Everyone laughed as Jacob smudged cake on Emily's face. Emily laughed and wiped the frosting off her face to lightly smack it across Jacob's cheek.

"I'm so glad Emily's happy" Hanna said as she took a bite of her piece of cake.

"Me too" Aria said. "I don't think she was this happy with Toby or Chris"

"She was really happy with Chris, after he died, she was heartbroken" Spencer added.

"Yea, I remember his funeral, I've never seen her so upset" Hanna said.

Spencer just looked down. When she had been with Emily in such a hard time in her life, it reminded her of when she had lost Alex. The police decided that Jenna acted alone in the act, but Spencer still had suspicions about that conclusion.

A slow song started to play and everybody turned toward the dance floor to watch Emily and Jacob's first dance. It was beautiful, the looked so in love, like they didn't notice the huge crowd of people watching them, just that they were there with each other.

The slow song sped up in the middle, putting a twist on the dance. Abby and Sophia ran out onto the dance floor and began dancing along side their mom and new step-dad. Everyone, including Emily and Jacob, laughed at the little girls un-choreographed dance.

After their dance was over, the modern music came on and the crowd flooded out onto the dance floor. Spencer started dancing with Toby, but soon it ended up with Spencer holding Declan, Toby holding Sydney, and Emma and Sophia holding one of their hands. Aria and Ezra each held one of the twins and a hand of Liam and Annabelle. Sean and Hanna danced by themselves, they had three boys who were 'to cool' to be dancing with their parents.

…...

Emily was the first to wake up the next morning. She went out into her crowded living room. Hanna, Sean, Aria, Ezra, Spencer, and Toby were all fast asleep on two air mattresses and two couches. Emily loved to see her living room all cluttered with the people she loved, it reminded her of high school when they would have sleepovers and would stay up all night gossiping and laughing. She missed those days, aside from the "A" drama, they were really fun.

Emily flipped the switch on both coffee pots, she had asked Aria to bring one because one coffee pot and eight adults was not a good ratio. She went back into her bedroom and sat on the bed next to Jacob, who was still sleeping. She began to read her book, just when she was getting into it, she heard the commotion of the kids waking everybody up in the other room. She went out to join her friends. They still had 4 days left at Emily's house, until they all went to stay at Spencer and Toby's house for the next week.

"Morning everyone" Emily said.

"Morning!" A chorus of voices said back.

Seth flipped the T.V. on to morning cartoons and the little boys flopped down in front of it. The adults all migrated to the kitchen to get coffee and Jacob came out of the bedroom to join them. Everybody relaxed in their pajamas for a little while, then the mom's got started on making breakfast.

Spencer was in charge of eggs, Emily had sausages, Hanna was mixing batter for pancakes, and Arai was squeezing orange juice. The husband's jobs were to keep the kids out of the kitchen.

…...

The kitchen was a mess and it was only a little bit smoky, Hanna burnt a couple pancakes. Everyone sat in the crowded living room eating breakfast and laughing.

After breakfast, everyone started to get dressed. The mom's locked the boys out of Emily and Jacob's room to get ready. The little girls all went to Abby's room, and took most of the bathroom, and the little boys only took 5 minutes in Seth's room. The husbands cleaned up the kitchen while they waited to get a place to change.

An hour later, everyone sat in the living room, debating what they should do that day.

Aria's phone rang.

"Hello?" She answered. "Hello?" She asked again.

"Who is it?" Ezra asked.

"My mom" Aria answered, taking her phone away form her ear to check if she had hung up.

"Mom?" Aria asked. Then her face went white and she looked up at her friends. "Guys" She said, walking into Emily and Jacob's room. Spencer, Emily, and Hanna all followed her.

Once they were in the room with the door locked, Aria put her phone on speaker. All they could hear was a rustling noise, like she had accidentally pocket dialed them, but then they heard a voice. It was really muffled, but they could clearly make out who it was.

They all exchanged a look of complete and utter panic, none of them knew what to do.

…...

All the boys, including their dads, were playing video games in Seth's room. The little girls were playing house. Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna were all in Emily and Jacob's room freaking out.

"Maybe you should try to call her again" Hanna suggested.

"Han, I've called her 100 times." Aria said.

"What about your dad?" Emily asked.

"I've called him 110 times" Aria shot Emily's suggestion down too.

Spencer got up and called Toby's name out the door.

Toby was there in a second.

"Any news?" He asked.

"None, we can't get a hold of anybody, nobody's answering their phones" Hanna said.

"Guys, look" Aria said, holding her phone for them to see the text message she just received.

Opps, I slipped. You weren't supposed to hear that, my dear Aria. All well, I guess now you know, Jenna's back out of jail and I have my puppet back so you better watch your back.

Love you Aria,

A

They all looked at each other.

"Puppet? You mean Jenna wasn't the only one doing this?" Hanna said.

"I need to go back to Rosewood" Aria said.

"No! you can't go back to Rosewood. This person doesn't want your mom, they want you and they know that if you think your mom is in trouble that you would go back to Rosewood to save her. This is a trap Aria, there's no way your going back" Ezra said, nobody had even noticed that he had come in.

"Ez, I have to. What if this isn't a trap and Jenna really does have my mom? What am I supposed to do just sit here and wait for a call from the police?" Aria said.

"Aria" Ezra said, his voice getting tender and venerable. "Please don't go back. You know this is just a trick. I won't let you go, your just going to get hurt, or worse, I don't want to lose you. Aria, I love you. Please don't go" Ezra was holding each of her hands in his, begging her not to go.

Aria sighed "Ezra, what can I do?" Aria asked hugging him to hid her face in his chest so nobody would see the tears fall down her cheeks.

"I don't know Aria, but we will figure something out. Everything is going to be okay, it always is" Ezra said, wrapping his arms around her and resting his cheek on her head.

Aria cried harder. "I don't want anything to happen to her, what if Jenna does something terrible to her" Aria sobbed.

"What is Jenna even doing out of jail?" Spencer asked. "She was supposed to have three years left in there"

"That's a good question" Emily said, thinking.

"Maybe she's out on bail" Hanna suggested.

"The seems like the most logical option" Spencer said. "Toby, what if we asked you to call her?"

Everyone looked at Toby.

"What am I going to say, she knows I'm still close to all of you, so she must know that I know why she went to jail in the first place" Toby said "I want to help, I really do, but I don't know how much help I could be" Toby went over to Spencer who was starting to tear up. "I'm sorry Spence, you know that I love all of you" He looked around the room "But if I call her then she'll suspect something" He took Spencer into his arms and let her cry into his chest. "I'm sorry" He whispered into her ear.

…...

"Okay" Aria said into her phone "Call me as soon as you hear anything….Alright…Love you, Bye" She hung up and everyone stared at her.

"My dad said he filed a missing persons report this afternoon. The police are looking for her as we speak" Aria said, not making eye contact with anyone.

"See" Emily said "Everything is going to be alright. They're going to find her and hopefully Jenna and your mom is going to return home and Jenna will go back to jail"

"Mommy?" Seth asked as he opened the door. "Are we going to do anything today?"

Emily looked at the clock. It was already 3:30. They had been so wrapped up in trying to help Aria's mom they had forgotten that they had promised the kids they would do something fun today. She looked at her friends, not sure what to tell her son.

"What if we all go get some ice cream?" Hanna said excitedly to make it seem fun.

"Okay, I'll go tell everyone else" Seth said as he ran out of the room with a smile.

"I think ice cream sounds good. It will give us all a chance to get out of this room and have some distractions" Spencer said.

Everyone agreed and went into the living room to get the kids ready.

…...

They all sat on the wooden deck outside the ice cream parlor. Some of the kids had finished their ice cream cones and were running off the sugar at the park behind the ice cream store.

"Matt! Don't stand on that" Hanna yelled when Matt climbed on top of the plastic tunnel.

Sean snuck up behind Matt and scared him when he grabbed him around the waist to pull him down.

Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily sat and watched their husbands chase their children around the play ground. Sydney wasn't feeling well, so she was laying across Spencer's lap, and Caitlyn sat in a baby seat next to Emily. They were reliving their high school memories.

"I remember when Aria never hung out with us on the weekends because she was always with Ezra in his apartment." Hanna said.

"Those weren't the greatest of times" Aria said

They all laughed and continued their stories.

Toby finally caught up to Declan and grabbed him. He flipped him upside down and draped him over his shoulder.

"Hey Ezra" Toby said casually as Ezra ran by after Annabelle.

"Daddy!" Declan laughed "Put me down!" He squirmed around.

"Oh, you want to go down?" Toby asked playfully.

"Yes!" Declan yelled.

"Okay" Toby said, as he flipped Declan off his shoulder, into his arms, and started tickling him. Declan squirmed around in Toby's lap as he tried to get free of the 'tickle monster'.

Toby looked up as he let Declan free. He saw Spencer sitting on the wooden bench, she was playing with Sydney's hair so gently, and laughing with her friends. He loved seeing her laugh, after all they had been through in high school and then after they had reunited the group seven years ago. She really deserved laughter, she stays home with their children everyday and works hard at keeping them busy, cleaning the house, and making the meals, but she always seem to have a smile on her face when Toby comes home.

…...

That night, they were all ready for bed, the kids had gone to sleep an hour ago, and the parents were settling down in their beds. Aria's phone rang.

"Hello?" She answered immediately. Everybody watched her hopeful face fall. "Oh! Really? That's great" She was trying to sound happy. "Thank you so much! Okay, I'll talk to you later. Bye" She hung up the phone.

"Who was it?" Spencer asked "Did they find your mom?""No." Aria told them sadly. "That was my agent. She told me the publishing company loved my book and that they want to start printing it within the next three months""That's great!" Ezra said, hugging her. "Be happy Aria, your going to be a published author.""I am happy, I just would have been a lot happier of that was the police station saying they found my mom and Jenna was in jail again"

Aria's phone rang again, she had a text message. Her stomach flipped as she opened it.

Aria Fitz a published author? Wow that sounds like your dream come true, too bad mommy won't live to see her baby's name on the cover of a book.

A

Ezra read the message over her shoulder. "Call the police" He said.

Aria dialed 9-1-1 into her phone and brought it up to her ear.

Someone answered almost immediately and Aria explained the situation to them and then read them the text message to them.

After she hung up she looked at all the worried faces staring at her. "They're doing everything they can" She told them.

"Maybe you should call your dad and tell him about the message" Spencer said.

Aria scrolled through her phone book to her dad's number and hit the call button.

She had it up to her ear when she head the computer voice say "We're sorry this number is no longer in service".

She hung up the phone and began to cry.

"Jenna got my dad" She said through her sobs.

…...

Author's note:

If there was any confusion, Sophie lives with Spencer because Spencer and Toby are married now, but Toby and Emily had Sophie and Abby before they split up, so they each got one child. Again this is a sequel so if your confused about what's going on, just read Time Flies.

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