded in agreement. "So we have to do this without Spencer then."
Aria nodded. "What?" Emily is the only one that confused.
"We're agreeing with you that there is chance that Melissa is involved in this. Even it is the slightest chance; we have to checks it out." Aria said again.
Emily glared at Aria. "Why are you doesn't say anything earlier?"
"And up against Spencer?" Aria teased her.
Emily sighed. "So what is the plan? Spencer is Melissa's sister. Without her help, it is quite difficult to found something."
"We should at least try is first." Aria said.
"We should start with the barn. They lived there." Hanna said. They all nodded. They don't want to do this. Do something behind Spencer's back. Spencer is their best friend too. But they know Spencer would never do this. And they quite sure that Melissa is involved in this.
Spencer heard the knock on the door. She immediately sat up from the couch and opened the door. She found her best friends standing in front of her. Actually Spencer hasn't even go upstairs since she went home. She just waiting on the living room for her friends to come apologized.
Spencer looked at her best friends. "I don't hear the sorry word." Spencer said.
Aria stepped closer to Spencer. "You know we're sorry, Spence."
"We're out of line. We shouldn't draw into conclusion that fast. She is your sister." Emily added.
"We won't bring it up over again." Hanna also said.
Spencer draws a smile in her face. "Apology accepted. Come on in. We still have a lot to talk through."
Spencer brought the girls in her room, because it is more comfortable there even though there is no person in the house right now. Veronica and Peter Hastings are still visiting Melissa.
"Jason hasn't remembered anything else?" Spencer turned to Aria.
Aria shrugged. "He hasn't told me anything else. It is a bit of long shot, Spence. He was high at the moment. The possibility of him remembering something from that night is similar to none." Aria said to Spencer.
Hanna nodded. "Aria is right, Spence. I don't think Jason can remember anything else. So we have to find the next clue from somewhere else."
Spencer already knows the girls too well. The girls are telling her something behind their words. She is just about to ask them again about that when she noticed something. "Where is Emily?"
Aria and Hanna looked at each other. Spencer caught that. It confirms her suspicions. "She went to the toilet. She tells us earlier." Aria immediately reminds her before Spencer suspects anything.
Spencer rolled her eyes on Aria. "You gotta be kidding me!" Spencer walked out the room. Hanna and Aria keeps shouting her name and followed behind her.
Spencer already figures out what the girls are planning. They know each other too well. Spencer walked straightly to the barn. As soon as she opened the barn, she saw Emily was looking at her with her surprise expression. "Spencer!"
"You really think that I wouldn't find out? I can't believe you." Spencer said to Emily. And she looked at both Aria and Hanna too.
"We can explain it, Spence." Hanna was trying to explain. But she doubts there are explanations in the world that can get them out from this situation.
"She is your sister, Spence." Emily opened her mouth.
Spencer raised her eyebrows and stepped closer to Emily. "You still remember that?" Spencer said sarcastically.
Emily ignored Spencer's comment and says again, "Maybe because she is your sister, you can't look this through."
Spencer stared at Emily. "Because she is my sister, I know that she didn't do this. She would never hurt me. I know our relationship isn't exactly perfect but I know her. She wouldn't do that do me." Spencer said.
"Maybe you don't know her well enough." Emily said again.
"What do you mean by that?"
Emily handed a tore photograph to Spencer. "I found this." Emily said.
Spencer looked at the photo. It is their family photo from two years ago, when Melissa graduated from university. But the photo isn't whole anymore. Spencer's figure has been torn off from the photo. Spencer looked at the others. "She was angry at me. She thought I played her about Ian. A set me up, remember? It is understandable if she was still angry." Spencer was trying to finds reason behind this.
"I have another one." Emily said again. Now she handed Spencer one book.
"You looked through my sister's diary?" Spencer said with a surprise tone.
"You want to read this." Emily said again.
Actually Spencer is reluctance to read Melissa's diary. That is her privacy. She didn't want to invade her sister privacy. She remembered how Melissa threatens to break her arms just because she borrowed her hair brush. If Melissa knows about this, she definitely will kill her. But she looked at Emily. She knows that Emily founds something that is important. And she has to know.
Spencer took the diary from Emily's hand and starts reading it. Aria and Hanna haven't read it yet, but when they saw Spencer's expression when she read it, they immediately stand behind Spencer's back and read with her.
"Oh my God." Aria can only say that when she read Melissa's diary. She knows the Hastings since she was little. She might not be friend with Spencer yet. But she knows them. Rosewood is a small town. Everybody talks about the Hastings. The competitive two daughters. But when she knows Spencer, she knows that there is only one competitive daughter. Spencer was just always tried to fit in their family. And Melissa never makes it easy for her.
"Don't read it anymore." Hanna grabs the diary from Spencer.
Spencer looked at Hanna with her teary eyes. "There is might be a clue in here." Spencer said, quietly. Even her voice sounds trembling. Aria wraps her arms around Spencer.
"Then we're the one that will find it. You don't have to read that any longer." Aria also said.
"She is my sister." Spencer keeps said that. Even though she read it with her own eyes, but she still can believe that her sister feels that way about her. She still remember the lines in Melissa's handwriting how she hated Spencer when she was born because she took their parents in her little finger. How she hated to keep pretending to be the caring sister when Spencer is in trouble. Especially after Alison went missing. Nobody cares about Melissa Hastings anymore, because they only asking about how Spencer Hastings is doing. Because of that, she broke up with Ian. For the attention. But it still didn't work so she brings Wren home from college. She didn't even like Wren. She specially chooses him because she knows Spencer will like him. She brings Wren home to set up her sister.
Spencer's tears keeps fall down on her cheek. "Hey." Emily stepped closer to her. "You still have us. We're sisters too." Aria and Hanna nodded.
"I don't have a sibling. You all are my sisters." Hanna said too.
Spencer smiles a little. She feels so lucky to have best friends like them. She opened her arms. The others immediately wrapped their arms around each other. "At least we have each other. We're gonna survive this. We'll beat all of them." Emily said. The others nodded in agreement.
They all are spending the night on Spencer's house. They didn't want to leave her alone after that. So Jason doesn't have to drive far to picks up Aria for their date. Jason knocked at Spencer's house. It is kind of feels weird for him to knock on Spencer's house to picks up Aria. How surprised Jason is when he sees Toby opened the door.
"What are you doing here?" Jason asked him.
"This is my girlfriend's house?" Toby raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, you came." Caleb walked out from the kitchen with spoon in his mouth and a bowl of ice cream on his hand. "Come and join us." Toby just smirked at Jason's confused and shocked face.
"What are you all doing in here?" Jason walked into the house, while Toby closed the door.
"We're the gentlemen callers." Caleb said. Toby laughed. "I just got back from California and I miss my girlfriend. But Hanna spent the night here. So here I am."
Jason looked at Toby. "My girlfriend lives here." Toby answered with the same answer again.
"So, first date with Aria." Caleb said. Jason turned to Caleb again. "At least you're younger than Mr. Fitz."
"You two are hanging out with Fitz too?" Jason asked. Looking how comfortable Toby and Caleb with each other, he doesn't think that this is the first time they are hanging out together.
"Hell, no." Caleb answered. "He's our teacher too, you know. I'm not hanging out with my teacher." Caleb said.
"How weird is gonna be!" Toby smirked. "So are you excited about your first date with Aria?" Jason is just about to answer him when he talks again. "Even thought it won't happen today." Toby added.
"What?" Jason asked.
"I think you know the girls better than us, considering you know them the longest. Spencer is through something right now." There is a sad expression on his face. "That is why the girls are all here right now. They don't feels comfortable to leave Spencer alone at the moment. That includes Aria."
"No." Jason said.
"No, you aren't excited to your first date with Aria?" Caleb smirks at him.
"Yes. I meant no." Truthfully Jason feels a little nervous with this first date thing. "I do feel excited about this first date with Aria that will happen today. We've been waiting a long time for this."
"If you say so." Toby said with a smirk in his face. Actually he just teased him about that, because he can see how nervous he is.
"Hi." Aria walked down the stairs with Hanna next to her. She looked straight to Jason.
Jason locked his eyes on Aria. She wears a pink dress tonight with her long wavy hair fall down perfectly on her shoulders. "Hi. You look so beautiful." Jason said as he holding his hand out to Aria.
Aria put her hand on his. "You don't look too bad yourself too."
Jason smiled at her. "You ready to go?"
Aria nodded. "Yeah." She turned to Hanna. "Han, don't –"
"Don't worry. I got it. Enjoy the date. There are a lot of us in here." Hanna pushed Aria to Jason.
Aria nodded again. "Okay, then. I'll see you later." Jason waved his hand to the guys and stepped outside the house with Aria's hand in his.
They are just about to walk in to the car when she gasped. "Wait. I forget to tell Hanna where I put the pill."
Jason rolled his eyes on her. "What pill?" He tries to ignore what happen in Spencer's house because he really wants to have this date with Aria. But he can see how much it bothers her. "Can you tell me what happened?"
"It isn't as bad as it sounds." Aria said. "Spencer kind of depressed right now. She kept crying. We don't have any choice. So we gave her an antidepressant."
"Why is she depressed?" Jason asked. Aria is just quiet for a moment. "You don't have to tell me if you aren't comfortable with it." Jason added.
"No. I want to tell you." Aria said quickly. "You are part of this little group now, whether you like it or not. That is one of your duties as a boyfriend."
Jason looked at Aria. "Boyfriend?"
Aria blushed. "Yeah. I mean – that is what we are, right?" Aria asked to make sure.
"I am if you want me to be. I just don't want to push you into anything yet if you're not ready." Jason said.
Aria smiled at him. "I don't feel push. I'm happy. Can't you see how happy I am?" Aria leaned in for a kiss. Nobody has to tell Jason what to do. He kisses her immediately without hesitation. They kiss for a while before the pulled away from each other. "So." Aria told Jason the whole story about Spencer and Melissa.
"I don't want to say anything, because it's none of my business. But yeah, Melissa wasn't too happy about Spencer being. She used to complaint about it when we're hanging out together and get high. I don't think she hated her. It just she's been an only child for a while before Spencer was born. She is just doesn't know what to acted with a sister to share her parents attention. And her sister is as bright as she was. She is just jealous."
There is a sad expression on Aria's face. "I feel bad because I can't do anything to make her feel better." Aria said. Jason just slipped his arm around her waist and gives her a little squeeze as a support. "Hold on a moment. I just gonna tell Hanna and we can get out of here."
"Aria." Aria just about to walk into the house again, but Jason's hand on her waist stopped her. "We don't have to do this now, you know. Clearly your mind is another place right now. Boyfriend duties, right?" Jason smiled at her. "You friend needed you right now. I can hang around with the boys."
Aria rolled her eyes out of surprise. "Seriously?"
"Hey. I am friends with Toby. And Caleb." Jason pretends to be offended. "That is his name, right?" Jason smirks at her.
Aria smiled at him and kissed his cheek softly. "I appreciate the gesture, Jason. Thank you."
"Anytime, girlfriend." Jason reached for Aria's hand and guided them back to the house.
Toby and Caleb are just smirking at Jason when they saw both of them returning to the house. But they are pretending not to care. Aria looked at Caleb. "Hanna?"
"She is upstairs." Caleb pointed to the stairs. Aria gives Jason a little peck and walked up the stairs, leaving him with the boys.
"I told you so." Toby said as he leaned to the couch.
"I will let you gloat about it for a while." Jason said as he sat next to the boys. He looked at Caleb. "Just handed me that ice cream." Caleb smirks and handed him the ice cream. Jason put in one full spoon of ice cream into his mouth and watched the television. "What are we watching?"
"Yankees and red sox." Toby answered.
"We're gonna have so much fun." Jason said as he put in one full spoon of ice cream into his mouth again.
Hanna just comes out from the bathroom when she sees Aria is just about to walk into Spencer's room. "Aria? I thought you and Jason went already? Are you forgetting something?"
Aria shook her head. "No. I'm not going." Aria said.
Hanna rolled her eyes on her. "What? You've been waiting for this for a while. And now you're not going?"
"I can have that date anytime now, because Jason is my boyfriend." Aria said with a smile in her face.
Hanna chuckled. "We're all known that Jason is your boyfriend now. What is with the blushing?"
"We're just deciding that we are boyfriend and girlfriend. How could you know?" Aria said.
"You two are so slow." Hanna shook her head. "It doesn't explain why you aren't in the date with him right now." Hanna asked again, remembering the date that supposed to happen right now.
"I can't go right now. He can see it. I can't stop worrying about Spencer. We can have that date anytime. Right now my best friend needs me. That is where I should be right now." Aria said.
"You don't have to do that." Spencer comes out the room with Emily followed behind her. "I know how long you've been expecting this date. I'm sure Jason already waited longer. You should go with Jason."
Aria turned to Spencer. "And that date will happen. Right now I just want to spend some time with my besties." Aria said with a smile.
"I know that you all are so good to me. I should be grateful that I have sisters like you three. But I can't keep thinking about Melissa. Why she feel like that about me? I was her only sister." Spencer said. Aria looked at Spencer. Suddenly she thinks about what Jason tell her about the Hastings secret. She almost forget about that considering what has been going on this couple of weeks. She wonders if Spencer will feel better if she knows that Alison is her sister too. But she can't say anything to her.
"She is your sister, Spence. It's normal to be depressed. To be sad. But we're here for you." Aria said again.
Spencer turned to Aria. "You maybe don't mind, but Jason will." Spencer said again.
Aria shook her head. "Trust me. He doesn't. Don't worry about that."
"He already waits on this for a while. And he is here already. It doesn't make sense if he just goes back to his home." Spencer said.
"He isn't. He is downstairs, hanging out with the boys. They are bonding." Aria said again.
They all are turned to Aria and rolled their eyes. "Seriously?" Emily asked. "Jason is hanging out with Toby and Caleb?"
Aria raised her eyebrows. "Why you all look so surprise? He isn't Ezra. Their age difference isn't that far away. Only four years. And he isn't their teacher. There is no pressure."
"Let's peek." Hanna said. They all are looking at Hanna. "Don't tell me that you all aren't curious." Hanna is the one that make the first step, but they all are following her.
The boys are enjoying their time together. Unexpectedly, they have a lot to talk about. About school, football or their girlfriends. Caleb turned to Jason. "Could you please give me back the ice cream? Don't hogging it."
Jason rolled his eyes on him. "I am hardly hogging it. I just eat it like two spoons."
Toby chucked. "Don't mind him. He just isn't the sharing type." Jason looked at Toby. "He doesn't share. Even with Hanna." Toby added.
Jason turned to Caleb. "I do not." Caleb protests. Toby is laughing.
Jason just watched the two of them. "You two get along fine." Jason said.
Toby and Caleb took a glance at each other and shrugged. "The girls are best friend with each other. Thank God he isn't that hard to get along to. I was really worried." Caleb said.
"Me? You are the one that always broke the law." Toby said.
Jason laughs. "It's amusing watching the two of you." Jason said.
Toby and Caleb looked at each other again. "Honestly, we are so relief that Aria chose you and not Ezra Fitz. With the girls' friendships, we ought to spend a lot of time together. I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with your teacher." Caleb said.
Toby nodded of agreement. "The two of us don't exactly know each other that long." Caleb nodded.
"We don't exactly in the same social circle." Caleb added.
"But I'm glad that I was you, though." Toby suddenly said to Caleb. Caleb even rolled his eyes on him, because he never said that kind of thing to him before. "I was never really a friendly person. It is kind of hard for me to make friend. I never had a friend before. Until I starts hanging out with Emily. Then it leads to fall for Spencer. And then knowing you." Toby said to Caleb.
"Oh nerd. I'm flattered. But please don't ever say something like that again. It creeps me out." Caleb said. Toby and Jason let out a laugh.
Jason looked at Toby again. "You really never had any friend before?" Jason asked him.
Toby shrugged. "I am always kind of a loner. Emily wasn't even notice me until my step sister offended Alison DiLaurentis."
Suddenly it comes to his realization. He widened his eyes. "That Jenna girl. I remembered now. Jenna Marshall. She is your sister."
"Step sister." Toby corrected him.
And then they heard the footsteps walking down the stairs. They all are looking at the stairs and look the girls walked down.
Jason locked his eyes to the girls. "I remember Jenna." The girls are looking at each other and then back to Jason. "She is Toby's sister, the one that blinded by Spencer –" Spencer rolled her eyes on him. "According to Ali." Jason added.
"It isn't according to Ali. She is the one that did it. We all are the witness." Spencer walked to him.
Jason looked at Aria who nodded. "Fine. The one that blinded by Ali." Jason corrected his word. Jason looked at the girls. "I just care about getting high at the time, so I don't really put that much thought into it. Ali said Toby's new step sister was having an affair with Ian. Ali doesn't know that I know she was already having an affair with Ian, so she just talking about it casually. But I remember her expression. Ali was jealous at her."
"That might be the real reason why she was thrown a firecracker to the garage." Hanna said.
"So Ian was with four girls at the time?" Emily asked with a shocked tone. She took a glance at Spencer who has an angry expression on her face.
"That bastard." Spencer curses. Toby sat up from the couch and hugs her shoulders. She feels much relax when Toby is holding her. "But at least we know that Jenna really is had a romantic relationship with Ian."
"They are rival. They don't get along well already. And with the information that Jenna also had a relationship with Ian, that could throw Ali over the edge. That isn't so surprising that she throw the firecracker to the garage. I doubt that she intended that for Toby. I think she knows that Jenna was in there." Aria said. Emily and Hanna nodded in agreement. The one thing that they hated the most is they know Ali too much.
Spencer suddenly remember something. Spencer looks at Toby. "She did that because she said you were spying on her." Spencer said, remembering what happened at the moment.
Toby shook his head. "I never spy on Alison DiLaurentis. That doesn't even make sense. Why would I want to spy on her? I don't even like the girl. No offense to you all." Toby added. He knows that no matter what happen Alison was the girl's best friend and her brother is in the room.
"But Ali said you were spying on her." Emily said to Toby. "I don't think she was lying. She really looks really scared. She was sure that she was being spy on." Emily added. Emily and the others believe the assumption that Toby was spying on Ali is ridiculous.
"Someone did spying on Ali. On us." Aria said. She was remembering the old times when they are hanging out together at the DiLaurentis house. She exchange glances with the girls.
Hanna nodded on agreement. "We all saw him or her, the one that sneaking around Ali's backyard. Ali said that he is Toby. But we know that it wasn't true. So someone else was watching us."
"I might be seeing someone." Toby suddenly said.
They all are immediately looking at Toby. "What do you mean by that? You saw someone? Who is it?" Spencer turned to Toby.
"I didn't really saw her watching Ali, how could she?" Toby chuckled. The others are rolled their eyes on him. "Once, I saw Ali sneaking around in her backyard. I don't know what she was doing and honestly, at that time I could careless."
"You saw Ali?" Spencer asked again. Toby nodded. "That is very useless information. Ali can't be A. How can she spy on herself? And she is dead." Spencer sighed. They all are drown in their own mind, trying to make sense the situation so they didn't see that Jason is widened his eyes with a surprise expression. But he keeps it to himself. Spencer looks at the others. "There is one thing about Melissa that I never told you guys about."
They all are looking at Spencer, waiting on her to continue. "What is it?" Emily asked.
"She was quiet jealous of Alison. She thinks that she is a whore. Melissa knows that Ali had an interest with Ian. But I don't think she knows that they were having an affair." Spencer explained.
"Guys." Aria called. "Do you guys realize that all of this always back to Ian?"
They never realize that until Aria bring that up. Aria's word makes sense. But it doesn't make sense why A is targeting Ian Thomas. "It starts with Ali. This supposed to be about Ali. They even use A as a name. A for Alison." Emily said.
"But what Aria said is make sense. The clues that we gathers so far, it all connected to Ian." Hanna also said.
Caleb suddenly coughed nervously. They all are immediately turned to him. "When Jenna hired me to do – you know." Hanna rolled her eyes. Even without words, he knows Hanna warned him that it better worth it to bring this up again. "She specifically asked to keep an ear if there is something connected with that coach, Ian Thomas. I don't really think about it until now." He looked at Spencer. "That is why I followed you, because Ian is your brother in law." Caleb said to Spencer, remind her about the incident at Ian's office a few months back when he caught her snooping around.
"Back to Ian." Aria reminds them all.
They all are looking at each other. They don't want to admit it. And the last thing Spencer wants is dig into Ian's life one more time. But their clues that they have right now are all connected to Ian.
"We have to dig into Ian's life. Again." Spencer said and sighed. "This will never end, isn't it?"
Aria, Hanna and Emily walked closer to Spencer and put their arms around each other. "At least we have each other." Aria whispered to the girls.
"And us too. We're in this together." Caleb also said. The girls are looking at him, and then Toby who nodded at them. The last is Jason.
Jason looked at them all. For a lot of reason he didn't want to be involved in this. The one thing about Ian's life is that he is in it. The guy was his sort of best friend. But when he sees Aria, he knows that he doesn't have other choice. Like she said earlier, he is in this little group whether he likes it or not. Now he knows what the price that he has to pay for the happiness with Aria. And he will do anything to protect her. So he forces a smile on his face and nodded. "Of course."
to be continued...