A/N: One of my favorite chapters - Truth day! I wished it happened like this in the show... Oh well, here you guys go! (Again, sorry for the errors).

Mike did pass on Jason's message to Aria when she woke up. She was a bit surprised that Mike was telling her and Jason had to leave again, but was glad that it all wasn't left with a message on the answering machine.

Emily's ASAP – Spencer texted her. Skipping dinner, Aria got up from the couch and went to refresh her look.

"I'll be back later Mike," she called to him from the kitchen. He called back with a 'see ya' and she left quickly. Approaching the Fields house, she opened the door and walked in. Going up the stairs, she heard her friends' voices and some crying.

"What's going on?" Aria asked opening the door wider.

"You didn't hear?" Spencer asked as the two of them held onto Emily.

"No," Aria said setting down her things and hugging onto her friend too.

"Maya was declared missing," Emily sniffled. A jolt of surprise shook her and she held her friend with stiff arms. "When did this happen?"

"She was declared missing this afternoon," Spencer told her.

"How?" Aria asked looking to Emily who was curled in a ball around them. "I thought she was in California with family."

"I don't know," Emily cried. "The last email I got from her was saying she didn't want to come back but then when I talked to her parents the other day, they said she was coming home. I guess she never showed."

"Do we know if 'A' had something to do with this?" Hanna wondered.

"Not a good time to bring that up," Spencer grumbled as Emily crumbled even more.

"Its okay," Aria said clearly distraught too. "It will be okay."

The week was a hard one and didn't seem to get any better. The news of Maya missing had Rosewood digging up information about Ali and the girls didn't want to deal with it. It made Emily a wreck and set the rest of them on edge. The Fields girl was barely getting through the days and looked horrible. It didn't help either that Maya's parents decided they couldn't deal with everything in Rosewood and moved away. They also told Emily to stay away for a while since she reminded them of their daughter. It was like a slap to the face and it wasn't until the girls came together and helped their friend try and move on that Emily showed improvement.

911 – Hanna texted.

Curious to what it was about, especially lat at night, Aria took a break from her attempt on homework and went to get changed out of her sweats.

"Mom, I'm heading to Hanna's for a little while. Did you need anything?"

"Nope, your brother and I were thinking of bringing home some Lucky Leon's baked goods though. Are you going to be home to eat them with us?"

"Yea," she smiled while grabbing her purse. Kissing her mom before she made her way out, she waved goodbye to Mike and went to the Marin's.

"Wait, back up," Aria commanded as Hanna went through her story. "Caleb knows what exactly."

"A lot more than what we originally thought," Spencer stated.

"I didn't know he would catch on that much," Hanna said exasperated. "Its not like I want him to get hurt you guys. He's just been on this rampage because he thinks someone's hurt me."

"And you couldn't set him straight?" Emily asked with appall. Her emotions hadn't been the greatest these past few days but the girls trudged through it anyways.

"By saying what?" Hanna snapped back, "that I'm not getting stalked or blackmailed by someone? That the evidence 'A' gave to Mona isn't going to put my mom in jail even though it will?"

The girls sighed. During the long weekend, 'A' had started bringing other people into her game like Mona. It was a real problem, especially since 'A' seemed to have unfinished business with the Marin's.

"It doesn't help that Jenna and Garrett went public with their relationship. Ever since we dangled that bone in front of him he's been glaring at the two of them non stop."

"What did you just say?" Spencer asked Hanna.

"You guys didn't know? Jenna and Garrett went public with their relationship last night. Looks like we lost whatever dirt we had on them."

"Great," Emily sighed weakly.

"Just what we need," Aria groaned.

"So what am I supposed to do?" Hanna said completely freaking out in the middle of her kitchen.

"First, take a breath," Aria instructed.

"Maybe if we keep steering Caleb away from Jenna and Garrett he'll cool off a bit and stop poking around."

"We just need to watch him a lot more carefully than before," Aria noted.

"Until we simmer him down, he needs to be put on a leash," Spencer commented.

"We just keep him away from Jenna. Garrett wont be a problem in school," Emily said tiredly.

"And as for his computer, he needs to stop with all his techno stuff. If he keeps digging around Aria's bugged phone and all that stuff we could be in some serious trouble with 'A'," Spencer added.

"Right got it," Hanna said trying to process it all.

"Don't worry Han, we'll help you," Aria noted. Giving her a small smile, the girls talked a while later before going home again.

Caleb seemed to be catching on too quickly and it was trouble for the girls. He already knew they were suspicious of Jenna and Garrett for Ian's murder and some other things. Alongside that, he helped fix Aria's phone and knew there was something more to that, which was making him dig deeper. It led him to drawing the right conclusions and putting together that the sabotage with Aria's phone had a lot to do with her crumbled relationship with Jason. Lets also not forget he's been observant with Hanna and her phone too. He takes in the tiniest detail and can pick up pretty well on when she is hiding something or possibly lying.

The girls all knew he was getting too close to solving the puzzle, and when things like that happen, 'A' gets upset and then you end up like Hanna did- run over and hit by a car. So what were they going to do? Caleb seemed to be on a personal vendetta to call Jenna out and they all knew it was not going to end well…

By the next week, Emily was doing a lot better while Hanna was not. Emily had gotten a grip on herself with the extra time she had for the weekend. Her and her mom talked, having a heart to heart and it seemed to really help Emily's emotions. She was no longer changing from mood to mood or ready to bite someone's head off, and she was dealing with the Maya situation, moving forward from it. The only thing Emily seemed to be worried about was if 'A' was involved, but there was no evidence of that yet. Hanna seemed to be having a bit more trouble. Keeping Caleb away from Jenna and Garrett was harder than she thought and she had to reel in her friends for help numerous times. He seemed to be set on getting to the two of them and 'saving' Hanna. He also began picking up on her lies or slips of a story. It was not looking good.

And as truth day came along, the girls couldn't have dreaded it more. Even though it was a Friday, it felt like a Monday. The students of Rosewood High were supposed to attend this event with a mandatory sentence and parents were still wanted.

"Its so pointless to sleep at school," Spencer stated.

"And gross," Hanna said with a disgusted look on her face.

"At least its only for a night," Emily added.

"What could go wrong in one night?" Aria grumbled while picking at her food.

"Aria! Way to jinx us," Hanna explained.

"I was being sarcastic anyways," Aria claimed. "I mean come on, with 'A' hanging around and we being confined into school? Something is bound to happen."

"Awesome," Spencer said pushing away her food and sitting back in her seat. Folding her arms over each other she hated to admit that Aria was right. They were even bigger and easier targets in school.

"I just want this to be over with," Hanna sighed pushing her food back too.

"We all do," Emily said with a sigh of her own as she picked at her salad.

The school day wrapped up too fast and before the girls knew it, their parents were arriving at the building to volunteer and the girls had their sleeping bags, pillows, and other things in hand. They each picked a line, standing there waiting to be registered in when Mr. Tamboreli each directed them in different spots. Groaning even more, each girl stood there and waited.

"Guess who has a tournament next Friday?" Holden asked sneaking up behind Aria.

"Oh yea?" she turned over her shoulder to question. Shining with a smile, the two talked while waiting in line.

"It should be pretty easy but I thought if you were still in to be my cover and were free…"

"I'll be there," she nodded.

"Yea?" he asked with a grin of his own. Stepping up in line, Mr. Tamboreli came up to them and moved Holden to a different line. "I'll see you then," he called to her.

Blushing to herself, Aria bowed her head and continued to grin.

Where are you guys? – Hanna wondered.

History room – Aria texted back. Sighing, she continued to sit there with her legs crossed in her new high heels her mom bought her for her recovery and waited for any familiar face.

"Thank god," she muttered to herself when she saw Caleb walk in.

"Were you just as panicked as I was when I didn't see anyone I really knew here?" he asked as he pulled up a chair next to her.

"You have no idea," she whispered back playing with her phone in her hands. Caleb looked down at it and stared for a while.

"So are you or Hanna ever going to tell me the whole truth?" he wondered, "or do I have to wait for today." Aria glanced at him and was unsure what to say. "Maybe I should try a different friend this time and see if I can get a different answer. Spencer maybe? Actually, I think Emily may be easier."

"You're mad," she claimed turning to face him.

"I'm frustrated," he fixed, "and I'm worried – for Hanna."

Aria went quiet again. It was understandable. But then again, the more he got angry, worried and/ or frustrated, the more it put the girls and Hanna in trouble.

"You know this day is so stupid," Aria claimed in the silence.

"No one tells the truth anymore," he added, no longer feeling the hot anger he just expressed as he agreed with Aria.

Waiting for the time to begin, Aria checked and responded to a few more text messages on her phone and slouched in her chair. When was this going to begin? Glancing up at the doorway, in walked Mrs. Hastings and…Jason?

"You've got to be kidding me," Aria muttered to herself. Caleb glanced at her and the man staring at her. "Still separated or something?"

"Yea, something like that," she replied as she continued to stare at him. Jason was modeling a fresh new haircut, a nice light blue button up with a dark navy tee under it. He looked great – handsome is what Aria was thinking, but she didn't want to voice that. Giving her a small smile, Jason walked to the table and started setting out some cards.

"Maybe we will be getting something out of this night after all," Caleb stated as she crossed his arms. Looking for the person to catch his eye, Aria saw Jenna come in and sit down.

Great she moaned in her head as she slouched further in her chair. What was she going to do about this?

Big problem – Aria texted to her friends, Jenna in my room with Caleb. What should I do?

Don't let him do anything stupid – Spencer replied.

Please don't let him get himself into trouble Aria – Hanna immediately sent.

Be careful. Make sure he doesn't say anything that could tempt Jenna into something bad – Emily warned.

Not feeling any better about her friends' text messages, Aria went to stand up and leave. "I can't do this."

"I don't think you have a choice," Caleb claimed as he moved to stop her. He was right unfortunately and before she could even register it herself, he had her sitting back in her seat. "Besides, this might be better than we thought."

Internally groaning again, Aria glanced to Caleb and wished she wasn't here.

"Okay, I think we are ready to begin," Mrs. Hastings said coming to the front of the room. "For all of you that don't know me, my name is Mrs. Hastings. Over here is Jason," she said pointing to the male beside her.

Aria had a hard time keeping her head down since most of the time she sat there Jason seemed to be staring at her. Even if she wasn't looking, she could feel him looking at her and it slightly bothered Aria.

"We are going to be passing around pieces of paper and you all will write anything you feel like you need to get off your chest," Mrs. Hastings instructed. Before she could get any further, Aria's phone beeped which startled the whole class.

"Aria," Mrs. Hastings disproved.

"Sorry," Aria said as everyone turned to look at her. Quickly glancing at the unknown text, she went pale. Hush little Caleb don't say a word or poor Hanna will have to find another computer nerd – A

Snapping her phone closed, Aria made sure the power was off and wrapped her arms around herself. If the two of them could get through this night, she would be the happiest girl alive.

"You know he hasn't stopped staring at you since he walked in the room," Caleb muttered to her as they were starting to conclude to a break.

"I know," she claimed as she reached for her purse near the side of her chair. "Hanna is in the Chem lab if you want to go find her."

"Thanks," he murmured before getting up, giving a longing glare to the blind Jenna and walked out of the room to go find his girlfriend.

She had just survived part one to the whole 'truth day' thing. Besides their break now, they had about another hour of talking after this and then they could rest again before the concluding 'truth day' activity for the night. Aria couldn't wait. Caleb had put her so far on edge for the two hours, not to mention Jason too. Caleb had outspoken after Jenna took a fit about not wanting to write something down on the piece of paper. She was offered help, but Jenna didn't seem to want it. Of course, this fueled Caleb and he smart mouthed her. Not a good idea in Aria's book.

"Aria," Jason claimed, sliding in between her and the doorway before she could leave the room. There were only a few people left, Mrs. Hastings not included. She had left to go get tape to hang up the papers that the students had anonymously written in invisible ink.

"Jason," she said waiting for him to move out of the way.

"Can we talk?" he asked her. Moving out of the way for some students he continued to look at her.

"Jason are you – oh," Mrs. Hastings said, coming in on the two of them. "I can come back if you two need more time."

"No," Aria quickly answered, "I was just leaving."

Nodding, Mrs. Hastings watched as Jason sullenly let her go past him. "She'll come around," she noted in a motherly tone. "Just keep working on her."

"Thanks," he murmured, watching Aria walk out of sight before helping the adult with the pieces of paper.

Aria ended up in a place where she never thought she would really be. Accidently coming into the music room was something she didn't really plan, but was glad on doing. Sitting on a stool, she picked up a guitar and strummed it. She closed her eyes enjoying the sound. It was way better turned than she had at home and was a decent size too. [Aly and & AJ – No One]

"I am moving through the crowd
Trying to find myself
Feel like a guitar that's never played
Will someone strum away?"

Plucking at the strings a little harder, she continued her song. "And I ask myself
Who do I wanna be?
Do I wanna throw away the key?
and invent a whole new me
and I tell myself
No One, No One
Don't wanna be
No One
But me..

You are moving through the crowd
Trying to find yourself
Feelin' like a doll left on a shelf
Will someone take you down?And you ask yourself
Who do I wanna be?
Do I wanna throw away the key?
and invent a whole new me
Gotta tell yourself
No One, No One
Don't wanna be
No One
But me..

Your life plays out on the shadows of the wall
You turn the light on to erase it all
You wonder what it's like to not feel worthless
So open all the blinds and all the curtains

No One, No One
Don't wanna be
No One
But me..

We are moving through the crowd..." Aria placed a few more notes on the guitar.

"Wow," Spencer stated when she finished. The three friends and Caleb were crowded in the front of the room listening to her with opened mouths.

"When did you start playing?" Emily wondered.

"Or sing?" Hanna asked incredulous. "Why didn't you tell us you could sing?"

Feeling completely exposed and uncomfortable, Aria shifted on the stool and shrugged. "Never really came up I guess."

"Never came up?" Spencer asked with her arms crossed, "is that the story you really want to stick with?"

Biting her lip, Aria glanced at the doorway and surprisingly found Jason.

"We'll give you some time," Emily supplied, dragging her friends away.

"You're not getting away with that excuse," Spencer declared as she was drawn out of the room. After they left, silence set in between the pair. Aria was a bit curious to how Jason found her, but then again, her friends found her too.

"Still as good as I remember," he stated as he moved away from the doorway and to her. "New song?"

"Yea," she stated softly as she put down the guitar.

"So we haven't really had a chance to talk," he claimed.

"How was your business trip?" she wondered, trying not to get too personal.

Getting what she was doing, he answered but it was more hesitant like he didn't want to talk about this in particular. "It was good. Not too eventful."

"What did you have to go for?" she spoke up again.

"There is a large buyer looking into a piece of real estate and he wanted me there."

"You look like you got a nice tan," she added getting up from her seat.

"Yea it was in California but wait, Aria," he called as she went to walk off. "We seriously should talk."

"About what," she sighed before spinning around.

"Us," he stated like it was the obvious. Aria went hushed and folded her arms over each other. "Every time I want to talk about it, I feel like you're trying to run away from me," he claimed.

Not getting an answer from her, or even a glance for that matter, he walked over to her, but kept a distance so she wouldn't feel like she had to run away. "Why does this seem so uncomfortable for you?"

She wanted to say something, anything really, but she wasn't sure what to say. She wasn't even sure what she was feeling anymore. She loved Jason – she knew it in her head and her soul. Everything she felt for him was running from the top of her head down to the tips of her toes. So then why was she being like this?

She couldn't trust him that's for one. She still can't – or maybe she can. Aria felt completely turned around in circles. Then there was the fact that he still could be in association with 'A'. She didn't think it was true but then again, she was thinking she just didn't want to see that he possibly could. Of course a ton of things didn't add up, but there were a few open-ended things – the hockey stick for one.

"Fine, if you don't want to talk I will," he said stepping forth. Aria hesitated when it came to his distance. He was kind of like the light for a fly. She felt drawn to him even though she knew she was going to get burned.

"I didn't tell you about Spencer because I wasn't sure if you were ready to hear it," he stated. "And truthfully, I don't know if I was ready to admit it."

"You and your mom went around town tracking down the Hastings and talking to them about it. I highly doubt that was the case," she said thinking she just caught him in a lie.

"No, you saw my mom and Mr. Hastings always talking," he reported, "but the times I spoke to the Hastings wasn't for brotherly reasons. Most of the time it was about property line issues."

"Nothing else?" she wondered.

"I did confront him once about his family," Jason said taking another careful step towards her. "At times, I had a hard time dealing with my life. When I went to him one day, I wanted him to tell his wife and family. I thought that the secret should be out, but he shut me down. He told me it would never happen, so I got mad and left. And then the next day, after thinking about it again, I was glad that he didn't want to tell his family. What they had was an actual family and I was unsure if I wanted to break that up."

Running a hand through his hair like he usually did, he glanced up to Aria. "Sometimes the truth hurts more than it sets you free. And with this secret I was battling my inner self so much that I couldn't see clear."

Aria knew exactly what he meant when she applied it to herself and her relationship with Jason. Lately she had been taking on both sides of her thoughts and it led her nowhere. "So why did you finally decide to tell Spencer?"

"I didn't," he said now finally coming close enough to touch her. "She figured it out herself."

Aria gave a small laugh to that. It was a Hastings trait, she should have guessed.

"She confronted me and told me she knew. I guess Mr. Hastings did end up telling the Mrs. and then she figured it all out from there. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you," he murmured as he bowed his head to try and get her to look at him.

Finally after a few moments, Aria got enough confidence to look at him. Watching carefully, she observed as he put his hands on her upper arms. "I would never try to hurt you – or us," he said. "I love you and I would never want to lose you."

Lost in where this was going, Aria took a step back and bowed her head to the floor. Say 'I love you too'! the voice screamed in her head.

"Aria, come on," Caleb said sticking his head in through the doorway and interrupting the moment. Glancing to Jason, she backed up and walked off with Caleb back to the truth day session.

There was a blue light over all the pieces of paper that were hung up. Many of them were things about drugs, loosing their virginity or drinking, but there were a few that stuck out. One in particular was from 'A' and that had Aria nearly ready to flip out from the room.

So many secrets, so little time – A

Jason walked back in the room, chatting with Mrs. Hastings while all the students looked them over. Of course, 'A's comment was pretty much overlooked since this was all anonymous, but to Aria, this was huge. Could she now conclude that Jenna was 'A'? Or did someone maybe slip this into the pile or hang this up themselves?

Going through another long session of lecturing and how important it is to try and start telling the truth, everyone was dismissed again. Caleb ended up going his own way this time and Aria went straight for her friends.

"You wont believe what I saw," she said to them in a huddle. Giving them the full story, all the girls were once again shocked.

"So 'A' has to be Jenna then," Spencer said.

"I don't know, like Aria said, someone could have gone in there and taped that up," Emily spoke.

"You guys," Hanna said now starting to look all around, "where is Caleb?"

Puzzled, all four of them began looking around. "Jenna isn't around here either," Aria stated.

"Perfect," Hanna snapped.

"Split up and look for him. Aria, turn on your phone," Spencer instructed before they all broke up and went to search for him.

Aria searched the music room, the History room and was looking in the cafeteria where the school had cleared for the students to sleep. Finding him nowhere, she went to go check up on the roof. Apparently Hanna and Caleb spent some time up there while on their last break.

Aria put a brick between the door's opening and began shouting for Caleb. It was quite windy up there with the plastic sheets flying all around making noise.

"Caleb!" she called into the open space. Leaving the doorway, Aria checked a few corners before hearing something. "Caleb?"

The wind blew in her ears, along with the flapping plastic and shivers were starting to roll down her spine. Something wasn't right now. Hurrying back to the door, she saw that the brick was missing and it was shut. Tugging on the handle, nothing seemed to budge and Aria was panicking. She began calling for help but it wasn't like anyone would be able to hear her.

There was an odd sound coming from somewhere behind her and it made Aria scurry for some different grounds. Looking all around, Aria found a ladder to the higher part of the roof. Running over to it, she began climbing. Suddenly, a hand wrapped around her ankle and started tugging.

"Ah! Get off!" Aria screamed. Looking down, she found Noel, who was tugging on her hard. "Get away from me!"

"Where's your pal Caleb?" He asked her as he kept trying to pull her down. Aria was holding onto the sides of the ladder for dear life, feeling her start to slip as he continued to pull.

"Let go!" she called again. There was a loud thud and then the pressure on Aria's ankle vanished. Securing herself, she looked down and found Noel on the ground with Holden standing in a fighting stance.

"Aria, come on down," Holden instructed as he watched Noel groan on the ground. Holden had kicked the back of his knee, probably injuring him pretty badly.

"What the hell is wrong with you? I wasn't attacking her you idiot," Noel snapped as he was panting in pain on the floor.

"Sure looked like it to me," Holden stated as he guided Aria back to the stairwell and kicked the brick form the door so Noel was now trapped up there.

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