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Chapter 6

Aria and Ezra stared in shock at the sight before them. Spencer, her arm covered in blood from a cut that looked deep, was lying unconsciously in front of Ezra's apartment. Her hands tied behind her back and she had a gag on her mouth. She appeared to have a bump on her head that had blood streaming steadily out of it.

"Aria, quick, grab some ice and towels" Ezra said as picked Spencer up carefully and placing her inside his apartment, where he could inspected her wounds. It was times like this that he really appreciated having to learn first aid in order to become a teacher.

Aria came back within a few minutes carrying a ice and several towels. She also brought a bucket of warm water to help clean the blood off Spencer's skin. Suddenly, she realized she had left Emily on the phone a moment earlier. She ran and picked up her phone, where she could hear Emily frantically calling her name.

"Em! It's me. Spencer's hurt. She's inside Ezra's apartment. Can you tell Hanna and Caleb and meet us up here. Quick!" Aria rushed out.

"Oh my God! Aria, I think I just saw A running towards the parking lot" Emily said, panicked.

"Run after them! We can't let them get away! Call Hanna and Caleb and catch A!" Aria practically shouted and Emily hung up.

Next, Aria quickly phoned Wren and told him that Spencer was hurt and gave him Ezra's address.

When she hung up, Aria rushed back to where Ezra was cleaning Spencer's cuts. "Wren said he's on his way. Emily thinks she saw A and she ran after them."

She began to press ice wrapped in a towel on Spencer's swollen forehead. "How bad is her arm?"

"It looks worse than it is. She'll be okay until Wren arrives." Ezra replied, holding a towel to Spencer's arm to try and make the blood stop flowing out.

Emily, Hanna and Caleb burst inside a moment later and immediately stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Spencer. They stood there, speechless for a moment. Aria looked between the three of them, filled with curiosity and dread.

"A escaped before we could catch them." Caleb answered the unspoken question.

Aria's heart sank. A was still out there. He had hurt one of her best friends, and he was after the love of her life. But she couldn't think about this right now as a knock signaled Wren's arrival.

While Wren worked on Spencer with Emily, Caleb and Hanna standing close by to fetch things for him, Aria and Ezra went out to get some painkillers for when Spencer woke up.

They sat silently in the car, and Aria could feel Ezra staring at her. She knew he was going to ask her, and she knew it was time to tell him, but that didn't make her any less scared.

"Aria..." Ezra started hesitently.

"You're right, I think it's time for you to know who A is. It's not fair for me to keep this from you." Aria told Ezra about A, leaving out a lot but mainly just telling him about how A had threatened her and made her break up with him. She figured the less he knew, the better.

"Aria, I'm so sorry you had to go through something like this alone. I'll always be here for you, and we'll find out who A is. Spencer will get better and we'll figure everything out." Ezra said, holding Aria's hand in his.

In that moment, Aria felt better than she had in months. For the first time since she began recieving texts from A, she felt like the world was on her side. Right now, she felt like anything was possible.

So what better time for A to text her right? Because that's exactly what happened. Aria groaned as she checked her phone and saw the text from an unknown number.

"Can't get rid of me that easily. What happened to Spencer was just a sample of what I'm going to do to your precious boyfriend. Don't say I didn't warn you." -A

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P.S. I'm thinking of changing the title. Any suggestions?