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A year had passed since Alison DiLaurentis disappeared off the face of the earth, and the five ex-friends of the powerful, vindictive girl were entering their junior year of high school.
Although it was strange to be entering another year...
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The girls were freaking out. Ivy was breathing heavily. "Did things just get incredibly worse?" Aria asked. "I can't believe this. Ian's dead."
"No, zombies don't text! Ok, he is a live somewhere." Hanna shouted. "I have to get this phone home before Melissa realises that it's gone." She started to walk away.
"Ok, you put it back, then what do we do?" Emily questioned. "Do we call the cops?"
"Oh, yeah, because it always works out so well for us." Ivy sarcastically replied. "Why is Ian texting Melissa?"
"And why is Melissa answering him?" Hanna fired back. "Is she? I mean, we don't know how long this has been going on."
"Spencer, look, you've got to find out what Ian told Melissa. You're the only one who can find out what he wants."
"And where he is." The greenhouse rattled. "Let's get out of here!"
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The girls made it back to Rosewood. "Let's finish this in the morning, ok? I'm cold, damp and scared. We can talk at school." Hanna complained. "We can't talk at school, remember? The five of us are supposed to be having 'separate time'." Aria reminded.
"Doctors orders."
"So, what are we supposed to do? Not talk to each other. We're in the same classes."
"Well, you and I don't. We live in the same house." Ivy told her.
"We just have to play it cool." Spencer told. A sudden noise made the girls snap their heads to see Jason, outside the old DiLaurentis house.
"It's Jason."
"Did he move back in?" They turned to look at Ivy, who was more shocked than them. She saw that they were staring at her. "I didn't know." She defended.
"What is all that?" Jason crouched down, picking up teddies and boxes. "That's all that stuff that those people left on the kerb when Ali went missing, those tributes."
"Maya said her family kept those things when they moved in. They didn't have the heart to throw them out."
"Apparently Jason's moved on." Spencer replied. "Come on, guys, it was hard on him too." Ivy said not moving her eyes from the figure afar.
"What's he doing back in that house?" Jason walked in and closed the door behind him.
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Ivy followed after Ashley and Hanna down the stairs. "Mom, you don't believe in any of this therapy stuff, so why do we have to put up with it?" Hanna asked.
"Because most of life consists of putting up with something." She answered. "Wow, what a positive outlook. That's going to have a terrific impact on my future development." Ivy sat down.
