"Yes, she did."

"Did you believe her?" Spencer asked, looking the boy over, "You are just like Alison, aren't you?"

"In some ways, even worse." Jason smirked, taking a sip from his glass, "Besides, Sadie came crying to me and told me everything the night it happened."

Spencer's head snapped towards Jason, lips parting in shock as Sadie looks at her with a small, guilty smile on her face.

"When Alison came to me and told me that it was you, that had made the plan to go to Toby's, I had already heard the story from Sadie."

"And you believed Sadie over your own sister?" Spencer tilts her head.

Jason glanced back at his girlfriend as she spoke his next words to Spencer, "I trust Sadie a hell of a lot more than I would ever trust Alison."

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          ❝ 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐎 she tried to pin it on you? ❞ Hanna asked as the five friends were now in Spencer's house.

"That's what she told Jason." Spencer fluffed the pillow before sitting down, "He didn't believe her though because Sadie had told him the truth way before she went to him."

"But why you?" Emily asked.

"Because Spencer and I could stand up to her, and Alison didn't like that." Sadie sighed, rubbing at her forehead as a headache formed.

"God, this is officially insane." Hanna sat down next to Sadie on the couch, Emily sitting next to her and Aria sitting on the arm of the couch by Sadie.

"Is that what she told Jenna when she was at the hospital?" Emily questioned.

"I don't know. I mean, I don't think so, but I don't know."

"Okay, so one minute, she's trying to cover it up. . . and the next, she's ratting us out to her brother?" Aria asked.

"Like she wanted Jason to know the fake story in case anything happened to her." Emily concludes, as if trying to figure out why Alison had told someone after they all promised not to.

"Why?"

"So they'd know who to blame." Spencer spits out.

"God. This is still Alison's movie, and we're just filling up the screen."

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𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 at the podium, the other girls sitting in the chairs on one side while Jason sat with Jenna on the other side. As she goes to open her mouth, something — or rather someone — catches her eyes.

Looking down at the four girls, they turn around, Sadie's eyes going wide as she took in the figure of Ian Thomas.

"Ian?" Aria whispered.

"Wait, Melissa's Ian?" Hannah is confused.

"Um. . . ," Spencer closes the book she had brought with her, the girls turning back to face the front, "I can't remember not knowing Alison. Not having her as a friend. She was the first person I knew long enough. . . that I felt I could be angry with. . . without worrying that I was gonna lose her. It made me feel like something was gonna last. And you need that. Yeah, especially when you're a kid."

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          ❝ 𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 sugar. ❞ Hanna announces as the girls walk into Spencer's house, Jason following behind them.

"That was my folks. They say thanks." Jason tells the girls, "So do I."

"You're welcome."

"And I want you girls to have something." Jason tells them, pulling Alison's bracelet from his suite pocket and sat it on the middle of the table.

Sadie's head snapped to her boyfriend, "Jase, the police gave this to you?"

"Alison was wearing it."

"Wait. You mean when they found her?" Hanna asked as Aria had picked the bracelet up to examine it.

"After listening today, I just thought you should have it. I'll be in touch." Jason says, brushing his hand along Sadie's back before he walked out.

"If that's Alison's bracelet, what about the one we found in the woods?" Emily asked, all of them scared.

"I don't know."

"Someone made a copy of Alison's bracelet."

"Yeah and made sure that we would find it."