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Hanna awoke to her cell phone going off. "Like mother like daughter what is with you Marin's and detectives. You kiss I tell" -A
She sighed loudly and noticed it was about 6 am perfect time for a run. She texted Spencer to see if she was in the mood to run today. Hanna dressed in her sports bra, tank top and her running capris. She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and ran the block over to Spencer's house.
"Morning Hanna!" Spencer greeted tying her shoes. "Mind if Wren joins us?" Spencer questioned noticing Hanna's face which looked like she saw a ghost, and she had come to learn that face was almost always something to do with an A message. "Another A text?
Hanna sighed and showed Spencer the message. "Ooh is someone flirting with the hot new detective?" Spencer teased. "Don't worry about it. Besides you graduate soon enough and be in college all that you have to do is wait five months, and then detective hottie can be all yours."
Hanna sighed deeply thinking about last night with Gabriel. She shouldn't feel that way with a 24 year old. "Sure your boyfriend can join us, and yes I do like Gabe." She said seeing Wren tie his shoes. "Speak of the devil." She teased nudging the British guy with her shoulder. She loved Spencer's boyfriend in a sweet sisterly way. Wren was perfect for Spencer they were so much alike, yet so different.
Spencer crossed her arms. "I'm dating a 23 year old on his last stretch of med school I haven't gotten any hell from it. My parents even support us something about him being good for me and making my studies improve. So what if he's a cop, he didn't seem like dirty besides he seems like he is generally concerned about everything that has happened in this town." She said watching her boyfriend tie his sneakers admiring his butt in his running shorts. She was so happy the day she met him in a small little coffee shop. He was perfect and dreamy and everything she could have wanted.
Wren laughed in his British accent. "Boy trouble Hanna?" He questioned running down the Hastings driveway as the girls followed. "I feel like a teenage girl with all the drama between you four."
"What else would I be having, since Caleb left me for Ravenswood, I have been depressed and now the new detective is hot and flirty and smart and charming and well I just want to date him, but I can't because he's a cop and I'm still in high school? It's not like you and Spencer you're in college he's out of it and a big time detective trying to find out who killed Wilden and I am sure my mom and I are suspects." She rambled on. "Oh and my mom's kind of mad at me for not choosing fashion but instead criminology and psychology."
Spencer stopped in her tracks. "Hold up did you just tell me you want to be a cop!" She declared looking at her best friend like she had just quoted the theory of relativity.
"Yes I did it's something I've been thinking for a while. I feel like with Ali my heart is leading me to catch the baddies who want to her innocent people like her. She might have been awful at times but that still doesn't mean she should be dead. Besides someone has to protect people for jackasses like Wilden and Garrett." Hanna said still thinking about Ali and just how much damaged those two cops had caused.
Spencer and Wren ran beside her listening to her reasoning for her career. Spencer had told Wren everything leaving nothing out and he made an excellent ally. "Well I think it's very noble of you Hanna, police work is a very valuable profession." Wren commented in that delicious British accent of his.
"I have to agree with my boyfriend. You'll make a great detective someday lord knows A has prepared you." She whispered she stull hadn't told Wren about the A thing and they had been dating for about a year. "Besides I thing it suits you better than fashion. There is always going to be some idiot who needs to be arrested. Besides what can fashion really do it's more of a hobby of ours. Did I tell you I got into UPenn's science program? I plan of following Wren in the ways of medicine. I was thinking law school but I really don't want to be like my parents, law school seems boring. Besides I'm not my parents." Spencer admitted glad that Hanna had finally decided about her future.
Hanna smiled at Spencer's and Wren's words of encouragement. "I applied to Princeton. I just don't know how to tell the others and my mother. Oh and Holbrook wants to see us all after school." She finished running passed the police station.
"Well okay then anything for you Hanna, besides who wouldn't like to get questioned by him the only thing that would make it better is if he had a British accent."
"Really Spence! Not funny." Wren declared running beside her. "I think you'll be a great police officer."
"Thanks guys I'm glad you're on my side about this. I'm in the mood for a donut and coffee and a shower." Hanna admitted they had been running for about 15 minutes and she was getting tired.
"Okay let's head back to the Brew and get us coffee and muffins. Already craving the police stereotype food?" Spencer joked grabbing Wren's hand as the three walked to the brew.
"Nothing beats the smell of coffee in the morning." Wren teased holding the door open to the little coffee shop. "After you ladies."
Gabe was sitting on a couch munching on a chocolate covered donut and sipping a coffee. Hanna spotted him and laughed. "Talk about a police stereotype." She giggled sitting next to him.
"I know it is a stereotype it also doesn't help that I have a file in my hand. You look like you went for a run in the desert. I need to get back into running and find a gym. He teased noticing the workout clothing and the slight pant to her voice. He really needed to hit the gym after work or go for a run.
"Actually a run with Spencer and her boyfriend. Maybe you could join us tomorrow or something." She said as Spencer handed Hanna her coffee and a chocolate chip muffin. "I normally try to run twice a week and fill in the rest with yoga or something." She said taking a long sip of her coffee.
"Morning Spencer and that sounds like a good idea I do need a new workout partner, now if you will excuse me I have to get to work. See you all after school." He said getting up from the couch with a final wink to Hanna.
Hanna nibbled at her muffin. "Well I'm tired and sweaty, and he looks amazing in dress pants and ties.
Wren rolled his eyes and placed his hand on Hanna's forehead. "You got it bad." He teased wrapping his arm around Spencer's waist. "Doesn't she, Spence?"
"Come on Hanna let's go home to the shower so we can get ready for school, oh and the questioning with detective hottie. If I were you I'd were the multicolor dress with the blue blazer and your Louboutin shoes that your mom got you for your birthday." She said leaving the brew and running off to her house. Hanna took off at a light jog mentally going thorough he closet as she ran home and Spencer was right as usual besides those shoes did make her legs look killer.
She saw her mom doing yoga and laughed. "You could have joined me for a run; instead of you I had Spencer and the British med student. So you still mad at me for choosing criminology for my future?" She asked her mother seeing her get out from the downward dog pose.
Ashley smiled at her daughter. "Of course not it's just not what I expected from you, but then again you always do the unexpected. Besides it will be nice having a daughter for a cop. So how was your run, I didn't hear you leave otherwise I would have joined you." She said hugging her daughter tightly. "I'm so proud of you, have you heard from any colleges yet?"
"I haven't heard from anyone yet however if Princeton University or NYU wants me that's where I will be going. I just need a kickass application and letters of recommendation. I really hope to get into Princeton about an hour from here so I can be close to you and Spencer is going to UPenn she got like early acceptance. I would miss you if I went super far away. Now if you will excuse me I kind of smell and I have class in two hours and I don't want to smell." She said glad everything had worked out with her mother. She grabbed the dress and shoes Spencer were talking about and headed into her spa inspired bathroom the walls were a relaxing shade of sea green with a large rain shower tucked in the corner with a large soaker tub on the opposite side. She headed into the rain shower and made herself smell nice after her shower she grabbed her silk robe and walked into her bedroom sitting at her vanity where she curled her blonde hair. She applied her makeup and put on the dress and buckled the shoes in place and grabbed a bluish green blazer to bring out her eyes. She grabbed her silver Rebecca Minkoff purse and her keys from the dish in the entryway. "Hot date?" Ashley questioned looking at her daughter's choice of clothing.
"No just felt like making people feel inferior." She teased hugging her mother and grabbing her Audi key and drove to Rosewood High, she parked in her usual parking spot and shah sawed her way into the school leaving a trail of drooling boys in her wake.
"Holy shit!" Aria Montgomery said looking Hanna up and down. "You look fine girl." Spencer nodded at Hanna's choice she was defiantly going to make Gabriel have issues thinking. Her outfit was classy the way the dress hung to her frame defining the curves of her sides, but still keeping things modest and her heels were a sensible 5 inches with a 2 inch platform.
Hanna walked to her first period English class beside Spencer and Aria. "God can school be over already I am actually in the mood to be questioned by a detective." She teased sitting down at her usual spot and listening to Mrs. Cox drown on and on about some random book. Hanna wasn't paying attention because well she was dreaming about and certain detective and she was counting down the days until she was a high school graduate.
Hanna endured her math class, a writing class, a psychology and a cooking class. All before the bell rang signaling lunch. She looked around the lunch room for Spencer, Aria, and Emily, who were at the salad bar. She grabbed one of the trays and loaded it up with a salad. "Algebra is the most boring subject ever."
Spencer giggled softly. "Try calculus. It's a thousand times worse." She groaned handing over money for her lunch. Hanna grabbed a coffee from the coffee cart to go along with her lunch. "I'd rather not even think about Calculus."
"So do we really have to see detective hottie or are using us as a ploy to see him again?" Emily asked picking at a hangnail on her thumb.
"He really wants to talk to us. It's not like I would do that to you three just so I could flirt with the hot cop. Besides why would we willingly go to the police station to be questioned? I like Holbrook but I'd much rather see him over coffee at the Brew than a cold integration room."
Aria sighed and picked at her black nails. "I still don't like it I mean we all could go to jail over some of the stuff we have done."
"Yeah we could, but it's not like once we tell our side of the story about everything that we would be getting locked up. Ali blackmailed us and forced us along to go with her stupid ideas. We had nothing to do with The Jenna Thing. Besides I honestly think that Gabe just wants to help, and he won't try to pin it all on us." Hanna said to the three knowing that Ali had made them do stupid things in the past but they were mostly the victim.
"Fine we'll give him a change but we tell no one about the Jenna Thing." Emily said looking at Hanna.
"Down killer we understand your protective of Ali, but guess what she's dead. Why are we still protecting her?" Spencer said around a bite of her sandwich.
"Because we are, you three might trust detective Holbrook but I don't. He could arrest us for so many things not to mention he seems to want to get in Hanna's skirts. Doesn't anyone find it weird that a cop wants a nineteen year old high school student!" Emily whispered to her friends.
Aria and Spencer both rolled there eyes. "Oh shut up!" They said in unison unhappy with the way Emily had been acting.
"Hanna is free to date whoever she wants to especially after the way Caleb tossed her out like bad meatloaf. Besides Ezra and I haven't gotten in trouble and he's a student teacher over at Tate. Spencer hasn't either and she is dating a med student who's on his last year. So why is wrong that Hanna likes a detective who's young. Hanna how old is Holbrook?"
"24 almost 25, it's not like he was 33 like Wilden was. Trust me if he was any older I wouldn't even be thinking about it, but since it's only a five year age difference it's not all that wrong, besides he's the first guy since Caleb I've had feelings for." Hanna said annoyed at Emily for questioning her intentions it was a free country and she could date whoever she wanted to date. Besides it wasn't like they were questioning Emily's relationships so what gave her the right to judge Hanna's crush.
Aria looked at Emily. "Hanna can date whoever she wants to date, and of she wants to tell Holbrook everything that has happened to us she can. I am so sick of A and covering up Ali's lies. Guess what she's dead and A is on my last nerve so don't piss me off or I might just tell him everything."
Spencer signed and looked at her phone. "This A crap is on my last nerve too. I just want to get into Med School and become a doctor like Wren. I am done with A and Ali. I am half tempted to tell Holbrook the truth too. I trust him as does Hanna. Wilden made my skin crawl the first time he talked to us. Holbrook doesn't if anything I feel like we can trust him. So shut up and stop judging us Emily."
Hanna crossed her arms it was nice having two out of three support her. "I guess since we are on the subject of truth. What's everyone doing after we graduate? I know Spencer's doing science and I'm doing criminology with a side of psychology, but what about you Aria, and Emily)" She questioned looking down at her shoes.
Emily looked at Hanna. "How the hell can you want to be a cop. You saw what they have done to us. God I can't believe you right know. Besides didn't you like bomb your SAT's?"
"If I were you Emily I'd think what I'd say next. Hanna has played a very important part of our group. What have you done, unlike the three of us A has been somewhat nice to you. Oh and that was two dirty cops who pissed us off. Hanna would be different when it comes to being a police officer." Spencer said resisting the urge to smack Emily.
"If I were you Emily I'd worry more about yourself than about Hanna. Oh and to answer your question Hanna I'm plan on doing English." Aria said wondering what the hell Emily's problem was.
"That's perfect for you Aria! So what college do you hope to get accepted to?" Hanna asked glaring at Emily with hate in her eyes. "I made a 2340 on my SAT granted Spencer made a perfect score and she helped me study. Besides I do care about my grades, and I am like fourth in our class GPA wise. Oh and I'm in honor society. I like criminology, besides I could be an amazing detective. So please Emily stop judging me!" She said crossing her arms mad at one of her friends for judging her choices.
Soon the bell rang and Hanna grabbed her purse and books for her next class. "What is up with Emily today?" She asked Spencer looking over her history notes before the test today.
"I have no clue she is being unreasonable. This is going to be easy it's over World War 2." Good luck." Spencer said heading over to her seat and looking over her notes like a mad woman.
Hanna felt her phone vibrate but ignored it since class was about ready to start. She finished her test and left the room after she was done. She grabbed her phone and almost dropped it.
You tell anyone about me and I will end you! -A
She sat on the floor waiting for Spencer to finish her test worried about the text message. "So how was the test, I thought it was super easy." Spencer said looking at Hanna. "What's wrong it looks like you've seen a ghost."
Hanna handed over her phone. "Why does A always have us by the metaphorical balls? I just want to be done with this bitch."
"It's okay Hanna, and she does have us by the balls. Just relax nothing's going to hurt you. Let's get to chemistry so we can tell Aria but let's not tell Emily." She said hugging Hanna tightly.
Aria was waiting in the girls usual lab table. "How was the history test?" She asked picking at her notebook.
"It was easy but A texted me during it." Hanna said handing Aria her phone. "I wonder what it means?" Aria asked as class started.
After the ordeal in history and chemistry the day passed by in a relative blur. The final bell rang and Hanna dropped the books off she didn't need and went out to her Audi where Spencer and Aria were waiting. "Ready to go get questioned?" Hanna teased sliding into the driver's seat as Aria joined her in the passenger's seat. "A just needs to give up, what did we even do the bitch?"
Hanna laughed and drove to the Rosewood police department. "Let's get this over with." She said getting out of her car and walking up the stairs and holding the door open for the three.
She saw an empty reception desk and Gabe walking out of an office. He looked stunned. "I thought I would have to come hunt you down." He teased looking at Hanna's choice of clothing she looked hot in heels. "Why don't you four join me in a meeting room you're not being interrogated so you won't be seeing that room? Would you all like some coffee, water, donuts?" He asked leading them to the room.
Hanna laughed at his choice of words. "We decided we'd play nice for one day, next time we will put up a fight." She teased sitting down in the first chair since Gabe had taken the chair across from them. Spencer sat next to her, and Aria sat next to Spencer, Emily stood by the door looking bored and untrusting.
"Miss Fields why don't you take a seat, I promise I won't interrogate you, I'm just going over your previous statements and asking some questions of my own. That is if you four don't mind. You are here on your own time and are free to leave whenever you want to." He said getting them to relax. "Let's start the night of the Halloween Train. All four of you went correct? That's where Garrett Reynolds was murdered? Aria you were locked in the same box with him and whoever killed him tried pushing you off a moving train?"
Aria frowned and placed her hands on the table. "Yes they did if it wasn't for Hanna and Spencer I'd be dead. The Halloween train was fun up until that point. I might go again this year that is if the Brew still sponsors it. I assume Garrett was killed on the train because he was on the train dressed like a zombie baby, but I didn't see him Spencer did. You have to believe us we aren't murders."
Gabriel smiled and revised his notes. "I do believe you ladies have nothing to do with Garrett's murder this is just a formality and there are some notes of Wilden's I do not think happened and I just don't want to miss anything of importance. Someone did kill him and that person is still walking the streets possibly planning someone else's murder, when that person should be in jail. So how well did you four know officer Reynolds? What did you do the night of the train?" He asked a couple more questions. He knew the girls were innocent when it came to Garrett, but it was just a police formality since Wilden made for an awful detective.
"I was trying to enjoy myself and listening to the great musical guest known as Adam Lambert. I personally didn't know him that well I mean I would see him out on patrol but it's not like we were the best of friends. If you want to talk to someone who knew a lot about Garett, I'd talk to Jenna Marshall. She seemed to know him pretty well." Spencer said picking at her broken French tip nail scared that if he did talk to Jenna, she might tell him about The Jenna Thing.
Gabriel wrote down his notes on the girls in his notepad crosschecking with Wildens notes and Wildens didn't seem to match with what the girls were saying. However he was more inclined to believe the girls than Wilden. "I will contact Miss Marshall more about Garrett. Now let's move onto Wilden. He really seemed to harrass you about Alison's murder. Tell me where were the four of you the night he was killed?" He asked checking there alibi.
"We were at a slumber party at my house. The Chinese place who brought us takeout can vouch for our whereabouts as can Emily's mother and Aria's brother they both forgot pajamas at there house. We stayed in all night enjoying chick flicks, spa treatments, and a Say Yes To The Dress marathon." Hanna said handing over the Chinese receipt with the date and the delivery persons name on it.
Gabriel looked over the slip of paper. "I am going to need those numbers ladies so I can call and check on your location. I am so sorry for the way Wilden has treated you four. Other than that your free to go even though you could have done that at any time and I couldn't have stopped you from leaving." He teased closing his binder after the girls gave him the numbers. "Thank you so much for your corporation."
Hanna got up from the seat and stretched her legs. "It was no trouble at all." She said grabbing her bag and going to the front reception desk to ask for an application for the receptionist job. She didn't really need a job, but like Gabriel said it would look fantastic on college applications. She filled it out and handed it back to the police officer at the desk. "Want to go get pizza because I am starving."
Aria laughed and watched Hanna fill out the application. "Really, Hanna do you honestly have that bad of a shoe and purse problem that you need a job? Pizza sounds wonderful but then again I'm starving." She teased.
Hanna laughed. "I figured it would look great for college and police academy applications or heck other jobs. Sure I've babysit in the past but it's not like an after school job. We are adults we should start caring about jobs. Let's go eat I'm starving." She said opening the door for her friends. Let's order a pizza from my house my moms not home until late." She said wanting to pig out on pizza.
"Sounds like a great idea, and we can all do homework together!" Spencer said excitedly looking at her phone and placing the pizza order.
Aria groaned loudly looking at Spencer. "I plan on avoiding my math homework for all eternity. Besides Ezra and I have plans for later. That does not involve math homework."
Hanna shook her head and headed out to her car. "Come on I'm starving and I am so not looking forward to my math homework or my English report over To Kill a Mockingbird." She groaned sliding into her car. "Well that was easy and painless. It's not like we were integrated with a giant light above our heads with a lie detector attached to us."
Spencer laughed from the backseat. "You watch way to much criminal shows and read way to many crime novels, but he is way nicer than Wilden and didn't get all up in our face and outright accuse us."
Hanna drove to her house and kicked off he shoes at the door. "Anybody want anything to drink?" She asked grabbing a diet mountain dew from the fridge. "I'm going to change into something comfortable and pig out on pizza. Aria and Spencer I think you still have lounge clothes in the guest room." She said going up the stairs to change.
Emily crossed her arms and leaned against the couch. "I thought he was an ass."
Spencer crossed her arms and glared at Emily. "Oh be quiet you've been kind of a bitch since Wilden died. Hanna is free to date who she wants and do whatever she wants. Stop judging her, we didn't judge you with Maya or Toby, so stop judging Hanna for having a crush on Holbrook."
Hanna came down the stairs in a sweatshirt and a pair of yoga pants. She tossed Aria and Spencer there clothes. "That pizza better hurry up and get here." She said grabbing her phone.
The doorbell rang and Hanna got up to get it. "Ah pizza and breadsticks." She said paying the dude and grabbing the pizza. She walked into the living room seeing that Spencer and Aria had changed. She placed the pizza in the middle of the floor and sat down on a pillow.
The girls finished the pizza. "I don't feel like doing homework how about a girls night instead. My nails are looking chipped and cracked." Aria said picking at her thumbnail.
Hanna went to her bedroom and came down with her bin of nail polish. "Sounds like a plan girl." She teased getting rid of the pizza evidence. She grabbed a hot pink color for herself and grabbed a deep purple color for Aria. "This would be a really pretty color for you."
Spencer grabbed a light pink nail color. "That is a pretty color for Aria." She said removing the color off her nails.
Hanna grabbed the nail polish remover and removed her french tips as Aria removed her polish too. Emily decided not to do her nails.
The girls enjoyed the mani's and facials all laughing like nothing was wrong. Soon Hanna's mom walked through the door seeing the four girls laughing doing their homework which wasn't an unusual occurance in her house. "It's getting kind of late you three might want to go home." She said seeing the four close there books.
"Sorry Ms. Marin we didn't notice the time." Spencer said grabbing her book bag. "See you tomorrow guys."
Aria and Emily both packed up and left at the same time. "See you later." They said to Hanna leaving the house. Hanna picked up her books and stuck them in her room.
I just want to think everyone who has read, faved, and reviewed this story. It's also nice to see other Habriel shippers. I hope you all like this chapter.
To answer some questions a reviewer left. Yes she did have Bulimia, you'll see that in a later chapter. As for the shoplifting no she doesn't shoplift in this story.
Again thank you guys so much and feedback would be greatly appreciated. :)
Sorry about the double posted something went wrong with the way the second chapter was posted. :(