I'm soooooooo sorry for the long update, omg. I just. I'm tired all the freaking time, and I can't write when i'm tired. Plus all my homework, and school, and I haven't been in a good mood lately, like in the past week, because of things, and just I'm sorry. I hope you'll understand that sometimes life gets in the way. Plus my hands really hurt? Like i don't know whats happening. But I'm so sorry!

Thank you so much for the reviews though. The long ones especially, I hope I don't disappoint.

Secrets Revealed

"Wait, Aria… What?" Spencer asked in utter shock. Poem writing, hopeless romantic; Ezra Fitz, had an N.A.T. video"? No, Aria had to be wrong. Then again, everyone has a dark side.

Aria gulped, staring at her friend with big unblinking eyes. She wanted to tell her, she was going to tell her, but she didn't want her to freak out. She didn't want her to hate Ezra, or not trust him. Knowing Spencer, she would. Perhaps, by telling Spencer this, it will be the final straw on their friendship, but Aria already knew that. She knew the risk, and knew how Spencer would react. She knew her so well. "It was a N.A.T. video," Aria restated, licking her dry lips. Spencer was just staring at her, more or less, glaring, she wanted her to continue. So she did, "I didn't know what to do. I was mad—confused, I didn't understand what was going on. So I called, and texted Ezra, practically screaming into my phone—and at that point I totally forgot about Hanna. Anyways, he didn't pick up or text me back, or anything. So, I got impatient, and I watched it." She gulped, letting her eyes fall to her shaky fingers picking at her socks. "And the videos—they were off Ali, and us. And—Toby and Jenna, and everything that we saw on the one Mona or whoever handed us." She was almost afraid to look up. She could already see Spencer's face, disgust, and confusion, her eyebrows knitted, and her lips pursing. "And a few videos of Ian, Jason, and Garret on them..." She added in a mumble.

"Aria, what the hell." Spencer said after a pause, her voice cold, and bitter. Aria finally looked up in shame, her face resembling a puppy dog's who just peed on the carpet. Just as she imagined, Spencer was staring at her in total disgust. It made her feel even worse.

"There's more." She forced herself to say. When he finally came back, I was just in some trance. I was just starring at the TV, and I didn't even know what to say!" She said in distraught. "I made him tell me everything." She told her calmly.

"And that is?" Spencer asked after a pause.

Hanna woke up in a hospital, great, another hospital. Wait, she was in a hospital. She was alive, and in a hospital. She somehow survived, she glanced around, and there was Spender sleeping beside her, "Spencer," Hanna spoke more loudly as she could, she felt very weak, like that one word was an entire performance of some belching out show tune. "Spencer," Hanna repeated, moving her hand up, the I.V. cords following her every move, so she pat her friend on the shoulder.

Spencer mumbled "No, hold on."

"Spencer!" Hanna said again with as much strength as she could.

Spencer fluttered her eyes open, drowsily looking around the dark room, her eyes fell on Hanna, and after a second, she realized Hanna was awake. "Hanna!" Spencer exclaimed, an instant smile forming on her lips. She was quick to hug the blond, and with all the strength she had, the blond gave a weak hug back. "I'm so happy you're okay!" Spencer said, almost tearing up from her joy.

"Where's Alison? What happened?" Hanna asked. "Where is everyone? Are they okay?"

Aria swallowed hardly, now or never, "He was on the N.A.T club for awhile, I guess Jason's parents wanted him to take some extra courses at Hollis, and Ezra was in one of them. I guess they became friends, and after a few parties, they became close enough, that Jason invited Ezra to join their little club. He was only in it for awhile, he decided that it was too much, and I guess he tried to leave, but Ian didn't trust him enough or something. Then Ali disappeared, and well…"She gulped. "Things got worse. The club sort of fell apart, at least that's what Ian wanted everyone to think."

"What does that mean?" Spencer asked narrowing her eyes on her friend.

"Apparently, Ian was working for the A team. He would video tape Alison-and us-then give it to whomever wanted it. Ezra didn't know about any of this, Ian was always selling the videos, under the table." Talking about this made her cringe, it was so gross. They were still only children. "Anyway, after Ali went missing, so we thought anyways, his business continued with the A team. He would video record us-well you guys since I was in Iceland-then hand it all over to the A team. Jason was gone, but Ian recruited Garret-and Ezra." She let out a deep breath. "He needed money to pay for his apartment, and everything." She quietly told her friend, looking timidly up at her friend through her thick eyelashes. "So ,he helped them. After awhile, he stopped though, and he kept the video for insurance. If they ever Got caught for all their sick little home movies, than Ian would be going down too, he feared Ian would try to blame him for all of it, and yeah." She said letting out a heavy sigh. She wished thats where the story ended, but there was so much more.

"So he knew who you were when he hit on you? I mean he had to..." Spencer said almost sympathetically. Aria has always been huge on fate, saying how they met was such an important moment, and if it hadn't happened she would just be another student. Spencer on the other hand refused to believe in fate, you made your own choices, and you can't blame 'fate' for what happens to you. You decide whom to let inside, and trust; fate doesn't make your choices.

"Yes I guess. He was drinking though, and he hadn't seen my face in a long time, he told me that I looked familiar to him, and thats why he stroked up a conversation in the first place. But, then he put the pieces together when he saw us all in class." She said in an almost mumble. She knew Spencer was judging her, and it made her whole relationship with Ezra seem wrong, and maybe it was on some levels, but she didn't really care, when she was with him it felt nothing but, right.

It was silent between the two for a long time. Spencer didn't know what to say, she didn't even know what to feel. Jason was part of the N.A.T. club but, now he's a big part of her family, and her life. People make mistakes, but its hard to determine which ones are forgivable.

"Spencer," Aria broke the silence, awaking Spencer out of her trance. Spencer peered at her tiny friend, her brown eyes still flustered with all the news. "there's more," Aria admitted meekly.

"More!?" Spencer rose her eyebrows, "how many skeletons can you stuff into one closet? My god." Spencer said in frustration, shaking her head away, and pinching the bridge of her noise.

Aria bit her lip, and let her eyes trail down, her head slightly bobbing. It was a lot to take in, and she wasn't expecting any sympathy. "Well, what is it?" Spencer more or less demanded, rubbing her tired eyes, as she picked her head to stare at her friend.

"The police caught her. They got to your house as soon as they heard some one screaming and not replying to their questions. You lost a lot of blood, so you should probably rest." Spencer said with an uneasiness.

"No, Spencer." Hanna said as firmly as she could. "What else happened? Did I miss another week of my life?"

"No, it's only been about six hours." Spencer shook her head softly. "They arrested Alison, and Alison didn't think twice about pulling Mona under the bus with her. You went to the hospital, and they called the rest of us in for questioning. My parents told them that I was um, pregnant, so they told me to go home, and get some rest, and I can come by in the morning."

"And of course you don't follow the rules." Hanna smiled a little, even in horrifying situations like this, she would be cracking jokes.

"I had to see you were okay." Spencer admitted, a hint of a smile smile mirroring Hanna's.

"Are my mom and Caleb down there too?" Hanna asked shyly.

"Caleb is. Your mom was called down there, but she had to fill out some forms here and she wanted to make sure you were okay, so she came here first. She left for the police station right before I dozed off." Spencer told her friend.

Hanna let out a sigh of relief, so everyone was okay. It was all over. "So, everyone's okay?"

"Yeah, every one is okay." Spencer nodded a little.

"And it's over?" Hanna asked timidly.

"I think so," Spencer said softly, a small smile quirking up on her face.

"So it was Alison all along," Hanna said, her voice small, and indifferent.

"Yeah." Spencer replied in a monotone, her eyes far away.

"Okay," Aria's voice trailed with anxiety. "When you, when you thought Jason was dangerous, and you told Ezra, well he knew all about the N.A.T. and everything," she said. "So, he talked to Jason alone, he threatened him to stay away from me, it wasn't only out of jealousy, he thought the people hurting us was them." She grimaced. "After Jason told him that he was no longer in the N.A.T. club, Ezra wanted other answers, so he began to look for them." Aria sighed, biting her lip, more or less chomping on it. At this rate it was going to fall off before she even finished...maybe Spencer would be a little more sympathetic if that happened.

Spencer knew this was going, began to look for them, all the loose ends tied back to the same place: 'A' or the 'A team' since the number of members seems to keep adding up. Her jaw dropped as she put the final piece of the puzzle together. "Ezra was on the A team?"

Aria wouldn't look at her. She just couldn't. But, the softness in her voice was vivid, even if it was hidden by all the coldness and bitterness covering it. Spencer hated being lied too, and Aria couldn't blame her. She hated it too. They had a lot of things in common, and the feeling of anger when being lied to, was one of them. "Just listen," She quietly begged, nor confirming or denying if Spencer's statement was true. "I guess Mona found him, and told him that I would be safe if he listened to her directions." She inhaled a little before rushing out the next part, "He was the one who unscrewed the bolts on the scaffolding, and sent Melissa the black swan costume to wear." She rushed out, peering up with one eye at Spencer, as if she was a little child, and Spencer was a scary movie.

"What?" Spencer breathed staring at her in shock. It's not like Spencer could be so upset, all the things Toby had done, he deserved it, hell he even almost killed Caleb's mother, but yet she felt sort of defensive. She felt the need to blame Ezra for everything that happened to her and Toby, but she knew it wasn't his fault, hell it wasn't even Mona or Alison's or Lucas' or Jenna's, their relationship was doomed from the start.

"That's not the worst part," Aria grimaced, squeezing her eyes shut at the horribleness of it all. Spencer stayed quiet, and waited. She was too much in shock to say anything after everything Aria has told her. "Mona told him he just had to do one more thing, and I would be safe, and he would be done with them all." She heaved a breath, peal off the band-aid, right? "He was the one to follow Hanna and Lucas out of Rosewood and drive them off the road." Aria rushed out, talking so fast that she didn't know if she would have to repeat her self.

Spencer's eyes bulged, and her heart dropped at the statement. For years, she blamed Alison, or Mona for the accident. She despised them more than anything, more than Toby, for it. Hearing Aria say those things, it was surreal. It was like a really vivid dream, but with crazy hallucinations. The hate she held for Mona, for Alison, for Jenna, for Toby, it all transferred to Ezra in that moment. She let her child alone with that monster, the horrifying possibilities that could have happened flooded into her brain, and she felt like she was going to hurl. She sat motionlessly, her eyes open but, focused on nothing. What seemed like ten minutes passed before even a murmur came out of her mouth. "Aria, what the fuck. What is wrong with you." She said, her nostrils flaring, standing up so abruptly from the couch that she felt dizzy. "How are you with that, that, that monster!"

"Spencer," She sighed, her lips curving into a frown. "Please just," She sighed. What was she asking?

"How could you be with someone who did that to our best friend Aria, please tell me that. Explain, because i'm not comprehending this all." She said moving her hands around to gesture to the fiasco.

"I was mad alright!" She stood up quickly, her words a little more harsher than she anticipated. "Its not like I just said, 'Oh awesome, you did that to Hanna? Wow, I love you even more now Ezra'" She said mimicking Ezra's voice as she talked. "I was mad, and it took me forever to forgive him, he's never done anything that suggests he's a psychopath, he was just trying to protect me."

"And I guess that's all that matters." She shook her head at her friend, or maybe ex-friend. "You, that's all you think of." Spencer said sharply, glaring at Aria with the look of death. "You're so selfish," She spat in disgust, as she stomped away from her to grab her jacket.

"Spencer, Spencer," Aria whined following her around. "Spencer, listen." She begged, but what else could she tell her? Everything she was saying was true... "Spencer, I'm sorry. Spencer, where are you going?" She questioned helplessly, as she watched her friend reach for the doorknob.

She didn't tell her where though, all she said was "You better not be here when I get back," and Spencer slammed the door shut before she could even hear Aria's helpless "But, your my ride..."

Um so the whole flash back thing isn't over. Like there will be more Alison explaining stuff, but Hanna's in the hospital, and Spencer's preggos, so like they can't be up all night with all this shit. You know? Any way leave a review maybe ? :) I know I said Noah would be in this chapter, but i'm a big fat liar, things don't always work out the way i see them. Sorry this was short :( but still leave a review pleassssssssssssseeeeee and thank you. hehe.

ps. Thank you for the reviews. xx Cat.