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always in the twilight

chapter two

the secrets we hold

by colorshow

"You have no idea how creepy this is Toby, only Ali knew about that night, at least let's hope she was the only one, other than you of course." Spencer said, frantically standing up, ignoring the pounding in her head. "Who the hell is A though, and what do they want to do with us?"

Toby stood up and wrapped his arms around her, effectively preventing her from falling over. "Babe, it's only 6 o'clock, we have two hours until we have to meet whoever sent that message. Okay? Right now we're both a little buzzed, I think it's best we put away the drinks for a little while."

Spencer scoffed "We're breaking them out again at 7:30."

"I said for a little while, we both know that we'll both need to be at least a little buzzed to go through with this." Toby said, giving her shoulders a reassuring squeeze.

"Thank goodness you're coming with me." Spencer breathed, leaning up to give him a kiss.

Toby smiled "We're in this together, okay? We always have been."

"Yeah, I know" Spencer affirmed, wrapping her arms around Toby. They had been for a long time.

"I told Ali I wanted nothing to do with her yesterday. She pulled this prank and said she was 'testing our friendship'. She just wants to know that we'll take the fall for her and help her no matter what shit she gets herself into." Spencer said, winding her feet together with Toby's. The two sat at the brick bridge that went over the creek behind Toby's house. It's where they'd been meeting since the summer before 9th grade.

Toby raised an eyebrow "I'm sensing this isn't the full story, although I'm proud of you for finally standing up to her. Aren't you afraid of losing your other friends though, you know how hard she'll make this for you?"

It took her a minute to formulate a response, for a minute she just glanced over the river, Toby's gaze set upon her. "I know, I don't even really care anymore, I'm done with all the shit she pulls. She knew about us, I'm not sure how. I don't really care, I'm not ashamed to be dating you, and you know that. Ali had known for awhile, she always used to tease me about 'eye-fucking' you. Anyway she told me I had to pick you or her. I don't know why, I think she knew that me getting close to you gave me an idea of what I wanted. Lately I guess I hadn't been always on board with going along with Ali's inane schemes, or coming up with any myself. She knows I'd rather be around you than her, and she doesn't like that. But I pick you Toby, I'd always pick you."

Toby smiled at her words, a sly smile crossing his face "Why would that be exactly?" he asked.

Running her leg up against his she smirked "I love you okay, you happy?"

"Well I love you too Spencer Hastings, it's nice to finally hear you say it." Toby said, holding her face in his hands, leaning in for a kiss that soon becomes a rather passionate one.

"I know I made the right choice." Spencer affirms breathlessly, before crushing her lips to his once again.

The two began to head to the woods a little before 8, deciding to take Toby's truck, as opposed to his motorcycle (which Spencer frequently referred to as 'his baby') or Spencer's car, which her parents had bought her in agreement that she never follow Toby's lead and get a motorcycle of her own.

Spencer sighed as she climbed in the side of the truck, resisting the urge to take a gulp of the vodka in her flask. "My parents are going to be suspicious, despite acting like they don't give a damn most of the time they sure did try to prevent me from taking up smoking when they found that pack of cigarettes in my laundry bin, don't they know that's too trashy for me?"

Toby laughed "Babe, you still love to get high and drink yourself to sleep, believe me you passed smoking a few miles back."

Giving him a sly smile she responded "Like you don't do that all the time yourself. I would know most of the time I do it with you, at least we haven't gotten arrested yet. Remember some of the things we did in the beginning of sophomore year until my parents threatened to cut me off."

"Yeah, you're still my bad girl though. And don't pretend you don't love causing trouble, and having sex with me. " he said, motioning down to his body, causing Spencer to laugh and nod "I might, but don't pretend you'd rather have sex with anyone that isn't me." Toby laughed "That's right, you've got me whipped babe, and don't forget it's too high of a number for me to even count how many times we've had sex in this truck. You're far from losing your edge babe." Toby said, squeezing her thigh.

"And the motorcycle, never forget the motorcycle. And if it counts for anything you haven't lost your edge either, I know you still get stoned with Jason whenever he's in town." Spencer said, moving his hand a little farther up her thigh.

Toby smiled "Let's get this over with okay, we'll get whoever this is to leave us alone and be done with it."

Spencer shook her head "What I worry about is whoever this is might have something on us, and you and I both know there's plenty they could have. That text message was sent from 'A' too, and only contained things only Ali would know, the drinking hole was our place! It kind of freaks me out a little bit!"

Toby sighed, "Let's just deal with it. Whoever it is."

"You too scared to try some vodka Ali? Who thought you'd be such a chicken." Spencer scoffed, causing Ali to smile "Give me that, I'm not too chicken for anything Spencer."

The two girls were currently sitting in their favorite hangout 'the drinking hole', named by Spencer, the place where the two girls went to grill each other for secrets and get drunk, or drink.

"So we're gonna be high schoolers, do you believe it?" Ali asked, taking a dainty sip of the flask Spencer held in her hand and immediately making a face at it.\

"So you're gonna stick with the Hard Lemonade, no surprise there Ali. As for high schoolers, I believe it, although it means my parents will try harder than ever to make me fall in line." Spencer groaned, taking a substantially larger sip from the flask than Ali had.

"How do you drink like that?" Ali laughed, throwing her arm around Spencer's shoulder. "Because my life sucks, I need it." Spencer responded "Living in Melissa's shadow isn't easy."

Ali shrugged "Melissa is a bitch, you are, but in a good way, not like her. Me and you we're the best bitches out there. Plus you get as good of grades as her you just like to get drunk and vandalize things while you're at it. We're cut from the same cloth Spencer, that's why you're my best friend."

Spencer scoffed "That's what you tell everyone Ali, I'm nothing more than a member of your clique to you, only difference is that I know you well enough to not tell you my secrets, that's how you hold power, because you have to have power Ali." she sent Ali a look as she said this, causing a smirk to form on Ali's face.

"I know you best, you know me best, we don't need secrets Spencer. That's why you're my best friend and you're never ever ditching me, okay? Who else will be my partner in crime, everyone else is too scared, do you think any of them would actually do half the things we do?" Ali retorted.

Spencer gave her a look before she finally smiled, "Let's hope that none of them ever figure out what the hell we're up to." she said, taking another swig from her flask as Ali gave her a hug.

"Cheers to that." Ali agreed, giving Spencer a smile before she took another sip from the flask. And this time instead of grimacing, she smiled.

Toby put the truck into park near the edge of the woods, the two quickly climbed out of the truck and began the short trek to the drinking hole.

"Do you have the flashlight?" Spencer asked, taking Toby's hand in hers. He held up his hand in response, which held the flashlight. "Okay, then lets get this over with." she said.

Shortly after they had began their trek into the woods Spencer's phone beeped, quickly cursing and grabbing out of her pocket she saw the text message that was lit up across the screen.

So you listened, nice to know -A

Spencer groaned furiously in response, showing the message to Toby whose eyes also narrowed at the text. "Why couldn't they just wait until we were there?" asked Toby. The two were now just around the corner from the drinking hole.

As they approached the area Spencer surveyed the scene "Because they aren't here." she stated. Toby shined the flashlight over the area, stopping when he saw something hanging from a nearby tree.

"Spence, over here, they left something." he said, already approaching the object, Spencer a short distance behind him. "It's a black sweatshirt. This makes no sense." Toby wondered, Spencer took the clothing from his hands as she surveyed it, coming across a white piece of paper pinned to the sweater.

"They left a note, it says, Thanks for coming, I knew I could trust you, meet me a week from now at Lost Woods Resort, and just in case you weren't thinking of attending if you want your secret to stay secret I advise you do. -A" Spencer read, her eyes becoming wide, "It's in here" Toby said, digging the flashdrive out from the pocket of the sweatshirt. "Whoever this is was spying on us, and using it to blackmail us." Toby groaned, running his hands through his hair.

"Let's just hope it's not from that night." Spencer lamented, as Toby tucked her against the side as the two began to leave the woods.

"Yes, lets hope." Toby agreed.

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