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𝒊.   𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘      𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘,     𝖦𝖮𝖫𝖣𝖨𝖤 ‧₊˚📱✩

▐ 𝖥𝖨𝖤𝖫𝖣'𝖲 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖨𝖣𝖤𝖭𝖢𝖤
      𝖤𝖬𝖨𝖫𝖸'𝖲 𝖡𝖤𝖣𝖱𝖮𝖮𝖬

          ❝ 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 Jenna? ❞

The five girls sit on Emily's bed, having spent the last hour or so watching the videos from the flash-drive they had found in the storage unit.

"You're late."

"Who's she talking to?"

On the video, Jenna turns away from the mirror, the camera panning to Toby who stood behind his step-sister.

"Toby." Spencer sits up, moving closer to the screen.

"It's not right." Video Toby says as Jenna wraps her arms around his neck.

"There's nothing wrong about us, Toby. We're not really related." Jenna tells him with a chuckle, "It'd be so easy for me to convince your daddy and my mommy that you've been forcing yourself on me."

The girls keep their eyes on the video, Sadie shaking her head as anger fills her body at the thought of the hell that Toby had been going through because of his step-sister.

"You have no idea who you're dealing with." Jenna slides Toby's shirt off his shoulders.

"Turn it off." Spencer tells them, Emily moving forward to close her laptop.

"Do you realize what these videos are?" Aria asked as they all sat in shock, "They're of us...Ali, Jenna. We're young girls in our bedrooms, changing clothes. We're naked."

"Exposed."

"Do you think someone was watching us and getting off on it?" Hanna asked.

"Well, we all know who had a thing for younger girls." Sadie sighs as she takes the flash-drive out of the computer.

"I feel sick." Emily whispers.

"In some of these, we were just kids."

"Ian's been watching us for years."

"And he killed Alison to make sure that nobody found out." Spencer says, watching as Sadie taps the flash-drive against the palm of her hand.

"I wish Ali would've told us about these videos." Emily has a sad look on her face as she thinks about yet another secret that Alison had kept away from them.

"You guys, it is not too late to help her." Spencer takes the flash-drive from Sadie's hand, standing up from the bed, "We can use this to prove that Ian killed Alison."

"How are we gonna do that?"

"We start by finding out what Jenna knows."

Sadie looks up at Spencer in disbelief, "Spence, I love you, I really do, but are you on something?"

"Jenna's at the top of our A-list." Hanna tells the Hastings girl.

"Look, I get it, okay, but she knows that those videos existed." Spencer vocalized to her best friends, "She was looking for them. That's why she hired Caleb to find that key!"

"Spencer, how are we even supposed to believe anything that bitch says?"

"If that bitch is A, then this could be a trap." Emily added.

"You guys, Ian was watching all of us. And for all we know, he still is." Sadie sighed, running a hand through her curled blonde hair. "Spencer's right. We have to try."

Spencer turns away from looking out Emily's window, turning back to face the girls, "We've been afraid of her since the Jenna thing and now we finally have something that she wants. And Alison gave it to us.

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          ❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄 you so quiet? ❞ Will asked his little sister as she moved the scrambled eggs around on her plate. "Sades, stop playing with your food and eat it. And tell me what's bothering you."

"I think I should tell them Jason and I are married." She sighed, sitting her fork down. "I'm tired of hiding it from them, I miss wearing my rings....I just don't want them finding out through someone else and hating me for not telling them."

"Look, Sadie, you don't owe them anything. They can't hate you for hiding something that society today, mostly the older people, will judge you for." Will moves around the island to stand in front of his sister. "But if you want to tell them, then I will stand by your side and I'll support you through it. Okay?"

"Okay."

Will smiles, ruffling her hair, "Now, finish eating and get your ass to school. I have to pull an all nighter at the hospital, so I won't be home tonight, but Cass gets off at six, so she'll be here tonight."

"Gotcha. Have fun."

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          ❝ 𝐍𝐎, 𝐈 don't need you to come here. ❞ Sadie shuffles through her locker with her phone pressed against her ear as she talked to Jason, "I think they'll be less mad at me if I tell them myself."

"You don't have to do it on your own, Sades." Jason tells her, moving around his bedroom as he put the clean laundry away he had washed.

"I know I don't have too, but I feel like I need to." She sighed, bringing her hand up to feel the chain hanging on her neck, "Besides, like I told Will this morning, I miss seeing my rings on my hand instead of hanging on a chain that can fall off at any given time."

Jason chuckled, "Yeah, I'd hate for you to lose them considering how many carrots they are and how much I spent on both it and the engagement ring."

"Shut up, I don't want to hear it." She rolled her eyes, glancing to the left of her where she sees Mona and Hanna talking at the blonde's locker, "Anyway, I'm in a crowded school hallway, and I really need to go."

"Okay. Call me if you need me." Jason utters, "I love you."

She smiles softly, "I love you. Bye.

"Bye."

Hanging up, Sadie closes her locker just as the others walk up to their own, but all five of them turn to where Jenna is walking down the hallway with her flute case in hand, all of them following her as she turned the corner.

"Who's there?" Jenna calls out as she hears footsteps from behind her.

"It's Spencer." Spencer answers her, and Jenna turns around.

"Who else?"

"Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Sadie."

"Should I call security?" Asked Jenna.

Sadie rolls her eyes, "Nobody's gonna slap you blind ass again, Jenna."

"We have what you hired Caleb to find." Spencer tells the Marshall girl, keeping her face straight even though Jenna couldn't see any of them.

"You didn't think it was wrong, but Toby did."

"So..you've seen it?" Jenna questions them, her mouth being the only expression they could see from her.

"Every frame." Sadie spat, a heated glare on her face.

"What do you want from me?"

"The truth. Can you handle that?"

Jenna sighed, "Look, when I said that Alison came to visit me at the hospital I was telling you the truth. She didn't come to talk about you, Spencer. That was a lie."

Spencer crossed her arms over her chest, "And how do we know that you're not lying to us now?"

"You knew Alison, okay? You knew what she was capable of."

"We're listening."

"It was the day before she went missing and she was on her way home from Georgia." Jenna said, the five girls looking at each other in confusion, "She had just found the video," She scoffed, "She couldn't wait to play it for me."

"She was on her way home from Georgia?"

"That's — that's what she said. And then she made some joke about her...tan." Jenna chuckled, "Too bad I couldn't see it."

"Did she tell you anything else?" Sadie asked, standing next to Spencer.

"It was a short...visit. Look, I...I have given you what you've asked for. What are you gonna give me?"

"We're not gonna give you anything Jenna, you're not getting the video back." Sadie tells her, "We'll make sure the video stays in a safe place."

"Okay." Jenna sighed, making her way towards the door but stopped right before she walked out, "We've all made mistakes. Remember, I'm still paying for yours."

"For all we know, she wrote that story." Aria says once Jenna is gone from the room and the girls make a circle.

"And we still don't know how Ali got the video."

"Yes, we do. That video was Alison's insurance policy." Spencer expressed to the girls, "And she cashed it in the day that she got it."

"Which means she was with Ian when she found it."

"And she couldn't wait to play that video for Jenna." Sadie slides her hands into the back pockets of her jeans.

"God, do you remember how happy Ali was when she came back from that trip?" Spencer looks at them, "I think it's because for her, the Jenna thing was over."

"Nice of her to share the safety net with us." Hanna scoffed.

"Wait for it, girls. Wait for it." Emily says, recounting something that Alison had told them.

"Wait for what?"

"That's what Ali said when we met her at the taxi." Emily explained, "Maybe that's what we were waiting for."

"Do you remember at Alison's funeral when we were all wondering why Jenna was there? If she's telling the truth Jenna came back because she could."

"And Ali's the one who got buried."

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          ❝𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋, 𝐈𝐅 you want my dad can call your mom and officially offer you the guestroom. ❞

Sadie shrugged, "Or you can come stay with us. Will and Cassie wouldn't care."

"Oh, this is so not fair."

"I mean, we lost each other for a year. I can't imagine not being here."

"Okay, you're sure Ian can't trace this number back to us?" Aria questioned Spencer as she sat at the table after coming back from buying a prepaid phone so they could text Ian that they have the videos.

"It's a prepaid phone, I used cash and the number isn't registered, so...," Spencer pulls it out of her bag, "Service is anonymous."

"How do you know this stuff?" Hanna asked.

"Don't you ever watch CNN?" Spencer asked her, getting a 'really' look in return, "No need to answer that. Homeland security is trying to ban these things."

Aria stares over at where Ian was talking to some of the students, "He acts like he doesn't have a care in the world."

"Because his dumbass things he got away with it." Sadie scowls, biting down on a carrot stick that Will had packed her for lunch.

"Well, he hasn't."

"Okay, so we convince Ian that this isn't about anything but money." Spencer tells them quietly, "Hopefully that'll throw him off of us. And if he wants his home movies, it's just gonna cost him. And then hen he shows up for the swap--,"

Hanna holds up her phone, "We...make our own movie."

"Right, and we take that, the flash-drive and the prepaid phone into the police."

"The second he responds to the text, we know that he's guilty."

Spencer sighed, sliding the phone up to get to the small keyboard attached, typing out the message, but hesitates after a second so Sadie reaches over and takes the phone from her hands, pressing send herself.

The five girls turn their head over to where Ian stands as his pulls his phone from his pocket. He slowly lowers the phone before exiting out of the cafeteria.

"There must've been a part of me that didn't believe it because I just...I — I feel...,"

"Numb?"

"Somehow I — I thought I'd feel better when we found out for sure." Spencer says, Sadie grabbing her arm in comfort.

"Well, I know what they do to guys like him in prison and, and that makes me feel a lot better." Hanna says before her phone goes off, "It's just my mom making sure I stayed out of bed."

A short second later, the prepaid phone goes off and Sadie, who still holds the phone in her hand looks down, "He wants to know what we want."

Hanna takes the phone from her hands, typing out a new message which says to bring ten-thousand dollars to Willow Park at nine o'clock and to come alone.

"Is this the let's love on Hanna lunch committee?" Mona walks up to the table with a cup in her hand, Hanna sitting the phone down and out of her view. She sits down and puts a hand on Hanna's arm, "Feeling better, sweetie?"

"I'm sorry, I have this thing that I have to do." Spencer says before she gathers her stuff and leaves the table, taking the phone with her.

"I'll help."

"Yeah, me too."

Emily and Aria grab all of their stuff from the table and quickly followed after Spencer.

"And then there were thr—,"

"Yeah, I don't like you, like at all." Sadie shrugged her shoulder as she put everything back into her lunch box and grabbed her stuff standing up, "So, I'm gonna help Spencer with the thing that she has to do, that Emily and Aria are already helping her do. Hanna, I hope you survive."

"Um, I'm — I'm really sorry, Mona, but, uh, Spencer has this thing and she really needs her friends right now." Hanna tells the Vanderwaal girl before getting up and leaving.

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          𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒 softly as she flips through the scrapbook she had hidden away on her bookshelf full of random books, some she's read and some she's never touched.

"That was your dress?" Cassie sits down next to her, handing the teenager a glass of wine, neither her or Will really caring if the teenager drank alcohol under the roof of their home.

"Yeah. We got married in a courthouse in front of my brother and his parents, but Jason wanted me to wear a wedding dress since I've always dreamed of having a big wedding. He hated that I couldn't have that, but I was alright with wearing a sundress." Sadie tells her, "I didn't care as long as I had him."

"I want a small wedding." Cassie smiles, "One that I can plan on my own, but even though I'm twenty-two, my mom had made it her mission to be my wedding planner when the time comes. She wants me to have the whole nine-yards. Big venue, big puffy dress that I can hardly walk in and all of our family, even the extended once there."

Sadie snorts just as her phone dings, "Sounds like momzilla."

Cassie laughs, watching as the blonde drinks the rest of the wine in her glass after checking the text message that as sent to her and standing up, "Going somewhere?"

"Yeah, Spencer wants me to ride with her while she takes Melissa to the church. I won't be gone to long hopefully. Want me to bring dinner back, or are we cooking ourselves?"

"Please bring dinner back, I really don't want to cook, or clean up the dishes."

Sadie laughed, grabbing everything that she needed, "You got it." 

"Be safe! Make it back in one piece, please!"

"I'll try!"

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         ❝ 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐇, 𝐈 — I talked to him this afternoon.❞ Melissa tells the two teenagers in the car with her, "He was taking care of the contractor then heading straight for the church. Something's wrong, I can feel it."

"Calm down, okay?" Spencer tells her older sister.

"I'm sure he's fine, Melissa." Sadie tells her, leaning forward as much as her seat-belt would let her.

Melissa frantically searches through her purse, "Ah, I can't find my phone."

"Do you want me to call your number?"

"Dammit! I left it at the church."

"Melissa, you have to relax. Please, this cannot be good for the baby."

"Spoken like a sister who actually cares." Melissa shakes her head as Sadie awkwardly looks outside of the car, already knowing about what Spencer had said about the unborn baby.

"I — I care, okay?"

"I wish I could believe you."

"Do you want me to go back to the church?"

"Yes."

Gasps and screams ring from the car just seconds later as a car rams into the side of Spencer's.

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       ❝ 𝐎𝐇, 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑, Sadie.❞ Veronica rushed into the hospital doors and over to the two teenager, who stand up.

"She's stable, but they're monitoring the baby." Spencer tells her mother.

"Monitoring for what?"

"Will said it's too early to tell how significant the trauma was." Sadie played with her fingers as she gave the mother a grime smile, "He says he's got the best doctors making sure things  are okay."

"Are the two of you okay?"

"The car came out of nowhere."

"Oh, honey, it wasn't your fault." Veronica pulls her daughter into a hug as Spencer cries into her shoulder before the mother of two pulls Sadie into a hug as well.

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          ❝ 𝐖𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 to find Ian. I've left him three messages. ❞

Sadie and Spencer stand outside of the room Melissa was in with Veronica watching over her oldest daughter. "She's not gonna relax until we find him. Maybe he went to the church."

"She left her phone there, anyway." Spencer says, "It's just a couple of blocks. We'll go look."

"Spencer...about what I said this morning. Melissa knows that you love her."

"Spencer Hastings." A police officer walks over with her bag in hand, "We recovered this from your vehicle."

"Thank you." Spencer takes the bag from his hand and pulls her phone out to call Aria back.

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          𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 the girls walk towards the church, Sadie pulling the red and black checkered flannel tighter around her body.

"This is so the start of a horror movie." She sighed, following Spencer into the church.

"Hello?" Spencer calls out, her voice echoing, "Reverend Acker?"

"Nobody's here." Sadie sighed just as a phone rings, and as the two search for where it is, the church doors slam closed behind them, "Now, it's starting to look like a horror movie, and we the stars, and you know what that means? The blonde always dies first!"

"You are freaking out for nothing." Spencer hisses quietly to her best friend before crouching down to look under the benches. "Help me look."

Sadie rolls her eyes but crouches down on the other row, looking, "There's nothing here."

Standing back up at the same time, and turning to look at each other, both girls gasp as Ian stands behind them.

"Lose something?"

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          ❝ 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 her phone here. ❞ Sadie swallows the saliva building up in her mouth as she eyes Ian.

"We've been trying to call you."

Ian nods, pulling his phone out of his pocket, "Yeah, you know, I got the strangest text message today. The number was blocked but...I could reply to it."

Sadie and Spencer look at each other in fear as Ian calls the number belonging to the prepaid phone which soon starts ringing in Spencer's purse.

Sadie closes her eyes, harshly breathing out of her nose as she thinks about how stupid they were to actually keep the phone instead of throwing it out, or letting one of the others hold on to it.

Ian chuckled, "Yeah, asking for money that was clever. Are your friends waiting for me?"

"Ian, there was an accident." Sadie says, trying to defuse the situation and he turns his attention to her.

"Yeah, I