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"So, I take it everything with you two is going well?" Spencer asked, handing Alison her stuff. Ali gave me a look that told me that I was on my own, and then she ran back upstairs to get ready for school.
"I think that finally, everything is going well," I answered, nodding and smiling shyly.
"What'd you guys do last night?" Spencer wondered, raising both of her eyebrows high.
I rolled my eyes. "We just talked and stuff."
"Mmhmm," Spencer answered, giving me a look that told me that she totally didn't believe me.
"We'll see you at school," I said, rolling my eyes again and starting to close to the door.
"Guys," Ali said suddenly, coming down the stairs and still in her borrowed pajamas.
"What's up?" I asked, my eyebrows knitting in concern.
"My journal is gone," she stated, and my mouth went dry. Spencer and I exchanged nervous looks. "But that's not all…"
"What, Ali?" Spencer demanded.
"I had a key in my purse. It opens this locked drawer in my room," Alison stated. "The drawer has two journals full of some of that same stuff that was in that other journal that you guys had before I came back. It's gone."
I swallowed thickly, crossing my arms over my chest nervously. Spencer took a deep breath. "We think A took these things?" Alison shrugged, but the look on her face had the obvious answer. "Okay well, we don't have to worry. There shouldn't be anything in there that A doesn't already know."
"That's not the point, Spence," I objected, because I had already picked up on the problem, like Ali had. "Don't you remember that text A sent Ali? There are things in those journals that could bring a lot of people down."
"Well… they're coded, right?" Spencer asked. Ali's face contorted into a pained expression. "Right? Ali, you coded those journals, didn't you?"
"I had them under lock and key," Alison said in a pleading voice. Spencer huffed and put her hand on her forehead.
"Okay, before we all freak out, let's just think this through. The journal was in my room, which means that A had to have come in last night while Ali and I were sleeping," I stated, though it didn't make me feel any less freaked out. "But the key was at your place, Spence. Did you see anything weird there?"
Spencer shrugged. "The place was locked up all night. A has a lot of ways, though."
"Wait a second, does Melissa still have a key to the house?" Alison interjected. Spencer nodded, and then she sighed.
"Damn it," she growled. "Do we think that Mona's team has got to be A then?"
"I think there's a really good chance," I answered, giving Ali a concerned look. She returned it with one that looked hopeless. I just wanted to wrap her in my arms and promise her that it would all be okay. I couldn't promise that, though. There were too many things that I couldn't control, no matter how badly I wanted to be able to control them.
Spencer sighed. "Okay. We'll talk about this later. Maybe you guys can stop at Ali's house and check to see if those journals are still there?"
"Doubt it," I muttered.
"Just check," Spencer commanded, and I shrugged in response.
"See you at school," I muttered, and then I closed the door as she walked toward her car. I looked at Ali, and she bit her lip nervously.
"I'm going to go get ready. We can stop at my house on the way to school," she muttered, before heading upstairs again. Sighing and feeling slightly depressed at the situation, I made my way into the kitchen and made some toast for me and Ali. A few minutes later, she came downstairs with her backpack and her purse. "I left my bag upstairs. I hope that's okay?"
"Do you want to stay here again tonight?" I asked her.
Ali bit her lip, but this time she didn't look nervous. "If that's okay?"
"Of course it's okay," I assured her, smiling a sweet smile and handing her a slice of toast. She took it with a grateful smile and we started eating on our way out to my car.
A minute later, we stopped in front of Ali's house and hurried to run inside and up to her room. Alison tried the drawer, but it didn't budge. "Either A hasn't been here, or he-she just locked it up again to keep us from checking if it was still there."
I walked over to the desk and searched for a bobby pin. When I found one, I knelt in front of the drawer and stuck the thing in the tiny lock. A few seconds later, the thing clicked.
"Didn't know you could do that," Ali commented.
"Spencer taught us all last year," I admitted, shrugging. I looked at the blonde, telling her that she should do the honors, and she knelt next to me and pulled the drawer open. Two journals sat there, but Ali didn't show any signs of relief. She opened both of them, and there were only a few sentences written in them.
"A took them," Alison stated, sighing sadly. "I'm so screwed. A is probably going to get everything in there out to the public."
"Don't get too worried yet, okay? Maybe Spence can try to get something out of her sister," I suggested.
"Didn't she already try that and get nothing?" Alison reminded me, and I sighed.
"Come on, we're going to be late," I said, taking her hand and standing up. We walked out of her room and downstairs hand in hand. As we walked through her living room, I tried not to remember the events that had taken place just a week ago in here. I tried to speed up my pace without Ali noticing, but she definitely noticed as she squeezed my hand.
We got back into my car and we were both too deep in thought to talk on our way to school.
When we got there, we were immediately ambushed by Spencer and Aria. "Well?" Aria demanded, obviously already caught up on what had happened.
"They're gone," Alison stated, "at least, the ones worth taking."
"We are so screwed," Spencer groaned.
"Hey, do you think you can talk to Melissa again?" I asked, trying to avoid feeling totally hopeless.
Spencer shrugged. "I don't think she wants to talk to me about anything right now. Now that my parents are separated, things are just even weirder between me and Melissa."
"Well, can any of us talk to her?" Aria asked. "Or is that totally a stupid idea?"
"It's not totally stupid," Ali said. "Maybe one of us should. Not me, though. Melissa hates me."
"Where's Hanna?" I asked suddenly, realizing that she should probably be in this conversation as well.
Spencer and Aria shrugged. "We haven't seen her," Aria stated. "I tried calling her, but she didn't pick up. But have any of you noticed that she's been a little weird lately?"
"What do you mean?" Spencer asked.
Aria just shrugged, looking at me for help. I shrugged as well, and tried, "She did change her hair. A year ago, Hanna never would've put black in her hair."
"Also, I'm pretty sure that she's been hanging around with Caleb a lot," Aria said.
"So?" Spencer asked. "They did date once, remember that?"
Aria shrugged. "He seemed sort of sketch when we saw him last week. Plus, I'm pretty sure that she was with him when she said she had to do something with her mom."
"She lied to us?" Alison asked, furrowing her eyebrows.
Aria shrugged. "I'm just worried about her. Do you think you can talk to her, Em?"
"I can try," I agreed, not really sure why she thought that me talking to her was the best option.
The bell rang, and everyone in front of the school started to make there way inside. "See you all at lunch?" Spencer asked, and we all nodded in response, and then we dispersed as we made our way into the school.
AAA
At lunch, I was the first to sit down at our table. That always made me feel weird, because when you sat alone, people sent you weird looks. I ignored the ones I felt directed toward me, starting to take some bites of the salad that I wasn't hungry for.
Emily was the first to sit down with me at the table. She took her spot across from me. "Are you okay?" she asked immediately.
I shrugged. "I can't help but think that in a few days, everyone that I ever wrote about in those journals will see what I said."
"Well didn't you say that a lot of the entries are similar to the ones in that other journal?" Emily asked. "Most of those were about us four, which really brings us down more than you."
"Yeah, but… some of them in these journals were about other people," I admitted. Those were my worst journals, which is why I'd kept them under lock and key. It was always easier knowing that no one would be able to get to them. "There's some about average people that I only talked to a couple of times. There are a few entries about Paige. Some about Mona… Melissa, Lucas… all of the people who hate me. If everyone at school saw the things that I'd said about them in writing, they would all hate me."
Emily frowned. "Maybe A isn't going to hand those entries out on a silver platter."
"What else would A do? If anything, he-she will demand that I do something horrible in return for the journals back. And if that's true, A will probably still keep copies of all of them," I pointed out, shaking my head. "We just have to brace ourselves for what A is going to do."
Emily sighed, and I knew that it was hard for her to admit that there wasn't any hope. I reached across the table and took her hand, squeezing it lightly.
"Are you two having a moment?" Aria teased as she sat down next to Emily suddenly.
"If by a moment you mean a realization that soon everyone in the school is going to hate my guts even more than they do right now, then yes," I answered sarcastically, pulling my hand away from Emily's.
Aria sighed. "Can we talk about anything else?"
"How about Hanna?" Spencer piped up, sitting down next to me. "Anyone seen her yet?"
We all shook our heads. Emily said, "I tried to call her again, but she didn't pick up. I'm starting to get worried."
"Did anyone try calling Caleb or Hanna's mom?" Spencer asked. We all exchanged looks, and then Emily took out her phone and made a call. We watched her with concerned looks as the phone rung.
"Hey, Caleb," Emily said, once he'd picked up. "Is Hanna with you? No? Well did you see her yesterday at all? She's not at school. Okay, thanks."
"What'd he say?" Aria demanded.
"He was with her last night, and she took a taxi home afterward because she'd been drinking," Emily answered, frowning.
"She's probably laying in bed hung over," Spencer decided, sighing. I frowned, because I was starting to feel worried about Hanna. I knew that at some point she would start reacting to me being back in a negative way. I hoped that this wasn't what that was.
"What do you think, Ali?" Aria asked, probably noticing the distant expression on my face.
I shrugged. "I hope she's alright."
We ate the rest of our lunch in silence, and then we gave each other quiet goodbyes before splitting up again. As I started walking off, though, Emily caught me. "Hey, do you want to go with me to talk to Hanna after school?" she asked.
"She'll probably talk to you more if I'm not there," I stated, shrugging. "But I guess I'm going wherever you're going. I'll just stay downstairs while you talk to her or something."
"Okay," Emily agreed. "See you later."
She flashed me a sweet smile, and I returned it with one of my own, and then we split up. I sighed as she walked away. On one hand, I felt so proud of myself for having admitted all of my feelings toward her, but I didn't feel any less scared. Now, A had even more of a reason to target Emily.
I swallowed thickly, hugging my books to my chest, and hurried to my next class. Would there ever be a time that I could stop being so scared?
Not much Emison in this chapter, but don't worry, you'll get it :)
I decided to put the Hanna stuff in here, at least some of it :P
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I feel like I had something important to say here, but I can't remember.
Oh i remember! I might not update until like Sunday night, guys, because tomorrow I'm leaving for my sister's place. It's my nephew's bday party. So yeah.
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