Chapter 11
Emily's P.O.V
Last day of school for the week, I was very grateful for its arrival because I don't think I can handle anymore. Quinn and I hadn't talked yet, I hadn't really talked much this week; only to Brittany really. Brittany told me Santana does care about me but it's a loyalty thing with her, I could understand where Santana was coming from; so, I wasn't holding it against her.
"I see the head thinking hasn't change," I heard a voice say next to me. Looking up from the ground I see someone I haven't seen in two years, walking side by side to me. Stopping dead in the walkaway not caring about the others around me.
"Oh my god, what are you doing here!?" I ask/shout all at once while pulling her into a hug. Maya, a girl who I kind of liked but nothing ever really happened. She had a boyfriend at the time and I was sort of with Alison, so we just became really good friends instead.
Maya said, "Hanna called;" she pushed me back to give me a look before saying "The real question is why didn't you tell me it was happening again?"
I replied with "Because I don't know what's exactly going on here. I haven't told anyone here, someone could've googled Rosewood to find out, but I don't know anyone who would."
"The one thing I know is it's not her, she's been locked up and hasn't been near a phone."
"She could still have people working for her until she gets out, which is a strong possibility," I say while starting to walk again towards my locker.
"Hanna told me about the court date, at least you get to go back to Rosewood."
"I don't want to go back not for this. That is why we moved in the first place, to get away from it."
I then asked, "You still haven't answered my question, what are you doing here?"
"Well I told my Mum about everything that's been going on with you, she made the decision we'd move here at least until the end of term. So, this is my new school," Maya said gesturing around.
"Are you serious?" I asked excited.
"Yep, you know my Mum loves you."
"I do but still doesn't mean she'd uproot her life, just for you to see if I'm okay."
"Look at this way; I'm just here to protect you. The girls have each other and well you have no one."
I replied with "I did have people and then everything got messed up."
"Hanna also told me about that, why can't you just tell her?"
"Because I promised the girls when I left, I wasn't going to tell anyone what happened and that's what I'm doing."
"Even if you're losing someone you love. I know you find it hard to trust people after everything but surely, you've determine that these people that your friends with here you can trust."
"Yes, I've determine I can trust them. They just think of me as the good girl, who has done nothing wrong, the person who sticks up for everyone no matter what."
"Just tell them the full story," Maya said as we got to my locker. Looking down the hallway I saw Quinn, Santana and Brittany walking down the hallway, everyone was moving out of their way as quickly as possible.
"I can't Maya and you can't make me either," I say pointedly. Maya shook her head at me but allowed me to go through my locker in silencer and once I was finished, we made our way to the Spanish classroom.
I asked as we entered the room "Where's your cello? Normally it's strapped to your back."
"Yeah, I sold it online and with some other money I saved up, I bought a car."
"Seriously?"
"Mum wasn't too thrilled when I sold my cello but I thought if you'd want to go to Rosewood, you'd need a car."
"Always thinking about me," I say shaking my head at Maya.
Maya spoke "You're the one that got away," I smiled and went to take a seat while Maya stopped to talk to Mr Schue.
Maya asked walking over "How good is your Spanish?"
"As good as yours."
"So terrible then," I nod my head with a smile.
Maya said "If you weren't so pretty to look at, I'd be sitting next to someone who knows what's going on."
"Aww you're so cute. What happened to what's her face?"
"You mean Taylor, well we were happy until I found out she had been cheating on me for at least two months."
I asked "Where is she? I will destroy her."
"Calm down tiger, I already did that. I punched her in the face a couple of times."
Smiling as we both say, "Because that's the only way to get a cheating bitch," we exchanged smiles before bursting into a fit of laugh.
I then say, "You know if you were back at Rosewood, I would know the perfect person to set you up with."
"Don't you dare say Paige," Maya raised her fist.
"I was going to say McCullers." Maya looked at me angry before she began gently punching me all over the place, making me laugh more than anything.
I say, "Come on Maya, give her a chance."
"No way, not after she tried to drown you."
"Hey, she doesn't do that anymore. Beside you can't swim, so you'll never have to experience that."
"I can swim."
"In all the years I have known you, not once have you been in a swimming pool and you've told me serval times you cannot swim."
"Everyone please welcome Maya St. Germain to the school, Maya would you like to introduce myself?" Mr Schue said interrupting our talking.
Maya stands up and said "Hey, I'm Maya."
"Great start, they already know that," I say with a laugh.
"Shut it you," Maya warned before saying "Like Emily, I'm from Rosewood and she is definitely the one that got away," she then leant down and kiss my lips. I had no choice in the matter but I did not close my eyes and tried pushing her away, making her laugh.
"Anyway, I am very much single. So, if there any single girls in this school, I'm definitely the girl to be dating. Thank-you," Maya bowed as she sat down.
"You're an idiot," I say punching her shoulder hard while silently laughing.
"What is she doing here?" I heard Santana ask when she, Quinn and Brittany walked into glee club. Most of us were here, I had told Maya about the glee club and she automatically wanted to join.
I replied with "She's here to join glee club."
Mercedes asked, "Can she sing?"
Looking at Maya, I smiled and said, "Floors all yours."
"Why thank you," Maya said standing up and getting ready to sing.
Maya: "When I had you to myself, I didn't want you around. Those pretty faces always made you stand out in the crowd, but someone picked you out of the bunch, one glance was all it took. Now it's much too late for me to take a second look," Maya bent her legs as she slides over to stand in front of me and sing; which was making me laugh.
Maya: "Oh baby, give me on more chance to show you that I love you. Won't you please let me back in your heart, oh darling I was blind to let you go. Let you go baby. But now since I see you in her arms, I want you back. Yes, I do now, I want you back. Ooh, ooh baby, I want you back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want you back, na, na, na, na." Maya was singing better than I had heard before, she was making weird gesture just to make me laugh. I knew Maya didn't want me as her girlfriend and I didn't want her as mine, which is why it made such a great song. Maya gestured towards me saying to sing with her.
Emily: "Trying to live without your love is one long sleepless night. Let me show you, girl, that I know wrong from right. Every street you walk on, I leave tear stains on the ground. Following the girl, I didn't even want around." When I started singing I jumped on top of my chair and followed Maya's different dance moves. Turning carefully on the chair to look at Quinn, I send a wink her way before jumping off the chair. Mid-air I did a sideways turn and was lucky enough to land on the ground in front of Maya, I smiled at her amazed face and couldn't resist tapping it.
Emily: "Let me tell ya now, oh baby, all I need is one more chance, to show you that I love you. Won't you please let me back in your heart, oh darling, I was blind to let you go. Let you go, baby, but now since I see you in her arms." I had run to stand in front of Quinn and sing but I didn't look directly into her eyes.
Maya: "All I want. All I need. All I want! All I need!" Maya run over to me and pulled me as we started to dance together.
Emily: "Oh, just one more chance to show you that I love you."
Maya: "Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby! I want you back."
Emily: "Forget what happened then, I want you back and let me live again," I sang this line with more heart wishing that A and M.V would let me live my life again, the way I want to live it.
Maya: "Oh baby, I was blind to let you go but now since I see you in her arms, I want you back."
Emily: "Spare me this cause, I want you back, give me back what I lost!"
Maya and Emily: "Oh baby, I need one more chance, hah. I tell you that I love you. Baby, oh, baby, oh, baby, oh! I want you back! I want you back!" As we finished the song off strongly together, we smiled at each other and caught our breath. Everyone clapped the performance, looking at Quinn I saw tears running down her face; which absolutely broke my heart.
"You are definitely welcome into the club Maya," Mr Schue said making me smile across at Maya. Hearing a noise, I look up to see Quinn running from the room, I stood there for a second before I was running out after her.
"Quinn! Quinn!" I yell trying to catch up with her.
"Just leave me alone Emily, go back to your girlfriend."
"Maya isn't my girlfriend," I say which forces Quinn to stop and turn around to look at me.
Quinn states "Clearly she's more than a friend, what with that song and the kiss this morning. I've had my heart broken before but this takes the cake, Emily so good job."
"Okay, okay. Maya was a girl back in Rosewood I did like as more than a friend but she was seeing someone at the time, I don't separate couples and my thing with Alison was starting up. Maya knows that I had a crush on her and she jokes about it. I'm not the one that got away from her, she doesn't want me back. It's just a joke; we say to get the other to laugh."
"I don't understand."
"All that I need for you to understand is that there is no way Maya and I will ever be more than friends, not ever and especially not now. She wasn't the one I was singing that song to or for today."
Quinn asked, "Are you ready to tell me about what happened to Rosewood?"
"No."
"Then we aren't getting back together until you tell me the truth."
"I know Quinn."
"I'll see you next week Emily," Quinn turned a walked. In annoyance and frustration, I punch the closet locker to me repeatedly, not caring that I was damaging my hand.
"You're an idiot," I heard a voice say and turning around I see Santana standing there with no Brittany or Quinn insight.
"I know," I say. It had been two weeks since my break up with Quinn, I had barely done anything other than cry and 'A' had been no help.
"If you know then why are you letting someone as amazing as Quinn slip through your fingers? Is this thing that's going on more important to you than Quinn."
"Of course not but I can't tell her. Once I tell her, everything will change, her opinion of me."
"What part of this aren't you getting? Quinn will love you no matter what."
"Answer me this, if I told you I've killed someone, what would you say?"
"I…I," Santana stuttered making my point clear.
"Exactly, I can't tell Quinn until I'm ready to expect that what we had is gone."
"You're still an idiot."
"I'm not disagreeing with you but I need to get this right, there's only one chance to tell someone this and you need to get it right."
"Okay," Santana states before walking away.
Another voice then said "You can't keep blaming yourself," I look up to see Maya standing in front of me with sad eyes.
"I can, I took a person's life."
"You didn't have a choice Em, if you didn't then you would be the one dead," I sigh knowing Maya was right but not being able to agree.
"We should get to glee," I say beginning to walk in that direction.
Maya asked as we walked "What did that Santana chick want?"
"Just to tell me something, I already know but don't know how to fix. Everything is such a mess and I don't know how I'm going to fix it."
"With a little step every day. I know I've been pressuring you to tell Quinn but you need to make sure you're really ready."
"Just like coming out again," I say with a smile.
Maya smiled back and said "Exactly." Shaking my head at Maya as we entered the choir room; I was very shocked to find Quinn and Mercedes wrestling upon the ground. Everyone must've been in shock or didn't know what to do, because they were all just standing there.
Nodding my head at Maya, we both go in bravely to pull the pair a part. Carefully I wrap my arms around Quinn's waist, lift her up onto her feet and drag her away from Mercedes. Placing Quinn down in a chair, I kneel in front of her and see she's just got scratch marks.
"You should be fine," I say pulling a tissue out of my pocket and dabbing gently at her cheek.
Quinn said "You don't need to do that, I can do it," she takes the tissue from my hand.
I replied with "I want to," I take the tissue back and continue my job.
"Thank-you," Quinn said with a smile.
"Why'd you get into it with Mercedes anyway? Aren't you two like friends?"
Quinn sighed and said, "We walked in on them talking shit about you and I couldn't stand hearing them talking about you."
"Oh, well you didn't need to defend me. I'm guessing to them I'm the bad guy because I've hurt you and they care about you a lot. Which I can get and won't hold anything against anyone."
"Why do you have to be so incredibly sweet? It's hard to stay mad at you, when you're so sweet."
"I wish things hadn't gotten so complicated, maybe if I had told you the truth from the start. I don't know," I say with a sigh as sit flatly on the ground. Just as Quinn went to reply, I felt my phone vibrate and there was this feeling my gut that this phone call wasn't going to be good.
"Sorry," I say as I pull my phone out to see Ashley Marin's name on the phone.
"What happened?" I asked answering the phone, knowing something was wrong.
Ashley replied with "Emily, I'm sorry to be calling you but, something's happened."
"Who?" was my question.
"The girls were walking back to school after having lunch at the Apple Rose Grill, and well a car ploughed them down. Apparently, they didn't even try to turn."
"Okay, Who? Please not Hanna again?"
"No, it's Aria."
"Not sweet Aria," I say feeling tears rolling down my cheek.
Ashley spoke "I'm afraid so, she was rushed to surgery as soon as we got to the hospital and everyone's in their own minds. I thought you'd want to know."
"Umm…yeah, thanks. I'm going to try to work out a way to get there."
"That's not really need, Aria has everyone around her."
"Ashley, I'm bloody coming to Rosewood and there's nothing you can do to convince me otherwise."
Ashley snickered at my determination and said "Okay, well you're welcome to stay at my house."
"Thank-you, I'll ring you back when I'm on the road. Can you please keep me informed?"
"Sure thing Emily, I'll see you soon."
"Yeah," I say as I hang up the phone with a sigh. Pushing myself up to stand, I walk over to the nearest wall where people weren't sitting and start smashing into it.
"Emily, Emily!" I heard Maya yell repeatedly but it didn't stop me, I continued to smash the wall.
"Emily, please stop," I heard Quinn's voice say as she placed a hand on my back. Relaxing my eyes, I turn around exhausted to see Quinn with tears in her eyes, scarred for me.
Maya asked, "What happened?"
I replied with "We need to get to Rosewood, now."
"Why?" Maya asked.
"Aria was hit by a car, she's in surgery now. I need to be there, can we use your car please?"
"Of course we can," Maya said as she stepped up to wrap her arms around me.
Maya whispered "She's going to be okay, she'll be extremely happy to see you."
I say "We should grab some stuff from home, I need to tell my parents; they'll understand and Ashley's offered her place."
"Okay, we can do all that," Maya nods her head.
"Emily," I heard Quinn say.
Looking across at Quinn, she said "It's not too late; you can still tell me the truth. My opinion of you will never change and I can say it, because I love you no matter what."
"Okay, but it's too long and I don't have time. I need to get to Rosewood."
"What if I came with you?" Quinn suggested.
"What about your Mum, school, cheerleading?"
"None of that matters and my Mum will understand," glancing across at Maya who nods her head.
Sighing I say, "You can come and I'll tell you along the way."
"What about us?" Santana asked.
Brittany added "You promised to take us to Rosewood."
I asked "Would your parents be okay with you coming? I'm planning to be gone for at least a week or two."
"They'll be fine with it," Santana said honestly.
I replied with "All meet at my place in an hour, be packed for two weeks of stuff. We should be all able to fit in Maya's car."
Santana suggested "What about my car? Maya can still drive if that's easier so we can hear your story and she knows where she's going. But it'll also give us more boot space and leg room for the ones in the back."
"That makes sense," Maya said agreeing.
"Okay, meet at Santana's house and we can load up from there."
"See you soon," Quinn said as the three walked away. Nodding, Maya and I followed behind them and went separate ways not even telling the glee club what was going on.
"Emmy, are you sure you need to go?" Dad asked.
I replied with "I need to see that she's okay and this is the only way."
"Will you look after our baby girl?" Mum asked looking at Maya.
"Of course Mrs Fields," Maya said with a smile before wrapping an arm around me. I had blazed through the story with my parents; just telling them about Aria begin hit and packing as I went.
In the car Maya asked "Do you think it's A?"
"I don't know Maya, it's a huge coincidence if it's not."
"How much are you going to tell them?"
"As much as I can in three hours, they need to know everything and it's time they knew."
"Okay, I'll help where I can."
"Thank-you, in case I forget to say it, thank-you."
"Anytime Em, you know that."
"I do," I say smiling as we pulled up alongside Santana's house curb. Looking out the window, I saw Brittany, Santana and Quinn packing the car with their stuff.
Luckily Maya and I pack light, also knowing that if we need clothes; the girls would be happy to lend us some stuff.
"Hey," I say as we walk over to the pair with two bags each.
Santana questioned "That's all you're bringing?"
Maya replied with "Yeah, the girls will lend us stuff if we need," Santana takes our bags and began pushing them into the boot. Looking over to see Quinn standing at the bottom of the driveway, I walk around Maya and make my way back down the driveway.
"You don't have to come if you don't want too."
"What? No, I want to come. I'm just preparing myself for the weight of information I am about to get hit with."
"Good idea, because it's not going to be pretty."
"Santana said she spoke you today and told me, you said you killed someone. Is that true did you really kill someone?"
I replied with "There's more to it than simply killing someone, but yes I am the reason someone is dead."
"Okay," Quinn said as she let out a breath.
"We are ready to go!?" I heard Brittany shout.
I asked, "You still want to come?" I hold my hand out for Quinn.
"Yes," Quinn took my hand and we walk back to the car together. Maya took the driver's seat, I took the front seat, Brittany took the middle seat in the back, Santana sat behind me and Quinn sat behind Maya.
I asked, "You remember how to get there?"
"Yeah, I take it we are going to the hospital."
"At this point yes, I'll ring Ashley to let her know we are on our way and get any information on Aria's situation."
"Alright," Maya said reserving out of the Lopez's driveway.
"Okay, thank-you Ashley," I say hanging up the phone.
Maya asked, "What's the situation?"
"Aria's still in surgery, apparently, there are more complication then last thought. Everyone's there now, if they leave Ashley will text me but it looks like everyone's going to stay."
"They must be in pieces."
I replied with "Yeah. Luckily the parents haven't put two and two together."
"What do they know?"
"They know about us being summoned but not anything else."
"So radio silence with the parents."
"You know it," I say putting my phone away and to start working out how to start telling the girls about everything.
Looking back at the girls, I ask "Now are you sure you want to know what's going?"
"Yes," the three say at the same time.
"Okay, anything I tell you cannot be repeated to anyone. The girls aren't happy I'm telling you guys but they want Quinn and I back together, so if this is what it'll take then they don't care. But still no one in Lima can know, not your parents and not anyone at school."
"We won't tell anyone, we promise," Santana said and the other two nod.
I say, "Strap yourselves in this is going to be a long and complicated story."
Quinn spoke "Just give us the chance Emily."
"Alison, Hanna, Spencer, Aria and I for the last four years have been under threat, I guess would be the correct term, bullied seems to light and easy. It started about a year after I moved to Rosewood, we all go these texts from someone anonymous, all they signed the texted off with was the letter -A. My first text was a threat to be outed, at the time only Alison knew I was gay or that's what I thought. Later down the track, I found out Toby and Jenna knew but that's another story. Anyway, because it was signed with an -A I thought it was Alison, so I approached her and she had no idea what I was talking about. My next guess was Aria but like Alison she had no idea what I was talking about. The rest of them got texts from -A as well; this person knew secrets about us we thought no one knew. It was creepy how much this person knew about us. Not wanting anyone to know our secrets we kept it between us, protecting each other as best we could but we had no idea what we were up against. Texts message were relentless and then they turned into other forms, I once got my cereal filled with A's, lipstick on mirrors, written in foggy windows and any other form you can think of. We tried figuring out who this person was but every guess was wrong, our first guest lead to the murder of Ian Thomas."
"Someone died?" Brittany asked.
I replied with "I replied with "Yeah. He was a guy Melissa had date but also Spencer, Alison was also interested in him at one point. See he would take these videos of us as kids, exchanging different clothes and trying them on; we had no idea we were being filmed. This led to the discovery of the N.A.T Club, members being Ian Thomas, Garret Reynolds, Jason DiLaurentis and we later found out that Melissa was in the club."
Quinn asked, "That's why you don't like Melissa?"
"Sort of, Melissa was only involved because she was with Ian. Melissa didn't know who was in the videos, when she found out she ended things with Ian; since he was perving on her little sister. However, she didn't warn us about them."
"Understandable dislike then," Santana agreed.
Brittany asked, "How did Ian end up being killed though?"
"We had found the videos on a USB; I think -A wanted us to find them. Either, to expose him or to keep us off their tracks. We did think Ian was -A, he had always had this creepy side to him and with these videos it just proved that. Somehow Ian knew we had these videos and wanted them back, he tricked Spencer into bringing them to the church. Ian was trying to get them back but we were trying to get him to admit to being -A, we figured it was our only chance. Spencer went to meet him with us waiting around the block, ready if she called for help. When things took too long, we rung her to see if she was okay and we heard a struggle over the phone. In the church, we found Spencer sobbing up the top, as she looked down at Ian Thomas motionless body, swinging with a bit of rope tied to his neck." I take a deep breath trying to calm my nervous as I remember that dead eye look, upon his face.
Quinn asked, "You saw a dead body?"
I answered with "That was my first time seeing it, however that's wasn't our last time."
At the shocked look upon their faces, I ask "Do you want me to continue?" While still shocked, they nodded their heads.
"Okay, so after calming Spencer down. We called the cops, however they couldn't find the body; apparently, someone had moved it. After that the whole town called us liars, thinking Ian had just runaway and we had helped him. Not even our parents really believed us, it was decided we were too close and the five of us were put on separate time. We weren't allowed to hang out anymore, had to make new friends. That's how I became friends with Maya, I had too basically. However, that was just more of a cover because the girls and I continued to meet up in secret. Five weeks later of separate time and of being called liars, Ian's body was finally found in a barn. There was a gun in his hand and a note in the other, confessing to everything. We were meant to think he was -A, however I worked out that the note was made up of -A texts and things weren't over. Mum was planning on moving us going to Texas because she was missing Dad, I was too but I couldn't leave not with -A still around. Eventually I convinced Mum to let me stay at Hanna's house for however long she would be in Texas for, however this now meant two of us living under the same roof; extremely easy for -A. It was in this time, we watched as Hanna gets ploughed down by a car."
Quinn cut me off with "Wait, Hanna's been in hit by a car and now Aria has too?"
"Yep," Maya said bringing herself into the conversation.
"So it must be the same person then," Santana said working it out.
"Let me continue. Hanna was hit bat the car for thinking she knew who -A was but it was wrong again. Hanna saw Noel Kahn write an -A like message on a car that Aria happened to be in, but he wasn't -A. He was just annoyed that Aria was with another guy, that wasn't him."
"Who was she with?" Brittany asked.
Glancing at Maya before saying with a sigh "Our at the time English teacher."
Santana asked "Aria dated a teacher."
"Still is," I say knowing she was extremely happy with Ezra at the moment.
Looking at the girls, I say "That's only the tip of the iceberg, there's way more to go with this."
"Okay, continue," Quinn instructed.
"For the next month I became -A's next target, I had upped my training to try and get a scholarship to Danby, I had been using this muscle cream to keep my muscles from aching and continue with my training."
Maya spoke up "Even though everyone told her to give up and relax, the scholarship would come on its own and she didn't need to be doing these crazy work outs."
"Shut up," I say before continuing with "However with the stress of -A and swimming everything got too much, I ended up collapsing at school. I was diagnosed with an ulcer, which is this big hole in my stomach."
"Are you okay?" Quinn asked worried.
I replied with "Yeah, I'm fine. Sadly, that wasn't the worse of it; -A had laced my creams with steroids and for an athlete that isn't good. So after this when I went back to swimming that's when I met Paige and had to deal with all of her stuff, which you already know."
Maya quickly cuts in with "Don't you dare try and set me up with her when we get to Rosewood."
"Oh, you know it's Paige and Maya forever or it's McCullers and St. Germain forever."
"I will hit you," Maya warned making me laugh.
"After the incident with Paige, I didn't tell anyone; especially the girls. I didn't tell them because anyone who looked at us weirdly was suddenly on the -A list and I didn't want Paige ending up on that list. Three months later however the girls found out Paige had tried to drown, they didn't know why she had done it but now in their minds Paige had anger issues. Paige's case wasn't helped when they saw her slam her locker door, Paige told me that she had told her parents she was gay that weekend and they hadn't taken it very well. In their minds, Paige was -A and they tried to convince me but I was having none of it and this tore our friendship a part. It was then that I told Maya about -A, she had seen how stressed out I was and that I wasn't hanging with the girls anymore. She wasn't the first we told about -A but she was the first person I told outside of the other four girls."
Brittany asked, "Why did you tell Maya?"
"I trusted her a lot then and she was able to clear my head. I didn't even mean to tell her, it all just came out."
Maya said "I didn't know that was the reason you told me. I'm glad you told me, so I could help out."
"You tried anyway but it was good having another person we could trust on our side."
Quinn asked "Who else knew?"
"Caleb, he is Hanna's boyfriend and really amazing when it comes to anything tech. Ezra, who is Aria's boyfriend our old teacher and Toby, Spencer told him."
"Plus they also thought he was -A as well," Maya added.
Santana asked "Why did you think Toby was -A?"
"I didn't but he was the strange kid of the town or that's what everyone thought he was. Toby and Alison don't exactly get along, so Alison made them convinced it had to be him."
Quinn then asked "Jenna, how did she lose her sight?"
I answer with "Jenna's accident happened when our hide-out place blew up, it was somewhere in the woods that only Toby, Jenna and I knew about. Jenna and I were going to hang out there, the last thing I expect was to see it up in flames and Jenna's lifeless body inside. I managed to save her from dying but her sight was completely gone, -A had wanted to hurt me and well they achieved it."
"Damm," the three said.
"Yeah and that's not even the half of it."
"Please, continue," Santana instructed.
"So after the car accident, the steroids and then the hide-out begin blown up, we began to take -A, a lot serious after that. We made sure to check in every day through text. The next big shake up was Spencer being arrested for the murder of Ian, the police figured since Spencer was the only other person there and her hatred for him; it made sense to them that she had killed him. Spencer's parents being lawyers helped her get out on bail but her room and laptop had to be search, we start hiding anything dangerous we had at each other's house. Especially Aria, she gave me a handbag full of memorabilia of her relationship Ezra, Aria's parents didn't know at the time."
When Maya started laughing, I asked "What's so funny?"
"I'm just remembering that time Ella thought Spencer was the one dating Mr Fitz and then stepped in when Aria tried dancing with him because she was jealous."
"That last bit a little hazy for me," I say."
Maya spoke "That's right you were smashed at that dance."
"Alison bloody fault," I say to which Maya nods her head.
Continuing with "After months of the police thinking it was Spencer who had killed Ian, it was finally discovered Spencer hadn't and that was because of new evidence proving otherwise. Blood was found on Ian's clothing and this crazed cop who had it out for Ashley, he decided it was Hanna's blood. Which he wasn't wrong about; it was Hanna's blood type. We realised sometime -A had snuck in to take blood from Hanna, that was creepy. However, Wilden was murder before any of that could happen, footage showed Ashley running him over with her car but that didn't kill him."
"What did or who did?" Quinn asked.
"A gun killed him and it was in the hands of CeCe Drake. Who turned out of be Jason and Alison sister, they thought she died at birth but was sent to a sanatorium after she tried killing Alison as a baby. CeCe and Wilden had a relationship of some sort but he tried hitting on Alison one summer, driving CeCe insane but him and Ashley drove her even crazier. CeCe did kill him and is now locked up," I glance at Maya who nods her head.
Santana then asked "So who did you kill and why?"
"She killed my ex-boyfriend," Maya spoke looking across at me and then added "But it wasn't her fault, none of it was."
Taking a deep breath before saying, "Maya's parents sent her to rehab facility because of her green smoking habits and there she met this guy, but she broke up with him before coming back to Rosewood. This guy thought Maya and I were dating, he thought I had taken something from him and it was his turn to take something from me. He kidnapped Alison and I, he took us to this cabin. Where he told me, he was going to kill Alison right in front of me and then he'd kill me; slowly too," as I spoke I reach out and place my hand upon Maya's thigh.
I continue with "When he was approaching a scared Alison with a knife, he heard a noise outside and it gave me the chance to take off running with my phone. I made it to a lighthouse; I went to the top for better service and tried ringing nine-one-one. I was successful in getting them but just as I went to say something, I was punched in the face. We fought; I remember knocking the knife out of his hand and diving for it. The next minute it's being stabbed into his stomach and he falls back, bleeding out fast. I'm in shock and scared because I had never killed someone before. Caleb came running up the stairs and he saw me, he hugged me and then a loud bang goes off. Caleb was shot by his own gun, I don't know how but I was in too much shock to hear about it."
"Emily might've killed someone but it was out of self-defence only, Emily would never intentionally hurt someone; not ever," Maya said shaking her head as tears rolled down her cheek. When no one made any noise, I turn around to see them all sitting there in shock.
Clearing my throat, I ask "Do you want me to continue?" They all just nod their heads.
"As a group we continued to try and figure out who -A was. Well doing so, our lives continued. I got a job at the brew, Hanna studied more, Aria and Spencer took classes at Hollis and Alison went shopping. A year had passed and we were still nowhere near figuring out who A was, we were tiring each day. We were always trying to make sure our lies stuck and we never forgot a lie we told. Then one night Spencer was kidnapped, we had to work fast as we had a twenty-four-hour deadline to find her or a bullet would be fired at her head. With the help of Caleb, Toby and Maya, we managed to find her location but just as we got to the building it blew up. The four of us received a message saying try again and next time would be the real deal. We did manage to find a highly dehydrate, shriving and burnt Spencer. Still, we were no closer to figuring out who was -A and that was only beginning of the abduction. Aria was taken next, same deal with Spencer. Hanna followed a month after we found Aria. Alison was next and then it was me. The only people to ever know what happen to each of us, is the five of us. We never told anyone what happened to us, not even Toby, Caleb or Maya know."
Brittany asked, "Is that where the burns came from?"
"Yeah but I don't want to talk about it. After they got me back, Spencer was kidnapped again and we figured this was going to keep happening. Which scared us, we didn't want to keep being tortured like that. This time with Spencer she turned up at Radley sanatorium two weeks later, she didn't even know her name or where she was from. It was only when at her physic test that the doctor recognised her, Doctor Sullivan. Doctor Sullivan was a doctor our parents set us all up; to talk about what was going on and it had been her idea to separate us. Anyway, she informed Spencer's parents who told us, and we went to see her automatically. Eventually Spencer was able to tell us what happened to her and anything new we needed to know, which is that -A is a female and our age."
Maya asked "How did Spencer work out that she was your age again?"
"The person always left early morning and only arrived late afternoon, only school students return at that time."
"Damm Spencer and that brain of hers."
"I know, I'm just grateful for it."
"True," Maya said nodding her head.
"It was Labour Day weekend when I had the chance to finally unmask -A once and for all. The five of us were at Spencer's cabin Labour Day weekend; just enjoy some relaxing time together and no stressing about -A. We had just finished dinner and were playing some board games, when Spencer smelt something and Hanna turned it into a joke. It was nothing to joke about, the ground around the cabin had been set on fire and it was approaching the house. I got separate from the rest, I don't remember why but I went upstairs and I walked into my room to find a black hooded figure. They had their back to me, I didn't know what to do but the others were long gone by then and didn't realise I hadn't followed. When they turned around I saw a girl wearing a mask standing in front of me, she came charging at me and we fought. I remember knocking the mask off and seeing her face but I was knocked out before I could put anything together. I woke up in hospital two weeks later having no memory of the fire, I tried getting it back but it never happened for me."
I continue with "After that we became even closer together then before, always trying to plan to do things together or with another person we trusted. It was at a school dance in the new year we learnt who -A finally was, three years had led to this moment, so many lies had been told because of this person. We were at the welcome back to school dance when we trapped a black hooded figure in a classroom, they had a gun but no way out. When they pointed the gun at Alison, I snapped and tackled this person to the ground. I was able to knock the gun out and reveal the person to be Mona Vanderwaal, M.V," I shake my head at the end.
Santana asked, "Who is she?"
"A girl, I had fought before and held a long grudge against me because of it. Mona had called Alison crazy and some other things as well, which made Alison cry and like the tiger I am, I pounced on Mona."
"What's happened to her?" Quinn asked.
I replied with "She's currently in Radley. We learnt she had multi-personality disorder, which gives her extra smarts and strengthen. Doctor Sullivan isn't even sure if Mona knows what she has done."
I then say "That person who came to your house Santana to see me is some lawyer, she was handing me papers. Which were stating I need to appear in Rosewood court in two months to give a statement as to whether I think Mona can be released?"
Brittany asked, "Can she be released?"
"If she's not a danger to society but we really aren't sure."
"Is that everything?" Quinn asked.
"No. The reason we moved was because of -A, we tried leaving in Rosewood for a year but everyone kept watching and talking about us. My parents got sick of it, Dad asked for a transfer and here we are in Lima. Also, I've been getting -A texts again, but I have no idea who it is from because Mona is definitely still in Radley."
Santana asked, "How can you know for sure?"
"Hanna and Spencer went to see her last week," I say with a shrug.
"Why did they do that?" Maya asked.
"You know how they are about making sure I'm safe and that they are too."
Quinn said, "So you lied about why you moved?"
I replied with "Sort of, my Dad did get transferred he just asked for it. Look I'm sorry that I've had to lie to you all for so long but this is a very big thing, and it's scary; especially if it'd starts up again. I wanted to protect you all."
"I guess we can understand," Santana said but neither Quinn nor Brittany said anything.
Maya said "Well, welcome to Rosewood everyone."
"Are we really here already?" I asked surprised.
"Yep, there's the sign," Maya gestures to the welcome to Rosewood sign.
Looking over my shoulder, I say "See how the white paint for the population, the last number has running paint."
"Yeah," Quinn spoke.
"Mona did that after Ian's death and if she'd had the chance, she'd change it to mark the death of Wilden."
Maya asked "Are we still going to the hospital?"
"Ashley hasn't messaged me since I rang her before leaving, so yeah."
"Do you think Wren still works there?"
"Why fancy your chances?"
"You know me Em, dimples get me every time," I smile and shake my head at Maya's comments.
Santana then asked "So, are you gay, straight, bi?"
"I like people and hate labels," Maya states simply.
"Cool," Brittany said.
"Paige is going to be very disappointed to hear that you'd rather be with Wren then her."
Maya looked over me and said "I'll make you walk to the hospital. No, you'll enjoy it too much; freak."
"Such a charmer and a real lady, no wonder Paige likes you so much."
"Wait, does she actually like me?"
"Why does that make a difference for you?"
"Just answer the question smart ass," Maya states.
I replied with "Well it wasn't me she was checking out at practice, okay it was but after I knew she liked me it stopped. But you became her new focus, the thing she use to say," I snicker for affect.
"Like what?"
"Oh you know locker rooms, what is said in the locker room stays in the locker room." Maya pulls the car to a stop alongside the road we were traveling and turns to look at me, with a dead serious look.
"Tell me, what did Paige say about me?"
Smiling, I say "Nothing. Have you met Paige? It's like pulling teeth when trying to get her to admit something; it took me months to get her to tell me that she had feelings for me."
Maya said "I am going to kill you one day," she shakes her head and starts driving again.
"I just wanted to see where your head was at, but you so like her."
"I do not," Maya argued weakly back.
"Bloody bullshit, you just all but admitted it then. I told you Maya and McCullers forever, I know St. Cullers forever."
"Do not make that a thing!"
"Hanna will love it," I say laughing. Maya reaches over and punches me in the shoulder, giving me a dead arm but not stopping my laughter.
A/N: Hi, so I've been a crappy post of late, in which I am very sorry for. I keep forgetting my days and being tired that I forget. I've also been doing a lot of Saturday's. So, I am very sorry for not posting when I say I will be. Hopefully next weekend I don't forget but I do have plans. So, sorry in advance if it happens. To make up for my slackness, I gave you two chapters this week. These are big chapters, a lot happens in them and I hope you like them.
Song Reference List:
I Want You Back by The Jackson 5
I hope you like the addition of Maya to the story and look forward to seeing everyone in Rosewood. Thank-you for being patient and I'll see you soon or write to you soon, I don't know. Have a good night or day! ~KJ99!