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Chapter 19

The horrible burning in her throat wasn't going away. She felt like she was all the time sleeping. She was enveloped by the emptiness and nothingness. All she could see was never ending black color and all she could listen was dead silence. She didn't know how much it has been since she was in this state...maybe a week? Or maybe even years? She couldn't be sure. Or probably she was dead as she had concluded some days ago or hours ago? Argh... She didn't want to confuse herself more than she already was. She could not remember how she ended up here. Actually, she could not remember anything at all. All she could see when she closed her eyes was that she was falling from some building and a girl in red coat was looking smugly at her as she was falling down in something yellow...something warm...just it was getting too much warm to handle as she was falling further below. Besides that, she had no memory. She could distantly remember hearing shouts which sounded like Aria or even Alia when she was falling down. Nothing was clear for her. It was frustrating. She needed to try hard to remember at least something so that she will know where she was or who she was. Before she could think about it further, she involuntarily succumbed to uncontrollable sleep.

"I would do it only for you, honey", Caleb said softly. She was flooding with happiness. He came for her. Just for her.

"Thank you. I thought I lost you forever in the Ravenswood."
He smiled lightly before giving her her favourite coffee from starbucks. Before she could drink it, there was a loud noise THUMP!
She looked at Caleb. He looked concerned too. Then again the loud noise came...
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
"HANNAH!" someone screamed and she fell hard from the bed.

She opened her eyes to see Emily hovering over her looking worried.
"What is it, Em? I was having my best dream ever!" Hannah whined.
Emily shot her a look. She always wondered how exactly Hannah's mind worked. She just couldn't get serious about anything, can she?
"Just get up! They said that Spencer's mom is going to try to bail us out today." Emil said nonchalantly. She didn't want raise her or Hannah's hopes about anything. They were already enough unlucky.
"How is Spence?" Hannah asked ignoring the rest. She also didn't want to get her hopes high.
"Pretty bad actually. She is like she is...um...lost? Something of that sort. She keeps spacing out. It is exactly like what happened when A faked Toby's death."
"uh-hm." Hannah said thinking about it. "May be it will be good for her, you know. She can go to Radley and hang out with Wren."
Hearing Hannah's word, Emily just stared at her in disbelief. Hannah will always be Hannah regardless of situation around them. Before Emily could say anything, Hannah suddenly jumped out of her bed and squealed, "yes!"
She pulled stunned Emily towards her and spoke in her ear, "what if we fake the mental illness like Mona did? Maybe we can get away. I know Spenc wants to quit looking for A. But I want to try. After all Cece killed Aria and we know she works for A! I need to hunt down him/her. I just can't sit here ideally and wait for these crappy police to find the CeCe or Alison or A."
Emily was shocked would be an understatement. She never thought Hannah could come with such a plan. After hearing Hannah's word, she felt the urge to take revenge of Aria's murder too. She knew that mental hospital will definitely be better than this jail. She stared at Hannah's hopeful face for a sometime before nodding in the agreement.

That day neither Hannah nor Emily complained about anything to the guards. They were too busy planning their escape.
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She was pacing her room incessantly. She had escaped from the tower merely by luck. Police were too busy checking those three that they didn't notice her slipping from the door in all chaos. She was all again now. She didn't know what happened to CeCe. From television she knew that Aria was dead. That news had added to her worries as well. Now she had to stay on high alert because she was sure that Ezra will seek his revenge. She was all again alone in this game. She was now more vulnerable to Ezra than ever. She needed to improve her plot. The old one was useless with its all players gone: Cece missing, Ezra hunting her, Aria dead and other three in jail. She knew she could do it. "I am Alison and nothing stops Alison, not even the defeat.", she murmured to herself. With that she turned around and disappeared in yet another dark ally.

Car stopped in front of a secluded mansion. It looked like it has not been habited for centuries. It was covered by ivies and brown dirt. But upon looking closely, one could see that all the glasses of windows were intact and the porch was surprisingly clean. Its apparent look was indeed a façade. Ezra Fitz got down from the car warily. He had feeling that he will be attacked by someone or something anytime now. He had checked around ten times now, but this was the correct address. Now he stood there waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened though. He couldn't even hear a sound of leaves moving. He took a deep breath and walked inside the mansion until he reached its door. As he was instructed, he tapped six times on the door and rang the doorbell twice. The door opened with slight cracking voice. He could not see who opened the door though. He was about to step in when something hit hard on his head and everything went black.

He slowly opened his eyes to find himself bound in the chair. It was pitch dark everywhere. He could not see anything but he could rhythmic breathing of someone near him. Before he could take in everything around him, the door opened letting in bright white blinding his eyes. As he adjusted his eyes, he could see hooded figure standing in the door. A small whimper beside his made him snap his head in that direction. The sight in front of him made him feel relieved and dreadful at the same time.
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