A/N: Good news! In the last two hours, I managed a 3,000 word chapter (chapter 5) for this story. The best part of that news is that I didn't check how long it was the whole time I was writing it, which basically means that stuff for this story is coming really easy for me, which means much better updates for you :) Chapter 5 is actually my favorite chapter so far, but anyway, here is chapter four :)

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"Wait, so someone really tried to kill you?" Aria demanded.

"That, or just scare me really bad," Ali answered, swallowing visibly, and shaking her head. "I don't know for sure, though. Emily got inside in time to keep any possibility of me dying out of the question."

She gave me a grateful smile, and I returned it with a smile of my own. I personally was still a little bit terrified after what had happened earlier. By this point, I wasn't sure that I wanted to let Ali out of my sight at all.

"What does A want?" Spencer asked, sounding exasperated. "Does he or she want you dead, alive, in Rosewood, out of Rosewood? Can't it make up its mind?"

Ali shrugged. "I have no idea, but this is exactly why I didn't want to come back to Rosewood in the first place."

"Well you can't leave now," I said, maybe a little too quickly. "Everyone is keeping tabs on you, and you can bet that A is doing it the most. Whatever A has planned for you, or any of us, he or she isn't going to be letting us run off anytime soon."

"Emily's right," Hanna agreed, nodding.

"Yeah, you can't leave," Aria said. "Plus, we just got you back. And we're not going to let A take you away, and we're not going to let you take yourself away."

"A almost got me this time. How can you be sure that he won't do it again?" Ali snapped.

"We just can't let you be alone," Hanna stated, getting nods from the rest of us, besides Ali.

"That's crazy," Alison argued, shaking her head.

"Why? Haven't you had two sleepovers with Emily in the last few nights?" Spencer pointed out, and Ali and I immediately exchanged concerned looks, like we didn't understand why Spencer was bringing this up. "Your dad doesn't seem to care if you're out as long as you're with someone. So don't go anywhere alone. We'll take turns with who sleeps over with you or who you sleep over with."

"Sounds like a good enough plan," Aria agreed.

"I still don't think its necessary," Alison argued.

I shook my head at the blonde. "C'mon Ali, you have to admit that it'll feel safer to be with someone else."

Ali's eyes met mine, and I swallowed thickly, averting my eyes. "I guess," Ali decided, looking at the other girls.

"Okay, so you stayed with Emily last night. You can stay with me tonight," Hanna decided. Alison just nodded in response.

"Good, so this is all settled," Spencer stated, sounding relieved. "I can't believe that A tried to kill you."

"Are you really that surprised, Spencer?" Ali snapped. "A's done it before. Multiple times, to all of us. We've all just been really lucky. But one day all of our luck is going to run out, and we're going to be helpless."

We all exchanged concerned looks. Ali was right, A had tried to kill us all before. Someone had just always been there to save us, or A hadn't tried necessarily hard enough. Something told me, though, that A was maybe just trying to show us, even still, that it was possible for him or her to kill us. That if we did the wrong thing, he or she could do it.

I hoped that I never had to find out if A was really capable of taking one of our lives.

"I don't think you want to go to school, huh?" Aria asked Ali carefully.

"Well showing up late might just draw more attention than if I don't show up at all. Same goes for all of you. Those people want to find anything that I do that might make me somehow even more bad than I used to be. And Mona and her freak army or whatever is still out there. And we have no idea how many people are in that team," Ali reminded us.

I cleared my throat. "I'm going to talk to Paige today and see if she can get me a list of all of those people. I know that she hates you, but I think that she'll eventually give in."

Alison nodded, but her lips turned down into a frown. "Careful. I don't trust Paige."

"I don't either," I admitted. Sure, I trusted her more than say Mona, but after she told the cops that Alison was alive, I wouldn't be able to ever completely trust her again. Alison nodded and looked around at the other girls.

"I'll take Ali over to my place," Hanna said. "You guys go to school."

Spencer, Aria and I nodded and got up to leave. "See you, Ali," we all said quickly to Alison, who gave us all smiles. The one she gave to me was more of a grateful one, like the ones she kept giving me all morning after I saved her. Even though they were sort of just a thank you, they kept making my heart beat faster, and I wasn't sure how I felt about that.

"What's going on between you and Ali?" Aria asked me as we walked outside and toward our cars.

"Nothing," I answered, giving Aria as weird of a look that I could muster up on short notice.

Aria gave me a look that said "Don't try to lie to me". I sighed. "I don't even know yet, okay?"

"Have you guys like… talked about stuff like that at all?" Aria wondered.

I shrugged. "It doesn't matter. How can I really believe anything she says anymore?"

"Emily, she might've lied to us a lot. But you of all people should be able to admit to the fact that Alison had definitely changed since she got back. She may have snapped at Mona, but she hasn't really snapped at any of us like that since she got back," Aria reminded me. "Don't forget that. Okay? I'll see you in English."

AAA

"Alright, Alison," Hanna said, as soon as we entered her kitchen, "what is going on between you and Emily? You were holding onto her hand for dear life when we were watching the News. And now that I'm thinking back, you were doing the same thing when we saw you in New York. Also, you keep giving her these weird looks."

I huffed. Of course Hanna wanted to call first shift on this new Ali Watch thing so that she could interrogate me on me and Emily. "Nothing is going on, Hanna."

"Maybe not at this exact moment," Hanna agreed, "but clearly, something is happening there."

"Look, I already told you what happened," I snapped.

"Yeah, and I think that you're still keeping something from me about it," Hanna argued. "Ali, I'm not the same quiet, scared girl that I was two years ago. You can't just lie and keep stuff from me anymore. Or any of us."

I sighed. "I know. You've all grown up so much since I left. Sometimes, I'm actually happy that I left, because I would've kept you all from becoming your own person. I really wasn't a very great friend to any of you. But I want to change that, I do, but I don't want to talk about Emily, okay?"

"Well that in itself has me dying to know more," Hanna pleaded. "Come on, did you kiss her?" I couldn't help but roll my eyes, because that was one of my defense mechanisms, and Hanna could probably tell. "Oh my gosh! You did, didn't you?"

"Well if I'm being completely honest, she kissed me first," I muttered.

"But you kissed her back!" Hanna exclaimed, grinning like a fool. "That is so sweet!"

I set my jaw as I met her eyes. "Don't tell anyone about this, okay? And I'm not saying that because it's some secret that I think will keep us close, so don't freak out. I literally have no idea what's going to happen, and I don't want a bunch of people to find out what happened and make some big story out of it, okay?"

"I understand," Hanna agreed, nodding, but there was something weird about her expression.

"What?" I demanded.

"You know that I'm not going to tell anyone, but how are you going to shut A up? That bitch knows everything," Hanna reminded me.

"I know," I agreed with a nod. "But as it's been pointed out to me this morning, there's really no way to me to stop A from doing anything."

"Have you gotten any more texts?" Hanna asked me nervously.

"Just one, yesterday. A is trying to make me think that you girls don't want me here," I explained. "Which makes me think that A wants me gone, but then why was A trying so hard to find me before? I really just don't know what to think."

"We'll figure it out," Hanna promised, "eventually."

I sighed. "Eventually. Hey, Han, can you take me to my house? You can come in with me… I just need to grab something from my room."

"Sure," Hanna agreed, grabbing her keys. A few minutes later, we were in front of my house. She got out with me and we both went into my house, carefully making our way upstairs. When we got to my room, I retrieved the key to my drawer, not being discreet at all. "Whoa, what's that for?"

I didn't answer as I squatted down in front of the drawer and unlocked it. I pulled out all of the journals. I glanced in all of them. Two of them only had a few things written down, and another two were filled with things just like the journal that my friends had found in Ravenswood. This one, though, didn't have special code names. I decided to leave those and the two blank ones in the locked drawer, and hide the key somewhere new. Maybe I'd keep it with me. But I kept the Emily journal with me. Maybe reading some of the old entries and things would help me figure out what exactly I was feeling.

"What's that?" Hanna asked.

"Just a journal that I took with me when I left," I explained. "At the time, it wasn't locked up. I had it hidden somewhere else, and I picked it up before I left Rosewood completely. After Mona sent me off."

"Why that one?" Hanna asked.

"It's personal," I stated. "Don't worry. It's not about all of your secrets this time."

Hanna just nodded, and we left my room, going back downstairs and outside and getting into Hanna's car. I would have to wait a little while, maybe until Hanna was doing homework or something, before I could read it. I didn't want her to see what was in it.

EEE

"Paige," I said, walking into the girls locker room after school was over. I knew I'd find her there, getting ready for swim practice.

"Oh, hey Emily," she greeted, giving me a smile. I returned it with just a half smile.

"I need a favor," I stated. She looked at me warily, like she knew what I was going to ask. "I need a list of the people working with Mona."

Paige shook her head. "I can't. I told you, I'm not going to rat them out."

"Paige," I growled, "Ali almost died. And I'm not talking about when she disappeared, I'm talking about this week."

"What, the explosion? She wasn't even in there," Paige stated.

"I know, but my whole window blew in from it," I snapped, "and Ali was there."

"They said it was a gas leak, anyway," Paige stated.

I narrowed my eyes. "Paige, someone is trying to hurt Alison. If it's Mona's Anti-Ali club, I need to know who they are. I know that you're trying to be impartial and all because you hate Ali. Trust me, I know that you hate Alison. But still, how would you feel about yourself if you knew that there was something you could've done to save her from dying, and you didn't do it?"

Paige just stared at me.

"I don't know about you, but I would feel pretty bad. Whether it was Ali, you, or someone else entirely," I added.

"Fine. I don't know the names of everyone in there, but I do know that Lucas was in there, and Melissa," Paige stated.

"Melissa?" I demanded.

"Hastings," Paige confirmed, nodding. "Besides them and Mona, I don't know everyone's names. I'll tell you if I find out, but I really don't know. I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Thank you so much," I said, turning away and starting out of the locker room.

"Hey, Em!" Paige called. "Does this win me trust points back?"

I turned around to face Paige and let out sigh through my nose. "I don't know, Paige." And then I left. I wasn't going to hang around and listen to Paige's apologies again and again. I was tired of hearing them.

Now that I had the names, I had to get to Hanna's house before A or Team Mona came after with me with pitch forks and knives.

Go awaaaay Paaaaige!

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So recently, I've accepted an A theory. I usually never find any that I find believable, but I have accepted one now, and I may try to implement it into this story :) But I'm not telling you what it is ;)

Ahh PLL is on Tuesday and i'm sooooo excited. I have a school thing though that could take all day, and I don't know if I'll be back in time to watch PLL when it comes on at 7 :S I'm gonna record it, so it won't be a huge problem if I do miss it, but it means I won't be on Twitter until I do watch it. Hopefully my school thing will end before seven though.

The school thing is for this thing I'm helping with. It's like a camp, HS intro thing for incoming freshman at my high school. Tuesday is our training day for it, where we basically get a feel and a run down for what we're doing. The actual thing is actually this weekend... and you know what that means :( No updates this weekend.

But that's not our concern right now! Our concern is this week, and hopefully you'll get at least one more update from this story this week ;) CD and SOWK should each get a couple of updates as well. IDDA is going slower, I hit a bit of a block for Quinntana last week, so I have to do a little brainstorming before I can get another chapter up!

Anyway! I've gotta get my sleep schedule a little bit under control... I have to be up at 6 or 7 on Tuesday, and same with Sat/Sun... so I've gotta keep myself on a go to bed by midnight schedule until its over.

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