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This chapter is going to seem out of place since most of you watch the show but I wanted to set up some background for the following chapters. Please bare with me.
At the end of that summer Ali disappeared. It tore apart the other four friends. Soon they weren't even speaking to each other. None of them knew how to deal with Ali being gone. It was strange for them to even consider being friends when the person who had united them was gone.
Aria's change was probably the biggest considering her family left Rosewood for a year. She and Ali had discovered that her Dad was having an affair with his GA, Meredith. He moved the family to Iceland to cover up the affair and to try and make it work with the family. Everything was going great for the Montgomery's until they got back to Rosewood.
When they returned Mike and Aria discovered that they had another sibling. Meredith had been pregnant when they left for Iceland which was their Dad's main motivator for leaving. When their Mom found out she was devastated and kicked their Dad out of the house. Soon Aria's life was turned upside down because her parents were getting divorced. Her Dad had proposed to Meredith and was raising the little girl she had named Aubrey. Aria was done with her Dad. She no longer spoke to him or wanted anything to do with him. It was hard.
All of these circumstances drove Aria away from her family and back to her former friends. The girls soon reconciled when Aria returned to Rosewood. This wasn't the only thing that happened the week before Aria started her sophomore year of high school. She also had met a really cute guy at a bar. The only bad thing is that he turned out to be her English teacher. This didn't stop them from continuing to see each other, in secret.
Coming home from Iceland was hard, exciting, but it also brought someone back into Aria's life. Someone who had captivated her when she was younger.
For Jason losing Ali sent him into a tail spin. Not even a month after she had disappeared he checked himself into rehab. He felt horrible because he hadn't been the kind of big brother to realize that something was wrong. Completing rehab gave Jason some reassurance that his life was in his hands.
Having his parents in a sense shun him, Jason went to college and graduated with honors with a degree in Business and a minor in Psychology. It was something else that gave him some reassurance about his life being his. The only thing that kept all of this from being fulfilling was the note that he still carried with him. It was the note he had in his hand the morning after Ali had gone missing.
After he graduated from college Jason's grandmother gave him what was left in her will for both him and Alison. It was more money than Jason knew what to do with. While yes he had grown up with money this was all his. Putting it into a savings account he moved back to Rosewood. He wanted answers for what happened to Alison. Moving into his old family home he decided to renovate it and make it his own.
He had no idea that moving back to Rosewood would give him so much more than answers about Alison, it would also let him have a chance with someone who had been in his thoughts for the past 3 years.