Sorry for taking quite a while to update this fic! I have exams starting this week and I have been studying a lot to I haven't had a lot of time to write! I'll do my best to update this fic as regularly as possible, I hope you enjoy it!
"Who is behind this?" Ezra asked trying to maintain a steady voice and not show his fear and panic, breathing hard to stay calm. He looked around the room but his gaze was only met by blank faces. Aria was on the brink of another panic attack and couldn't keep still, tears flowing freely from her eyes. Alison just stared at the ground, not wanting to look at anyone and show her fear or see the fear in everyone else's faces or she wouldn't be able to cope. Paige had her arm around Emily trying to console her, holding one hand and gently rubbing her palm with her thumb whilst the other hand stroked Emily's arm in a soothing motion.
"Listen guys," Emily said slowing removing herself from Paige's embrace, "If any of you have anything to do with this…please just say it now…i won't be…none of us will be mad…please just tell us now so we can have a nice weekend together." Emily looked everyone dead in the eyes to loo for signs of who it was but no one gave away any indication of even knowing about the plan.
"It has to be Mona," Spencer growled through her teeth, "That bitch has no limits." Alison let out a heavy sigh of annoyance.
"Of course it's Mona! Who else could it be…MONA THE JIG IS UP YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!" She went over to the doors again but they were still locked. Just as she was making her way back over to the table to sit back down all of the candles lighting up the room were blown out. There was a loud rumbling noise before the lights eventually came back on around a minute later. Everyone looked around panicked to make sure everyone was still there, and they were. All sitting in their seats safe and sound. There was a simultaneous sigh of relief that escaped everyones mouths. Toby was the first one to break the silence.
"It's only Mona, why are we so afraid? She might do a lot of things but the girl isn't a murderer, she had the chance to kill us before and she couldn't go through with it." Everyone looked at each other before all agreeing with Toby.
"Yeah you're right!" Hanna added, "Either we are going to be fine or this isn't Mona." The relieved looks dropped from everyones faces instantly, none of them had even thought of the possibility that it wasn't Mona after her name had been mentioned.
"Let's face it, we're all going to die." Paige broke the silence once again. All heads instantly turned in her direction and she just gave a look as though to say 'what?'
"Paige what the fuck is wrong with you." Alison near yelled.
"Um beside the fact that we were all just "condemned" and are stuck in this room on a private island, not too much." Paige snapped back.
"Do you seriously believe that bullshit that just played?"
"Why shouldn't I? It isn't as if anything that was said wasn't true. We deserve it and we're going to get punished." Alison just looked at her and rolled her eyes, bored of fighting already.
"Why don't you just drop dead? Would make this a lot easier on everyone." Emily stood up in front of her girlfriend and looked Ali dead in the eyes.
"I know that you and Paige don't exactly get along but that is out of line Ali. You can't fucking say stuff like that to people! Especially in a situation like this. No wonder everyone thinks you're a bitch." Paige put her hand on Emily's upper arm and whispered 'it's okay' into her ear but she didn't listen and refused to take her gaze away from Alison. Alison cocked her head to the side and looked at Emily in amusement.
"Just because I speak the truth and say what everyone is thinking when they're too afraid to say it themselves doesn't make me a bitch, it makes me a realist. You know as well as I do that no one here even likes her and they all think it would be easier if she were to die. And just because I have the guts to say it to her face and not behind her back like everyone else doesn't even make me the bad guy here. In fact, it really makes me the good guy, doesn't it Em? Isn't honesty your number one policy?" Alison gave Emily a wicked grin before Emily just sat back down next to Paige and took her hand in her own. Paige picked up her glass of water and took a drink before sitting it back down on the table and placing her head on Emily's shoulder. Hanna looked around the room to try and see if there was another way out of the room but couldn't find a thing.
"We seriously need to try and find a way out of this room," she added before turning to Paige and seeing her in quite a bit of distress. "Paige what are you doing?" All heads turned to look at her and seen her writhing in her chair, one hand around her neck and the other grasping onto the table with some force, her knuckles turning white in the process.
"She's choking!" Emily screamed. "Someone call 911 we need help now!" Paige shot out of her seat like a bullet and bent over the table, still with her hand around her neck taking in desperate gasps of air, fighting for her life. Alison stepped back in horror, not being able to believe what she was witnessing in front of her own eyes. A pool of tears started to form in the eyes of Aria who was looking on from a distance, clinging onto a traumatised Ezra.
"For the love of God would someone move and call 911!" Emily screamed at the top of her lungs. Her voice cracked and the tears were flowing from her eyes like a river. She was trying to hold Paige steady and get ready to perform CPR but she couldn't even keep herself steady. None of them had ever seen her in such a state. Every one of them rushed to their bags and pockets to look for their phones but they all came out empty handed. Alison tipped her bag onto the table and spread out the contents but her phone was no where.
"Where the fuck is it!?" she yelled, and everyone had the same look of anger and puzzlement on their faces. Emily groaned in frustration and left Paige's side as quickly as she could to get to her purse and empty it out, only to get the same result as when Ali emptied her own. "Shit," was all she managed to get out before Paige dropped down to her knees, both hands now grasping around her neck, desperately struggling to get out another breath. The colour was draining from her face and her lips turned a pale blue. A trickle of warm blood fell from her nose down her cold features and over her mouth. The 9 other Rosewood residents looked on in horror as Paige was dying before their very eyes and there was nothing they could do about it. Just then, Paige's body came to a sudden halt and fell to the ground and lay there lifelessly. Hanna covered her face with her hand as Emily let out a shriek of complete devastation. Aria threw her arms around Ezra's neck and buried her face into his shoulder, not wanting to look at Paige's corpse laying on the ground. Ezra wrapped his arms around her waist protectively and looked around the room for answers.
"Ten little soldier boys went out to dine;" Noel said aloud, not taking his eyes off the lifeless body laying on the ground in front of him, "one choked his little self and then there were nine." Caleb realised that the only thing Paige had done was take a sip of her water and went over to inspect the glass. He picked it up and took a sniff of the water before screwing his face and pulling it back from underneath his nose.
"There has definitely been something put in her water. I'm not sure what but there is something in here." He said, still holding the glass aloft. He placed the glass on the table and picked up Emily's before taking a sniff. He put it back down and picked up his own, and then Hanna's, and then Noel's until he had sniffed everyone's glass.
"Absolutely nothing." he stated after placing the final glass back on the table. "These name cards weren't just for fun, Paige was supposed to sit on this seat and drink this water and die." Everyone looked at each other suspiciously in an awkward silence. It remained that way for a few minutes until Alison broke the silence.
"S-so…who's gonna be next?"
"Well I'm not waiting around to find out!" Hanna fired back and stormed over to the doors.
"Hanna they're lock-" Alison shouted but stopped mid-sentence when Hanna easily opened the doors leading out into the hallway with the black carpet they arrived through.
"I thought you said they were locked?" Spencer snapped at Alison, the annoyance in her voice evident. Puzzlement took over Alison's face.
"I swear to God they were locked when I went over there-"
"Guys!" Hanna yelled. "This isn't a time to bicker alright! The doors are open, now we need to get the fuck out of here!" Everyone nodded in agreement and made their way towards the door, except from Emily, who was still sitting on the floor holding Paige's lifeless body. Everyone had ran down the hallway but Alison had stopped in the doorway when she noticed Emily hadn't moved.
"Em we really gotta go. We don't wanna die too come on." Emily's eyes were still filled with puddles of water when she looked up to meet Alison's gaze.
"What are we supposed to do with Paige? We can't just leave her here! Who knows what will happen to her!" she near yelled, tightening her grip onto her girlfriend.
Alison walked back down into the room and crouched down next to Emily and put a supportive hand onto her shoulder.
"Em if we don't get going now we are gonna be stuck here and we will probably die. We can't let that happen. We are going to go over to New York and we are going to tell the police what happened and they are going to come and get Paige and they will find out who done this to her and that person is going to get what they deserve just as Paige is going to get the memorial she deserves, okay?" Emily still wouldn't take her eyes off of Paige and the tears started to fall again but she nodded in acceptance to what Alison had proposed.
"Okay, now let's move Paige over to the corner of the room alright, we don't want to just leave her lying in the middle of the floor." The two girls picked up the corpse and put it in the back corner, underneath the creepy portraits of them all. Alison took Emily's hand in her own before walking her out into the hallway.
"I'm sorry about what I said to Paige, I really didn't mean it I was just mad about what was happening. I feel unbelievably bad. You know I don't really think those things don't you?" Emily nodded and put her head onto Alison's shoulder as they walked down the hallway and out the front door to meet with the rest of the group outside.
When they finally all met up together the two girls could sense some tension within the other seven.
"What is it?" Alison asked carefully. None of them answered, or even looked at her for a few moments before Toby finally did.
"All the boats are off due to dangerous weather forecasts. No more boats till Monday."
"So you mean we are stuck on this island all weekend?" Emily asked, quivering into Alison a little.
"Don't forget without any phones." Hanna added, groaning, unsure whether in annoyance, anger or fear.
Someone's master plan was off to a great start and there was no stopping it now…
Now that someone is dead I'd love to hear more theories on who you think the criminal mastermind behind this whole plan is! Like I said in previous chapters, I know who it is going to be and in each chapter I am going to be dropping subtle hints on who it is, including in this chapter, so keep an eye out for them! So please leave a review telling me what you thought of this chapter, what I could do to make it better and your theories on who the killer is!
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